Posts by ridley 469 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Aug 2008
I remember tivo or it's like introduced technology that filtered out the adverts from recordings but was taken to court as this was "theft" and the sw was banned.
Didn't stop me installing similar software on my tivo.
I miss my tivo 1 even 20 years later, way ahead of its time.
How does this get down voted?
Audio is most definitely compressed to a few tens of dB in the main, that's not controversial it's just true.
Vintage vinyl also suffered from the loudness wars, finding a decent recording became very hard towards the end of vinyl.
It's all very nice having a large dynamic range available on digital audio.
It's just a shame that the audio engineers in the main choose to not use it, instead compressing the sound to a few tens of dB so it sounds "good" in the car or via crappy headphones etc.
Finding well mastered audio is pretty damn hard.
When you try to open a MS365 file on your phone. You need to press an "open" button after a preview is displayed.
However, as the preview is loading a "delete" button is in exactly the same place as the "open" button appears a fraction of a second later.
Get the timing wrong and panic ensues.
Why MS, Why?
I used a 6128 to develop software to control a seawolf missile via a thermal imaging camera.
Went on to use it to develop software to help integrate a thermal imaging camera into the gunnery control computer on a T59 tank. We were selling the TI system the Chinese for resale to Pakistan.
Spent a year in Pakistan trialing the T59 with my trusty 6128, sometimes burning new ROMS beside the tank in the middle of the Thar desert, even with all the dust and 50+°C in the shade it never let me down.
Happy days
This reminds me of the situation at the school I work in.
We are an MS school and a MS system can become quite complicated to set up and maintain, esp for a sus admin of the calibre that a schools budget can afford.
We went O365 at the start of the pandemic, MS Teams/Onenote for remote learning is "sup optimal".
Two years in and we still do not have OneDrive installed, only the browser version. So no file manager integration...
We have been told that all our files are being moved into the cloud now, and we have been promised OneDrive "hopefully in 2022"....
How is this supposed to work?
(By the way why does file syncing take so long in O365? I mean, it can take hours at times. When I worked at a Google school syncing was near as made no difference instant)
Couldn't agree more, but TEAMS is Nirvana in comparison to its demon child OneNote esp the education version.
Microsoft if you tell me that if I put a document into this area it is read only, then please make it read only.
Oh and how on earth does OneNote even when minimised and not in use creep up and steal all of your ram? 25Gb is slightly over the top on a 32Gb machine.
I was a union rep a while ago and took my members concerns re workload to the "Boss".
Boss listened to me and then said that the company took workload issues very seriously and was working hard to reduce it. I asked for an example.
So Boss gave the example that they had been about to increase the working week by 5 hours but decided against it to reduce workload,
WTAF
In my days as a PC builder we were after some really cheap components for a really cheap loss leader PC (We hardly ever sold them we invariably sold up) but I was able to buy a 105 key keyboard from a UK based distributor for ......28p. Someone made those, boxed them, has a little manual printed, shipped them half way round the world to a distributer who paid duty on them and sold them to me for a profit...Even I was somewhat shocked at that price*
They weren't the best keyboards in the world, but they weren't as bad as the price implies either.
*This is the reason I really take Umbridge at having to paying £2 for a plastic radiator valve cap from your local three letter DIY store. They must cost them about a penny each. Grrrr
In the mid nineties I ran a computer business. One day I had bought a lot, for me, of 1mb RAM chips for an order IIRC about 400 @ £4 each. Said order fell through which left me with a bit of a problem as RAM prices were falling at the time. I tried to offload them left and right and could get rid without taking a bath.
That night there was the Kobe earthquake taking out a large proportion of the globes RAM manufacturing capability....
I sold them about a month later for about £100 each :-)
I disagree. It is illogical to give a lesser sentence if no one was injured, the crime is the same whether the accident resulted in injury or not, you should be sentenced for putting others in danger.
I am reminded of the bloke who fell asleep at the wheel of his land rover & went off the motorway. Bad luck meant that he went off just next to a railway cutting which he went down coming to rest on the tracks and he couldn't get off them. So he called the railway and as he was talking to them a goods train hit his car and detailed, by pure bad luck coming in the opposite direction at that. Moment was an express which collided with the goods train and one person was killed iirc.
Now if he had come off the road and ended up in a field it would be a few points possibly a ban. As it was he was sentenced to something like 20 years.
That just ain't right.
I am not sure Bout the police helicopters but the Huey pilot who write "ChickenHawk" used to make a clearing in the jungle bigger* to allow him to take off.
*When near max very take off weight or over you had to take off on the move to get out of your own rotors dirty air. So if you landed to do a pick up in a small clearing you wouldn't be able to take off from it when loaded, unless you made the clearing bigger with those big old rotors....
Don't ask me how I know but you shouldn't use an old steel Mini wheel as something to wind your very long extension lead round.
Well not if you then decide to power a heater with the ext cord and cannot be bothered to unwind it all first...
We used to do that demo in the labs, with just a tablespoon or so of oil. Still very impressive with a flame up to the ceiling.
We ensure to mask off a smiley face etc on the tiles do the demo and remove the tape ;-)
Cannot ever think why we were banned.
(Maybe it had something to do with melting the fire detectors with one enthusiastic demo....)
A long long time ago we were working on my mum's MK1 escort estate using the oxy acetylene which my parents were dubios about having under the house in the garage.
Lo the car set on fire and we used the powder fire extinguisher to put it out. Took about a milli second burst to put it out but it went for ages, everything was covered, car, garage, drive, flower beds.
So we spent the next hour or so before they came home frantically cleaning up and learning the art of turning over the garden and dusting flowers.
All seemed good and it looked like we go away with it, except.
Mum did keep complained that if she got to 60mph the car filled up with a white mist....
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