"post‑crash management procedures"
aka "picking up the bits"....
Posts by DuncanL
219 posts • joined 1 Feb 2010
Airbus drone broke up in-flight because it couldn’t handle Australian weather
Beware the fresh Windows XP install: Failure awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth
A real loch mess: Navy larks sunk by a truculent torpedo
Customer: We fancy changing a 25-year-old installation. C'mon, it's just one extra valve... Only wafer thin...
By gum(stick): Samsung speeds up 970 EVO Plus drive
What's big, blue, and short on Intel? The supercomputer world's podium: USA tops Top500 with IBM Power9
RIP Peter Firmin: Clangers creator dies aged 89
NASA will send tiny helicopter to Mars
There is no perceived IT generation gap: Young people really are thick
Modern life is rubbish – so why not take a trip down memory lane with Windows File Manager?
NASA fungus problem puts theory of 'Martian mushrooms' on toast
Intellisense was off and developer learned you can't code in Canadian
How do you win at HCI? It's SimpliVity ... or maybe not, right Dell?
Why did I buy a gadget I know I'll never use?
Cassini probe's death dive to send data at just 27 kilobits per second
Sub plot subplot thickens: Madsen claims hatch fumble killed Swede journo Kim Wall
1Password won't axe private vaults. It'll choke 'em to death instead
Thursday 13th July 2017 07:50 GMT
KeePass
Get KeePass (http://keepass.info/) instead - available for just about every platform you want and has no cloudy gubbins.
Just back up your vault to whatever offline\online service you trust. (There's even plugins to do the backups for you - if you want to trust those). The point being you have a choice and control over where the data goes.
Samsung stalls Bixby launch because it am English not so good
Windows is now built on Git, but Microsoft has found some bottlenecks
CERN ready to test an even bigger gun
Would you believe it? The Museum of Failure contains quite a few pieces of technology
How's that for a remote login? NASA puts New Horizons probe to sleep 3.5 billion miles away
Why do GUIs jump around like a demented terrier while starting up? Am I on my own?
Samsung's Bixby totally isn't a Siri ripoff because look – it'll go in phones, TVs, fridges, air con...
SpaceX yoinks $96m GPS launch deal from under ULA's nose
Time crystals really do exist, say physicists*
FBI drops bombshell, and investigation: Clinton still in the clear
ROBO-PLOD! 'Droid snatches scumbag's shotgun in standoff
Google, er, Alphabet takes on 10,000 more staff, banks more and more billions from ads
IPv6 now faster than IPv4 when visiting 20% of top websites – and just as fast for the rest
BT internet outage was our fault, says Equinix
Web meltdown: BT feels heat from angry punters
New Mars rover is GO for 2020 says NASA
LISA Pathfinder free fall test beats expectations
EU referendum frenzy bazookas online voter registration. It's another #GovtDigiShambles
ISS pump-up space podule fully engorged
Google to kill passwords on Android, replace 'em with 'trust scores'
When Steve Jobs was away, Apple's designers snuck out a penis-shaped remote control
Google gives away its internal $200 patch analysis tool for free
Who'd be mad enough to start a 'large-scale fire' in a spaceship?
You've seen things people wouldn't believe – so tell us your programming horrors
Watch: SpaceX Dragon capsule breathes fire during crucial hover test
Friday 22nd January 2016 10:55 GMT
The issue I see is if they had to do an emergency escape and then land - you'd need enough fuel for both parts (rather than enough for an escape OR a landing).
And if the rockets failed for any reason, having no parachute at all would result in astronaut pancakes... Though I suppose at the point you would discover the thruster failure (a few hundred metres from the ground) it would be too late for a parachute to make any difference anyway.
Still; I'm sure many minds better than mine have considered all of this.
SpaceX: launch, check. Landing? Needs work
Ground control to Major Tim! Brit's spacewalk halted after NASA 'naut takes unexpected leak
Skype now translates in real-time into seven languages
From Zero to hero: Why mini 'puter Oberon should grab Pi's crown
Wednesday 2nd December 2015 19:57 GMT
Re: Click-Bait much?
Summed up my thoughts exactly. I really can't see what market this serves - it's way to expensive for schools and relies on old hardware that most people will have chucked out by now - keyboards and mice haven't even come with PS/2 adaptors for years. You could fit out a whole class worth of Pis for the cost of one of these.
Pimp your TV: Goggle box gadgets and gizmos
Bletchley Park remembers 'forgotten genius' Gordon Welchman
Monday 28th September 2015 10:24 GMT
Re: @Alexander J. Martin
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