Posts by SimonF

Report details how Airbus pilots saved the day when all three flight computers failed on landing

Re: "Seems the pilots did a good job,"

THE " other entire airliner model"

Do you come from a land Down Under? Where diesel's low and techies blunder

Checklists

The Air Force have a saying that "Checklists are written in blood"

Someone else has invested heavily in adding each item.

Google: We've blocked 126 million COVID-19 phishing scams in the past week

Pointless

That's like your wife coming home and saying "I've saved £400 on this coat in the sales"

The number that matters is how many have they let through?

Questions hang over Gatwick Airport after low level drone near-miss report

DJI Database

If it was a DJI drone then (unless it has been modded) it would have refused to takeoff in that spot without an auth code being sent to a mobile phone.

DJI would know who was flying it?

2018's Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon laptop is a lovely lappie

It gets worse

After waiting a month, and on the date it should be dispatched I get this:

We are contacting you in relation to your recently placed order on the Lenovo Online Store. Unfortunately, the Notebook ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6G 20KH ordered is currently unavailable and, as a result, shipping has been delayed. Your new estimated shipping date is 17/04/18. You will receive an email with the shipping confirmation to the email address you specified when placing your order.

We regret any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any further queries please feel free to contact our Customer Service Team at:

They are a shambles and Dell are worse.

Looooong order period

I ordered one 3 weeks ago - still not arrived :-(

RAM soldered

*should* run Linux - I will let you know shortly!

Battery - "rapid charge technology" - I don't think it is replaceable

You wait ages for a sun, then two come along at once: All stars have twins, say astroboffins

Is it not right here in plain sight?

Surely Jupiter is just a sun that didn't quite get big enough to burst into light?

Ofcom wants automatic compensation for the people when ISPs fail

This time next year Rodney...

Public IPv4 drought: Verizon Wireless to stop handing out static addys

Re: I wonder if I could sell my class C

DougS, maybe not 'sell' as I think they can't be sold but speak to an ISP like AAISP and they may be interested in working with you...

Gulp! Drones dodge spray from California's gaping moist glory hole

Survival

Someone (more than one?) have gone over Niagra Falls in a barrel.

How long before someone tries this?

Throw in a football and time how long it takes to exit, I bet it's not long.

Windows 10 networking bug derails Microsoft's own IPv6 rollout

Make all porn sites IPV6 only...

and then IPV6 will be rolled out by the end of the month.

HBO slaps takedown demand on 13-year-old girl's painting because it used 'Winter is coming'

C'mon boys

Can't you just

Let it go?

HP won't ship PCs with Windows 10 preinstalled until mid-August

Omnishambles coming...

They are forcing this update, but most users *really* don't want it.

I've seen the future of car radio - and DAB isn't in it

Not a viable option until 3G coverage is ubiquitous.

It's all well and good for those stuck on the M25 but it won't work in the real world.

OK, so we paid a bill late, but did BT have to do this?

Why?

The only question is "Why are you using BT?"

They have the most awful customer service ever and *really* don't give a damn about you.

Use Zen or AAISP or $ANYBODY else for a better service!

Apple Thunderbolt Display 27in monitor

Very nice but...

...you can get the same panel without the frills for under £400 from Hazro.

Lewisham Services move to the cloud

The King has got no clothes on!

"I'm only cheese"!

Tory councillor arrested over 'stoning to death' tweet

Manners

At least he said "please"

Ofcom imposes new rules on silent callers

CLI

I wish they were made to release CLI as well then we could use Asterisk to ignore them.

Irish civil rights group takes aim at iPad launch

Sadly this could so easily be true.

If it were not for the date I would have no problem accepting this as true.

What a crazy world we have invented.

Mahone, Butt and Mahone - will they handle my divorce I wonder?

Mozilla births first Thunderbird 3.1 beta

Shared Contacts

Why,in the name of all that's Holy, can't Thunderbird do shared contacts?

All the effort that's wasted making it do things that other software does better could easily give small businesses a real exchange killer.

Sad.