It will be fixed, thanks!
Posts by Richard Chirgwin
97 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Feb 2011
nbn™ chair Ziggy Switkowski says HFC remediation mess is business as usual
Department of Human Services says citizens, not systems, to blame
Googlers reveal code they use for mass Windows deployments
Happy 20th birthday to the RADIUS RFC
SHA3-256 is quantum-proof, should last billions of years
Optus' HFC problems were never a secret, so why did nbn™ need the network?
That Public Health study? No, it didn't say 'don't do chemo'
Now the Olympics is over, Theranos is withdrawing its Zika test application
Fifty bills for new Oz parliament, nothing much for tech
Microsoft drops OMI for Linux to GitHub
POS malware stings 20 US hotels
Pass the hash for peace, love and security in the quantum computing age
Oz boffins cook quantum computing out of mothballs
Boffins map Netflix's Open Connect CDN
Astroboffins' discovery gives search for early life a left hand. Or right
Telstra's horror run continues with TITSUPs on three networks
How to get root on a Linux box, step 1: Make four billion system calls
BoMed: Oz weather bureau network struggles to its feed
Apple had more CVEs than any single MS product in 2015, but it doesn't really matter
Badware in the firmware all over the place
Big Bang left us with a perfect random number generator
Feeble Phobos flaking as it falls to Mars
Ice volcanoes just part of Plutonic pandemonium
Google's new squeeze: Brotli compression open-sourced
NBN cable rules spark electricity network push-back
Regulator okays Optus exit from HFC network
Australian dark matter hunter wins AU$1.75 million funding
OpenFlow busts out of the data centre with 15,000-route Pacific test
Tesla Powerwall: Not much cheaper and also a bit wimpier than existing batteries

Re: Inverter?
Pro-logic -
The inverter you'd need is a function of how much power you want to draw. If you want (say) 6 kW continuous, that would be (for eg) two 3 kW inverters.
I didn't price these up, because you'd need the inverter capacity whatever battery you're using, it remains the same.
Richard Chirgwin
The Register
Boffins twist light to carry 2.05 bits in one photon
Boffin finds formula for four-year-five-nines disk arrays
NBN Co adds apartments to FTTP rollout
Dodgy installer drops Trojan in Japanese Buffalo update
Tech sector still loves its slaves: study
'Wind power causes climate change' shown to be so much hot air
Goodbye 37signals, hello Basecamp
Amateurs find the 'HOLY GRAIL' supernova – right on our doorstep
Hand over the goodies, Brazil tells Chocolate Factory

As far as we are able to tell at this point, the relevant wording of the decree is this:
"O armazenamento e a recuperação de dados a que se refere o caput deverá ser realizada em centro de processamento de dados fornecido por órgãos e entidades da administração pública federal"
Roughly: the storage and retrieval of data referred to [in this legislation] should be held in data processing [facilities] provided by entities of the federal public administration.
In MASSIVE surprise, world+dog discovers Nokia checked out Android
Tesla cars 'hackable' says Dell engineer

Re: Enough is enough
[Posted by the author on behalf of someone who's run into a Bad Internets Day]
Why would you cancel an order for the most technically advanced and awesome device on the planet at the moment? Because one headline-grabbing techie identified a flaw that could be fixed in minutes by any-old-coder?
I suspect it will be fixed quickly.
Oh, and apparently I'm a "coward" for not wrangling with the authentication things here. Meh.
Boffins chill out with new temperature measurement
FRBs and variable forces: a big week for astronomy
Space miners reach funding goal for telescope
The Register's NBN study: a good start, let's ramp it up
CSIRO seeks seagoing sysadmin
Redmond probes new IE 8 vulnerability
BT unleashes SIP licensing troll army
Boffins strap turbocharger to BitTorrent
Sony joins iWear face-off

Re: Eye strain
A study, no. I asked Australia's ophthalmologists' professional body about this. Their answer was that since the "glasses" project their images "at infinite distance" there shouldn't be a problem.
Since optometry and ophthalmology instruments employ the same trick for some testing instruments, I decided to accept that answer.
Richard Chirgwin
The Register