Posts by Rawr. 10 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Jul 2012
Seems mine's still broken :( it's been flashing its sole LED green for days, and before that it would seemingly randomly drop its connection to the Three servers, 3G would vanish, then come back up a few minutes later.
Their network is great generally, but they blocked me from their Facebook page after complaining about their network being down in the southeast about 12 months ago...
The toughness of the aluminium actually makes the electronics, the motherboard especially, inside the computer last much longer than their plastic counterparts in the PC world. MacBooks don't twist anything like plastic PCs do. That flex is transferred to the motherboard (and screen when opening from a corner) which causes solder fractures thanks to the lead-free solder introduced by our... "friends" in Brussels.
"The argument leading to the EOL of the current MP seems to be over big fans and no finger-guards. "
In other news, jumping in front a car can cause injury. Maybe we should put 8' fences along the sides of all roads?
This is exactly the kind of thing that is pushing more and more Britons to want out of the EU nanny state. The only access to the fans is when the door is open, when you should have the computer off anyway. Should we put more guards on desk fans so when you open them to clean them, you cant cut your fingers? >.> What a total load of tripe.
"It took a Stanford researcher to spot the cookie planting gaffe by Google."
Err no it was not a gaffe. The code was specifically designed to submit a page to Google, fooling Safari into thinking the user had submitted the page, thus bypassing the "only allow cookies from sites I visit" security setting. There was absolutely no gaffe at all, Google knew exactly what they were doing. Get it right, and perhaps the pro-Google, anti-Apple bias should be toned down a bit too?
Actually the assistance is mechanical/hydraulic too, not electronic. It works from the vacuum of the inlet manifold of the engine, which operates a servo to assist the pedal going down. It does not work "when the ignition is on", only when the engine is running, and has nothing to do with electronics. The reason brakes still work when the engine is off is because the brake pedal is hydraulically attached to the brake calliper, and the servo only assists, it does not actually control the brake calliper as an electronic system does. The same with ABS, it just temporarily overrides the hydraulics but never disconnects the pedal from the brakes.
It used to be the case (not sure if it still is) that the main brakes and the handbrake had to use a different technology to work each. I.e, you couldn't have hydraulic main brakes and hydraulic handbrake. You couldn't have electronic main brakes and electronic handbrake. I'm not sure if there are any secondary/mechanical backups for the controls in a aircraft, but I would sure hope so. Software bugs are a bitch.
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