Posts by VK2YJS

Financial 'stretch' for UK to join Europe's Starlink rival, says minister

Re: What is IRIS for?

The article specifically mentioned that it would provide services for Africa as well as Europe. Satellite also works where things like wildfires or landslips have destroyed fibre and power infrastructure, and in remote areas, fields, places people have evacuated too, or if there was a disaster at a music festival, etc. Emergency communications support and logistics vehicles in Australia include a starlink panel as one of the backhaul options.

UK to buy nuclear-capable F-35As that can't be refueled from RAF tankers

The unAustralian Howard tory regime (definitely NOT liberal" despite the party name) sucked up to Baby Bush by signing up to waste an absolute fortune on these garbage aircraft. The Indonesian's Russian jets would shoot them down. They would also burn a hole in the deck of our ships. Unlike Trudeau Labor failed to cancel the contract. Abbott et al then ordered more of them.

Frozen foods supermarket chain deploys facial recognition tech

Wear IR cut glasses.

Dark green gas welding glasses / over glasses cut infra-red, so appear black on these vile cameras.

What strange beauty is this? Microsoft commits to two more non-subscription Office editions

Re: First hit is always free-ish.

Yes, the open source products have a standard Windows user interface, MS Office uses their own weird and annoying one.

The last mile's at risk in our hostile environment. Let’s go the extra mile to fix it

Cellular failover

Due to treasonous conservatives favouring the foreigner Murdoch's pay-tv interests over the Australian population, and general wrecking of anything Labor did, we mostly ended up with "fraudband", aka VDSL aka FTTN, in place of Labor's Fibre to the Premises. In response Telstra sold / provided modems which included a SIM on their 4G network, probably now 5G.

Saved by the Bill: What if... Microsoft had killed Windows 95?

Hopefully we would have got Windows 2000 as the standard product. Pity there isn't an option for consumer Windows with the simpler UI in Server.

Which? calls for compensation for users hit by Windows 10 woes

All many really want is something with a simple UI, like a tweaked version of Server 2016.

Russia could chop vital undersea web cables, warns Brit military chief

Moving stuff via USB is faster than using Turnbull's "fraudband" VDSL / fibre to the node "NBN"...

As in, via multiple microwave links over the channel? Apart form the problem of intermittent cancellation of the signal due to reflection from the water, which redundancy may help, it should give some capacity.

How to catch a fraudster – using 'top cop' Benford and the power of maths

E-Series are 1 heavy,

Renard numbers and the various E series used for electronic components, such as resistor values have many values starting with a 1, and few starting with 7, 8 or 9.

Technology, bushfires and AM radio

David, the previously government owned, and by far best network, Telstra has cell broadcast. Their underlying technology provides greater range than the GSM used by the other networks, although this may not benefit overseas visitors.

But some areas are very hilly, which makes providing service over wide areas difficult.

The other networks are:

Optus, set up to satisfy a political whim for competition, and now owned by the Singapore dictatorship's investment company. They company also owns the power distribution company which caused the great majority of deaths during Black Saturday by failing to maintain the poles and wires.

Vodafone, currently being sued over extraordinarily poor service, specifically drop-outs and pathetic data rates in a case nicknamed "Vodafail". They basically sold a huge number of services cheap, without the infrastructure,

The problem is that while they share towers at times, they generally act like spoilt 2 year olds, and do not allow roaming between networks.

A lot of rural areas have FM relay of local radio, and there is also digital (DAB+) in the city. There used to be a national network of shortwave transmitters, carrying national and regional programming, but that is now only transmitted in the Northern Territory, carrying NT services (although SW listeners and hams can often listen in in Sydney, etc..