Posts by Smileyvirus

European electric vehicle sales surged in Q4 2019 but only accounted for wafer-thin slice of total car purchases

Mildly skewed there, the cheapest Clio model you can buy versus the cheapest Zoe would be £26,170, yeah still double, but you should probably spec up the Clio a bit. For the moment electric cars tend to come with a better spec even in their base model.

Re: Range & Time for a FULL charge

500 miles takes approx 7 hrs at the legal speed limit, let's be generous and say 3 hrs between pee breaks, so thats 210 miles between pee breaks assuming 0 traffic and unless you are stopping to pee in a hedge, at which point you've not being doing 70mph any way, it'll takes more than 5mins just to walk to most toilets in a motorway services, let's be sensible and say 15 mins break, the Peugeot e208 has 200ish range and the ability to add 160 miles in 30 mins, so whilst it's not quite perfect, assuming maybe 2.5hrs stints and stopping for a cup of coffee and pee, it's already practical. Maybe not for 40,000 mile a year road warriors, but edge cases are always the ticklish bit. On top of I imagine a fair chunk of the SUV or business luxury pickups that are in fashion will need to be refueled at least once during that time too.

Re: Range & Time for a FULL charge

You must have a bladder like a camel, I can't drive for 7hrs non stop.

Surely 150KW charging through a single cable is enough? I mean the very thought is terrifying and awesome.

I think the SMMT figures for the UK are perhaps already showing that this year could have been a hell of surge for BEVs etc.

https://www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data/car-registrations/

The c word might have the last laugh though.

BORN to HURL: Man's shoulders are head and shoulders above apes, gorillas, chimps etc

You know women play cricket too?

TERROR in ORBIT: Dodgy rocket burp biffs International Space Station off track

Re: 1,922 seconds?

When you're moving something that big and flexible, speed is not desirable.

Who the hell would want to be in a twanging ISS?

Readers' choice: What every small-business sysadmin needs

Using filehippo.com instead of download.com always makes my day a little better.

WTF is the Internet of Things and how insurers will use it against you

Re: fish tank

Seriously have you never read one of Trevor's articles before, of course he's going to wire up his fish tank.

It's now or never for old sysadmins to learn new tricks

Re: Very true and applies to database administrators as well.

Or not :)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/09/snowden_nsa_to_sack_90_per_cent_sysadmins_keith_alexander/

Devolo dLAN 500 AV Wireless Plus: Triple-tech connectivity for the home

Most of their kit does have the ethernet ports at the bottom, this one seems to be the exception.

A client had a couple of Devolos and seemed they to work, I gave them a try and have not regretted it so far. They're not cheap, but they do what they're supposed to and the software works the way it should which makes a pleasant change.

How do you drive a supercomputer round a Formula 1 track?

Yum, F1 shiny!

However, liter? That for the Americans (when not talking in cubic inches), it's lovely litres over here. :D

Pttow! Ofcom kicks hams out of MoD bands

Re: Oi!

Your back doesn't count. :P

Freeview telly test suggests 4G interference may not be a big deal

Re: I checked last week

Freesat is also sub free, admittedly it wasn't in that list.

Orange is the new TalkTalk of the broadband complaints league

People aren't bothering to complain about Talktalk, they've just leaving!

It's shocking how bad the service is in the South East, the instant they move to another provider the speed jumps 10 fold and that's on a BT wholesale exchange rather than a LLU.

Schoolgirl's Hello Kitty catonaut soars to 93,000ft

Re: Hmm...

That's a youtube thing, when you use copyrighted music you have to allow ads and ads don't playback on the app, so ad supported stuff doesn't either.