Posts by Mjolnir

A software-defined radio can derail a US train by slamming the brakes on remotely

Re: Hold Up a Moment

Because you can get blockages in the air line including someone closing the valves in the air line between cars. The first Fred's were just reporting. After a number of accidents where the air line was blocked the Feds mandated two way devices that could dump the air on the rear of the train from the head end.

When they first allowed cabooseless operations you only had to have a flashing red light or a red flag during daylight hours. A number of accidents put a stop to that including a runaway out of our terminal.

Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers

Re: Approach? What approach?

Finland was on their side during the war. The Soviets had plans to take their country over. It's sad that the help they were able to get was German.

BOFH: Come on down to the dunge– erm … basement

Well at least so far my collection is limited to microvax machines. Don't look at all the Commodore, Atari, Kaypro and Televideo computers......

Microsoft really does not want Windows 11 running on ancient PCs

People forget the past

If you were around in the early days of Windows then you remember that pretty much every new version of Windows involved new hardware to make it run where you would actually want to use it.

UK warned not to bother racing US, EU on EV subsidies

Still the next big thing

While fuel cells may come someday I have been hearing that they are the coming thing since the 1960s

Windows 8.1: Read this BEFORE updating - especially you, IT admins

Re: If you previously had Windows 8 setup with a 'local account'. WATCH OUT!

Installed it today on a computer hooked to a domain today, It took around 5 hours to download and install.

It would not let me install it logged on as the administrator or user account. I had to log on to the local account to download and install it. After that it installed fine and seemed to keep all the account info for the various users. Only 5 more machines to go