Posts by sanwin 35 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Apr 2016
So here am I driving in the UK with a car reading road signs on the LHS in MPH. So I decide to take a trip to France/Spain/etc. I'm now driving on the 'wrong' side of the road with the car looking in the wrong place for speed signs which are now in KPH. So I hit a 40kph limit and my car does 40mph - now what?
On my last three cars the GPS checked 30mph shows as 32 on the speedo and the CC, 60mph shows 63, and 70mph shows 74. So in every case the car would be limiting me to at least 2mph below the actual limit. Driving through the smiley/frowny warning signs at 32 indicated I always get the smiley. The annoying thing is I can't set the CC to 20mph when required - it is too low for the CC system!
I guess if the new systems use GPS to work out the speed limit, maybe they'll also use the GPS to monitor the car's actual speed. I drive through villages with 30mph limits with the CC on which tends to annoy the boy racers coming up behind me. As to speed limiters, on my last car there was no way to override the limit short of turning it off - not good at 30mph going into a faster zone.
Back in the 70s worked at a place which still had a very old telephone exchange where the operator plugged cables in to connect 'phones to the outside world. Internal calls could be dialled.
Whenever we tried on our shared office phone to get an outside call, the operator never answered us. The managers in the offices on either side had no problem. One day a colleague got fed up and used a manager's phone to ask the operator why we were ignored.
The response was "Oh! Your bulb has blown so your line never lit up. I'll change it"
We never had any further trouble - until a modern exchange was installed!
I had that problem several years back with a certain company in Redmond. The website insisted on a minimum length pw and I used 20 characters. It apparently accepted this but subsequent login attempts failed.
I finally sussed the problem when, for a change, I had headphones plugged in to the PC and heard a beep when I typed the 17th character! No indication other than that beep that there was an upper limit. I complained and was not surprised to get no response, however the restriction was removed some time later.
In a large office who has speakers attached to their PC?
Back in the 80s I spent many hours trying to find the cause of the error message 'Shouldn't get here' in a piece of the company's in-house software.
Easy enough to find the error message which a colleague had inserted in the source code, not easy to figure out which error path had not been trapped.
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