Re: 5G
Apart from it will alleviate the capacity problems north of London.
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I like to print recipes and maintenance instructions for my bike, so I don't get muck all over my {laptop,table,phone} and/or don't need to take my gloves off to unlock the $DEVICE for each step's instruction
I bought the printer in 2020 in case French-style forms were brought in during lockdown and have gone through less than a single pack of paper and only replaced the ink once though.
Dave stocked up on energy drinks, hit the road, made it to the other office, convinced security to let him in, and cloned the drive properly.
He left that office at around 9PM, reached the first office and its essential PC at 1AM, plugged in the drive and watched it come to life.
I bet he was quite SCSI by the end of that...
Back when I lived in the UK, my line developed a fault where there was a noise that sounded a lot like a ticking clock which obviously upset the ADSL setup. The lady from BT took some convincing that although her system said the line was fine the noise we could both hear was actually a problem...
""For stuff that simply doesn't fit on a PC, you run those on GPUs in the cloud, where you have effectively unlimited performance," Clayton added."
Just chuck 200USD a month at OpenAI...
> [3] ISTR that the monarch isn't required to have insurance (or a number plate)..
Apparently the governor of Gibraltar, as the King's representative, has a crown instead of a number plate. The Spanish aren't hugely enthusiastic about that for some reason, so the car has a flip down number plate.
According to its website, the business offered "scalable digital strategies," "portfolio transformation," "program and project management," "cloud and data engineering," "enterprise architecture," and "business transformation alignment," among other things.
Had they put Digital transformation in there too then I'm sure they'd still be in business...
A script that activated on a detected fire alarm, which queried the access control databases, correlated them against staff databases and printed out (to two remote thermal printers) a firelist of who should be on site, who has tagged in this morning and who hasn't tagged out.
I used to work somewhere with research labs that used radiochemicals. One day one of the chemist's machines developed a fault starting a rather exothermic reaction involving solvents and the Fire Brigade sent about ten fire engines, but upon hearing what was in the building they (sensibly) refused to enter until they were told what radioactive goodies were in the building. The database for this had only ever been designed to satisfy legal requirements and provide information for the disposal companies meaning one of my colleague (who couldn't handle any stress) had to get a query running ASAP...
I believe that regular printed reports were then created and left near the site's entrances after that.
Back in the UK I had a job which came with private medical insurance, I read the stuff that got sent out. They would only cover a week of psychiatric hospitalisation, not touch HIV/AIDS at all; but they'd cover "experimental cancer treatments". Clearly they were worried about the mum[0] with young children[1] not getting treatment for her cancer stories in the media, but deemed Schizophrenia as unlikely to feature...
[0] Dads never seem to get mentioned in the same way...
[1] Child-free/less people also aren't considered worthy