Pre-wet when I was in the Navy was a system for wetting a ship's decks and superstructure to reduce the effects of nuclear fallout. Never did find out if it worked. :-) Almost certainly salt water.
Posts by Jim_E
10 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Mar 2017
How to destroy expensive test kit: What does that button do?
British naval food doesn't look half bad... so we're going to try it out for ourselves
Cyberlaw experts: Take back control. No, we're not talking about Brexit. It's Automated Lane Keeping Systems
Re: So let’s forbid anything that’s new?
My car lacks several features I have found I can do without as it looks after the functions for me. Manual transmission, manual choke, steering column advance and retard and mixture control levers to name a few. I find the radar cruise control a boon but then I do live in Australia. The book says the ALKS only operates above 60 km/hr and on motorways. I may get around to trying it out soon but then I am a bit old fashioned.
For every disastrous rebrand, there is an IT person trying to steer away from the precipice
Alibaba chief says China's new internet laws aren’t just good, they’re right and welcome and necessary
Google won’t let Australia have shiny new toys unless it picks apart pay-for-news plan
This PDP-11/70 was due to predict an election outcome – but no one could predict it falling over
Re: The elevator did it
A long time ago teaching science I had a large coffee tin with a spark plug soldered into the side of it. A teaspoon of flour, lid firmly on, induction coil attached to the spark plug, shake the can, trigger the coil from a distance. The resulting bang, flying lid and fireball impressed the kids no end.
nbn™ hits the half-way mark – but has more than half of the job left
Malcolm Should Have Left Well Alone
If Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott had not gutted the original NBN plan for fibre to the premises we would have been much better off by now. The promise of all connections by 2016 was not even non-core, it was "pigs might fly". The cost blowout would probably have been the same as most Government projects include this feature.
We would probably have been at the same stage of rollout by now but with a proper expandable service, far fewer faults, inability to connects and bandwidth pinches.
Sysadmin bloodied by icicle that overheated airport data centre
Sure, we could replace FTNN, says nbn™, if you let the unwired wait even longer for broadband
FTTK?
As one who has not yet gained a firm foothold on the nbn plan I'm hoping that by the time they get round to us they will have come to their senses. The bean counters can be consoled that FTTK is cheaper and that if they want to perpetrate #fraudband on us they will have to replace the street cable.