* Posts by Delta Oscar

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Lockheed Martin demos 50kW anti-aircraft frickin' laser beam

Delta Oscar

Hmmmmm....50KW: given (presumably) this device will require more than 50Kw in supply power, that will be some alternator under the bonnet (hood)?

Competition watchdog? We've heard of it. But emergency comms firm still on track to Airwave hello to £1.2bn

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Just checking my abacus......

'Airwave recorded an operating profit of £192m up from £198m a year earlier...' (probably been spotted already, I know)

Japan's aerospace agency hooks up with Boeing to make planes quieter when they land

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"....to hold....."

...I thought it was called Continuous Descent Approaches...???

Don't be a fool, cover your tool: How IBM's mighty XT keyboard was felled by toxic atmosphere of the '80s

Delta Oscar

This reminds me of Field Service with DEC in the late 70s. I was sent to a customer who had not had a PDP mini for very long. In I go to do The Required and, having completed another Miracle In The Field, I lent up against the window sill to ring the Office. After a while, I could not understand why I was beginning to feel whoozy with the wall mounted aircon exhaust blasting up directly at me. Then I realised: the exhaust was full of neat nicotine due, I suspected at the time, to the aircon filters being completely clogged up with office muck - including nicotine due to the chain-smoking women in said office. (This happened despite the customer being told not to mix smoke and the Mini in the same room - remember this was the 70s.) The customer was given 'a word'......

Outage: Faulty UPS at data centre housing London Internet Exchange causes grief for ISPs and telcos alike

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Eggs... basket??

Am I misreading what happened? I would hate to think if there was really determined physical attack on these installations.

Capita hops on UK's years-late, billions-over-budget Emergency Services Network to keep legacy system alive

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Re: The actual question is

'using their own phones.....' Brings back memories of BOWMAN - Better Off With Map And Nokia....

Not to Nokia, but someone's seeking a third Huawei: Openreach hunts supplier number 3 for UK's FTTP network

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Xray Juliet

.........£33bn (at least presently)? .......and that is £11bn over budget? Small beer as HS2 comes to mind at £82bn (and counting) with FTTP benefiting far more people - or am I missing something?! Never mind whose money it is. Wherever the money comes from, my vote is for FTTP.

Socket to the energy bill: 5-bed home with stupid number of power outlets leaves us asking... why?

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Re: Forget the risk of fire spreading through the holes in the wall

Dry-lined non-weight bearing walls... if this is a modern house? if so, no bricks were removed for each socket installed?

Britain mulls 'complete shutdown' of 4G net for emergency services

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Been here before?

...Do I feel another BOWMAN coming on? You know: at least one false start, way over budget, and then years late as a result...