Posts by 105kayem

BT keeps the faith in 'like fury' fiber broadband buildout as revenues dip

Re: Moving to FTTH

Had a problem with my FTTC connection last year, drop outs and speed fluctuations. I’m with Zen and they were exemplary in sorting it out with Openreach. It ended up with new cables being run through ducting and a couple of previous bodge jobs being fixed properly. I was chatting to the supervisor ( it was pissing down outside so I was supplying hot drinks and biscuits to the crew) I asked about FTTP and he said it was something he’d discussed with management but there were no plans to introduce it, even though they new others were sniffing around. A few weeks ago City Fibre turned up and started running fibre ductwork all around our locality.

Forget the climate: Steep prices the biggest reason EV sales aren't higher

He’s the Emergency Trombone Repair Man on his vacation.

Techies try to bypass damaged UPS, send 380V into air traffic system

Re: Critical

Many years ago a company that I worked for had a contract to install 3 big industrial sewage pumps in a new pumping station. The sparky made an impeccable job of it it, all the cable runs to the control boards were symmetrical and neat. Come switch on none of the pumps would run, due to him running the red phase to the first pump, the blue phase to the second…

Cops chase Tesla driver 'dozing' with Autopilot on

Re: "whether the car has an in-cabin camera"

They could market it to the Dogging community…

To protect its cloud, Microsoft bans crypto mining from its online services

The $ scam counter is over $12 Billion and counting.

https://web3isgoinggreat.com/

I pop over every few days to read about the next domino to have fallen, it’s quite enlightening.

Twitter engineer calls out Elon Musk for technical BS in unusual career move

Re: Not engineering but...

Colac, sort of famous ( if that's the right word ) among the older ultra running community for hosting a 1000 mile foot race around the town square iirc. Just had a look online and see that in the last event "Only finisher Siegfried Bauer set new 1000 mile world record of 12d 12hr 13min 20sec "

Er, Musk's trial hasn't stopped, no matter what he told Twitter, says judge

Perhaps he has a cunning plan, "as cunning as a fox who's just been appointed Professor of Cunning at the University of Oxford", but somehow I doubt it.

Fixing an upside-down USB plug: A case of supporting the insupportable

Re: Can't put my finger on it

The Reg has really gone downhill noticeably over the last few weeks. I’ve deleted my ElReg browser tab. Might pop in once in a while, but such a shame.

NASA scrubs Artemis mission yet again because SLS just can't handle the pressure

Re: Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly

One of the commentators on Ars ( Wickwick ) said the best possible outcome would be for the SLS to explode on liftoff taking the launch tower and ancillaries with it. That has now entered the Lexicon as a “ wickwick “ event.

Chances good for NASA Artemis SLS Moon launch on Saturday

Re: Rollbacks & Paranoia

I thought they dropped the whole shebang into the ocean, with just the skeleton capsule ( hopefully) making it back from its trip around the moon?

Amazon has repackaged surveillance capitalism as reality TV

Wildlife Camera

I purchased a “ Blink “ doorbell. It’s battery powered and records clips to a remote memory stick via WiFi.

An excellent piece of kit when used as a wildlife camera and mounted in my Hedgehog feeding station in the garden.

Rocket Lab CEO reflects on company's humble beginnings as a drainpipe

“A high-voltage connection was not quite perfect. Good enough to pass testing but, when the rocket was flying, the potting compound around the joint melted and liquefied. A short resulted in an electrical spike and "that was the end of that.”

I’m always astonished at the level of detail possible in these post “ the rocket blew up “ events and curious as to how they manage to analyse the exact cause.

When will the UK take another giant leap into space?

Re: Rocket Who

Or when.

India’s latest rocket flies but payloads don't prosper

Verbing Nouns

“The satellites were placed in an elliptical orbit in place of a circular orbit,” caveated the chairman.”

In what way does “ caveated “ make any sort of sense in that sentence?

Enough with the notifications! Focus Assist will shut them u… 'But I'm too important!'

Ha!

There’s a local chip shop that still displays a prominent “ Voted Best Chip Shop in Dorset “ Twenty five years after The “ award “

The chips are crap…

NASA wants nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030

They could take advantage of the Solar wind…

Hooking up to Starlink might be pricier than you thought

Ah, but once they’ve launched, landed and reused the hardware a dozen times that 20 billion price tag is almost palatable. After all, its not as though you’d spend that amount of money on something, use it once and then throw it away…

Darmstadt, we have a problem – ESA reveals its INTEGRAL space telescope was three hours from likely death

Re: " thereby presenting the best argument for ongoing remote work, for every job, forever"

Burger flipping shouldn’t pose much of a problem, I was watching telly last week and some bloke was using a robot wielding a cut throat razor to give some bloke a shave…