Posts by John Brown (no body)

Re: Television repair

"If he followed Sony's documented testing & repair procedure it would have taken two hours."

Same for brand name latops, and by extension, most/all brand name kit where you are supposed to carefully follow the official procedures. eg, one particular manufacture of laptops I deal with, the official way to replace a broken LCD panel is to strip half the laptop down, separate the screen from the base before removing the bezel to get the screen out. Anyone with a bit of experience soon finds they can do the job in 5-10 mins rather than nearly an hour once you figure out the "trick" to removing and putting the bezel back on properly while the screen is still attached to the base. There are hard to reach plastic tabs at the bottom in the gap between the base and screen which needs pressure applying "just right" to click them in with a nice bit of rigid plastic as a lever.

On the other hand, giving out financial advice might have legal and professional implications involving regulators.

Re: It wasn't dropped honest

Over the last couple of years of WFH? Every day! And worse! "No, I'm pretty sure nothing was spilled on it, look how shiny and clean the outside is" etc etc etc.

Re: Lost dog pictures

The hole doesn't open the inside to the outside quite like that. You don't want debris getting into the mechanism. Usually there will be at the very least a filter inside, more likely, especially on modern drives a rubber/latex membrane. It's primarily to allow for ambient pressure changes, not ventilation.

Re: Water is Recyclable

Can the water actually get more radioactive than the Granite itself? People live with the slightly higher background radiation in that area all their lives for countless generations, some even living in houses made of granite.

Re: TITSUP

Which is odd. The problem is not the username. It's having a default password that is a (now solved) problem. Usernames are commonly easy to guess so having a default username of pi is no less secure than me using "john" as a username.

Re: Linux and security

I agree that the pi/pi default credentials should have been dealt with a long time ago but on the other hand, the Pi was designed as a cheap educational toy. It's growed and growed since that early concept in what back then were undreamed of production levels and use case.

Re: Where can I get me one...

Does it come with a bump stock or do you have to buy that during a separate purchase at a different register, cos these purchases are in no way related, no siree!

Re: Tokamak, or not tokamak, that is the question...

The low and flat South of England. The ideal place for onshore wind farms :-)

Re: Tokamak, or not tokamak, that is the question...

"rubriks cube"

ICBA to argue your post, except to say if you can't even get the guys name right, what hope is there for the rest of your "facts"?

Or El Reg goodies for sale. ISTR the El Reg shop, Cash'n'Carrion, used to sell Tritium based light thingies. And here's the Health & Safety article they produced relating to the sale of Radioactive Tritium-based goodies.

Re: Microwaves..

Weather, trees, cooked pheasants :-)

Re: fiber installed inside water pipes can be used to help water companies detect leaks

From the article; "it would be left up to broadband operators to actually tap into the fiber in the pipes and provide the last few metres of connection to subscribers’ homes."

That sound like they are going to run it down the pipes in the street, not just the mains to the town.

Re: Maybe they should have outsourced their IT...

It's an interesting thought. If you run a business in India, with the local market rates, how do you beat the completion on price? Where do you off-shore your outsourcing? Malaya? Philippines? Tuvalu?

Re: the Andra Pradesh Mahesh Co-Operative Urban Bank

Maybe, maybe not. Anyone know the laws and regulations on Banking in India? Specifically in relation to a co-operative? The account holders may well be shareholders which might affect any payouts.

Re: Root Causes

But you always need a Plan 9 for user-space! That's not planning for failure, it's a plan of last resort. The cold, dead dregs of the company need something for the lawyers to hang onto. Just ask SCO :-)

Re: IT is a cost center isn't it?

Probably because if it's free, then it must be shite. Or the business has to take full responsibility and can't blame the vendor (and pay for people to set it up and maintain it). At least that's the logic I expect is used at board level.

Re: Tesla

I doubt that would bother the French. They have RenaultNissan, Citroen etc. And are the biggest partner in Arianespace, so sticking it to Musk is probably a national sport :-)

Re: Not quite...

"Hmm. "most people". For some of us from before the Sky TV, etc, era, a "satellite dish" was something about the size of a small car."

When the words "satellite dish" impinges on my awareness, my first mental image is Arthur or Jodrell Bank :-)

Re: I blame the attrocious SF we have today

""e=mc^2" is not science"

Theoretically, it's history :-)

Re: Missile Gap

Or just be able to create a debris field in its path. I'd imagine the turning circle on something flying at mach 5+ is quite wide.

Re: Pointless

"Completely and utterly pointless waste of capital and resources."

I'm not sure about the economics of the operation as described. It depends on exactly what the article means in reference to what the "flight operations" staff do. Are they controlling each flight individually from launch to pick-up, drop off and return to base? Or is it a case of the drones being left to their own devices at stages of the flight while the operator is looking after other drones? A flight operator probably gets paid more than a block on a bike or even a van driver. Each delivery is almost certainly going to be very low value, so delivery charges have to be low.

Re: the speedo[*] of my car

I'm guessing it's not called a speedo in other English speaking countries then?

Re: @John Brown (no body) - Units

"OK, so you're South of the border"

Correct, I'm south of the border. I wasn't aware car speedos were different north of the border in Scotland though.

Maybe we are talking about different borders? :-)))