Posts by Callam McMillan

Re: yes

Writing to a disk non-stop at full speed for 24 days would be a fairly unusual workload!

WhatsApp can do that. Select the message and click the info button. It'll tell you when the message was delivered and read.

Re: Frankly I'm astonished you can "HFT" from across the atlantic due to signal delay.

Yes... The speed of light through glass is slower than that through vacuum, so improvements in materials, and the electronics at either end can increase the "speed of light".

Re: Screwfix

I've always found the product knowledge of the staff at Richer Sounds to be excellent. Can't talk about Screwfix - I work on the basis of "If I don't know what I need before I walk in, Screwfix isn't the place for me!"

Re: Tesla is not typical

Pen-y-gors. A 120kW charger will be pulling a lot more than 80A. A 100A low voltage 3-phase supply tops out at 70kW (415 volts x 100 amps x sqrt(3) = 71880 watts)

Re: Wow - that's fast!

dBm is power relative to 1mW.

0dB is 1mW

for each -3dBm, reduce the relative power by half

for each -10dBm, reduce the relative power by 10 times.

In Windows 10, not really - it just gives you a reason such as "Memory Management". I then use a useful utility called Blue Screen View - that shows you what caused the crash, what drivers were running etc.

Re: Home UPS

Or buy a decent UPS! Personally I'll only go with APC Smart-UPS systems now.

Re: TROPPUS TI

You are of course assuming that this wasn't the university the BOFH originally worked at before he moved to the corporate world!

Re: Closest thing to a netbook...

I bought one. Didn't get it for £149, but it's still not bad, even if it does have a few niggles.

Re: This is what happens when people care too much about benchmarks

Thats the point, the benchmarks are good for nothing if they've been fudged to produce ultimately meaningless numbers.

Sleep soundly knowing you can recover the emails that cover your arse!

Re: Hmmmm...

Then you can't really blame the data centre company when the brown stuff hits the fan!

Re: says:

I used to have an early 90's Dell keyboard of a similar type. Alas it stopped working a few years back. Recently though I bought a clicky mechanical keyboard that's made of metal. My wife's not keen on the sound of it, but I love it.

Re: I dont know what to do

But when your product scores "1 out of 5 stars" and is called "quite literally the worst router ever made", are you going to proudly advertise that on the box of your product? Then you end up with those advertising they got a good rating - if they can be bothered. As for everyone else, you don't know if they're bad, or have just never been reviewed.

Re: Price war...?

£41k and an Audi A4

I suspect they work them hard in return for a package like that though.

Re: I respect this ...

Difference is, here GCHQ does the monitoring for you!

Perhaps not, but the company is owned by the shareholders, meaning if nothing else, the CEO and the board that agreed to pay more tax than the absolue legal minimum is likely to find themselves down the job centre about 20 nanoseconds after agreeing to do so (If you can afford to pay extra tax then you can afford to give it to us [shareholders].)

Regardless of whether it's right or not, and whether there's a legal basis or not, there would also be lawsuits.

Re: The TV manufacturers really have taken us for chumps

I think the whole sound is attrocious thing is overdone. I have a 40 inch Samsung in an average sized living room running the onboard speakers, and it is perfectly audible at a wide range of volumes as well as going more than loud enough for watching any kind of TV programming.

BUT. While the sound is perfectly competent, it's nothing spectacular. You should look at it in the way that some people decide to remove the perfectly ok stereo from their car and spend a small fortune to make it louder etc. They didn't need to, but they wanted to do so because it's what they like. What you wouldn't say is that the car companies are taking them to the cleaners.

Oh, and I'm planning to install a 5.1 surround sound setup at some point!

If the laptop batteries I have disassembled are anything to go by (I'm not one for following the instructions not to disassemble them) then once you remove the casing, you are left with a series of AA type cells wired in series to a small controller board.

From what I can tell, what they're really doing is finding a reliable source of good-enough Li-ion cells, rather than reusing laptop batteries wholesale (I saw a picture of this the other day on another news site).

Re: But with 8k on the way...

Talking to somebody in the know, there should be regular 8K transmissions by the middle of next decade with the Japanese Olympics really showcasing the technology.

Re: Not quite...

Plus with tapes, you can load hundreds of them into a tape robot without issue.

Re: Sir

I think you'll find that's code for "A bit rubbish"... Especially so if you work in Financial Services IT!

Re: @Don Jefe

Yes and No. If you own a single share of the company and you are fighting the majority opinion, then yes, you have the right to sell your shares and shut up.

However, while you own those shares, you do in fact own part of the company, and therefore the board works for you. Therefore if you can control (or convince others to) enough of the shares, then the board have to do as you say.

That said, the fact he's resorted to the lawyers suggests that he falls into the first camp.

Re: Well i got 3 months

...There is no alternative choice. You have Virgin Media, which runs over the co-ax network they already have in their pocket. Then you have every other ISP who lease the wires in the ground from BT... Who they have in their pocket.