Posts by andrew mulcock

space suit

So stick it in a space suit,

and it can go outside.

As it does not breath, should be no problems of the bends.

I guess it just needs the heating / cooling of the back pack.

CFC

An interesting thought,

could the ISS be used to reduce the CFC

instead of ammonia, use ozone or such like CFC, and take it out the atmosphere !

DLNA !

DLNA Ha,

don't make me laugh,

it's not a standard, it's a wrapper for standards,

two devices can both be quite rightly DLNA badged, and not work together.

DLNA is a waste of time, we need a spec that says things will work together.

windows update

And when you run windows update, you get asked if you want to make IE your default browser,

guess what, the default answer is yes.

until you do not need IE to perform windows update, then this is going to be a problem.

and MS won't take that option unless forced to, another delaying tactic or good American business policy.

sp3

and from a few months will you be able to get sp3 from microsoft

Virgin pipes

Round here,

we have pipes in the ground from virgin, ( was NTL world )

but BT lines direct in the earth.

so here there is no competition, low speed twisted pair from BT or high speed cable from virgin.

so will BT open reach be able to use Virgins ducts to offer a competitive edge.

And for MS update

So when will MS update only work on IE9 or above ?

that will kill XP fast ,

FEA

I'd imagine a FEA would be a great war head for this,

bugs

OK

so follow the water is the search for life from nasa.

http://www.astrobio.net/index.php?option=com_retrospection&task=detail&id=1709

So there could be / was life on the moon ?

So how are we not going to cross contaminate it and our selfs ?

and we thought SARS traveled a long distance fast !

copyrigth date

Have you noticed the copyright date at the bottom of the screen of the consultation ?

https://consultations.external.bbc.co.uk/departments/bbc/bbc-on-demand-offerings/consultation/intro/getNextPage

they can't even get the date right,

SSD

Now, when SATA 3 and SSD drives go together, that could be fast.

Old Psions

Well,

I used psions from the psion '11' , through to the 3mx,

never go t into the 5 series, the 3 did all I wanted it to do.

Number 1, was reliability. Don't think I ever had to re boot the thing,

Number 2, battery life. A month or two normal use,

Number 3, connectivity, connected to the PC fantasticaly easily

Number 4, instant on. Open , press button and use.

It just worked, always there for me when I wanted it, had all sorts of information on it , stored and sorted as needed. Spread sheets and note pads as needed.

Perfect.

Then they went and tried to get into the mobile market and blew it.

And this new thing only seems to tick the connected button, the rest it seems to fall over on big time.

If they could make a Psion 3 or 5 that connected to the PC, I'd get one.

how hot is plasma

Just wondered how hot the friction / air has to get to become plasma and thus conductive for the EM shield to work ?

I guess up till that temperature, then normal heat shielding has to be employed .

red rectangles

Question

what are the red rectangles that are not around moving people, what is it seeing moving ?

Cambridge as well

Looks like all email is out as well ,

Cambridge has no email service, and web access through virgin is gone, as is the old www.ntlworld.com re direction.

xp ?

ms are in a problem,

xp mainly does what people want now,

drivers work, programs work, support works.

so people ask, why change ?

I forcast, only when you can't get drivers for new equipment for XP will it change.

Boil off rocket

And what did boil off could be feed to control / boost rockets to counter the effect of gravity.

Planes

So,

use normal jet to get to high altitude, then DIVE like .... to MACH 4, and start scram JET.

Now that sounds a fun plane ride.

maybe try it out on the shuttle ?

and ms update

and will we be able to access and install updates without IE ?

Microsoft update

Is this not rather a none chat.

Until Microsoft do not force you to use IE to run Microsoft update, then IE Will be required.

picture quality

interesting, the quality of the pictures taken of the cars is quite high, whilst the ones of the people taken by the car is quite low.

Most of the people seem to be using mobile phones, maybe the cars should be equiped with mobile phones to take better quality pictures.

New office software ?

Ha

most people don't even have office 2007 , they stay with previous incarnations, why change to offic 14 ?

does it matter ?

To be honest, does it matter ?

we're going to run out of petroleum, sooner or later. so we're going to have to change something.

we did not get lead free petrol for a long time after it was easily possible because 'the cost of conversion was too high', then one tax change later, and ha presto, it's done.

we did not want north sea gas, it would only last a few years, so why change from town gas ? but we did because some one said lets do it.

Same can be said for mercury, once upon a time we used to use it allover the place, now if I break a mercury thermometer I have to evacuate the lab. Just because some one decided so.

Same will happen for the petrol vehicular, it and us will evolve, when we want to.

via boards and hard drives

I use via a lot, but a few features I have found in the past.

This size box is great, but very noisy with the 6 small 40 mm fans on the hard disks. Plane taking off sort of thing. Not for use at home, unless you have a room you can lock it out the way in.

Via boards all seem to have a very low Sata count, two being the typical on ITX boards. They do special NAS boards, but they cost a bomb, and are much less common.

mini-ITX boards in general, the ones with the 40 mm fan on, are horribly noisy. Starts off ok, but gets worse over the months. Some one has got to make a BIG heatsink one could put on the in place of that fan. The ones without fans are obviously quite, but less capable.

infectious cancer ?

Did I miss a trick some where,

so 'cancer' is infectious ? wow, so we can stop it,

BTW: when will the DARPA guys get hold of it as an idea ?

And home backups

Tapes, you just can't back up peta bytes of data to tape, for 10 years, tapes don't last that long, unless you keep reversing them and giving them TLC.

Even the small office I'm in , has 100 plus pc's each with 500 G plus of drives, how do you keep that backed up ?

The thing that worries me , is home backups. The kids both have machines with T byte drives, how do I keep that backed up, apart from using more hard drives ?

bandwidth , what bandwidth ?

Just trying to get handle on which bandwidth is in question.

Is it satalight or ground based problems.

just thinking, the predators et all need to talk over the horizon, so tend to use satalights, but

could they not be set to use a more local relay like another plane near by but far enough away, which then uses microwave link to connect to ground based fibre optic internet,

thus no need for satalight bandwidth.

up or down

Was the bag dropped ?

dropped impies downwards, in micro gravity is there such a thing as dropped ?

do we need to invent another word ?

now NASA is great at EVA, and ALSEP TLA's, so whats the new word for dropped in space going to be.

so

So

BT will not invest in the UK, they are a multinational company so why should they.

So if we want a national infer structure, let the UK government purchase BT and rent the facilities back to the company,

Is this not what happens on the railways ?

how much per year

so does that mean each person costs Virgin an average of 54K per year ?