Gloster Gladiators biplanes were in front line combat in 1940 successfully defending Malta. https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/british-bipla... The Royal Navy also used biplanes, the Fairey Swordfish were…
> Avro Lancasters, a few years ago, and I was shocked how small and cramped it was. Two things about that. Firstly I agree inside they are tiny and having the clamber over the wing spar as a 6ft chunky man wasn't easy.…
I quite often print things such as order acknowledgements or appointment information. It feels like over the past year or so it usually fails. One page on screen goes to 5-10 pages of mainly blank space, certainly not…
There was a lot of talk at the time as to whether COVID should be classed as respiratory or a blood disorder. This seems to be quite a decent and updated article about it.…
The page says "This website is no longer updated" so if there were ever pictures I suspect they are long gone. I'd not heard of The Belt of Venus before, but luckily there is plenty of information about it out there.…
I used it for a little while and Turnpike email software from the UKs Demon Internet integrated it pretty well. The problem was only one other person I knew actually used it, it didn't really have a justifiable use for…
We keep samples of every print run and also use that to cut out and send samples telling the printers to match. They can drift over time so by keeping every run we can monitor. Some printer are better than others and…
Firstly can I give you a big hug for what you're doing. Do you find that things such as the man-shed groups play an important part? I feel that life can be more isolating these days and where people move about more and…
It is, but there are a few caveats. Usually you tell the printers to print in a specific Pantone colour or using CMYK. The Pantone shade tells them what ink mix to use but it's not what the final printed product will…
> tainted my view of software development as full of lazy programmers not bothering to optimize code I have the opposite memory of the C64 demo coders, they were masters at optimizing and pushing hardware well beyond…
Interesting, so yes it does seem to be the American term which is now "leaking" into British English.
A few years ago I stumbled across a little museum called Brenzett Aeronautical Museum on the south coast of England. It was ram packed with a varied mix of exhibits, including quite a lot related to bomb disposal, which…
That was one of my favourite TV series as a kid. It was still in fresh memory for a lot of people, broadcast 25 years after the end of WW2, I think it got the feeling over very well.
I think this may be a case of language evolving/devolving and quite possibly an Americanism. I'm British and to me backup means having a reserve or spare ready to use. You have a battery backup on your servers to step…
> but it's exhausting to me. Whenever I come home from a social occasion I need time to recover. Going to the gym is exhausting, running a marathon is exhausting, spending a day weeding your garden or laying a new…
On a related note here in England we also have the only known reproduction of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling in the world. It's a 2/3rds scale replica in a small plain looking church near Worthing on the south coast.…
It's the first time since the tapestry was made nearly 1,000 years ago that it has returned to the UK, they are refurbishing the museum in France I believe. It was a very complex and delicate process to get it here and…
> residential buildings at the mercy of DC load. Thousands of people Google "why is my building cold" causing the AI DC to wake up and pump out heat. AI sees the heat and reports "heating is on, you're fine" then shuts…
I still use my T61p quite regularly. These days it's only really a thin client for RDP into work and some admin tools & toys, but the 1920 x 1200 matt IPS screen is unbeatable and the keyboard is still lovely.
> excess heat to be used for residential building heating In the late 90s I worked at an insurance company in leafy Surrey[1]. I was told that they used to use their IBM mainframe to heat the swimming pool[2]…
Virgin Media cable user in the UK here. I had their Tivo box until a couple of years ago when the forced an "upgrade". The new box has uch better hardware but the software was a leap backwards. Regarding ads, on…
I use a similar system. I have paper console tape on each drive and write the date last used on it and also keep a text file log of which drive and when. The backup batch file also writes a timestamp.txt to the root of…
Common word in the UK. Basically a tanker is for transporting, a bowser also dispenses. It's usually fuel but can be any liquid, such as water.
> Apparently it could intercept at 65000ft Reportedly it intercepted a USAF RB-57F[1] at 80,000ft and also did a zoom climb to just under 88,000ft. https://theaviationgeekclub.com/raf-lightning-pilot-recalls-... [1] A…
My experience over the years. Had a Miele about 30 years ago and it was very good. It died when someone tried to hoover up a spilt glass of water and the motor was going to cost as much as a new cleaner. We've had a…
Gloster Gladiators biplanes were in front line combat in 1940 successfully defending Malta. https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/british-bipla... The Royal Navy also used biplanes, the Fairey Swordfish were…
> Avro Lancasters, a few years ago, and I was shocked how small and cramped it was. Two things about that. Firstly I agree inside they are tiny and having the clamber over the wing spar as a 6ft chunky man wasn't easy.…
I quite often print things such as order acknowledgements or appointment information. It feels like over the past year or so it usually fails. One page on screen goes to 5-10 pages of mainly blank space, certainly not…
There was a lot of talk at the time as to whether COVID should be classed as respiratory or a blood disorder. This seems to be quite a decent and updated article about it.…
The page says "This website is no longer updated" so if there were ever pictures I suspect they are long gone. I'd not heard of The Belt of Venus before, but luckily there is plenty of information about it out there.…
I used it for a little while and Turnpike email software from the UKs Demon Internet integrated it pretty well. The problem was only one other person I knew actually used it, it didn't really have a justifiable use for…
We keep samples of every print run and also use that to cut out and send samples telling the printers to match. They can drift over time so by keeping every run we can monitor. Some printer are better than others and…
Firstly can I give you a big hug for what you're doing. Do you find that things such as the man-shed groups play an important part? I feel that life can be more isolating these days and where people move about more and…
It is, but there are a few caveats. Usually you tell the printers to print in a specific Pantone colour or using CMYK. The Pantone shade tells them what ink mix to use but it's not what the final printed product will…
> tainted my view of software development as full of lazy programmers not bothering to optimize code I have the opposite memory of the C64 demo coders, they were masters at optimizing and pushing hardware well beyond…
Interesting, so yes it does seem to be the American term which is now "leaking" into British English.
A few years ago I stumbled across a little museum called Brenzett Aeronautical Museum on the south coast of England. It was ram packed with a varied mix of exhibits, including quite a lot related to bomb disposal, which…
That was one of my favourite TV series as a kid. It was still in fresh memory for a lot of people, broadcast 25 years after the end of WW2, I think it got the feeling over very well.
I think this may be a case of language evolving/devolving and quite possibly an Americanism. I'm British and to me backup means having a reserve or spare ready to use. You have a battery backup on your servers to step…
> but it's exhausting to me. Whenever I come home from a social occasion I need time to recover. Going to the gym is exhausting, running a marathon is exhausting, spending a day weeding your garden or laying a new…
On a related note here in England we also have the only known reproduction of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling in the world. It's a 2/3rds scale replica in a small plain looking church near Worthing on the south coast.…
It's the first time since the tapestry was made nearly 1,000 years ago that it has returned to the UK, they are refurbishing the museum in France I believe. It was a very complex and delicate process to get it here and…
> residential buildings at the mercy of DC load. Thousands of people Google "why is my building cold" causing the AI DC to wake up and pump out heat. AI sees the heat and reports "heating is on, you're fine" then shuts…
I still use my T61p quite regularly. These days it's only really a thin client for RDP into work and some admin tools & toys, but the 1920 x 1200 matt IPS screen is unbeatable and the keyboard is still lovely.
> excess heat to be used for residential building heating In the late 90s I worked at an insurance company in leafy Surrey[1]. I was told that they used to use their IBM mainframe to heat the swimming pool[2]…
Virgin Media cable user in the UK here. I had their Tivo box until a couple of years ago when the forced an "upgrade". The new box has uch better hardware but the software was a leap backwards. Regarding ads, on…
I use a similar system. I have paper console tape on each drive and write the date last used on it and also keep a text file log of which drive and when. The backup batch file also writes a timestamp.txt to the root of…
Common word in the UK. Basically a tanker is for transporting, a bowser also dispenses. It's usually fuel but can be any liquid, such as water.
> Apparently it could intercept at 65000ft Reportedly it intercepted a USAF RB-57F[1] at 80,000ft and also did a zoom climb to just under 88,000ft. https://theaviationgeekclub.com/raf-lightning-pilot-recalls-... [1] A…
My experience over the years. Had a Miele about 30 years ago and it was very good. It died when someone tried to hoover up a spilt glass of water and the motor was going to cost as much as a new cleaner. We've had a…