Recent content by antipodean

I also had no problem with the package updates. But I do have a theory, how large can the programs to record database get? Is there a limit on its maximum size? i have a lot of items to record, and had a couple of random restarts recently where retoring the most recent backup (automatically...

My bet is you don't have the other fields set up correctly. Start by setting it up with DHCP, so the other fields get set correctly, then change to manual IP address setting. That is how I do it with my HDR-Fox T2.

Yep, you just have to stay in your VM sandbox, no access outside ...

They certainly have an MTBF. One of my colleagues before I retired was responsible for a 'bit barn' that received satellite data, and he found MTBF figures to be about right for how many drives he needed to have on hand to replace failed drives.

You left off the other bit - where is the u - it is in front of me, so if you assume it is making an ass of u in front of me.

That is because they don't talk about it, they just do it ... :frantic: When I was a pre-teenager my grandfather told a story of how he went into a shop for a gross of clothes pegs. The empty headed girl behind the counter searched around for a while and eventually came back, "I'm sorry sir, we...

When they are hexadecimal ? :dance:

Looking at that I suspect that the HM probably means humax, and the rest signifies a hex address, hence the x. Oh, I see BH beat me to it with the same conclusion. I suspect the screen text is a Linux kernel panic dump of some sort. The string of 'names' after the WAI look like they may be...

Only if they had another mass to cause some force to be generated. But it wouldn't matter if it was on earth or the moon (whose gravity is around 1/10 of earth), it would still balance.

Well, tier is a level of seating (among other things that use the same word) pronounced differently to tire. Maybe you should write to Susie Dent in the Radio Times, her little column there seems to dig into vague historical meanings and origins.

I haven't done the figures to convert it to tons, but my understanding is each bomb is 30000 lb, at least that is about the heaviest figure I have seen specified for them, without going through the conversions. So these are the US equivalent of Barnes-Wallaces Grand Slam with some extra smarts...

My understanding is that 2000ib is what is referred to as a 'short ton'. Maybe the Imperialists think those in the US are a bit short ....

I would insist that using "proper" English, the headline would mean I would get the item for less than half price.

I have one where this has happened to the front USB port. My suspicion is that there is a regulator with a faulty cap similar to the problem that stops hard disks from operating. I suspect that they have used an identical circuit block in several places (HD, front USB, rear USB) so that they can...

I also get 0 length recordings periodically, and haven't been able to ascertain a reason. It happens on both TV and radio. It is not associated with having a program recorded immediately before or after (one of the regular 0 length recordings is "Life Scientific" with Jim Al-kalili on radio 4 in...