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    1. Black Hole

      Another computer question...

      In the long-running saga of my broadband, the last couple of days I've been putting up with very slow Internet, and this morning investigated. The SpeedSmart test said 0.2Mbps! I checked my router's stats and that said 5Mbps ADSL, so it looked like I was being throttled at the exchange...
    2. Black Hole

      Media mistakes

      What I'm saying is every company is a Sergeant Major's company, so it is unnecessary to say that.
    3. Black Hole

      Gold Plating

      Solved (not in the way originally envisaged). My need was for two 2P6T MBB* switches, and I could only find 2P6T BBM* switches with gold plating. However, by cannibalising another pair of BBM switches for their wipers, I modified BBM to MBB. This was only possible because of the exact...
    4. Black Hole

      Media mistakes

      Not as an official title perhaps, but in function...
    5. Black Hole

      Media mistakes

      Obs "Two Sergeants Major and their companies..." would be correct. My guess is that the under-qualified clerk entering this stuff got "Sergeant Majors" undersquiggled as an error but didn't know how to fix it and perhaps found the apostrophe got it past the spell-checker. I presume all...
    6. Black Hole

      Media mistakes

      Really?
    7. Black Hole

      Stuck custom-firmware-hdr package

      What CF version were you on before you tried to update? IIRC the CF firmware-updating mechanism relies on you having a reasonably up-to-date firmware installed in the first place. If rebooting your HDR-FOX gets you nowhere, you will have to resort to updating/re-installing firmware the old...
    8. Black Hole

      Assume v. Presume

      IIRC we used to get drinking glasses from petrol and crockery from washing powder. We have a kitchen wall clock (a ceramic plate with a hole in the middle, blue check pattern) which used to be mains driven until I replaced the movement with quartz, which must have come from something like that...
    9. Black Hole

      Legend Crashes HD-FOX

      No more crashes logged.
    10. Black Hole

      Legend Crashes HD-FOX

      Switching back to Dave resulted in no crashes in the 8 minutes I was there. Now back to ITV4 again and not crashing (so far), I'll leave the HD-FOX on there fo the time being and check the crash log later. The crash log shows the four I had today, but a long series of crashes back on June 11th...
    11. Black Hole

      Legend Crashes HD-FOX

      Now I'm getting recurring crashes on ITV4 on HD-FOX, but a HDR-FOX does not seem to be affected. This is very curious. I think it's been four reboots so far, in the 10 minutes since switching to ITV4. The rest of the morning has been no problem, BBC1 and Dave.
    12. Black Hole

      Amusing Items

      You can't hear capitalisation! Being in Poland, the pole vault could have been and entirely different discipline.
    13. Black Hole

      Amusing Items

      Well, there were quite a few poles in the competition.
    14. Black Hole

      Amusing Items

      Diamond League Colemanballs: "He's the only Pole in the [pole vault] competition"
    15. Black Hole

      Assume v. Presume

      The amusing thing about Green Shield is that Sainsbury's turned their back on them and went for other means to foster loyalty. Once price control came off, nobody wanted to issue them and started competing on price, so the assets which serviced Green Shield (showrooms, warehousing etc) were...
    16. Black Hole

      Assume v. Presume

      I realise you're having a quip, but I mean it was in the decades where parents still had the habits of scarcity (and there were still price controls, no discounts – supermarkets competed on who could offer more Green Shield Stamps). That's as may be, but I get absorbed in something and...
    17. Black Hole

      What max current will the rear USB actually supply 5V at?

      Perhaps an FPGA.
    18. Black Hole

      Interesting Items...

      Look up YouTube, there's usually somebody documenting how they get in for any particular model (or very similar).
    19. Black Hole

      Interesting Items...

      Budget units save money by not having access panels. I would be concerned that a miniaturised SSD didn't have enough surface area for heat dissipation.
    20. Black Hole

      Assume v. Presume

      He's a lurker, and clearly he's been talking to my Mum. Tell somebody you like something once (school packed lunches), and be forever typecast. If not beans, then lettuce & salad cream (Heinz, of course). Not so much my lack of desire for variation, but easy for Mum. I can't say I've had a...
    1. Black Hole

      Another computer question...

      In the long-running saga of my broadband, the last couple of days I've been putting up with very slow Internet, and this morning investigated. The SpeedSmart test said 0.2Mbps! I checked my router's stats and that said 5Mbps ADSL, so it looked like I was being throttled at the exchange...
    2. Black Hole

      Media mistakes

      What I'm saying is every company is a Sergeant Major's company, so it is unnecessary to say that.
    3. Black Hole

      Gold Plating

      Solved (not in the way originally envisaged). My need was for two 2P6T MBB* switches, and I could only find 2P6T BBM* switches with gold plating. However, by cannibalising another pair of BBM switches for their wipers, I modified BBM to MBB. This was only possible because of the exact...
    4. Black Hole

      Media mistakes

      Not as an official title perhaps, but in function...
    5. Black Hole

      Media mistakes

      Obs "Two Sergeants Major and their companies..." would be correct. My guess is that the under-qualified clerk entering this stuff got "Sergeant Majors" undersquiggled as an error but didn't know how to fix it and perhaps found the apostrophe got it past the spell-checker. I presume all...
    6. Black Hole

      Media mistakes

      Really?
    7. Black Hole

      Stuck custom-firmware-hdr package

      What CF version were you on before you tried to update? IIRC the CF firmware-updating mechanism relies on you having a reasonably up-to-date firmware installed in the first place. If rebooting your HDR-FOX gets you nowhere, you will have to resort to updating/re-installing firmware the old...
    8. Black Hole

      Assume v. Presume

      IIRC we used to get drinking glasses from petrol and crockery from washing powder. We have a kitchen wall clock (a ceramic plate with a hole in the middle, blue check pattern) which used to be mains driven until I replaced the movement with quartz, which must have come from something like that...
    9. Black Hole

      Legend Crashes HD-FOX

      No more crashes logged.
    10. Black Hole

      Legend Crashes HD-FOX

      Switching back to Dave resulted in no crashes in the 8 minutes I was there. Now back to ITV4 again and not crashing (so far), I'll leave the HD-FOX on there fo the time being and check the crash log later. The crash log shows the four I had today, but a long series of crashes back on June 11th...
    11. Black Hole

      Legend Crashes HD-FOX

      Now I'm getting recurring crashes on ITV4 on HD-FOX, but a HDR-FOX does not seem to be affected. This is very curious. I think it's been four reboots so far, in the 10 minutes since switching to ITV4. The rest of the morning has been no problem, BBC1 and Dave.
    12. Black Hole

      Amusing Items

      You can't hear capitalisation! Being in Poland, the pole vault could have been and entirely different discipline.
    13. Black Hole

      Amusing Items

      Well, there were quite a few poles in the competition.
    14. Black Hole

      Amusing Items

      Diamond League Colemanballs: "He's the only Pole in the [pole vault] competition"
    15. Black Hole

      Assume v. Presume

      The amusing thing about Green Shield is that Sainsbury's turned their back on them and went for other means to foster loyalty. Once price control came off, nobody wanted to issue them and started competing on price, so the assets which serviced Green Shield (showrooms, warehousing etc) were...
    16. Black Hole

      Assume v. Presume

      I realise you're having a quip, but I mean it was in the decades where parents still had the habits of scarcity (and there were still price controls, no discounts – supermarkets competed on who could offer more Green Shield Stamps). That's as may be, but I get absorbed in something and...
    17. Black Hole

      What max current will the rear USB actually supply 5V at?

      Perhaps an FPGA.
    18. Black Hole

      Interesting Items...

      Look up YouTube, there's usually somebody documenting how they get in for any particular model (or very similar).
    19. Black Hole

      Interesting Items...

      Budget units save money by not having access panels. I would be concerned that a miniaturised SSD didn't have enough surface area for heat dissipation.
    20. Black Hole

      Assume v. Presume

      He's a lurker, and clearly he's been talking to my Mum. Tell somebody you like something once (school packed lunches), and be forever typecast. If not beans, then lettuce & salad cream (Heinz, of course). Not so much my lack of desire for variation, but easy for Mum. I can't say I've had a...
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