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    Owen Smith replied to the thread General incompetence.
    The UK has arguably the best road signs in the world (a result of significant research done in the 1950s for the motorway network)...
  • Black Hole
    Black Hole replied to the thread General incompetence.
    It's not a question of adhering to limits, it is a question of routing around them because they cause a delay. My TomTom does fuzzy...
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    gomezz replied to the thread General incompetence.
    I should have said I no longer drive long distances to unknown parts but when I do I use the inbuilt sat-nav and the road signs...
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    Owen Smith replied to the thread In the RS top 500.
    Does it really matter what the RS top 500 shows? It doesn't affect anything, it's just a bit of amusement.
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    Owen Smith replied to the thread Another computer question....
    You can tell dnsmasq to look anything else up in some other DNS server and work as a cache for those lookups. That's what most consumer...
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    Owen Smith replied to the thread General incompetence.
    However they have a roof mounted active antenna (aerial?) which uses the car roof as a ground plane. For two decades this alone meant it...
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    SemiRamis replied to the thread In the RS top 500.
    NUMBER 1 is Airing break
  • Black Hole
    Black Hole replied to the thread Another computer question....
    Clearly a local DNS server needs to pass on queries it can't answer to a proper server (by which I obviously mean the usual one out...
  • Black Hole
    Black Hole replied to the thread General incompetence.
    My god. So it wont know about any of the major improvements around Cambridge-Bedford, nor the "missing link" (Swindon to Gloucester)...
  • Black Hole
    Black Hole replied to the thread General incompetence.
    Built-in satnavs are (or were) bad. Expensive to keep updated, orphaned, or capabilities exceeded. Much better to have a separate (eg...
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    Owen Smith replied to the thread General incompetence.
    Little Staughton, and I'm still not sure the mapping apps were correct in advising I could drive across the runway. I decided no way...
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    Rick88 replied to the thread General incompetence.
    Shuttleworth?
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    Owen Smith replied to the thread General incompetence.
    Indeed. But at the point you are looking at a turn into a farm track that you don't want to drive down, you're probably several miles...
  • gomezz
    gomezz replied to the thread General incompetence.
    Whatever sat-nav you use you do not turn off the sanity check switch in your brain.
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    Owen Smith replied to the thread General incompetence.
    Yes. Because I use the built in sat nav in my car from 2002 since it knows much better where cars can and can't sensibly go. If I use...
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