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“black line down one side”
Thats a tracking line problem, not a software one.
The primary cause varies but could well be dust on your vcr heads. Try a careful blast from an air-can.
Another possibility is that the tape has stretched try rewwinding to retension and start again.
If all else fails there should be a slider/buttons on your vcr that adjust tracking.
January 23, 2018 at 11:03 am in reply to: 5~30% CPU speed reduction to your Intel CPU forecast #16084Intel have compounded their recent less than stellar reactions to the Meltdown/Spectre back-doors by having to withdraw their recent buggy fixes! It isn’t surprising they are getting a good tongue-lashing from everyone. link
Someone managed to get ext4 on a HH6 using this:
“‘I’ve discovered through trial and error that a drive formatted using ext4 works on the BT Hub 6. The path to access it it is /api/(drive_name). For example if you’ve named the drive backup1, the URI is //api/backup1.”
I got this with a trawl through the BT Care Community. You could try there — as Dave says HH has a lot of idiosyncrasies.
I was musing that you only have restricted delegated rights as a user, and you MAY need root privileges to write to the drive. Maybe something like setting your account as ROOT would help. e.g link
At a wild guess, you do not have sudoers rights on the router, and possibly do not know the actual router admin password.
Can you do a sudo su?
January 22, 2018 at 5:13 pm in reply to: 5~30% CPU speed reduction to your Intel CPU forecast #16027IIrc only some ARM are affected. Slower unoptimized chips such as that used by the Raspberry Pi are invulnerable to both attacks. AMD claim they do not have a meltdown problem, but the situation is far less clear wrt Spectre as M$ feel there is a need to patch Windows for it.
This wiki summarizes the current state of play.
Answering Steve – I am told that IBM have put the onus on the mobo manufacturers to roll out fixes.
I’ll admit, contactless cards worry me. A trawl around the ChaosComputing site (a legitimate bunch of EU white hats) reveals that all banks have less than stellar security on their contactless cards and they are vulnerable to electronic pick-pocketing. If such pick-pockets kept amounts small e.g. coffee cup size, then it would be very difficult to spot and very difficult for banks to prove or disprove if the perpetrator had the foresight to set themselves up as some form of street vendor. For that reason I keep my bonk&pay cards in a Faraday caged wallet as I’d anticipate some bank push-back if I disputed more than one or two such payments.
January 22, 2018 at 11:19 am in reply to: 5~30% CPU speed reduction to your Intel CPU forecast #16013Linus Torvalds replies to a very critical message to Intel with an even more critical response! Most unusual for Linus to put in the boot to a chip company – such ire was only previously dished out only to the likes of Microsoft and Apple.
Pretty worrying for Intel investors as Intel seem to have completely lost the plot and are pouring petrol on the flames!
Sorry about your bad experiences Bob, unfortunately investing is a bit like the web. If it looks too good to be true . . .
The rise in the Stock Market over the last couple of years against all common sense wrt P/E ratios, cash or even expected earnings is a case in point.With apologies to professionals like Steve and Dan, I have worked with some real balance sheet wizards in my time which made me appreciate the old adage that ‘cash is king’ and nearly everything else can be manipulated to give a number that not only keeps people happy but still satisfies external Auditors.
There are now a worrying number of people including opinion makers saying that the financial markets have reached unsustainable levels and it will soon all end in tears. link
Any shares we had, we have sold (before the peak admittedly) and have turned them into tangible assets for the kids or ‘SKIing (spending kids inheritance). Why not cash — well that too is just a mythical construct, like Bitcoins, cash has no intrinsic value. It is just a measure of confidence in being able to turn it into something useful.
Game theory rules — maximise gains and minimise losses. It also, with luck, cut down on minimising ‘donations’ to the Exchequer.
[edit] I think the Warren Buffe/George Soros link is a little dated – this link is more up to date.t
I think ‘up&coming’ areas need a lot of intestinal fortitude if you are investing in property. That said there are enormous profits to be made – the Kings Cross area in the 1980s was absolutely horrible and property prices reflected that fact, but now it is transformed and property prices are through the roof.
The East End and area out to Greys were ‘interesting’ in those days. I had a mate in the ‘Special Protection Squad’ and he had spent some time in the area as a young copper. He took pride in showing me around some of the East End pubs and hang-outs of the Kray twins etc. Funnily enough as long as you were not ‘involved’ in any way and minded your Ps & Qs it was perfectly safe and rather like being in the middle of a detective story.
Bit different now, the area around Stratford can be positively dangerous with some of the spaced-out characters that inhabit it..
January 20, 2018 at 2:03 pm in reply to: 5~30% CPU speed reduction to your Intel CPU forecast #15856Many are still not fixed – Windows have only just released a Spectre fix for AMD.
That said, I am getting ready to migrate to AMD Ryzen from Intel so I’m doing a massive copying exercise — that is when you can easily see a 10-20% slowdown!
Nice to get stability John. Until I retired I never lived in the same locality for more than five years. While I was at uni in London I never lived in any locality for longer than one year. Good in a way in that I pretty much know my way around most parts (and many many pubs) of London except the western side. Ditto many parts of the world.
There are downsides to doing this. As my elder son says – he has lots of acquaintances and casual friends everywhere, but a very limited number of true friends.
Bob – one common ailment can make it difficult to take the test — bloody piles!
Incidentally think hard 50 or 60 times before opting to have piles treated. A mate of mine had his done in the late 1990s and his moans and life on a rubber ring became infamous at the local. He apparently suffered excruciating pain for the best part of two months before the pains abated. Maybe the procedure has improved since then but he had his done privately at one of the top hospitals so it SHOULD have been state of the art.
RedHat makes up a large proportion of the commercial server world. Although noone but an idiot puts in fixes without thorough testing, losing a small proportion of them could cause a web slowdown, and it looks like the Spectre fixes (El Reg link) are at the slightly flaky end at the moment.
Spectre/Meltdown updates have been causing a mass of problems particularly to Cloud setups. Ars LInk
I’m not suggesting that Lee has had these problems, perhaps the IP nodes you get routed through are having issues. This would explain different experiences at different times as routes change on the fly.
Good luck Bob, hopefully it was a bit of fluff on the X-ray plate!
Stock control is always a poorly implemented issue at many supermarkets. Modern stock control sales out should come direct from the checkouts as a feed into their warehouse inventory control and order entry systems. Unfortunately at that point it becomes a bit of a black art based on their shelf space, warehouse capabilities, break-bulk facilities, minimum order size, historic usage patterns and MARKETING. One possible explanation is that Morrison’s give a higher shelf/warehouse space priority to in-house brands as they carry a higher profit margin.
One of the very worst companies for stock control is Waitrose – their system is broken somewhere (I suspect at their break/bulk centres)
No problems here. Probably an Internet connection glitch.
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