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Sorry too long since I needed to use one.
In your situation I would just whip out his boot drive, stick it in a sata caddy and do a scan with it connected as a non-booting slave to your own pc. The main problem I would otherwise see with a normal off-line scan would be if his boot drive is uefi and refuses to boot from a ‘foreign ‘ source..
Richard, I suspect that the original testing was carried out on a concrete slab/car park – probably in open air conditions. If so the drainage systems, degree of fall of flooring , location of first fire (near entrance/exit ramp?) as well as the containment of the fireball(s) would alter the initial test results in a real-life situation. I gather that the likely candidate for the ignition source was a Land Rover a marque that could almost be as old as me! I’m very aware that some ‘agricultural’ Land Rovers sometimes have ‘other’ fuels in their tanks. Some fuels can even be more dangerous than petrol from a fire risk standpoint – I’m not suggesting this happened in this instance, I’m just pointing out that there are a variety of other aspects that can affect spread/intensity.
Best smart watch I have is from the now defunct Pebble range. The e-ink screen means that one week between a fast charge is the normal minimum, and avoids the need to do without a watch overnight. It is also much thinner than typical klunky Android/Apple watches. I really do not understand why they became the ‘Betamax’ of smart watches.
Desktop studies normally go far beyond just looking at compliance for materials of construction and their verified usage. As a young Engineer I was involved in one of the first post-Flixborough HSE desktop studies of the implications of a major disaster with one scenario being the possibility of a ‘747’ hitting the place. Obviously not something capable of being anything but a desktop simulation.
Where I think we are in agreement is that a code of conduct should be enforced for materials selection. Engineers and Architects have to rely on ‘experts’ when it comes to materials suitability as designs can only be built on a solid basis of best practice knowledge and experience. Such ‘experts’ need to demonstrate that their procedures and processes comprehend current best practice knowledge and research on a world-wide basis. Failure to do so should bring swingeing sanctions.
Richard I take your point, but as an Engineer, in my experience desktop studies are a way of life. Good consultants tend to play an active role throughout the design/build/commission cycle as they normally have some sort of retainer/oversight role as well as a professional interest in maintaining good relations with the contract awarder.
What still annoys me with respect to Grenfell Tower case is that the consulting company apparently made no reference to actual practical experience which would have invalidated their study. We obviously await the results of the Inquiry, but I will be bitterly disappointed if the Consulting Company and its employees do not get their share of opprobrium – even to the extent of them being the defendants in criminal and civil court cases.
wrt Liverpool this interview may be of interest. I would hope that the results of this fire are comprehended in future design desktop studies!
If money were no object I’d build a new house and install a PoE system to get rid of all the stupid wall warts that litter the house!
The Document Viewer is called Evince in Cinnamon and Atril in Mate. (don’t ask why they are different!).
However your problem is not Evince or whatever it is the file association that is wrong. Find a pdf file and right-click on it. In Mate this opens a dialog box with a number of tabs, one of which is ‘Open With’. Change the association to point to Document Viewer (you may need to press the reset button at bottom – I’m not sure about that step).
Generally speaking on most modern GUIs using the right-click button is the first step to take if you are not sure why something does not work.
I forgot – if you use the crappy Cinnamon version – you may need to click some stupid advanced button/tab after right-clicking.
Imo the ‘desktop study’ aspect of Drezha’s reply is the biggest single failing that has so-far emerged from the Grenfell House disaster. The Dutch firm that carried out the study apparently took zero account of the German and US views of the material and failed to include the significant number of dangerous fires that contemporaneously took place in the Middle East etc. I just hope that the Inquiry manages to pin a very large measure of blame on the perpetrators of an obviously flawed study.
Under our system once an ‘expert’ has certified something there is very little chance that anyone else can raise objections. I would change the law such that Consulting Companies who certify a product carry an ONGOING responsibility for their studies and have an ongoing responsibility to update their studies, and issue warnings etc as new evidence emerges.
It might be OK now, but it had a MASSIVE insecurity in the form of a hard-coded admin log-on. link
Tbh I would worry about any company that does stupid things like that.
JayCeeDee – Pontardawe should be off-limits for you!
“Levels of nickel in air at Pontardawe are significantly higher than at other monitoring
locations across the UK (see Section 3). At this location there have been measurements
of nickel in soil at concentrations significantly higher than the typical UK national range . . ”When we lived out in New Zealand we took the kids on holiday to a Club Med on New Caladonia – big mistake, it is one of the world’s primary sources of nickel ore!
JayceeDee, Your wife’s allergy is actually a nickel allergy – quite common in females. (link).
My wife has such a strong reaction to nickel that she needs to test every new car we buy to make certain that she can sit safely in it. At one time in the early noughties we looked at a nice new Vauxhall, but they had used a nice looking nickel trim on most of the cockpit area, not only was she covered in a rash she could hardly breathe as the seat material was anti-fungal nickel treated. I gather car manufacturers now recognise that nickel allergies affect sales!
I’m being driven that way (by the insecurity of my old Intel i7) into replacing it. Although it will definitely not be in the money no object mode my target will be high middle range, I’ll probably go for a Chillblast Ryzen7 and AMD graphics card desktop. The logic being to use a desktop as the gpu is the item most likely to get dated and require upgrading within 3+ years – expected system lifetime 5-7 years which will see me well into my dotage!
Not quite a wp+browsing box as I’m still into 3D graphics (I MUST make the effort to learn Blender!), programming, and the occasional roleplay/fps game. (I’m still fiddling with Elex which has hidden depths beneath a poorly constructed play balance)
Merely for completeness, a Pi does not need a monitor as you can always run it headless and ssh or use a VNC viewer. If you used a pi zero in a plastic marg tub, total cost is <£20. Messy, definitely diy but would do the job.
Raspberry Pi ~ £45 all set up but need an hdtv to plug it in to see anything.
If you Googled as I suggested you would also have seen their email contact in addition to the 0330 phone number.
Drezha would know better but I THINK fire resistant plasterboard is always pink on one side, so it may be possible to check if your existing ceiling meets modern specs. There are probably other visual clues as a mate of mine just looked at the garage ceiling and said nope the ceiling is just boarded to the old specs.
Tbh if your garage ceiling was built before the regs changed (1984?) then I would add fireproofing just for peace of mind — afaik you do not HAVE to do this. However as Richard points out it gives an opportunity to add a layer of suitable insulation.
(I’m not sure which year the regs changed)
Google Computer Active contacts and call their subs line.
We had an identical problem to you, and decided to just junk the old 40 year old up & over door and have a new door fitted. In the end we went with something similar to this link. (We did not use that particular company because we got a better deal from a local company in the South East). We went a little overboard in also rubberising the floor and installing a bumper strip on the garage floor for the door to tightly seal against (shutter doors like a flat horizontal seal). Once the door was fitted we went around and sealed any remaining gaps even though not many were found.
Unfortunately we changed too many things that year to make a good post-audit on savings, but the winter temperatures in the garage are no longer frigid. We must have lost a lot of energy through the bedroom floor as that too feels warmer. Our consensus was that this was a worthwhile investment.
Good luck with whatever you do.
[edit] I forgot – we also triple boarded the garage celing as the old ceiling did not meet modern fire regs – that probably added another measure of insulation.
January 12, 2018 at 8:33 pm in reply to: 5~30% CPU speed reduction to your Intel CPU forecast #15588Unfortunately PM I think the Linux fixes will have a similar impact on old hardware. But if anyone knows better . . .
January 12, 2018 at 5:08 pm in reply to: 5~30% CPU speed reduction to your Intel CPU forecast #15583Yep – looks like my workstation PC replacement will get accelerated a bit down to five years rather than seven, but luckily the vm bugs in AMD Ryzen now look like they are now sorted. ?
Probably mean me choosing a full AMD board and peripherals – the first time in over 20 years!
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