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Twitter has a video and thread of this Navy cock-up. A RAF fitter has the best explanation for the ‘rain-cover’ being left in the engine air intake. Apparently the practice is to fold these up and use them as a knee pad when inspecting the first stage compressor. If left inside they are impossible to see with an outside visual inspection. It would be a hell of a lot cheaper to buy the maintenance crew $5 knee pads (sorry that should read $25000 at inflated MOD procurement prices). The (almost as bad) RAF procedure is to tie a piece of rope to the cover and leave it dangling outside the engine intake.
Twitter thread link
https://twitter.com/sebh1981/status/1465351592018956295
Glad the pilot was safely recovered, but this just underscores the MOD stupidity in not buying the cheaper and better Rafales. Also the stupidity of the even more expensive white eflump which is just a huge target for hypersonic missiles. Drones on container ships would be much more cost effective!
November 29, 2021 at 3:52 pm in reply to: Read First if flying on a Boeing 737 Max–or maybe not! #68977Maybe it is a good job that flying anywhere is currently in the too hard category. Airbus are dealing with a problem that while nowhere near as catastrophic as Boeing’s, still looks pretty horrible!
Try Aomei Partition Assistant Standard. According to this link (right at the end) it claims that it will handle corrupted drives. May be worth a try as the standard edition is free.
https://www.diskpart.com/articles/unable-to-format-sd-card-write-protected-7201.html
Interesting, thanks. The SSD is still running well and is currently serving a Raspberry Pi which does not need more storage. However if ever it runs out of space I now know what might work, providing I can find the correct commands to reduce the over-provisioning.
As a further after-thought and rereading your note, I get the impression that you think that the SD card is OK. If so then it is the partitioning setup that is almost certainly frustrating your efforts. While I use Linux to easily get around these frustrations, apparently you can easily do the job in Windows using Diskpart. I have never tried diskpart on an SDCard, but you may want to try the advice in the following link:
https://www.diskinternals.com/partition-recovery/remove-write-protection-on-sd-card/
btw, the SD Card Association classify this locking as ‘providing a security area on the card.
Not apparently your problem, but I once had a SSD that the manufacturers had deliberately halved in size in order to provide secure read/write storage through over the top amounts of over-provisioning. I was never able to change the factory set over-provisioning level. However, bear this in mind if you cannot get the full SDCard capacity after repartitioning.
As an after-thought I suspect that the SD card is kaput. They are quite fragile things and often give up the ghost. Can you read/write to the card with its current use? If that does not work then it is probably bin-fodder and not worth wasting your time.
When you say write protected, I assume that you are not referring to physical write protection. That being so then you probably need to go the repartitioning route. The following link gives eight ways of doing this (I normally use a Linux OS and GParted to fix any hidden partitions, but I appreciate that you may not be comfortable with the Linux route).
If you are happy with Linux, I’ll talk you through it.
https://www.minitool.com/data-recovery/how-to-remove-write-protection-on-micro-sd-card.html
I am running four Internet network connected full HD Pan/tilt CCTV security cameras which eat up some 60-70% of an i5’s CPU capacity. The operating Blue Iris management software also includes scripting with tracking capability because I have pond koi/heron troubles and like to keep an eye on what the sneaky winged barstewards have done while I’m not around.
The pond is wire fenced and netted against kingfishers, but it is always a compromise between aesthetics and effectiveness. The CCTV alerted me to a kingfisher problem with small fish, hence the netting. The videos also showed that the original single wire low amp electric zapper just tickled the herons and was virtually ineffective.It also showed that herons are quite capable of near vertical take-offs and landings which eliminated quite a few options. To be effective I needed a full-size cattle zapper to really discourage the herons, but that would have been a very risky choice near water – hence the wire mesh fencing.
The security system ran well under normal conditions and no auxiliary cooling, however some M$ Windows 10 updates in the last six months ramped up CPU loads to well over 90% and generated read/write errors, and led to system crashes. This was obviously unacceptable on a security system and needed the external cooler to fix.
I’d happily run Linux software instead of Windows except I have not found any with the same ease of script customization.
Depending on the service, I have found that the mini PCs can run very hot and generate read/write errors. The cure however is very simple. Add a laptop cooler for the mini to sit on. I use a ‘TECKNET Laptop and Notebook Cooling Pad 2 Fans Laptop Cooler fits 9″-16″ ‘ and it solved all my overheating problems. (Mini is on 24/7 running my security camera setup.)
I share JCD’s comments, and thoughts. I certainly wish you and yours well in your struggles. I especially hope that things go well for your daughter. This is certainly a time of trial for her journey into adult-hood.
With respect to ease of GP visits. I hate to say it, but it is evident from experiences here that the NHS/Government have established a gate-keeper system that gives priority to those with established conditions. If you have something new, then things get harder as you find yourself dealing with medically untrained receptionists just to get a telephone consultation. The smart-phone Livi system is a little better, but none of the systems are really geared up to initially handle the mountain of tracking data that can be on hand from smart watches and fitness trackers. It was only with some effort and a long email full of graphs and trend data that I was finally able to get some X-Ray scans that confirmed probable Long Covid issues.
Interestingly, my wife and I have just been inducted into the National Statistics Covid Survey, I have to say that I am full of praise for their well-trained doorstep callers (generally ex Airline Stewards/Stewardesses) who arrive in full PPE to induct you, and give you the PCR test kit to use. What however I found most interesting was the width and depth of their initial questionnaire. Unlike many survey forms these had obviously been designed by professionals to be both probing, wide ranging (included questions on flu etc) and self-checking to weed out inconsistencies in responses. The one problem I found with the system was how to factor in a football ground visit in the previous week – just how many close contacts do you count!
As a family we are now going to be in receipt of weekly PCR test results, and possible blood tests for Covid antibodies, which is reassuring data to have.
Incidentally if you plan to visit the germ factory (grandchildren etc.) and are a bit worried about giving or receiving Covid, the Government are very good at providing a lateral flow test-kit to anyone who asks for it. The test kit generally arrives within 24 hours of your request.
I can appreciate that GPs are worn out, and in need of a rest, but it is getting really hard to get attention, even from really good practices.
Got my third jab, but also got informed that I had a Long Covid symptom (dating back to Covid alpha in February 2020). Apart from some breathlessness after exercise I feel fairly fit, but it is a bit worrying that people can be stricken 18 months after the event. I just hope that the rash of infections for those in their in the teens and twenties does not bring them any life restricting problems.
I set up an account at the Nationwide as they were the only one that is now staffed on a regular basis in my small town. Covid has been used as an excuse for avoiding one on one banking.
Although I’m a technophile, I dislike the pace of automating everything as the alternative employment opportunities just do not exist for those with a modest education level e.g. bank clerks, shop assistants etc.
Keith, I agree with your comments. If you search on ‘Win10 vs Win11 gaming’ all the test rigs show little or slightly negative performance. For the average gamer there will be no advantage to moving to Windows 11, and a positive disadvantage if you have an AMD rig.
At the moment Windows 11 has all the hallmarks of the Vista launch, much prettier to look at with nicer sounds and usability improvements, but completely sunk by hardware and performance restrictions. However, M$ appear to have done a lot of code cleaning so like the optimised Vista it might actually become a great OS in three years just before M$ can it!
While I agree with the thrust of Dave’s comments, Multinational Corporations (MNCs) often have a long hardware tail. It sometimes need things like an OS change to galvanise regional EMEA* CEOs into reluctantly sticking money into their IT budget. I’ll bet the global move to ‘work from home’ resulted in a very large number of basically insecure non standard issue home PCs accessing Corporate Clouds, and there are still a lot of tempting targets for the Spear Phishers. The security message of Win11 may well fall on some fertile ground as a result.
*Europe Middle East and Africa
Somewhat along the lines of my previous post, ComputerWorld have a rationale for Windows 11
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3637054/just-who-is-windows-11-for-anyway.html
Rumour was that m$ was going to turn allow updates if a firmware tpm of any vintage was installed, but the registry fix for installation would still be required. Like Dave, I think M$ have made an unholy mess of this and I just cannot see Enterprise installations wanting to go near it for at least two or three years.
I’m no longer sure of the time that Enterprise keep their machines but I’d bet on five or six years in the current economic climate, and it will be this timescale that sets general adoption. However, if I had my old job I would be pushing hard to make sure that all ‘work from home’ machines were tpm2. and encrypted GPT. i.e. Windows 11 ready, but purely for the security aspects.
As I posted earlier, it would not surprise me if this is not part of a M$ strategy to only allow physical tpm.
There was a blog (which unfortunately I have lost) which stated something along the lines that Win11 will only allow Win 11 VMs that support tpm (i,e, M$ virtualisation and VMWare) AND also have a host that also fully supports tpm i.e no host registry/software kludges . The blog also implied for that reason that Mac Win 11 VMs would never be fully supported, and all in the name of Enterprise ‘security’.
Whether the blogger had an inside track or was smoking something, I have no idea, but it sort of makes sense.
As all this alienates a large part of the customer base, I would not be surprised to see a two tier Win11 evolve (like Home & pro)
October 15, 2021 at 10:06 am in reply to: Read First if flying on a Boeing 737 Max–or maybe not! #68885Just to make Boeing’s day their former chief test pilot has been indicted for fraudulently deceiving the US FAA.
As Boeing have apparently thrown him to the wolves, it will be interesting to see if he decides to give evidence against the senior management of Boeing.
The ROG Strix x570 is an exception to your statement on tpm positioning. (see page 35 of mobo manual link ). As you will also see, the large CPU heat sink is designed to overlap the tpm socket (see page 40). I have a an even larger dual CoolerMaster fan. it is not possible to see under it without removing it.
As shown in this YouTube, if I were foolish, tpm.msc will allow me to “configure” the tpm, so I am fully convinced that I have a working tpm chip in place.
October 14, 2021 at 7:10 pm in reply to: Read First if flying on a Boeing 737 Max–or maybe not! #68882Yet another Boeing horror story!
Boeing 787s in service have defective titanium parts.
Boeing say that the fact that the bits which are used to secure major parts of the plane will not immediately affect safety — I’m sure that Boeing’s word on flight safety can be completely trusted , , ,
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