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Ditto on my Live Hotmail address (set up only to keep Win10 happy) -a lot less real spam than either gmail or my isp.
GMail lets stuff through that is borderline spam – for example I signed up to a book company called Packt to get some code downloads, and they abuse the trust by sending me stuff EVERY darned day. One more and they get zapped. LED Lighting were like that too until I zapped them.
Nice link Bob, it is always useful to have a spare wired keyboard. There are circumstances where usb wirelss keyboards go walk-about at boot and the only way out is to use a wired connection.
Steve these are ‘AIR’ cadets – dirt and Brylcreem never mixed in the old days!
Not a good idea at all! The wires are typically very fine and fiddly to connect, your chances of failure are very high. Get a friend to solder a female USB breakout on the keyboard wires, using this pinout. Then you can use any old compatible usb cable to join up to it.
Typically you get that sort of curve during the period that the pc is writing from ram disk to file. During this period nothing is being ‘transferred’, but a lot of final disk i/o is taking place. Looks to me that you have an efficient multi-threaded file copy program and large (couple of gigs?) ram buffer to write out.
Bob, I need to say that my views on lightning have been coloured by living twenty years or so in areas of almost daily electrical storms. Spectacular but frightening. Almost daily there would be horizontal bolts zapping below my flat setting off all the car and apartment alarms frightening all the pets out of their wits as a result.. Those residents without protection normally paid a price sometime within the year. My advice to you would be to take a straw poll of friends and neighbours to get a feel for how often they or an acquaintance got zapped then use that to set how much risk you are prepared to insure against.
Nothing to add to recommendations, but make sure that you site it legally – the driver must NOT be able to see the screen. Failure to do so would earn the same ‘6 points and£200 ‘ as using your mobile which is imo unfair and irrational, but that is the way it is.
“Ministry of Transport guides addressing the issue of “obstruction to view” through the windscreen are available in detail for your reference at http://www.motinfo.gov.uk/htdocs/m4s08000301.htm – once you are on that page, press the “Next Page” icon at the top for further details regarding obstructing the view and measurements of intrusion allowed in certain areas of the screen.
Some cameras come with a built in screen. It is absolutely illegal to drive, or cause or permit a person to drive, with a screen visible to the driver either directly or by reflection. Cameras with a screen have the option to close the screen or switch it off. Further reading on the topic of being able to view a screen whilst driving and the fact that this is dangerous should be undertaken by visiting the following page for the latest information.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1078/regulation/109/made“I think 900 Joules should be fine, don’t you?
Quite honestly I do not know, which is why I use an UPS!
You can gain some insight from past records if you can find them, but it seems lightning tends to be unpredictable. If you lived in the East Midlands/Lincolnshire, 900 joules may only be worth one year’s protection for ‘average’ near misses. Elsewhere it will probably be good for a couple of years or more provided nothing hits the box down the road.
If your surge protector allows for the broadband/telephone to be protected then use it as this is by far the most likely route for a damage causing near miss. If you DO get a window rattling near miss it is probably worth replacing your Surge Strip anyway!
This is an area of voodoo magic and guesswork coupled with common sense.
It actually might have worked in one respect as the process to register for an ID card would have flushed out more than a few illegals.
As I implied in the previous thread, not all surge protectors are born equal. If the Zena diode is only rated for less than a kilo joule then it will be a poor purchase. For example this one is NOT one I would recommend that you purchase. I’m afraid this is an area where you tend to get what you pay for!
July 27, 2017 at 8:06 am in reply to: Use High Profile Asian Hotels? Watch out for Dark Hotel Hacking. #10536Anyone who has ever done business in much of Asia knows that you will get hacked, tracked and spied upon. It just goes with the turf. Certain countries (e.g. China/North Korea) will even attempt to compromise you e.g the old honey-trap or a. large open brief case stacked with ‘$100 bills’ – touch or come near the honey-trap/briefcase and you will be blackmailed! Even Japan is not totally safe as the Japanese Government/MITI invests heavily in commercial intelligence gathering.
My old company realised the situation way back in the 90s and had a stock of special issue laptops for certain countries that were never used within the company network and were low level formatted and new systems installed after each visit. (not sure what they do today as low level formatting went the way of the Dodo many years ago – probably just throw away the hard drive at a guess) They probably have to have similar policies for phones today — i.e just use cheap burner phones.
Yes Bob it does seem a huge price, but remember a 48K Sinclair Spectrum in today’s money would have inflated to ~£650!
I suspect that the Asus premium is for the laser/rangefinder and AR software.
The new Asus Zenphone looks like it will gobble up space too!
Sorry – I always find Linux sound a bit hit and miss, and prone to breakage. I’d suggest that before you play that you take a full backup of your current position. Then depending whether you are using pulse (ugh) or alsa, that you look for the tools to that in your distro. e.g. alsa-tools
Do not get me wrong, surge protectors are OK but you never know when they have had enough. The zena diode they contain has a finite number of joules of protection in it – how long it will protect depends on the number and size of hits it receives. The problem is there is no way of telling, so other than buying a surge protector with a massive joule rating you will never know if there is protection against the next thunderstorm. In Singapore 12 months was the max expected life of one and same in Mid West of US. In most parts of the UK (ex perhaps SE Midlands to Lincolnshire) I think five years might be a better number. I’d guess at two years for Lincoln the lightning capital of the UK.
My personal preference is for an ups as they link with your pc and give status reports. They also give time to handle short power outages or blips, and the better ones have easy to replace batteries.
Thanks for all the feedback. I have (temporarily) solved all my phone problems by managing all the convoluted keys to get into recovery mode without falling into (unintelligible) Chinese test routines! This will enable me to put off the inevitable purchase and keep an eye on the offers for Wileyfox etc. I know that I will need a new phone when the battery gives out in six months or so. (getting battery replacements for more than a year or two is the big downside with a Chibay phone).
I think I’ll add ‘reception/aerial/Good GPS’ on to my wants list as I just spent a week in the ‘Gods Own’ areas of South Devon where one bar and a glimmer of 3G was often all that is available. Not brilliant when you are trying to hike using maps you forgot to download, and the GPS is ‘wonky’. Still the alcohol in the form of cider/ale was a good compensation.??
Always worth adding a UPS as the first link in the chain to expensive equipment. Although nothing will protect against a direct hit, an UPS will handle relatively near mises of the sort that would blow your TV across the room (seen that happen in Singapore). I have an UPS on all the main kit plus another giving isolation to the broadband.
Although the electrical input to a house is normally underground, the telephone/broadband is often exposed. Even a strike 400 yards away could easily fry an unprotected broadband system and if you were unlucky hit every bit of kit wired into it.
The effects of electrical storms can be very nasty/expensive on today’s house.
In my area only a very small percent of little tykes like myself were affected by Polio – probably because we and our siblings/friends used to play from an early age in an estuary which was heavily polluted with raw sewage. As a result we probably acquired some natural immunities either directly or through siblings. link . The ones who were very badly affected were the children of the better-off classes, probably because their natural immunities were much lower.
I still like the convenience of being able to glance at a watch rather than ‘dig’ for a phone. Having even a cheap ‘smart’ watch on your wrist allows the Bluetooth in it to keep your phone unlocked all the time the two are close. (around 20 ft in this case).
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