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Read and enjoy BOFH original or ElRegs UK version, anyone who has worked in or managed data centres will know that these are only slightly exaggerated versions of the real-life people you cross at your peril!
Unfortunately most of these people are now located in India, which must make life REALLY enjoyable for the UK IT Management in (say) RBS. Anyone who has worked in India will know that they took bureaucracy from us and perfected it to the point that it is nearly impossible to make things happen unless they want it.
They were tenants in common. It will reduce tax liabilities but could make things hard with kids from his first marriage clamoring for more.
Luckily the lady in question is reasonably well-off in her own right, so she can afford the professional help she will need to sort through a study chokka-block full of box-files, share certificates etc. That is not an area I want to profess any experience in handling thank you very much. However your point was very valid, rather like my wife pointing out the need to get probate before May 1st to save £’000s. Thank you Mr Osbourne for your sneaky stealth tax!
We owe a debt of ingratitude to many of the 19th/20th century archaeologist tomb robbers. In my books Arthur E. Evans ranks up with the worst of these for the concrete monstrosities and distortions that he forced onto the memories of the Minoans at Knossos Crete.
Possibly the driver has gone walk-about. Using the usb mouse, use the show hidden driver option, and REMOVE every HID mouse device you can find (you may well have some clashes hidden away). When in your situation I normalyl sweep the decks on the HID devices, reboot and let the system restore everything on a reboot. If you have any driver disks etc do the necessary with these (if required) after rebooting.
Thanks for the correction – the flyer I received yesterday obviously had the wrong info. (it still said SOLD OUT however). Yesterday the Pi _ adapter kit was still on offer at £14 but even that has gone today. What I should probably have added is that this one has both flavours of Bluetooth on board and gives access to the low-energy BLE kit so opening up some compatibility with Apple’s benighted walled-garden.
Thanks for the bottom links, it makes it easier to navigate around.
Hate to correct you Steve, but as you live in the ‘Welsh’ part of Wales you had better get your Druid lore correct. Excepting the Yew, they did not worship Conifers (thats only for our German Royal Family), the Oak, Apple/Mistletoe and Yew would have been more likely contenders. Wiki. In the border area where I was raised, beating the Apple trees (Wassailing) was an annual excuse for the little kids to get sozzled on cider/mead, and for that year’s ‘Apple Tree’/Green Man to ply the older girls with the same but with other objectives in mind.
I’ll bet that Wassailing is another grand old custom that has now all but disappeared in this gray over-regulated PC world.
I would not knock Synology’s Cloud Station as Cloud connectivity really seems to offer the best of all worlds particularly if you include the necessary encryption step. However as you point out, even that solution has flavour-of-the-month (FOTM) problems if the data owner cannot be bothered to implement it properly. The biggest danger as ever is Management or Consultants who have a vague grasp of IT issues and look at FOTM as a way of downsizing/down-skilling or avoiding hard work.
Steve, I knew that but in case I have missed something I now tend to scan through all the posts before adding a reply, that is the time when you get the problem of a long thread and a need to get up to the Top Bar.
Info Systems, like most professional areas is plagued by ‘Flavour of the Month’ syndrome. While Cloud may be great in some contexts – particularly storage of low value items -e.g. keep your music in the Cloud, Apps distribution etc. Unfortunately it was oversold by ‘Consultants’ as the panacea for EVERYTHING. A bit like Agile was oversold as THE methodology for developing systems without users having to do their (appropriate) share of the hard work. I’d take a bet that very few (if any) Government Agile projects get finished – never mind on time/budget.
When I reached the age of cynicism I came to realise that you need to look for the flaws in anything where someone offers to do all the hard work, and take all the worries off your shoulders. While both Cloud and Agile have now had their public come-uppance, it is a great shame that ‘Off-Shoring’ has similarly not had some major commercial fraud to expose the very obvious problems of putting high value objects in the hands of people who are paid peanuts.
Right at the bottom of every thread is a footer that has a column headed ‘Pages’ — just a suggestion for a location, you could even just reproduce the ‘header’ bar above ‘Forum Statistics’
Just one (VERY minor) plea. Long threads such as this one require that you scroll or otherwise get to the top of the page to use the navigation links. A nice-to-have would be a repetition of the top bar ‘s link to latest replies, topics etc – perhaps in your ‘Pages’ section?
The supplied Foscam software is OK and is easy enough to use for one camera recording. For some reason I have found it difficult to set it up with multiple cameras but it is probably me making wrong assumptions on how it works. Foscam can be set up in motion detect mode and is quite frugal with disk space in that mode, it has a built in viewer that can also act as a local server so output can be viewed by almost anything.
In theory at least, Impress will open and display Powerpoint files. That said, Libreoffice often plays silly b’s with formatting etc. when fed M$ files. It only seems to like the carp odf files.
LibreOffice Impress?
Keep thinking about dropping Sky — unfortunately the Murky-Devil has all the best tunes.
‘nice fire modelling machines on the cheap’ Not knocking your idea, but wouldn’t a Beowulf cluster of Pi Zeroes be better for Monte Carlo simulation work? Agree that CUDA etc give you ready access to parallel operations but there are cases where individual processors MAY be better. The example below is for disease, but an ‘explosive’ fire could result in similar propagation characteristics (i.e. one source rapidly becoming multi-source at geographically disparate locations.). …. However for creating a cluster running some thing like “condor” Which can be used for things like Disease out break modelling, where you are running the same mathematical model millions of times with varible starting points. (size of out break, wind direction, how infectious the disease is etc.. ) so thing like the Pi would be ideal. as you are general looking for a full blown CPU that can run standard code.http://research.cs.wisc.edu/condor/
It’s CFD modelling, not Monte Carlo simulations. We’re looking at smoke flow around a building normally (the software is here). My current firm do have a Monte Carlo simulation tool but it isn’t used much (I don’t think they market it enough). The modelling software doesn’t make use of CUDA either (a German research team tried to get the code running on CUDA but was unable to – lots of data I/O I believe the issue was which slows it down to make it not worth the bother).
Ah, interesting – I can now see why you would go for a ‘cellular’ approach. You may be interested in looking at combining the worlds of games to drive the simulation as they have done a lot of the graphics heavy lifting. I’m thinking in particular of perhaps using Voxels along with simple cell modeling to drive the voxel procedural generation. The attraction of going this way is that there are a number of readily available commercial game engines that have done the hard graphics graft.
Actually Vista turned out pretty well in the end. 🙂
Billions is another series that I was quite surprised to enjoy. It was one of those shows that could be enjoyed on two levels – not only vicariously taking enjoyment in its total amorality, but also the way they dealt with taking positions, and futures trading (minus all the esoteric derivatives Quant mumbo-jumbo). Another season has just started, and I have it recorded for the next time I have an hour to spare.
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