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Steve, in my book you are right. There must always be an element of judgment matched with process understanding deployed. Standing instructions should only guide the wise and instruct those who are otherwise too foolish to do the right thing(s). Assessment must be an on the ground exercise, not one in a book or to far detached. I do have a nagging doubt that some exercises may find shortfalls, e.g. in communications capabilities and structures, but that they can also hide some real on the ground needs.
I remember one drill that went almost flawlessly earning praise for its swift, safe execution. The ‘only’ issue was that it put 2,000 people in the direct line of approach for all emergency vehicles. The plans were swiftly redrawn.
I can understand that sentiment and hope it goes well.
FB might somehow know of me and perhaps more than that, though only from second hand sources as I have no account and never will. Google often shows me at home when I have been out, then too often in the middle of fields, rivers or railway tracks when it does show me going out, good luck monetising that!
Bob, I totally agree but I also understand how instructions, codes, protocols, etc. are always written for the last ‘great show’. The Manchester issue was just that, because bombings have often featured phased bombs to kill the support and recovery workers the Bomb case protocol was followed. Next time, and for whatever reason there will be another next time some other issue will come to light. As for the Russia incident, (and I saw mention of other disasters that made few headlines as workers rather than children were involved) is currently the subject of all sorts of lurid headlines. As ever the truth is always an early casualty in favour of theory and selling newsprint. The Cocoanut Grove Fire, (I rechecked the spelling) was in the USA and we, the French and just about everyone else have had similar events – including doubtful building practices.
Many years ago one of my pass times was putting the ‘legs’ back onto transistors. Avoidance of excessive heat blowing the device was always the biggest. I tinned the new wire then holding the soldering iron a distance up from the repair point melted the solder and touched it against the broken leg and hoped to make a patent joint. I don’t think I could do it now but I wondered if a similar technique could be used on surface mount devices like the tiny USB sockets – good luck to anyone who is up for the challenge.
Ed, I quite liked the lateral thinking of the Youtube chap, though I was not so taken with the music sound track.
Drezha I have not seen those videos, but I should ask at what point did the filming start? In any case I have seen film of the results and in a few cases the start middle and end of very fast fires though I think all of the worst ones were in industrial plants. Many were dust fires of various types. Sadly none were more then minimally survivable as you said.
I believe the Cocoanut Grove Fire back in November 28, 1942 was similar in some ways for the rapid spread and the lack of escape access.
All fires are tragedies and sadly they kill with alarming and tragic frequency. I am not sure that recent months have been worse for such deadly events, has the very intense news coverage influenced peoples perceptions? I shocked one of the company’s safety people by suggesting that more people died in kitchen and home accidents than on the roads. I gave her my contact details to show I was wrong – I never heard a word back.
This might sound off colour but I think that sadly there is little chance of working yourself out of the need for your services for a very long time.
BL, glad you have got it fixed and working as you want once more
I have found the PVRs with the latest software to be very useful. If I see there is an episode of something in a series I want to watch I just hit series record and get the lot without needing to make an effort to remember when it is on. I rarely, use the catch up services and though we have Amazon on a couple of TVs I find it hard to find anything of interest on there. Some of the catch up is time limited so you only have a month to catch up so recording it makes sense if it is something I really want. Since C4 and C5 are apparently playing silly blighters it makes sense to record anything I think I might want there. I wonder what their issue was with making stuff available on demand if they had a demand service?
I guess only listening to the things that you already know makes sense to some, but it sounds as boring to me as more normalised listing is to your daughter Steve. Mind you since I rarely listen to music, (except, a few not all slots on Keep it Country) I guess there is little overlap in lifestyles anyway.
Sky always left me cold, paying a fortune to watch adverts never appealed to me, though the parents in law tried to tell me that not having Sky was tantamount to child abuse. Sine that was their view it sealed Sky’s fate for me.
One more it shows good building design safety is essential along with regular building inspections. However, I doubt if the true story will ever be told to the likes of us. We must remember that the febrile atmosphere will make accuracy hard to secure and export. Usually the loudest voice wins and the media circus moves on. Scapegoats will be found and show trials will almost certainly happen. If doors were locked, if unsuitable materials were used, if alarms were turned off, etc. then disaster was made easier, but sadly accidents and misjudgements happen everywhere. We have had our own share as has every other country – no one is immune. A fact that we should use to guide what we each do in our daily grind.
Yes, the standard expression of sympathy would be in order, are we so sure that none has been forthcoming?
I am not sure of the protocol for such cases so I do not know who should express official sympathy.
Dave, do those devices easily deal with calls from the (genuine) NHS which uses unknown numbers? We get a number of those calls, perhaps 4~20 times more of them than we get scam calls, we cannot afford to block NHS calls. The silly ‘international calls’ with, or without a number, can easily be left to the answering machine no one validly makes such calls to us.
I’m not sure if we will keep you sane but I do know that hospitals can get awfully boring and lonely. We are all keen for you to resume normal service and be available to straighten us lot out once more. There are still several weeks to go first so we will want to hear you go in a full strength mode.
Sorry that was rather off topic, but it was well meant. Going back on topic the new site is causing me no issues.
It appears that many of these USB dongles do not need drivers or other software though others do. Does anyone know what decides how they ‘just work’ on different devices without user activity?
Well that was interesting. I had my new DVB-T2 Hauppage tuner in this desktop, working with the WinTV setup, including their EPG. This had lost most of the channels you indicated Richard. I played with the EPG for a while, but TBH it is a real mess. Before I installed the DVB-T2 tuner card, I had used the previous (DVB) tuner card with WMP and that was a much better EPG. I uninstalled WinTV and installed WMP. All the channels came back and I can use WMP’s EPG much more easily. However, they are not displaying programme data on HD channels, which is not a serious problem. Hope all these acronyms are understandable! BL: with that aerial, you can probably get “The Lone Ranger”, original black and white “Superman”, “Champion the Wonder Horse” and Muffin The Mule on “Children’s Hour”. ???
I have used the WinTv tuners for some years in several PCs (apart for one that I based on a magazine review, within a year that company disappeared). My tuners are only SD and a bit long in the tooth now but the Hauppauge software has two issues, it can be unstable and fall over unpredictably and scheduled recordings cannot put the PC to sleep after the recording. It sets something that causes constant reawakening – perhaps I should try your software idea of WMP.
Update: a clarification to the bit about my old tuners and I corrected the I can be unstable, (which is probably correct) but I was talking about the software at the time…
I understand your points but the whole thrust of the real forecasts for the broader area in which I live is far less extreme than the headlines. There are some lowish temperatures but none negative for the next two weeks and not a hint of snow, while headlines suggest something wildly different. Blizzards, blocked roads and impossible travel, it could be that these wild threats are for parts of the country well away from my home, – to which I am likely to remain tethered while my SWMBO attends hospital(s) or awaits calls to here or there. I just hope it does not started a ground swell of panic buying.
My interest is less about the weather as such, and more a discussion of the gap between sources of information as I read things.
Bob, too true they told me I needed new disks at about 28,000 miles a number of years ago, but 10 years later and by 96,500 miles I did. I had them done by my usual service garage.
Steve, I think that they usually just drop in a stainless steel liner and it should only take less than half an hour.
That is a lot, it sounds a bit like he thought you were a ransom purchaser, I am still not confident that he really knew what the issue was, just the pound signs. I had a look on Screwfix for (named) items you could be looking at as much as £20 up to about twice that for the aerial itself, do any of them look like your old one?
Chuck in a bit of cable some cleats and the skill to find your gaff and get up to the roof, that sounds like a high cost. A local chap did a bit of work on the perished cable last year, the first time(s) he charged nothing, but then the fault became clearer and he did the work for a very reasonable charge though I cannot now remember what it was perhaps in the £50~£60 range. I do not ‘do’ roof work! He came with all the correct kit which made me happy to let him loose, I have seen some skipping characters about on local roofs with nothing more than wet plimsolls.
I had to do manual tuning and channel (multiplex) by channel (multiplex) and I repeated it all a couple of times. It has been a boring and frustrating while. The stupid thing was that the first time I had the ones on the BBC B multiplex including channel 4 ‘normal’, then I lost them but did get the COM7 -HD ones. Another trip round the houses got all of them back. One issue I had was that the signal display took more time to appear than I was allowing, a mistake I only found by accident when I saw something come up behind a screen I was about to use. It probably only took a couple of seconds, but they were seconds I had not always allowed.
Right, I have had a little help from the supplier and have now cracked the problem. It is nothing to do with my aerial or wiring but to do with the transmission standard. The missing HD channels are DVB-T2. When doing your manual search it is necessary to search for DVB and if there is nothing then change the transmission being sought to DVB-T2 and see if anything comes up. For some reason some boxes are not detecting the difference and so not tuning the right way. I now have all the missing channels, while I was playing I was also able to set up the Wi Fi so obviating the need to rush out for some (more) powerline adaptors tonight. So success attended my efforts — in the end. I am to the north of London in East Hertfordshire, not to far from Bishops Stortford.
I think that the correct term is multiplex 55, and it on a frequency band in the 71000 sort of range, (memory is not perfect). I have checked with a device that is receiving all of the COM7 channels and that is showing no signal in multiplex 55) at this time even though all the channels such as the one you want (C4+1 HD) are being received.
The channels I am missing are these;
56 5USA+1 Entertainment COM7 HD
57 5Spike+1 Entertainment COM7 HD
56 5USA+1 Entertainment COM7 HD
57 5Spike+1 Entertainment COM7 HD
64 CBS Action+1 Entertainment COM7 HD
67 CBS Reality +1 Entertainment COM7 HD
82 Vintage TV Entertainment COM7 HD
84 Quest Red+1 Entertainment COM7 HD
87 Keep It Country Entertainment COM7 HD
97 Pick+1 Entertainment COM7 HD
107 BBC NEWS HD HD COM7 HD
108 Al Jazeera Eng HD HD COM7 HD
109 Channel 4+1 HD HD COM7 HD
110 4seven HD HD COM7 HD
113 RT HD HD COM7 HD
272 Bollywood HD Streamed Channels COM7 HD
733 Trans World Radio Radio COM7 HD
CBS Action+1 EntertainmentCOM7 HD
67 CBS Reality +1 Entertainment COM7 HD
82 Vintage TV Entertainment COM7 HD
84 Quest Red+1 Entertainment COM7 HD
87 Keep It Country Entertainment COM7 HD
97 Pick+1 Entertainment COM7 HD
107 BBC NEWS HD HD COM7 HD
108 Al Jazeera Eng HD HD COM7 HD
109 Channel 4+1 HD HD COM7 HD
110 4seven HD HD COM7 HD
113 RT HD HD COM7 HD
272 Bollywood HD Streamed Channels COM7 HD
733 Trans World Radio Radio COM7 HD
As you can see all are on COM7, I am now suspecting that the new box asked me to select where is was and that it may have used and incorrect location code so missed the COM7 allocations for this area. I will try changing the set up to select another location and let you know what happens.
BL, the plot gets thicker, a setup that has a number of channels that the new one does not also show channel 55 as not being active, are you sure that you need 55? I am not looking to find where the missing channels live.
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