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21
Geek Speak / Is it still possible to run your vintage hardware?
« on: 31/12/2021 17:04:16 »
Many of the older correspondents may own much loved vintage scanners etc and would have found when trying to set them up on a new system they no longer work despite having the software that has worked fine for 30 years.
The reason for this is that the nice people at Redmond wishing us to use shiny new equipment no longer supply the feature NVDTM that enables equipment that uses 16 bit code on a 32 bit system to operate.
All is not lost the NVDTM feature can be downloaded from many sources and inserted into the system via DISM with instructions readily available how to do this after which everything works fine.

22
Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: How far from the building should the professor be when you release the egg?
« on: 19/12/2021 19:01:18 »
The equations that Alan quotes are a good approximation for bodies falling a few hundred meters but would only be accurate if the Earth was flat and of infinite extent.
As the distance from the centre of the Earth increases the force of gravity falls off otherwise the bodies would tend to acquire infinite energy !
These equations caused me considerably confusion when they were first foisted on me at school but I know better now   

23
Physiology & Medicine / How long do the effects of local anethisetic last ?
« on: 25/10/2021 10:00:24 »
Six days ago I had a large's area of my upper chest numbed to facilitate the the fitting of a pace maker which has been a great success.
There is still much irritation in this area which makes sleeping difficult has this effect been reported before as I was not warned about it

24
Just Chat! / Re: Is it possible to have a short discussion of history on a sciene forum ?
« on: 31/08/2021 10:22:31 »
The two good prime ministers that I can recall are Nevile Chamberlain who kept us out of the war for a year while our airforce and radar system was being built up and Clement Attlee who gave us a glimpse of what socialism would be like
Both all so had serious faults

25
Just Chat! / Re: Anyone on this forum the ideal weight?
« on: 27/08/2021 12:49:21 »
I am being dosed up with pills for prostrate cancer and heart failure ( with good results so far) and my weight has fallen to 81 kg, this would give me a BMI of 24 if my height had not fallen from 1.83 cm by 1.5 cm

26
Technology / Re: Why HP printer offline Windows 10?
« on: 27/08/2021 12:40:45 »
I have an excellent HP4 printer built 1995 but unfortionaly it has a SCSI interface and most modern mother boards do not allow you to fit a SCSI card.
I would dearly like to get a USB to SCSI cable but no one seems to make them any more.drivers are available with the warning that you may well ruin your computer if you use this driver !!!

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Just Chat! / Re: Is it possible to have a short discussion of history on a sciene forum ?
« on: 26/08/2021 12:17:51 »
Spitfires could almost have been designed to kill the pilots with the fuel tank installed in front of the pilot ready to pour burning fuel on them.
A few spitfires are maintained in working order for entertainment do they have the fuel tank relocated and modern radio equipment ?

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Just Chat! / Re: Is it possible to have a short discussion of history on a sciene forum ?
« on: 26/08/2021 09:06:25 »
Wars are won by logistics not by bravery or technology, the Germans had excellent aircraft and highly trained pilots but had little chance of winning the "battle of Britain", we were told of the terrible fate that would befall us if we were not saved by the few, we would lose our prime minister and have to speak German but I think most people would be relieved if we had peace at this time .
The return of Edward VIII would be welcome also the expulsion of the Jewish population to some far flung corner of the empire as UK was as antisemitic like most of Europe (this was years before the final solution).
Our forces would presumably have to join in the fight with the USSR but with with plentiful supplies of fuel the outcome could well be better.
But it could never have happened our air force was dispersed in small groups , if an aircraft was shot done often the pilot survived due the the gentlemans agreement not to kill pilots as they parachuted down (very misguided from a military point of view) he could be given a new plane to fight again where as the German pilot went of to interment.
We had a rather crude RADAR system which was well used telling from where and whence the German airforce (managed by a WWI fighter ace)  was comming

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Just Chat! / Is it possible to have a short discussion of history on a sciene forum ?
« on: 25/08/2021 19:25:15 »
Seeing the clear skies I expect to Hurricanes and Messersmits chasing each other round in circles being the oldest member there are many points I would like to discuss with fellow correspondents

30
Technology / Re: Will a perpetual motion machine ever be invented?
« on: 22/08/2021 21:01:27 »
Many pseudo perpetual motion machine where built in the eighteenth century to trick money out of suckers they are quite easy to design.
A continuously  rotating wheel was one of the most famous ones.
Perpetual motion exists oh a atomic scale but machines that output energy cannot 


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Just Chat! / Re: Is it bad manners to take a dump at someone else's house and not flush?
« on: 17/08/2021 22:02:03 »
The only justification could be to avoid the noise that flushig makes, I would rather have the noise than the smell !

32
Just Chat! / Re: Smoking drinking and driving
« on: 15/08/2021 09:13:28 »
I can never understand why it is legal to smoke while driving but not to eat a Mars bar.

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Just Chat! / Re: Lets fire a nuclear missile at the moon
« on: 15/08/2021 09:04:32 »
I think "just  thinking" should be transported to the Moon with the next availale vehicle so that he could send us a first hand report

34
Just Chat! / Why did the duke of York not accept a "I will keep quiet deal"?
« on: 12/08/2021 11:19:41 »
It is not unusual for VIP,s to be offered a financial deal by their sexual partners to not to publish was such an offer made to the Duke if so why did he refuse to pay up?
Was the offer such an excessive sum or did he think he could bluff it out ?

35
Geek Speak / Re: Does pride really come before a fall? Could we prove it?
« on: 03/08/2021 20:40:38 »
When mahatma Gandhi visited the UK he insisted he had to be accommodated in a home for down and outs instead of the Ritz so one had to be built and filled with actors .
Did the same happen when Diana was seen to be hugging AIDS sufferers

36
Geek Speak / Re: Was the UK "405" line system superior to the German 180 line system
« on: 30/07/2021 17:03:38 »
When I was a lad it was the nigger minsrel show

37
Geek Speak / Was the UK "405" line system superior to the German 180 line system
« on: 30/07/2021 16:20:29 »
The UK system had 377 active lines and was supposed to interlace but in reality only high grade monitors did infact interlace virtually all domestic receivers simply paired the frames up giving a 188 llne picture how ever carefully one tried to adjust them.
The worlds first TV system when we invented TV used a lot of German and American equipment

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Just Chat! / Re: Does anyone recall the heroic efforts to get live tv of the 1964 olympics
« on: 30/07/2021 12:05:38 »
The Americans started it in 1932 with more razzmatazz's than competition then the Germans followed on in 1936 with lots of politics (but with interesting TV technology) then we had a 12 year break while we were killing each other but the Helsinki games in 1948 were pretty sober. 

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Just Chat! / Does anyone recall the heroic efforts to get live TV of the 1964 olympics to us
« on: 30/07/2021 05:54:08 »
There where many problems the only wide band channel was an experimental satelite with a band width of 5MB's and the original TV standard was 525 lines 60 frames and the UK standard was 405 lines 50 frames.
It was not a great success !

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Just Chat! / Were spare versions of Hubble built?
« on: 17/07/2021 09:00:38 »
The Hubble telescope started life during the "cold war" as a modified version of a high technology reconnaissance satellite system.
I understud about six units were built but never put into service.
As the cost consists mostly of the research and develop time would it not have been expedient to have built at least one spare

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