ttj - Tom Jones

G-GATJ, a British Airways A320, diverted on flight BA2620 starting in LGW, and went to MUC instead of INN.  Of course, this also messes up BA2621, which would have been INN-LGW straight after. Usually, diversions from INN to MUC are due to weather.  They might make two attempts at INN, and if they still can't see the runway, go to MUC. On this occasion, it was a "piece of equipment needed to land" not working.  "hmm, wonder if that's the landing gear, lol".  But it was the transponder, that the captain said he only needed to use at INN.  What, so it's not maintained or tested, and they only notice it's broken when they try and use it?

To add a little more detail to <https://wibblement.blogspot.com/2023/07/partitioning-large-drives-use-gdisk.html> : The paritioning scheme that can handle drives larger than 2T is GPT. On linux, use gdisk to partition. The type codes are probably inherited from the old DOS / MBR partitioning scheme and then extended.  Or they are supposed to be GUIDs but, adhoc, have ended up being the above without being standardised. When selecting the type code, if you know what fs will go on there, use:  * for ext4, use 8300  * for exfat, esp for removable media, use 0700 ("Microsoft basic data")

How many wires are there in Single Wire Ethernet currently?  Wrong!  There are two. The person whose job it was to count the number of wires miscounted. Single wire ethernet should be possible but does not yet exist.

At the risk of bending a term, one wants transactions over the web to be "as atomic as possible".  You know what I mean. Say for something like a payment:  Client and server line everything up, then "wam commit with tiny data", "bam commit worked with tiny data b", and with proper feedback to user at each stage. What actually happens is that devtards create a sprawling, heavy mess with all sorts of back-and-forth.  It pulls in garbage from all directions.  When it's on a perfect internet connection, such as the devtard's dev box, it just about works, most of the time.  That's the level they get it to.  If there is the slightest connection glitch, packet loss, slowness, it just sort of fizzles out in undefined ways.  Maybe the thinger spins round for ever, or something just remains greyed out or doesn't load.  Occasionally some sort of error message will be produced. A payment or other online transaction should work with a 9600 bps connectio...

Due to repeated dog shit crimes against my property, I am having to set up CCTV in a place without wifi or mains power.  The place does have mobile reception. I've bought several things in parallel.  The product quality in this sector is dire.  Things just don't work. Arlo is a big brand, and some people I know use it.  The camera I bought do wifi, not mobile data, so the solar powered base station is set up separately. I didn't realise when I forked out 400 GBP(2024) for these, that they don't work without a subscription to Arlo's cloud services.  All you can get without is basic alerts and live monitoring if you're on the same network.  You don't get access to any recordings, so it's useless. You can't configure Arlo cams to communicate with your own server(s), so the cloud service is mandatory if you want them to work. Supposedly cameras come with a trial subscription to the cloud service.  This is in your "receipt or email".  I bought f...

It used to be cdrecord. This was never updated to handle larger than DVD.  Now it's "cdrskin".  I never remember.   cdrskin -eject ISOFILE