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Geoffers

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  1. I used to have to joint with wax paper many moons ago. Horrible stuff. There are voice coils that will give instructions.The siren is to make people stop and think then hopefully listen and will only be in short bursts. They test them quite often but very very quickly. Usually less than a second and send various tones down.
  2. Yep, every single one. What makes it worse is if it's pulled up by tree root, the cables will be stretched and the breaking point will will somewhere further along underground and probably in several places so it meant more digging and took ages but people used to give us stick for it. There's still a surprising amount out there. BT put proposals in 1985 to fibre the entire country (I was in my first proper job in Plessey working on SystemX for it) but the government stopped as they were negotiating contracts with the big international cable companies and thought it wouldn't be fair on them. The public warning system still runs on copper so in the event of attack when electronic systems are taken out, good old fashioned analogue/mechanical devices are more likely to work. Look on the top of telegraph poles - every now and again you'll see an odd shaped conical device. It's a siren and speaker. Usually on main roads rather than side streets.
  3. Surely they couldn't have allowed that. Unless he was taking multiple seats like the empty ones behind and he was just talking to his mate while having a little stand up or something similar.
  4. Yep, the old copper trunks. (Or copper coated aluminium probably) When I first started jointing I remember being called out in the middle of the night in high winds and terrible rain as a tree had come down and the roots had taken one of these out, along with gas and electric. My hands were freezing as two of us had to put a temporary section in so effectively twice as many connections. If you look, you'll see many are the same colour and back then it wasn't digital so we had to put a tone on each line to check. We couldn't cover because of the gas and electric. Every utility was there working around the Corpy cutting the rest of the tree up and taking down the one next to it. From a H&S point of view all that wouldn't be allowed now of course. Everyone was working next morning though.
  5. Much easier these days with blades and such. This is a Pureflex in our server room. Each node is running about 20 virtual servers on with a 40GB backplane between each and multpile interconnects down to the v700 drives, some of which you can see - 120TB of disk space. Each node has 768b ram. Anyone with a keen eye will see the P260 in the top right which only 20 years ago weighed a quarter of a ton and cost half a million pounds! All nice and neat. We have 18 cabs full of these. My pet hate though is cabling from the patch panels to the switches to feed the building. There is just no excuse for it. Here's one in one of the outbuildings I had to recable: Which now looks like this:
  6. Their sales people aren't the best in the world. I noticed they all have stubble and beards and on looking through the faq: Why do you all have beards? We look more manly that way.....right? Probably not the best sales pitch. The last update to the product was Sep 2015 and funding suspended so I suspect they've hit a few difficulties.
  7. Took me a while that one. couldn't see it... literally.
  8. Terry! Not heard from you for ages. Hello
  9. You can make a 3-axis stabiliser with an Arduino but can pick up the units ready made for about £20.
  10. I don't know about this particular one as it seems a bit close but could be a perspective thing and you can see the heat distortion behind the engines. A quick search says it was done by a photographer called Steve Comber (twitter page) and it does appear to have been shown in conferences. He's got some great photo's there. We often go to a place called the mach loop (Cad east and west) in North Wales. It's where the RAF and USAF do a lot of training. Couple of videos but doesn't do it justice. Cad East Video Cad West video Cad West is better is you're higher and often above the craft. Here's a good F15c there.
  11. It is actually the same but only the front facing front of each one. Your finger has to cover the other bits. You have to ignore the edges and curves completely, which of course you can't do with the naked eye because of colour/shade constancy to your brain. Take it into a photo editor and move bits up and about:
  12. HERE is the new one. Not a professional recording but ok. You'll see what I mean about it on being the same you can't beat Richard Burtons voice.
  13. There's this but it looks like the original (went to see that too). Looking for the newer Liam Neeson version I went to. Stage show is better but not sure about the music difference...
  14. Sorry to diversify slightly but grew with this and went to see the newer version. (Jeff Waynes musical still but with a staged act). Absolutely brilliant. Laser and accompanying pyrotechnics show.
  15. 1. A certificate gives you encrypted information between you and the server you are talking to. When I connect to your server, there is a bit of a handshake going on and we swap information. Not all of this comes directly from your server, some of it comes from a certificate authority such as geotrust, digicert, etc. who you bought your certificate from and other bits from domain name servers verifying you are the correct servers I'm talking to. Once my browser is happy you've responded with your public key and the certificate matches, data will flow but is encrypted between the two so if you were watching it (say on a public wireless in MacDonalds for instance) you wouldn't see this writing as I send it to the site, you'd just see what appears as gobledygook and is decrypted both ends as they talk. Banking systems use the same method. You know that transmitting the data between each other is encrypted. This is what the HTTPS is. This may not seem important but what if, say I sent a PM with some personal info in or posted some wording to the adult forum? I'd be glad people can't capture that. You'd be surprise how much data capturing is going on. Not just local wireless level but every router in between you and the receiver. All this means is that I'm definitely talking to your server and the data between us is encrypted. It doesn't mean other things aren't going on. It is simply verification and to prevent "man in the middle" attacks or seeing your data. 2. It's impossible to say as I don't know the level of control you have or if there are any reverse proxies, etc. in between you and the system. Do you have access directly with Apache or is it all through your panel? 3. Again impossible without seeing internally but alarms tend to ring on the providers side as there are lots of patterns indicating if you have. It could simply be an external embedded piece of code or reverse proxy issue as above for instance (the biggest is getting confused with setting up https redirect when it does it itself so an endless loop type thing). Lots of things could be the issue, not just being hacked. As for the site being static, it's irrelevant really. The only safe machine is one buried in 50ft of concrete with no wires or power attached and even then it's questionable! :-)
  16. That's odd because externally published info is March, unless there's another part? This was the first thing I checked the other night.It does tie in timing wise though. Common name: wheels-inmotion.co.ukSANs: wheels-inmotion.co.uk, www.wheels-inmotion.co.uk Valid from December 18, 2017 to March 19, 2018 Serial Number: c8e3bec6a31a63f3dcf4be5a4c6979ae Signature Algorithm: sha256WithRSAEncryption Issuer: cPanel, Inc. Certification Authority Common name: wheels-inmotion.co.uk SANs: wheels-inmotion.co.uk, www.wheels-inmotion.co.uk Valid from December 18, 2017 to March 19, 2018 Serial Number: c8e3bec6a31a63f3dcf4be5a4c6979ae Signature Algorithm: sha256WithRSAEncryption Issuer: cPanel, Inc. Certification Authority
  17. This ties in with the other thread Tony - something is linking externally I'd say, (hence the unsafe errors in the background). Actually, just had a thought - have you changed your htaccess file lately Or any DNS changes? Smartly, do you go to wheels-inmnotion.co.uk then select the forum or directly to the forum? http://www.wheels-inmotion.co.uk/forum/index.php?act=Login&CODE=00 Will you try directly to the forum and see if it lets you on without the redirects?
  18. Doing a bit of crawling through the site I would suggest you have an advert that has changed or something else that can be changed externally like a pointer to somewhere else. Seems like a looping error at root level which will give problems throughout the site, not just the forums. It's hard for me to determine externally because I can only see the response form - the page is built up server side then served so I'm not seeing how it is built up. IPBoard is quite secure in this respect.
  19. It's a difficult one to determine short of going everywhere on the site and monitoring what it does and where in turn it goes. I did a bit of playing last night and couldn't find any but not navigated the entire site. The Google review is very intensive and why it needs to be done as a board admin - it runs a googlebot to check every page so you must allow access. Don't worry it is safe to NSA standards.
  20. It's because the board script that brings it in is getting flagged as malicious. Your certificate is valid until March so sure it's not linked to that. There is either a genuine piece of script that is malicious or the site has been marked by one of the many legit malware/spam/phishing lookup tools. This could be an old or new script somewhere linking externally that is triggering it. You can get google to review it which will update the others. Tony, you can request a review here but it has to be done from the board admin. It could also be that you are using mixed content. (http and https - try using all https). In Chrome you can get around it by loading unsafe content. (There isn't any on this page so far, I fired up in a VM). Look at the end of the address bar at the top and you'll see the unsafe content warning shield. Click on it and then click on 'load unsafe scripts'. The page will reload and work correctly. In Firefox it's in the left of the address bar, "disable Protection on this page". In IE, it is "show all content" at the bottom of the page.
  21. It's difficult to say as I've only been to Goa and Mumbai. Like any densely populated area it can appear dirty in the streets but in amazing contrast once you go into peoples homes or the majority of the shops they are cleaner. Go into an area of poverty and it's worse. Like anywhere else really, just accentuated by sheer volume of people. As I say though, very unfair as I've only been to a couple of places.
  22. They are all round India and quite a bit more pen than those above!
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