Re: OT high-power radio broadcasting (was Re: red SATA cable corruption)

2018-09-19 Thread Martin
[...] > By the way I saw an absolutely brand-spanking-new Rolls Royce here > (Chicago) over the weekend. They are incredibly ugly. [...] Blame BMW for that. Tut mir auch leid. This is way off topic isn't it?

Re: OT high-power radio broadcasting (was Re: red SATA cable corruption)

2018-09-18 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
Well it should be obvious to all that the "Upper Class Twit Of The Year" is not confined to the British Isles. True, it's a different variety than here, look at Trumpf. And here they have ocean liners rather than Aston-Martins. Yet there is no genetic diversity among them across borders. By the

Re: OT high-power radio broadcasting (was Re: red SATA cable corruption)

2018-09-18 Thread Dominic Knight
On Tue, 2018-09-18 at 16:13 -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > Brian - > Are you British? > Reading your reply was like reading a Monty Python script. If such > existed. > That's just normal for us Brits. In the late sixties we were somewhat miffed to discover that our excellent, serious,

Re: OT high-power radio broadcasting (was Re: red SATA cable corruption)

2018-09-18 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
Brian - Are you British? Reading your reply was like reading a Monty Python script. If such existed. This is almost too embarrassing to explain to you Brian, but the contact point would be the DIY ethic, wouldn't it be, My Main Man Brian? Homemade Linux, homemade radios, homemade beer: 3 peas in a

Re: OT high-power radio broadcasting (was Re: red SATA cable corruption)

2018-09-18 Thread Brian
On Tue 18 Sep 2018 at 15:50:45 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 18 September 2018 15:12:52 Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > Go In Peace. > > Real radio engineering, despite everything, is a dying art/science. [...] > Now you know why my posts occasionally end with a sigh... As do my

Re: OT high-power radio broadcasting (was Re: red SATA cable corruption)

2018-09-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 18 September 2018 15:12:52 Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > Go In Peace. > Real radio engineering, despite everything, is a dying art/science. Yes, its got so bad the ma & pa small town broadcaster has to call in a factory engineer to keep them on the air. The days of the likes of

Re: OT high-power radio broadcasting (was Re: red SATA cable corruption)

2018-09-18 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
Go In Peace. Real radio engineering, despite everything, is a dying art/science. Check out the Crystal Set Society, my man. Real Men, Real Women, Real Radios. https://www.midnightscience.net/ On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 2:57 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 14 September 2018 13:58:40 Marty wrote:

Re: OT high-power radio broadcasting (was Re: red SATA cable corruption)

2018-09-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 14 September 2018 13:58:40 Marty wrote: > The Debian whippersnappers need to know their hacker history :) > > I've heard the stories about getting caught on or near a tower. > Supposedly you can feel it before it scrambles your brains. I would > not seek out the experience. Sufficient

OT high-power radio broadcasting (was Re: red SATA cable corruption)

2018-09-14 Thread Marty
The Debian whippersnappers need to know their hacker history :) I've heard the stories about getting caught on or near a tower. Supposedly you can feel it before it scrambles your brains. I would not seek out the experience. On 09/12/2018 02:08 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Yeah, I've some

Re: red SATA cable corruption

2018-09-12 Thread Curt
On 2018-09-12, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Yeah, I've some experience. And it goes back quite a ways timewise. > Maybe they made the cables red to warn you off them, like those brightly colored aposematic frogs in South America (now maybe drifting ominously north because of climate change, to

Re: red SATA cable corruption

2018-09-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 11 September 2018 23:01:43 Felix Miata wrote: > Gene Heskett composed on 2018-09-11 22:29 (UTC-0400): > > On Tuesday 11 September 2018 21:34:27 Felix Miata wrote: > >> IMO, red because it's red is less likely than red because red was > >> the > >

Re: red SATA cable corruption

2018-09-11 Thread Felix Miata
Gene Heskett composed on 2018-09-11 22:29 (UTC-0400): > On Tuesday 11 September 2018 21:34:27 Felix Miata wrote: >> IMO, red because it's red is less likely than red because red was the ^^^ *Less* likely, not unlikely. IOW, both happen, but red dye cancer

Re: red SATA cable corruption (was: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete)

2018-09-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 11 September 2018 21:34:27 Felix Miata wrote: > Gene Heskett composed on 2018-09-11 21:21 (UTC-0400): > > Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > >> I would first identify the *cause* and replace all unreliable > >> hardware before bothering to restore from backup. If you have > >> noticed some

Re: red SATA cable corruption (was: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete)

2018-09-11 Thread Felix Miata
Gene Heskett composed on 2018-09-11 21:21 (UTC-0400): > Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: >> I would first identify the *cause* and replace all unreliable hardware >> before bothering to restore from backup. If you have noticed some >> corruption, you likely also have some unnoticed corruption.