I'll add that to my todo list when I get back. Thanks!!

Hey Tom, how are you mounting the tube sideways on wood? I have one without the glass (long story) that I want to image at high-res and I need to mount the tube sideways somehow. Cheers

After my marriage dissolved I moved back North to I applied to go to (coincidentally, through the company I ended up working for 5 years later in a very different capacity) a systems analysis course. They accepted me, then discovered I was part way through that year's Open University course...

I certainly have been for the last 12 hours!

It seeemed a really good idea at the time to schedule the colonoscopy at 8am. Get it out of the way early, he thought. What he didn't think about was the 3am drinking the preparatory glop for two hours. Only one more hour of drinking to to go.......... TAt least this is the last one if it...

A circle back again! In 1988 I worked for said UK computer comapny. My brother can down for this concert: https://www.jeanmicheljarre.com/live/destination-docklands All the local roads were closed and the weather was abysmal so that the huge crowds could walk from the station to the venue. I...

In the early 90s I ran a product center at the UK's indigenous computer manufacturer that developed surround products for our office automation product. Pre Windows of course. I had a desktop computer with a built in phone and modem, email, word pro, spreadsheets, workflow, image capture and...

I worked for Tandy (Radio Shack) in the UK in the early 80s. We got the first 5MB winchester drives for the Model II TRS-80 and it was (IIRC) £9,999. I sold a lot of them!

That's a small world connection too. I led the team that negotiated the establishment of the the BT forum. Microsoft led the charge in the early days.

BSD was and remains a specific fork of a proprietary system. It conforms to SOME standards, to varying degrees, (depending on which derivative version) but its real claim to fame has always been open source rather than open standards. BSD seems to like to perpetuate the mess that was UNIX in...

It's the inverse of that! BSD is a fork of a proprietary system - UNIX. UNIX was developed and owned by AT&T, then sold to Novell. Novelll gave stewardship (under pressure!) to X/Open and they, in their subsequent guise, worked to form the Austin Group that (eventually) combined POSIX, IEEE...

GSM is the only one I can think of that has stuck.

As a long time standards wonk, I do not worship CEOs, few of them possess genius. Most happened to be in the right place at the right time. It would be similarly short sighted to imaging that stanrads can succeed without commercial backing.

Well, of course it's not true in all cases! But for implementation I'd be curious which commercially successful standards-based products (including ethernet) didn't have huge resource inputs for commercial companies.

Without those ginormous companies, there would be no standards. That's not to say that they came to that conclusion willingly. But they did provide the resources to make most of it happen. You can thank the original BISON conglomeration of small European computer companies for forcing that to...

Yup! WE saw Pearl Fishers there and the storm scene was with the backdrop of a real storm, in real mountains.

Yup, via Roon.

You need to slow down. 15 minutes. A day???????????

Have you counted the number of opinionated Boomers here? :-)

Well, to be that it would have to have Yorkshiremen in it. There is only one in the ORIGINAL. And it's not who you think......

Reboot the entire network (eero) and router after pretty much every Roon update. Though the Mac bug seems to have been sqaushed in the latest version :wink:

.... and therein lies the problem. I have more problems with Roon networking than all other devices combined. Including recalcitrant QNAP NAS' and Mac networking with SMB!!

Is that how you fell in love? Absinthe does make the heart grow fonder......

Bugger me! Who knew you could import Qobuz playlists into Roon. :wink:

Isn't a plinth what you get when your underwear is too tight?