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Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
On 14/7/21 3:58 pm, keithr0 wrote:
I hear that the Army is less than pleased with their Mercedes 4WDs. The
old Land Rovers could be fixed in the field with a set of spanners and a
hammer, the Mercs have to be towed back to base, and are bastards to fix
with all the electronics.
Yeah, I wondered how that would turn out in the end. It\'s not like the
Australian Army had much choice in the matter. The old Defenders dated
from the early Defender days with the youngest being more than a decade
old. The Benz has more capabilities but, as you say, the electronic will
be problematical, especially so when they age.
I heard that the G Wagons that the \"department of name changes\"
(DELWP, do firefighting in the Vic forrest areas) bought cut out
when their computer detects smoke. Which could be, umm,
inconvenient.
Among other problems:
https://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/news/national/victorian-delwp-attacked-by-awu-over-mercedesbenz-g-wagons/news-story/e687df05bcdabb6f5df57fc04db7a174?nk=a94d6ad6f572cd443471d16fc4383a0f-1626306024
Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
On 14/7/21 3:58 pm, keithr0 wrote:
I hear that the Army is less than pleased with their Mercedes 4WDs. The
old Land Rovers could be fixed in the field with a set of spanners and a
hammer, the Mercs have to be towed back to base, and are bastards to fix
with all the electronics.
Yeah, I wondered how that would turn out in the end. It\'s not like the
Australian Army had much choice in the matter. The old Defenders dated
from the early Defender days with the youngest being more than a decade
old. The Benz has more capabilities but, as you say, the electronic will
be problematical, especially so when they age.
I heard that the G Wagons that the \"department of name changes\"
(DELWP, do firefighting in the Vic forrest areas) bought cut out
when their computer detects smoke. Which could be, umm,
inconvenient.
Among other problems:
https://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/news/national/victorian-delwp-attacked-by-awu-over-mercedesbenz-g-wagons/news-story/e687df05bcdabb6f5df57fc04db7a174?nk=a94d6ad6f572cd443471d16fc4383a0f-1626306024
Trevor Wilson <trevor@rageaudio.com.au> wrote:
Except for the latest ones that are fitted with 15 microprocessors.
You think I\'m joking? I flattened the battery in my 2018 Subaru and, due
to a fuck-up with jump starting the thing, I managed to shut down all
the safety systems. I took it to my mechanic, who placed his OBD-II
machine on the car. It reported the prescence of 27 microprocessors. BY
my reckoning my Suby has about a billion times more computing power than
a space shuttle.
They now often have multiple processors in the same chip, probably
adding up to more than that system reports. Eg. the BCM2835 SoC
used for the original Raspberry Pi includes the CPU, but also a
secondary \"videocore\" processor (VPU), as well as \"quad\" processors
(QPUs) which are used for 3D acceleration processing.
On the models that include a chip for Bluetooth/WiFi, that chip
has one ARM-based processor for Bluetooth and another for WiFi.
The CPU is actually booted by the VPU, then the CPU boots up the
BT/WiFi processors.
Trevor Wilson <trevor@rageaudio.com.au> wrote:
Except for the latest ones that are fitted with 15 microprocessors.
You think I\'m joking? I flattened the battery in my 2018 Subaru and, due
to a fuck-up with jump starting the thing, I managed to shut down all
the safety systems. I took it to my mechanic, who placed his OBD-II
machine on the car. It reported the prescence of 27 microprocessors. BY
my reckoning my Suby has about a billion times more computing power than
a space shuttle.
They now often have multiple processors in the same chip, probably
adding up to more than that system reports. Eg. the BCM2835 SoC
used for the original Raspberry Pi includes the CPU, but also a
secondary \"videocore\" processor (VPU), as well as \"quad\" processors
(QPUs) which are used for 3D acceleration processing.
On the models that include a chip for Bluetooth/WiFi, that chip
has one ARM-based processor for Bluetooth and another for WiFi.
The CPU is actually booted by the VPU, then the CPU boots up the
BT/WiFi processors.
On 15/07/2021 11:45 am, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
Among other problems:
https://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/news/national/victorian-delwp-attacked-by-awu-over-mercedesbenz-g-wagons/news-story/e687df05bcdabb6f5df57fc04db7a174?nk=a94d6ad6f572cd443471d16fc4383a0f-1626306024
As someone who calls himself a computer nerd you\'d think you\'d
know what parts of URLs aren\'t needed. In the above case it\'s the
?nk=a94d6ad6f572cd443471d16fc4383a0f-1626306024 on the end.
Not only unnecessary but can also be used to track where visitors
got the link from. (Which is why I remove it or anything similar
from URLS before using them in a browser.)
On 15/07/2021 11:45 am, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
Among other problems:
https://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/news/national/victorian-delwp-attacked-by-awu-over-mercedesbenz-g-wagons/news-story/e687df05bcdabb6f5df57fc04db7a174?nk=a94d6ad6f572cd443471d16fc4383a0f-1626306024
As someone who calls himself a computer nerd you\'d think you\'d
know what parts of URLs aren\'t needed. In the above case it\'s the
?nk=a94d6ad6f572cd443471d16fc4383a0f-1626306024 on the end.
Not only unnecessary but can also be used to track where visitors
got the link from. (Which is why I remove it or anything similar
from URLS before using them in a browser.)
On 15/07/2021 11:45 am, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
Among other problems:
https://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/news/national/victorian-delwp-attacked-by-awu-over-mercedesbenz-g-wagons/news-story/e687df05bcdabb6f5df57fc04db7a174?nk=a94d6ad6f572cd443471d16fc4383a0f-1626306024
As someone who calls himself a computer nerd you\'d think you\'d
know what parts of URLs aren\'t needed. In the above case it\'s the
?nk=a94d6ad6f572cd443471d16fc4383a0f-1626306024 on the end.
Not only unnecessary but can also be used to track where visitors
got the link from. (Which is why I remove it or anything similar
from URLS before using them in a browser.)
Trevor Wilson <trevor@rageaudio.com.au> wrote:
Except for the latest ones that are fitted with 15 microprocessors.
You think I\'m joking? I flattened the battery in my 2018 Subaru and, due
to a fuck-up with jump starting the thing, I managed to shut down all
the safety systems. I took it to my mechanic, who placed his OBD-II
machine on the car. It reported the prescence of 27 microprocessors. BY
my reckoning my Suby has about a billion times more computing power than
a space shuttle.
They now often have multiple processors in the same chip, probably
adding up to more than that system reports. Eg. the BCM2835 SoC
used for the original Raspberry Pi includes the CPU, but also a
secondary \"videocore\" processor (VPU), as well as \"quad\" processors
(QPUs) which are used for 3D acceleration processing.
On the models that include a chip for Bluetooth/WiFi, that chip
has one ARM-based processor for Bluetooth and another for WiFi.
The CPU is actually booted by the VPU, then the CPU boots up the
BT/WiFi processors.
I note that NSW Health is now recommending that people get their second
jab sooner in the light of the current outbreak. I\'ve managed to book it
for today.
Sylvia.
I note that NSW Health is now recommending that people get their second
jab sooner in the light of the current outbreak. I\'ve managed to book it
for today.
Sylvia.
I note that NSW Health is now recommending that people get their second
jab sooner in the light of the current outbreak. I\'ve managed to book it
for today.
Sylvia.
I note that NSW Health is now recommending that people get their second
jab sooner in the light of the current outbreak. I\'ve managed to book it
for today.
Sylvia.
Trevor Wilson <trevor@rageaudio.com.au> wrote:
Except for the latest ones that are fitted with 15 microprocessors.
You think I\'m joking? I flattened the battery in my 2018 Subaru and, due
to a fuck-up with jump starting the thing, I managed to shut down all
the safety systems. I took it to my mechanic, who placed his OBD-II
machine on the car. It reported the prescence of 27 microprocessors. BY
my reckoning my Suby has about a billion times more computing power than
a space shuttle.
They now often have multiple processors in the same chip, probably
adding up to more than that system reports. Eg. the BCM2835 SoC
used for the original Raspberry Pi includes the CPU, but also a
secondary \"videocore\" processor (VPU), as well as \"quad\" processors
(QPUs) which are used for 3D acceleration processing.
On the models that include a chip for Bluetooth/WiFi, that chip
has one ARM-based processor for Bluetooth and another for WiFi.
The CPU is actually booted by the VPU, then the CPU boots up the
BT/WiFi processors.
On 15/07/2021 7:45 am, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
On 14/7/21 3:58 pm, keithr0 wrote:
I hear that the Army is less than pleased with their Mercedes 4WDs. The
old Land Rovers could be fixed in the field with a set of spanners and a
hammer, the Mercs have to be towed back to base, and are bastards to fix
with all the electronics.
Yeah, I wondered how that would turn out in the end. It\'s not like the
Australian Army had much choice in the matter. The old Defenders dated
from the early Defender days with the youngest being more than a decade
old. The Benz has more capabilities but, as you say, the electronic will
be problematical, especially so when they age.
I heard that the G Wagons that the \"department of name changes\"
(DELWP, do firefighting in the Vic forrest areas) bought cut out
when their computer detects smoke. Which could be, umm,
inconvenient.
Among other problems:
https://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/news/national/victorian-delwp-attacked-by-awu-over-mercedesbenz-g-wagons/news-story/e687df05bcdabb6f5df57fc04db7a174?nk=a94d6ad6f572cd443471d16fc4383a0f-1626306024
That was 4 years ago !!
On 15/07/2021 7:45 am, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
On 14/7/21 3:58 pm, keithr0 wrote:
I hear that the Army is less than pleased with their Mercedes 4WDs. The
old Land Rovers could be fixed in the field with a set of spanners and a
hammer, the Mercs have to be towed back to base, and are bastards to fix
with all the electronics.
Yeah, I wondered how that would turn out in the end. It\'s not like the
Australian Army had much choice in the matter. The old Defenders dated
from the early Defender days with the youngest being more than a decade
old. The Benz has more capabilities but, as you say, the electronic will
be problematical, especially so when they age.
I heard that the G Wagons that the \"department of name changes\"
(DELWP, do firefighting in the Vic forrest areas) bought cut out
when their computer detects smoke. Which could be, umm,
inconvenient.
Among other problems:
https://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/news/national/victorian-delwp-attacked-by-awu-over-mercedesbenz-g-wagons/news-story/e687df05bcdabb6f5df57fc04db7a174?nk=a94d6ad6f572cd443471d16fc4383a0f-1626306024
That was 4 years ago !!
On 15/07/2021 7:45 am, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
On 14/7/21 3:58 pm, keithr0 wrote:
I hear that the Army is less than pleased with their Mercedes 4WDs. The
old Land Rovers could be fixed in the field with a set of spanners and a
hammer, the Mercs have to be towed back to base, and are bastards to fix
with all the electronics.
Yeah, I wondered how that would turn out in the end. It\'s not like the
Australian Army had much choice in the matter. The old Defenders dated
from the early Defender days with the youngest being more than a decade
old. The Benz has more capabilities but, as you say, the electronic will
be problematical, especially so when they age.
I heard that the G Wagons that the \"department of name changes\"
(DELWP, do firefighting in the Vic forrest areas) bought cut out
when their computer detects smoke. Which could be, umm,
inconvenient.
Among other problems:
https://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/news/national/victorian-delwp-attacked-by-awu-over-mercedesbenz-g-wagons/news-story/e687df05bcdabb6f5df57fc04db7a174?nk=a94d6ad6f572cd443471d16fc4383a0f-1626306024
That was 4 years ago !!
On 12/07/2021 9:20 am, Sylvia Else wrote:
I note that NSW Health is now recommending that people get their
second jab sooner in the light of the current outbreak. I\'ve managed
to book it for today.
Sylvia.
**You\'re lucky. My quack can\'t fit me in until next Wednesday. That
gives me 8 weeks between jabs.
On 12/07/2021 9:20 am, Sylvia Else wrote:
I note that NSW Health is now recommending that people get their
second jab sooner in the light of the current outbreak. I\'ve managed
to book it for today.
Sylvia.
**You\'re lucky. My quack can\'t fit me in until next Wednesday. That
gives me 8 weeks between jabs.