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  • Re: 3:770/1.

    From Henri Derksen@2:280/1208.1 to Ward Dossche on Sun Jan 26 02:41:46 2020
    Hello Ward and others,

    Fri. 17 Jan 2020, 14:14:11, Ward Dossche wrote to Paul Hayton:

    Is back up now after a planned power cut.

    Pay your utilities bill and power will not be cut.

    Even when paid right, the power can still be cut.
    I.e. by Fires and/of floods as in Australia f.i.
    Overload somewhere in the net, blown up transformer etc.
    And in this case planned works.
    (S)he could think of a backup power system, i.e. UPS, generator, sunpanels, windturbine, accumulator and dc-ac inverter etc.
    It stands on how important the powerd users are.
    The Intensive Care in hospitals for instance, always need continues power.
    You do not want the hart-lung machine to stop unplanned etc.

    I just changed from internet connection (ADSL2+ to FTTH) at januari 21,
    and planned to have a second Pi machine online if necessarry, it was not.
    Both lines were active at the same time, so I could easyliy change over.
    If not, I could try my mobile 3G link temporarely.
    So always take the right actions beforehand,
    i.e. a planned shutdown, instead of just cut away the power.
    It may happen right 9 times of 10, but then suddenly your disk is broken.
    So at least a (tested) backup is ncessarry.

    Henri.

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  • From Henri Derksen@2:280/1208.1 to Tony Langdon on Sun Jan 26 03:34:12 2020
    Hello Tony and others,

    Tue. 21 Jan 2020, 12:40:00, Tony Langdon wrote to David Drummond:

    I think you'll find that much of Australia does not have "sewers" as
    you know them. Where I live there are no sewers, no piped water.

    Yep septic systems and tank water are pretty common. :)

    As is the same at ships.

    Yeah, new estates often have underground power these days.

    You also could place enough sunpanels and windmills, a storage accumulator,
    and a DC= to AC~ inverter and you never need landpower and powerpoles anymore. A wellknown firm in the Almere.Netherlands also produces DC= to AC~ inverters for both the European-, UK, USA and even Australia and NZ-markets, with different Voltages (115/230 Vac~), Frequencies (50/60 Hz) and outlets with earth contact.

    Somehow, I think he's run into another country, or water, or anything
    else other than Belgium. :D

    Yes, from his home in Belgium to mine in NL, you only need 176 km driving.

    ... I took an IQ test, and the results were negative.

    Try again another one.
    If that's negative too, you are positive, as 2 x negative is positive ;-).

    Henri.

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  • From Paul Hayton@3:770/100 to Gerrit Kuehn on Tue Jan 28 20:42:24 2020
    On 27 Jan 2020 at 08:28p, Gerrit Kuehn pondered and said...
    You can also "downscale" the whole thing by reducing the maximum
    velocity. Was 25km/h brought into Belgian cinemas (one or two years
    ago)?

    I think I don't understand what you're hinting at.

    A German roadmovie named "25km/h" from 2018 or 2019 (cannot remember exactly) where the main characters used Mofas (top speed: 25km/h) for their trip.

    I love how this thread became anything but stuff to do with 3:770/1 and yet
    the subject remained.. so I'm just creating a new subject so it can turn into something else for a while :)

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  • From Dallas Vinson@1:123/257 to Paul Hayton on Tue Jan 28 09:56:26 2020
    Re: Re: Anything But
    By: Paul Hayton to Gerrit Kuehn on Tue Jan 28 2020 20:55:25

    I love how this thread became anything but stuff to do with 3:770/1 and yet the subject remained.. so I'm just creating a new subject so it can turn into something else for a while :)

    Yeah Paul, that's one of my pet peeves. People being to lazy to change the subject line when their post no longer has anything to do with the subject line.

    I mean, how hard is it to just add your new subject to the beginning and then putting (was: between the new and old subjects???
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  • From Tommi Koivula@2:221/0.1 to Paul Hayton on Tue Jan 28 18:11:54 2020
    Hi Paul.

    28 Jan 20 20:55:24, you wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:

    I love how this thread became anything but stuff to do with 3:770/1 and
    yet
    the subject remained.. so I'm just creating a new subject so it can turn
    into
    something else for a while :)

    Better? ;-)

    'Tommi

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