- corintNot that I can really think of - there's the adjacent Sauerbraten, but that's a similar vintage!
- You might find the crossover for hot water heating is higher than 0p; your boiler is likely only around 70% efficient. So at 6p/therm for gas, you'd break even with resistive electric heating at around the 10p/kWh mark.
You should absolutely re-run these numbers to be sure, but you might find you can use electric heating far more often than you might currently be doing.
- I've got it behind a Caddy proxy, which then automagically sorts out Let's Encrypt for me. It works very well there, if that's any help to you?
- Wishing you well - sorry to hear that you're in ill health.
- > If it makes you more money to be available 24/7 then why wouldn't you?
Agreed, but for a government service where you update your license, or tell them about selling a car or something, there's no real 'more' money. Being closed at 3am doesn't lose the opportunity in the way that it would if you were selling widgets. It instead forces the would-be users at 3am to wait until the morning.
- It'd have likely been the equipment in the street. That said, in Winter, you can overload this a bit. After all the failure mode would be the wires getting so hot they begin to melt. If you know they're covered in ice, or are currently being rained on in near-freezing air temperatures, you can push more current than they'd be able to at 2pm on a hot summer's day.
- I mean, the UK has 20+ fibre links to other lands. If one goes down, fine, if a second goes down, it's suspicious. If a third goes down, and there are Russian ships milling about over the location of the.. yes, there goes a fourth, it doesn't take long to realise what's going on.
Now, what the British Navy would do about this I'm not precisely sure. But even to escort the ships away would put a stop to it, and the UK wouldn't be cut off.
- If & only if Facebook sell access to capacity on the cable publically (They might just keep it for their internal use), and then if any of the providers that the gaming traffic uses start to use capacity on that cable.
However, fundamentally, even if fibre took the most direct route from your house, directly straight-line to the datacentre with the server in, and then straightline from there to your friends on the East Coast, the time taken to complete that journey and back is still going to be 150-200msec or so; so it won't be as snappy as if you all lived nearby, sadly.
- Your challenge is getting every ISP to accept this. The routing table might fit in the RAM of a typical server, but perhaps not so easily in the RAM of many routers still deployed in the field.
It's a nice idea, but sadly it'll lose out to commercial realities in many cases.
- It's incredible. The engineers who designed and built those spacecraft were brilliant. I'll raise a glass to their work!
- I still believe that device manufacturers should be forced to reveal any keys / similar to load 3rd party firmware onto devices like this, if/when the devices go out of support or deviate in pricing from when sold (viz: Ring Doorbells adding subscriptions).
Sure, the vendor lock does allow them to sell the device at a lower cost, but you pay for it later.
- Switzerland uses mostly 64kbit DAB+, by the look of the latest observations on https://www.wohnort.org/dab/switzerland.html?PageSpeed=off
- 5G almost everywhere? In Scotland?
I respectfully beg to differ. There are massive chunks of Scotland which have no cellular reception at all. There are many places where there is service from some-but-not-all providers. Of those places, there are a few where the service is glacial in performance.
Example: if you stop at The Green Welly Stop in Tyndrum (FK20 8RY), you'll have coverage from only two of the mobile networks. Vodafone and o2 have a coverage patch there. Have a look at the coverage maps (bidb.uk aggregates them all). It's absolutely patchy, and certainly not contiguous.
- Depending on your tolerance for bodges, if you get a dock which supports DisplayLink technology (The Dell D6000s does for example), and then install the DisplayLink manager, you can drive 3 external monitors from your Apple M-series laptop.
It's a bodge though, because it creates the extra monitors as 'virtual' monitors, screen records them, and sends the data to the dock. It doesn't play back DRM-protected video for instance. But if you don't need that, it works very well indeed!
- In the UK there's a law covering this specific case. Theft is deigned "taking with the intent to permanently deprive", so joyriders were defending their actions by returning the vehicle after just this.
Therefore, there's now an offence for this: Taking Without Consent: https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/theft-act-offences
- At a guess, it'd mean building large slabs of concrete, or tanks of water, or other cheap item with large thermal inertia. Ideally you'd cool these down overnight, or at a period with cheap power, then under regular external temperatures you'd use these to reduce the need for cooling at periods of high power cost. Or, when it's very warm outside, these would work in tandem with the cooling systems to cope with a hot day, with the hope being that overnight you'd catch up, without needing to interrupt workloads.
- I can think of an example; the gambling industry. When a large event (such as a big football match, the Grand National, etc) finishes, all the bets will need settling. It's difficult to do big swathes at once, since different accounts might qualify (or not) for promotions or similar.
Any other large-scale individual action driven by a particular event happening could also fall under this description; concert tickets going on sale for example.
Of course many workloads might not need to go from zero to 3,000 containers that quickly - but it's useful to know that the underlying infrastructure can do this so that you know it ought to handle far smaller demand spikes without much concern.
- I would suggest looking at Lightsail, if your credits stretch that far. The included 1TB+ of bandwidth is the reason for that. Bridges would typically see much more bursty traffic compared to relays or (especially) exit nodes; this does mean that the burst CPU credits on Lightsail (or the t-series EC2 instances) would pair up nicely.
I'd also suggest running in as many AWS regions as you're able, so that there isn't a lovely block of bridges all in one region.
- Is it possible that the interconnects between France and the Netherlands are already at capacity, and therefore the losses from going 'via' UK are less than the energy we'd need to expend to bolster that capacity?
- They do, they expose it via an API, so you can use IFTTT (or anything you make that's similar to this) to optimise when you use power.
This website does some analysis on the pricing: https://www.energy-stats.uk/octopus-agile/
The useful part is that, if a user of the tariff is sufficiently engaged, not only do they save money, but by shifting their demand to follow supply it helps with the increasing adoption of renewable sources.