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Posts by xj25vm
267 posts • joined 16 Jul 2010
Be Your Own Big Brother: Going to pot
Re: Tamagochi in the real world
Personally, I don't care much about the plant profile know-how behind these gizmos. I like to learn about plants myself, what makes them grow and what doesn't. The bit I am interested in is the potential labour saving, as watering the garden during the warm season, once you go past a few pots, takes a lot of time. Figuring out how to look after plants, what works and what doesn't, and how to do it - well, that's exactly what I'd like to get more time for, instead of lugging water around :-) Watering is only one aspect of plant care - but a time consuming one. So to me, a good automatic watering system would allow for more high quality gardening time - a real promotion from the job of waterboy :-)
Re: @xj25vm Flawed Solutions & Superficial Analysis
@frank ly Re: electrolysis - I've read online on various forums and websites about this and I've used a bit of code on the Arduino which keeps on reversing the polarity of the current flowing through the probe to avoid/compensate for electrolysis.
Re: capacitive sensors - several people mentioned this to me, but I am yet to try it. Thanks for the suggestions!
Re: Flawed Solutions & Superficial Analysis
I would take your suggestions further. To the author: please use some or all of the reviewed products for at least a week and let us know how well they work , how reliable they are in real life situations, how useful they prove etc.
I have been working on an Arduino based automatic watering and monitoring system for myself, on and off for about a year - and for example, what I found so far, is no reliable way to measure the moisture in the soil. For example, that little $5 sensor I found to be absolutely useless. First off, it is far too short. The soil in many real life situations is drier and far looser towards the surface - so inserting that probe, which is only about 4cm-5cm long - yields utterly useless results - as it doesn't make proper contact with the loose soil around it. It might work better in a small pot indoors, than in the garden, though.
I have then made my own resistance based probes and tried them - and unfortunately, the results are so variable that no meaningful data could be extracted. The resistance read from the probe varies so much, that I simply can't tell the difference between a soaking wet pot and a half dry one. Also, the type of compost or soil will affect the reading, the soil temperature, and any chemicals or fertilizers present in the soil.
So although there are wonderful tutorials out there on the internet - in real life things just don't seem to work like that. Yes - those sensors work really nicely when inserted into a perfectly smooth and uniform material - for example reading the moisture of a banana (well - I couldn't think of another way to test them!) - but not so well in the garden.
Maybe some of the other solutions in this article work better.
I am still searching for a reliable way to test soil moisture - but what I've learned so far is that just reading the articles on the internet, or the manufacturers' claims, is not good enough.
Re: Tamagochi in the real world
I am with you - up to a point. I have resisted using technology in the garden over the years - as I deal with tech all day in work - and I wanted the garden to be at least one place where I get away from it. However, there are three reasons why I have slowly changed my mind in the last few years:
1. As I accumulate more plants, try new fruit trees and vegetable varieties every year, the number of plants in my garden has expanded considerably. I find that in the summer, close to 95% of my time in the garden is spent watering. If I could at least partially automate the watering, I could spend more of my gardening time doing other (potentially more interesting or useful) stuff in the garden - weeding, mulching, replanting, cropping, cooking, grafting, research etc.
2. Having a busy schedule in work at times means that I might not end up with enough spare time every single day to look after the garden. If a week of dry hot days coincides with a spike of activity in my work, I risk loosing a good deal of plants in the garden because I didn't get around to watering them. An automated watering system would cover my back in such a scenario.
3. Holidays. This one is pretty simple - if you do fruit and vegetable gardening, you can't have a holiday during the growing season. However, an automatic watering system should be able to look after the watering of the garden just about well enough for a week or so - enough for me to get away. Also, it would be good to be able to monitor the moisture of the soil in at least a few places in the garden - and know for sure, remotely, that the system is working properly.
Crooks are using proxy servers to build more convincing phishing sites – new claim
Re: "legitimate site would find it very difficult to detect these attacks against their customers. "
I see. So what happens if you get multiple purchases from a large internal network with a single public IP address? Such as a large company, university, government network? Or how about the fact that most (if not all) 3g mobile operators - in UK at least - use private IP's for their customers. Will you be banning everybody who shops/browses your website from a smartphone or 3G dongle then?
EE TV brings French broadband price war to the UK
Re: Seems very complicated
"At the moment I get Broadband from BT - basically the same people who manage the wires, the street cabinet and the exchange. It seems to work okay. Why add a middleman (EE) with no Broadband delivery experience?"
Actually, not really. Since 2006 BT has been split between BT Retail and Openreach (and a few other subsidiaries) - and they all operate as independent companies. They might all be owned by BT Group - but they are separate companies - not only departments. BT Retail is a customer of Openreach, just like EE or TalkTalk or any other broadband resellers. And no - that is not just in theory - when you are stuck with a sticky broadband problem and passed around all BT departments, and wait for days on end for the "test results" to be in - you find out soon enough that the days when BT was one entity that was your direct supplier, and managed the "wires" at the same time - are long gone.
Lenovo refuses warranty repair - what are my options?
Lenovo refuses warranty repair - what are my options?
I'm sure this is nothing new and many other commentards have been through this. That is why I'm hoping for some suggestions as to how I can move this forward.
I have a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E130 laptop which I've bought in Nov 2013. About two months ago the screws underneath towards the back (in the vicinity and under the lid hinges) have fallen off. When I tried to screw them back in, they wouldn't hold and kept on falling off. Because of this, the bottom and top of the case started to open up. Separately, the keyboard has been leaving scratch marks on the screen because - I'm assuming - it is rubbing against it when the lid is closed. I've noticed this within two weeks of buying the machine - and started to use a soft, thin silicone keyboard cover - which has slowed but not stopped the process.
Just over a month ago I contacted Lenovo support about the two issues above and they asked for photos. On receiving the photos, they immediately declared that it is customer induced damage (CID). Upon my repeated persistence, they accepted to have a look at the machine - and I shipped it at my own cost to their repair centre. Their 12 months warranty is "Carry in" - so they don't cover the shipping cost!
Since then, there have been many emails backwards and forwards trying to convince them that this is not customer induced damage - and it is either a faulty design or manufacturing defect or both. They wouldn't even acknowledge the screen scratches for a while - and then they say that they've cleaned them up! But they refuse to provide photo evidence. Eventually they accepted to open up the machine and have a look inside - and now they say I've caused the threads of the screws to be faulty by pushing the lid too far!
This is my own machine and I have been careful in using it - so I know it is non-sense. They are continuing to refuse to send photographic evidence in support of their nonsense claims. The alternative is that they repair the machine for £212.00 Labour + Price of Parts + VAT - which is completely ridiculous.
I have contacted Lenovo switchboard in UK - and asked for their Customer Services Department or their Complaints Department - but they don't seem to have such a thing! They gave me the email address of the assistant to the executive director - but I think even that is nonsense as she just forwarded the case back to the same technical support department - and ignored my further emails. Her email signature doesn't even have a title or further details - which is another suspicious sign.
Today they emailed and confirmed the machine is on its way back to me - as I haven't accepted any of their options.
What is the experience of Reg readers in these matters? Any useful suggestions as to how to move this forward? UK Trading Standards? Does Lenovo really not have any proper complaint resolution procedure? To add to the confusion, some phone numbers and email addresses are marked as IBM departments and some as Lenovo. After all this time the two companies seem to be still intertwined in a mesh of branding and department roles.
Any suggestions are welcome.
Top Ten 802.11ac routers: Time for a Wi-Fi makeover?
Can we have an similar article, but comparing the routers' range? I don't care if it is g, n or ac, what is the best router for range and coverage - line of site and through walls? Now that can be really useful in many real life situations - where top speed is not a priority.
NOT APPY: Black cab drivers enraged by Hailo as taxi tech wars rage on
Another monopoly which has lasted under various pretexts for far, far too long. Detailed knowledge of the London road layout? I'm not a big fan of GPS navigation myself, but even my nose can detect the 19th century aroma right there. C'mon, it is getting beyond ridiculous. Years worth of training? Really? I can't say I've ever been able to detect it in the manner they drive or in how they treat their customers.
Mozilla axes HATED Firefox-ad-tab plan ... but will try again
Mozilla have completely lost their way
This is as far as it gets from the original days of "let's keep the Internet free from proprietary stuff". In the last few years, everything emanating from Mozilla has been more and more emulation of their "commercial" competitors - and that is, mainly Google. More and more muddling of why Mozilla exists in the first place. After receiving 300 millions a year from Google, they still nag everybody that they need more money. What for? To plaster more billboards throughout California promoting, err, themselves? Does it really take that much money to release one zillion releases per month which show no discernible or useful progress? Or maybe creating rounded tabs to match the ones from Chrome has been a massively costly exercise? I bet leaving Thunderbird, Lightning and some of their other projects aside, while singing "la-la-la" to the users who need them has really costed them a lot of money. And then there is all the muddling of lines between Mozilla Foundation the charity, and Mozilla Corporation the for-profit enterprise. Where exactly does the money, influence and branding rights go to nowadays - to which one of them? Here is an idea Mozilla - if you want to make some money, maybe it is time to get rid of some of that fat at the top - which is dreaming of more and more ways of being evil while telling everybody not to be evil. Oh, well, another idea you've borrowed, we all know from where.
Edward Snowden on his Putin TV appearance: 'Why all the criticism?'
Playing with the fire
Or maybe, just maybe, Snowden was a better sysadmin (well, an idealist sysadmin by the looks of it) than he is a journalist and a political animal. The very fact that he is even attempting to question the ethics and politics of his own hosts raises some serious questions about his understanding of world politics. He is only there because Putin doesn't like the Americans and wants to annoy them. He is deluding himself if he thinks otherwise. I'm not quite sure he will be able to find some other comfy place in the world any time soon if he is sawing that branch out. And he won't be able to do much whistle blowing and world stage heroics from a prison in the US - or even worse, some gulag in Russia. I would have thought he would be wise to leave criticising the Russian mass surveillance programme to others - who don't happen to be honoured guests of the Russian regime right now!
Delhi police forget passwords to corruption portal, ignore 600 crimes
Technical problem my a*$e
"The issue was finally resolved in January when two officers were summoned to the CVC to explain themselves. It then emerged that the fuzz hadn't dealt with any of the complaints for eight years because they simply didn't know the password or how to use the portal."
So we are talking about corruption complains - you know, the type which potentially involve politicians and other people in positions of power and influence. Sure, it really takes 8 years to ask for a password! Or, far more likely, they used any excuse not to do their job, while some of said persons exerted "influence" over them and asked them not to do their job.
We're not talking, so PAH: Violin Memory's big dogs blank sacked CEO
Something's fishy here
For pete's sake. Are these violin people so important to such a large proportion of your readership that you have to trot out at least an article per week about their latest twitch and itch? What's going on here? Is somebody getting a back hander somewhere? If they want publicity so badly, can't they just pay for one of those annoyingly huge side adverts on El Reg? Or even one of those full page background ones that hijacks your browsing session as soon as you want to click focus away from an element.
Or is there a journo on the team who can't be bothered to look for fresh ideas and just recycles the same topic to infinity and beyond? Someone enlighten us please, or else forget about the whining violins and spare our souls.
Cyanogen grabs $23m, will ship mod-installed N1 smartmobe on Xmas Eve
Where is the profit?
I'm a bit confused. Neither the article, nor the comments seem to be mentioning anything about profits. If Cyanogen has turned into a full bona fide business - what is the business model? Whom exactly are they going to charge (and what for) to make up those 23+7 million greenbacks? Anybody?
Open source bods magic up Qualcomm tech to unlock Internet of Things
IoT - WTF?
For pete's sake - when we called them embedded devices, at least us in the industry knew what it was all about. Now they came up with a new fangled name which means absolutely nothing to anybody. Reminds me of EE - another completely pointless marketing exercise. If you go about renaming something, at least come up with some clever and/or explanatory new term.
Three offers free US roaming, confirms stealth 4G rollout
Re: 3 are great...
I'm not so sure. At least in the north west of England, Three has pretty decent coverage almost everywhere - and that includes 3G broadband. I've downloaded entire video episodes using my 3G dongle in around 20 minutes in places. I've even used 3G on Three in the Lake District in the forest. OK - coverage was missing in some spots in Lake District - but it isn't the most populated place there is.
However, down south it seems to be a different story. Every time I visit London, the 3G barely crawls during day time where I stay. However, past 12 midnight, it gets fast enough to watch BBC iPlayer. But all this time I get full signal on my mobile. It looks like their network is quite oversubscribe in London - and probably other places as well.
So their coverage and capacity does vary from place to place - but they are still tremendous value for money.
Google lets users slurp own Gmail, Calendar data
Calling Doctor Caroline Langensiepen of Nottingham Trent uni
Windows 7 outstrips Windows 8.x with small November growth
Re: Er........
"Actually I should be zero since the oh so smart people using Gnuliban OS surely would know how to buy a unit WITHOUT a pre-installed OS."
OK - I'll buy this one. Like, for every laptop and desktop model out there, there is a version with Windows and one without, right? Might be different in other countries, but in UK you might be lucky to get a handful of pc models offered without Windows. I'm not going to buy some random hardware combination by some random manufacturer of some random build quality - just so the machine has no pre-installed OS. So yes - I end up paying the MS tax because I am quite specific about what laptops (in general) I want and need.
Mass Effect: Ten lightweight laptops that won't bust your back
OK - maybe this doesn't matter to everybody out there - but recently I've been looking to buy a light and small laptop - but with as much practicality as possible. I need my connectivity - I don't want to carry a bucket of adapters around. Of everything that I looked at 11 inch, only two seem to fit the bill: the Lenovo E130 and the Acer Travelmate B113. They have:
1. 3 x USB ports
2. Full size VGA
3. Full size HDMI
4. Ethernet
5. Full SD card slot
Oh, and I like AMD as the underdog, but in spite of that, I have to go with Intel on a laptop. In terms of performance versus heat versus battery life, they are still lagging too far behind. I keep on checking their offerings every year, and like the progress they have made, but I'm sorry, it is still not good enough. Good prices though.
In the end I went with the Lenovo, as it had double the (theoretical) battery life and it seemed stronger built. I've had my Thinkpad E130 for almost two weeks now. Aside from the usual initial EFI bumbling, Slackware went on it without any major problems. I've added another 4GB of ram and pretty much everything flies. I couldn't be happier. The keyboard is fantastic, but the trackpad should really have been bigger - as they could have moved the keyboard to make some space. The speakers are strong, but unfortunately underneath (WTF?). The whole thing is rock solid. But I can't stand the "ribbed" feel of the trackpad - don't understand why Lenovo keeps on insisting on it.
Haswell sounds marvellous for laptops, but it is taking an absolute age to arrive. They still haven't released the ULV versions of the planned Haswell processors. Oh, and my E130 might have just an Ivy Bridge i3-3227U, but it set me back only £492 - I'm not going to pay £1500 for a laptop - sorry. (I've noticed it has dropped further to about £470 at some e-tailers)
Dropbox joins Linux patent protection hit squad
Hmm - sounds suspiciously like the old fashion protection racquet. Join one mafia group to be protected from the others. Pay us money so we protect you from the others suing you and claiming money off you.
Undercover BBC man exposes Amazon worker drone's daily 11-mile trek
Re: Is this a story?
"I think the reason journo types see this kind of thing as scandalous is that it's the first time they've ever actually been subjected to this type of work. "
Very well put. The first thing that crossed my mind when reading the article on BBC this morning was how the 23 year old journo sounded like a spoiled brat who's spent his time in uni smoking he-knows-what and having a good time while being supported by his parents - and now is shocked to find out that people in real world have to do real work for their money. FFS, it's not rocket science. You get paid £8.25 an hour for something that takes 5 minutes to learn. You want more money and more interesting work? Spend your youth (and in some cases, the rest of your life) finding something you have a a natural talent and passion for, Invest tenth of thousands of pounds and a good number of years in your education - and *don't* work as a stock picker. But don't make national news out of the fact that some jobs are more boring than others. Actually, the editors at BBC who promoted this piece of non-news to the front page have a lot more to answer for than the actual "under cover" journo.
Oh, and by the way, living in a big city, full of noise, and pollution, and having to finish stuff in work by deadlines, and having to put up with office politics, and shitty bosses, with screaming kids at home, and worrying about loosing your job and not being able to pay your mortgage, and, and, and ... well - pretty much everything is bad for your mental health. Welcome to adult life - get on with it and stop blaming big bad Amazon.
Rare AutoCAD malware rigs drafting machines for follow-up attacks
Does it require admin privileges for initial infection?
See title. I couldn't work out from the article if the .FAS file can still infect a machine even if it is opened by a user with restricted privileges.
Dell orbits Linux a third time with revamped Sputnik notebooks
Re: How could they find an SD-card reader....
I would have though the same - until the other week, when I was searching for a new laptop - and stumbled over the following bug report for Ubuntu on an Acer B113 - and obviously the card reader using the "tg3" kernel modules has some pretty crappy issues - go figure:
I am a recovering Superwoman wannabee
Re: Not just women...
Have an upvote on me! Too many articles on life/work balance take the one-sided view of "family above all - or you will be sorry on your death bed". Well, I'm exaggerating a bit here, but I find that the above attitude ends up being a fairly narrow minded approach which doesn't apply to everybody.
Not everybody is the same. Not everybody has the same priorities in life. Not everybody has the same priorities at different times in their life. Not everybody has the same emotional make up. Not everybody has a happy family waiting for them at home. Not everybody has the same past. There are many reasons why some people might enjoy work more than others. Then there is the reality that some of us spent more of our youth searching for a carrier which fits our natural talents and inclinations, while others walked into the first job they could find or which paid the most.
Or some of us just accept that it is impossible to do everything and do it well in this life, but it is quite possible to just do one or two things in this life and do them well. It is a compromise, but that's how it works. And some of us might have accepted to do just some things (i.e. work) and do them well - maybe because of our particular personal situation. And it doesn't necessarily mean we disapprove of those who might have different priorities.
But on the other hand, why would someone who chooses to enjoy more of their time with their family have the same career expectations as someone who might have chosen to forego those pleasures and put more time into work? No one can have it all.
Re: The Need for Validation
"It's interesting that superwoman still needed "permission" from Sheryl Sandberg's book before becoming more at ease and "leaning back" a bit."
I agree - but only partially. In the sense that there is no need to follow some high flying business brass advice - it would be much more important to figure these things by oneself. On the other hand, I don't really agree that these issues are specific to women only - many of us face them with varying degrees of intensity on both (all?) sides of the gender line.
But the article only seems to scratch the surface of it all. We all behave in the way to we do for some quite complex reasons. We all have our motivations, some conscious, some less so. Trying to attain a deeper understanding of what makes one tick would be far more useful and long enduring, than just picking some quick-to-digest advice from the book of some business celebrity - even when that advice is right or it even works.
But overall, an article that is thought provoking and raises issues pertinent to all of us.
Krzanich: NO new Intel 14nm Broadwell chip for YOU, world, until 2014
Hmm - a bit confused here. As far as I can tell, aside from Apple products, there don't seem to be many other laptops with Haswell (22nm) processors available to buy. Why would they introduce the next gen (14nm) in the first quarter of 2014 (never mind even earlier than that, as originally planned) - when they haven't started selling properly the current generation? Unless machines with Haswell processors are widely available and I missed on that?
Cloud biz model 'unproven' as Amazon scares world+dog into competing - or ELSE
Re: Gee.
"Put another way, it's the pricing model that's proving attractive, not the technology"
Precisely. And the article is warning that the current pricing model is not sustainable - as the cloud providers are not making a profit. Which means that the prices will have to go up sooner or later. And then, all that attractive pricing model is gone. So, how much point will be then to have stuff in the cloud? I look forward to companies trying to wrestle their data (and infrastructure, in some cases) out of the cloud and back in-house. Should make for interesting articles on El Reg :-)
Thorium and inefficient solar power? That's good enough for me
Re: Slightly fruity comparison
Thanks for that enlightening fact. In case you missed it, my point is that spreading a known quantity of radiation uniformly over the entire planet is very, very different from concentrating it in a 100 miles radius. And that is what the fruity statistic is NOT emphasizing. I could say that the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs emitted less harmful radiation than the total sum of radiation emitted by some minor and frequently recurring event spread over the entire Galaxy (and I could also use the time dimension to my advantage - and spread it over 100.000 years as well - just to make sure) - and all of a sudden make those two catastrophic events look harmless and pale in insignificance. But that's just manipulating statistics to one's own advantage. And by the way, I don't see how that type of contortion of numbers to fit one's mindset and agenda is more of a clear-headed scientific reasoning than the scaremongering of the "NIMBY's". Sorry pal - you just have a different axe to grind - but axe it is.
Re: Slightly fruity comparison
That's the problem with b***cks statistics. You pick and choose random numbers as you please - and all of a sound make something look exactly the way you want it to. What the frigging hell does the entire planet eating bananas have to do with radiation from a damaged nuclear power plant? I'm sure that will warm up no end those Japanese people who live in the proximity of it and risk developing various forms of cancers down to their 10th generation. You and your family and loved ones, go and live close to a facility which is farting at the seams contaminated materials every other week - and than we'll see after a while how keen you are on academic-but-irrelevant numbers on a paper. Relevance - that's what is missing. Just jumbling up some numbers together to make up a blingy statistic is not enough - the bigger picture is what matters.
BT rewritting email standards? No hyphens allowed?
BT rewritting email standards? No hyphens allowed?
I've just had a call from a client trying to setup their BT Vision package, and after much faffing on the phone with BT support, it turns out that BT systems won't allow him to input his existing email address because it has a hyphen in the domain part. Apparently the BT account interface claims hyphen is not a legal/allowed character. We are talking about inputting their existing email address - not about creating a new BT one. BT "kindly" offered to endow him with a free BT email address!
I also found this post, which seems to confirm that BT's systems can't cope with hyphens in email addresses:
And I've also been told of another person who can't login into the wifi on some hotels because they have a hyphen in their email address. They have to use another email without a hyphen. I know BT manage many public paid-for wifi nodes on behalf of hotels etc. - I wonder if that is why this third person can't login into these wifi AP's?
Anybody else stumbled over this?
ZTE Open: This dirt-cheap smartphone is a swing and a miss
"In all seriousness let's see what it's like in 2015."
There might not be any in 2015. I wouldn't have imagined it is easy to convince large electronics companies to keep on ploughing significant investment in a platform - unless you manage to attract and maintain enough initial interest. From what I see in the article - that appears to be doubtful.
Biased but some good points in there
Yes - the constant and repeated comparison with the iPhone, as others have remarked above - is somewhat irrelevant, not fair and tedious after a while. However, I think the article has some point with its criticism (at least in between the lines, if not directly) in that:
1. It is a good number of years since the iPhone and Android have been launched. Even if some Reg readers might think that is is only "fair" for the first Firefox mobiles to have such faults - the rest of the market is unlikely to forgive them when they have plenty of other choices of far better quality for either the same or very similar price. I'm not sure they can *afford* to put out such low level of quality directly to consumers - and burn any potential initial interest they might have (which is little, lets be fair - with all the competition out there).
2. I agree with the concept of cheap of cheerful in general. But I would have preferred they stuck to a limited set of functions and done them well to begin with. Trying to do pretty much everything other smartphones do - and failing pretty badly at even simple stuff (contacts searches, general usability, touch sensitivity etc.) - well, I don't think that's the way to the hearts and minds of whatever niche of consumers they were hoping to woe.
3. To those who say this is "just" version 1.0 - there was a time when version 1.0 meant just that - not "beta". I would have been fine with it if half of the expected functionality was missing completely - but for half of the *present* functionality *not* to work properly or at all - that is a completely different matter.
I personally don't like much either iPhones or Androids - for a combination of technical and philosophical reasons - so some healthy and different competition would have been welcomed. But so far, I am not convinced that Mozilla stand much of a chance if that's how they are trying to impress those few consumers not corralled into the competition's (by now) entrenched camps.
Intel touts 2-in-1s, the 'new' reincarnation of convertibles
Re: 2 in 1
"Suppose for instance the guts of an MBA 11 are placed into the screen section and a detachable keyboard section contains extra battery, extra functions, and the two sum to the same weight as at present. What is lost from the 2 in 1 version compared to the current version? Zero."
I'll tell you exactly what is lost: strength, robustness. Heck - even hinges on normal laptops sometimes give up. Those attach-me-dettach-me latches will give out just past the one year warranty. No thanks - I like my portable machines to be able to cope with being "ported" about.
So WHY does Huawei's enigmatic boss shun the West's spotlight?
"During the privately held corporation's first European media day, held in Stockholm, Watts told reporters that recent reform in China had led to a desire for fewer state-owned enterprises. He was keen to stress that "Huawei, of course, is not a state-owned enterprise"."
Yeah - like that stopped NSA and whoever else sticking their fingers, (allegedly) planting backdoors or slurping data from the systems of the likes of Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook. None of them are "state owned enterprises" either.
Intel reveals 14nm PC, declares Moore's Law 'alive and well'
What's the point of all this?
Yeah - Intel developing great technology and fantastic processors. What's the point of it all - when the marketing departments at both Intel and OEM's manage to screw it all up for us. Five years ago I bought an 11.1" laptop with:
1. 5.5 hours battery life
2. Optical (DVDRW) drive integrated
3. Excellent and loud speakers (for a laptop).
4. Solid chasis
5. 1.4 Kg weight
6. 2 full size usb ports, full size SD card slot, full size VGA slot
7. Removable battery
8. Usable (1300x700) resolution
9. Just about fast enough processor (Intel U2500 at 1.2GHz)
10. Full size ethernet integrated
11. Sane price (£499 reduced at the time)
The above is what I call a highly functional, portable and usable configuration at a decent price point. Five years later, I have been searching incessantly for even a slight upgrade to this laptop - without having to drop key aspects of its functionality. Not a chance:
1. I still use optical drives quite a bit. A BDRE drive would be even better. Not a chance below 12" size (even there they are very rare).
2. Most small laptops/ultrabooks skimp on connectivity like hell. MicroSD instead of full SD (if you are lucky to get anything), no integrated ethernet, mini VGA and/or HDMI (if any).
3. I could have just about managed with a netbook - but they had to screw the resolution on them - keep it at 1024x640 - so nobody can do proper work on them!
4. Atom Z2760 might be really good on power consumption (and pretty much the same as my old processor above) - but it is 32bits only (not a huge deal breaker) and doesn't have virtualization extensions. And has not Linux support. Thanks a lot Intel!
5. Removable batteries - well, they went out the window a while ago. But even worse - they bundle skimpy 2-3 hours batteries with small machines nowadays. Screw the darned thin edges - give me a square blunt edge and bundle a decent 10 hours battery in there - for pete's sake!
6. Intel has some pretty good processors - the "Y" from Ivy Bridge - with excellent power consumption and features. But they are so expensive, that you can only find them in £1000 plus machines. The rest - they are still putting out Sandybridge Celeron's in ultra portables to keep prices down. That's ridiculous.
So yes - keep on inventing cool and fantastic technology - and then make machines good for playing with only. Seven years ago we could buy full featured ultraportable sub-netbooks at 11.1" screens with every imaginable feature and port, excellent processors, optical drives and solid construction - nowadays - back to stoneage. 'Cause none of us need to do work any more - we are all kids and watch cats on Youtube all day long. Great.
Bin half-baked Raspberry Pi hubs, says Pimoroni: Try our upper-crust kit
Re: Insufficient USB power
That still leaves the question if they are capable of providing more than 500mA *per* port to USB 2.0 devices. Just having a decent power supply might not be enough - if they stick to the official USB 2.0 spec - in some cases.
I can't work out so far from reading around if USB 3.0 hubs will offer 0.9A power to all devices connected to them - or only if they are detected as USB 3.0 devices - to keep within the spec?
Insufficient USB power
This has been problem plaguing USB hubs and USB devices far before the Pi arrived. I have a number of computers backing up to portable/bus powered USB hard-disks - and after a few months of use a lot of them start to conk out in the middle of a multi-hour data transfer. The solution for me was a Targus USB 2.0 4 port desktop hub. This particular model (you can find it on Amazon - not sure if allowed to post links to products here) has two out of the 4 ports which provide 1 full Amp of power. This might be outside of the USB spec (500mAh) - but it certainly gets around the problem that some devices (specially bus powered portable hard-drives) need just slightly more power than the spec allows for - specially as they get a bit older and during prolonged data transfer sessions. No more problems for over a 1.5 years now and about 15 usb hard-disks and 4-5 hubs involved.
Brit online property bazaar Zoopla ponders BILLION-pound flotation
50 times the earnings? I'll have whatever they are smoking. One would have thought that after everything that has happened in the last decade and a half with the stock market, people have managed to scrounge some sanity back into their heads. Hmm.
No Choice but Windows 8?
I know this is a rather old post - but in case others are looking for Windows 7 machines as well (and from what I see - there are few of us out there) - it looks like more and more OEM's have decided to offer again Windows 7 pre-installed. Look especially for business machines - as OEM's are allowed to pre-install Windows 7 on Windows 8 Business/Pro machines. A quick look online suggest Fujitsu, HP and Lenovo have a good number of machines for sale with Window 7 Pro.
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Windows 8.1 to freeze out small business apps
Re: Intune IS for smaller businesses
Well - maybe you should choose more carefully the "experts" you hire.
And from what I've seen so far - it doesn't have to be necessarily Doug, the Linux guy. It could very well be Johnny, the Windows guy - who's been clicking buttons all his "professional" life - and has no clue what FAT stands for, or what is the difference between bits and bytes - and is completely lost when things don't work as the manual says they should work.
And big companies can be just as incompetent as little guys. When you don't give a shit about the quality of your product - and spend all your budget on marketing, and pandering to shareholders, instead of making your stuff work - it doesn't matter how big you are. I've lost track of the number of crappy software, hardware or solutions coming out from all corners of the industry. Hell, we get news of hundreds of millions worth of IT contracts failing almost every day - here and everywhere else in the world.
Re: Intune IS for smaller businesses
Well - why do anything by yourself and have control over your hardware/software/systems - when you can trust someone else to do it for you - and rip you off blind in the process?
That is in case you weren't just being sarcastic.
Intel's Avoton Atoms give microservers muscle – and Xeon-class features
"Don't get the wrong idea. Intel doesn't like to have a complicated product line."
Are you sure about that? Is that why they are rehashing and rebranding the hell out of their desktop and laptop processor lines - that is impossible to tell which is what nowadays? Two or three generations of Core i3/i5/i7 on sale at the same time - each of which with at least 5-6 models, revive the old Pentium brand, but this time they are not flagship processors, but previous generation Core processors as Pentium B, resell hell-knows-which processors nowadays as Celeron. It just goes on and on - and all of them on sale at the same time - we are not talking about historical products here.
It gets to the point where nobody knows what a processor can do or how fast it is supposed to be without constantly checking benchmarking websites. Absolutely ridiculous, all in the name of market ultra-segmentation - so that people buy more stuff without having any clue what they are really buying.
PC market hits the ropes, but Lenovo's still standing
Re: Where did people get the idea that only Lenovo offer Win7?
"Dell and HP both offer Win7 Pro on even the most basic models in their Small/Medium Business stores."
Maybe they do - but when I was looking somewhere in the spring online for some Win Pro machines which came pre-installed with Windows 7 - Lenovo was pretty much the first manufacturer that started to ship Win 7 again (if they ever stopped). HP just started doing that with their SME machines recently - and last time I checked Dell in the UK they weren't offering yet Win 7 Pro pre-installed for their retail business machines. So is it a matter of Lenovo listening a bit more closely to their customers - instead of just believing the BS coming from upstream suppliers?
As to "grasping at flimsy straws" regarding Win 8. Yeah well, you keep on listening to the violins on the Titanic deck with the head firmly stuck in the sand. I've nothing against those few people who might like Windows 8 - but it seems pretty clear that the market has spoken and those of us who use computers to do useful stuff - not just to toy about - can't find any sane reason to adopt Windows 8 (except for the fact that it is the "future" - whatever the f**k that means without any rational, supporting argument).
Feds arrest rogue trucker after GPS jamming borks New Jersey airport test
Re: The new battlefield...
Brilliant idea! You go through a tunnel - 10 tonne truck grinds the traffic to a near halt. You go under some dense canopy of trees on a cloudy day - car keeps jumping between normal speed and 25mph. I can see that having no safety implications at all!
MS gets you hooked on Server 2012 Datacenter, jacks up the price for R2
"A similar sized company to the one I work for did a study on the costs of Linux over a ten year period, and it was four times that of a windows based system."
They were either doing it completely wrong, or you are talking through your backside. The Linux small sites I support cost anywhere between a factor of 4 to a factor of 10 less then an MS setup with same functionality at the server end - taking into account initial setup (hardware, software, labour) and long term support costs. But I've only been keeping an eye on them for 5 years now - so maybe your 10 year "study" is more accurate then?
IBM CIO's Great Refresh: No, Sales Guy, you can't JUST use DropBox
Re: I had to re-read the front page of this story
"This is a leading tech company and they are just now moving from XP to Win7?"
Because that's how real world businesses work - always buying the flashy new things because they are bored with the old stuff that's still working. No need to worry about return on investment, no need to be concerned with staff retraining costs, new hardware costs, platform testing and integration costs, internal software re-development costs. None of that. Just go quickly to PC World and buy the new shiny toy - even if the older, duller toy still does the job.
Re: How do I think you're wrong?
"Reviews say W8 is more efficient, quicker starter, etc than W7."
You've already gone wrong there. When did people stop trying stuff for themselves - and start believing any biased sales stuff they read?
Windows desktop VDI
Re: KISS
@Mike Pellatt
I agree. There seems to be a trend right now where people will give up any long term advantages in return for saving a few quick pennies by using cloud services. Yes, cloud services do have advantages. But nobody seems to be thinking twice about the advantage of having your *own* hardware and software in house - with full control over it. Cloud providers seem to be banking exactly on this sort of thinking - and right now they are offering dirt cheap or even free services. What will you do when the market matures and they figure they can ratchet up the prices and squeeze your balls? Or vice-versa - when they decide it is not in *their* interest any more to provide a certain service - which you have become reliant on? Or when a provider goes bust and you can't retrieve your data from the cloud? Or when a provider looses your data and then hides behind the cleverly written license you agreed with - which absolves them of any responsibility. And don't kid yourself - you are not going to get high levels of agreed SLA's out of dirt cheap or free services. How easy (and cheap) will it be to migrate those gigabytes of email away from the cloud if you need to - over a messily ADSL connection? Been there, done it - and wasted good heaps of my life on it. How about all that data stored in some online crm system - which is not compatible with the next system you might have to move to because the provider has become to expensive? How about when the provider decides overnight to upgrade the platform/online software to some newer version which drops features you need, or has some shitty interface - and you don't have any say in it. Yahoo email or Hotmail/Outlook.com is one simple example - where many of my users get driven nuts by the either continuously changing interface in one case, or complete and radical change in the other case, without having any say in it. For good or for worse - with your inhouse server and hardware - you can still run software versions from year dot (with the corresponding risks/maintenance involved) - if that's what you really want/need to do and/or are masochistic/cash strapped enough. With cloud stuff - that decision is not yours anymore. Maybe people should take a longer and harder look at the various implications of buying into cloud services - than just listening to the marking blurb or eying out the money they save in the short term.
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Dr. Richard Schwartzstein is the Ellen and Melvin Gordon Professor of Medicine and Medical Education. Since joining the HMS faculty in 1986, Dr. Schwartzstein has been a member of the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Beth Israel Hospital and now, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). In addition to his clinical work and research on the physiology of dyspnea, Dr. Schwartzstein has devoted a substantial portion of his career to medical education. He is course director for Integrated Human Physiology, one of the core courses in the first year curriculum and has served on multiple committees with oversight of the HMS program of studies. In 2004, he was named the vice president for education at BIDMC, where he created the first hospital-based Center for Education in the Harvard system. Dr. Schwartzstein is also the executive director of the Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education and Research at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The Institute supports the Rabkin Fellowship in Medical Education, sponsors national conferences on key educational topics biannually, provides a range of professional development activities for physicians, and oversees the Shapiro Simulation and Skills Center. Dr. Schwartzstein has a particular interest in the cognitive processes underlying analytical reasoning and the strategies for teaching and assessing critical thinking.
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Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning
Dr. Edward M. Hundert, who will become the next dean for Medical Education at Harvard Medical School in October 2014, has served as the Professor in Residence of Global Health and Social Medicine at HMS, where he was director of the first year course, Medical Ethics and Professionalism, and also taught ethics in the Patient-Doctor III sequence in the third year clerkships. He was named Associate Director of the HMS Center for Bioethics with the establishment of that new center. An HMS alumnus, he is an internationally known academic leader, scholar, educator, psychiatrist, and medical ethicist. Over the past 20 years, he has served as president of Case Western Reserve University, dean of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and associate dean for Student Affairs at Harvard Medical School. He has held professorial appointments in psychiatry, medical ethics, cognitive science, and medical humanities, with a particular focus on developing innovative institutional affiliations and curricula in medical schools and across all levels of higher education.
Dr. Hundert earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics and the history of science and medicine, summa cum laude, from Yale University, where he received Yale's Chittenden Prize "to the graduating senior with highest standing in mathematics or the natural sciences." He attended Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar, receiving the Batterbee Prize from Hertford College for "highest first class honours in philosophy, politics and economics." Four years later he earned the M.D. from Harvard Medical School, receiving the Sanger Prize for "excellence in psychiatric research." He completed his psychiatric residency at McLean Hospital, where he served as chief resident. In addition to many other teaching and mentoring awards, Dr. Hundert has been voted "the faculty member who did the most for the class" by five HMS graduating classes.
Dr. Hundert is a member of the board of TIAA-CREF. He has previously served on the boards of the Association of American Universities, the American Association of Medical Colleges, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He co-chaired the Institute of Medicine's National Summit on Health Professions Education. Dr. Hundert has written dozens of articles and chapters on a variety of topics in psychiatry, philosophy, medical ethics, and medical education, as well as two books: Philosophy, Psychiatry and Neuroscience: Three Approaches to the Mind (Oxford University Press, 1989), and Lessons from an Optical Illusion: On Nature and Nurture, Knowledge and Values (Harvard University Press, 1995).
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Amy M. Sullivan, Ed.D., is Associate Director of Education Research at the Academy, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Director for Medical Education Research at the Shapiro Institute for Education and Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Sullivan is a research psychologist with expertise in research in medical education and psychosocial oncology and palliative care. She currently serves as a member of the leadership committee of the National Academies Collaborative Steering Committee. Dr. Sullivan earned her bachelor's degree in Natural Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University, a master's degree in Counseling Psychology at Rutgers University, a doctorate in Human Development and Psychology at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, and completed a visiting faculty research fellowship at Oxford University. She is co-author, with Carol Gilligan and Jill McLean Taylor, of a book on adolescent girls' development entitled Between Voice and Silence: Women and Girls, Race and Relationship.
Dr. Sullivan has served as a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Dana-Farber Division of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, and was one of the founding faculty members of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine Department of Social and Behavioral Health. Dr. Sullivan teaches both qualitative and quantitative research methods, and conducts research in patient-clinician communication related to care at the end of life. She is currently involved in research related to the curriculum reform efforts at HMS, a study of best practices in teaching critical thinking to medical trainees, and an intervention study to enhance residents' communication with families of patients in the ICU. Dr. Sullivan directs the Academy Fellowship in Medical Education Research, and recently initiated the Academy interest group in Communication, Compassion, and Empathy.
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Lisa Frontado is the Manager of Academy Programs. Lisa manages the development, implementation and evaluation of all Academy Faculty Development Programs, Academy Interest Groups, and Academy Membership. Lisa joined the Academy after having spent nine years at Harvard Graduate School of Education's Project Zero, a think tank which seeks to understand and enhance learning and thinking in the humanistic and scientific disciplines at both the individual and organizational levels. She conducted background research on issues related to thinking, learning and understanding. While at Harvard Graduate School of Education, Lisa was also part of the Learning Innovation Laboratory, a consortium of researchers and practitioners who together considered the challenges of human learning and innovation in organizations focused on scientific development, engineering, national defense, and aviation. Lisa's interests lie in the development of critical thinking skills, reasoning attitudes, problem solving and decision-making in complex environments. Lisa is bilingual in English and Spanish. She holds a BA in International Relations from Mount Holyoke College, an MS in Mass Communications from Boston University's College of Communication and an EdM from Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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Gilianne Jawahir is the Program Coordinator at the Academy. She manages and organizes all Academy professional development programs, for example: Medical Education Day and a variety of workshops and symposiums. She works closely with: The New Tutor Orientation Programming, The Tutor Recognition Program, IRB submissions, and Academy Interest Group Meeting coordination. Gilianne started at the Academy after graduating from Smith College, class of '13. She graduated with a B.A in neuroscience and minor in anthropology. While attending college she worked as an assistant teacher in Harlem, New York where she taught reading and mathematics skills to elementary level students. She also held positions in NYU's Bobst Library and Smith College's Neilson Library. Gilianne' interests lies in both medicine and public health-management. She hopes to get her master's in public health with a focus in hospital administration.
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text: HISTORY OF FLIGHTOn March 13, 2002, about 1940 Pacific standard time (PST), a Beech E90, N948CC, descended into an unoccupied commercial building during an in-flight loss of control, about 1 mile south-southeast of the Reno/Tahoe International Airport, Reno, Nevada. Pilot Services Corporation, d.b.a. Regent Air Service, Inc., Truckee, California, operated the airplane. The accident occurred during a nighttime instrument approach in instrument meteorological conditions. The airline transport certificated pilot and four passengers sustained minor injuries, and a fifth passenger sustained a serious injury. The airplane was destroyed. The flight was operated under the provisions of 14 CFR Part 135 as an on-demand air taxi flight, which departed from Durango, Colorado, about 1625 mountain standard time (1525 PST).Earlier in the day, about 0518 PST, the pilot and passengers had departed from the Truckee-Tahoe Airport, Truckee, California, for the planned round trip flight to Durango. The pilot landed in Durango about 0850 mountain standard time (0750 PST). The pilot reported to National Transportation Safety Board investigators that thereafter, he ate lunch and retired at the prearranged crew-rest hotel. The pilot further indicated that the airplane was refueled, and he did not observe any discrepancies with the airplane during his preflight inspection for the planned nonstop return flight. According to the pilot, the flight was uneventful until he attempted to land at the Truckee-Tahoe Airport, his home base. At 1905 PST, the pilot received a clearance to perform an instrument approach to the Truckee-Tahoe Airport. Prior to commencement of the approach, the pilot activated the airplane's anti-ice systems, and they remained on throughout the remainder of the flight. The pilot activated the pneumatic wing deice boots prior to reaching the final approach fix. The pilot indicated that he initiated the approach but could not land because of his inadequate visibility; it was snowing. The pilot executed a missed approach at 1919. Thereafter, he requested and received a clearance with radar vectors to proceed to the Reno/Tahoe International Airport. The pilot further reported that snow showers also existed at Reno, and on only one occasion did he activate the deice boots during the approach. That occurred while on a vector to intercept the localizer, distance measuring equipment (DME), back course instrument approach to runway 34L. The pilot stated that he never observed an appreciable amount of ice on the leading edge of the wing, but he felt that there was enough to activate the boots. The pilot stated that when he activated the boots, "a little (ice) came off." He could see ice on the side of the wing's stall strip. There was some thin ice on the boot, but it did not extend beyond the boot.At 1925:27, the pilot was cleared to perform the instrument approach. During the Safety Board investigator's subsequent interview with the pilot, he indicated that it was his belief that, upon reaching the final approach fix, the airport's reported weather was at or above his landing minimums. At 1936:44, the pilot made his last recorded radio transmission during which he acknowledged being cleared to land.The pilot stated that everything on the approach was normal outside of the 2-mile DME fix. However, control of the airplane became difficult inside the 2-mile DME fix. The pilot further reported to Safety Board investigators that the airplane's approach was initially stabilized upon reaching the minimum descent altitude (MDA). At the MDA, he increased engine torque (power) to 800 foot-pounds per engine in order to maintain altitude. According to the pilot, a torque value between 700 and 900 foot-pounds is normal. The pilot indicated that some ice was visible on the wing's leading edge stall strip, but opined it was "way less than 1/4-inch" in depth. He stated that the ice did not extend beyond the aft portion of the wing's deicing boot. According to the pilot, during the final seconds of flight, the controls started vibrating and he felt a yawing moment. The pilot said that he instantly looked at the indicated airspeed, which was between 111 and 115 knots. Thereafter, the airplane started to shake. Previously, the airplane had been flying at 140 knots, the recommended approach speed for icing conditions. The pilot said that he applied full engine power; however, the airplane still shook and yawed. He recalled that the rudder pedals appeared to move freely. Although the vibration varied in intensity, once it started it never stopped.The pilot further reported that he pitched forward on the yoke, and he did not believe the airplane was stalling because the indicated airspeed was still near the "blue line." The pilot reported that he felt the airplane sink. While the airplane was sinking he noticed that the stall warning light was illuminated, and he attempted to stop the airplane's descent. He did not "yank back or push forward" on the yoke; he just maintained a level attitude. The pilot looked outside and saw buildings "coming up." The engine power was full, but the airplane was not climbing. The pilot reported thinking that he was going to hit the building and that he had to reduce the impact. Therefore, he pulled the yoke full back. The left wing stalled, and the airplane banked left. The pilot stated that there might have been ice on the tail because the tail "felt really weird." He said "something made the airplane go down when it shouldn't have." The airplane's last recorded radar position was at 1939:53. At this time, the airplane had descended to about 4,500 feet, as indicated by its Mode C altitude reporting transponder. The accident site's elevation is approximately 4,470 feet msl.PERSONNEL INFORMATIONCertification and Experience.The pilot held an airline transport pilot certificate with an airplane multiengine land rating. He had commercial privileges in single engine land and sea airplanes. The pilot also possessed a certified flight instructor certificate with airplane single engine, multiengine, and instrument airplane privileges. He possessed advanced ground school instructor and aircraft dispatcher certificates. The pilot's last first-class aviation medical certificate was issued without limitations on May 14, 2001. The pilot's total flight time was 1,610 hours, of which 608 hours were flown in the model of the accident airplane. During the 30- and 90-day periods preceding the accident, the pilot had flown the accident model of airplane as pilot-in-command for 40 and 105 hours, respectively, of which 8 and 22 hours were in actual instrument meteorological conditions.Regent Air, Inc., hired the pilot in August 2000. In July 2001, he began flying the Beech E90 as pilot-in-command. The pilot's last FAR Part 135 competency, instrument proficiency, and line checks were performed by a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) inspector in February 2002. All of the checks were completed satisfactorily. AIRPLANE INFORMATIONThe Beech Aircraft Company began manufacturing the model E90 series of airplanes in 1972, with serial number LW-1. The accident airplane, serial number LW-236, was manufactured in 1977. Beech discontinued production of this model of airplane in 1981, with serial number LW-347. According to the Raytheon Aircraft Company participant, the interior configurations of these airplanes varied. As of April 2, 2002, FAA registration records indicated that 247 E90s were registered.Flight Manual and Check List Information.The FAA approved Airplane Flight Manual (AFM) contained the following statements regarding flight in icing conditions:"CAUTION Stalling airspeeds should be expected to increase when ice has accumulated on the airplane due to the distortion of the wing airfoil. For the same reason, stall warning devices are not accurate and should not be relied upon. Keep a comfortable margin of airspeed above the normal stall airspeed with ice on the airplane. Maintain a minimum of 140 knots during sustained icing conditions to prevent ice accumulation on unprotected surfaces of the wing...."A 6-inch by 12-inch spiral binder entitled "Beechcraft King Air E90 PILOT'S CHECK LIST" was recovered from the accident airplane. The binder's cover was imprinted with the name "Raytheon Aircraft Company," and all of the pages within were printed with "P/N 90-590012-7," and were dated "5/8/72." In part, the checklist identified actions the pilot should take in preparation for departure. Checking the functionality of the deice boots on the tail after the engines are started was not mentioned in the checklist. Airplane Certification, Equipment, and Instrument Markings.The pressurized, turboprop airplane was certificated by the FAA for flight into known icing conditions. The airplane was equipped with deice boots on its wings, and on the vertical and horizontal stabilizers. Unlike the wing mounted boots, from the cockpit the pilot cannot see all of the boots on the tail. The airplane is not equipped with an annunciator light or indicator gauge that shows the functionality of the tail-mounted boots. The airplane had been modified by installation of a Raisbeck Engineering conversion, and its AFM had been amended. The airplane's maximum gross weight was increased to 10,500 from its previous 10,100 pounds. According to Raisbeck personnel, the modification did not change the airplane's stall speed. Regarding the airspeed indicator, a blue radial line is present on the airspeed indicator. The line represents the best rate-of-climb airspeed (Vyse) with one engine inoperative. The placarded airspeed is 111 knots.Maintenance and Inspections.The pilot reported that, to the best of his knowledge, during the accident flight none of the installed equipment became dysfunctional. Moreover, no maintenance items had been deferred pursuant to a minimum equipment list. The pilot personally performed the pretakeoff, walk-around inspection of the airplane. The accident airplane had been on Regent Air's Part 135 certificate since July 1994. Regent Air's personnel reportedly maintained the accident airplane pursuant to the manufacturer's (Raytheon) recommended maintenance program. Maintenance inspections were reportedly accomplished in accordance with Raytheon Aircraft's Beech King Air 90 Maintenance Manual.This inspection program utilizes "Phase Inspections" and is accomplished at 200-hour intervals, identified as Phase 1 through 4. The complete program is scheduled to be accomplished at least one time every 24 calendar months. Each Phase Inspection is accomplished using a checklist. The Safety Board's Maintenance Group Chairman reviewed the checklists to identify the frequency of inspections to the environmental and pneumatic systems. The review noted that all four Phase Inspections checked the heating system. In part, the inspection included actions to check all ducts for damage and deterioration and to check the bleed ducts for damage. During all four inspections, the surface deice system was to be checked for proper operation and cycling, and the environmental system was to be checked for proper operation.The last Phase Inspection accomplished on the airplane prior to the accident was a Phase 4 Inspection. It was accomplished on February 28, 2002. At that time, the airplane's total time was 8,748.7 hours. At the time of the accident, the airplane's total time was 8,772.75 hours. A review of Regent Air's maintenance records revealed that between 1999 and 2001, the environmental air and pneumatic deice system had undergone maintenance. In part, in January 1999, tubing was replaced. In December 2000, new boots were installed. In 2001, holes in the vertical stabilizer were repaired, the cabin temperature controller was replaced, and static air pneumatic tubing located near the aft lavatory, which was found melted, was repaired. In September 2001, a Regent Air mechanic reported that he found melted EVA tubing near the aft pressure bulkhead. The mechanic determined that a leak was coming from a gasket at the rear of the cargo compartment, which supplies heat to the cabin (referring to the Station 277 heat vent). To stop the leak, the mechanic removed the vent cover and wrapped some aluminum tape around the gasket to seal the leak, and then he replaced the vent cover. The mechanic reported that it was not a normal practice to check the environmental tubing itself, which was wrapped inside of insulation material. Therefore, he did not check the environmental tubing during installation of the aluminum tape. He also stated that he only removed the aft floor panel to gain access to the vent. He did not remove the panel immediately forward of that location. (See the Safety Board's Maintenance Records Group Chairman's report for additional details.)METEOROLOGICAL INFORMATIONGround Personnel and Facility Reports.Nineteen minutes prior to the accident, at 1921, Reno fire department personnel had responded to a medical call about 3/4 mile southwest from where the accident would occur. The personnel noted that it was snowing lightly. However, by 1931, it was snowing heavily, the wind speed had increased, and the conditions appeared like a "squall blowing into the area with whiteout conditions." At 1930, Reno's automatic terminal information service (ATIS) was broadcasting "information Oscar." In pertinent part, the ATIS indicated that Reno's wind was from 290 degrees at 15 knots, and the visibility was 1 1/4 miles in light snow and mist. At 1932:30, the Reno south radar controller broadcast "Reno ATIS Oscar current." The controller advised the pilot, at 1933:16, that "...the last arrival seven twenty seven got the runway in sight mile and a half (unintelligible) south." The pilot was not provided with updated visibility information during the remainder of his approach. At 1939, the Reno/Tahoe International Airport's surface wind was from 300 degrees at 10 knots, and the visibility was 1/2 mile. There was moderate snow and freezing fog. A broken ceiling existed at 700 feet above ground level (agl), and an overcast sky condition existed at 2,500 feet agl. The temperature and dew points were, respectively, minus 2 and minus 3 degrees Celsius. The altimeter setting was 30.04 inches of mercury. After the accident, at 1956, Reno's visibility was also 1/2 mile in moderate snow and freezing fog. The vertical visibility was reported at 300 feet.Pilot Observations.According to the pilot, the first and only time he activated the deice boots going into Reno was on a radar vector to intersect the back course. This occurred less than 5 minutes before intercepting the back course. He activated the boots to get rid of the "residual" ice. Ice did deploy from the airplane. The pilot stated that he had also activated the deicing boots prior to the approach at Truckee. Additional Ground Witness Observations.There were five auditory witnesses to the accident. They all were located in the building next to the one with which the airplane collided. Upon hearing the collision they went outside and made the following statements regarding the weather conditions that they observed. One witness reported that the weather was a complete whiteout. It was snowing hard, and the visibility was zero. A second witness also reported it was snowing heavily and described it as a whiteout. He reported that he could see "quite a ways down the street," but visibility was poor looking up. He described the snow as being heavy and wet. A third witness also reported a storm had just come in and it was snowing heavily. He described it as a "wet, packed snow." Visibility was terrible, maybe about 40 feet. A fourth witness stated that it was snowing heavily and the snow was sticking. He could hardly see across the street. He estimated visibility at 100 yards. A fifth witness said she could not see across the street. The snow was not really wet and not really dry, but was sticking. Airplane Passenger Observations.The five airplane passengers reported the following information. Three of the passengers reported that it was snowing on the approach to Reno. One of these passengers recalled seeing ice fly off the wing between Truckee and Reno. A fourth passenger indicated that he held a student pilot certificate. He stated that during the approach to Reno it was snowing hard. Snow and ice was forming on the wing. He described the ice as being about 1-inch high on the wing deice boot, but it did not cover the whole boot. The fifth passenger, who held a private pilot certificate, reported that the airplane was flying just below clouds for about the last 2 miles of its flight. Approaching Reno there was 1 1/2- to 2-inches (vertically) of ice on the wing's leading edge. There was ice on the wing that was maybe 1/4-inch thick. He had observed ice coming off the wing earlier while approaching Reno, but about the same amount of ice had accumulated on the wing again. It was snowing, but the turbulence was minimal to nonexistent. He said the airplane shuddered, and he was absolutely certain the airplane stalled. COMMUNICATION AND FACILITIES The FAA reported that all communications with the accident airplane pilot were normal. All navigation aids associated with the instrument approach to Reno were functioning normally.AIRPORT AND INSTRUMENT APPROACH INFORMATIONThe airport's elevation is 4,412 feet mean sea level (msl). Runway 34L's touchdown zone's elevation is 4,407 feet msl. The minimum descent altitude for the localizer, DME, back course, instrument approach to runway 34L is 5,060 feet msl (653 feet agl). During the accident flight, the straight-in landing minimum visibility requirement for the pilot was 1 mile.The final approach fix is located at an indicated DME distance of 9.7 nautical miles (nm) from Reno. The missed approach point is located at a DME distance of 0.5 nm from Reno, which is about 0.8 nm from the approach end of the runway. WRECKAGE AND IMPACT INFORMATIONThe main wreckage was imbedded in the top of a commercial building at an estimated elevation of 4,470 feet msl at the following global positioning satellite (GPS) coordinates: north 39 degrees 28.22 minutes latitude by west 119 degrees 46.11 minutes longitude. The magnetic bearing to runway 34L was about 343 degrees. The accident site was about 0.96 nm south-southeast of the runway's displaced threshold and an estimated 200 feet east of the runway's extended centerline. The Safety Board investigator's examination of the initial point of impact revealed white paint transfer signatures and impact damage in the block wall structure of a rectangular shaped two-story building, on its southeast side. The angle of the paint signature was measured to be about 70 degrees. (A 90-degree angle would be perpendicular to the horizon.) The airplane's separated white-colored left wing was beneath the wall outside the building near the separated left horizontal stabilizer. The left wing's leading edge was crushed in an aft direction, consistent with the shape of the block wall. The remainder of the airplane was partially penetrating the building's roof. The airplane was in an estimated 70-degree left wing low (left bank) attitude, and on a magnetic heading of approximately 315 degrees. The fuselage, which remained intact, was suspended from building structure at the mezzanine level. The left engine was found attached to the inboard wing structure principally by cables and skin. The right engine separated from the airframe and was inside the building at ground level. It had come to rest in the northwest corner of the building. The nose cone area of the fuselage was crushed in an aft direction. Responding fire department personnel reported noting a strong odor of fuel in the vicinity of the main wreckage and at ground level inside the building. The left wing's fuel tank was crushed, and no fuel was noted. During the recovery procedure, fuel was draining from the impact-damaged right wing and it pooled beneath the wreckage. The propeller assemblies were attached to the engines.Fire department and contract structural engineers reported to the Safety Board investigator that the building's integrity had been compromised due to the impact. After the building's walls were reinforced to preclude collapse and roof sections removed, the wreckage was hoisted vertically out of the building. Thereafter, Safety Board investigative personnel examined it.MEDICAL AND PATHOLOGICAL INFORMATIONThe pilot reported that he does not take any prescription or non-prescription drugs and that he does not smoke. He stated that there have been no significant changes in his health during the past year. TESTS AND RESEARCHAirframe Structure and Control Examination.The airplane was initially examined on scene immediately following its extrication from the building. Thereafter, it was transported to a recovery facility where a detailed structural examination was performed. In summary, all flight control surfaces were found in the vicinity of the main wreckage. With the exception of the separated left wing and left horizontal stabilizer, all flight controls were attached to their respective hinges. No evidence was found of any preimpact control system anomalies. The continuity of the flight control system was confirmed. The wing flap jackscrews were examined and were found in positions corresponding to fully retracted flaps, according to the Raytheon (Beech Aircraft) participant. The rudder trim was in a neutral position.Propeller Examination.The propeller blades were observed attached to their hub assemblies, which were attached to the propeller shaft flanges and engines. The propeller blades were torsionally twisted, leading edge gouged, and scratched in a chordwise direction. Additionally, they exhibited an "S" bend and several tips were broken. Engine Examination.The Pratt & Whitney engine participant reported that its records indicated the engines installed on the accident airplane were original to the airframe. There was no history of sudden stoppage, accidents, or incidents.The engines' fuel controls were set to the maximum power position. The air inlet screens were covered with building-related debris, the compressors ingested building-related debris, and debris exited the bleed valve assemblies. Also, the exhaust ducts were twisted and wrinkled in a manner consistent with absorption of high, propeller blade-like rotational energy. Following the Safety Board investigator's supervised examination, the participant opined the evidence indicated that "both engines had been commanded to maximum power via cockpit and engine control settings, and at the time of impact both engines were running and producing power."Avionics Examination.The pilot reported to Safety Board investigators that the airplane's IFR certified GPS receiver had been turned on prior to his initiation of the instrument approach into Reno. During the accident investigation, the receiver was removed from the airplane's instrument panel and sent to Northstar Technologies, Action, Massachusetts, for examination under FAA supervision. In summary, the receiver had a current Jeppesen Flight Card installed. The receiver was approved by the FAA for IFR usage. It was in the "approach enabled" operating mode. No "breadcrumb" flight track history was incorporated in the software. The receiver updates its recorded position at 1-second intervals. About the time the receiver lost electrical power, its last known position (LKP) was automatically recorded. The coordinates of this position were north 39 degrees 28.21 minutes latitude by west 119 degrees 46.12 minutes longitude. Pneumatic System Examination and Deice Boots.With the exception of the majority of the left wing's destroyed deice boot and the totally destroyed left horizontal stabilizer's deice boot, all of the boots were tested to ascertain their ability to pressurize utilizing an external air supply source. The air supply was initially directed into the airplane's pneumatic air supply lines at attachment points next to the inboard portion of each respective boot assembly at the wing roots, and from the rear side of the aft pressure bulkhead. Using pressurized air at these locations, all of the testable boots inflated. However, further examination showed that air could not reach the tail boots when it was pumped into the pneumatic system from a location upstream of the boots. In one area of the airplane, a blockage was noted to the pneumatic air supply line during its integrity examination. The blockage was near the bottom of the right side aft fuselage, near Station 277. At Station 277, a heat register is located just forward of the aft lavatory. In this area the "1010 EVA 5/8 Imperial" tubing that supplies pneumatic pressure to the empennage deice boots runs parallel to and approximately 2 inches away from the heat ducting. This tubing collapsed and appeared melted, from approximately 11 inches aft of Station 277 to approximately 9 inches forward of Station 277. After finding the blockage in the pneumatic line, the adjacent environmental heat ducting was examined. This environmental heat ducting, which supplies hot air to the cabin, runs the length of the right side fuselage under the floorboards from the cockpit to the Station 277 heat register. The right side floorboard panels were removed to provide complete access to the entire hot air system. This system incorporates plastic tubular ducting, which varies in size and shape throughout the length of the fuselage, and is completely covered with insulation material. To test for leakage, smoke was blown into the ducting utilizing a smoke generator. Smoke was applied into the insulated plastic ducting at the floor outlet that was located aft of the first officer's seat. When smoke was applied, smoke leakage was observed at various locations along the plastic ducting including the ducting vent by Station 277, near the blocked pneumatic line. The insulation material was then removed in the areas of the leakage to expose the tubing. Several locations of the tubing had suffered severe heat distress, showing evidence of collapse and of a splitting along a seam line. The heat distress was more severe in the section of the ducting where the tubing necked down to the smaller diameter necessary to connect to the floor outlets. (See the Safety Board Maintenance Group Chairman's Factual Report for additional information.) In summary, the examination revealed that the pneumatic line that routes deice boot air, in the vicinity of the aft lavatory, had been melted and was completely collapsed in one area (see photographs). The collapse and blockage to this pneumatic line in this area precluded the deice boots on all tail surfaces from inflating during the post impact examination when the pressurized air source was connected to the pneumatic line from a location forward of the aft pressure bulkhead. Maintenance History and Records.A review of the operator's maintenance records revealed that there were no outstanding airworthiness directives or service bulletins on the airplane. The pilot verbally reported that there were no outstanding squawks when he departed from Truckee or Durango. In addition, the pilot stated that no malfunctions were experienced during the accident flight. At no time during the flight was there evidence of smoke in the cabin or the odor of burning material. Also, the cabin's ambient air temperature and pressure had been normal.Preflight Inspection Procedure.Notwithstanding maintenance procedures, in order to inflate the deice boots to perform a functionality check, a pilot is required to have an engine operating. Most of the tail-mounted boots cannot be seen from inside the cockpit. According to Regent Air's chief pilot, it is a typical procedure to check the tail deice boots during the daytime. However, they are not typically checked during nighttime operations, nor are they checked before every flight. Radar and Performance Study.The Safety Board's Washington, D.C., Office of Research and Engineering, Vehicle Performance Division, performed a study of FAA recorded radar data and analyzed the airplane's performance characteristics. The data was processed and calculations for airplane heading (yaw), pitch, roll, angle of attack, air speed, ground speed, and climb/descent rates were calculated and plotted. Profile and plan view displays were produced showing the flight altitude profile in line with the final approach course, and the ground track in reference to the accident site as well as orientation to the runway for the final portion of the flight. In pertinent part, the data showed that the airplane was flying at a level altitude of 9,000 feet msl between 1935 and 1936, as the pilot was making his final turn toward the runway's final approach course. Between these times, the airplane's estimated calibrated airspeed (CAS) was between 160 and 175 knots. About 1936, the airplane started experiencing significant yawing motions, of up to 20 and 30 degrees to the left and right, and the airplane's estimated descent rate began to vary between 1,100 and 1,500 feet per minute (fpm). Also about this time, the airplane's estimated bank angle began to vary between 17 degrees to the right and 10 degrees to the left. Between 1936:30 and 1940:00, the airplane's estimated pitch attitude and angle of attack varied slightly being about -3 degrees and 0 degrees, respectively, until about 1938:00. At nearly 1940:00, the airplane's estimated pitch attitude and angle of attack had increased to about 8 and 14 degrees, respectively. About 1938:30, the airplane's estimated CAS had decreased below the recommended minimum approach speed of 140 knots for icing conditions. About this time, the airplane was approximately 3 1/2 miles from the runway. The airplane's estimated CAS continued to decrease rapidly to about 75 knots just prior to 1940:00, which is the estimated time of impact. (See the Safety Board's specialist report for additional information and for constraints of the data used in the study.) ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONOn May 6, 2003, the Raytheon Aircraft Company's participant advised the Safety Board investigator that, in response to previous communications with the investigator, Raytheon had begun revising its Model 90 King Air series Pilot's Operating Handbooks and Pilot's Operating Manuals to include the following (checklist) statement: "Check both wing and both horizontal stabilizer boots visually, if possible, for inflation and vacuum hold down." The airplane wreckage was released to the operator's insurance company representative on July 31, 2002.


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Today, it's hard to find a state that's a laboratory for anything other than retrenchment. From one statehouse to the next, the record of the past four years runs the center-right gamut from welfare cutbacks to prison construction, although some states - not ours - have also greatly expanded education funding.
The most obvious reason for the retrenchment is the '94 electoral blowout, which left the Republicans in control of 32 governors' offices, while the Democrats govern in just 17. Every one of the 10 largest states except Florida and North Carolina is in Republican hands, and the Republicans are widely expected to pick up Florida in the election three weeks hence. For their part, the Democrats are expected to lose even more states in the pending contest. The one silver lining, the only big state where they're expected to pick up a statehouse, is California - provided Gray Davis can hang on to his lead over Dan Lungren.
But California would be huge. Pundits frequently note that if the Democrats can maintain their hold on the Legislature through the election of 2000, and have Davis in the governor's chair, they can dominate the decennial reapportionment here, transferring 10 or more congressional seats from the GOP to the Dems, and with them, just possibly the control of the House of Representatives. But this gives short shrift to the greater significance of a Davis victory.
For in creating the only major government in America with Democratic control over both the legislative and executive branches, California voters would also be creating a government that could be open to progressive initiatives. The conditional mood is required here: No government of either party is going to reverse the law-'n'-order criminology of the past two decades. No Democratic administration is going to be anything other than solicitous to the corporate sector, so long as capital is mobile and politics dominated by big money.
And yet - a Davis administration working in tandem with a Legislature headed by John Burton and Antonio Villaraigosa (the two leftmost legislative leaders in California history) would certainly create a moment of progressive opportunity. Davis himself may be no great progressive, but his election would nonetheless alter the political climate. For the first time in 16 years, liberal Democratic legislators could actually propose reforms that stood a decent chance of enactment: Assemblywoman Sheila Kuehl could draft sex-equity legislation; Senator Tom Hayden could push for greater environmental protections. For the first time in 16 years, California's progressive movements and think tanks could stop playing defense and actually advocate policy solutions of their own.
So could political columnists at weekly newspapers. Herewith, the Meyerson plan for our next governor:
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In the good old days of the New Deal Order, California was a bastion not only of economic opportunity but of relative economic equality. A highly unionized and industrialized state, with the first master plan opening higher education to all its high school graduates, California in the years of the postwar prosperity was a place where the benefits of the boom were felt across the socioeconomic spectrum.
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And it's not just wages and incomes that have been declining. Because so many Californians work for small businesses, in low-paying jobs, in poorly capitalized industries, the number of Californians with on-the-job benefits has been in free fall, too. Nationally, the percentage of residents covered by job-based health insurance is 66.1; in California, it's 56.9. Which is the main reason why the L.A. County health system is chronically on the brink of collapse.
Progressive policy wonks offer a range of discrete solutions to this complex of problems. The most basic is to raise the state minimum wage - and not just raise it, but index it to the cost of living. The arguments of the laissez-faire right to the contrary, the state and federal minimum-wage hikes of 1996 did nothing to deter job creation, which boomed even as wages for California's most low-paid workers increased.


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