Ah, we're back.

It appears things haven't been going well at Berkeley.
Apparently they went to do a test of their data center power backup system, but the generator test failed. When they went to go back to the utility supply, that didn't work either. So the data centre went down in a screaming heap as the short term battery backups gave out one by one..., and it took a while to get thinks back up again once they got the power restored.

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Grant
Darwin NT

I guess I must have missed something. Didn’t notice a thing.

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Has anyone else noticed that since the last outage, posting to the forums it takes forever before the post goes through?
Submitting an edit to a post, straight away. But a new post- feels like forever (except of course this very post about the delay when posting...).

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Grant
Darwin NT

Actually even before that outage there were times when posting was slow, but it seems to be getting worse.

Cheers.

Just saw a opinion poll about who will win the super bowl on YouTube. Lol. Results so far.
Chiefs 14%
49ers 18%
Advertisers 12%
C.I.A. 56%

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No mention of the bookies (or whatever the US equivalent is).

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

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Grant
Darwin NT

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Grant
Darwin NT

Well that's something that you don't usually see.

Canberra residents wake to find hot air balloon in their backyard.


Cheers.

If you really want to get lost in the Aussie wilds just use Google maps.

Google Maps error forces lost tourists to walk 60km from bogged car in Cape York.

It's guaranteed to get you off the beaten track by miles.

Buy a proper current road map people, they're not that hard to use. ;-)

Cheers.

It's guaranteed to get you off the beaten track by miles.

Sounds no different than people getting lost in the Western remote parts of the US relying on Google or Apple maps on their dumb smart phones... Just do a WWW search - maybe not use Google for search.

Set route preference:
shortest route NO
avoid tolls NO
shortest time YES

That normally prevents those back roads.

But people forget they have choices

And far too many of the younger generation don't know what a proper up to date road map is either which would keep them on the beaten track instead of off it.

Reading a proper map isn't that hard.

Cheers.

And far too many of the younger generation don't know what a proper up to date road map is either which would keep them on the beaten track instead of off it.

Reading a proper map isn't that hard.

And paying more attention to the road signs than the map on your phone. Most of those more remote roads will often have signs such as "No fuel for next 500km," "Very rough surface" or even "Unmaintained road." It's generally a good hint you don't want to go there if you haven't actually thoroughly researched it beforehand.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Reading and understanding a road map isn't on the driving test...

The SatNav is considered to be Always Correct...

Hence, people do not even learn what a map is...


And people get lost...

Keep searchin'!
Martin

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Rented a car in Western Australia, a German one. A three day trip far to the south. The built-in car navigation (standard setting) constantly tried to leave the highway in order to take extensive shortcuts on unpaved roads through the bush. I didn't found a setting to prevent it. The map base apparently knows neither the road conditions nor the expected travel times for Australia. It was pure routing based on path length. After starting navigation, each time it displays a map of Europe for quite a while until remembering: uuh... Australia. Almost useless. I didn't trust its routing, but rather roughly looked at a road map: which road or highway, where to turn...

We tourists from Europe are used to drive blindly according to navigation recommendations, whether with built navigation, or with Apple or Google Maps. There is always a paved, easy-to-drive road (in Central Europe) and an intersection few kilometers ahead to change directions. Why worry about road maps?

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You must remember that children in this age are not taught the same “lost” skills. Take away all the electronic gadgets and they think they were sent to the Stone Age.

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You must remember that children in this age are not taught the same “lost” skills. Take away all the electronic gadgets and they think they were sent to the Stone Age.

Absolutely correct! I see this to an extent with my grand Nieces and Nephews ranging in age from 10 to just a smidge over 13 years.

The cellphone is practically fused to the left hand in the preteen age ones at all times, even when eating. The two that are 13 at least can function with out the cellphone always being in their hand and are heavy into playing sports as a "hobby" several days a week and on most weekends. All of them are at least B+/A- honors students in school.

At least I tried to teach my kids those skills that I learnt and hopefully some of those will get passed on again, but you have to be willing to take the time to do that, though sadly more parents these days are more worried about themselves than their kids it seems to take that time for them (out of sight and quiet, out of mind and no worries for them).

Personally I reckon that the standard of parenting here started really going downhill in the '90's when people stopped giving a hoot about anything unless it made things easier for them.

And some wonder why we need immigrants to do the hands on labourious jobs these days here and in many other countries as well.

Crikey I held down very physical 3 jobs a week as a teenager until I went into my trade, how many would do that these days? But I did learn plenty of skills that have served me well over the decades since. It's just a shame that I went bus driving instead of back into the building game that I started in before being a machinist bookbinder (if only I'd known that that trade was on the road to extinction back then).