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Forum: Computer/Internet Issues & Troubleshooting
6th Aug 2023, 20:14
Replies: 10
Views: 1,267
Posted By aerobelly

I too have an Acer Inspire less than a year old...

I too have an Acer Inspire less than a year old with similar spec. I junked Winblows and it is now on Linux Mint 20.2 -- no problems with the original installation of Mint 20.0 nor the successive...
Forum: Military Aviation
24th Apr 2023, 20:49
Replies: 141
Views: 26,517
Posted By aerobelly

A friend of mine long ago was a...

A friend of mine long ago was a co-driver/navigator for the BMC works rally team of the 1960s/early '70s. I would have accepted her advice as a "directional consultant" at any time. She could drive...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
8th Mar 2023, 17:28
Replies: 197
Views: 30,192
Posted By aerobelly

I used to travel with a screwdriver or two, small...

I used to travel with a screwdriver or two, small pliers/wire cutter and even a scalpel with its blades in a separate foil pack. Was never asked about any of it. My job was sorting out software...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
28th Dec 2022, 18:16
Replies: 19
Views: 2,139
Posted By aerobelly

Perhaps you have the wrong sort of friends.....

Perhaps you have the wrong sort of friends.....
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
28th Oct 2022, 19:23
Replies: 19
Views: 1,761
Posted By aerobelly

Air Canada's DC8s had smoking on LHS, non- on...

Air Canada's DC8s had smoking on LHS, non- on RHS. Great for non-smokers on a Trans-atlantic flight. To top it off there was first a 4 hour wait on the concrete at Heathrow on a hot day in August...
Forum: Computer/Internet Issues & Troubleshooting
26th Oct 2021, 18:17
Replies: 8
Views: 3,334
Posted By aerobelly

Vi has won the tussle! (I used emacs before vi at...

Vi has won the tussle! (I used emacs before vi at the beginning of the '80s and was happy to switch.)

If the file was in EBCDIC I don't think Notepad would find anything but garbage, it's very...
Forum: Computer/Internet Issues & Troubleshooting
25th Oct 2021, 17:34
Replies: 8
Views: 3,334
Posted By aerobelly

This outfit claim to able to read them - Sublime...

This outfit claim to able to read them - Sublime Text (https://www.file-extensions.org/sublime-text-file-extensions#desc) If they want money for a copy to run on your OS and it's not worth it for...
Forum: Spectators Balcony (Spotters Corner)
18th Sep 2021, 19:43
Replies: 4,470
Views: 644,880
Posted By aerobelly

Noticed on FR24, looked up and clocked an Avro...

Noticed on FR24, looked up and clocked an Avro Anson just about to pass overhead. Out of Rougham, on its way to Duxford for the BoB Day show I expect.
Forum: Military Aviation
20th Aug 2021, 16:43
Replies: 10
Views: 3,294
Posted By aerobelly

Thank you radar101 for looking up these details,...

Thank you radar101 for looking up these details, much more than I have ever known about Pat Waters. I hope Buster11 gets equal success in the search.

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Forum: Military Aviation
19th Aug 2021, 20:12
Replies: 10
Views: 3,294
Posted By aerobelly

# Very useful, thank you. To put a bit...

#
Very useful, thank you.

To put a bit more flesh on the bones, Col. Waters was invited to see the Zeppelin works at Friedrichshafen and of course took his young son, and my grandmother to look...
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Aug 2021, 17:47
Replies: 10
Views: 3,294
Posted By aerobelly

Thank you so much for that pointer! I was able to...

Thank you so much for that pointer! I was able to find the fate of a young man that my grandmother was nanny to while his father served as British Military Attaché in Berlin in circa 1900-03. Died...
Forum: Military Aviation
24th Jan 2020, 22:20
Replies: 71
Views: 21,832
Posted By aerobelly

Possibly in someone else's legal terms, but...

Possibly in someone else's legal terms, but Marshalls did put on a superb airshow for their own airfield and over half the city of Cambridge for their 100th anniversary. Right over their hangers,...
Forum: Rumours & News
12th Jan 2020, 19:18
Replies: 685
Views: 1,737,894
Posted By aerobelly

Also consider change in circumstances on the...

Also consider change in circumstances on the ground, a shift change perhaps? Earlier crew heads for prayers or food and new crew not briefed adequately.

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Forum: Rumours & News
11th Jan 2020, 19:32
Replies: 685
Views: 1,737,894
Posted By aerobelly

gums, SAMXXV's post is #402 in this topic....

gums,

SAMXXV's post is #402 in this topic. direct link here:

https://www.pprune.org/10659991-post402.html

'a
Forum: Rumours & News
5th Aug 2019, 18:27
Replies: 104
Views: 87,257
Posted By aerobelly

Sometime between 1977 and 1983 Car & Driver...

Sometime between 1977 and 1983 Car & Driver magazine (USA) published an article in which its staff took their favourite tipple to a test of how drink affected their driving. Various tasks driving...
Forum: Computer/Internet Issues & Troubleshooting
2nd Aug 2019, 19:02
Replies: 30
Views: 7,501
Posted By aerobelly

First home computer was a 1985 Sun Microsystems...

First home computer was a 1985 Sun Microsystems 2/120 workstation deemed obsolete and surplus to requirements at work in 1987. In fact I had two and cannibalised them to build one super workstation...
Forum: Rumours & News
13th Mar 2019, 22:24
Replies: 7
Views: 2,600
Posted By aerobelly

Yes, it is the new rule, See: Dronesafe ...

Yes, it is the new rule, See: Dronesafe

There is a zoomable map showing the extent of each restricted area.

Click the airfield to get the phone number of local ATC.


'a
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
29th Oct 2018, 17:30
Replies: 30
Views: 7,122
Posted By aerobelly

My recollection of being on drawing board in the...

My recollection of being on drawing board in the UK 1960/70s is that we pretty much always used 3rd angle. 1970/80s in the USA I was trying to sell them CAD programs and only did examples for...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
27th Sep 2018, 21:48
Replies: 26
Views: 4,503
Posted By aerobelly

Not commercial, just friends with puddle-jumpers....

Not commercial, just friends with puddle-jumpers. Carbon-fibre puddle-jumpers ....

For European travel I now stick to Eurostar, SNCF, etc. Quiet, comfortable, only the Great Northern...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
26th Sep 2018, 20:11
Replies: 26
Views: 4,503
Posted By aerobelly

Some good experiences: Newark to San Fran...

Some good experiences:

Newark to San Fran late 1970s, flight I was booked on was cancelled and pax were transferred to a different airline. That new service was a 747 with more cabin crew than...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
24th Sep 2018, 18:01
Replies: 26
Views: 4,503
Posted By aerobelly

Arrived in Boston on a full 747 in the mid 1970s....

Arrived in Boston on a full 747 in the mid 1970s. On 4th July. How long did it take the single immigration officer on duty to process a 747-sized passenger queue? Four hours.

I Learned About...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
16th Aug 2018, 20:03
Replies: 234
Views: 37,048
Posted By aerobelly

The Antonov AN2 was operating sight-seeing trips...

The Antonov AN2 was operating sight-seeing trips in Hungary after Hungarian independence but before full breakup of USSR. With no other punters in sight at lunchtime on a very hot day I was offered...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
12th Aug 2018, 20:29
Replies: 234
Views: 37,048
Posted By aerobelly

Antonov AN2 - loggable Aerostar (pre Piper)-...

Antonov AN2 - loggable
Aerostar (pre Piper)- not loggable
Flight Design CTSW - not loggable
Skyranger - not loggable
Schweizer 2-33 - loggable
and more usual stuff both powered and glider.
...
Forum: Computer/Internet Issues & Troubleshooting
11th Jun 2018, 18:27
Replies: 9
Views: 1,162
Posted By aerobelly

Test it frequently, about once a month will do. ...

Test it frequently, about once a month will do. The wretched things, even expensive commercial ones, can deteriorate without warning. Of course do the test with no work to loose on the computer. I...
Forum: Computer/Internet Issues & Troubleshooting
18th Mar 2018, 18:43
Replies: 3
Views: 1,025
Posted By aerobelly

Gifsicle is the tool I use for such operations...

Gifsicle is the tool I use for such operations <https://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/>

" Gifsicle is a command-line tool for creating, editing, and getting information about GIF images and animations. ...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
9th Feb 2018, 19:38
Replies: 9
Views: 1,907
Posted By aerobelly

Limoges airport wasn't too bad last time I used...

Limoges airport wasn't too bad last time I used it, but for trips to that area this decade I've used Eurostar/SNCF. Sooooo much more pleasant that it's worth the extra.

Cambridge airport was...
Forum: Computer/Internet Issues & Troubleshooting
3rd Jan 2018, 19:33
Replies: 22
Views: 5,955
Posted By aerobelly

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/ has what is currently known. To the public anyway.

'a
Forum: Computer/Internet Issues & Troubleshooting
30th Sep 2017, 17:55
Replies: 12
Views: 3,859
Posted By aerobelly

Factory settings do not generally have a BIOS...

Factory settings do not generally have a BIOS password IME. There is often a couple of pins to short with a jumper that will do a full revert -- if you have or can find the motherboard manual.

...
Forum: Computer/Internet Issues & Troubleshooting
15th Aug 2017, 19:02
Replies: 24
Views: 3,967
Posted By aerobelly

SD cards are fine, just need to get into the BIOS...

SD cards are fine, just need to get into the BIOS and enable boot first from "other" depending on BIOS nomenclature or interrupt the boot process to get to "select boot medium". All my computers are...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
7th Jul 2017, 20:20
Replies: 21
Views: 6,132
Posted By aerobelly

I normally traveled in business suit but no tie. ...

I normally traveled in business suit but no tie. One trip through the then-new current Stansted terminal I experimented with tee-shirt and jeans. That was a different experience! Although the...
Forum: Rumours & News
6th Jan 2017, 19:13
Replies: 49
Views: 32,807
Posted By aerobelly

My first thought too. And for the...

My first thought too.



And for the props to make the slashes the motors would all have to have been twisted 90degree (*exactly*) by the first impact on the nose. Otherwise there should be...
Forum: Computer/Internet Issues & Troubleshooting
2nd Jan 2017, 14:49
Replies: 9
Views: 1,071
Posted By aerobelly

So the XP machine put the files on the external...

So the XP machine put the files on the external HD? It is probable that the Win7 machine thinks you are a different person without the right permissions. If you still have the XP m/c why not plug...
Forum: Computer/Internet Issues & Troubleshooting
8th Oct 2016, 18:06
Replies: 4
Views: 3,478
Posted By aerobelly

Not owning a smart phone, I was wondering can...

Not owning a smart phone, I was wondering can apps be used on a laptop/desktop?

Yeees, but it's a bit messy. You need to get the Software Development Kit (SDK) for your lap/desktop's operating...
Forum: Military Aviation
8th Oct 2016, 17:53
Replies: 12
Views: 4,422
Posted By aerobelly

"....didn't see it standing outside Tesco's on...

"....didn't see it standing outside Tesco's on Newmarket Road".

Crew doing a bit of shopping were they?

Nah, take too long to get it along Newmarket Road from Marshall's. There was one of...
Forum: Military Aviation
6th Oct 2016, 21:46
Replies: 12
Views: 4,422
Posted By aerobelly

So that's what's what it was! I heard it but...

So that's what's what it was! I heard it but didn't see it standing outside Tesco on Newmarket Road. It may have been a beat-up, or a touch-n-go because it definitely went off upwind making a lot...
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