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I can't remember. I'll try and find out later. I'm pretty certain that it was on last night, though.

GPS is used as an indication as to the car's location. The task of driving - lane control, obstacles, collision-avoidance is done with very sophisticated image processing. They still have those odd-spinning cameras on top of the cars.

GPS is used as an indication as to the car's location. The task of driving - lane control, obstacles, collision-avoidance is done with very sophisticated image processing. They still have those odd-spinning cameras on top of the cars.

As it happens there was a programme on TV last night about cowboy whitening outfits who buy a kit off ebay and operate their business through Facebook. I only half-watched it, but caught the gist that teeth whitening falls under dentistry and an operator who isn't a registered dentist is operating illegally. Things can go very wrong, gums are particularly prone to problems. Be careful.

With co-ordinated control, traffic congestion is greatly reduced - an ideal application of driverless cars. This is a good video on how traffic jams occur.

With co-ordinated control, traffic congestion is greatly reduced - an ideal application of driverless cars. This is a good video on how traffic jams occur.

A sailing boat 1.5 miles away, cropped to omit the hull, taken with a Nokia E63 with a digital zoom?

Supervideo (S-video) cable?

The cable might be wired up in an electrically correct way (the continuity is good), but are the pairs wound properly? Check the colour-to-pin layout. If the pins & colours don't match this guide, you've effectively unwound the cable pairs. Many moons ago, we bought some patch cables from a cowboy outfit and they wired them up the wrong way. It passed the normal checks, but failed when used in the real world. The pairing is crucial as the cables are unshielded, so rely on the pairings' phase to cancel out interference. If that checks out, it could be that the cables runs over a noisy object, like a fluorescent light. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r4634184-Distance-between-Cat-5-and-Fluorescent-Lighting

Don't forget the document server. This uses a file structure based on your SQL server name (it can't cope with DNS aliases - I've tried). It's simply a matter of renaming the root-level folder on the DMS, but it's often overlooked during a move if the SQL server name changes. If it's being grafted to a new domain without a name change, it shouldn't need attention.

Exporting 16,000 records should barely raise the pulse of any SQL server. I was going to mention a cross-join throwing a spanner in the works, but you say that there are no joins. Paste your query here, just in case there's something strange with it.

Several reasons: www.dd-wrt.com | Unleash Your Router https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato_(firmware) I had an old wireless router and upgraded the firmware, created an encrypted VPN proxy tunnelling and configured it as a router (rather than a gateway) to extend my wireless in the house which would have been impossible with the standard firmware.

What's the message when SIMS crashes? It will be either an handled exception, or more likely, an unhandled exception message. I use WinDbg for getting to the root problems with exceptions. When SIMS crashes, do not acknowledge or clear any error dialogues. Instead, open Task Manager, select the Pulsar process and right-click and choose Create Dump File. This will create a DMP file. Download WinDbg from Microsoft and open your DMP file in WinDbg. In the WinDbg window, type !analyze -v which should download the public symbol set and display the exception details. Quite often the problem is highlighted quickly with this method.

Paul Nuttall remembers it well.

I've still got one (and much earlier ones!). The novelty quickly wears off when you actually operate them and realise how things have progressed.

I think that was the UK 101. It was commonly assembled on wooden boards. Before I had my Spectrum, I was looking at one of these. This was the Acorn Atom era. There are a lot of project sites for home-brew computers. Although I preferred the Z80, I think the 6502 was a better processor for interfacing to the real world as it has very good interrupt responses. http://6502.org/homebuilt

That's a Jupiter Ace. A machine that uses FORTH instead of BASIC.

The documents are encrypted and decrypted by the SIMS client software, so they are sent, stored and retrieved in an encrypted form to/from the document server. The document only exists in plain text on the SIMS workstation - everywhere else it's encrypted. There could be all sorts of very sensitive data in these documents so that is quite a reasonable thing to do. As for tables, you can raise the bar by employing various strategies of encryption, with differing overheads, but ultimately the system administrator will always be able to see the data, so you've gained nothing practical. The solution is in your system security and the programming (application roles vs user permissions, etc).

As mentioned earlier, SIMS has a person_id field which is unique to each person in SIMS. However, if you are working with more than one SIMS database (you're an LEA, for example), it ceases to be unique. There's another field (which I think is called External_ID, but I can check on Monday) which is globally unique in the sense that it's a genuine GUID. You might want to use this. That said, if you're not happy about digging into the innards of SIMS, it's best to stick with pre-packaged tools.

That's an MSX, but I can't remember which one. Not a Yamaha. A bit unusual to have a built-in stick of joy.

Even as a Speccy fan I recognise the nemesis that is the C64.

As @GREED says, the documents are encrypted. The first 8 bytes of every encrypted document are the same, and the document name is partially mangled. The first two characters of this mangled filename determine which subfolder they're stored in (\0c, \af, \3b, etc). A simple hashing to balance the folder structure. The view [rpt_vix_Document_710] shows you where the files are stored, it has a flag called 'document_attached'. This will give you the location of the files stored on the document server, but as they're encrypted they are of no use. You'll either have to ask Capita to provide a decryption tool or figure out if it's possible to decrypt them yourself. I haven't tried so I can't give you any further information.

Well played - that was tricky. I got the Dragon 32 right, but was stumped by the others - and I'm a fossil who used just about everything in the '80s.

No, they had a rocker switch. Clearly a computer (monitor port) but that power toggle switch is a mystery to me.

I think with BT (back in the day), only BABT-approved stuff was legal to connect to the phone network, and the only BABT-approved stuff available had to be rented from BT. We had a Trimphone. It was awful.