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by jmcc
Fri Jan 05, 2024 7:36 pm
Forum: Radio
Topic: Ryan Tubridy Show
Replies: 35
Views: 67566

Re: Ryan Tubridy Show

Del.Monte wrote: Fri Jan 05, 2024 2:02 pm He's related to Todd Andrews - railway enthusiast - that's enough for me.
The same Todd Andrews who wanted RTE to get rid of Gay Byrne.

Regards...jmcc
by jmcc
Fri Jan 05, 2024 11:08 am
Forum: Radio
Topic: Ryan Tubridy Show
Replies: 35
Views: 67566

Re: Ryan Tubridy Show

https://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/irish-showbiz/rte-ryan-tubridys-surprise-familys-23612669 It was Danny Dyer who was related to Edward III (1312-1377). Tubridy wasn't, from what I remember. It was just some female courtier. The fluff piece in the Mirror mentioned his lineage going back to the 15t...
by jmcc
Fri Jan 05, 2024 8:55 am
Forum: Radio
Topic: Ryan Tubridy Show
Replies: 35
Views: 67566

Re: Ryan Tubridy Show

He will probably have a knighthood in his sights now...sure didn't the TV programme " Who Do You Think You Are " prove that his close ancestor was King Edward III of England. Thought that was Danny Dyer. Tubridy was supposedly distantly related to some female courtier (I think). Regards.....
by jmcc
Sat Nov 18, 2023 3:18 pm
Forum: Radio
Topic: Ryan Tubridy Show
Replies: 35
Views: 67566

Re: Ryan Tubridy Show

Seems the regulator is checking if this is legal, could it be displacing Irish jobs 😂 The regulator has decided that there's no problem with Irish jobs being displaced. The funny thing is that Virgin Radio isn't the Virgin Radio of the 1990s and is now just a DAB/online station. (The RAJARs (www.ra...
by jmcc
Sun Sep 17, 2023 2:30 pm
Forum: Antiques & Collectables
Topic: Paleoanthropology
Replies: 4
Views: 1349

Re: Paleoanthropology

The funny thing is seeing people who think they are smart (typically opinion column "journalists") disparaging others as Neanderthals when most people throughout Europe and Asia have Neaderthal DNA. For much of the last few million years, there were ice ages and migration patterns would ha...
by jmcc
Sat Sep 16, 2023 4:06 pm
Forum: Antiques & Collectables
Topic: Paleoanthropology
Replies: 4
Views: 1349

Re: Paleoanthropology

There's a lot of DNA research that suggest that the Out Of Africa theory is not exactly robust. Australasia seems to be a better candidate for some of the earlier developments. The OOA theory is a simple one and probably too simple for a highly complex evolution.
Regards...jmcc
by jmcc
Sat Aug 12, 2023 7:31 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: The Next General Election
Replies: 52
Views: 3037

Re: The Next General Election

Just remember that the opinion polls this far out from a GE rarely resemble the opinion polls in the last few weeks of a GE campaign when people make up their minds. That said, the useless McEnteem Dublin crime, the Gardai voting on a confidence motion on the Garda commissioner, and the Tubridy/RTE ...
by jmcc
Thu Jun 22, 2023 8:40 pm
Forum: Television
Topic: Tubridy retiring from the Late Late!
Replies: 84
Views: 18109

Re: Tubridy retiring from the Late Late!

Happy Days wrote: Thu Jun 22, 2023 7:21 pm I suspect Tubbs wasn't the only 'star' availing of this arrangement. There will be a few nervous people in RTE tonight hoping this story goes away
Sacrifices may have to be made in RTE. The RTE newsroom seem to be having a great time reporting all this.

Regards...jmcc
by jmcc
Wed Jun 14, 2023 2:55 pm
Forum: The Smoking Room
Topic: Defectors and Malcontents
Replies: 95
Views: 22051

Re: Defectors and Malcontents

What happened political irish? In my search for alternatives to boards.ie and thepropertypin I looked for that (knew it existed but never really looked at it) but its disappeared. No trace. Disappeared and reappeared repeatedly. There was also irishpolitics .online/.net/.site which similarly disapp...
by jmcc
Thu May 11, 2023 10:25 pm
Forum: Technology & Internet
Topic: SCREW ASUS
Replies: 1
Views: 1097

Re: SCREW ASUS

Not as bad as all those mobos with dodgy Chinese electrolytic capacitors about 15 years ago but what happens if the power fails?

Regards...jmcc
by jmcc
Tue Mar 07, 2023 9:26 pm
Forum: Technology & Internet
Topic: What a SKY TV as advertised on RTE tv and radio looks like on the inside
Replies: 10
Views: 2983

Re: What a SKY TV as advertised on RTE tv and radio looks like on the inside

Come to think of it, I still have one of the old BSB Squarials (flat plate antenna) (early 1990s) around here somewhere. It was a very elegant piece of design work for the time.

Regards...jmcc
by jmcc
Sun Mar 05, 2023 10:33 pm
Forum: Technology & Internet
Topic: What a SKY TV as advertised on RTE tv and radio looks like on the inside
Replies: 10
Views: 2983

Re: What a SKY TV as advertised on RTE tv and radio looks like on the inside

They play a factor in wind loading. A lot of people don't understand that. Sky dishes are low quality dishes and typically last a few years or less near coasts. They are cheaper to produce and the perforations allow a simpler dish mount. In the early days of satellite TV, the LNBs (the electronics ...
by jmcc
Mon Feb 20, 2023 9:19 am
Forum: Technology & Internet
Topic: PC Building slipups : let he who has not sinned cast the first stone
Replies: 8
Views: 2743

Re: PC Building slipups : let he who has not sinned cast the first stone

Not remembering that SATA cables are the product of a fscking accountant playing at being a designer. Thought I'd lost four years of algorithms, classifiers, SQL data and code and zone files when a server reset. Spent a lot of time searching for backups and checking paper notes on the algorithms. Th...
by jmcc
Sun Feb 05, 2023 4:11 am
Forum: Movies
Topic: Netflix Police State Policy
Replies: 6
Views: 1479

Re: Netflix Police State Policy

Think that Netflix pulled the announcement. It is always a problem with Pay TV services even with dodgy boxes and pirate smartcards before it. The theory on which dodgy boxes operate predates the pirate smartcards by a few years. Let's just say that I have a very particular set of skills. The servic...
by jmcc
Fri Feb 03, 2023 10:51 pm
Forum: Movies
Topic: Netflix Police State Policy
Replies: 6
Views: 1479

Re: Netflix Police State Policy

Going to be interesting given that IP address location is not quite as precise in Ireland as it is in the US. It would not be unusual for some subscribers to have more than one ISP. The resolution on some IP databases is quite crude and will barely give the location of the ISP's HQ. Others will have...
by jmcc
Tue Dec 20, 2022 5:10 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Elon Musk buys 100% of Twitter
Replies: 190
Views: 23649

Re: Elon Musk buys 100% of Twitter

Exactly! Flight plans are public information! Some aircraft are assigned temporary private IDs to prevent tracking. Musk's was one of them using temporary IDs. Sweeney's elonjet bot used software to negate the private ID and still track Musk's aircraft. It is not as simple a story as it first appea...
by jmcc
Mon Dec 05, 2022 6:46 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Leo the cheat
Replies: 46
Views: 3924

Re: Leo the cheat

RIC loving POS - translation please. Royal Irish Constabulary. FG (Charlie Flanagan and a few others) tried to commemorate the Black and Tans/RIC in 2020 just before the General Election and it was one of the factors that caused a massive collapse in the FG vote. Basically, they wanted to commemora...
by jmcc
Sun Dec 04, 2022 12:02 pm
Forum: Technology & Internet
Topic: Meta shares crash
Replies: 12
Views: 1555

Re: Meta shares crash

A related story on Metaverse so I'll post it here. The EU's Metaverse space, built to attract "non politically engaged" people in the 18 to 35 year old bracket, at a cost of nearly 400, 000 euros, was a flop. 6 people turned up, looked around and left and at the end the only person that r...
by jmcc
Thu Sep 08, 2022 8:00 pm
Forum: The Smoking Room
Topic: Scam emails
Replies: 138
Views: 37498

Re: Scam emails

Here's one for dopes. I don't what Geek Squad is but I wasn't tempted to ring to cancel my non existent sub. It has been going on for years. The idea is to get the victims to ring the number and provide their credit card details. The antivirus one is a variation on this. See at least one of these s...
by jmcc
Mon Aug 29, 2022 11:01 am
Forum: Technology & Internet
Topic: How to know you're red pill or blue pill with a soldering tip on circuits
Replies: 15
Views: 1916

Re: How to know you're red pill or blue pill with a soldering tip on circuits

Hi jmcc, It was not that many years ago that I witnessed this. There were of course big fancy expensive automated soldering machines, but there were parts of certain processes that were not automated due to cost (I assume) and involved hand soldering. There were rows of people doing it all the time...
by jmcc
Sun Aug 28, 2022 10:53 pm
Forum: Technology & Internet
Topic: How to know you're red pill or blue pill with a soldering tip on circuits
Replies: 15
Views: 1916

Re: How to know you're red pill or blue pill with a soldering tip on circuits

Soldering (along with many other experiences) red-pilled me. For reasons, many years ago I observed poorly paid factory workers soldering circuit boards and seeing the fine trickles of noxious smoke ( yes, even if lead free solder is used, there is still toxicity) rise towards their bent heads made...
by jmcc
Wed Aug 17, 2022 7:59 am
Forum: The Smoking Room
Topic: Scam emails
Replies: 138
Views: 37498

Re: Scam emails

Getting a lot of text messaging claiming to be from AIB and BOI with a link to a dodgy website. I just report the website to Google, Microsoft and the hosting service (usually godaddy). Handy wiki on how to report a site https://www.wikihow.com/Report-a-Website The domain name may have been registe...
by jmcc
Sun Aug 14, 2022 12:56 pm
Forum: Info & Expertise Requests
Topic: Astra 2A freesat satellite - Anyone else experiencing reception issues
Replies: 9
Views: 2488

Re: Astra 2A freesat satellite - Anyone else experiencing reception issues

I want TEARS. :( :cry: How about travelling 40 miles to do a 3M dish installation and finding out that someone forgot to include the Jesus bolt with the dish hardware. :) Or being told that a few patio slabs would be sufficient to anchor a 1.7M dish. (They weren't and the dish and the slabs went ai...
by jmcc
Fri Aug 12, 2022 1:21 pm
Forum: Info & Expertise Requests
Topic: Astra 2A freesat satellite - Anyone else experiencing reception issues
Replies: 9
Views: 2488

Re: Astra 2A freesat satellite - Anyone else experiencing reception issues

Watch out for a very weird effect if there are any trees blocking the line of sight to the satellite. While reception may be perfect in Winter, in Spring and Summer, the horizontal channel may disappear with the vertical ones suffering slight degradation. This is due to leaves on trees blocking the ...
by jmcc
Fri Aug 12, 2022 6:21 am
Forum: Technology & Internet
Topic: When you had to replace your laptop and say goidbye
Replies: 10
Views: 1534

Re: When you had to replace your laptop and say goidbye

Think that I still have a working Amstrad NC1000 notebook around somewhere. Used to get 15 hours or so from four AA batteries. It couldn't run MS-DOS or Windows. Have had a few laptops since then but the main problems were batteries, fans and harddrives. There was one laptop I remember where the pow...