Run

I went for the run. I only did the 2.5KM version, since that was enough for me today. The weather was a bit hottoer today than it has been so that really affects things. Also as I was about to leave a friend from a few houses up asked if I could come and help him install his Air Conditioner for 10 minutes. And I was waiting for a courier package so that is some time.

Basically the 2.5km run was enough for me today. I will probably rest tomorrow and see how I go doing the 3KM on thursday.

Lunch

What I forgot to mention earlier was my lunch. I had Thai food – Pad Khi Mau Gai (Or spicy noodles with chicken), and I love it. The people at my local Thai restraunt know me know, and are making it progressivly hotter for me for some reason. When I had the first bite today I must have needed about half a glass of water. I think I had two large tall glasses of water during the takeaway meal. It was really nice though.

The strange thing is that I have neber had this out at a restraunt – one of these days I will have to go to Gordon Thai and see how they go making it. From past experience I am sure they will do a good job.

DVD Burner

Whilst I am writing this I am also using my DVD burner to move some files off the Hard Disk. As mentioned before I have been having some issues for a few days with this. Today is my final test before I ring dell and tell them to fix this again. This is a new fault – I believe that the DVD has experienced an ELF – and Early Life Failure.

What that means is that devices are more likely to fail when they are new or old. They are less likely to fail in mid-life. And I would bet a lot of money on this unit having failed in service. I hate it when technology does not work.

The DVD recorder seems to be stuck on 1x burn too mostly. This is not good.

Personal Stuff

It looks like the earliest I will be working on the plane is easter monday. Richard and I have both been really busy, and I have been unable to get over there to help him work on it since the end of february.

Wireless Technology

A friend of mine sent me a document describing the differences between Unwired and GPRS as seen by one person. Their experience was that they both operated in a similar manner, offering similar costs, but that the round trip times (commonly called ‘PING Times’) were much slower with GPRS

But GPRS is a more scalable solution which is why the ping times are longer. There are ways to improve the performance of GPRS but they mostly require the carrier to set it up.

Unwired allows connections to contact the local PC from the Internet. Most GPRS providers do not have this option, placing a NAT gateway in between the unit and the internet.

How do I know all this? Well, telecommunications engineering was my major at University. And I have been dealing with these types of equipment for most of my adult life.

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