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06 Apr 2012, 9:37 am

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I saw my younger brother today and he didn't cause me upset or wind me up. Perhaps he is slowly accepting that I am who I am and I can't change.

That's a good sign in my books.

Let's hope so Mick.

Today the fact that my radio controlled clock is receiving a signal made me happy. I also learned that periodically they do maintenance work on that particular transmitter.

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06 Apr 2012, 9:44 am

I don't feel insane for a day!

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06 Apr 2012, 9:46 am

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I also learned that periodically they do maintenance work on that particular transmitter.

Interesting - I saw that happen to mine too.
I knew about the maintenance periods but I've never seen one this long: the accuracy (I have three) was wandering around for a few days and all were showing "no signal".

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06 Apr 2012, 10:05 am

That a friend drew me something and sent me a picture of it :)

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06 Apr 2012, 11:10 am

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I also learned that periodically they do maintenance work on that particular transmitter.

Yours are obviously more sophisticated than mine.

My ones just stopped working so I ended up changing the batteries then nearly put them in the bin.

More down time to follow:
http://www.npl.co.uk/science-technology ... sf-outages

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06 Apr 2012, 1:04 pm

I didn't hear any brats go by yet.

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06 Apr 2012, 1:35 pm

my animation sequence has finally rendered correctly and i am posting it to youtube at this minute. it has 48 minutes to go.

in my first attempt, i rendered it in uncompressed avi format, and it yielded a file of 4 gb which i could not open or work with. i am still using windows xp 32 bit because i am a creature of habit, and i can not imagine how i would deal with the change of getting windows 7 64 bit if it interfered with my routine activities. i will get a new computer soon with windows 7 64 bit, but i am not prepared to jeopardise my current environment on this computer with such a change. 32 bits can only see 2gb, and that is why i could not use the file with any application i tried.

in my second attempt at rendering the video, i chose to compress it into an mp4 codec, and the file size was a mere 15 mb, and it failed in two ways.
the first way it failed was that the quality was so grainy and unresolved that is was not acceptable, and the second way was that the fluency of motion was staggered and choppy.

so i rendered it again using the xvid codec, and i then loaded that into multiquence and added a piano track i played, and saved it and it works to my satisfaction.

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06 Apr 2012, 1:45 pm

My step-dad shampooed the carpets, so the carpet doesn't smell like chocolate lab anymore. :lol:

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06 Apr 2012, 4:05 pm

Changing my attitude and beautiful music.

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06 Apr 2012, 4:25 pm

The fact that it's Friday! :cheers:

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06 Apr 2012, 5:43 pm

Coming on here and talking to all of you wonderful people.

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06 Apr 2012, 5:46 pm

CosmicRuss wrote:

Yours are obviously more sophisticated than mine.

Hmm, at £9.95 per clock it's not much of a sophistication :lol:

- and as they're no longer available I just found this even cheaper equivalent: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MSF-10INCH-SI ... 3a727fa868

The "accurate to 1 second in 60 million years" is a bit of artistic licence and refers to the MSF time standard itself - what's actually received and decoded by these things isn't quite so impressive at a few tens of milliseconds at the point of synchronisation, but still more than impressive enough.
But if the signal vanishes they should just keep running at whatever passes for their basic accuracy - which turned out to be a rather variable +/- 5 second drift over the service period.

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More down time to follow:
http://www.npl.co.uk/science-technology ... sf-outages

Well that's more like it: just part of a day.

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06 Apr 2012, 7:10 pm

I met Nim from here today.

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06 Apr 2012, 8:58 pm

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I met Nim from here today.

This might deserve its own thread.

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06 Apr 2012, 9:04 pm

There's nobody home except me today....

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06 Apr 2012, 9:08 pm

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There's nobody home except me today....

Gosh me to I'm the only one home

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