tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74631140700874802542024-03-24T03:09:44.161-04:00Thoughts from the UKUK Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17872335227166617639noreply@blogger.comBlogger1202125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7463114070087480254.post-44460307899908410822018-11-27T15:55:00.001-05:002018-11-27T15:55:41.502-05:00.....and I voted for this?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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UK Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17872335227166617639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7463114070087480254.post-89676637750331658482018-04-01T14:35:00.000-04:002018-04-02T14:35:41.723-04:0064!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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UK Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17872335227166617639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7463114070087480254.post-18228722777625193932018-03-26T14:34:00.000-04:002018-04-02T14:35:05.366-04:00Nothing much to say<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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UK Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17872335227166617639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7463114070087480254.post-78594400591222246392017-12-11T09:42:00.001-05:002017-12-11T09:42:51.142-05:00This Bitcoin boom is going to end in tears!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I have been following the development of <a href="http://www.tempusfugit.me.uk/distributed_ledger.html" rel="nofollow">Bitcoin and Blockchain</a> for a number of years now.<br />
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What was once the realm of the Alternative Web and those involved in subversive activities it has now become mainstream.</div>
UK Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17872335227166617639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7463114070087480254.post-84464951066338727052017-11-25T04:21:00.000-05:002017-11-25T04:21:05.998-05:00Frost on the middle meadow<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Here a shot taken this morning of the middle meadow with the low sun shining through the trees.<br />
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UK Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17872335227166617639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7463114070087480254.post-5216015083381532582017-11-19T16:10:00.001-05:002017-11-27T03:58:03.038-05:00Aerial photography<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I am thinking that I will dedicate this blog to Aerial Photography as unlike some of the visitors to this site I do have other interests other than promoting myself.<br />
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This blog has nothing and never has had anything to do with who I am and what I do for a business. I have expressed an opinion on various issues but these were in isolation from anything that effected my livelihood. If I have seen or come across something that makes no sense to me I have made comment. There have been a few occasions where my views have not met with a positive response from those that I have criticised. I make no apology for this.............</div>
UK Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17872335227166617639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7463114070087480254.post-44699021453512355932017-11-18T08:54:00.000-05:002017-11-18T08:54:41.706-05:00Mavic gimbal problem and missing rear foot.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Having thought that the morning frost would make a good photo I managed to get stuck in the apple tree!<br />
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A ladder was fetched from the shed and much prodding of branches finally brought the Mavic back to ground with a thud. I am guessing that it landed on the gimbal as apart from some broken propellers and a missing foot the Mavic would not initialize the gimbal on start-up.<br />
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I managed to fix the gimbal problem by some judicious "adjustment" of the bearing of the axis of the gimbal that was sticking. Manually moving the camera in the gimbal, in this case from left to right, as shown with the camera oriented as shown above, I could determine where the gimbal was snagging. Applying some pressure in the direction away from where I thought the bearing was binding freed it and it then returned to a more-or-less central position when released. Performing a gimbal calibration and on start-up the gimbal was sticking in this position. Now the calibration proceeds with flying colours (literally).</div>
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UK Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17872335227166617639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7463114070087480254.post-8898771852121679712017-11-10T11:58:00.000-05:002017-11-10T11:58:01.374-05:00SEA as opposed to SEO<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Google are really just interested in Search Engine Advertising. The overtures that they make to webmasters about SEO is just a means to an end. This being that they get revenue from both the website owners and their customers.<br />
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Reading some of Google's advice for SEO it has become clear that there is little new in what they have been saying all the time that they have been in business. There is a lot of talk bout KEYWORDS. Keywords in URLs, keywords in page titles, keywords in anchor text in fact keywords in everything. As all webmasters can confirm Google is very keen to sell you KEYWORDs and ADWORDS. This, I think, shows their real motive. Unique content seems to feature pretty low in their list of recommendations. To my mind it is the content that is key to a well designed and run website.<br />
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The use of keywords in the way that Google suggest will only work if the keywords are relevant to the website on which they are used. In addition the value of a keyword, such as "real estate" is only relevant if you have paid Google to promote your site in their SERPs. I generic term such as "real estate" will only be relevant if you have an external mechanism that will list your site when a local Internet user searches for "real estate" in your area. The use of a persons name in a websites domain or page URLs will include the site and pages in Google SERPs but do nothing unless the person making the search already knows the name. In fact, the use of a real name in a website is of secondary importance as the real reason that you should be producing a site is to promote a business and not an ego trip. This, of course, is the case unless your name or company is something like John Lewis. </div>
UK Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17872335227166617639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7463114070087480254.post-85504261029549965902017-11-07T13:41:00.000-05:002017-11-07T13:41:01.735-05:00The joys of rural broadband<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Last week we were "out" for 8 days, Moles had chewed through a fiber cable in a distribution box linking our house with the neighbours. BT is unable to provide us with an ASDL connection s we are reliant on a Point-to-point service. The problem with this is that there is no line-of-site from any of the towers in the area. Our connection comes from a fiber connection from the house down the road. This seems like over-kill but at least it works. Fiber sounds like we have high speeds, well we don't!</div>
UK Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17872335227166617639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7463114070087480254.post-29358768074549660722017-11-05T13:09:00.001-05:002017-11-05T13:09:39.331-05:00Planting some seed<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I realise that it is a little late in the year but let's see if it germinates.<br />
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I am now well set for the spring. My intention is to get the middle meadow nettle-free and with a reasonable turf. More pictures to follow.</div>
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UK Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17872335227166617639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7463114070087480254.post-49904113430932828472017-10-26T05:10:00.000-04:002017-10-26T05:10:16.897-04:00The relevance of the Internet Archive<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
When you see <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100331075802/http://www.tempusfugit.ca:80/how.html" rel="nofollow">a link to the WayBack Machine</a> for a website it is most likely to be a version of the website that the author has updated since that time.<br />
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If there is no current version then I think you can safely conclude that the archive has no relevance.</div>
UK Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17872335227166617639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7463114070087480254.post-64143363927045921332017-10-24T03:47:00.000-04:002017-10-24T03:47:36.242-04:00The problem with English Churches<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Is that Britain is largely a secular society. Many profess to have no religion and others, like me, say that there is no god. The congregations of parish churches in rural areas is dwindling. The church down the road from us has one of just half a dozen faithful.<br />
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This is a pity as there are so many fine historic buildings that deserve support and should be maintained as part of Britain's heritage.<br />
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While it is true that we have an affection for old churches and historic buildings in general, we are not going to signup as Christians any time soon. However, we will continue our support of the local church and its maintenance. To suggest that I could be in any way intimidated into an apology for what I have reported in the past on the threat of exposure of a sexual profile that does not exist is ludicrous.<br />
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I can just imagine the response of a vicar or rector of a parish church if they were called and told to look out for me! Even if they did know me and they followed the link I doubt if it would make any sense to them. Of the 400 apparently there were only 50 to go when I was last updated on this venture. I have not heard anything since so I am presuming that they either do not care or more likely have not been called.<br />
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UK Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17872335227166617639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7463114070087480254.post-41702456755248920932017-10-20T03:49:00.001-04:002017-10-20T07:06:12.904-04:00Threatpost.com and Kaspersky<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It is interesting to note that the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/13/us-government-bans-kaspersky-lab-russian-spying" rel="nofollow">US government has banned the installation and use of Kaspersky</a> anti-virus software on their computers.<br />
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Now that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/04/hackers-for-hillary-attendance-black-hat-conference-trump" rel="nofollow">Hillary is telling everyone that the Russians did it</a>, one wonders if Donald or Wayne even know who Jeff Moss is.<br />
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Threatpost are the news outlet of Kaspersky and when I was posting regularly on this topic I reported that Threatpost were saying that Cabanak were stealing $1B from banks. Since that time I am now more concerned that such comments will garner interest in the illegal activities that I have been up to. This is instead of attempting to take the spotlight off them by criticising others that can't answer back!</div>
UK Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17872335227166617639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7463114070087480254.post-74069113882334250542017-10-09T12:32:00.001-04:002017-10-11T04:09:37.443-04:00Find my drone<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Another DJI feature that is not well documented.<br />
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Once again, this is a prime example of how DJI fail to explain how functions of their product and seem to rely on the Internet forums to provide information on them. If you search for "DJI Find my Drone" or "ESC Beeping" you will find many posts that allude to how this function works. However, there is no explanation of what ESC means and how the beeping is to be used in finding the drone.<br />
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ESC - is Electronic Speed Control(ler) and it turns out that you can use the controller to made the motors act as a speaker/beeper. This beeping and the Smart LED options appear if you click on the drones location on the map. These buttons will also appear if the drone has been lost for a long(ish) time, see below. and the drones battery is exhausted.<br />
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As the forums tell you the beeping and LED functions will not be available unless you still have an RC connection with the drone. The buttons to make the motors beep is triggered by tapping on the "lost location" on the map.This would be the case (hopefully) in the immediate event of a crash or a flyaway as you hopefully would have sufficient battery power left. You will also be able to see the radio (RC) connection signal level, the number of GPS satellites the drone can currently see and the remaining drone battery level. If the drone has performed an automatic RTH due to an RC connection loss of failure to access a sufficient GPS signal the figures you may see are the last recorded values before the loss occurred.<br />
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Using your Smartphone, using its own GPS, you will be able to walk or drive to the drone location by viewing your relative position on the map. When you get close you should be able to hear the beeping or see the LEDs. If the battery gets exhausted then this will not be an option.<br />
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UK Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17872335227166617639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7463114070087480254.post-13874169161213292722017-10-08T04:23:00.003-04:002017-10-08T04:23:57.911-04:00A trip to the coast<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Barely an hour and half drive from home.<br />
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I guess this post will make as much sense as those you will find on DJI related forums.<br />
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A couple of times I have seen this system error, the first I managed to clip a few branches in the back yard. So I learnt not to ignore the warning assuming it was the same as the lack of GPS signal and all I needed to do was to get a bit of altitude to get a better look at the satellites. Come to think of this it was not logical as if ground recognition was poor, due to mis-calibration, then it was not likely to improve with more height.<br />
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In the first instance, when I was at home, the error went away after re-booting the controller and the Mavic Pro. I got the same error yesterday when I was out on the meadows and decided that it was wise to come up with a better solution to the problem. On perseverance I found a menu setting that allowed me to recalibrate the down-sensors. This involved the movement of the MP in a square formation in front of me while I was holding it above the ground in my left hand. Strangely, this was not to be found anywhere on the forums???? I gave up as I was getting the message that a calibration could not be done on a terrain that was textured, this being the grass of the meadow. So I decided to go back into town and look up a solution in the library on their computers.<br />
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Here I found references to the DJI Assistant, which runs on the computer while you have the FP connected directly using a USB cable. This allows you to do the same calibration using the computer screen as a target for the sensors, both forward and downward. I did, however, manage to perform the calibration using just the drone and the "square movement" procedure that I tried in the field. I was hampered in this in finding an unobstructed and texture free area in the back yard and had to resort to the picnic table again. Still, I proved that the same calibration could be performed away from my computer. When enough data had been captured by the sensors the FP seemed to recalibrate in the same way as it did with the computer. I will be interested to see if this technique appears on the forums, where videos of how to use the Assistant and more prevalent.<br />
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UK Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17872335227166617639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7463114070087480254.post-76783289890079257742017-10-02T14:14:00.000-04:002017-10-02T14:14:10.962-04:00Time to get rid of some stuff<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Having been here in the UK for almost 3 years it is time to review some of the things we shipped from Canada.<br />
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Some things have not been used, or even taken out of their boxes. A lot of this includes computer equipment. These were things that I could not sell before I left but were too expensive to just trash. Motherboards, HDDs and cases - all not re-assembled are candidates. Especially the magnetic hard drives, I have no idea what is on most of them and having migrated to solid state I don't really care.<br />
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Looks like it is going to be a no-fly day. Rain has "socked in". Time to discharge the fully charged batteries.<br />
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UK Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17872335227166617639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7463114070087480254.post-36409759847290038732017-09-18T02:57:00.003-04:002017-09-18T02:57:32.573-04:00DuckDuckGo and TOR<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
TOR uses DuckDuckGo for its search engine.<br />
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When I see visits to this blog from DuckDuckGo searches I am a little suspicious.<br />
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$300,000US for services from ArcDis - you must be joking! Content, Marketing, Accounting Services, SEO --- I hope that you still have Joshua Shams permission to post those videos.<br />
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Content: Public Safety News indeed! You need to be consistent. There is no point in posting random articles that have no relevance to the subject in question at the same time claiming that an unsafe product is being sold. It only goes to making you look more stupid.<br />
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UK Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17872335227166617639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7463114070087480254.post-77053717634959701662017-09-17T12:55:00.001-04:002017-09-17T12:55:32.886-04:00Does this chimney look right?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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UK Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17872335227166617639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7463114070087480254.post-50866615077573594172017-09-14T05:31:00.001-04:002017-09-14T05:31:11.198-04:00It will soon be time for some fires<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I have several piles of Blackthorn cut into lengths for the wood-burning stove.<br />
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Search me if I can see a reference to the person "embracing" them! If you are going to quote an article that possibly shows you as someone who has benefited the masses I would have thought you could come up with something better.<br />
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Why should I, and any other person finding the quote, believe this or any of the other fantasies that you are saying make you look good? I'm sure that the University of Saskatchewan would beg to differ.</div>
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I was surprised this morning that there was nothing on the news that today is the anniversary of 9/11<br />
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Bringing in the harvest. A view of one of the fields at the bottom of the garden. I believe that is a Class Lexion 570+ you see on the field there. I will be posting more about that later.</div>
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Above is the farm where we picked many kilos of plums. Plums that have been turned into Jam for sale in fund raising for the less fortunate of this fine area that we live.</div>
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A view looking down the garden. The trees are starting to show their autumnal colours.<br />
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We are not sure what created the crater in the above picture. It can only be seen on the map and from the air. You can reach it by footpath but you would not be able to see the perspective.<br />
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We will have to make the full walk. Maybe not both ways as we always have the option of talking a cab back home. That is one of the many advantages of living where we do. If we were still in North America to live in such a rural location it would cost a fortune to get a taxi back to where you live. You probably would have to book it in advance and explain to the driver how to get there and back. Here it is just a question of jumping in and telling the driver where you want to go.</div>
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