Member postings for Peter Greene

Microsoft is implementing OAuth2 all over and there are plenty of complaints in other places about email failure particularly if a non MS email client is used. (Imagine what the hardy band of Eudora users are going through!)

You are not alone.

I would have thought that flywheels would be a problem with linear scaling.

It does, at least, beat the "shipped - in transit - delivered" style of "tracking".

I would commonly turn it to a slightly lower dia (ref Tubal Cain in "Drills Taps and Dies) giving negligible performance loss but much easier threading (with a die).

(.... and to suggest thread-cutting as others have done ...up to a shoulder at that.... for someone who, by his own admission, is inexperienced in threading is unhelpful imo)

Not the way I remember it .... ex KGB, old guard and a serious future problem.

At least on this side of the pond.

... but was it delivered corrosion (DC) or acquired corrosion (AC) and do you need a brush to remove it?

My OED defines it as"loosely denoting the association of spiritual and erotic practices".

Not sure whether I'm more shaken by the collets or you Michael.

In my day, brushless motors were properly called "brushless dc motors" ...you wouldn't have expected an ac motor to have brushes.

If the rust is only where the saddle (et al) never goes, wouldn't that suggest a used machine?

You mean a left handed jaw? There's a thought!

I'll leave now.

Edited By Peter Greene 🇨🇦 on 06/11/2022 22:47:22

I'm fairly sure that the telephone company's computer knows the actual origin of any call. That means it should be possible for customers to elect not to receive calls from countries they choose. (Or it might be easier for customers to choose the countries they will allow calls from). They (the telcos) could even market it as a value-added service - a travesty but still ....

I won't hold my breath.

I'm surprised if that's something new in the UK. It's been common here for a number of years leading to the government insisting that the telcos "do something about it". Predictably that has led to absolutely no difference.

They use spoofed local numbers to make you think that the call is from someone living nearby - an acquaintance or relative - so that you will pick up. It's so overdone though that it has the opposite effect ... legitimate calls from friends and relatives are more than likely shunted to answering machines/services.

May I comment as a total know-nothing greenhorn?

It was my impression that the timing of a pendulum clock is solely set by the length of the pendulum itself. If the pendulum is set swinging it will go back and forth at the same rate ... tick-tock. However because of mechanical (friction) losses it's amplitude will gradually reduce down to zero in the absence of some energy input either by weights in a mechanical clock or by the magnetic impulse in a solenoid clock.

I don't understand the reference to clock accuracy wrt the solenoid material. Surely it's the synchronicity (is that a word?) of what's driving the solenoid that matters.

Have I made a total twerp of myself?

... but, if they're sitting (as they would be) at their computer, trying to log on to online banking and the bank wants to do a 2FA, they'd certainly have pretty much instant access to an email that they are aware has been sent. It's not a "check once a day" case, it's check on demand (in my case all emails come direct to my machine - I don't have to go looking for them).

With only a landline, doing the second factor by phone is actually more problematic since it could be answered by someone else on another extension. And if that someone else has cognitive problems, you've probably missed the auth-no and have to start again (if the bank lets you).

Perhaps better for the blind/visually-impaired. Worse for the hearing impaired.

Frankly, I'd like to see the bank quantify the email vs phone security risks rather just parading out the "email is insecure" knee-jerking.

Edited By Peter Greene 🇨🇦 on 03/11/2022 17:54:21

OK, I have an email in front of me. Why don't you tell me what it says. While you're at it you can tell me what my banking log-on password is (2FA).

Edited By Peter Greene 🇨🇦 on 03/11/2022 17:30:23

... and my bank has just started to go through 2-step verification every time a person logs on to online banking. But they won't send the code to an email address any more - either text or voice-phone.

... and I've experienced at least one business recently that will not communicate by email - it has to be by texting.

What next?

Edited By Peter Greene 🇨🇦 on 02/11/2022 14:20:14

Anonymously of course... no public (in the thread) complaint.

There should be an smiley for nutless.

There are a couple of other effects of removing the button too:

- one less area to coolant-proof.

- there is a minor (but always worth having) improvement in overall reliability numbers.

That said, most of the pictures on the Mitutoyo site seem to have the mm/in button shown (on the front).

Still very coy. We can assume there are probably a few booksellers out there that behave like this so what does this thread tell us that we didn't already know?