2016 — 17 August: Wednesday
Having begun watching "Inside Einstein's mind"1 I decided to download it this morning. I've noticed signs of strain in the delivery mechanism. These manifest in messages as the bits come in...
WARNING: There may be a gap near 2420 secs in programme Recording: 991.66MB / 994.91MB 20566kbps 99.7% 00:00:01 remaining
... being a typical example. The timestamp in this case suggests a hint of trouble during the rolling end credits, if programmes still have these. My delivery comes in on the "get_iplayer" express, of course. The frozen screen image on playback doesn't add much to the viewing experience, either. Still, I do this infrequently enough not to be over-bothered. Happily, my morning radio bits are streaming in unafflicted for "live" listening to the i5 NUC.
Quite why...
... Big Bro (in NZ, recall) seems to think I can add any value to the process of watching online bidding (on a Canadian2 web site) on a slide of an admittedly pretty Trident Two taken at Hatfield in May 1971 or '72 baffles me. It's not even one taken by him.
Perhaps he thinks I'm retired? And there's me thinking the Internet malarkey runs 24x7 globally. I suspect he may be confused by the phrase "English auction" (which applies to the definition of what constitutes the winning bid, not the timing). The web site clearly shows a countdown timer ticking away.
"No bid!" I have some fresh air to be taken on board, and there's breakfast to be squeezed in before that, too! And some updates to my notes on the i5 NUC.
Brrr!
nanokelvin? Really?
He can only estimate that the superfluid is only a tiny smidgen above absolute zero (0 kelvin) — the coldest possible temperature.
Hawking radiation has remained elusive so far because any trace gets swamped out by the cosmic microwave background. The temperature of the background radiation — energy left over from the Big Bang — is about 2.7 kelvin,
but the temperature of Hawking radiation is only 1.2 nanokelvin.
Having just...
... re-installed Mint 18 on the i5 NUC for what, I sincerely hope, is the very last time, I've updated my notes to reflect the final partitioning. /home has its own partition, and I've trimmed the space that the Linux system can expand into to a mere 31 GB or so. Should be plenty for a year or so, surely?
The NUC has been playing a BBC stream all evening so far, and is running at more than a few nanokelvin.
Having nailed down the steps needed for successful Mint 18 installation on one of these fancy M2 SSDs in this brave new world of UEFI, I can finally turn my attention back to Skylark, which has been patiently waiting its turn in the spotlight. The i5 NUC has proved to be a very useful testbed. Or canary in the mineshaft...
I've just done unto Skylark...
... exactly what I did unto the i5 NUC. So both PCs are now running Mint 18 systems installed on their M2 SSDs, with separate /home partitions, UEFI booting, and essentially similar customised themes. Both are back within the reach of NoMachine, too. All seems well.