Quickmarch

Thanks Joe, Don't go to any trouble. I'll look into it I recently switched to Win10 (not the least impressed) so that is likely the culprit. I don't recall this being co-incident with the switch (new laptop), but it may have been. So many things changed instantly that I'm not confident to recall when the sign-on thing started.

Everything seems to be working here. Have to log in every time, though. Is this intentional? Thanks for all your efforts, Joe

Thanks for that observation @hurricanemk1c Interesting to note several items that are common 1. Southwest Airlines 2. Port engine 3. Damage to the cabin structure aft of the leading edge of the wing - in the 2016 incident, the gash in the fuselage obviously was serious enough to depressurize the cabin. In the 2018 incident, a window in the same area was broken leading to depressurization AND the death of a passenger. I wonder if there have been any similar failures on the starboard engine that did not result in damage to the cabin structure. I

Vapour lock is a heat induced issue with the fuel delivery system. Used to cause problems in our cars during the carburetor-era. The easy solution was to let the engine cool off. I flew a great many variants of the Piper PA-28 series a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away and I do not recall vapour lock ever being mentioned as something to look out for. Warriors used Lycoming carburetted engines (by recollection) running 100LL. Now, in all fairness, my experience with these aircraft was confined mostly to Ontario and Quebec with some forays into upstate New York. Ground temps c

One item of note. Seen in all of the onboard pictures and videos - passengers with the oxy masks covering their mouths only. Looks like the majority.

How do you know that? Inquiring minds must know. Seems to me that the surge protection itself is an internal "failure".

Press Reporters here are having a field day with the concept of electric vehicles. If you listen to the press hype, we'll all be (not) driving driverless electric cars within five years. The reporting is only going to get worse if the country legalizes pot. However they're not bright enough to extend the power requirement out to where the vehicle is parked. This is the old "last mile" conundrum. The Province I live in has almost limitless access to cheap, efficient hydroelectric power. We make so much of it that we supply most of the west coast. However, if I want to h

Any clue as to the source of the spike? Local T'Stm? Where I live in the PNW thunderbumpers are a rare and unusual thing. Still, every year we hear at least one. Toronto was a different world. You should see the CN Tower during a summer thunderstorm, especially at night. Gives a whole new meaning to "grounding". Still, great advice on the SP. We have them plugged in to all outlets that supply power to electronics. Haven't lost anything yet (knock on wood).

I'll be working on a Black Bush in a few moments.

Have a pleasant St. Patrick's day to all our Irish friends.

Just found a funny one: https://v.redd.it/qph3vvkahbk01

A lot of stuff being shipped over our roads and rails (not to mention in the holds of passenger jets) can be pretty devastating if something goes wrong. Burning a SRB in the middle of a farmer's field in Oklahoma might be spectacular and maybe hard on a crop but not really serious. Imagine, however, if that thing lit up inside the tunnel - write off one tunnel. It has happened many times with gasoline in tanker trucks. I recall one in Southern Ontario (Canada) a long time ago and a search of Google brings up quite a few others: See: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/us/30collapse.html

US and Canadian standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Well, because that's the way they built them in England, and English engineers designed the first US railroads. Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the wagon tramways, and that's the gauge they used. So, why did 'they' use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they had used for building wagons, which used

A man and woman were married for many years. Whenever there was a confrontation, yelling could be heard deep into the night. The old man would shout, "When I die, I will dig my way up and out of the grave and come back and haunt you for the rest of your life!" Neighbors feared him. The old man liked the fact that he was feared. Then one evening, he died when he was 98. After the burial, her neighbors, concerned for her, asked, "Aren't you afraid that he may indeed be able to dig his way out of the grave and haunt you for the rest of your life?" The wife said, " Let him

IRISH GHOST STORY This story happened a while ago in Dublin, and even though it sounds like an Alfred Hitchcock tale, it's true. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ John, a Dublin University student, was on the side of the road hitch-hiking on a very dark night and in the midst of a big storm. The night was rolling on and no car went by. The storm was so strong he could hardly see a few feet ahead of him. Suddenly, he saw a car slowly coming towards him and stopped. John, desperate for shelter and without thinking about it, got into the car and closed the door ... only to realise ther

An Irishman goes into the confessional box after years of being away from the Church. He is amazed to find a fully equipped bar with Guinness on tap. On the other wall is a dazzling array of the finest cigars and chocolates. Then the priest comes in. Excitedly, the Irishman begins..."Father, forgive me, for it's been a very long time since I've been to confession, but I must first admit that the confessional box is much more inviting than it used to be." The priest replies, "Get out. You're on my side."

You lot are slowing down - nothing since Feb 3! Here's a cute one: Test: Seven advantages of mother's milk Students in an advanced biology class were taking their mid-term exam. The last question was, 'Name seven advantages of mother's milk.' The question was worth 70 points or none at all. One student was hard put to think of seven advantages. He wrote: 1) It is perfect formula for the child. 2) It provides immunity against several diseases. 3) It is always the right temperature. 4) It is inexpensive. 5) It bonds the child to mother and vice versa. 6) I

Super Bowl Tickets A friend of mine has two tickets for the Super Bowl in Minneapolis, at the new U.S. Bank stadium on Sunday, February 4.

Wow! Invest 3 grand and your ROI is $1/day. Lemme at it!

What's with the "L" symbol on the right front? Over 'ere it means "Learner". Device could be a cyclone.

Right! Sorry, as in all things internet, one link leads to another that leads to another - ad nauseum. Without trying to repeat the trail, the info I got "started" with that article. I probably wasted an hour yesterday chasing down that path. Probably googled "bitcoin mining" and/or cryptocurrency. One thing I did learn: don't give up your previous card. If anything should go wrong with that new GT1060, I'd be stranded without video output on that computer.

See the link in @brett 's contribution just above. I looked it over and it's all clear as mud. Seems the video cards are used to solve some sort of mathematical query (puzzle, problem) where the solution earns you electronic money. Right up our alley, JA

Thanks for that @brett, I confess to being highly confuzzled by the whole bitcoin thing. I'm definitely not interested in getting involved. I just got caught in the cracks by trying to buy a high-end video card at the wrong time. Who knows? Maybe next week (month?) that whole smoke and mirrors thing will crash and we'll be able to buy video cards for a song. Won't help me - I've already shelled out for one. Fingers crossed it's a good (as in quality build) one as I'll bet my warranty is useless. It's interesting that at least one of the sites selling powerful power supplies has a

OK. I bit the bullet. This better work because it's darned expensive. I bought a GeForce 1060 video card. The card is almost as big as the motherboard inside my computer. It definitely has more fans. In fact, the thing was so big that I had to find an old ATX box and swap out my motherboard. As an aside, it's really quite amazing that the form factors in these machines have stayed so consistent over a huge span of time, relative to the development cycle of the hardware. The ATX box that I found (for $5) still had a 1.44M floppy drive pair mounted. Haven't seen one of those in close

Never mind the switches. It's the relationship of the windshield to the ground that scares me. That plane is so big that the mains are on the ground before the cockpit is below minimums Definitely an aircraft to be flown by the numbers. Have fun.