ARMv8.1?

Which is safer (marginally) than the device my father referred to as "Plug, Signals mark one" - two matchsticks with wire wound round the ends pushed into the old UK round pin socket.

I think you'll find that those multiway power strips that allow you to use the plug upside to open the shutter do not pass the UK standards. They're the cheap stuff using the lightest wiring and metal possible and are total different to the collection of MK products I've collected over the last 40 years.

Yes I use them, but for low current and low unplugging/plugging uses (behind the TV, stereo etc.) Anything which may see frequent use is a quality item.

Arrr, Them were the days!

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On Thu, 13 Apr 2017 23:05:42 +0100, Dr J R Stockton declaimed the following:

Please swat me on the head -- I did know that (and if I were enumerating the leap-day rules rather than looking at fractional years... leap day in years divisible by 4 except if also divisible by 100 unless it is divisible by 400...

Those sockets are switched - that's for girlies and little children.

N.B: For all those who dislike the droppings box as much as I do: Always change that dl=0 to dl=1 and avoid the hassle.

So for your final exam, did we have a leap day in year 2000? Or is there another layer to the progression?

P hope you used a chassis PLUG so that your cable had a SOCKET on the end otherwise you would have a serious safety issue (& yes I have seen someone wire a plug on both ends of a cable as an extn cable_

you cant make anything fool proof, fools are too ingenious but BS1363 does try to prevent accidental errors

seen in a shop by a friend of mine whilst working as a field service engineer:-

needles to say he chopped this into tiny pieces & gave the store manager a serious ticking off.

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Of course: the one with the mounting screw holes and that the standard PC cable plugs into is the only obvious one to use, regardless of the actual connector configuration.

Don't forget: the object of this exercise was to allow me to power a UK

Heh. :)

-- (\_/) (='.'=) "Between two evils, I always pick (")_(") the one I never tried before." - Mae West

And for how long will it work before it, too, goes out of alignment by one day.

-- mrr

At some point is will be easier to just change the rate of rotation of the earth rather than do all the math required to track it. lol

I think otherwise, though I've not read BS1363 itself. See "PlugSafe Protecting BS 1363 - the world?s safest mains plug and socket" at , final section "Loophole in BS 1363".

All readers who use UK-type plugs and sockets should read the whole of the site, including what the tabs on that page lead to, and other links - and shudder.

Ah. Remember that one well. Probably the most beautiful cartoon he's ever done.

Not yet.

Maybe we'll need a new rule stating that years divisible by 3200 are not leap years.

On Sat, 15 Apr 2017 11:09:21 +0200, Morten Reistad declaimed the following:

I vaguely recall a program for an old HP calculator that may have included terms for either 4000 or 40000 year corrections.