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Hi All,
I'm watching the Imitation Game on Channel 4, Good story, sadly a story though. Alan Turing and Alexander Dennison must be rotating in their graves! Based on a true story (my bum!) Turing was not involved to extent shown in construction of the Bombe (called Christoper!) there were far more people at Bletchly Park and it ran 24 Hours a day! Don't you just love movies! 
Just got to the end, where is Tommy Flowers & Colossus!
modified 31-Jul-16 19:21pm.
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I think this topic may already have had a run in the lounge. Excellent movie but a documentary it is not. We go to the movies for entertainment - for education we must seek elsewhere.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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pwasser wrote: for education we must seek elsewhere
The interwebz?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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pwasser wrote: We go to the movies for entertainment
What ii-is entertainment?
Doo-o you mean historical documents?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Was going to until I read the summary and saw how they f***ed Turing over.
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Saw it on Amazon Prime a few weeks ago.
It's a good movie - not historically accurate, but a good "human" film.
It does a good job of explaining what the government did to him (and others) even if they did a massive amount to support the war effort.
Thankfully, that kind of bigotry is (officially) behind us now.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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As a person who is fascinated by the WWII codebreaking exploits, I described the film as "The history of Bletchley Park written in crayons". Entertaining enough, but chock full of historical inaccuracies. But hey - why let the truth get in the way of a good story/
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It's a film not a historically accurate documentary. As a powerful reminder of the effort it took to break the Enigma codes it succeeds effortlessly. As a reminder of the bigotry and ignorance certain sections of society faced it also succeeds effortlessly.
I say this as a Scot who has watched Braveheart (one of the least historical films ever made) but loved it nonetheless as it captured the essence of the man.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Dominic Burford wrote: I say this as a Scot who has watched Braveheart (one of the least historical films ever made) but loved it nonetheless as it captured the essence of the man.
What, the "nobleman who studied at university in England" man?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Dominic Burford wrote: Braveheart (one of the least historical films ever made)
William Wallace wasn't Australian?
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they forget tell how queen and UK government force him to be cure 
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If you can find it, have a watch of this BBC program made in 1996. Derek Jacobi is excellent as Turing.
Breaking the Code[^]
Edit: it is on Bing Video here breaking the code[^]
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I always thought Derek Jacobi was a little old when this filmed to play Turing!
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At the time of filming, he was six years older than Turing was at the time of his death - not a huge discrepancy.
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The access point I have at the moment is doing fine until Mrs Wife connect her iPhone 5s, which makes it decide to lose its wits and will have to be restarted regularily.
This is apparently a known problem between some iPhones and certain Atheros chipsets. (AppleTV and iPad2 isn't affected, neither are any other devices we own as far as I can tell)
Anyway, I'd like to get some recommendations for access points that can handle many simultaneous connections without favourizing any connections.
Long range is preferable as well as dual band.
A high WAF is also positive.
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I can't really help you, but I'll say that I have two WIFI networks and I keep the kid and his Apple products separate from mine. 
(They do, of course, use the same connection to the Internet.)
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I caved and bought an Apple Airport. Things started working properly with my other apple devices after that.
The only issue is now they get together and shout rude names at my Windows and Android devices.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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So, basicaly the same recommendation as Piebalds. 
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I ripped out all my old networking stuff at home and installed (All Ubiquiti);
Main Network
EdgeRouter Pro
Edgeswitch 24-250w
Unifi AC AP
CCTV Network
2x8 Port ToughSwitch
NanoStation M5 Wireless Bridge
And over here in Qatar, have an EdgeRouter POE, the intent is I will eventually set up a S2S link between the UK/Qatar. Depending on What happens with work in Qatar, if I'm staying I will probably put ubiquiti Wifi in as well.
You can see my main rack here[^]
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Getting my head round the millions of options was a bit of a learning curve, but that was for doing some of the fancier stuff on the routing side of things.
The normal stuff like ports, firewalls, dhcp etc. are all pretty straight forward from the GUI.
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DaveAuld wrote: You can see my main rack here[^]
That's the first time I've been able to follow a link to a picture of someones rack from work.
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Why doesn't that surprise me! 
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