Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 20-7-2019: Walking on the Moon.

20th July, 2019.

Right … 

I have an internal hard drive to get rid of.

Which usually means one thing.

Selling it to my local branch of CeX?   Is my usual course of action.

However, with the hard drive in question?

The las time I took the thing into Brentwood CeX, there was a problem.

Apparently?

The hard drive only had one partition, called an EFI boot partition: and nothing else.

Now, I have to admit, that piece of news … was something I wasn’t sure I liked: as I wasn’t sure I could do anything about it.

As soon as I got back home?

I posted a question to the relevant Apple forum: and got an answer that looks helpful.

Hopefully?

That will help.

~≈§≈~

OK, streaming services.

There’s a few, isn’t there?

It looks like the UK will get another one … come October.

Something I know the BBC have wanted to do for years, is use the iPlayer — the BBC’s catch up service — as an international streaming service: alone the lines of Netflix.

Which never caught on.

However, Aunty Beeb has worked with ITV.   To introduce a streaming service called Britbox: to sell British TV content abroad.

And have announced that the service will start in the UK, towards the end of the year.

I have to admit, I’m … slightly concerned.

My worry?   Is that both iPlayer and ITV Hub — ITV’s equivalent to the iPlayer — may be phased out, here in the UK: in favour of a subscription service.

I don’t know about you, but I can’t afford that!

~≈§≈~

Let’s move on, shall we?

Yesterday’s Teaser saw Badwolf*, and Debbi† putting in their answers: with Anne scoring five out of five, and Debbi on four.

I’m not googling THAT title, Debbi!

Let’s see how everyone does with today’s questions, shall we?

Here they are, along with the How To, License and video … 

Q1) Man first landed on the Moon on 20th July, 1969.   The astronauts who landed were from which nation?

Q2) The rocket that took astronauts to the moon was the Apollo … what?

Q3) Name any one of the three man crew.

Q4) The Lunar Module that landed on the Moon, was which ‘E’?

Q5) Finally … ?   Who said “That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.” … ?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers … 

Q1) 19th July is Martyrs Day.   But in which Southeast Asian nation?

A1) Myanmar: also calle Burma.

Q2) 19th July, 1951, saw the birth of director, Abel Ferrara.   What was the name of his controversial, 1979, film?

A2) The Driller Killer.

Q3) Which ship sank on 19th July, 1545?

A3) The Mary Rose.

Q4) 19th July, 1976, saw who petition the then Foreign Secretary?

A4) British fishermen.

Q5) Finally … ?   Lady Jane Grey was replaced on the English throne: on 19th July, 1553.   By whom?

A5) Mary 1st.

Here’s a thought …

“To blame the computer for the Apollo 11 problems is like blaming the person who spots a fire and calls the fire department. Actually, the computer was programmed to do more than recognize error conditions. A complete set of recovery programs was incorporated into the software. The software’s action, in this case, was to eliminate lower priority tasks and re-establish the more important ones. The computer, rather than almost forcing an abort, prevented an abort. If the computer hadn’t recognised this problem and taken recovery action, I doubt if Apollo 11 would have been the successful Moon landing it was.”

Margaret H. Hamilton.

And a song …

Today’s questions will be answered in tomorrow’s Teaser.

There’s a final thought … 

Just to reiterate things for those who feel the US faked the moon shot … 

Have a good day.

*        Daughter in law from hell, hey, Anne?   Sounds like that wasn’t the best of relationships!   Mind you, who hasn’t been there!   My ex’s family were fine.   The ex … well … !   At ANY rate … ?   The sunshine sounds like a good idea … bar the fact the sunniest room in my flat’s the front room: I’d hate to have my neighbours stare at my pants as they go past!

†        He sounds … interesting, Debbi!   (Nine Lives of a Wet Pussy?   I’m not even going to start Googling that one!)