Actions for UK government to stop the Corona Virus

As a tax payer, I am requesting the UK government to declare country emergency and :

1, Ask everyone to work from home if possible

2, Ask everyone to avoid public transportation if possible

3, Ask everyone to shop online if possible

4, Ask everyone to avoid indoor places where lots of people gathering, such as cinema, shopping mall

5, Close all schools

6, setup check point to screen temperature at airport for all passengers

7, Close the board or isolate for 14 days for people from oversea

8, Declare country emergency

9, setup check point to screen temperature at train stations for some areas

10, Ask everyone to keep one metre distance when queuing, talking etc.

11, Ask public facing staff (such as waitress, shop keeper etc.) to wear face mask

Each those measures may only contribute 1% or less on stopping the outbreak, but all added together will save thousands lifes in UK or may stop the breakout.

HP ProBook overheating and cursor jumping

I have a 2014 HP ProBook 450 G1 15.6-inch (Intel Core i7 2.2GHz, 8GB RAM, 750GB HDD, Windows 7 Professional). The temperature of CPU rise very quickly up to 100 degree and the mouse cursor is jumping towards the edge of the screen about once every second.

This issue has been for about two years. The laptop was very expensive and I do expect it to last longer.

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Update on 4/Jan/2010: After uninstall and delete the touchpad drive a few times, and then install the Synaptics driver 17.0.18.8 seems solved the overheat issue. The touchpad is still disabled as I always use external mous, but the cursor still jumping.

I won the court case against Churchill Home Insurance

People may recall that my house was damaged by the storm on Feb/2018. Churchill Home Insurance refused my claim, so I took the Churchill Insurance to the court.

Churchill Home Insurance refused to discuss for a settlement and insisted to go to the hearing.

Fortunately, I finally won the case on the hearing at the Cambridge County Court by myself (I don't appoint any solicitors).

Despite I won the case, I don't suggest others to take the similar action without solicitors. It was so stressfull, just not worth the time and effort.

Huawei is really in trouble without ARM licenses

Huawei is in really trouble with business stopped by ARM.

A mobile phone chip usually has many CPUs apart from the 4 or more main cores which are well known by most of consumers. It wouldn't surprise me if there are more than 10 small CPUs such as ARM M0, M3 of M4 inside.

Without licenses from ARM for those small cores, I expected Huawei is no more able to make the Kiren chip legally.

Let's wait and see.

Tesco mobile doesn't allow forward calls to another number

Tesco mobile doesn't allow forward calls to another number which is really annoying when traveling out of EU as I want to forward the call to a VoIP number.

Boeing Issue is System Failure of Management

The Boeing problem is not a single technical issue, it is a system failure of the management including specifying, design, verification, validation, quality control and certifying.

Looking backwards, there are some obvious flaw of the MCAS system on the very early specifying stage, and none of the later management process including FAA checking caught the problem.

If those management system issues cannot be addressed by Boeing, then I expect more and more issues will be discovered, some may more serious than the MCAS system flaw.

Boeing is still trying to limit the issue in technical level which is the most dangerous thing.

West Digital WD40EFR 4TB Performance Issue

Log:

Device t10.ATA_____WDC_WD40EFRX2D68N32N0_________________________WD2DWCC7K7VYN641 performance has deteriorated. I/O
latency increased from average value of 12893 microseconds to 398691 microseconds.
warning
18/10/2018 07:20:54
localhost.localdomain

Not sure what is causing the issue, it might be the HDD or FreeNas 11.


Setting:
Lenovo TS104  + ESXi 5.5
SAMSUNG 2TB
WD RED 4TB
FreeNAS 11 on ESXi


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update on 21/Oct/2018:
It might be caused by the use model combined with FreeNas and HDD. I was created 6 ESXi 500GB HDD files which made a 3TB striped volume in FreeNAS. It is likely FreeNAS considers that all 6 HDDs are independent and wait for the responses of the "sync write access" from all the 6 HDDs. Since the 6 HDDs are actually from a single physical HDD, so it is possible causes too much load for a single HDD and results HDD hung.

I am now testing a single ESXi 3TB HDD file to make the volume in FreeNAS, it has been running for a few days and so far looks good.