{"id":62,"date":"2008-02-01T14:27:20","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T14:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/2008\/02\/01\/to-err-is-human-to-really-muck-things-up-you-need-a-computer\/"},"modified":"2008-02-01T18:07:25","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T18:07:25","slug":"to-err-is-human-to-really-muck-things-up-you-need-a-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"To err is human; to really muck things up, you need a computer."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The long silences on the blog may be disturbing to enthusiastic readers, for which I apologise by proxy.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ve installed a new satellite communications system at the base, which provides much faster data transmission\u00c2\u00a0(256kb\/sec vs. the old\u00c2\u00a09kb\/sec).\u00c2\u00a0 This is with an eye to future improvements in real-time data transfer for the research projects,\u00c2\u00a0telemedicine transmissions, and of course\u00c2\u00a0happier overwintering team members.\u00c2\u00a0 However, the upgrade has had the\u00c2\u00a0expected teething problems, which left us without much data capability for the last week.\u00c2\u00a0 We\u00c2\u00a0are\u00c2\u00a0now back online, but should you hear nothing but the sound of silence, you\u00c2\u00a0know why \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve updated the post titled &#8220;Listening to Lightning&#8221; under the Antarctic Science category with a sound file and a bigger picture of the VLF antenna, so click on the link and check that out.\u00c2\u00a0 Once the take-over is complete and we have some time on our hands, I promise to continue the articles about the research projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long silences on the blog may be disturbing to enthusiastic readers, for which I apologise by proxy.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ve installed a new satellite communications system at the base, which provides much faster data transmission\u00c2\u00a0(256kb\/sec vs. the old\u00c2\u00a09kb\/sec).\u00c2\u00a0 This is with an eye to future improvements in real-time data transfer for the research projects,\u00c2\u00a0telemedicine transmissions, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-base"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}