Posts by Darryl

"We will finish off our tofu and avocado salad, wash it down with a fruit tea infusion, cry a little inside, and wonder where it all went wrong..."

...and we won't live any longer, but it'll sure feel like forever

Re: Teching self-help

Give a man a fish and you'll feed him for a day, but give him a case of dynamite and soon the village will be showered with mud and seaweed and unidentifiable chunks of fish.

Re: America?

ElectricRook. I'm sure that Mexico will appreciate your geography lesson.

"we're on track for a single standard hole for most portable devices any year now."

And then Apple will come out with something more proprietary and expensive

"I found three restaurants that serve fermented sea cucumber. Would you like me to display the nearest?"

No, his mistake was living somewhere that something like this is even legally allowed to happen.

Re: It is safe in the washing machine - how about the dryer?

If it's the same material as Canadian dollars, they don't handle the dryer at high heat very well. Gets all crumple-y, but still recognizable.

The two most annoying things are, they're very thin and tend to static together when new, so you have to be very careful you're only handing over one bill, and when they get folded crooked, it's almost impossible to un-crease them and re-fold them straight.

What's the difference between a drummer and a drum machine?

You only have to punch the instructions into the drum machine once

Re: If proof is needed...

This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And sometimes it has required a new handle, new designs on the metalwork, a little refreshing of the ornamentation . . . but is this not the nine hundred-year-old axe of my family? And because it has changed gently over time, it is still a pretty good axe, y'know. Pretty good.

-The Fifth Elephant

(Sorry, your post just reminded me of this)

Re: Tech support

"Attention passengers. We have a WiFi issue on board. Is there an IT guy on the plane?"

Re: Who are these people?

"Also, the federal government has a history of backing down bending over if Quebec pushes hard enough clears their throat in a meaningful way."

There, FTFY

I doubt that it would get damaged... It probably wouldn't be in the shop long before somebody made off with it

Re: Simple action would be ...

"You go somewhere else to have it fixed, now have a problem and somehow magically want the manufacturer to know all of that?"

Thing is, some of these 'muppets' went somewhere else to have their phones fixed long before Apple issued this update, and only when the update was applied did the phones become bricked. By a deliberate act of the manufacturer.

Misread that as 'meat modules', which still made sense.

Where's my coffee?

I have been told all this by lots of people too, but it's not so much because it looks like smoke, rather because they saw on TV or Facebook that it's worse than smoking and some guy had one blow up on him, don'tchaknow?

Re: @croc, re: Contempt.

The only problem with your plan, Shadow Systems, is which agency is going to do this? Jobs like this are usually performed by the CIA

Re: I'm stocking up on super-strength nicotine soon

Oh, so YOU'RE one of those shapes in an armchair over in that hazy corner of the shop...

Re: I found...

You claim to be in South Africa, but that sounds a lot like western Canada to me. The only distinction is the Rangers are too small for these guys - they like a big diesel F150/F250 (or a Dodge Ram or a GMC Sierra/Chev Silverado). They still drive the same, though, and I've seen exactly the same scenario on a two lane highway here more than once.

Re: The Last of Us

I think you're still assuming too much about the average computer user. To the majority, a computer is an appliance. They buy it, plug it in, and use it. They have no grasp of replacing the OS with something else. That would be akin to removing the control panel from the microwave and installing a different one.

I know, because whenever someone is asking me why their computer is so slow (IE filled with crapware, pop-ups, and toolbars) their question is "Should I just buy a new one?", and when I explain how to do a wipe and reinstall, they're astounded by how fast it is afterwards.

Re: Simples.

The dishwasher story reminded me of our bathtub. The previous owners had done a shoddy update on the main bathroom. Every now and then, I'd go into the bathroom in the basement (directly below) to find the counter was all wet. I could never catch it happening. Until months later when I was walking by and heard splashing. Walked in and finally found the problem. When they'd "installed" the new plumbing upstairs, the drain fitting on the bathtub was a little bit smaller than the original pipe and trap, so they'd just shoved it into the pipe and called it good. The drain could handle the shower running full blast, but draining the tub was just a little too much flow, causing it to back up a tiny amount - just enough to squirt out around the "connection" from the new to old.

Re: It's a one man band

That was my thought too. Some guy working out of his home office reselling storage space. He's Accounts, Marketing, Support, Custodial, HR, and Social Committee all rolled into one

Re: ...

I agree. This might be the first time since 1995 that Windows 95 actually made something more useful (or should that be less useless?)

Re: Football? Don't you mean handegg?

I've said it before and I'll say it again... If you Brits' eggs are the shape of an American football, it may be time to cut back on the chicken inbreeding program...

Re: Money money money

Really? You mean real data, or "Data" - in which you Google articles that misrepresent scientific papers in search of shock headlines?

Re: My view on it

Don't forget you're not going to do any of those things if you didn't remember to plug it in last night

Re: "Do you know how to go down staircases?"

Yep, if it encounters a staircase at 18 km/h, it would probably only maybe hit one step on the way down

Re: The whalesong is deafening where I work...

The US stations think it's really great to cover the bottom third of the screen (during a programme) with ads for tomorrow night's Survivor or whatever. Usually, they cover up something that's relevant to the story of whatever you're actually watching.

Re: Fine tuning - How IBM support are you?

I don't bother rejecting them... Just add a note that the printer was checked and appears to be functioning properly, then close the ticket.

Re: yah know...

That may be true, but those two good things are deeply buried in all of the publicity whoring that she and her family do on a daily basis.

I don't know. I think this is the first time I've heard him actually answer a question. He inherited his father's ability to ramble on and on and not really answer anything.

But he takes a mean selfie.

Re: What a...

Some of mine made a detour to my ears