Posts by Anonymous Custard

Re: So those kids with back to front hats...

A couple of well aimed super soakers?

Re: One issue....

Having seen the state of some of the roads around here of late, I think they've mixed up the spec and laid us a long wide pavement to drive on...

Or check if the pins on the power plug are clean...

Re: out of paper!

Also brings back memories of university days (a quarter of a century ago, eeek!) and the shared old HP laserjet which people were forced to use. Normally not much of an issue, except when some puppet tried to send a postscript image file directly to it, where for certain files rather than printing out an image on a nice single sheet, it tried to print out a few random characters per page on every page in the tray until it ran out.

Of course by sods law this always happened out of hours, and when you had something you needed to print urgently. Especially annoying when they just bunged the paper back in again after sorting things out, so your print-out ended up with various random characters superimposed on it.

Still it did end up with me being given admin rights to the print queue to help kill off such jobs, which I never ever used to queue-jump my printing rather than wait half an hour, honest guv'nor.

Re: Lost count...

@Richard Gray - I take your highlands and raise you a Japanese HQ, where some of the minions think that "Europe" is one country where any location can be reached from any other in a matter of a couple of hours.

Best one they tried was a morning appointment in Sicily and an afternoon one in Newcastle...

Re: "all a meeting achieves is a mass downing of tools"

Ah yes, the trusty old engineer* standard response to management -

"Do you want to spend the time having a meeting about how to solve the problem, or should I just waste the time actually doing so?"

If I had a dollar for every time I've had to say that to sales and management types, especially those who like to get involved with both success (and take the credit) and failure (to distribute the blame without a hint of taking any themselves), then I wouldn't have to avoid so many of the damn meetings in the first place...

*engineer being of course the poor mug who actually has to keep the dreams and promised that came from a previous series of management meetings that they weren't invited to nor had any say in the outcome of.

Nope - I also thought it sounded like something you'd end up noshing after a heavy night on the sake in downtown Tokyo...

Cosmopolitan or Klingon?

I was wondering if you meant doner meat, but I'm not altogether sure yours isn't more accurate :)

Re: it’s the first Sunday of February, which would make it the fifth this year.

So does that make it a blue super blood pizza pudding?

As for me, I'd serve it with beer, following on from a beer starter and with beer for dessert. Possibly a crate each of Peroni and Black Sheep to be in(n) keeping.

OK, we'll standby for action then...

Re: Meeeeee tooooooo.....

... lump hammer, cattle prod, large and weighty screwdriver, disc shredder, angle grinder, big spiked stick.

The opportunities for “TALATOBIG” club merchandise are endless

Windows 10 can certainly smell urgency and desperation.

Whenever I need to leave the office in a hurry for an appointment or just to pick up the kids, that's always the time when it decides it must install an update that it downloaded especially in the background without telling me.

And then to top it off it even says "do not turn off your pc" on the screen whilst sitting there whirring away but otherwise seemingly doing nothing with the percentage counter sat stationary.

Unfortunately that one also does not seem to respond well to percussive maintenance, the other failsafe backup tool of the tech repairing overlord.

Re: At Paul Shirley, magic.

"the new system is broken and what was wrong with the old way"

And do you have a good answer for that? Fixing what wasn't broken is all too often the tech industry's substitute for productivity.

@Doctor Syntax - sadly all too true, especially when the new way is only done 'cos some consultant moron persuaded people it was better (and took a cut of the sale afterwards), or it features one of the trendy buzzwords (cloud-based or IoT or somesuch shit).

We just suffered a transition here from local server-based email to cloud-based, and it's driving me nuts (as a dumb user fortunately rather than having to support the management-generated mess). Forever getting messages of things being out of sync or additional messages being available on the server (ie ones I've moved and the sync hasn't caught on or caught up) or the whole of Outlook just locking up as it tries to have a deep pow-wow with some server somewhere on the wrong end of a piece of wet knicker elastic in the arse-end of some backwater somewhere.

And from having talked to my helldesk colleagues who have to support it even though they fully agree it's crap and somehow it's "their fault" even though they got no say in it, somehow I doubt it'll improve any time soon. The age old "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" is still all too true - make sure your updates actually make things better for everyone, especially those who have to live with it on a daily basis.

Re: That farmer...

To be honest, it seems like a fairly sensible solution to me, at least for the non-tech user. At least it got the photos to where they needed to be.

Brings to mind what my old syshack at uni used so say back in those days of wet string 56K (and slower) modems and file transfers - "never underestimate the data transfer rate of an estate car with a boot full of CDs" (this being back in the day before writeable DVDs and easily removable hard drives of any useful size).