Posts by earl grey

so what happens

If you have wifi and bluetooth turned off all the time... or does this turn them on and run your battery down no matter what?

phone not just turned off but powered off?

oh, you don't have a "modern" snoop phone... here's one - carry it everywhere. lolololol

my registry is probably the thing of nightmares

The registry was always f-ed up to begin. It should never have allowed applications of any kind access to a primary system level file.

JCL or ECL

Both can come back to bite you in the arse.

i measusre my safe distance in airbags

Yes, those delightful Bulgarian airbags. Keep myself surrounded at all times.

Pah, you kids

Back in my day it was a slab of damp clay and a stick.

thank you

have a few

they are well and truly forked

having worked at a place years ago that forked the employees over to I've Been Mislead, stealing employees pensions, and then having IBM dump a whole lot of those folks prior to the contract ending.... and then watching the same thing happen years later (again - some folks are slow learners) and watching as big blue proceeded to dump more and more of the experienced (yes, older) workers and try to force many more into relocation (at your own expense)...

Ah, fuck 'em.

There are some right nut-bags out there.

That's Mr. Scrotum to you sir!

ugh, all sounding too familiar

Having been employed by and worked for over 40 years for a major telco which infamously pushed tele-work to the general public but NOT to its own employees...

all i can say is Bastwards.

when i did work from home, i used my own computer as i refused to take their lappie home with me because I would be liable if anything happened to it whilst off the company premises.

glad i am not there any more.

as someone once said

It's Hammer Time!

stupid tests

When i was that supervisor in the computer room (many moons ago), the company "changed the standards" by which they allowed potential candidates into various programming jobs and a friend and i were required to do a new test in a "pseudo assembler" language. We both passed, but it pissed us off enough that we made a sample test for the computer attendants to use and so many of them passed that the wanker brigade dropped the test entirely.

lovely AC

Many decades ago i was hired into an unmentionable large corporation to be a computer room supervisor. Our floor was all raised and there were tiles with holes to supply extra air for the needed mainframe components. I always liked having one of those tiles right under my desk.

Thank you

Have one (or several).

oh, so you're using encryption

You must be a terriorist.

Report to chokey immediately (if not sooner).

still have a pair of JBL 100s my brother gave me

But always wished i had the money for a set of NS1000s from Yamaha.

old dreams.

Ah, Fastrands

Place i worked had a whole herd of them connected to a bunch of Unisys 494s (run in 490 mode). Also had some 1782s and (IIRC) VIIIC uniservos (tape drives). Eventually replaced with 1100 series and the "disk packs" of the day. More fun.

Prior to that i worked a place that had IBM 360/55 with 8 disk drives. We used to keep a card hanging on the front of the control unit to tell us which pack was in which slot. That worked until one guy failed to notice that the card had dropped into the drive and it crashed. And he moved it. An moved other packs. Disaster. Manglement would not allow us to purchase packs from anyone but IBM and it took quite a while to get the drives repaired and new packs ordered. UGH.

Think we had an IBM 3525 there (again, IIRC) - combination card reader and punch.

PC

Pissed Cthulhu

to borrow a phrase

“In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming. for this to end.”

the ozone smell

seems to me i recall ozone being a byproduct of electrical discharge. well played, well played.

did not watch

did not miss

make your own noise

I prefer bagpipes myself.

mmmmmm....beer

Mmmmmm,.....beer

awwww, poor H1B companies

Tell that to the IT folks who used to work a Disney and other places and have been replaced with cheaper workers both offshore and imported in. It's not about the skills, it's about the money.

i'm more sad

that so few have posted here. I hate to see this kind of loss to the world. Too many gone.

enough frivolities

did i miss the damn survey results?

Merry BOFH day to all

And to all a good night.

we didn't have none of that

back in the cave days. you kids.

there's a phrase for companies like them

lower than a snake's arsehole.

that about sums them up.

olden days

I worked a shop with 2 360/65s, a 360/30. a 7080. and eventually a 360/40 on which HASP was initially installed (my understanding being that this certain large corp had one of the first instances after Houston). I started to learn PL/1 on that as well as get a good grasp on JCL (well, as much as was possible), and later learned COBOL on a different site's 360/50 which was upgraded to a 370/155 (?). Memories; faded at best.

"I'm off"

Yes, you are; but we love you anyway.

Very best to you in your new plane of existence.

Have a few of these to carry you on your way.

and more of these

at the end of the day. well done, all.

ABC's real name

Wankasaurus Rex

my meat is cultured

but that's a whole different discussion.

give me bacon, or give me beef. none of that fake stuff, thank you.

good discussion

Even though it got a few (?) downvotes, you have to understand i'm an old married git (40+ years) with three female sprog. Maybe I'm just overprotective where i don't need to be, maybe i'm just an ornery sob.

thanks to all for the differing viewpoints.

arsebarstards

A prior employer in a land far, far away (not nearly far enough).

Had an old desktop with PST files and kept my own backups. Company decided that OSTs were the way to go and i told and arseholes to NOT copy my backups when they created the OST file. They did; doubling the entries, doubling the problems, doubling their calls to resolve the shite not working right. I eventually manually deleted some of the doubled up files, but gave up wasting my time on it and just let them resolve the issues. Since the last computer was supposed to be backed up in their central suppository, i applied for space allocation and was told "none available right now" and they never did. I always kept my own backup of anything important i needed.

stories from 20 years ago - mostly bad memories.

fair winds and clear sky

and some of these at the end of the track/day

Time in chokey and a big fine

Both parties at fault here. Resolution simple.

Well, at least it wasn't Hotel California

Or we wouldn't have read the story.