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* Posts by Havoc

8 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Feb 2012

A paper clip, a spool of phone wire and a recalcitrant RS-232 line: Going MacGyver in the wonderful world of hotel IT

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Re: Remember serial breakout boxes?

Not only do I remember them I even used one a month ago or so. Together with a couple of DB-25 to DB-9 adapters.

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Cocaine, psychedelics, DMT? They sure knew how to party 1,000 years ago: Archaeologists make startling discovery

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Could it be you're thinking of "Motel of the Mysteries" by David Macaulay? Where a future Carson excavates a 20-th century Motel thinking it a sacred necropolis.

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My hoard of obsolete hardware might be useful… one day

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I got rid of the Sparcstation IPX but still have SCSI cables, HD's, DAT backup and even an external LTO somewhere. Box of ISA cards, even a radio card, box of PCI cards probably even a motherboard cpu and ram to use them in. And in a far away box in the garage some twinax, a 8" floppy, punch card gauges and one of those metal ribbons with characters on for a printer. I case you need a Pentium Pro, slot 1 pentium or 286 chip I have it covered.

Oh, and I'm single...

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BOFH: What's your point, caller?

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a civil servant?

Just got an email this week from the civil service looking after the pensions that hte remarked they hadn't send any response to my email from 19 march 2015. Probably got stuck in some folder or other...

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Don't put that duffel bag full of cash in the hotel room safe

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Feynman

wasn't joking...

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El Reg's contraptions confessional no.2: Tablet PC, CRT screen and more

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No love for the HP calculators?

Must be the most durable things ever made. Got an HP-15C I still use daily. Not a single key is fading, survived being submerged and is now after 28 years on its third set of batteries. I fully expect it to be working longer than me.

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John McAfee the Belize spymaster uncovers 'ricin, terrorist plots'

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Lost the plot?

Well if we have no BOFH at least we have some entertainment. Does he really believe himself?

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Death to Office or to Windows - choose wisely, Microsoft

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"real work"

Maybe Office is real work for certain people, but wake me when I can use Mentor graphics, Solidworks, ProE, Catia, Cosmos etc on a tablet. At the same time as writing a report containing stuff from all these "aps". And interface some obscure gear through a real serial post and an ancient dos interface.

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