Laser...
"Fire that laser one more time and I'll introduce you to the illudium Q-36 explosive space modulator!" Marvin. :)PP
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuUJfYcn3V4
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I drove my first car (Mk1 Capri) from Perth (Scotland) to Reading (Berks) on just two 8-track cassettes.
A Status Quo album (I like The Quo but after a couple of hours you need a break) and a Elton Johns Don't shoot me, I'm only the Piano player. For padding the latter 8-track has 2 copies of Crocodile Rock. I like Elton John too but I still cringe when I hear Croc Rock. PP
@ Steve the Cynic.
Thank you, that brought to mind the 2 Nuns on bikes joke I have not though about in years.
OK. 2 Nuns on their bikes on a cobbled street.
1st Nun says "I haven't come this way before".
2nd Nun says" Yes, good isn't it".
Yeh Yeh. The one with the Bob Monkhouse Joke Book.
@Dan55. Thanks for posting that link. Great view and good steady camera work. Though I doubt he got within the 150mtrs specified by the 2016 act so no harm done. :)
But have one on me for the post >>
EDIT> Having been pointed to Article 95 I see my error. He was also nowhere near 50mtrs of the "vehicle".
@Stoneshop. I was going to post "Not in Ireland" but is seems our cousins over the small pond have better graphics than us.
http://www.drivingtesttips.ie/Warning-Traffic-Signs.php. PP
>> Friday and ref Irelend (Guinness icon req (other dark beers are available)) so double whammy.
@ Loyal Commenter. Can't upvote you enough. Our local Vue does this when we pre-book using our credit/debit card. I'm inclined to turn up after the rush has died down and use their on site staff to sell me tickets with no fee. Why don't they realise we are saving them money/resources by buying online. PP
PS; Why does this .co.uk web site on my UK English Win10 machine highlight "realise" as a miss-spell?!?
Sorry it's Friday and it put me in mind of this....
"Indicate the way to my abode...I'm fatigued and I want to rest my cranium hic..oh I had a little beverage 60 minutes ago and it's gone straight to the UPPER PORTIONS OF MY BRAIN..wherever I perambulate hic..over land or sea or atmospheric density hicx..you'll always hear me crooning hic ..this lullaby indicate the way to my aboooooooooode" I thank you hic. PP
I will get my coat but only 1 icon for this.. Happy weekend Commentariat.
We have a cloud supplier who has a global presence. As Admin on services we sell on that platform I get 6 emails from them whenever an "issue threshold" is breached. For clarity I'm in the UK.
1/ There have been reports of issues with X in Shanghai/Hong Kong.
2/ We're investigating issues with x in Shanghai/Hong Kong.
3/ We have identified a probable cause and applied a fix for x in Shanghai/Hong Kong.
4/ We're monitoring x in Shanghai/Hong Kong.
5/ No further incidences of x have occurred in Shanghai/Hong Kong or anywhere else.
6/ Issue is now resolved.
Naturally, I shrug and go ho hum, but should one of our users call and say I'm trying to do x with Shanghai/Hong Kong here in the trenches I can say I know and it's being worked on. In my experience emails 1-6 rarely take more than 45 mins.
All cloud providers have outages somewhere in the services they provide. It's how you communicate that down the channel that counts.
I'm sure you've all had outages and been unable to make progress on investigating and fixing because your colleagues/customers keep ringing to tell you, you have an outage. :(
PP
I'm sort of with Christian Berger on this.
It depends on your use case, If it's just a family server(s), even tho' I'm no IT bod, I'd do it in house.
A few hours/days of inconvenience isn't a biggie.
If you're a very small SME then you could get away with it with a off site cloudy email and backup and a decent landline/mobile backup.
I think you see where I'm going.
@garetht t, you are, of course, spot on too for many use cases. PP
ICON> If you need resilience an guaranteed uptime and it doesn't work.
....Genuine question. Once these enormous trains have made their destination, smelting plant, port etc, I assume they have to go back to get more. Loaded with what? Building materials for more homes perchance or more booze an gals? (Not sure the gals will enjoy the ride tho').PP
Icon>Paris because it has a question mark and we'll think of the gals.
@Voyna i Mor
Here's a thought. Dispense with the going up and coming down stuff (the difficult/expensive/dangerous bit) and create a carriage that runs on tracks and can travel 400-500 MPH. You wouldn't even need to carry 75t of battery as the power could be run above the track. PP
Ah! The Phantom is brought back to mind. RIP Ronnies. PP
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwij8KL70sDWAhVEZVAKHeDpAn4QtwIILDAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DOwaEPTSRcSw&usg=AFQjCNG_8arE6dtsacNn9I7tUIjicRiFLQ
I learnt years ago to refuse missions where the target was improperly identified, uncontactable or simply unqualified.
REQUIRED: Post (ZIP) Code, name ideally title, landline and mobile (cellphone) number. Oh! and in this marvelous brave new internet world Google (or whatever) the company and the location at least the night before.
Wanders off muttering something about a mix up between the University of Essex and the Universitry of Exeter.......PP
I regularly accidentally hit keys that do weird stuff like put browsers into full screen and launch an HTML editor of the page I'm looking at. You'd have to be pretty thick to accidentally hit CTRL-ALT-Del.
I can't find a keyboard old enough but I'm pretty sure there was a Sys Req or Break key on keyboards of old. PP