Posts by herman

Certainly not a Landy. A Range Rover. She would not subject her Corgis and Dorgis to anything less.

Re: Sorry, that’s what caused the war.

The precursor if the CCCP was the Kievan Rus empire which had its capital in Kiev. It was destroyed by the nice Khan gentlemen in the 12th century. So Russia was ruled by Ukraine for longer than Ukraine was ruled by Russia.

The pattern is that Windows always get progressively slower. Despite machines becoming thousands of times faster, Microsoft always find a way to make it slower, so that it doesn’t work on older machines.

Re: Tsk!

Engrish is to be helping and not to be laughful at.

Re: Green screens were great!

Aah, those were the days - of staring straight into an Electron ray gun all day (and much of the night) - I wonder why I have so many floaters in my eyes?

Re: Does this apply to everyone?

The police could enforce it using the IR cameras in their helicopters.

Re: I know the USA has issues, but....

In North America (yes, Canada also), it is illegal for a divorced parent to drive with his child across a state border unless certain red tape legalities are followed. It is even worse for someone to drive with an underage friend across a state line. These kind of abductions are frightfully common, since you may simply be going for a dip in a lake on the other side if an invisible line.

Re: a place in hell

East European names can have six consecutive consonants and are generally impossible for a West European to remember - and vice versa of course.

Re: Wind and solar

There are huge solar systems in the Arabian desert. They seem to handle the heat, dust and rain just fine. So I don’t see why Aus would be a problem.

Re: Unfortunately, held hostage by others

I run Office 2003 on Windows XP on Virtualbox, with the network disabled. It works fine this way and I don’t need to pay for any online services.

Re: Bank Accounts

When I was a wee little tike, our home phone number was 3103 and I still can’t remember my wife’s mobile number (nor my own). Nowadays a big hassle is that my Canadian bank won’t accept my European phone number - says it is invalid - sigh…

“Internet, Water, Power, Gas and taxes.” : I am busy drilling a well, there are solar panels on the roof already and I will get another truckload of firewood next week. The internet and taxman problems still need some thought…

Chaotic neon bulb flasher

It is easy to build a neon bulb flasher where every bulb depends on every other bulb. It will flash chaotically for a while, then it will settle into a fairly regular pattern and then gradually become chaotic again and so on. It can be quite interesting to watch.

Re: My girlfriend did it

Wow, you got her name and number and then you passed the opportunity for some payment exercise?

Re: Dealerships are doing this too

Hmm, I explained to some poor sod that 80% pure Nitrogen is otherwise known as air.

Canada - Equity

Canada has a principle of Equity: What is good for the goose is good for the gander. Meaning that if someone complains about a one sided contract, then a judge will read in the same favourable terms for the aggrieved party.

Re: As an application developer ...

Abort, Retry, Fail.

Re: Triggers Broom

My great grandfather’s axe: The handle has been replaced three times and the blade once.

Re: It's the economy, stupid

Pay is reasonable in the military aerospace industry. The rest is a dead end.

Re: Exchange

I dunno, I find Sharepoint to be a good trashcan for documents you don't need to access again.