Posts by G C M Roberts

Spullnig chocker

Jordan, named after the model I believe...

Unless Jordon is a new unit which measures Arabness or something

Inevitably fail?

Maybe showing some ignorance here, but if the load temp on the CPUs etc is lower they should last longer than an unclocked less well cooled solution?

Thus I would say they are less likely to fail.

Well certainly the watercooled stuff.

following the trend...

I think the next would be Pharenheight, then possibly wrankine and raymears.

Although I've not kept a linear growth in spelling mistakes there

A title...

Does it really matter that much what the piracy rate is in a lot of non-western countries given that software is not sold at a flat price (FX weighted) and in China or elsewhere 200USD/200GBP/200EUR (spot the first imbalance from a consumer PoV) software is sold legit for say 20GBP etc?

Cheers,

G

2 from the top and 3 from anywhere else please Carol

I do also remember hearing from my industry colleagues that Morse sucked big time, not as much as Perot, but still a lot.

My favourite Morsism was the "technical test" which didn't change for at least 4yrs and started badly with the following:

Select only one of the following, which port would you normally connect a printer to:

a) printer port

b) parallel port

c) network port

d) scsi port

It then went further downhill with questions asking how a client wanted to upgrade to NT 3.5 and what command flags one should use to convert hpfs to ntfs (this was in 2004 I might add)...

No tears shed here over outsourcers :)

Not just LSE

Less reported were the ICE and Johannesburg Exchange outages

The most stinky exchange in my experience is EuroNext, which seems to spend more time down that up (cue your favourite bishop/actress style remark)

I'm off to jobserve to look for immediate start contracts in the city for 1-2 days which definitely won't be at the LSE ;)