Posts by Tom 7

Re: I think this is too bleak - especially for Tech

One thing that really interests me in this is the metrics that fall out of it. In my first job I found I could create (for my own amusement and coding practice) metrics that I thought gave a very good indication of my overall performance. I could have been (and probably was) very biased but they were the only metrics available - performance reviews were largely political but I could stand my own ground. Over time I have noticed that certain corporate functions seem to be metrics inversely proportional to management ego - the more you could prove you were doing your job the less things like targets and results were accepted. It was almost as if those higher up knew decent metrics would work against them.

And A should consider that the commute is not just wasting your time. Its making you a lot more tired when you finally get into work.

Re: They said I were mad t' build undersea cable on top of a volcano

The cable was probably about as good as they could do. Its prohibitively expensive to safely bury a cable in regions like this (have a look on google earth) and the wavelength of tsunami can be hundreds of KM so any cable can be pulled from the sand and dragged until it snaps.

Re: Maybe?

I'm getting the impression some of the Tsunami were 15m high. I'm not sure the hams will have functional equipment and if they do power is another problem. These things need to be more substantial than something in what is essentially a garden shed when it comes to waves - no offence intended to the Tongans, their homes are normally more than adequate. But we need things that are dug into bedrock and can be used in a minimum way by anyone who knows where they are for situations like this.

Re: Do I feel old?

There's your mistake - for Stonehenge you'd need to COLUMN. POST was dropped with Woodhenge.

All data types everntually expand to fill the disk space available.

Sorry cloud space.

Re: The Tories fix for this

Why are people so stupid as to fall for that?>

Re: A fix for this

"Netflix is the best really for no adverts" I must be using it wrong. I get screenfulls of adverts for shit I'm never going to watch before I get anywhere near what I'm searching for,

Re: Why cant you

It was a Samsung, not a cheap one - we have a couple of holiday cottages and needed a serious bit of kit to cope with vast amounts of laundry some people manage to produce! The other half is seriously diligent when researching these things and it should have been a good buy. Even managed to get some engineers round to fix it under guarantee who seemed to know what they were doing and it still fought back. One did try to recommend a whole new replacement but got overruled. We know have a new expensive one which so hasn't thrown an error yet but I fully expect it to be a well out of band error when it does, Things either work as expected here or just fail in ways that baffles the fuck out of everyone. I do wonder if its being in the country at the end of a lot of wibbly wobbly mains feed, regular lightning outages and frequent low voltages.

Re: SEP became MP

Rats do occasionally grow to extreme sizes. I bought a place with a badly designed chicken house - 6" off the ground so ideal for them to be able to hide underneath feeding off grain that had time to chew through wood to make holes in the house and somehow encourage the chickens to put their heads through and eat them off. A cat from the next door farm adopted us and it was a little cutie but a ferocious ratter and the remains of rats we found about the place grew as it became more experienced. It eventually caught the mother which had haunches a rabbit would have been proud of and an 8" tail that was a good 3/4 of an inch thick where it joined the body. the upper body and head were missing but I think it was bigger than the cat before she and the jackdaws devoured most of the remains.

Re: It's a sad day for this IT rag...

The books were pretty damn good too.

Re: Why cant you

We've just replaced a 3 yr old washing machine that came up with errors that the maker never ever found out what they were. I think we had 3 new motherboards and enough components to make a top of the range Italian coffee maker.

Re: I recognise the story

Its always management coming out with 'The Unions Wont be Happy'. The time I spent active in a union we saved the company more money by knowing the company and country rules than any of the management who came out with this crap ever managed let alone made for the company.

Re: Unique features

Are these the drunken umlouts you meet outside a pub on a drinking night?

Re: Fourth gender

Is not one gender enough for 99.99% of purposes? You dont serve coffee any differently to any of the above so you dont really need to differentiate someone's sexual orientation unless its actually pertinent and 99.99% of the time we're not trying to shag each other.

Re: Manx should be spoken

Kernow (Cornish) is seeing an interesting resurgence. It's not taught in schools much but with Cornwall's increasing reliance on the tourist industry for wonga it would be very useful for the service staff in pubs, cafes and restaurants to have a 2nd language so they can openly discuss customers that need the 'amphibious landing craft' treatment B Faulty handled so well.

Re: Besides invisible diacritical marks

A dyke is a ditch in some places and the mound dug from the ditch in others. And in some places its a hard well earned slap if spoken out of turn.

And nigh on impossible! At one place we did a lot of stuff cos FAST were making headlines at the time but many of the licenses were impenetrable. We had a thing from MS that told us what licenses we had and what it thought we might need and would produce random seemingly contradictory data on different days.

Re: Well done Liam...

And we use english to confuse the Americans!

I recently decided to have a go at learning foreign for holidays and in the hope of fending off age related mental decline. I borrowed language CDs from the library and stuck them on my phone and made more progress in Spanish in 30 odd hr long dog walks than I did in 6 years of French at school. I did a bit of German in the hope of helping my kid for GCSE but never managed to catch up. We were going to go to Croatia for a holiday in the summer of 2020 but that got fucked up however I did notice the learning process was far accelerated compared with my first attempts.

I think what would really help is watching kids TV from the country you wish to visit.

My mother came from Aberdeen, hadn't left the place until she finished Uni there. She spoke better english than my incredibly english nationalist Dad!

Gotta get those updates ASAP.

Re: Secure boot is going where?

Red diesel is not illegal to use. You just need a tractor!

Re: Secure boot is going where?

With the prospect of 50% efficient perovskite PV It would be nice if you could charge your car from you own home generated power. But like smart meters it almost looks as if efforts are being made to make this more difficult than necessary.