Posts by DJV

Re: Ffs

"I was going to post a comment but just don't have the words. I mean REALLY!"

I'm glad you were totally able to restrain yourself from posting your comment.

Re: No pics?

Plenty of online reviews if you look for them - here's a couple:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1E5xszQqV8&t=615s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nopc7mJUDkM

Re: I have never had a socket switch fail

Some people are convinced that if the socket switch is left on with no appliance plugged in then electricity seeps out onto the floor. I just go along with it - it's easier than arguing.

Re: Artificial Stupidy - as predicted 35 years ago!

Not seen that before - thanks.

Hmmm, I think AGGREPOST morphed into something orange.

Re: SBB CFF FFS

I use some rather useful software called FreeFileSync (yeah, FFS!) - when you save a batch file is calls it NAME.ffs_gui which always amuses me.

Re: Linux and more

Indeed!

The "best" one I ever came across was a whole bunch of impenetrable and almost undocumented Perl. There was just a single comment against one piece of the code, which "very helpfully" announced:

// This is a skanky hack!

cA - ex PET user!

IKEA products named after London boroughs

Balham - a ball of ham on elastic for your dog to play with (£35, ham extra).

Camden - a large storage box to store old cameras in. Costs £50 (£75, if painted). Made of cardboard.

Hackney - a sharp chopping device for lowering the height of tall persons (£125, sharpening extra).

Re: bye bye 2038

Yep, that just leaves the Year 10,000 problem to sort out at some point.

what colour to paint it

From here it looks like a nice shade of mangled, which is probably made up from a mix of cluelessness and obstinacy.

Re: help our customers stay connected to what’s next

Well, definitely not IPv6 if you're on Vermin Media! I think they are waiting for the heat death of the universe before they roll it out...

"We'd just delete them on-sight"

Shirley you mean: "We'd back them up onto CD or a Zip disk to take home and THEN delete them."

Even though I passed my Lego on many years ago, I do now have a small collection of random pieces. These I have gained through digging the garden of my house that was, 23 years ago, purchased from a family who'd had kids. I think their kids must have thought that planting various toys* in the garden might make them grow into a new crop.

* Not just Lego - also in my collection reside (the remains of) tanks, cars, plastic soldiers/infantry/native Americans (though they were probably called Red Indians at the time they were manufactured). Many of the latter are missing a limb or three, though they don't complain about it. I also have what I presume to be a single boot from an Action Man, a few battered glass marbles and several bits of old clay tobacco pipes. Oh, and a toy whistle. No actual treasures, unfortunately, though a dig in a previous garden when living with parents unearthed a rather thin and somewhat bent/battered 1575 sixpence.

Re: Please o' Please!

The text reads "...Facebook's automated software clearly disagreed. A screenshot posted by the company..." - what made you think it might not have been a link to Fartbook?

Re: I read a mention of BOFH in another thread

Yeah, that was me (unless there were more than one) - looks around for magic lantern that I might have accidentally polished...

Re: Convention

If they'd registered realarsebookoversightboard.com/org instead, we'd have all known who they meant!

Re: Welcome back

Yay! Dabbsy! Now someone just needs to hunt down the BOFH and the world will start looking just that teeny bit more normal again!

Crusade...?

Ah yes, Poul Anderson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Crusade

Re: If Bill Gates has the technology to implant chips to control people's behavior

No. 1K built in, plus a wobbly 16K rampack sellotaped precariously on the back.

Re: Dave Allen

Here it is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLhXVswy9-8

test it?

Of course it will be tested!! Just not by Microsoft, though...

Re: Mutliple users being unable to sign in

Mutliple users being unable to sign in, end up getting on with doing more productive work (provided they aren't using O3652, of course).

"But with all the commits MS have made to Linux, you are using MS code already."

Well, sort of. But, as the code MS is submitting to Linux is open, there is hope that non-MS people are checking it thoroughly before it's accepted. Conversely, that's something no one outside MS can do to the code that runs Windows.

Re: Organize!

I reckon you should organise a petition to protest about it!

Rewind

Back around 2000 when I bought my mother a mini hifi system to replace her aging separates she'd inherited from all over the place, I had to carefully explain to her that CDs didn't actually need rewinding after they'd been played.

Re: Bond movie

Or, in this case, it was BRAINIAC!