Posts by Sgt_Oddball

Re: This months of work from home showed too....

I've got a house of Victorian vintage and whilst I can lift the floor boards the issue then becomes that of dropping it to the basement which has become a much more challenging affair.

That said I know that the gap between ground floor and basement is hollow so maybe... Just maybe.... It's also hollow from the first floor down. Though it probably would then mean I'd need about 20 meters of cabling to get from my office down to the basement switch.. Maybe drop 2 cables otherwise I'd end up with 2 switches before going back to the router.

Re: I used Twitter once

Ahh, so you follow GrumpySkeletor as well then?

Re: I'm worried about longevity.

I've got a QPAD k-85 that's still doing fine (apart from the rubberised coating that's now been scraped off) after 12 years.

That's using CHERRY-MX blues and still feels as crisp as the day I bought it. Not one of the blue LED's have failed either.

My only gripe (save for the coating obvs) is it's in AZERTY layout but muscle memory makes it mostly a non-issue.

I've also got an Apple Bluetooth keyboard... Happily telling me it's now into its 18th year (yes I'm surprised too).

So they're really making em bad if you're not even making it to the first decade.

Re: Definitely pick which battles you want to fight...

It's also fun when your company gets bought out/merges. Everyone's assets management systems are different and sometimes just never gets merged.

I've got colleagues using kit from 4 business names ago. Pretty certain those bits of kit aren't registered anymore.

Re: Windows

We can only hope.

I just had a quick squiz looking for the compatible TPM 2.0 module for my AMD mobo... Only one I can find is second hand on ebay for 5x retail price with 2 days to go.

Re: But ...

What a lovely lovely boy!

Lenovo tried that...

In the God awful T/X/P*40 days.

The worst of it was that the whole pad moved when you clicked. Which almost always resulted in the pointer moving just before the click was registered.

I did wonder at first why they shipped them all with a Lenovo mouse....after a week I'd have cursed them more if it didn't.

That being said, the trackpad on the wife's Asus is good without the physical buttons but then it does also double up as a second screen with a few party tricks so there's that.

Re: Reminds me...

Don't, they'd only eat it...

Re: All very well but

I did 670 miles non-stop in Canada once. Only put an extra $10 in to make sure I got it back to the airport (warning light came on just as I went into the car hire parking lot)

Re: No pr0n without diesel

I always thought you started with the mechanical aid first then finished it by hand?

Re: The knob......

Ahahahhahhahahhahahhahahahahaaa..... Cleaned he says. Cleaned! Within hours even.

Pull the other one, it's got bells on it (it's a prototype before we attach the cattle prod).

Part of the problem though...

Is we voted in these kinds of people they somehow assume they're smart because of some narrow gauge of intelligence (sort of like how AI isn't wise.)

Re: air filled, so lucky!

Servers fine, ssd still pushing data nicely (only got the one SAS SSD but 15x 600gb spiny rust and all is well).

Really need to get round to doing some productive with it like using docker and webhosting from it.

Re: Manual insertion

Has anyone been watching the home Secretary's latest police raids? It wouldn't surprise me by this point if you need to sign in triplicate to acknowledge you've been arrested.

On a side note, does anyone know a good plumber?

Re: How long...

On a long enough period of time everyone's survival rate drops to zero...

- The Narrator

Re: I guess it may work here...

Whilst webex did indeed have these things years ago it was never exactly what you'd call a pleasant experience.

Audio always suffered to the point where we had to use the phone numbers to ensure at least a stable line rather than the choppy/flaky connections that it'd do in our office.

For the most part teams whilst having other irritating quirks at least seems much more stable on the audio front and handles video rates better when connections get congested.

Re: MC1192

I would agree. I've also been caught out by their bus lanes (lefthand turn with the bus lane warning on a direction sign about 20 yards before the turn and the signs at the junction were facing traffic coming from the right. So I missed it. Also no change of paint unlike Leeds bus lanes).

So in all likelihood I've probably been caught in this. Is there somewhere we can check if they leaked our number plate or not?

First Direct App..

Has an interesting way of doing where you just take pics of the cheque and do it without even having to leave the house.

Pretty sure they have a limit to how big a cheque you can do but for small amounts it works really well.

Re: I keep my comic collection in shoe boxes...

In fairness the pioneer amp I last worked on, the carbon slides still work fine (after a squirt of cleaner) and the mosfets drive better than most sub-£1,000 kit. As for its caps about half had drifted off their values, the rest were still within spitting distance. Replaced the lot anyway, but will change to connectors next time I'm in there too make it easier to maintain.