Posts by Prst. V.Jeltz

Re: What could be better....

"Me neither, but also mainly not all of us have disposable income enough for such mostly useless frivolities."

I have , surprisingly ,given the state of my career , but whats the effing point?

I dont dim the lights or add a jar of coffee to my shopping list nearly enough to enroll the help of a robot with the comprehension ablilities of Manuel from Fawlty Towers.

Re: Escalation

Remember: Home taping kills music

Probably explains why we don't have music today

My god you're right. We killed music. Now the only music we get is produced by those TV appeals aired on a Saturday night where they use phone in donations to bully halfwits into singing for our amusement.

Re: Crimes against music

"1973, and enjoyed strong commercial success into the mid-'80s with their brand of skin-crawlingly nasal arena rock. "

I'll take that anyday over the "disco" epidemic that spanned roughly the same period.

isnt it obvious?

I assume he was going to build a small plane fuselage and fly it out there Colditz style!

Re: True story...

well , if that bloke in Melbourne really had his shit together he'd get them to pay him to take the stuff away. The recycling law is on his side with that -what else they gonna do?

Re: Power adaptors are always useful

oh yes , i dont hoard much but always keep the power adapters!

Top tip ( that u techies probly already know)

If the gizmo says 12v / 1A , and your psu says 12v / 5A - it wont blow it up

The psu amp rate just has to be >= the gizmo's

Re: Hmmm. Maybe it is time time to..

I must get round to ditching all of the <1GB drives sometime

Newsflash!

its not just the 1gb...

its all the IDE ones ...

and most of the Satas too.

if you've got a lot of 160gb sata discs lying around you cant pile them all together to make a decent storage area - there arnt enough sata ports/controllers .

On this logic I declare any Hard disc smaller than 1tb redundant.

re It's part of me. It stays.

Look forward to seeing you on the "hoarders" tv programme ....

Its not All or nothing!

Its a balancing act.

I'm on the lean side , due to lack of space . 2 boxes of cables (scarts and other older ones have been chucked) 1 box vinyl . one shed containing a dismantled car that is the same model as the one i drive .

1 box misc pci cards etc

You have to weigh up the odds of someone wanting to pay you money to show up with a parallel floppy drive that only works in xp against the cubic inches it takes up.

We all wish we had a magic shed like the Tardis... but most dont.

Software ans files on the other hand.... hoard as much as you want! Hard drive storage is massive and so cheap you can keep anything! (within reason)(a 100 disc blu ray collection is not "within reason" - keep that on tye discs it came on)

Iomega zip that connects via the parallel port.

definately

Re: Tsk tsk tsk

"those who have lots of money and legal clout "

depends , sometimes its weapons and manpower

Re: Oh, please...

@Lee D

I'm hearing a lot of "cant" "wont work" etc etc, but i didnt see any suggestions

Also you call all stages of education "just to prove you can learn"

Why do we have further and higher ed then? surely you can work out if a kid can learn at GCSE stage, or earlier!

Re: Delayed action alarm

I authored an error message in a system for retrieving info from remoter PCs that went:

"Cannot proceed because the machine we have connected to is not XXXXXXXX , its YYYYYYYY , this is because of a DNS error AGAIN!!!, please get zzzzzz to fix it".

and that was rev2 , with the swearing taken out.

Re: My boss was demonstrating the instrusion sensors on our building

even if his workplace dosent know, the bigger question is - how come alarm manufacturers dont know? after all they are the ones in the business.

I agree re music and films. it was a bad and not relevent example.

I think possibly the film and music industry is through the worst of it , now that not many people keep physical copies either on disc or as computer files.

Its just easier to sign up for netflix and spotify etc than pirate stuff , for a lot of people - not all obviously.

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by "stone dead" do you mean terminally contaminated by a never ending stream of moronic comic book superhero films - at the cost of anything good?

If so i'd have to agree

Re: I've seen a definite uptick in these

Well it certainly aint a Yahoo!! feature I was disappointed to find out.

Re: Various office sounds

And our office actually has a dot matrix printer, for filling out one particular form in carbonless triplicate.

but why? someone has to break the cycle!

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Did you know theres an NHS office in wales that digital pictures through the post on a floppy disk?

...to my nhs trust, where I had to find a machine that would run W7, And have a floppy drive! That machine will now be running w10, hopefull w10 knows what a floppy is.

Re: Oh Gawd...

I remember the bunny! Ran it round a college classroom in first I.T. job -about '96

The number of missed calls outweighs the number I hear by a factor of 3.

As a phone its terrible at making at notifying you that there is a call.

Me too, I've not seen a handy notification LED on any my phones since the samsung A500 (holds 10 texts , to give you a timescale)

My last was a windows phone that was impossible to have it repeat beep every minute , in case you missed first beep , even if u prepared to write your own app. No led either.

Now have Iphone 5 that seems to do what the fuck it wants ring tone / sms vibrate / volume wise. its different every time!