Posts by Boris the Cockroach

Visual Basic

I'd rather nail my own head to a table than go there again.

But then I'm biased because I used dephi

We just need

amanfrommars to drive over and fix it for us..... hes already there after all

Coat... because its chilly outside.. especially on mars

After

Removing keyboard from desk and announcing I was reading "BOFH" on the register , my co worker, who was in the area last time I was reading a BOFH story, decided to clear off... however in doing so, hes knocked over his coffee onto his keyboard.

Hence icon

In other news... I have a new PFY to train up.....

They

just want linux dead

And the best way to do it is to incorperate it into the crap pile that is windows and then blame linux when a linux only application refuses to run on said crap pile

Then go "ohh shiny shiny app runs on windoze with the need for linux........."

Remember the trick here is to get cash from every computer user on the planet and the more cash the better

I'm a leaver

Hey stop throwing rocks!

Actually I'm a supporter of a unified europe, but the way the EU is setup is not the way to do it.

Because unless the people of europe can actually get rid of the people in charge then theres no point in having an EU, we may as well go back to what the boomers signed upto in 1975.... a cooperative trading organisation.

Lets take ... the EU commission for example.. doing a fine job of organising the EU's response to corona virus.. so good in fact that member countries are off buying their own vaccine supplies instead of relying on the EU.

So the people of europe decide "lets get rid of the EU commission for being next to f'ing useless"

Except we cant

They are not elected

They are appointed by horse trading among the member governments for the candidate least likely to upset the rest

And then a 'vote' by the Eu parliment (the field of candidates at this point last time was............... 1 )

So how do you get on the list to be appointed... best mates with a prime minister/president seems to be the way and if the likes of you or me wanted the job...... ha dream on.

And that is why I voted leave (and much as I didnt like Tony Benn... this was pretty much his viewpoint too, "who are you? how did you get the power? how can we get rid of you?")

Good luck

Quote

"Oh, and to be able to command some other flunky to fix said IT equipment whenever it goes wrong, with a mere flick of a call-log."

If its anything like the festering heap of stupidity I attend on a full time basis, having the merest inking of IT knowledge will result in you becoming the flunky to repair all IT problems (including the boss's new phone when he cant work out where the on button is)

Oh and you can dream on about pensions and sick pay too (SSP anyone? nope ? thought not)

In any case for those out there looking to change jobs via a web based recruitment agency type thing... remember to re-write your profile for each job you apply to, with emphasis on your skills and adding 5 yrs experience in whatever buzzword tech thats just been released works wonders in getting an interview

Beer because at least its the weekend...

Not much new here then

since the low skilled seem to dominate in the rest of the criminal professions too.

I'm just surprised the plod managed to catch anyone involved in computery crimes.... and even more surprised the criminal protection squad decided to take them to court....

I wonder

if its linked to the fact they only just started the new enrichment line.....

And some idiot ordered 2 100 amp power cabinets instead of 1 200 amp one.

Power shorts out.... and to save face "lets blame Israel" all round while trying to find the PHB who changed the specs because 100 amp power supplies were 30% of the price of a 200 amp one......

I've seen/heard stupider things happening in the defence dept....

Which bridge was he again?

99 is a good age... bit disappointing not to get to 100 and get a birthday card AND telegram from the wife, but hey ho.

So I'll get a beer out, drink to him and hopefully get so drunk I dont notice the nauseating coverage by a media happy to do a hatchet job on him one day and sing gushing praises the next...

Didn't they put a stake through its heart last time.....?

Jeez this thing has risen from the dead more times than a hammer house of horror vampire....

Please

remember... these things are prototypes... and musk has the money to throw at the project (which keeps us engineering types in a job)

I'd much rather see that money used on trying to build a radical new spacecraft rather than musk 'investing' it all in the stock market making shares slightly more expensive.

But hopefully they've got data from today's flight ... they'll stick it in the modeling program* and iron out yet another bug

* any bets that modeling program is Kerbal space program ;)

I've

got an encrypted USB drive somewhere

was arsing about with full disk encryption , safest thing to do was try it on a USB stick.

Buggered if I can remember the password......... Do I go down for that if the cops have a reason to raid me and find it?

Oh god its the BOFH

Right... abandon desk and hide in the toilet to read, the last spare keyboard was damaged in a workplace accident when my mangler sat on it... or at least thats what the paramedics were told, I wont mention how its seamed to be balanced on end when he sat down.....

Anyways.... back to the toilet, whip out smart phone, and begin to read..... and giggle... then laugh and then say "F&%^$% IT" after reading the bit "not without write access to the HR archive" and the smart phone going for a swim.....

As for the icon.. well a smart phone has a keyboard and I did destroy it... so it counts right?

Ps If anyone is looking for an emotional support animal, may I suggest the humble cockroach... 400 of my kids need jobs....

I agree

with the above posting

Our apprentice earns min wage for a 18-21 old , morrisons supermarket offers him £10/hr for stacking shelves, and hes gone (along with 6 months of trying to beat the finer points of engineering into him... hey ho... try again next Sept.)

look at the pay I get and think... hmmmm

Then goto the various job websites, and see how much technical knowledge you have to have to earn a decent crust in the technical/engineering side of things.

Then notice that 'marketing' and 'sales' get a damn site more than that, and that the qualifications are usually "must have previous"

Do somethign about the lousy pay and you'll get kids lining up to do comp sci

But the best career advice I can give to anyone going for a technical job is "never ever be good at your job, if you cant be replaced, you'll never get promoted"

Ahhh just in

time for all of us who've finally got some semblance of sanity out of windows 10 and learnt where the settings you need are hidden (and got the printers working again), to have to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous designers hiding all the settings in different places and reseting your computer to m$ standard ah to sleep and perchance to dream of windows 7 and not to suffer an internet outage that renders your files unavailable because for some reason they're on onedrive now.

wheres the head banging against a wall icon?

PS Installing linux mint an another PC now.. :)

Never had the

call while working* for HM government, however during a minor disturbance about some rocks and some sheep in the south Atlantic, 10 collegues got a trip to Gib, 2 unlucky guys made it to Acension, and 1 guy spent 4 weeks on a borrowed cruise liner.

Futhest I got was the Isle of Wight..... and even then they wouldn't let us land...

*working = hanging around making cups of tea until the brown smelly stuff hits the fan and then you work 36 hr days 9 days a week and then the &%%&%ing tories give you a P45 in thanks....

This is getting like

the credits to "Holy grail"

"The people responsible for the subtitles after the first lot were fired, have been fired"

I think there

was even talk of bringing the older 1000 series cards back into production............. if which case I'd be angry as I have replaced a PC recently because the GFX card (a 560) was dying... and I can replace it easily with a 1000 series card....... what a waste