Posts by Anonymous Custard 2797 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Jul 2008
I seem to remember Wordpad being the sweet spot between Notepad and Word, both of which used to sneak all sorts of crap in and bork files if you weren't careful with what you fed them.
That said I'm also quite surprised it worked for editing, but I've also used it to pull ASCII information out of such files before.
Had similar as a semiconductor process engineer working at customer with a 2-vendor policy.
Our tools running fine, but competitor (the 2nd vendor) tool causing them all sorts of issues. Their support was "leaving something to be desired" (to be diplomatic), so as customer guys were good to us and I had time I quietly asked them to explain the issue they were having.
Half an hour of chat later, some "suggestions" given as to what they could try and the following day came in to smiles and gratitude as the line was up again.
A great way to reinforce the "we're all a team working toward the same target" mentality with the customer, not to mention severe kudos with them and got a good free dinner as well.
But I warn you that the augmented reality enhanced biometric system at the border gate will be a bit of a bugger. Even now, it keeps identifying me as Psyduck.
Given my UK biometric passport seems to work everywhere in the world except UK airports, I think that part is already here. Either that or I look almost entirely too much unlike Pikachu...
Nice one anyway Dabbsy, and a happy new (old) year to everyone.
But why did el-reg seem to need to label this NSFW?
The Mandalorian is great as it's gone back to the roots of the thing - it's a sci-fi western.
Since somewhere around RotJ (and arguably earlier) they've gone away from that towards just trying to serve up fan service stuff and to sell merch, and so the whole thing has suffered as a result.
Rogue One was a nice reminder of what these things can be, but I think it would be too much to hope that they let Jon Favreau have enough of a free reign to make a proper full Star Wars film even after the Mandalorian...
He can even bring his own fireproof racing suit?
Had something quite similar to that last time we had a downturn. The manglement had the bright idea of punting a few people, and for those of us left to continue the still quite high workload we would be paid TOIL rather than overtime.
TOIL bank limit was raised to 300 hours, and they were surprised when I hit that a few weeks later. And when asked to take some of it, had to point out that if I did then a swathe of projects would basically stop as there were no others left to take over them, with accompanying wailing and gnashing of teeth from customers.
In the end they relented and paid off a chunk of it, when I said the other option would be that I just did as they said and took the whole lot (alongside holiday allowance, bank holidays and suchlike - this discussion happened in October and I calculated with all the owing I'd be back sometime in February).
My boss used to tell users that we were specially trained in the delivery of percussive maintenance. He explained that there was a lot of training in not only knowing where to apply the maintenance but more importantly exactly how much maintenance to apply .
And in certain all-too satisfying cases, knowing when to stop before your desire for vengance on the thing outweighs the need to fix it...
Or back in the day when researchers progressed from Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) on to those made of Copper (chemical symbol Cu)...
It even got the nod from this very site. Should definitely bring back the Vulture Vulgar Acronym trophy though, in memory of Lester.
So basically it's the modern 21st century equivalent of the Pneumatic Tube delivery system?
I wonder which of the two will turn out to be cheaper, quicker and/or more reliable given many hospitals have been using the older system for decades...
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