Posts by Anonymous Custard

Re: This is why I feel....

Just done the same myself (my Fritz!Box 7590 should be arriving sometime between tomorrow and the end of the week, whilst my faithful old D6200 goes to have a rest in the attic after many years faithful service (as it's only ADSL and can't do VDSL).

The fact that my ISP supplied router is a £35 POC that doesn't even have gigabit Ethernet ports being part of it, and also the fact that I can't firmware upgrade it myself (and the supplied firmware is known to be buggy), plus to cap it all off even after a full factory reset they can't connect to the damn thing either to do it for me. And they've even seemingly locked it out of useful stuff like being able to change the DNS or put it into modem-only mode to daisy-chain it to the D6200.

Given they can't do the one thing that would be required, time to go self-administered and get some decent kit in place.

Re: Excelelnt song!

Although one would wonder how many know that Tainted Love (I know by Soft Cell, but sung by Almond) is also one (originally recorded by Gloria Jones in the mid-sixties) and might rival it?

Re: Better Option

No, some others of us know our place as well (in the wrong and to blame usually, regardless of what about).

Re: Atari Space Shuttle

Nah, nothing beats the Skylab Landing Bay level on Manic Miner on the ol' speccy ;)

https://youtu.be/aOkV6b7IOJM

Re: I hope..

@Unicornpiss - there's some argument that people like Tim Peake, Chris Hadfield, Peggy Whitson, Luca Parmitano, Helen Sharman, Michael Foale and Sunita Williams would all class as such heroes. Or at least deserve to, as probably do anyone with the balls to sit on a large firework built by the lowest bidder and pork-barrel scraper.

Maybe not the pioneers that the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo guys were, but still risk takers (such as Parmitano almost drowning in space) and great ambassadors for space and science in general to the public.

And as the shuttle sadly showed twice, even with "mature" technology, they could still kill if things went wrong.

Re: the whole setup was pretty crude

As part of our work training we do a Kepner Tregoe Analysis course (problem solving, situation appraisal, that sort of thing) and one thing I learned was they used it during Apollo 13.

Went into quite some detail, and to understand quite how ingenious they had to be (and unfortunately how many self-created issues of incompatible hardware they had to overcome - square filters in round holes and suchlike) is fascinating to read. Those men truly earned their "steely-eyed missilemen" status.

Can't find the full one they shared with us, but the link below has an abbreviated version:

http://www.kepner-tregoe.com/case-studies/client-success-stories/aerospace-industry/an-abbreviated-use-of-problem-analysis/

Re: There's an island somewhere...

I know the audience here :)

For your other question -

http://www.tech-lane.com.cn/first%20product.html

Seemingly available via eBay or several other auction sites.

Re: Had the fire brigade called to a five star hotel, in Malta....

Had that here at work too, the microwave one.

We had a supply company install a vending machine for frozen microwave meals (which to be fair were actually almost edible) and alongside it a couple of microwaves for the heating-up thereof. These things were catering grade microwaves, somewhere in the region of 3000W or so.

But despite various notices etc of the fact, people also tended to use them for their brought-in stuff and just stick the times in that the packet said, regardless of the fact that those were for an 800W or so home microwave.

Cue regular and repeated fire alarms as various items were nuked and ended up blackened and smoking, or in one memorable case literally molten and on fire.

Needless to say neither the vending machine or the microwaves are here any more.

Re: Cute conversion: 40,000 Kelvin (~ 39,727 degrees Celcius)

Just be thankful that it's one of those rare publications that doesn't incorrectly call them degrees Kelvin...

Re: Forestry

Personally I plan to live forever.

So far, so good...

Re: One of those sounds like a computer error

And be honest, in that scenario how many would try to take out just a tenner to see if they'd actually swapped the fill over accidentally and put twenties into the tenner hopper too?

Then if a purple drinking voucher actually appeared out, spend the next several minutes slowly emptying it a "tenner" at a time...?

"SpaceX Shoots Star Semen Skyward Showing Surprisingly Satistfactory Space Sperm Sexual Suitability" surely...?

Excellent effort anyway though :)

Re: No shame in cocking up!

The true wisdom is not just to learn from your own mistakes, but to also learn from those of others to save you making your own in the first place.

At least that's my excuse for reading this section on a Monday morning (and On-Call on a Friday)... :)

Re: Incremental backups?

And of course you just wait for some minion to make an incremental back-up over the top of the full one, or to use the same tape for the full one each month and end up overwriting the historical archive once it gets too full.

Indeed, that and decruitment I think both are worthy additions to the lexicon...

Re: I think

And then unfortunately got onto the wrong plane and ended up in some tax haven island without an extradition treaty...?

Re: Space oddity?

Given the branding and product history so far, it's unfortunately exactly what I was expecting...