Posts by J.G.Harston

Re: Inappropriate garb? Me? Probably daily ...

On one job we were instructed to wear the company sweatshirt at all times. I pointed out that they'd only supplied us with one each, and that we'd be spending most of our time crawling under desks, so we'd be stinking to high heaven by Tuesday morning.

Our line manager told us to ignore the boss and come in whatever was suitable for the job.

Re: Magic?

I was trying to recover data from somebody's stalled external hard drive, one of those things the size of a shoe box. After failing to get it working I asked: If you're prepared to treat it as a lost cause, there's one more thing I can try. "Go ahead". I lifted the whole thing 12 inches off the desk and dropped it. It started up, and we very quickly got close to 98% of the data off it.

Re: Why is it always cold in the morning?

You had beer in the office, and were complaining????

Re: Reminds me a bit of the "More magic" switch story

Yes, I couldn't understand why people tried to toggle a power switch as fast as unhumanly possible. The only possible motivation is to destroy the electronics. I'd give the brats a good cuff around the ear when I caught them doing it.

Re: Hardware

Ah ha! That's what I'm looking for. It could have been linked to direct from the article.

Re: Time to be pedantic

In today's world, "being able to use IT" is yesterday's "being able to drag a pencil across a piece of paper". Without it you are functionally illiterate.

Re: I must be missing something...

I've notice my build sheets have telephone numbers entered with a leading 'o' instead of '0' to prevent it being numberified... which would be neccesary if the morons entered the telephone numbers correctly in the first place.

Re: Happens in Google sheets as well.

00:00 is the start of the day, 24:00 is the end of the day.

Re: Why?

I too downloaded those documents from usb.org when writing a USB keyboard driver, but I still needed to plug a physical Japanese keyboard in and read the actual physical codes being sent to actually get the driver actually working. A nice historical link, the Japanese keyboard layout is one of the few bitmap layouts, aka BBC layout. Such joy to press Shift-6 and get & just as god intended. :)

And Yen is commonly aliased to backslash, not to divide.

Re: Colleges vs. Real world.

After several years coding, designing and building hardware, summer work designing and building computerised medical equipment, a summer teaching coding, I had to endure two years at university being taught how to type.

Back in another life when I was a local councillor I was clinging on by fingertips insisting *NO*, I *don't* want to have a tablet foisted on me. I didn't learn to touch-type when I was 8 years old to go back to finger painting, I'm a software developer, I'm not a b***y illiterate moron. Plus, I want to actually sit down at an actual desk and actually type at an actual keyboard to work, with space to spread documents around, not balance some crap on my knee in the supermarket because some idiot wants to contact me RIGHT NOW THIS INSTANT.

They managed to force me to have a Blackberry. That was useful for browsing the web while on the bus. I think it's at the bottom of the wardrobe, they never asked for it back when I left.

Re: Elected Members

"The justification was based on a business case that council meetings would be paper free."

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Re: @gnasher729 - Define gender!

Sex is biology, gender is social interaction.

Re: And so it ever was.

Affected? Wot, put on a posh accent and use multipolysyllabric phoneme contructs?

This is the website that deals in financial stuff that refuses to allow you to enter such esoteric characters as £ % + - & * / .

Re: Late 2000s?

That's the problem with it being written and not spoken. Aurally it would be clear as it would either be the two thousands or the twenty hundreds.

Who is the folk song collector who collected all the folk songs?

I can never understand how people put mouses back to front. Surely the crippling pain in their wrist and elbow would be some sort of signal that something was wrong.