Posts by DJV

Re: Are they sure they can afford it?

Hmmm, the sarcasm is strong with this one... have an upvote!

Good idea

It then becomes SEP.

Re: CREST fallen

Well, at least his teeth are clean...

^^^^^ This a thousand times over!!!!

Re: Eh?

Any company droid employed to make such public statements should first be wired up to a Bullshit meter. Any indication of a needle quivering should then result in several cattle prods worth of, um, excitement!

Re: Obvs

Apart from once every 4 years...

Re: Sounds like a PsyOp

I like the way you encypted AN0M to AN0N throughout your entire post - made it very hard to decrypt and read!

Re: Can't help feeling a little disappointed

Maybe not but I wonder if even his victims have the opportunity to utter "Goodbye cruel world" before their (un)timely demise...

Re: I'm dating myself

And the conversation is probaby better!

It was that geezer Terry from down the pub armed with a load of string and several baked bean cans.

Re: Inspirational stuff

Good for you - go for it!

Although this was definitely not up at the undergraduate level, about 24 years ago I took an Astronomy GCSE evening class at the local school and sat a proper exam at the end. Afterwards, people found it amusing and possibly appropriate that I managed to achieve a grade of A* (pronounced A 'star').

Re: a visit to the local vasectomy clinic

...where he will hopefully be seen by someone who can't tell the difference between the vas deferens and the vocal chords...

Re: Remember, Safety Third!

I doubt safety is anywhere near as high as third!

...and another 212 to go with it - just in case...

Re: Microsoft Solitaire Collection

And that's why I am still running the old (and far superior) versions of Solitaire and Spider that came with XP...

@naive

Well done for choosing a user name that is totally appropriate to your thinking.

Not quite as bad as 50% but up until earlier this year I was using SiteGround for hosting several websites. I last renewed in 2019 in order to get a bit of discount by opting for 2-years. Their renewal this year was 33% up on the 2019 price (including the discount of going for a 3 year renewal). I opted to find somewhere cheaper instead.

Bloody glad I did as they've done a massive update this year to replace cPanel with their own home-grown and somewhat appalling SiteTools package that managed to screw up several of my client's sites.

Re: generating this kind of sentences

amanfrommars is obviously moonlighting for them.

Re: "users who followed a full cloud model ... were not impacted at all"

Nor were those who refuse to use Microsoft's untested (apart from by the victims users) shit!

Re: producing the necessary gasses

I'd better put the Christmas Brussel sprouts on to boil in June instead of the usual October then...

As both of my parents have shuffled off their mortal coils I am sorely tempted, when receiving a mother/fathers day email, to reply: "Fuck off, (s)he's dead, you uncaring, money-grabbing bastards!"

Pity those emails are mostly sent from a "no-reply" address.

Re: PDF ?

Hey, the leopard needs a day off once in a while!

Re: phoning you up and asking you to "go through security"

Yeah, I had that recently with $PENSION_COMPANY

Earlier this year I'd had an arranged online meeting to discuss pension arrangements with $COMPANY_PERSON1 which all went ok. She didn't indicate that I would be getting a follow-up call regarding how the meeting went.

Then, a few days later, I had a call on my mobile phone with the number withheld (alarm bell 1 goes off) from someone (let's call her $COMPANY_PERSON2) who claimed to be from $PENSION_COMPANY. She wanted to talk to me about my "recent contact" (very vague - alarm bell 2 goes off) with the company. She then asked me to provide answers to security questions. I refused and asked her to prove that she really was from $PENSION_COMPANY and why was she calling from a withheld number when this is now extremely frowned upon (though, I believe, not actually illegal). I thought it reasonable to ask her to provide me with either one of my policy numbers or some digits (and their positions) from one of those numbers. She refused saying it was personal information and, after getting in a bit of a strop about my refusal to do what SHE wanted, in the end hung up on me.

I immediately contacted $COMPANY_PERSON1 and told her about my experience. She agreed that it sounded very suspicious and asked if I wanted to officially report it, which I agreed to. She took the full details and said I would be hearing from someone in a few days.

A few days later I received a call from $COMPANY_PERSON3 from a number that was associated with $PENSION_COMPANY and, as he had details about the "rogue" call and other things that only someone from the $PENSION_COMPANY should have possessed, I was happy to talk to him. He apologised as it turned out that the "rogue" call HAD come from someone employed by $PENSION_COMPANY who was working from home but hadn't done as she should have and routed the call via $PENSION_COMPANY's normal phone network. We spent some time discussing ways in which $PENSION_COMPANY could improve their ability to prove their own identity when asked for it (mainly the same as I'd asked $COMPANY_PERSON2 to do, which he thought was a reasonable way of going about things).

Then he asked, "Is £75 compensation for all the hassle ok?" Having not expected anything of the sort, I readily agreed. This was duly paid into my bank account a few days later and, also around the same time, I received a package containing a written apology along with 2 bottles of wine and a box of chocolates!

So, I think the lesson there is, if you complain properly, you can actually get good results and a proper company will learn from its mistakes. I do wonder, though, what sort of reprimand $COMPANY_PERSON2 got!

Hmm

Now that's what global stylesheets and common code to render headers and footers are for!

Re: Maplin Electronics

Fantastic! Thanks for that link! I know what I'll be doing over the weekend!

Re: Getting abused is the point of having a contract with oracle

Ah, the old drop 'em and bend over clause...