Posts by jumpyjoe

Happy Birthday Debian! You've left the teens behind and the broad uplands of the furture extend before you.

I switched from SuSE to Debian back in 2001. Between then and now I've tried a few other distros on a spare machine but none met my requirements like Debian.

Long life to Debian!

Scary

I was 16 when I saw The Pit on TV and despite being a mascho teenager it frightened the crap out of me.

Apart from the scary action sequences (i.e when the dead martians fell to pieces) it was the whole concept of the human race as having a "race memory" peopled with hideous fears and drives. The story might be fiction but I could see how beneath our civilised "skin" we might all have the seathing horror of the primative and animalistic lurking in our brains. That's what really scared me.

Dosen't the council have a quality control office(r) which assesses whether the outsourced company conforms to the appropriate ISO standard eg. ISO 9001 and maintains that standard? This should be the minimum requirement of control and tracability for any council which outsources some of it's functions.

Dishing out contracts ad hoc is a recipe for disaster.

Re;How about

Nay! They'd hire someone from Microsoft to give the course and from then on it'd be business as usual.

Formula 1?

Anyone who know anything about motorsport can tell that this is NOT a F1 car. It's clearly one of those second rate Indy cars.

Why do people always persume that the Americans are the fount of everything?

Judgement based on photos?

Surely passing a judgement based solely on photographic evidence says more about the photographs than the actual objects. I would have thought that the judgement should have been about the similarity of the object themselves rather than the similarity of the photographs.

Isn't it beyond the wit of the judge or his attendants to obtain samples of the objects. Then the court can actually see/handle the objects for itself. Then judgement can then be made on the similarity of the objects rather than their representations?

Business as usual....

... then for the Murdoch empire and his sycophants. "we'll deal with the devil if it makes a profit".

We were led to believe that the beauty of capitalism and the free market was that it brought us the goods we wanted cheaply and efficiently. But it's clearly just another economic lie.

I've watched F1 in one form or another since the late 1950s including the F1 golden age of of the 1960s but I guess that, along with other great sports, has finally come to an end. Killed by greed and total disregard for the viewing public.

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Impossible

Star maker by Olaf Stapledon is my No.1 candidate. It's not so much a novel more a history of all life in the universe which is possibly why J L Borges thought highly of it.

It's different from anything else I've read and I don't see how it could ever be made into a film.

Strange name?

Do I smell a rat? A rat smelling of dirty tricks?

This company is a new one, created this year and named after the Conservative Postmaster General back in the late 50s. He later became Transport Minister and had to do a moonlight flit (literally) from the country owing 30 years back taxes amongst ofther things. A favourite with some Conserattives because he beat the system (if criminally).

Too many strange coincidences?

They were always valves not tubes

Take this from a 67 year old. In England they were called "valves"

not only in my time but also in my father's time. Until recently

only the US called them "tubes". The advent of the US dominated

Internet now means everyone under 35 calls them tubes.

I still have some EL34s and EL85s for a Marshall 100 watt bass

amplifier which I used in the 1960s. They are still in their

original boxes and on the ends and sides of the boxes it plainly

states "electronic valve".

How about this picture (from an American company)

http://thetubestore.com/mullardel34.html