Posts by TRT

Re: on the other hand....

I thought that when they did two things they did them one side at a time.

All staff. I assume that's the directly employed ones, not the subcontracted ones like a lot of the cleaners and maintenance staff are that put up with a lot of shit from all sides.

Or classes in a primary school where one teacher takes the class for all lessons bar a few that require e.g. the gym.

Re: 29% increase

It was quoted from two different tables in a report by the UCU. I didn't check their calculations but I suspect it's to do with a relocation grant that was awarded as a one off rather than the regular pay element. One table is for all element emoluments, the other just emoluments.

Re: Repeatable?

Or based on mutations.

Re: Love a good pr0n investigation

Got in via a back-door.

Re: What would they be running on?

Clockwork?

Re: Incompetent admins and migration saboteurs

Unless IT sneakily announces rolling 24 hour outages on their diverse server real-estate. All the individual old servers, which come back up identical to previous and no-one knows the wiser, except that they are now imaged virtual machines running on a 3PAR. All mission critical servers now running off one single piece of hardware. Imagine what chaos could follow if, say, the one disk failure tolerant 3PAR RAID had two simultaneous failures.

Re: When R/C hobby models now come with autoland, these folks are simply pathetic.

You could fit a mouse to the front of the drone... see if it starts panicking when the engine cuts out because the drone thinks it has landed.

Re: into this world is to have someone whom you're guaranteed to be superior...

Who will be choosing your retirement home...

Are CAA fines tax deductible?

Re: the DHCP client attempts to re-use the last good IP address

Really? I can't find a reference to this. Is it part of some wake-up protocol? My initial comment was based on trying to crowbar the OPs highly stylised and anthropomorphic version of DHCP transactions into the agreed way to describe the sequence of events. "Can I use x address?" I interpreted as a REQUEST without it being in response to an OFFER following a DISCOVER. That shouldn't happen, so I thought maybe they meant DHCP RENEW. Which, quite rightly does contain the client IP address, but is more of a "Can I continue to use?"

Re: Don't think Microsoft has the monopoly on dodgy DHCP clients

"Any normal DHCP client that has previously been connected to a network will usually send a request with the IP address it had previously."

Previously been. As in "is no longer". That would not be the case with a RENEW.

Re: is anyone surprised?

Contrary to popular belief, railway track isn't earthed. It's called "traction return potential" and there is a floating potential of around 100V between the running rails for block occupation detection. But I take your point.

Can the people of this country afford handsets, and do they use them? I can stand right next to a bloody mast and get spinning wheel of delay just picking up email because every Tom, Jane, Freddy and Dominic that walks past as a phone clamped to their chest as they watch catch-up TV streaming video 24/7 crossing the road. If you're the only Johnny on the basestation, sure it's going to give you a good service.