Posts by TRT

Re: To be fair on BMW

Puce. From the French for Flea and referring to the stains on the bed sheets once washed from all the fleas squashed during the night bursting and leaving blood marks. See also "depuscelate".

Re: Backdated Banking

Deposit a penny in a savings account in your own era (at BoE base rate) and by the time of the end of the universe the action of compound interest will mean that you can probably afford a small bowl of chips at Milliways.

The building supervisor where I used to work could tell you down to the minute how long to go before he retired. I suspect something along these lines, when it becomes someone else's problem.

Well the observer's local time is relative to the speed with which one got there...

Re: Always date and time

Are those yyyy digits Julian, Gregorian, Islamic, Hindu, Jewish, Zoroastrian or something else?

Re: Removing distraction = good

If a vehicle is indicating to leave the roundabout via the exit before yours, then it's perfectly reasonable to begin to move onto the roundabout. It's the LACK of indication that's an issue. There's one notoriously choked up piece of road near me and through flow could be 10-15% higher if drivers indicated to leave the roundabout allowing vehicles entering to move forwards and into their exit lane (which is an immediate left for them).

Re: What is the point ?

It is only disabled in the FRONT bit of the car, It's fine in the back. Isn't that where you are supposed to sit when you have autopilot turned on?

Re: Removing distraction = good

I have a theory about the mini roundabout epidemic.

I think it all started when they relaxed the rule about bringing coffee mugs into the drawing room of the local authority road planners.

Re: Removing distraction = good

I live in the vicinity of Hemel Hempstead. That's one of the two most notorious "Magic Roundabout"s in the UK, the other being Swindon. These are bi-directional very large roundabouts made up from lots of smaller roundabouts.

There are also several "elongateabouts" in the area as well. They like driving to be challenging around here I think.

Re: Hmm ...

I took my kids to Amberley museum about 12 years ago. They have an internal phone system and exchange. Anyway, I ended up having to show them how to use the dial phones.

Re: Not at all

That would be absolutely disastrous at this time of year. How is one supposed to pick which turkey to get from the ones hanging up in the butcher's?

Re: Timescales

You know what you get after 5 days of intensive cock training? A weekend.

TMI?

Thumpers

Massive

Intumescence?

Re: I Wish...

You wouldn't BELIEVE what Thumper was equipped with in the version I saw. Let's just say the nickname wasn't from his foot hitting the ground.

Re: I Wish...

We had one student who insisted on using the open access room in the corner suite that no one ever used because the machines were ancient (LC475 when every other room had PPC G3 at least)

So we adjusted the file sharing on those machines and sat back watching the temp cache folder of the active browser application.

I actually felt quite sad when he (a 23 year old mature student) got pulled into the principal's office and confronted with a dossier consisting of mainly Disney porn, but we had a duty.

Drive office...

Who remembers the ECDL?

Re: IT person

You didn't see the mess I got into opening that can of chicken soup once.

Re: In Case of MCAS: Logical Reasoning, Calculus

Time to get a third watch?

OR

The sailor with 2 watches knows it's time to get a new duty roster with fewer watches.

Re: "scientific testing" of safety is done by the manufacturing companies

Obligatory video clip

Re: Pilots were no longer in charge

To be fair, since they cut back the oversight of the R&D team to reports from a single manager...

Re: Trains and Planes

Brand new trains, with broken speedometers and door buttons hanging off. They also had a bit of an Oops! in that spikes generated by the transition of one supply area to another tended to reboot several of the computers. Including the one that monitors the power supply for all of the computers... including itself.

Re: Fired

More of a boss level, actually.

Re: "scientific testing" of safety is done by the manufacturing companies

Was just about to post a comment along those lines!

Re: "scientific testing" of safety is done by the manufacturing companies

"fell"... that's a rather... passive description of what happened.

Does that come with a side-serving of croque d'merde?

Scaped goat-leg a cie. I believe that's on the menu for the Christmas Party at Whitehall this year.

Re: None at all

Did you say they have a new clear plan then? Only for a second there, I thought it sounded like "nuclear plan".

Re: Don’t joke

Every device now, kettles, toasters, even shredders, has to have a nifty blue led light in it. Something that shows up the slot...

Mind you, those escalators with green lights underneath... I always think it looks like they're photocopying people.

Re: Windows Update

Should I be clearer? Worker puts in claim for updating Windows as per the OP comment. Queried with IT dept over cost. BOFH goes out to investigate why their department is being questioned over a cost they usually manage to disguise through finance. After all, they don't want anyone scrutinising the accounting in too much depth. Finds con artist employee at home. Asks to see this Windows upgrade. Checks Windows open correctly. Finds potential insecurity which is demonstrated to end user in a lesson they're unlikely to forget. Well at least they're unlikely to forget if they ever come out of the coma.

Bastard Operator Working From (other people's) Home.

Re: Windows Update

A clear case of defenestration.

BOWFH.

Re: Electric should be cheaper, gas more expensive

An alcohol burning stove. :) but I like to take a hybrid approach.

Re: The power consumption thing

Ah, but is there a way to track these ROCs and be sure that no-one is forging them or tampering with them? Duplicate trading and so forth... and why would we trust that tracking mechanism?

(Am I flogging dead horse here?)