Posts by phuzz

Re: Virtue signalling

Then there's the difference between the ideal of Communism, and actually-existing Communism in countries such as the Soviet Union or China, which afaik all kept money as part of their system.

Re: I don’t think printers will ever work…

At least they're becoming steadily less ubiquitous. I think we might be close to the 'paperless office' we were promised in the 80's.

Re: Savings?

It's not the soldiers in barracks they're worried about, it's traditionally to stop the armed forces from deciding they'd do a better job or running the country than the government/monarch/etc.

Although, given the current shower in Westminster...

Re: A little power

I've always had to work with cheapy ones that would fall off it they were (eg) on the lid of a laptop. I usually try and position them next to the factory serial number.

Re: I guess I'm too much of a navigation geek...

2 acres is small enough that you can usually see clear across (1 acre is ~64x64m), and if it's not too overgrown would take about one minute to walk across. I think OP was making a joke ;)

Re: why aren't they going to the ISS?

The US government forbids NASA from working with the Chinese space agency. Pretty much ever other space agency is happy to work with them.

Re: N Yorks to Edinburgh

I saw that story going differently when you said "decided to 'have a go' himself".

Phew!

Re: Has anyone ever heard of an ERP migration...

Or indeed an ERP migration that was actually cheaper than just buying a new system, and hiring people to type the old data into it by hand.

Re: Floppy solution

I've met a lot of people who use CAPS LOCK instead of Shift. It's painful to me to watch them type.

Re: Stupid is as stupid does.

I grew up in the country, and my folks still live there, and foxes were never a problem (unsupervised dogs have killed a number of our chickens however). The closest you'd ever see one was the other side of field, and they'd bolt if you got any closer.

Now I live in a city, and the foxes are happy to sit there until you get closer than about 1 metre.

Re: Toll

If they charge based on axles, how much would a tank cost?

Re: "Seems the pilots did a good job,"

Don't forget that Boeing insisted to the FAA (and every other agency worldwide), that the 737 MAX was similar enough to the original 737 that pilots did not need to retrain.

Re: That kind of thing is common

Don't forget that the IRS will chase US citizens for income tax, even if they live and work in a different country and never plan on returning to the US.

They used to make good stuff, but I've not heard good reviews for quite a few years now.

Re: No surprises here

"You forgot to compare anyone to Hitler."

The classic "Hitler was a veterinarian" line is right there too.

My old Peugeot 206 was built in 2001, and managed to combine some parts from the 2000 model, and some from the 2001 facelifted model. I'd have to just cross my fingers and and hope that I'd bought the right part, because there was no way of knowing which model it belonged to.

Re: Optional ize

if you use a dating app keep your GPS and WiFi off?

Why not just deny access to location data, for that particular app?

Just unplug the antenna from the wifi card. The TV will only know that it's not receiving a wifi signal, and if they bricked every TV that was in a wifi blackspot they'd catch too many legitimate owners.

Re: Ball crud

I spotted an OG Microsoft Intellimouse (their first optical one) on one of our developers desks the other day. As far as I know they've never even used Windows (they use a macbook).

Those things just never die.

Re: "assumed Boeing knew what it was doing."

It would have a cutting edge autopilot which only occasionally gets confused and flies into mountains.

Oh, and anyone who flew on one would become unbearably smug about it and insist on telling you that it was the future of aviation, and how Musk is amazing.

Re: I knew it

Kerbal Space Program veterans would be even more apposite.

Re: That Meme

I should have been more clear, I meant that I ask as a candidate, and I want to know what sort of role they are actually hiring me for. Part of that is asking what the job entails, eg "what does an average day look like here?". I'm looking for more information on things which never make it into the job description, like, am I usually going to be going home on time? Am I expected to socialise with my co-workers? How flexible is the dress code? Quality of life details basically.

There was one job I interviewed for, where according to the job description (and salary) I was a good fit, but through talking to them I realised what they actually wanted was an IT Manager, rather than someone hands on. We had a bit of a chat and I told them some changes they could make to the job advert to better fit the role they actually need filling. I think we both parted happy, I avoided a job I wouldn't have enjoyed, and they understood better who they were actually looking for. (And a week or so later I got my current job, which is a good fit).

Re: Anyway

The short answer is, a lot. The slightly longer answer is, a full day* of running experiments, and keeping up with maintenance and chores.

So much so that they have dedicated scheduling tools to keep track, as you can see here.

* The ISS runs on UTC/GMT 'days', although they get a sunrise and sunset every 90 minutes.

Re: Forgive me for saying this...

Don't forget all the 'fun' of trying to communicate with someone in a different organisation.

Maybe I can start an audio/video call with them, maybe the button is missing today for no good reason. Maybe they'll show up as a 3rd party contact, or maybe you'll have to click over to their organisation to see the chat, or be notified about it. Who knows?

Still, I suppose it gives a handy excuse for why you didn't respond to someone, "sorry, I didn't see that message until later, must be Teams being weird". Not that I'd do that of course...

Re: No problem!

Additionally, KSP veterans are used to problems like "whoops I forgot to add RCS to both ends of my vessel, so now it's unbalanced", which wasn't a problem in Elite.

Re: You think that's bad...

"Orange man f**ks entire country"

Re: Hilarious!

"CAT5 only needs 1,2,3 and 6 connected to "work"."

At 10 or 100MB speeds, GB and upwards requires all the wires.

Unless it was a really crappy drill (which is still possible), if it wasn't just arcing between the two cables they drilled, it would have down the drill's power cord rather into the sparky.

Humans don't conduct electricity very well, stray electricity will earth via metal or wires before it tries your arm.

Re: Winscp is your friend

Doesn't Powershell have SCP built in already?

I checked, and yup, OpenSSH (including SCP) has been part of PowerShell since the Autumn 2018 update.

No diss to WinSCP though, I use it all the time, it's great.

Re: Whistleblower protection

As far as I can tell, the argument here is that she exposed wrongdoing by Serco, but she was actually employed by 'Jackpostcomics' and contracted to Serco.

So, when Jackpotcomics failed to renew her contract it was for 'completely unrelated' reasons, and not because she'd embarrassed Serco.

I'm guessing a good lawyer would be able to rip that to shreds, but I doubt she can afford said lawyer.

We had a server that belonged to a customer which had a bad fan for years. It was so loud you could hear it from the other side of the room, but this wasn't a small server room. This was a medium size hall in a colo center, filled with other people's kit, and yet, as soon as you opened the door, the loudest noise was the tiny abused HP fan in a rack on the far side of the room, buzzing away at a frequency that ground into your ear drums.

I can only imagine how happy the other customers at that colo centre were when we finally managed to decommission that machine.

Well, it was sometimes funny to watch from this side of the Atlantic, when I wasn't terrified that half the US thought that an idiot and conman was the perfect person to be in control of nuclear weapons, but "love" is a putting it a bit strong.

I was just making the point that China's political system is very different to the west, and saying it's draconian is, well, from the point of view of the CCP, that's a feature, not a bug.

It's ok, the Load Font dialogue from Win 3.1 (or 95?) is still there.