Posts by G.Y.

Bedlam3

For those who know: bedlam3

700 Re: As an ex-Sr. Director of a software company...I'm apalled!

It seems there were at least 700+ blue moons ...

contact supplier Re: Errors that *should* never occur

"cannot happen" errors in the PL/M-51 compiler (at least version 1) would give the user a number like 3-123, and request he 'phone Intel for help

(single digit was pass #, other part was decimal address in core)

Re: I hope they also covered

What is the Hatfield reference here?

Re: Out in the fields

That's what offline maps are for

series Re: I'd rig something to hang that server from the ceiling

Not in series??

schools Re: Not to whine about it ...

Some US schools would confiscate the CO2 detectors kids took in (CO2 is a good proxy for bad ventilation & COVID risk)

impossible errors Re: Avoid

The PL/M-51 compiler, when it hit a "can't happen" condition, would produce an error message consisting of the compiler pass and the code address

Re: "Actually, this is precisely the service you paid for"

"Anything not documented is a rumor"

Re: Old retread

I hear that, in Russia, putting "ANY" (in Latin characters) on the space-bar is standard practice.

N.B. Russian has no definite article

Re: "a former business leader"

If it were a capital crime (e.g. shooting at dawn), prison treatment would not have been an issue.

fined?

Has anybody actually been fined over this?

Re: A simple question?

Note: The US federal government shuts down at midnight EST on 9/30/23

200yr Re: This from a country

The difference between the two is 200 years

not quite simultaneous

On fancy fax machines, the fax goes into a disk/SSD buffer, gets printed some time later (a long time if out of papers)

Re: Plausible...

see http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/logisticsResearch/ALWAC_III_Brochure_1955.pdf

Re: When it becomes possible

I believe China makes it illegal to reincarnate without party permission; ask the Dalai Lama

Re: "Happily, we never heard a word about it from anyone,"

Way back, my monthly summary said "X had to stop work on Y (which is on the critical path to Z) and start masturbating Z". Report went up the channel, no echo

A few months later, I wrote "so the ayatollahs of X have shown us our un-islamic ways". My boss got a messages to get me to control my language. I asked about ayatollahs being non-Ok when the M-word was OK. Management hd someone dig up the monthly reports -- which were supposedly read carefully, all the way up the management chain.

(this involved 2 sites, separated by 10 time-zones. My immediate boss did not have English as mother tongue -- and they don't teach such words in school)

downloaded

I just download offline maps to google maps

flunk Re: Spreadsheet imports

Did you also add a pure-flunk student?

Re: I've been locked out ...

At one place, the blocked all exits except one. I asked people whether they liked to catch fire; was told "this is temporary"; said "OK, I'll tell the fire not to come"

rope Re: Not a lift but…..

Hebrew U CS got a PFDP11/55 delivered. It came Friday afternoon to TLV, and nobody wanted to risk it vanishing into customs' bottomless pit; so to Jerusalem it went.

No U staff around; so we tied the half-ton box to the floor upstairs (place looked like a castle gate), drove the truck forward, stopped teh box's swing by a table (which duly splintered), pushed it to a corner, left the rest for Sunday morning.

risks Re: Yeah, bad weather is a problem

losing a drone is not as bad as wrecking a ferry (with people on it). A bigger risk %age can be taken

Unix Re: Off topic

Unix was born on tty33s , which is why commands are so short

hebrew Re: All together now

Some chapters in the bible are in (Hebrew) alphabetical order

band-aid fix:

move 10 feet, get another what3words code. It's enough for 1 to be correct

If paranoid, do it again

Re: Clean keyboards

Did he smoke?

not the only game; Re: A fad if they don't rethink

see https://incredible-adventures.com/space_planes.html

Re: Somewhat similar situation?

" IT sees EVERYTHING." -- ask that junior air national guard guy who posted interesting stuff on an open group

Re: reading without comprehension

This was in Israel, and the secretary came from the Jewish community in Istanbul

Re: I need my local printer

What is the Sgt. Schulz way out?

Re: Actual black hat baddie

Is your name Johnny Tables?

Re: The Olympics have always been a political joke and a waste of time

The LA Olympics made a profit

euphemism

I have seen BROKEN euphemised to "your Kodak Ektaprint copier-duplicator is presently being service-adjusted"

Windows

That is how Windows manages its pseudo-LRU paging: declare a page not to exist; if page-fault, declare it to exist, and give it an LRU date-stamp

close eyes Re: From the article

I fixed the claustrophobia issue by shutting my eyes -- and the technician thought I was asleep! Looks like some people can sleep there.

humidity Re: air CON

At one place, there were always too hot/too cold complaints; the staff ran around with a thermometer -- but never measured humidity.

By the way, one employee cycled to work, hung her wet sweatshirt out to dry -- and 9+ hours later it was still wet.

I suggested the thermometer be replaced by an astrology book -- no less accurate, and more interesting.