Posts by CrazyOldCatMan 6355 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Oct 2015
No it doesn't have replaceable/upgradable storage and they market this something which can do server work
Couple it with a decent external Thunderbolt RAID array and you would have a decent storage server. Although the MacOS Server has been neutered almost to the point of uselessness..
He then passed 48V across it for a few seconds from his bench PSU (the chip was rated at 3.something to 8,something volts, IIRC)
At school (many, many years ago) I put 240v AC through a 12v transistor. It glowed like an LED for a short while before suffering rapid unscheduled disassembly (which left part of the metal cover embedded in the suspended ceiling tile..)
is a fine tribute to Tesla
There's also a very fine album by Australian Prog band Unitopia which is (almost) all about him:
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=28241
I don't know whether they are still a going concern (like most good prog bands they seem to go in and out of existence that the drop of a stage costume) but, if they are, they are well worth seeing.
One of the few bands better live than on record.
"You know, eventually your dog will decide *YOU* don't love him enough to count as proper masters
Same *very* much applies to cats. They will *not* stay somewhere where they are not happy. And, unlike dogs, they don't have the pack instinct..
Which is why I'm quite pleased that our 7 cats seem to enjoy living at our house and show no signs of wanting to leave. Conceding to their every whim might have something to do with that though..
An inspection by the RSPCA might spur a little more care out of him.
[Cynical Mode]
Which the RSPCA will ignore unless there is political or monetary capital to be made out of it..
(Yes, yes, I know they have changed Chief Execs recently and the new one seems to want to get back to their stated purpose (to look after distressed animals) rather than to concentrate on making money and bribing^W influencing politicians but I'll wait to see if anything *actually* changes).
Probably explains why we don't have music today
Although music can still be found clinging to the nooks and crannies, resisting being washed away by the tides of audio vomit coming from the commercial music world..
(Going to see "Spock's Beard" and "The Flower Kings" in December - at the same venue. On the same evening! Yay!)
this is a jazzy progressive rock album which focuses mainly on the band's instrumental talents
I once bought some of their later albums (having heard their first one).
I was not a happy progster.
(CP: Kaipa - Notes from the past (part two) - which seems somehow appropriate)
the default alignment is Belgium is chaotic neutral.
Unless you are on a motorbike. In which case, it turns into chaotic evil.
Unlike their neighbours on either side (Germany and France) which are both quite careful and respectful of bikes - particularly foreign ones. Switzerland however, is very definately lawful evil towards foreign bikes - particularly ones with UK plates.
Was she more evil or less evil than you like?
I suspect the answer would be "differently evil".
Bit like the differences between senior and junior black cats[1] current resident at my house.
[1] Unlike senoir male cat - the one that woke us up at 2am by enthusiastically chomping his take-home meal[2] by our bed..
[2] By the scant remains - a mouse.
As I understand Catholic doctrine, there are no such things as ghosts.
In the original Christian theology[1] there are no ghosts either. Largely (or entirely) because the idea of an immortal soul was something that the later Church added on from pagan theology (along with a literal devil, the trinity and quite a few other things..)
[1] As in the 1st Century, before people started changing the theology for fun and profit..
intro to Ministry's "New World Order". It is a most excellent track
Mine used to be "Rumble fish twist" by The Flower Kings - partly on the basis that I could be sure that no-one else in my hearing would *ever* be using it.
It's also has a pretty abrupt non-musical start.
Thank you so much for spoiling my lunch with your insane drivel.
There are times when I think that the use of a focussed-EMP device should not only be legal, but also mandated.
The aforementioned scenario is one as is yoofs turning their cars into semi-mobile boomboxes.
Oh - and also those people who insist on noise-polluting the local park with their competing audio drivel.
However, I found it utterly cringeworthy that he had the theme from The IT Crowd as his ringtone.
Indeed. However, *my* ringtones[1] are masterpieces of contempory[2] art..
[1] Personal SIM - "Black Diamond" by Stratovarius. Work SIM: "Bitch Dub" by Linton Kwezi Johnston
[2] Assuming that "contemporary" is floating between the mid-80's and the late 90's..
likely as my cat marrying next doors Rottweiler
My previous two half Rotties loved their cats.. and defended them against the neighbours young male cat.
As does our current (JR/Staffie/Corgi/something something) mutt - despite being a 12-year old rescue when we got him.
Cats and dogs really do mix as long as they are integrated properly.
And then last night on PMQs I saw some mindless cretin
Similar to the entitled cretin of a Tory MP that said "they should just get on with it without any delay" (when talking about Brexit).
Does he not understand that these things are not simple? There isn't a magic wand that can be waved to make all the old treaty obligations to go away and there certainly isn't one to make new trade deals happen..
One is used to MPs being morons, but he took it to a new low.
.. isn't quite how it happened.
Historic England and English Heritage used to be the same organisation - English Heritage ratained the name and became a charity[1] focussed on management of the various sites that they have in trust for the nation.
Historic England was the rest of what used to be English Heritage - all the statutary parts and the bits that do Government work (advice on Listing et. al.).
[1] Government budget cycles really don't work with conservation work - sometimes budget would be allocated to work that, for some reason or other, couldn't be done that budget cycle. In becoming a charity, EH is freed from that budget cycle and can manage the budgets in a manner more appropriate for conservation of the buildings that they manage. Historic England remains a government organisation, reporting to DCMS.
It's disfunctional and heavily undemocratic
Like Westminster you mean? One house utterly unelected but rather selected from amongst the cronies of the present government and the other filled with people who are commanded not to vote how their voters wish but rather along pre-determined party lines?
Very little about our current system is terribly democratic (probably becuase it doesn't work terribly well with large groups of people - even the ancient Greek Democracies didn't work terribly well and they were only small groups of citizens.)
remoaners
What is it with the cretins continually using this word? Don't they have any original, creative insults to use?
Or are they, as their attitude would seem to suggest, stuck as eternal 10-year-olds who have just read about the British Empire for the first time?
YOU LOST. LOSERS. GET OVER IT
Why does every brexiteer seem to say this all the time? Are they feeling inadequate?
PS: The last time someone said that to me IRL was when I was about 10 and had just come second in an 800m race. I would have hoped that those who have reached voting age might have grown up a bit more than a 10 year-old but it looks like disappointment springs eternal..
I am, unfortunately, old enough that my first thought was of a certain role-playing game with funny dice
Nowt wrong with ADnD. Apart from the riduculous racially-limited class system. And the many inconsistencies. And the overt sexism..
(But hey - I was a student then and spent far more time playing ADnD and CoC than actually studying..)
whole opium for tea affair. That didn't go very well for them
To be fair, they did have a point - there was so much silver flowing out of the country (the Europeans wanted silver for their opium - by that point the British were already growing enough tea in the various bits of Empire that they didn't really need Chinese tea) that the Chinese currency was crashing (their currency was based on the silver tael and there wasn't enough silver left to make the standard coin so they had to debase the coinage..).
And the various European powers were forcing the Chinese government to allow people to buy the opium, despite the fact that it was illegal to do so in China.
So - not so much of a trade war as a "you will buy our poison that's killing your population" war.
It was Mrs. Clinton who set it all up...
Just when I was thinking that an element of sanity and reality was starting to seep into Bob's world he goes and posts something like this.
Oh - and if he's going to try to claim that "it was all a joke" - well, jokes have to have an elemnt of truth or cleverness to be funny..
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