Posts by steviebuk

Was trying to get that at work but no one would commit to them.

Re: £4bn here, £4bn there...

I think you'll find it would actually only be another 6ft.

Re: “Roads? Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Roads” (Doc Brown)

So the ISP I'm using lied to me then? They said "You might as well carry on and get fibre installed now with OpenReach footing the bill of the dig because in 2025 you'll loose everything, the phone line and ADSL".

Re: Wait for the massive security flaw

Claps

We had an engineer at the NHS who had a 2cv. He has a big sound system in the back. When he'd take kit to sites, the monitors would get strapped to the outside of the boot. Was all comical but worked.

Re: CEO contempt of users ends badly as predicted

Someone will start shorting the stocks I bet.

Only nice if you get a balcony room. I can't do a cruise unless it's a balcony room.

Re: All a mess

Nope, we all had no choice. Owning a tiny amount we were all forced to sell. The big players agreed the price, or the tiny players had the choice forced onto them.

Then lessons will be learned. Then it will go wronf again.

The CCP want their own spy in every pocket.

Surely controlling the AC with physical buttons while driving is still safer than using a touchscreen. Surely they should be forced to make basic items, physical for safety.

I make this mistake regularly :) if I know its going to be a rant, I try to do it on the laptop, but even then, the rant still spills out as word salad.

What we got taught in our IT classes in college in the 90s I don't think I've ever used. Granted, I struggled to get an IT job after but once I did, the way I learned was on the job and video guides that I discovered like Trainsignal etc. Recently on a nostalgia kick, while at work I've been watching/listening (in the background) to Microsoft Windows 95 Traincast on the Blue OS Museum channel on YouTube. I've learned more about deploying Windows 95 and managing it watching that, than we ever got taught in college when they'd upgraded all their kit to Windows 95.

Re: Outlook...

Ah the NHS user this reminds me of. Way back in 2007 I visited one NHS user at our old site and discovered folders inside the deleted folder "Yeah its where I archive everything". It was at least a user I could rib "Its called deleted for a reason. Why are you archiving stuff in the deleted folder! That's madness". No idea if they changed their ways.

Another "exec" who was difficult but the more I did work for her, the more I got used to her ways and could talk to her a bit more relaxed than others. She had ALL her icons and files on her desktop, told her its not a backup solution. If the laptop fails you loose all your work. I created a shortcut to the network drive and told her drag these files into that folder and then you'll be covered as they'll be backed up each night. "Yes I'll do that, thanks". I went to another site for a few weeks, popped back for a day and it was all kicking off. She'd lost a document and everyone was scrabbling to restore it because of how difficult she could be but couldn't as she'd left it on the desktop. She saw me in the kitchen and said "Yes I know" at which point I said "I did warn you this would happen".

Re: Has any originality ever come out of China in the last 1000 years?

Yeah, use slave labour. That is why shit is so cheap over there. Two westerns were in prison and did an article about it, said everyone except for the westerns, were shipped off to factories every day. He said the westerners, including him, stayed behind and wrapped Christmas cards that were heading for Tesco.

Re: Here's A Deal

You might not like them, others do.

They clearly haven't learnt from their 1999 court case. They need to be taken back to court again for this shit.

Re: Whatever China

We have 8 wumaos in the house.

Re: Not holding my breath

Tell the local consultant. When the "local consultant" tells them, they'll do it.

Re: Does the US pay that badly?

It could also even be "You still have family here in China. They won't have such a good life if you don't do this for us" as the CCP do this regularly with ex-pats to convince them to return to China.

Re: Ads?

Gone are the days, it seems, where there are good ones. The best two do this day that I've loved since I was a kid are:

https://youtu.be/_8GHchvvzms - 1989 Coca-Cola Can't Beat The Feeling

https://youtu.be/RVi6GgQBkwE - British Airways Flower Duet - still give me massive nostalgia for the 80s

Re: Funny that........

Its much like what was mentioned on Politics Joe. They had a think tank guy on recently explaining about how re-nationalising the energy companies would actually benefit the general public, would actually mean people would save money. Politics Joe said information like that doesn't end up on the front page as its not "sexy enough" which they pointed out is one of the problems. Same with info like this.

I wouldn't say

its paranoia. Just look at the way Xi is currently behaving you and can see he's up for starting a war. All within tolerated him, thinking he was a moderate. Then he got into power and it turns out he's just as bad and maybe even worse, than Mao Zedong. I feel sorry for the Chinese people that are being fucked by an arsehole that looks like Winnie The Pooh so then banned anyone from mentioning Winnie the Pooh.

Re: Scraping

The problem is arsehole like Elon are in the process of attempt to sue some Twitter scrappers. And the problem with that is even if not fully legal etc, he has enough money to burn to make the scrappers just break.

Did his WANG curl up when the sysadmin knocked at the door.