The dog likes cucumber?
Sorry, there is no way any self respecting canine would eat THAT!
Posts by OssianScotland
483 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Mar 2018
Dog forgets all about risk of drowning in a marsh as soon as drone dangles a sausage
'95% original' film star Spitfire could be yours for a mere £4.5m (or 0.05 Pogbas)
Games Workshop has chucked another £500k at entrenched ERP project with no end to epic battle in sight
Logitech Signature M650: A mouse that will barely emit a squeak or a clickety-click
New submarine cable to link Japan, Europe, through famed Northwest Passage
When product names go bad: Microsoft's Raymond Chen on the cringe behind WinCE
What a bunch of bricks: Crooks knock hole in toyshop wall, flee with €35k Lego haul
A lightbulb moment comes too late to save a mainframe engineer's blushes
Ofcom announces plan to protect endangered species – the Great British phone box
Computer scientists at University of Edinburgh contemplate courses without 'Alice' and 'Bob'
84-year-old fined €250,000 for keeping Nazi war machines – including tank – in basement
Thursday 5th August 2021 06:40 GMT
Just order from Amazon...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/75mm-Inflatable-World-Sherman-Shell/dp/B01MXPIUWS
(OK, wrong nationality, and I don't think the "inflatable" bit would help (except with ammunition storage), but close...)
Unfortunately I can't find anything for the 88mm Flak gun except in 1:35 scale
Thank you, yes, the one with glue stains and the Tamiya catalogue in the pocket please...
Bill for HMS Vanity Gin Palace swells by £50m in two months
China pushes back against Exchange attack sponsorship claims
Trouts on a plane: Utah drops fish into lakes from aircraft and circa 95% survive
UK urged to choo-choo-choose hydrogen-powered trains in pursuit of carbon-neutral economic growth
Hungover Brits declare full English breakfast the solution to all their ills
Pigeon fanciers in a flap over Brexit quarantine flock-up, seek exemption from EU laws
Planespotters’ weekends turn traumatic as engine pieces fall from the sky in the Netherlands and the US
Hero to Jezero: Perseverance, NASA's most advanced geologist rover, lands on Mars, beams back first pics
Microsoft kills broad entry-level IT certifications, replaces them with all-Microsoft curriculum
Thursday 18th February 2021 07:27 GMT 
Microsoft have shot themselves in the foot...Again...
I'm just away to renew my MCT (15+ years) and am now having serious doubts about it.
Almost all their certifications are "cloud" and training and certification for the on-prem systems seems almost non-existent (current versions of Exchange, SharePoint and even Server 2019 gone, SQL Server hanging on, but only just...). Even Desktop OSes seem to have merged into "Microsoft 365". And of course older products are "no longer relevant" and certs and training courses are dropped too.
Maybe the market share is diminishing, but how much work does it take to update exams and courses to the new version, or even to keep older versions alive on the grounds they are still largely relevant?
Soviet 'Enigma' cipher machine sells for $22k at collapsed museum's exhibits auction
Thursday 18th February 2021 07:20 GMT 
Instagrammable, interactive exhibits...
... with less context and labelling than an academic historian might have enjoyed
So just like pretty much every major museum, at least in the UK, then.
I took my family to the IWM and the Science Museum a few years ago, wanting to revisit childhood memories of lots and lots of information. Instead got minimal labelling, staff who knew nothing and gave me a total blank when I asked where I could find out more ("Try Google" was the standard staff response).
Honourable mention to the RAF museum, who still had real information including brief service histories, and links to find out more - a lot more - online.
(Obvious icon, since Paris didn't seem to fit anywhere....)
You can drive a car with your feet, you can operate a sewing machine with your feet. Same goes for computers obviously
Looking for something on which to spend all that bonus Bitcoin? How about The Hoff's very own KITT?
Raven geniuses: Four-month-old corvids have similar cognitive abilities to great apes at same age, study finds
Oh, no one knows what goes on behind locked doors... so don't leave your UPS in there
UK union pens letter to data watchdog on icky workplace monitoring systems like Microsoft's Productivity Score
Chuck Yeager, sound barrier pioneer pilot, dies at 97
Tuesday 8th December 2020 12:08 GMT
Nothing else need be said...
"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of – wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air....
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace.
Where never lark, or even eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
– Put out my hand, and touched the face of God."
Who knew that hosing a table with copious amounts of cubic metres would trip adult filters?
Friday 27th November 2020 20:26 GMT
Email Filters
Working for an oil company meant a constant battle with the spam filters which,for some unknown reason, didn't like terms like "twelve inch pipe" (especially when combined with "drill"). Most were solved, but I could never get the filter to accept the term "hole expanders" which I was assured was perfectly legal, decent, honest and truthful in the industry.
Another story involves a manager in India who managed to send a set of (mindbleach still needed) VERY hairy images to the whole organisation list, not his intended recipient!
Network driver issue shaves 12 more hours off Microsoft's '365' infrastructure, and yeah, it was Exchange Online again
Remember 2013? This coffee machine does: If I could turn back time – I'd reboot this PC
We bought a knockoff Lego launchpad kit from China for our Saturn V rocket so you don't have to
A freshly formed English council waves £18m at UK tech industry, asks: Can somebody design and run pretty much everything for us?
What a Hancock-up: Excel spreadsheet blunder blamed after England under-reports 16,000 COVID-19 cases
As we stand on the precipice of science fiction into science fact, people say: Hell yeah, I want to augment my eyesight!
First alligators, then dogs, now Basil Fawlty is trying to standardise social distancing measures
Dutch Gateway store was kept udder wraps for centuries until refit dug up computing history
From 'Queen of the Skies' to Queen of the Scrapheap: British Airways chops 747 fleet as folk stay at home
It's National Cream Tea Day and this time we end the age-old debate once and for all: How do you eat yours?
Beware the fresh Windows XP install: Failure awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth
Friday 26th June 2020 09:01 GMT 
The Need For Chewed Wires...
My wife tells me that when she was young, she had (musical) keyboard lessons inflicted on her regularly* She got fed up with them, so cut the power cable with a convenient pair of scissors**, then blamed it on the cat. Her Mum believed her, and lessons were cancelled, but when her Dad found out, he looked at the cable and pointed out that cats do not, as a rule, cleanly bite through a wire. Oops!
*I suspect they were also inflicted on the teacher, but at least they were paid for it!
**How some form of electric shock was avoided is beyond me.
Icon: Obviously Paris is not quite as good looking....
CompSci student bitten by fox after feeding it McNuggets
Friday 26th June 2020 08:36 GMT
Subject Specificity
Are foxes attracted only to Comp Sci students, or have other disciplines been involved to (Enquiring Minds etc...)
If the former, is it down to behaviour of that student cohort, or is there something special about them the foxes find attractive (regular users of Mozilla browsers, perhaps?).
If the latter, we need a full set of data - Student Subject, circumstances of bite, result....
There should be at least a PhD in it somewhere!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
