Early Risers.

[simontaylor484]

Well 15 quid is better than nowt as they say

[Tony_S]

2 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

tower model (remember those

I bought one last year. Modern desktops don't have floppy or optical drives. It doesn't even have traditional hard drives either, all solid state.  Something inside is incredibly heavy though. Also unlike the old towers it is all curvy. 

[Barry O]

Youngest Herbert always pays money back..its part of his training by mum and dad..  

 

Baz

[jamie92208]

9 hours ago, Barry O said:

Youngest Herbert always pays money back..its part of his training by mum and dad..  

 

Baz

Our daughter announced one day that she was grown up as she had her own page in the debt book. All three of them cleared their debts in due course.

 

Jamie

Edited September 6, 2022 by jamie92208

[PhilJ W]

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. I know its late but there's a lot to catch up with.

3 hours ago, The Lurker said:

Another smelly place I visited back in the early 90s was in Burton - a client printed labels. Next door on one side was Bass Brewers, on the other the Marmite factory. A quick google suggests that they are still there.

I grew up in Romford and when the the brewery emptied out the grains the whole town stank. I didn't mind but a lot of people hated it.

[Coombe Barton]

... dissertation student feedback, admin, writing lectures, waiting for the system to work (it isn’t) ...

 

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2022/09/05/lack-of-public-data/

[Coombe Barton]

4 hours ago, pgcroc said:

who uses all the stuff

I do, I teach it.

[Coombe Barton]

4 hours ago, The Lurker said:

Bass Brewers

Now Coors - Bass is no longer brewed in Burton

[Erichill16]

Evening All,

Didnt sleep well last night,,too much rain banging down on the tin roof.

On smells, there is an abattoir near where we live and it absolutely stinks, especially in the summer. There are a couple of houses next to it and they seem to be constantly on the housing market. I couldnt work in a place like that.

Goodnight from the Lake District.

 

[polybear]

2 hours ago, simontaylor484 said:

Well 15 quid is better than nowt as they say

 

I'm a very principled Bear, with standards to maintain.  But five LDC's is, er, five LDC's.....😃

 

 

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. Earlier this evening I tried to contact my friend but his phone isn't being answered. A bit worrying as his lad should have been back in school today so he should be at home. Its a bit too late to call him now but I'll try his mobile in the morning.

[Gwiwer]

1 hour ago, PhilJ W said:

I grew up in Romford and when the the brewery emptied out the grains the whole town stank

I know that smell. When I very briefly worked in Romford it was rather disrespectfully said to emanate from the underwear of young females from the Hillrise Estate.  Or from Dagenham if actually in conversation with a Hillrise resident!  
 

In other news I grew up in Newlyn. The smell varied according to the state of the tide and the temperature but walking past the harbour and fish market every day for school certainly trained ones’ stomach. The sight of fish guts and the red-stained wash-out from the gutting floor also served to harden resistance to aromatic localities. 

[tigerburnie]

1 hour ago, Coombe Barton said:

Now Coors - Bass is no longer brewed in Burton

Draught Bass is still brewed in Burton, under licence by Marstons, the bottled beer is brewed in Samlesbury, Lancs.

Edited September 5, 2022 by tigerburnie

[monkeysarefun]

5 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

My clients are really not happy with me using anything other than Microsoft office. It has to be Microsoft Office and Windows 10/11 Professional as many of my clients’ security protocols are built around the Microsoft professional platform.

 

Last time I looked Microsoft Office default format is  basically an open  XML file, unless things have changed since 2015 when I spent a fair bit of time writing parsing scripts to get it to import into US defence targeting and intel software we were shoe-horning into the RAAF network. (Actually its a zipped file of .xml to be technical.)

 

.xml is just .xml, you should be able to create it on whatever you feel like, security packages will just see it as .xml, not where it came from. 

 

A format is a format is a format! as my Systems Integration  teacher used to say.

 

Edited September 5, 2022 by monkeysarefun

[BoD]

2 hours ago, Tony_S said:

 Modern desktops don't have floppy or optical drives.

In twenty years time we won’t recognise the technology at all…

 

… but I bet they are still using the floppy disk as the save icon.

[monkeysarefun]

4 hours ago, Gwiwer said:

 

 

 

 

 

"IS that a tea bag or a Christmas decoration stuck to his ear?" I thought to myself as I scrolled down that picture.

[monkeysarefun]

25 minutes ago, BoD said:

In twenty years time we won’t recognise the technology at all…

 

… but I bet they are still using the floppy disk as the save icon.

 

 

The US defence department didnt fully phase out floppy disks in its nuclear defence systems until 2015 - 2019.  The RAAF ( and assume the RAF etc) has to do a fair bit of jiggling of  US defence sourced software to get it to recognise and  use media other than magnetic  tapes etc.

 

The Japanese government last week announced a programme to finally transition from floppy disc storage on its older systems. 

Edited September 5, 2022 by monkeysarefun

[BoD]

5 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

 

 

The US defence department didnt phase out floppy disks in its nuclear defence systems until 2015 - 2019.  The RAAF ( and assume the RAF etc) has to do a fair bit of jiggling of  US defence sourced software to get it to recognise and  use media other than tapes etc.

 

The Japanese government last week announced a programme to finally transition from floppy disc storage on its older systems. 

The government and military are involved?

 

Give it fifty years then.

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[monkeysarefun]

6 hours ago, simontaylor484 said:

I have started to fill up the filing cabinet with paperwork. The shredding is going to take me a month. Why oh why do we hang on to so much sh1te.

 

Sick of paying a security company a kings ransom each month to take away and properly dispose of our classified waste at work, our Base Commander bought a massive shredder. Had to spend a heap to  get the basement upgraded to allow top secret classified stuff in there but it was a huge thing, the size of 4 fridge-freezers in height and footprint but you could just chuck whole bags of documents, complete phone books etc in it - it was like a mulcher that tree removalists use, sounded like one too. 

 

Then after about 5 years of trouble free use some Canberra based  bean-counter type decided that having our base not part of the defence contract to get classified waste disposed of by outside contractors looked messy on his spreadsheet or something so signed us up for a kings ransom again. The shredder got taken away, I assume just dumped somewhere.

 

If only we knew back then that  we could just take the classified stuff home and put it in our desk drawers and boxes in our study etc  none of it would have happenned.

Edited September 5, 2022 by monkeysarefun

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone 

 

I finished my article this afternoon and emailed the latest draft to the editor, hopefully it won’t need anything else doing to it. But, as this is a first for me, I’m open to suggestions to make it more easy to read by the lay person. 

 

Back in the early 60’s we used to live not far from the Manchester Ship Canal, which at that time was very busy. On hot summer days, the thick engine oil and waste used to stink something awful. It didn’t look very nice either, with all that rubbish floating in the thick black oil! On New Year’s Eve all the boats used to blast their hooters at midnight! 

 

It was just chuckinitdarn here a few minutes ago, but it seems to have stopped for now, I’m glad I didn’t water the plants tonight. 

 

 

 

Edited September 5, 2022 by BSW01

[BSW01]

Goodnight all 

[Coombe Barton]

8 minutes ago, BSW01 said:

live not far from the Manchester Ship Canal

In 1990 Sandy and I attainded a symposium in Salford University on water, and one of the speakers' subject was the meaning of the Manchester Ship Canal because drains in Manchester were all unmapped and many just discharged into the canal. With no flow the waste collected.

 

The speaker mentioned  'fecal rafts' as one of the hazards.

Edited September 5, 2022 by Coombe Barton

[J. S. Bach]

Night Owl from the Piedmont.

[Winslow Boy]

1 hour ago, BSW01 said:

Good evening everyone 

 

I finished my article this afternoon and emailed the latest draft to the editor, hopefully it won’t need anything else doing to it. But, as this is a first for me, I’m open to suggestions to make it more easy to read by the lay person. 

 

Back in the early 60’s we used to live not far from the Manchester Ship Canal, which at that time was very busy. On hot summer days, the thick engine oil and waste used to stink something awful. It didn’t look very nice either, with all that rubbish floating in the thick black oil! On New Year’s Eve all the boats used to blast their hooters at midnight! 

 

It was just chuckinitdarn here a few minutes ago, but it seems to have stopped for now, I’m glad I didn’t water the plants tonight. 

 

 

 

 

I remember that. We used to wait up to listen to it. Passing of an era when it finished.