Posts by Ebbe Kristensen

HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback'

"It went down like a lead ballon"

Mythbusters have actually made a lead ballon and it flew.

An arc welder in the datacenter: What could possibly go wrong?

Re: Blame-shifting gone mad

Prepare to be surprised...

The Danish words for welding and soldering are "svejse" and "lodde" respectively.

Cleaner ignored 'do not use tap' sign, destroyed phone systems ... and the entire building

Re: Water and IT

Tandem - running 240 hours per day.

Be careful where you install software, and who installs it

Re: Private Libraries?

It seems to me you are punning rank here?

Linus Torvalds rates his own words 'incoherent ramblings of a crazy old man'

Linus is mistaken...

He's not old.

Excel is for amateurs. To properly screw things up, those same amateurs need a copy of Access

Re: All that counselling, wasted

"we can just run it through that..."

Back in the day (some 35+ years ago) I was taught that:

- Just

- Only

- Easily

DON'T use those words.

Good news, everyone: The US military says it will be ethically minded about how it develops AI

In other news...

Pigs take to the air...

Shouting lager, lager... Carlsberg's beer AI can now tell pilsners apart

Someone has to tell you...

A pilsner is a specific beer type within the family of lager beers. The common trait is that after fermebting lager beers are lagered at fairly low temperatures for a couple of months. See also http://berghoffbeer.com/blog/lager-vs-pilsner-whats-the-difference/

Mirror mirror on sea wall, spot those airships, make Kaiser bawl

Not helium

Germany did not have the capability to produce helium in the amounts required for airshps so they used hydrogen instead. See also the wikipedia article on Zeppelin airships

Naughty sysadmins use dark magic to fix PCs for clueless users

Similar efforts do exist

Take a look at:

http://www.computerworld.com/blog/shark-tank/

They've been at it for quite some time and they even send you a T-shirt if your story gets published. I have two :-)

Bacon as deadly as cigarettes and asbestos

Re: Forgive me, but that must be a made up name

No, it isn't:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/betsybooren

Barnes & Noble chases Amazon with ebook second coming

US only?

Saw this on NYT and took a look. Seems that (most of?) the interesting titles are not available outside the US.

Straight blokes best at reading maps

Title

Strange...

Around here it's exactly the other way round: My wife is much better at reading maps than I am whereas I am much better than her at finding car keys - and most anything else that has been mislaid.