Re: FRED only
> My understanding of this comes from being a model railroad fan, and so watching lots of YouTube videos.
You appear to be uniquely qualified to become an HS2 planner!
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> > We're the ones at the coal face of the Company's IT purchasing policies
> Another Extremely British™ idiom, it seems, in the long history of Extremely British™ BOFH turns-of-phrase.
I suspect any country which has coal mines (e.g. USA, Australia) would be quite familiar with that expression.
Furthermore, categorising something as Extremely British could well be seen as Racist - if you're not careful you may become metastasised (to quote from a previous commentard)!
"The Billion Dollar Bubble" was a "Horizon" drama-documentary about the rise and fall of "Equity Funding of America" shown by the BBC in November 1976, and there were many shots of a mainframe line printer putting out spurious data involving "company 99", the internal slush fund.
It can be found on YouTube... Well worth an hour of your time!
> one of the main single points of failure of OS/2 was its complete lack of printer support
Oh come on!
We were fortunate enough to have as an IT contractor the extremely pleasant chap who wrote the OS/2 printer driver 'system'.
Wish I could remember his name, but it was a Long Time Ago...
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> The next morning we sent a (caller ID withheld) SMS to him "We have you on the pub cameras, groping me you drunk b******d!
[...]
To which we replied (with Caller ID) "Now that we know your phone does work, and that you have been ignoring me, please pay your bill today!"
"I will drop a cheque off within the hour."
I'm surprised you did not title your comment "The Gropes of Wrath" !
The arithmetical pedant in me points out that if something is increased by 15% and that result is reduced by 10%, the end result is 3.5% greater than the original, not 5%!
For example 100 plus 15% is 115; 115 reduced by 10% is 103.5; thus end result is 3.5% greater than the original number.
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Next time - how someone took Even Longer to install software by toggling the front panel switches of the computer!
> The most recent inquiry came to The Register's attention after it discovered a software glitch saw Star's Sydney operations give away AU$3.2 million ($2.05 million) in cash – some of it to suspected criminal figures who learned of the easy-to-exploit method that saw the casino leak lucre.
Are there any more details available of this easy-to-exploit give-away? (Asking for a fiend...)
Hitherto, my only knowledge of JetBrains has been its rather excellent Mono font, available from them and Google Fonts, and undoubtedly elsewhere.
It includes nearly 140 code ligatures, 8 weights each with italics, and support for 145 languages - whether you need these features or not!
> The customer thought they were paying for principled consultants but the supplier actually supplied principal consultants instead. So no wonder the council was screwed.
Back in the days when Managers had secretaries to do their typing, our dubious IT Manager advertised for a "Principle Secretary".
We minions were much amused by this, arguing that it would be a Good Thing, since demonstrably he had no principles of his own.