Re: And then some people wonder why I insist on quality keyboards
Didn't Charles Xavier once smack Star-Lord with a keyboard?
Posts by Aladdin Sane
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BOFH: Buttock And Departmental Defence ... As A Service
PC lab in remote leper colony had wrong cables, no licences, and not much hope
Astroboffins say our Solar System is a dark, violent, cosmic weirdo
Wednesday 10th January 2018 16:06 GMT
Re: a dark, violent, cosmic weirdo
I must've died and gone to heaven
'Cause it was a quarter past eleven
On a Saturday in 1999
Right across from where I'm standing
On the dance floor she was landing
It was clear that she was from another time
Like some baby Barbarella
With the stars as her umbrella
She asked me if I'd like to magnetize
Do I have to go star-trekking
'Cause it's you I should be checking
So she laser beamed me with her cosmic eyes
Wednesday 10th January 2018 12:18 GMT
To quote Douglas Adams
“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.”
Apple agrees to pay £136m in back idiot taxes to UK taxman
1980s sci-fi movies: The thrill of being not quite terrified on mum's floral sofa
US Senators force vote on Ctrl-Z'ing America's net neutrality death
Game of Thrones author's space horror Nightflyers hitting telly
Woo-yay, Meltdown CPU fixes are here. Now, Spectre flaws will haunt tech industry for years
Military alliance NATO adopts official hymn
Wannabe W1 DOW-er faked car crash to track down reg plate's owner
Beyond code PEBCAK lies KMACYOYO, PENCIL and PAFO
Friday 22nd December 2017 09:53 GMT
Re: SFA
Sweet Fanny Adams is the original meaning -
'In 1869 new rations of tinned mutton were introduced for British seamen. They were unimpressed by it, and suggested it might be the butchered remains of Fanny Adams. "Fanny Adams" became slang for mutton or stew and then for anything worthless – from which comes the current use of "sweet Fanny Adams" (or just "sweet F.A.") to mean "nothing at all".'
(from Wikipedia)
How much will Britain's next F-35s cost? Not telling, says MoD
'Please store the internet on this floppy disk'
Thursday 21st December 2017 15:02 GMT
Re: Mobile Phone Usage
Not quite the same level, but an acquaintance of mine let his son use his work phone to watch YouTube videos over Xmas, forgetting that he had switched off WiFi when charging and was on mobile data instead. Thankfully was capped, but did put a fair dent in his next lot of wages.
Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the data centre temp's delightful
HMS Queen Elizabeth has sprung a leak and everyone's all a-tizzy
Tuesday 19th December 2017 13:53 GMT
Re: Aren't those fighters going to get a bit dated?
Boeing B-52. Tupolev Tu-95 Bear. Lockheed C-130 Hercules. Boeing CH-47 Chinook. Lockheed U-2.
F-15 eagles have been in service for 40 years and will be around into the 2030s. Panavia Tornados entered service in 1979 and are expected to be in use with the Luftwaffe into the 2030s as well. Same applies to the F-16 Falcon.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
