Posts by olderfart

User stepped on mouse, complained pedal wasn’t making PC go faster

Re: If somebody does not understand...

The big problems are intolerance and lack of imagination on the part of the instructor. Since I first used a computer (1958 - I think; it was an English Electric Deuce - derived from a design by Alan Turing) - I have on occasion had to try to teach younger people how to use a slide rule in case their electronics stuff failed to operate. Great problems - until I realised that they had no idea what logarithms were!.

Apart from my family, I associate mainly with farts - some even older than me. Very few of them could not be trusted to vote wisely. A lot of them a very computer literate.

Squirrel sinks teeth into SAN cabling, drives Netadmin nuts

Very Large Vermin

When I was an apprentice at Bristol Aeroplane Company (in 1957 !) I was helping to build the Bristol Type 175 Britannia airliner. At knocking-off time (around 1730) we heard a frantic tapping coming from the rear of a fuselage in the assembly area. The rear nose cone had been revitted on that afternoon. After the assembly had been dis-assembled - a fellow apprentice was discovered in the space - together with an empty coke bottle and the remains of his sandwich lunch. Nothing odd about this; apprentices were always trying to find places where they could hide from the foreman!