Posts by Mr Army

Why users still couldn't care less about Windows 11

Re: overkill

My laptop upgraded to Win 11 24H2, instant black screen of death with only cursor movement and task manager. Managed to restore it. A month later it upgraded itself again, exactly the same black screen problem, however this time there was no longer a restore point to go back to. After wasting a couple of days trying every solution I could find I had no option but to go for a complete reinstall.

After the reinstall I imediately upgraded the graphics drivers - the most likely reason for the failureof the upgrade - and then forced the 24H2 upgrade to ensure it would keep working before starting to reinstall all the apps I need, It is definately a bad one.

Techie took five minutes to fix problem Adobe and Microsoft couldn't solve in two weeks

Re: Just the other day

Regarding powertools, I once chucked a nearly new dewalt 4Ah battery in the council tip recycling bin because it would not recharge. When it happened to a second battery a month later I did a bit of searching online and found that stripping a bit of twin and earth and using one wire to link the negative terminals of the dead battery and a good battery and then using a second wire to link the positive terminals for just 10 seconds would charge the dead battery enough for it to charge properly in the dewalt charger. I'm still kicking myself for recycling a perfetly good 4Ah battery.

Vote now on who should take the lead in Musk: The Movie

If anybody wants a serious answer rather than the suggestions offered by this piss take Kevin Durand would fit the role perfectly.

One door opens, another one closes, and this one kills a mainframe

Made me think of this

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=636795940796901

Watt's the worst thing you can do to a datacenter? Failing to RTFM, electrically

Re: Check the power supply

Like these Audiophile fuses...

https://www.futureshop.co.uk/quantum-science-audio-silver-extreme-level-uk-mains-fuse?gclid=Cj0KCQjw9fqnBhDSARIsAHlcQYS1qvtg9N0_AW0DSMPBYI83xbCoEll2_0GQ9bXVSTy5UKBoYas5VPEaAh7_EALw_wcB

Updating in production, like a boss

*wielded appropriately

*wielded appropriately

As per BOFH

Affix Post-it Note to a 3ft length of 2"x4" before wielding

Texan's alleged Amazon bombing effort fizzles: Militia man wanted to take out 'about 70 per cent of the internet'

Re: Christian Militia Terrorist

Reminds me of a track by my favourite band from my youth.

New Model Army - Christian Militia

Link to there performance onTV show 'The Tube' from 1984

https://youtu.be/IPOsvy4KbmQ

Did I or did I not ask you to double-check that the socket was on? Now I've driven 15 miles, what have we found?

Re: My favourite

Surely just making the TV the last thing to get a power off signal would solve this.

PC printer problems and enraged execs: When the answer to 'Hand over that floppy disk' is 'No'

Re: Sending a child to do an adults work

Regarding Indian wiring, a few years ago a colleague of mine was working in India. He had a load of equipment he needed to power up outdoors. The local hire company offered him the choice of distribution racks with either 15amp or 16amp outlets. The 15amp version being the old UK standard domestic round pin plug, the 16amp version being the industrial water resistant free-form type.

Obviously he specified the 16amp version as better protection in case of rain. He was less than impressed when it was all wired up as they had used bare cables with the stripped ends poked into the holes in the sockets and held in place with broken twigs.

So you really didn't touch the settings at all, huh? Well, this print-out from my secret backup says otherwise

Re: Load?

You call these guys

https://www.aggreko.com/en-gb/products/load-bank-hire?gclsrc=aw.ds&gclid=CjwKCAjwiMj2BRBFEiwAYfTbCqhijK7FC25eS759XAg8upYkdrlDVAvIf-Ule2CXxchvqyHXk-SRBhoCk78QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

You overstepped and infringed British sovereignty, Court of Appeal tells US in software companies' copyright battle

Re: Popcorn !

Yes, dont upset Trump.

NASA reveals the new wavy Martian wheels it thinks can crush the red planet

I recognise that tread pattern,

I had a Tamiya Sand Scorcher 1/10th scale RC car (their first foray into proper suspension) in the early 80s. Tamiya had remote controlled sand crossing vehicle tyres sorted 40 years ago.

Link to pic of box art.

https://ibb.co/MPPRKMQ

Behold the perils of trying to turn the family and friends support line into a sideline

Re: I've had my share.

This one?

http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/000348895L.html

UK Home Office primes Brexit spam cannon for a million texts reminding folk to check passports

Re: Passport Renewal

If Brexit happens I will be unemployable. My next contract starts on 14th October and involves me working in 16 EU countries over a 6 week period. Quite often I will wake up on a sleeper bus, having crossed a border while asleep, walk into the building where the bus is parked up, work for 18 hours (self-employed so working time directives do not apply) and then get back on the bus and do the same again the next day in a different country. The thought of trying to get work visas for that is frightening. the costs will be prohibitive and I will be replaced by a European.

The dread sound of the squeaking caster in the humming data centre

Re: Not all serial cables are made equal...

I have posted previously about this. In my case it was under the stage at Glastonbury Festival while Slash's Snakepit were playing. Off went the UPS, the lighting control network and the intercom powersupply. Behind the rack with the band playing above my head I had no idea all the lights had gone off and the operator out front was screaming into a dead comms headset.....

Techie in need of a doorstop picks up 'chunk of metal' – only to find out it's rather pricey

Odd metal posts

Our house used to belong to a lovely old Physical Archeology Professor - one of the instigators of ground resistance surveying - he left us the most wonderful garden which had been his pride and joy. I was intrigued by a lot of pale metallic green coloured posts used as plant supports and netting supports in various parts of the garden, probably about a dozen or so. An old University friend who had actually been a student under the Professor and had been to the house (the University buried pigs in the garden with items of clothing and students of forensic archeology would come and dig them up every few years to study how the clothing had been affected to help date bodies found on the moors) anyway, he was able to tell me that the posts were no-longer needed titanium nuclear fuel rod test samples donated to the Professor by the Head of Physics.

Users fail to squeak through basic computer skills test. Well, it was the '90s

Re: felt pad

I recently purchased a Viper 570 gaming mouse purely because the pads weren't the usual plastic that wears away but made of ceramic - glides perfectly and no sign of scuffing or wearing at all after 34 months of heavy use on any available flat surface. Worth every penny.

I'm just not sure the computer works here – the energy is all wrong

Re: Ah, the carefree days of yore

https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/clarke-contractor-ccm110-110l-cement-mixer/

One of these

Re: Ah, the carefree days of yore

It does depend on your Wie, Mine is very practically minded, this year she got a Stihl brushcutter and loves it. 2 years ago I bought her a concrete mixer which came in component form and she sat in the lounge on Christmas day and assembled it herself.