* Posts by Jow Blob

7 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Oct 2021

Lenovo Thinkpad Z13 just has this certain Macbook Air about it...

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At least the left Ctrl key is back where it should be.

I'm still battling with it being 1 in from the Fn key on my current ThinkPad.

Lenovo revenues drop due to falling demand for PCs

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Maybe they should never have moved the Fn key to the bottom left of the keyboard!!!!!

UK Ministry of Defence takes recruitment system offline, confirms data leak

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When I served, the paper system worked just as reliable as an IT system. Missing information and lost files.

They brought some Unix system in as I was leaving. Talk about slow to adopt. But then, I was about the 1 in 20 that had ever used computers :-)

One NT4 Server resettlement course later lead me here :)

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No Joy To Work For

Did a short stint for them years ago. Team Leader never interviewed me for the role and went out of his way to make me look sh!te (I can do that on my own).

Purposely only given half information for a job abroad. Flights later and on way home, ridiculed for half a job on client site.

I walked the following day. Why does this news not surprise me?

Reg reader rages over Virgin Media's email password policy

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Talk Talk was the same for their Pipex email system. I asked for a reset and they offered me a 5 character password all in lower case.

With no option to change this on their now very legacy system, I got back to them and they would only offer an 8 character one.

I had no choice but to slap a forwarder onto it and finally shut the account down.

I would drive 100 miles and I would drive 100 more just to be the man that drove 200 miles to... hit the enter key

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Re: We've all done it

Did that trip in the noughties - Wellington to Auckland, hired car at Auckland, not paid for, luckily had a credit card. Kangaroo petrol (not driven a manual for over 6 months).

Turned up at the office, had to wait for network engineer, had lunch looking over the bay. Did my thing and flew back. Saw my house (we lived on the flight path - J'ville) and was home by 7pm.

Chiptune to brighten your afternoon: Winning 8-bit throwback music revealed

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I was at one of the ITeC's (Youth Training Scheme centre for 16 year old delinquents) in the 80's and someone brought in the code for a Model B to play The Stranglers Golden Brown. Bleeding awesome.

I have yet to track it down to play on an emulator :(