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It's just a shite page - all answers yield 95%, although the
descriptive results vary.

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Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Bear

Oooh...

I sat down this afternoon[1] to watch "Walker, Texas Ranger". Somehow,
my day is no longer complete without watching Chuck Norris kick a baddie
in the head.

Only, this episode featured baddies from Northern Ireland. Well,
Northern Iowa, at least.

The accents were so bad I had to switch off before anyone even got
roundhouse-kicked!

I should write and complain.

[1] During my "working from home lunch-break", obviously.

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And this is very true in Tech support - the Americans seem to take the
view of "I can't do it because I'm not trained in it" whereas most of
the British techies I've worked with have the "I sort of know so lets
try it and make it up as we go along" mentality.

I vastly prefer the second - except when the person doing it actually
has *no* idea what they are doing and doesn't have the ability or skill
to get away with it. People like that don't seem to last long in
support (thankfully) except in the NHS..

Phil

 

Sounds like my first unix/network sysadmin job - I'd played with iit
enough to sound convincing and learnt very quickly on the job.

Phil

 

Which to my mind would equate to "pride in oneself without the ability
to back it up".

Phil

 

As an aside have you listened to the more Prog end of metal? People
like Ayreon or Dream Theater (their last one Octavarium is very good)
have the metal feeling but in more interesting way.

Also recommended would be Jordan Rudess (now plays with Dream Theater)
and Riverside. On the less metal side of things White Willow is worth
listening to (last 2 CDs anyway - sort of a dark Scandanavian metal
meets Goth meets Prog).

Phil

 

I've done the same for many of my jobs and contracts. Minus the
'working like a bastard' bit, of course. What's that about, eh?

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"Worked quite hard - for an IT person".

Phil

 

Thing is, the expression "The Older Gentleman" had been around for
years, for example in Huckleberry Finn, and was then much used by
Terry Wogan, before 'our' TOG plagiarised it for his posting name.

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Is that the same as "Engaged brain for a couple of hours"? IME it
rarely takes much longer than that before one knows more about the
subject than does the client.

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TOG? Plagiarising? No. Never.

 

"The builder of the aircraft, however, elected to place the valve back
behind the pilot's left shoulder. He did so with the best of intentions.
By placing the valve behind the pilot's compartment, on the other side
of the back firewall, with only a long rod leading to the handle behind
the pilot's left shoulder, he avoided running the gas lines through the
passenger compartment, eliminating any possibility of a gasline rupture
occuring inside the compartment.

He did so, however, at a terrible cost to the human interface, because
the only way to switch tanks was to let go of the controls, twist your
head to the left to look behind you, reach over your left shoulder with
your right hand, find the valve, and turn it. As the National
Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) discovered, it was difficult to do
this without bracing yourself with your right foot by pressing the right
rudder pedal all the way to the floor. And that's what killed John
Denver."

"The valve: The builder not only placed the valve in a non-standard
location, he also rotated it in such a way that turning the valve to the
right turned on the left fuel tank. This ensured that a pilot unfamiliar
with the aircraft, upon hearing the engine begin missing and spotting in
his mirror that the left fuel tank was empty, would attempt to rotate
the fuel valve to the right, away from the full tank, guaranteeing his
destruction."

What a stupid **** of a builder. Really, it defies description that
someone should be so bereft of common sense as to do that.

 

I know someone who was so shit scared in the middle of an oil rig
evacuation that he had to be removed from the co-pilots seat in one of
the choppers.

This was about 30 minutes after another work colleague of mine had
fucked up with a gas plug and filled the rig with explosive gasses and
about 30 seconds after the deck plates started banging because of the
explosions in some of the compartments. The guy who caused the initial
problem still complains because he had to go back to the platform and
try to fix the problem before they had another Piper Alpha.