Be Excellent To Each Other

Dimrill's gone (more) badass!

Some years back, CCP released an EvE online patch, which, due to hilarious misunderstandings, managed to remove boot.ini file. This caused some upset. I was pointed to this on youtube.

Rant about Greenlaning made me smile a bit Some swearing.

Can PCSOs get free bus travel? As I was on a bus last night, and a PSCO hopped on, rode it one stop, and hopped off again. I'm sure he didn't pay. I wrote down the number on his shoulder, just in case.

Does anybody remember the Ice Cream flavoured Chewits?

And yes, I've eaten plenty of wrapper in my years. I'm not dead yet.

Yes. Pretty bland compared to the fruity ones.

Don't see how it's much different than police being able to use the tube for free, esp as they must have been on duty.

I thought he was just being lazy.

Because he wasn't shooting Brazilians?

I can ask in the local. There's a bus driver there.

baby hit by train. Oh. My. God.

That's been on the bbc news a lot this morning as well.

There was also, in the news this week of something very similar happening, it was heartbreaking to be honest, a man let go of the pram to kiss his girlfriend and it rolled into the sea after being blown by the wind.

I kept involuntarily making a whilsting noise when I breathed, as some of the air from my nose would start rattling through my teeth.

In other news, I have flu. I have been feeling off for a few days but I'm sat at my desk, feeling like shit and there's very little doubt in my mind as to what's causing it. Unfortunately, we're so short staffed that if I go home, I'll just have to carry on working from there. That would be fine if it means being able to wrap myself in a duvet, but a vital system we use here has gone mental and isn't letting anyone log in. I already was logged in when it happened, so I'm getting lots of people wanting to borrow my laptop to do whatever it is they need to do with this system. So I can't fuck off till our IT department has fixed it. Knowing our IT department (I've mentioned previously that the company I work for was formerly a division of IBM haven't I?), this will probably happen sometime on Wednesday.

Sounds like a good Buster Keaton bit, though.

I once ate an entire KitKat for a bet. The foil made me retch(sp?) a bit but I got it done.

One child died after unsuccessful attempts to save her, and the other survived.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/873577 ... d-mistress

It was always a tricky issue whether coppers got a free train ride. BTP did, we concluded, but civils didn't UNLESS they were the Met, on duty, in London.



Did a man approach the other and say how it just wasn't her day?

When you have kids, stories like this become: horror_amount x 20.

That is one very lucky baby, mother and train driver. Plus onlookers to be fair. And one very bad platform if things can just freely roll off it and onto the tracks.

No, careless mother. She turns the stroller towards the edge as the train is coming in, and then lets go of it.

Would you say it was a very bad parking lot if things could freely roll along it into the street? Or indeed, a bad pavement if things could freely roll off it into the street?

What about a hill with a T junction at the bottom?

They tend to slope in to the tracks for drainage don't they?

They don't slope, otherwise you would never have a level crossi-(BANG! -Ed)

Well, quite, she should've used the brakes on the buggy to stop something like this from happening, but I dunno. Car parks are a bit different from a train station, where I would've thought it was bad design having the platform slope towards the tracks. Not just to stop prams from falling under trains, but luggage or anything on castors. Surely a better design is to have the platform slope away from the tracks with gutters and drains at the bottom of the slope to collect water? Like the train station nearest to where I live.

According to this http://www.rgsonline.co.uk/Railway_Group_Standards/Infrastructure/Railway%20Group%20Standards/GIRT7016%20Iss%202.pdf

Platform cross sections do slope towards the tracks minimum gradient 1:20 maximum 1:80, preferred 1:40. Who'd have thunk.

She was careless and someone got hurt from it. That's it.

I'm sure having a kid makes you panic slightly at stories like this, but seriously, that's it.

You might find the platform would even slope both ways in a very gentle 'hump' shape so water rolls off in both directions.

It's still down to her. I hold her in the same contempt I hold people who push the stroller out in front of them while waiting to cross the road. Quite often with the front and sometimes back wheels in the street so they can press the button.

If only pram & buggy manufacturers fitted brakes to the rear wheels, this could have been so easily avoided.

This is my complaint about cars having long bonnets, and then drivers poking their noses out at junctions to see if something's coming. Stupid design.

The next 10 minutes really need to hurry up.

My Dad used to get free transport on the busses and tubes (not sure about BR though) when he was in the Met Police.

Malc

In OS X, does anyone know if it's possible to "jump into" or spy on another terminal process that is also running under your login? From a remote bash shell.

What would you be expecting to monitor?

Hi guys,

I have a .wav file that has been sent to me on a CD, about 500kb in size.

I can't get it to play on the mac. I've tried iTunes, VLC and Quicktime, but none of the above want t know. I just can't add it to the iTunes library, but from what I have read I should be able to do this.

Can anyone suggest what I might be able to use to get it to play?

XBox 360

Merseyside officers get free Merseyrail travel, even off duty in plain clothes. The idea is that if you want the free travel, you deal with any trouble or problem during the journey that you would while on duty, walking the beat.

Where would you suggest putting the engine?

Strap it to the roof, obv. Or perhaps tug it behind in a little cart.

Or indeed, the crumple zone?

I didn't say it was a sensible complaint or criticism. It just seems daft to have to have no way of looking around some corners without just practically pulling out into whatever's coming. Of course, it's a criticism of some junctions, too.

Really? That's super, Mali. Cheers

Yes, I have a friend in The Met, whenever we travel around London together (a vist from me a an excellent excuse for Trocadaro & Namco Centre) he just has to show his warrant card and obviously then he's off duty.

Errm, I doubt it. But if it works, go me.

The solution would be a 2010 Range Rover, which has cameras on the front that look down the road.
I think it has nine cameras in total.

Or your legs.

Try Audacity, it seems to open most things.

I left something updating / building on a local terminal window and I just want to see if if finished normally or bombed.

Does it not log?

Probably. I take it there's no easy way of doing that, then?

No, I think you are shit out of luck. Next time use screen.

Unless you can probe the filesystem and deduce the end state.

Well,
will capture stdout and stderr, but screen is a much better solution.

Meh, I've VNC'd in and read it now.
Thanks anyway