Bits and Bobs 29-The Copper Edition

sdg · **Posted:** Tue May 10, 2011 10:26

I think my college notes are sitting in the living room, possibly on the couch. I do hope my dog doesn't eat them.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22392

Gilly wrote:

I think my college notes are sitting in the living room, possibly on the couch. I do hope my dog doesn't eat them.

Install Dropbox on your home computer, point it at the place you save your college work, then next time you forget your usb drive, you can just go onto your dropbox account on the web and download your work from there

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22392

MaliA wrote:

VeeBeam looks pretty good for beaming HD stuff from your computer to your TV. £99

http://www.veebeam.com

.

Two things.

A) £99 is for the SD version, the HD version is more I think
ii) You still need to control it via the computer, so you either run back and forth to the PC/laptop, or you bring the pc into the room with the TV. If you do that, you might as well just buy a cable and save yourself £100

sdg · **Posted:** Tue May 10, 2011 10:31

Trooper wrote:

Gilly wrote:

I think my college notes are sitting in the living room, possibly on the couch. I do hope my dog doesn't eat them.

Install Dropbox on your home computer, point it at the place you save your college work, then next time you forget your usb drive, you can just go onto your dropbox account on the web and download your work from there

That sounds cool, that would be really useful. Doesn't solve the problem with the physical notes as well which are unfortunatly playing a central role in a practical class this afternoon, but for most of my scatty related woes it would be brilliant.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22392

I have 75% of the posts in the b&b thread.

Edit, damn you Gilly! 60%

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38657

Trooper wrote:

I have 75% of the posts in the b&b thread.

Edit, damn you Gilly! 60%

Ladies and gentlemen, the new DavPaz

*passes enormous crown*

Zardoz · **Posted:** Tue May 10, 2011 10:41

DavPaz wrote:

*passes enormous crown*

*Master Chief hangs on for dear life as the Covenant fall to their death*

kalmar · **Posted:** Tue May 10, 2011 10:47

Have you seen the price of copper recently

sdg · **Posted:** Tue May 10, 2011 10:49

kalmar wrote:

Have you seen the price of copper recently

It's amazing how suddenly everyone has become very good at recycling and bins are sprouting up everywhere for any scrap wiring. No wonder though, it's a few hundred quid for a bin full of it isn't it?

kalmar · **Posted:** Tue May 10, 2011 10:52

Yup! I'm going to have a tidy up myself, got several old motors that are too heavy to lift, full of coppery goodness...

Curiosity · **Posted:** Tue May 10, 2011 10:53

Zardoz wrote:

DavPaz wrote:

*passes enormous crown*

*Master Chief hangs on for dear life as the Covenant fall to their death*

Genuine chuckle!

sdg · **Posted:** Tue May 10, 2011 10:54

kalmar wrote:

Yup! I'm going to have a tidy up myself, got several old motors that are too heavy to lift, full of coppery goodness...

Sadly I have no such treasures, and in fact if I do anything it will be buying cable. Thinking about doing some wiring at home, exciting!

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

What the hell is the abomination that has arrived in the post?

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No, no, no! That does not make me want to buy stationary. However my expert design department can offer Viking some advice:

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Much better.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Tue May 10, 2011 10:58

I'd ream her.

kalmar · **Posted:** Tue May 10, 2011 11:10

Was that an office supplies joke? :DD

You're banned.

Zio · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6093

Spare a thought please for our Irish cousins, particularly those using Eircom as their broadband ISP, for they know not how shite the routers they've been provided are.

I've spent the last 30 mins trying to create a simple port forward on a customer's PC. Every time I click a button on the router's administration webpage, it briefly drops it's internet connection, and thus my remote connection. Yes, every button press involves me being kicked out of my remote session and having to log in again so I can click the next button. Plus, everything is laid out in such an obtuse manner, that I have to press many buttons just to find the bloody NAT settings. And even then it doesn't work, because it's default firewall settings deliberately drops incoming communications you have purposefully set up on the damn thing unless you then piss about with that too.

Fucking thing. Worse than the routers BT Open Reach knock out.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Much better.

Ian Hesford. My hero.

Have you noticed how they use the same photo of him either facing left or right, as the need may be? The give away is is parting when it moves from side to side.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Scary photo of the day:

That chums is the worlds oldest woman, Anne Nightingale, who at the age of 172 is still on Radio 1. The only reason they keep her is that she makes Jo Wiley look young.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Warhead wrote:

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Much better.

Ian Hesford. My hero.

Irwin Helford.

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10173

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Scary photo of the day:

Baby Spice sure got old.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

BikNorton wrote:

Baby Spice sure got old.

Presumably swapping hairdressing tips.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38657

Jo Wiley isn't on Radio 1 anymore

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue May 10, 2011 11:44

Doing these fund reports, it is quite interesting to see how much money goes down the drain on companies that don't quite make it. $10 million here, $10 million there. Some funds are really quite ruthless if something is underperforming and will pull the rug out really quickly. It's a shame, as some ideas seem to me, at least to be really good, but not viable.

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue May 10, 2011 11:45

Trooper wrote:

MaliA wrote:

VeeBeam looks pretty good for beaming HD stuff from your computer to your TV. £99

http://www.veebeam.com

.

Two things.

A) £99 is for the SD version, the HD version is more I think
ii) You still need to control it via the computer, so you either run back and forth to the PC/laptop, or you bring the pc into the room with the TV. If you do that, you might as well just buy a cable and save yourself £100

And it is the same room, only, it seems.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Anne Nightingale in 1980:

FEARN COTTON I HAVE SEEN YOUR FUTURE!

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Warhead wrote:

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Much better.

Ian Hesford. My hero.

Irwin Helford.

OH, no, I can't stand him, he's a twat. Now Ian Hesford, who was at school with me, was a stirling fellow.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Tue May 10, 2011 12:13

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Anne Nightingale in 1980:

FEARN COTTON I HAVE SEEN YOUR FUTURE!

Blimey.

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue May 10, 2011 12:17

LinkedIn is looking at a $3 Billion valuation, 13x last years revenue according to the FT

kalmar · **Posted:** Tue May 10, 2011 13:49

DavPaz wrote:

Jo Wiley isn't on Radio 1 anymore

When Sara Cox isn't either I'm going to feel properly sad and old.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38657

kalmar wrote:

Sara Cox

"Oooh, guess what my kids did yesterday! Text in and tell me about nice recipes for smoothies and lovely place to get a foot rub! Coming up next, Coldplay!"

Fuck off, Sara Cox

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue May 10, 2011 13:54

DavPaz wrote:

kalmar wrote:

Sara Cox

"Oooh, guess what my kids did yesterday! Text in and tell me about nice recipes for smoothies and lovely place to get a foot rub! Coming up next, Coldplay!"

Fuck off, Sara Cox

Also Vernon Kay.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

DavPaz wrote:

Jo Wiley isn't on Radio 1 anymore

About bleeding time!

Wullie · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 6183

Fae smaggers on b3ta.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38657

Had suppress a childish chuckle at the title of this article

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/ents/top_st ... K12_14_15_

Zardoz · **Posted:** Tue May 10, 2011 15:52

Got a belated birthday present from work just now of a 3V Visa internet shopping gift card. Never seen one of them before, pretty good idea really.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Tue May 10, 2011 16:22

DavPaz wrote:

kalmar wrote:

Sara Cox

"Oooh, guess what my kids did yesterday! Text in and tell me about nice recipes for smoothies and lovely place to get a foot rub! Coming up next, Coldplay!"

Fuck off, Sara Cox

Part of the reason I stopped listening to Radio 1

I keep tuning back every time she is bloody on it!!

kalmar · **Posted:** Tue May 10, 2011 16:33

Well, you're wrong, and you're a grotesquely ugly freak.

sinister agent · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 7046

Employment law question:

Can an employer refuse to let employee A train employee B, because employee A has a poor attendance record?

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue May 10, 2011 16:37

BLATANT SEXISM ALERT!

Also, of course, this:

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means "Say the fuck what you like on the radio", wheras this:

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means "Get off the air, skag, I can't even understand you."

Grossly unfair, of course, but then so is the fact that she works on Radio 1.

Here's another nice picture, which you may not want to click on at work (it's in the Sun, so it's not that bad).

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10173

sinister agent wrote:

Employment law question:

Can an employer refuse to let employee A train employee B, because employee A has a poor attendance record?

Yes. Unless you do it on your own time.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26081

Quote:

(someone) wrote: "I disagree with some of the feminist reason people dislike this book, he lived in eastern Europe, Sweden I think

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22392

Mimi wrote:

Quote:

(someone) wrote: "I disagree with some of the feminist reason people dislike this book, he lived in eastern Europe, Sweden I think

I live in Europe and it's east of me!

KovacsC · **Posted:** Tue May 10, 2011 17:56

kalmar wrote:

Well, you're wrong, and you're a grotesquely ugly freak.

That is a bit harsh...

kalmar · **Posted:** Tue May 10, 2011 18:41

KovacsC wrote:

kalmar wrote:

Well, you're wrong, and you're a grotesquely ugly freak.

That is a bit harsh...

Heh, I suppose it is if you don't recognise the quote, sorry mate :kiss:

Wullie · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 6183

Doesn't recognise the quote? WTFF? The entire series is on youyatube & everything!?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEdsQn5J21A

ApplePieOfDestiny · **Joined:** 17th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 8293

Heh, Olympic ticket emails are being tagged by Gmail with Bankruptcy adverts. Good skills.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue May 10, 2011 23:52

Hilary Clinton erased from some history, added to others: http://skepchick.org/2011/05/hillary-cl ... t-so-fast/

Kern · **Posted:** Wed May 11, 2011 9:11

My work email address has been spammed (ten times) in Irish:

Quote:

A chara Iarratasóir:

Táimid tar éis deara go bhfuil tú i dteideal aisíoc mhéid 361,43
Comhlánaigh an t-aisíoc cánach le 24h: Aisíoc Cánach Foirm 2011

Go raibh maith agat,
Na Coimisinéirí Ioncaim na héireann

This is a new one for me.

Google translation:

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!

Dear Applicant:

We have detected that you are entitled to a refund amount 361.43
Complete the tax refund 24h: Tax Return Form 2011

Thanks,
Irish Revenue

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed May 11, 2011 9:29

"Passer-by pushes suicide man off bridge"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8069686.stm

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