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Author: DaveDave
Date: Dec 26, 2008 12:15
Tanuki canismajor.demon.co.uk> writes:
> Today, I bought a product whose label bore the following:
> uggc://jjj.pnavfznwbe.qrzba.pb.hx/fcbby/synibhef.wct
This doesn't boggle me. I found out today that Burger King sell a
BK-branded perfume. I once had a disastrous relationship with a
a SWMBO who worked at a pizza shop. She had hair far too long to wash
every night and we had to share a single bed at the time. The smell of industrial
quantities of cooking oil, hot cheese and take-away grade meat products
on a human body brings back wholly unwelcome memories.
> Windows Vista comes with a flash on the shrinkwrap proudly
> announcing "Enhanced version-number! Lower CO2 Emissions!"
Wouldn't the latter imply it's more efficient? I somehow doubt MS could
spin that.
Dave
--
millibrachiate tentacular coelenterates
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Author: SethSeth
Date: Dec 26, 2008 08:26
>along the lines of "In Hell, the Americans run immigration." I'm not
>sure who would run immigration in Heaven, though.
My experience says the Dutch. Last time I was there, Customs and
Immigration consisted of one guy sitting on a desk, reading a book.
Seth
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Author: SethSeth
Date: Dec 26, 2008 08:05
In article <87tz99qagd.fsf@Don-John.Messina>,
Mark L Pappin acm.org> wrote:>Jamie caughtsomewhereintime.org> writes:>>> Just zis Guy, you know? spamcop.net> wrote:>
>>>> sliding downhill because there was insufficient friction between
>>>> tyre and road, even with his weight on the bike.
>>>
>>> What difference does the weight on the bike make?
>
>F_{friction} = k \times F_{normal}
>
>F_{normal} = F_{weight} \times cos \Theta_{road}
>F_{parallel} = F_{weight} \times sin \Theta_{road}
>
>> Probably makes it worse - an unladen bike doesn't tend to slide with
>> the brakes locked.
>
>Depends on \Theta_{road}. ...
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Author: Richard BosRichard Bos
Date: Dec 26, 2008 06:57
Zebee Johnstone gmail.com> wrote:
> In alt.sysadmin.recovery on 23 Dec 2008 23:42:48 GMT
> Joe Zeff lasfs.info> wrote:>> On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:27:02 +0000, Zebee Johnstone wrote:
>>
>>> Mind you, would an incompetent corrupt official do things like forget to
>>> take your money?
>>
>> No. An incompetent corrupt official would take your money as a payment
>> and then mess up whatever he or she had agreed to do in return. As an
>> example, a building inspector might take a bribe to overlook a code
>> violation, then mess up filling out the report so badly that you end up
>> getting reinspected by somebody honest.
>
> yes if they are corrupt and incompetent.
>
> But if they are incompetently corrupt?
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Author: Richard BosRichard Bos
Date: Dec 26, 2008 06:57
SteveD wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:58:22 +1100, TimC
>>On 2008-12-23, Richard Bos (aka Bruce)
>>> Matt Palmer hezmatt.org> wrote:>>>> Even more so if the Doctor starts whistling the opening bars of "The
>>>> Strip"...
>>>
>>> Especially when it _is_ the Doctor, and not the doctor. That Tennant
>>> fellow never did it for me.
>>
>>Did it for most of the females I know. I know not why.
>
> And if not him, Eccleston had his own comet-trail of admirers.
Yes, but with Eccleston I can at least see why, even if I don't swing
that way myself. Tennant is like that irritating twerp in high school
who couldn't stop making wise-arse remarks, even when the rest of the
class wanted to get on with the lesson.
Richard
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Author: Peter CorlettPeter Corlett
Date: Dec 25, 2008 06:44
Dave Brown wrote:
[...]
> It goes on to say:
> NOTE: The INSERT/UPDATE aborts as soon as the error is noticed. This
> may not be what you want if you are using a non-transactional
> storage engine, because data changes made prior to the error may not
> be rolled back, resulting in a "partially done" update. (Added in
> MySQL 5.0.2)
> MySQL's continuing popularity is an ongoing source of distress for me.
I'd just like to share this from a mailing list I'm subscribed to:
[various headers elided]
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:17:34 +0000
Suddenly I see why people hate mysql. I'm going to be spending
the next four hours restoring from backup. Very slowly.
*yay*
Perfect start to the day.
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Author: Zebee JohnstoneZebee Johnstone
Date: Dec 24, 2008 20:40
In alt.sysadmin.recovery on Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:32:34 +0000
Paul Martin zetnet.net> wrote:> We once had a DDS drive fail explosively, scattering bits of its
> mechanism to the four winds.
I have had a magtape drive fail the smoke test with a lovely lot of
black smoke.
This was, as it happened, after they had installed the sprinklers and
the smoke detectors in the machine room, but before they went live.
Zebee
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Author: TimCTimC
Date: Dec 24, 2008 16:50
On 2008-12-24, Paul Martin (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> In article <3rl2l4l7eeh7r8cjaao48hmm5nbt6mm2jd@ 4ax.com>,
> Just zis Guy, you know? wrote: >> I sit corrected. So: DAT/DDS was shite for everything, then.
>> (Quietly kicks the small pile of tapes from the failed DDS4
>> autoloader under the carpet in the hope that nobody notices them).
>
> We once had a DDS drive fail explosively, scattering bits of its
> mechanism to the four winds.
How much C4 did you have to hook up to it, and did you manage to
convince the beancounters to allow you to buy a good backup system as
replacement?
--
TimC
load "linux",8,1
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Author: Alan J RosenthalAlan J Rosenthal
Date: Dec 24, 2008 15:45
Tanuki canismajor.demon.co.uk> writes:>Alan J Rosenthal dgp.toronto.edu> said>>Tanuki canismajor.demon.co.uk> writes:>>>Today, I bought a product whose label bore the following:
>>>
>>>uggc://jjj.pnavfznwbe.qrzba.pb.hx/fcbby/synibhef.wct
>>
>>I'm dying for an explanation. What was the item, and what did they really
>>mean by saying that it was flavourless, and that that was hard work?
>
>It was "NFQN Erqpheenag Wryyl". I have yet to open it.
I feel that by answering the first of my triad of questions, you have merely
deepened the mystery of the other two.
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Author: Alexander SchreiberAlexander Schreiber
Date: Dec 24, 2008 14:03
Paul Martin zetnet.net> wrote:> In article <5bokk4hkqg6944f759hu5n1ptrsl3ejf9g@ 4ax.com>,
> Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:
>
> [Just DAT tape, you know?] >> Agree. They were good (FSVO) for digital audio but always a cheap
>> and nasty alternative for backup.
>
> Not even for digital audio. Tape oxide drop outs were often disastrous.
And here I go thinking DAT is fine for getting some high quality digital
audio recorded. Admittedly, I never had to actually _do_ something like
that.
Regards,
Alex.
--
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison
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