DonBradley Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 "Dd had recommendations for guttering earlier this morning" which may cause your umberella to either blow inside out, or collapse and dump collected rain water to drench you. Sorry to hear you are crocked. An excuse to sit on your special chair and test the keeping/maturing qualities of the contents of your cellar. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
backofanenvelope Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 :icon_wave: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnDMJ Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 Apologies for my lateness. Letter from Mum. Dear All Apologies for my little lad's tardiness. He has been taking pictures of signal boxes and one of his mates insisted on a pic of the guttering. Sadly he fell off his ladder and will be hobbling for a day or two. Old Mrs S Whilst laid up, I've Googled away and still have no idea what a RSS Feed is all about or indeed what BOFL is......Must be me. Sorry to hear the gravity of your lad's injuries, Old Mrs S. Hope the hobbling will soon pass! BOFH = Bas***d (add, in any order you feel appropriate, the letters r, t & a) Operator From Hell and derives from a comic series of articles in the computer press several years ago about life as an IT system operator - the guy who spent many hours (as they used to that long ago) sitting in the room with the computers changing disk units, feeding punched tape or cards in,retrieving printout and putting it in the racks for the users, and sorting out problems with the users' terminals. Ah, them were t' days. All the 'screens' ran from a single computer, living in its own air conditionned room, locked away from all but the BOFHs who thus had total control over who could do what and when with their computer! HTH! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted October 15, 2009 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 15, 2009 I remember the time when the only air conditioning was in the computer room and then later in the print room. I upset our head IT man's loyal administrator (minions shall not pass his threshold)one evening when I insisted that he really would want to know about what the malfunctioning air con was just about to do to the computer room. It was like something from a sci fi movie. Tony Apparently for news of RMweb soon we need to Twitter. I'm learning lots of new things this week! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnDMJ Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 Apparently for news of RMweb soon we need to Twitter. I'm learning lots of new things this week! Not sure I can stand the pace here! What's Twitter - I've nearly gotten to grips with the idea of (note not the use of!) RSS feeds and Blogs (short, I believe for Web Logs) and am almost used to the changes that RMWeb itself has imposed on us. Now twitter?? As one of my uni posters used to say: whenever I feel like studying, I lay down until the feeling goes away. I wonder if, if I ignore Twitter, will it go away? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold martin_wynne Posted October 15, 2009 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 15, 2009 Apparently for news of RMweb soon we need to Twitter. I'm learning lots of new things this week! This site going off for 24 hours soon -- keep in touch: bookmark this page NOW: http://twitter.com/RMweb Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonBradley Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 It's RMweb that's going away and without Twitter you won't know when it comes back! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 "What's Twitter" I think it's similar to Facelift, Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonBradley Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 Thanks for the bookmark. Although as the Ko Ko I have "willow tit willow tit willowed" I haven't previously twitted. Now I can start. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnDMJ Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 "What's Twitter" I think it's similar to Facelift, OK, what's that then? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted October 15, 2009 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 15, 2009 OK, what's that then? Facelift is probably a social networking site for people called Otis. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonBradley Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 Is that like Schindler's list? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 Yes. Very much so. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnDMJ Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 Sounding more like Shakespeare's List ATM. Been waiting for hours for the 24 hours to start but it's starting to look dangerously like Much Ado About Nothing. Prove me wrong, someone, anyone, please! (Operation to have tongue surgically removed from cheek is booked for later in the week!) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 Members are asked to look after their droppings during the changing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted October 15, 2009 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 15, 2009 I'm off to peel some potatoes. Perhaps the servers will shut down while I'm away from the PC. See you all Twitter-side! Tony Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PhilH Posted October 15, 2009 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 15, 2009 Is that like Schindler's list? Schindler's lift surely? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 No - he'd been celebrating his birthday. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixoh8sixoh Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 Thanks for the bookmark. Although as the Ko Ko I have "willow tit willow tit willowed" I haven't previously twitted. Now I can start. I believe the verb is "to tweet"... Unless you're David Cameron. His excuse for not using Twitter was "too many twits [sic] make a tw*t"... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted October 15, 2009 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 15, 2009 I believe the verb is "to tweet"... Unless you're David Cameron. His excuse for not using Twitter was "too many twits [sic] make a tw*t"... I've just seen your Twitter page (from being one of Mr York's "followers"). Tony Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixoh8sixoh Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 Indeed, I've been an irregular Twitterer for a few months now... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 Hmmm - the site still seems to be working at the moment. Loved the BOFH posts - reminds me of the time when a Sysop was heard to utter: "Look mate, I don't tell you how to do your job, so don't tell me how to run my VAX" The user who dared to question the Sysop was rewarded by having his priority privileges stripped! Oh for the days of mainframes again which feeding the Sysops could result in your batch jobs executing faster (strangely enough ). It's a lot warmer here in England than it was in Germany! B) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted October 15, 2009 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 15, 2009 Hmmm - the site still seems to be working at the moment. Loved the BOFH posts - Oh for the days of mainframes again which feeding the Sysops could result in your batch jobs executing faster (strangely enough ). When I was at university undergraduates on non computing courses were not supposed to submit batches of cards (this was about 1971) My project supervisor advised going in in the evening, smiling pleasantly and saying please and thank you frequently. It did seem to work. Tony Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnDMJ Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 The user who dared to question the Sysop was rewarded by having his priority privileges stripped! Oh for the days of mainframes again which feeding the Sysops could result in your batch jobs executing faster (strangely enough ). Sounds like the role model for the BOFH!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PhilH Posted October 15, 2009 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 15, 2009 What the heck are you lot talking about :icon_question: :icon_question: :icon_question: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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