Posts by chivo243 6665 publicly visible posts • joined 10 May 2010
Per CNBC, firefighters on the scene allowed the battery to burn out, as is standard practice for lithium-ion fires. Firefighters planned to remain on scene overnight to ensure the system didn't re-ignite.
Ok, so the let it burn itself out because the can't stop it from burning, how do they keep it from re-igniting?
Where's Paris?
make sure you've selected all columns and rows for you crucial calculation. My former boss once placed and order from "his" spreadsheet, using my hand collected data for every switch closet in the network. As the end of the refresh came near, I noticed that we were 3 switches short! Ensue lots of shouting, brow furrowing and finger pointing, by everyone in the office, he finally went back to his spreadsheet and found he had neglected to select the last row in his calculation!
My handwritten list had the correct number at the bottom, plus spares for the shelf, glad the spares came in handy so fast! He got lucky, the project finished on time, and he only needed to order the spares.
Been using a first gen SE for years, definitely showing it's age, I just looked at a new latest and greatest, and I'm shocked, shocked I say by the price. Easily 5 times the price I paid for the missus second gen SE when it was new...
Unless all my relatives die and leave all their money.... no effin way Apple. I've seen computers that cost less!
Enhance 224 to 176.
Enhance.
Stop.
Move in.
Stop.
Move in.
Stop.
Pull out, track right.
Stop.
Center and pull back.
Stop.
Track 45 right.
Stop.
Center and stop.
Enhance 34 to 36.
Pan right and pull back.
Stop.
Enhance 34 to 46.
Pull back.
Wait a minute.
Go right.
Stop.
Enhance 57-19.
Stop.
Track 45 left
Stop.
Enhance 15-23
Gimme a hard copy right there…
"What if he took the information in his head? - like we all do when we leave a job."
I thought the same thing when I left my previous employer 8 months ago. An ex-colleague and still very good buddy messaged me recently asking about something(now his responsibility) I worked with for 10 years, and could NOT for the life of me remember the answer he needed. Disheartening really... Perhaps it's because I'm in the same boat as the defendant, the years ahead are much shorter than the years behind, and as much as I would like to think it, the memory isn't what it used to be... The information I may reproduce may look like something out of the Telephone game.
Bub
Stands for ‘Barely Useful Body.’ Sometimes used in a derogatory manner, but sometimes used to describe someone who’s been injured or physically unable to perform 100 percent. Either way, it hurts the ego.
https://www.wearethemighty.com/popular/navy-sailor-insults/
I once had the pleasure of assisting a user who wasn't the neatest person. They ate constantly at their desk. One day the keyboard quit working properly. The desk was always cluttered with notebooks, binders and lots of empty food wrappers and empty paper cups with remnants of hot chocolate or coffee. They demonstrated the problematic keyboard, and indeed, it missed the T and the A. I decided to swap the keyboard, and upon clearing some of the debris, and moving the keyboard, I saw a hoard of ants crawling about, in and out of the keyboard! I gave them the oldest crappiest keyboard in storage, and promptly took the keyboard back to the office, a daring colleague opened the keyboard, and we found a whole colony of ants going about their business!
Icon is self explanatory, I hope!
Give Walter a cold one for that quick thinking! I have also grabbed an old system of the shelf and put it back in production, I seem to remember a McAfee ePO all in one box that had to be resurrected for a short time while the kinks in the newer system were straightened out.
== Bring us Dabbsy back! ==
I upvote your comment, wish I had many to give your tag line!
Mr. Dabs can be found here:
https://autosaveisforwimps.substack.com/
I too hope he comes back. I bet the clicks are way down, I recently saw one of his columns had over 150 comments, how do comments translate to clicks??
Sorry to hijack the forum!! Situation Publishing are you listening? https://situationpublishing.com/ Perhaps we readers and followers need to ask??
I'm a bit surprised there was no mention of checking who buys pool chemicals, or provides pool services.
Just moved to a house in France with a pool this year...
Pool services Hahahahaha... Nobody comes out unless you have major work to be done, at least in our area, we called the company who put our pool in (we had no experience) to give us a rundown on the system, no go, not even for fee. We paid cash for our shock and chlorine etc... The rest was up to me to learn as we go.
But like the mentor said, sometimes it's easier to fix the solution. I would rather have a nice cuppa rather than try to educate someone who clearly shouldn't be allowed near a computer at any time. I hate it when people get hired for a job that requires a computer, but are afraid to touch it...
My Grandpa told me a story about a factory where he once worked. Turns out there was an unspoken quota among the workers, don't produce over x amount of widgets a week even though you were paid by the number of widgets you produced. One summer a young guy between semesters at a nearby university start working at the factory, and the first week he doubled what the veterans produced. The second week his co-workers had a friendly chat with him, and explained the 'quota'. That second week he still produced twice what the others were doing. On Monday of the third week, he showed up to work with a broken nose and two black eyes. That week he produced the same amount as everybody else...
...followed by my wife asking me who I'm yelling at to fuck off when I'm sat on the loo doing my Duolingo...
I paid for Unlimited, I needed more Duo than 3 mistakes a day... I use it multiple times a day, I'm still not speaking French très bien...
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