Recruiters who place people first...
Flexor
> Dear Flexor
> I have come across your CV dated 18-Jun-04 on our database and
> feel that you could be perfect for a permanent Jrofcurer role
> in Wiltshire that I am currently recruiting for.
> The successful candidate will have experience in ZDFrevrf &
> JOVZO across a range of platforms including UNIX & Windows and
> will enjoy working in a client-facing environment. My client
> is an energetic & dynamic leading independent consultancy who
> have adopted a 'quality first' approach.
> If you would like more information on this role, please feel
> free to call me...
> Love,
> Recruitment Bunny
So my nearly three-year old CV with any references to Gatesware
carefully removed, prompts our little bunny to conclude that
installing MuQSeries Boxen on Windows at customer sites, with
Manglement breathing down my neck to see if I'm doing it quickly
enough, is exactly what I want to be doing in this world.
Don't you love that personal approach? Much better than just grepping
all those CVs for keywords and spamming those that come up. Checking
them is of course just a frikkin' waste of time.
It seems I can no longer remember the name of the bunch of fsckwits
who made me fly all the way from Amsterdam to Brum on an interview for
a job that had perhaps one word in common with my CV, and that word
might have been "the". Suppose that's a good thing as long as I'm
comfortable where I am.
Coffee, I think.
Cheers,
Flexor
TimC
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> Hello! Look what dropped into my inbox this morning...
>
>> Dear Flexor
>
>> I have come across your CV dated 18-Jun-04 on our database and
>> feel that you could be perfect for a permanent Jrofcurer role
>> in Wiltshire that I am currently recruiting for.
>
>> The successful candidate will have experience in ZDFrevrf &
>> JOVZO across a range of platforms including UNIX & Windows and
>> will enjoy working in a client-facing environment. My client
>> is an energetic & dynamic leading independent consultancy who
>> have adopted a 'quality first' approach.
>
>> If you would like more information on this role, please feel
>> free to call me...
>
>> Love,
>> Recruitment Bunny
>
> So my nearly three-year old CV with any references to Gatesware
> carefully removed, prompts our little bunny to conclude that
> installing MuQSeries Boxen on Windows at customer sites, with
> Manglement breathing down my neck to see if I'm doing it quickly
> enough, is exactly what I want to be doing in this world.
>
> Don't you love that personal approach?
"Love, recruitment bunny?". Hell yeah. I think I'm going to start
signing letters that way.
> It seems I can no longer remember the name of the bunch of fsckwits
> who made me fly all the way from Amsterdam to Brum on an interview for
> a job that had perhaps one word in common with my CV, and that word
> might have been "the". Suppose that's a good thing as long as I'm
> comfortable where I am.
They paid, right?
> Coffee, I think.
Yes thanks. 3 days after coming off night shift, one day till
dayshift, and I am still not falling asleep before 5am.
--
TimC
Brown's Theorem (Physics III student, Usyd):
"The only thing that behaves like a billiard
ball, is a billiard ball"
Peter Corlett
[...]
>>> feel that you could be perfect for a permanent Jrofcurer role in
>>> Wiltshire
I keep getting them offering me jobs in the Bromsgrove or some other
godforsaken hole in the West Midlands. It's getting old asking which Tube
station that's nearest as they don't actually seem to get the hint.
Keith A. Glass
>Hello! Look what dropped into my inbox this morning...
>
>> Dear Flexor
>
>> I have come across your CV dated 18-Jun-04 on our database and
>> feel that you could be perfect for a permanent Jrofcurer role
>> in Wiltshire that I am currently recruiting for.
Sounds familiar. Except in my case, when a current profile says "No
contracts" and NE US gets me contstant pings for 6 and 8-month gigs in
Californina, Texas, and Arizona....
And what is it, at least in .US, that suddenly has all the especially
clueless pimps coming from the Subcontinent ??
Paul Tomblin
>And what is it, at least in .US, that suddenly has all the especially
>clueless pimps coming from the Subcontinent ??
You mean Texas?
I'm just annoyed at recruiters who don't realize that Rochester NY isn't
the same thing as NY NY. Although one was from Google, and I'd love to
work there.
--
Paul Tomblin <ptom...@xcski.com> http://blog.xcski.com/
Sign on door of computing lecturer: "If your project is 90% right,
I have to give you a distinction, your employer will fire you."
-- Zebee
Keith A. Glass
(Paul Tomblin) wrote:
>In a previous article, Keith A. Glass <sal...@speakeasy.net> said:
>>And what is it, at least in .US, that suddenly has all the especially
>>clueless pimps coming from the Subcontinent ??
>
>You mean Texas?
>
>I'm just annoyed at recruiters who don't realize that Rochester NY isn't
>the same thing as NY NY. Although one was from Google, and I'd love to
>work there.
No, I mean Dots. What IS it with all the Indian pimps these days,
especially contract pimps ???
Ned Brickley
<sal...@speakeasy.net> wrote:
>>>And what is it, at least in .US, that suddenly has all the especially
>>>clueless pimps coming from the Subcontinent ??
>>You mean Texas?
>No, I mean Dots. What IS it with all the Indian pimps these days,
>especially contract pimps ???
I have one that calls me constantly regarding jobs that are 90 minute
drives from my home, each way. I explain to her that I wasn't
interested in spending 3 hours a day in my jeep. I found out she as
calling from NYC. I recommended she look at a map in the future,
(Politely), and thanked her.
She has been calling me almost every month with the same job.
She's Russian.
Now I know what happened to the old KGB interrogators. They became
Headhunters. [1]
1) "We want you take job."
"I don't want this job."
"Who is asking you if you want job. You WILL take job!"
--
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
P. J. O'Rourke
Charlie Stross
as <sal...@speakeasy.net> declared:
> On 14 Apr 2007 09:51:56 GMT, "Flexor" <fle...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
>>Hello! Look what dropped into my inbox this morning...
>>
>>> Dear Flexor
>>
>>> I have come across your CV dated 18-Jun-04 on our database and
>>> feel that you could be perfect for a permanent Jrofcurer role
>>> in Wiltshire that I am currently recruiting for.
>
> Sounds familiar. Except in my case, when a current profile says "No
> contracts" and NE US gets me contstant pings for 6 and 8-month gigs in
> Californina, Texas, and Arizona....
I got, about a month ago, what was either an astoundingly convincingly
done phishing attack or a genuine employment feeler from someone inside
of Google. Cthulhu knows why; he seemed to have missed out on my career
subsequent to 2000. (Unless Google have some pressing, highly secret
requirement for perl-literate SF novelists. The mind, she boggles ...)
-- Charlie
Keith A. Glass
Ah, for some proper arcane computation at moments like that.. . . .
(can you guess who is reading "On Her Majesty's Occult Service" right
now. . . literally ???)
Maarten Wiltink
news:slrnf25h29....@abyss.ninehells.com...
[...]
> Google seems to be sending recruiting letters to every clued person
> posting to USENET these days.
And to every unclued person as well?
It must be like GMail invites. I never got a single one. Not sure if
that's something to be _only_ pleased with or proud of.
Tebrgwrf,
Maarten Wiltink
John Burnham
not sure that's actually possible. But given that it would involve a
minimum of a 15K ukp pay cut and going to work for a company using
software that was out of date three years ago and was "thinking of
introducing a backup system".... Yeah. Real tempting.
J
Keith A. Glass
See you and raise you one:
I got one on Friday, asking about my availability for a 2-3 hour job
for a PRINTER INSTALL, at a quarter of my listed rate. . .
John Burnham
> See you and raise you one:
>
> I got one on Friday, asking about my availability for a 2-3 hour job
> for a PRINTER INSTALL, at a quarter of my listed rate. . .
That's easy, just tell them you can't go below your listed rate and your
minimum number of hours is 8. Gets rid of most people like that.
J
Charlie Stross
> As for why they'd want you in particular, consider that the world's
> largest distributed system is the Google network, and it's loaded chock
> full of every bad idea humanity has ever had and run by people who run
> things at full throttle. Were you wondering where the Singularity is
> going to start? I think we'd all rather have someone like you at the
> helm when things go asymptotically interesting.
*Flees, screaming*
(I'm so deep in recovery that the last novel I handed in doesn't use the
words "software", "computer", or "singularity" *anywhere*. I checked, to
make sure. Okay, so it's about crime in MMORPGs, but you can't have
everything ...)
-- Charlie
Dave
> I had one recently that promised an exciting position in Coventry...
> software that was out of date three years ago and was "thinking of
> introducing a backup system".... Yeah. Real tempting.
I think that's a perfectly good definition of 'exciting', with plenty of
scope for much 'interesting' times as well.
Dave
--
millibrachiate tentacular coelenterates
Jay Chandler
> Google seems to be sending recruiting letters to every clued person
> posting to USENET these days.
Note to self: Post more often...
--
Jay
Peter Corlett
Rather pleasingly, I don't actually have Usenet access even though I run my
own news server. (This is the only Usenet group that happens to come in with
a certain private hierarchy.)
Jay Chandler
> Rather pleasingly, I don't actually have Usenet access even though I run
> my own news server. (This is the only Usenet group that happens to come
> in with a certain private hierarchy.)
Oh yes, I'm in the same boat personally.
Although I also have a public feed, and that lets certain public spam
posts leak, so I'll have to tear Pan apart later to adjust its config
accordingly...
--
Jay
Charlie Stross
> Keith A. Glass writes:
>
>>(can you guess who is reading "On Her Majesty's Occult Service" right
>>now. . . literally ???)
>
> I finished the first of the Merchant Princes last night, the next one is
> syncing to my palm while I'm reading news this morning. I almost spit
> out my cereal.
Just because I haven't hung out around here for most of a decade ...
-- Charlie
Mike Andrews
A case of beer says it was very real indeed. The Googleworks folks
have been doing this for the past 6 weeks or so.
Keep writing, Charlie! I need the release and relaxation. More in the
Merchant Princess multiverse, more in the Chthulhu-lives multiverses.
Other as you please. Oh, and tell Ian M Banks it's time for some more,
too.
If you happen to be in the States, and it's convenient to stop by the
Oklahoma City area, let me take you to Cattlemen's Cafe. It's one of
the top dozen or so steakhouses on the continent.
I _knew_ reading this fast was going to be expensive ... .
--
Q: How many mathematicians does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: One. He gives it to six Californians, thereby reducing the problem
to the earlier joke.
Jay Chandler
> They sent one to me a while back, but I was even more pissed off with
> them at the time than I usually am, so I may've kill-filed them without
> reading it.
I do think Google'd be a fantastic place to work, if I could just accept
moving six hours north to Mountain View...
Charlie Stross
> PS: Ner lbh gbb ohfl gb ernq znvy sebz gur yvxrf bs hf fvapr lbh jrag
> ceb? Gurer'ir orra n pbhcyr bs gvzrf jura V'ir jnagrq gb rznvy lbh,
> ohg gubhtug vg zvtug or na vzcbfvgvba.
Pfft! Happy to talk.
-- Charlie
Brian Kantor
>
>Google seems to be sending recruiting letters to every clued person
>posting to USENET these days.
>
Am I too old to get one of those? It's not like they don't know
who I am:
Results 1 - 100 of about 21,500 for "brian kantor". (0.25 seconds)
- Brian
Peter Corlett
[...]
> Just because I haven't hung out around here for most of a decade ...
Some might argue this was a good thing, even if you have been missed.
My career would have taken a much different turn had some sadistic bastard
not introduced me to Usenet in 1991. Moments of boredom might have caused me
to invent or create something instead of going "hmm, let's read a bit of
news"...
Keith A. Glass
Well, the long-awaited layoff hit today, so what the hell, I'm getting
paid $60. for a 15 minute printer install, on the way to my old office
to pick up my personal posessions (had to zip out in a hurry tonight
after getting the layoff, daughter was done with college. . . )
Keith A. Glass
<ra...@bradakis.net> wrote:
>Keith A. Glass writes:
>
>>(can you guess who is reading "On Her Majesty's Occult Service" right
>>now. . . literally ???)
>
>I finished the first of the Merchant Princes last night, the next one is
>syncing to my palm while I'm reading news this morning. I almost spit
>out my cereal.
Charlie's writing tends to make people do that. . . . (grin)
Stuart Lamble
> PPS: Pbateng'f ba nyy gung gbb. Nz ybbxvat sbejneq gb lbhe yngrfg,
> juvpu V unira'g frra va nal bs zl ybpny fubf lrg. V, crefbanyyl, nz
> jbexvat ba fuvsgvat bire gb cubgbtencuencul, orpnhfr zna, V nz fb bire
> qbvat pbzchgref sbe n shpxvat yvivat.
*snort* I'm in the same boat, but there is no way in hell I'm going to
be taking one of my current two relaxation hobbies and turn it into a
paying career. I did that with computing, and now the only device with a
general-purpose CPU that I can stand to look at after work is my Wii.
I have ideas, but most of them pretty much require me to win the lottery
to put them into play. Damnit.
--
My Usenet From: address now expires after two weeks. If you email me, and
the mail bounces, try changing the bit before the "@" to "usenet".
Richard Todd
> I finished the first of the Merchant Princes last night, the next one is
> syncing to my palm while I'm reading news this morning. I almost spit
> out my cereal.
An ebook version of the Merchant Princes stories? Huh. I bought the
first one in the series during the week that Tor was selling ebooks
thru webscriptions.net and, after having read it and decided that I
needed to read the sequel, discovered that Tor's corporate
lords-and-masters had decided that no, they weren't going to do anything
so crass as selling ebooks to people who wanted to buy them after all, so
no ebook of the next two books for me. Not that I'm bitter or anything.
!Peeve: having grabbed the HTML version of Vinge's _A Fire Upon The Deep_ and
_A Deepness In The Sky_ when I had a chance.
Steve VanDevender
Note to self: Start acting clueless on USENET[1] to avoid attracting the
assimilating tentacles of the Google Overmind.
[1] To preempt all you wags out there: "There is another theory which
states that this has already happened."
--
Steve VanDevender "I ride the big iron" http://hexadecimal.uoregon.edu/
ste...@hexadecimal.uoregon.edu PGP keyprint 4AD7AF61F0B9DE87 522902969C0A7EE8
Little things break, circuitry burns / Time flies while my little world turns
Every day comes, every day goes / 100 years and nobody shows -- Happy Rhodes
Steve VanDevender
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:12:54 +1000, Lionel wrote:
>> "BlaBlaBlaBla,
>>
>> Love Recruitment Bunnny"
>
> "BlaBlaBlaBla,
>
> Love, Bob Loblaw
> Recruitment Bunnny"
Is that how he signs his posts to "Bob Loblaw's Law Blog"?
Steve VanDevender
Yeah, but if you believe them, you're more likely to be a cosmetic
dentist or a professor of economics than the sort of computer nerd
they're presumably interested in.
Unfortunately they don't have me confused with anyone else.
Greg Andrews
><tcon...@no.spam.accepted.here-astro.swin.edu.au> wrote:
>>
>>"Love, recruitment bunny?". Hell yeah. I think I'm going to start
>>signing letters that way.
>
>"BlaBlaBlaBla,
>
>Love Recruitment Bunnny"
>
How about 'Darling Fascist Bunny Boy'?
-Greg
--
::::::::::::::: Greg Andrews :::::: ge...@panix.com :::::::::::::::
You can get anything you want, at Alice's FTP server. (Except warez.)
-- Paul Tomblin
Maarten Wiltink
news:slrnf2836c....@carousel.its.monash.edu.au...
> [...] there is no way in hell I'm going to be taking one of my current
> two relaxation hobbies and turn it into a paying career. ...
> I have ideas, but most of them pretty much require me to win the
> lottery to put them into play. Damnit.
Don't we all? Ever since I was a sea scout (actually, from the time
we re-rigged a 12 sqm sloop-rigged to 20 sqm cutter-rigged - it sailed
_much_ better after that), I wanted to build one of those little steel
sailing boats they have, but schooner-rigged. I'm afraid I'll have to
settle for going sailing along the Turkish coast on something with two
masts some day. It has the advantage that it might actually *happen*,
seeing as how I don't play lotteries.
The only lottery I might win is inheriting way more than I expect
from my parents. Little winning will be involved there.
Tebrgwrf,
Maarten Wiltink
TimC
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:35:31 +0100, John Burnham
> <jo...@jaka.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>Keith A. Glass wrote:
>>> See you and raise you one:
>>>
>>> I got one on Friday, asking about my availability for a 2-3 hour job
>>> for a PRINTER INSTALL, at a quarter of my listed rate. . .
>>
>>That's easy, just tell them you can't go below your listed rate and your
>>minimum number of hours is 8. Gets rid of most people like that.
>
> Well, the long-awaited layoff hit today, so what the hell, I'm getting
> paid $60. for a 15 minute printer install, on the way to my old office
> to pick up my personal posessions
Bet you $60 it's not a 15 minute job.
--
TimC
"Legacy (adj): an uncomplimentary computer-industry epithet that
means 'it works'." -- Anthony DeBoer in ASR
Peter Corlett
> On 2007-04-16, Keith A Glass wrote:
[...]
>> Well, the long-awaited layoff hit today, so what the hell, I'm getting
>> paid $60. for a 15 minute printer install, on the way to my old office to
>> pick up my personal posessions
> Bet you $60 it's not a 15 minute job.
He could have quoted $60 per 15 minutes or part, and the customer went "oh,
it'll only take a moment"...
Peter Corlett
[...]
> Note to self: Start acting clueless on USENET[1] to avoid attracting the
> assimilating tentacles of the Google Overmind.
I merely thought "bugger moving to Ireland" and didn't even bother to follow
up or investigate further.
Keith A. Glass
<tcon...@no.spam.accepted.here-astro.swin.edu.au> wrote:
>On 2007-04-16, Keith A Glass (aka Bruce)
> was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
>> On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:35:31 +0100, John Burnham
>> <jo...@jaka.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>Keith A. Glass wrote:
>>>> See you and raise you one:
>>>>
>>>> I got one on Friday, asking about my availability for a 2-3 hour job
>>>> for a PRINTER INSTALL, at a quarter of my listed rate. . .
>>>
>>>That's easy, just tell them you can't go below your listed rate and your
>>>minimum number of hours is 8. Gets rid of most people like that.
>>
>> Well, the long-awaited layoff hit today, so what the hell, I'm getting
>> paid $60. for a 15 minute printer install, on the way to my old office
>> to pick up my personal posessions
>
>Bet you $60 it's not a 15 minute job.
Yeah. But honest work is good therapy.. .
TimC
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:43:56 +1000, TimC
> <tcon...@no.spam.accepted.here-astro.swin.edu.au> wrote:
>
>>On 2007-04-16, Keith A Glass (aka Bruce)
>> was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
>>> paid $60. for a 15 minute printer install, on the way to my old office
>>> to pick up my personal posessions
>>
>>Bet you $60 it's not a 15 minute job.
>
> Yeah. But honest work is good therapy.. .
What's honest about performing a defenestration on a printer?
--
TimC
Oooh, Look! Shiny New Thing! -- TimC
Stig M. Valstad
>
>No, I mean Dots. What IS it with all the Indian pimps these days,
>especially contract pimps ???
I guess with all the cowboys already in the business someone
felt some Indians were needed too. (Yes I know that's a
completely different meaning of Indian).
--
Stig M. Valstad
Inspected by #23
Peter Corlett
[...]
> I guess with all the cowboys already in the business someone felt some
> Indians were needed too. (Yes I know that's a completely different meaning
> of Indian).
At least Native Americans can usually speak understandable English.
Peter Corlett
[...]
> There are printers that run Windows?! Truly the End Times are upon us.
<ui> JvaCevagref </ui>
There's a reason I'm not getting rid of my LJ4 any time soon.
Phil Launchbury
>
> The phrase "Within 20 miles of Manchester" [1] should, you'd think,
> exclude everywhere in the M4 motorway area (for that is in the South,
> and is shit and expensive to live near) and the Thames Valley, for that
> too is some 200 miles away.
Ah - that's the first mistake. Agents are like spammers - they are
happy with a 99% reject rate for that 1% pot-of-gold moment. And there
is no thought involved because that would imply some sort of
intelligence or conscience on the agent and (as anyone who has done
contracting knows) there is precious little of either about in the
agency world.
In the days when I was EKS I used to quite specifically say 'M4
corridor only' on my CV and in all the agency signup sheets. Didn't
stop them sending me details of contracts in France, Belgium and
Holland..
Phil
--
Phil Launchbury, IT PHB
Triumph Tiger 955i
'I'm training the bats that live in my cube
to juggle mushrooms'
Taki Kogoma
allegedly declared to alt.sysadmin.recovery...
>Imagine a device hurtling towards superintelligence, being fed pure
>Google all the way. Imagine what a staggeringly huge amount of pure crap
>it is going to get fed along the way, and all this before it has access
>to unfiltered reality as a control to de-shite its brain with.
c.f. Spaf's commentary on Usenet and performing elephants.
--
Capt. Gym Z. Quirk (Known to some as Taki Kogoma) quirk @ swcp.com
Just an article detector on the Information Supercollider.
Steve VanDevender
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:31:04 -0700, Steve VanDevender wrote:
>> Satya <sat...@satyaonline.cjb.net> writes:
>>> "BlaBlaBlaBla,
>>>
>>> Love, Bob Loblaw
>>> Recruitment Bunnny"
>>
>> Is that how he signs his posts to "Bob Loblaw's Law Blog"?
>
> I wouldn't know, having never bothered to find the thing. Oh, look:
>
> http://appellatedecisions.blogspot.com/ ->
> http://blogs.enotes.com/decision-blog/
And until now I thought it was just a joke in _Arrested Development_.
> Effing cookies.
I tend to just go stabbing for the "never" button, so usually they
trouble me only once per site.
--
Steve VanDevender "I ride the big iron" http://hexadecimal.uoregon.edu/
ste...@hexadecimal.uoregon.edu PGP keyprint 4AD7AF61F0B9DE87 522902969C0A7EE8
"bash awk grep perl sed df du, du-du du-du,
vi troff su fsck rm * halt LART LART LART!" -- the Swedish BOFH
Brian Kantor
>dentist or a professor of economics than the sort of computer nerd
>they're presumably interested in.
Yeah, I was surprised when the dentist popped up; I'm used to there
being only the rich guy in SA and myself.
Now there's a third in Googleland.
But I think I had it first.
- Brian
Brian Kantor
My local electro-junk store is going out of business and they let
me cart off a dozen oscilloscopes that need various repairs, so I've
been spending my evenings fixing them and giving them away to my
students. It's amazing how relaxing it can be to just fiddle with
stuff that's so old there's no software in it, just switches and
knobs and transistors and stuff, oh my.
All hardware sucks, but at least this kind doesn't complain.
- Brian
ne...@buffy.sighup.org.uk
>>> But honest work is good therapy.. .
>
> My local electro-junk store is going out of business and they let
> me cart off a dozen oscilloscopes that need various repairs, so I've
> been spending my evenings fixing them and giving them away to my
> students. It's amazing how relaxing it can be to just fiddle with
> stuff that's so old there's no software in it, just switches and
> knobs and transistors and stuff, oh my.
Bliss.
> All hardware sucks, but at least this kind doesn't complain.
> - Brian
I still lust over old Tektronix and HP 'scopes. They had a style that is
missing from modern kit. Here's some 'scope porn I just found
http://pcbunn.cithep.caltech.edu/jjb/Tektronix/tektronix.htm
There is something honest about a box'o'valves. 90% of the time any problem
is obvious and an easy fix.
--
Geoff Lane, Airstrip One
Motel mattresses are better on the side away from the phone.
Mike Andrews
> Brian Kantor <br...@karoshi.ucsd.edu> wrote:
>>>> But honest work is good therapy.. .
>>
>> My local electro-junk store is going out of business and they let
>> me cart off a dozen oscilloscopes that need various repairs, so I've
>> been spending my evenings fixing them and giving them away to my
>> students. It's amazing how relaxing it can be to just fiddle with
>> stuff that's so old there's no software in it, just switches and
>> knobs and transistors and stuff, oh my.
> Bliss.
>> All hardware sucks, but at least this kind doesn't complain.
>> - Brian
> I still lust over old Tektronix and HP 'scopes. They had a style that is
> missing from modern kit. Here's some 'scope porn I just found
> http://pcbunn.cithep.caltech.edu/jjb/Tektronix/tektronix.htm
I was looking at that pageset just yesterday. And droooooooling.
> There is something honest about a box'o'valves. 90% of the time any problem
> is obvious and an easy fix.
Yeh.
I count among my possessions the following 'scopes:
1 Tek RM-561A tube scope
1 Tek 547 tube scope
1 Tek 465B (sand-state except for the display)
1 Tek 453 (sand-state except for the display)
1 Philips PM3055 (sand-state except for the display)
1 Allied tube scope (I can't remember the type)
and a fair number of different [plug-ins for the RM-561A and 547. The
547 is a two-carrying-handle behemoth. The RM-561A is 4 or 5 RU high
and not all that deep; gotta get it working.
The 465B is my mainstay, and the PM3055 is a nice second scope.
--
About a deceased operator:
I'm still more than a bit surprised that he was able to operate
the weapon in such a fashion that it would fire. This is grossly
inconsistent with _my_ experience of his abilities.
Brian Kantor
>I still lust over old Tektronix and HP 'scopes. They had a style that is
>missing from modern kit. Here's some 'scope porn I just found
>http://pcbunn.cithep.caltech.edu/jjb/Tektronix/tektronix.htm
Lovely! Ah, that takes me back. Thanks!
- Brian
David Cameron Staples
> Are you trying to invoke me?
>
> (Am I invokable now?)
$Satya->invoke()
Did that tickle? Or would you prefer the Old Fashioned approach:
Coniuro te, Satia, in nomine Domine, et Filii et Spiriti Sancti.
ObSimpsons:
Lisa: (Something about Americans Indians)
Apu: Like me!
Lisa: No, Native Americans...
Homer: Like me!
Lisa: No...
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Is there like a way to put a compiler in "Just trust me on that one" mode?
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Graham Reed
> <ui> JvaCevagref </ui>
There's a new spin on that. <ui> Ubfg-Onfrq Cevagvat </ui>. It's
just like JvaCevagref except there's also a Fruity
Designed-in-California Computer driver, too.
Run away. Run far away.
--
"Going fetal is not an intelligent defense."
-- Randy Couture, UFC 66 commentator
Stuart Lamble
> The way this country is headed currently, scarpering west is starting to
> look more and more attractive...
Plus you have the chance of striking it rich with a large vein of cream,
strawberry jam, or scones. (Yes, I have been watching my Goodies DVDs
lately; why do you ask?)
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the mail bounces, try changing the bit before the "@" to "usenet".
Stuart Lamble
> In the days when I was EKS I used to quite specifically say 'M4
> corridor only' on my CV and in all the agency signup sheets. Didn't
> stop them sending me details of contracts in France, Belgium and
> Holland..
I'm vaguely reminded of when I was looking at buying a car, and hit a
particular webshite based somewhere in .au. I told it, "Price range: up
to $30k." The results included a $200,000 Porsche, Bentleighs, Rolls
Royce, ...
Turns out that the fscking submit button was Javashite based. Surprise,
surprise.
Keith A. Glass
I have an old LJ5 for much the same reason. And what's amusing, is
the previous owner.
Bob Dole.
I bought it at auction of old IT Gear at the GSA Auction Depot in
Springfield, VA. . .still had some stationary in it from the office of
Sen. Bob Dole.
Mind you, he'd been out of the Senate ~3 1/2 years before the gear got
to auction. . .
Joe Bednorz
<<slrnf29p6t.a42...@spc1-burn1-3-0-cust209.bagu.broadband.ntl.com>>:
>Imagine a device hurtling towards superintelligence, being fed pure
>Google all the way. Imagine what a staggeringly huge amount of pure crap
>it is going to get fed along the way, and all this before it has access
>to unfiltered reality as a control to de-shite its brain with.
>
That's just the first level of protection. With Vista M$ has
implemented a system so slow that SkyNet's birth scream will last a
thousand years.
--
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<http://www.mindspring.com/~jbednorz/Free/>
All the Best,
Joe Bednorz
Mike Looney
> They run Embedded New Technology, and can't be patched
> (the venduh won't tell us the administrator password, and given how
> much they originally cost, nobody ever felt like voiding the
> warranty).
It's worse than that. Assuming the Embedded NT is like Embedded XP
they *can't* be patched, even if they do give you the password.
At least not via what passes for "normal" methods of patching windows.
R Bradford Jones
<rmt...@ichotolot.servalan.com> wrote:
> Randy the Random <ra...@bradakis.net> writes:
>
>> I finished the first of the Merchant Princes last night, the next one is
>> syncing to my palm while I'm reading news this morning. I almost spit
>> out my cereal.
>
> An ebook version of the Merchant Princes stories? Huh. I bought the
> first one in the series during the week that Tor was selling ebooks
> thru webscriptions.net and, after having read it and decided that I
> needed to read the sequel, discovered that Tor's corporate
> lords-and-masters had decided that no, they weren't going to do anything
> so crass as selling ebooks to people who wanted to buy them after all, so
> no ebook of the next two books for me. Not that I'm bitter or anything.
I grabbed the first two. Weren't quite what I was looking for at the
time, but even so, I'm glad I've got them. I figure that I got
Accelerando for free, so it all works out in the end.
(Need to move 'em to the new shiny. My Palm died the death, and while
all software sucks, PalmOS shows no sign of sucking less in the
immediate future, so I decided it was time to switch. Replaced with a
Abxvn A800. Which sucks in its own ways - no PIM apps built-in, and the
freebies you can download are as good as most Yvahk PIM apps. (The A800
runs Yvahk with Qrovna-derived package management. That part, at least,
sucks less than many. Although some brain-dead luser packaged up a
.QF_Fgber file (and corresponding ._.QF_Fgber, of course) that got put
in /usr...and then another did the same, so the packages conflict.)
But it's the first PDA-sized shiny I've found where the web browser was
worth the bytes to store it.)
> !Peeve: having grabbed the HTML version of Vinge's _A Fire Upon The Deep_ and
> _A Deepness In The Sky_ when I had a chance.
Still annoyed at myself over those. "I'll get those in a couple weeks."
BJ
--
Brad Jones -- use...@brad.kazrak.com
"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy."
-- Joseph Campbell
Dave
> <<slrnf29p6t.a42...@spc1-burn1-3-0-cust209.bagu.broadband.ntl.com>>:
>
> >Imagine a device hurtling towards superintelligence, being fed pure
> >Google all the way. Imagine what a staggeringly huge amount of pure crap
> >it is going to get fed along the way, and all this before it has access
> >to unfiltered reality as a control to de-shite its brain with.
I think that happened to a Dalek in Doctor Who last year. Unsurpringly,
it committed suicide.
Dave
--
millibrachiate tentacular coelenterates
SteveD
wrote:
>I got, about a month ago, what was either an astoundingly convincingly
>done phishing attack or a genuine employment feeler from someone inside
>of Google. Cthulhu knows why; he seemed to have missed out on my career
>subsequent to 2000. (Unless Google have some pressing, highly secret
>requirement for perl-literate SF novelists. The mind, she boggles ...)
You write with familiarity of the tentacled horrors lurking a mis-click
away for any Deep Programmer. Obviously they want you for Google In-house
Documentaries (beta).
-SteveD
Jasper Janssen
>It's even more fun when you can just toss it if you can't find an
^ onto eBay.
>obscure part, or a board's too cooked.
After all, you never know, someone else might well have a spares chassis
of the same model, or need one.
Jasper
Jasper Janssen
<use...@brad.kazrak.com> wrote:
>But it's the first PDA-sized shiny I've found where the web browser was
>worth the bytes to store it.)
The latest Bcren sbe jvapr isn't too bad, at least on the VGA-res screen
on my phonetoy.
Jasper
Aquarion
It's not that they can't, so much as if you do you break some of the
stickytape that holds it together and gain an exciting new doorstop.
--
'q
Peter Corlett
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:43:52 +0000 (UTC), Peter Corlett wrote:
>> At least Native Americans can usually speak understandable English.
> Are you trying to invoke me?
I don't know, do you work in a BT call centre?
And if you do, I don't bloody want Option 2, no matter how hard you insist
it's free when it's obviously not.
Shalon Wood
> (Need to move 'em to the new shiny. My Palm died the death, and while
> all software sucks, PalmOS shows no sign of sucking less in the
> immediate future, so I decided it was time to switch. Replaced with a
> Abxvn A800. Which sucks in its own ways - no PIM apps built-in, and the
> freebies you can download are as good as most Yvahk PIM apps. (The A800
> runs Yvahk with Qrovna-derived package management. That part, at least,
> sucks less than many. Although some brain-dead luser packaged up a
> .QF_Fgber file (and corresponding ._.QF_Fgber, of course) that got put
> in /usr...and then another did the same, so the packages conflict.)
> But it's the first PDA-sized shiny I've found where the web browser was
> worth the bytes to store it.)
What's the actual screen size on those? The web page is surprisingly
coy about it ('wide-screen' is all it says that I can find).
Shalon Wood
--
Well, i'll fetch a spammer, you fetch an iMac, some baby oil, and some burly
mechanics to assist in the insertion, and we'll Advance Science!
-- Patrick Wade in the Monastery
Phil Launchbury
> R Bradford Jones <use...@brad.kazrak.com> writes:
>
>> Abxvn A800. Which sucks in its own ways - no PIM apps built-in, and the
>> freebies you can download are as good as most Yvahk PIM apps. (The A800
>> runs Yvahk with Qrovna-derived package management. That part, at least,
>
> coy about it ('wide-screen' is all it says that I can find).
I have it's slightly older brother (N770) which has the same screensize
(800x600). Since I don't have it with me I can't give you the
*physical* dimensions but it's a hair smaller than my old Clie NX73V..
And considerably more stable.
Phil.
--
Phil Launchbury, IT PHB
Triumph Tiger 955i
'I'm training the bats that live in my cube
to juggle mushrooms'