Ahhh, it would appear that 'Mr. Conductor' and 'Shining Time Station' must have appeared as a americanised translation. The UK version (to which I was brought up with) stayed true to the original text written by Rev Awdry.
It's a shame people feel the need to alter past works. I think it's better to remember them as they are so we don't forget where we came from.
I've only been caught out once fortunately . . . but I know of people being caught by cameras only exceeding the limit by a few mph!
And of course, we're forgetting the really clever system they've got here in the UK. You DON'T get a photo with the first notification! Only if you contest it do they send you a picture, and then you're also liable for a fine of up to £1000!
In Scotland there is a loophole that allowed you to escape being fined and getting points on your license. You're always asked for the name of the driver of the car at that place and time. You can refuse to answer that question on the grounds of self-incrimination. The police couldn't do anything about it. Last I heard they had to allow that loophole to expand into England and Wales too . ..
And on the subject of digital cameras, these things are mounted 30odd feet in the air (ok, maybe a slight exaggeration) and can track you from over 6miles away. Beware those drivers on the M62 between Manchester and Leeds, they're testing them there!!
I have to say i've used 3 different naming conventions over the past couple of years.
The first was a company I worked for in Scotland, they named all machines after various scottish lochs. Confusing at first, until I realised that each machine had a map/picture of the loch itself nearby!
The second is at my new place. It goes like this:
UK W x sssss ff nn
UK - Country is UK W - for workstation x - number of workstation (first is 1, second 2, etc.) sssss - first 5 letters of surname ff - first two letters of first name nn - number only if surname/first name pattern has already been used (and this is nationally!)
And, the 3rd pattern is my own . ..
General servers are named after Star Trek computer cores (so first server is Primary_Core, then there's Starboard_Secondary_Core, and Port_Secondary_Core) Other servers are named as their purpose (so my mail server is named Subspace_Comms)
Oh, and as i'm sad enough to have a Win98 box, i've renamed 'My Computer' to 'Computer Core', 'Network Neighborhood' to 'Optical Device Network', I did use to rename Outlook to 'Subspace Communications', but then I got rid of it for Pegasus, and i've got IE renamed as 'Subspace Data Network'.
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Ahhh, it would appear that 'Mr. Conductor' and 'Shining Time Station' must have appeared as a americanised translation. The UK version (to which I was brought up with) stayed true to the original text written by Rev Awdry.
It's a shame people feel the need to alter past works. I think it's better to remember them as they are so we don't forget where we came from.
I only know him as 'The Fat Controller'. And he has a colleague on another railway known as 'The Thin Controller'...
I've only been caught out once fortunately . . . but I know of people being caught by cameras only exceeding the limit by a few mph!
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And of course, we're forgetting the really clever system they've got here in the UK. You DON'T get a photo with the first notification! Only if you contest it do they send you a picture, and then you're also liable for a fine of up to £1000!
In Scotland there is a loophole that allowed you to escape being fined and getting points on your license. You're always asked for the name of the driver of the car at that place and time. You can refuse to answer that question on the grounds of self-incrimination. The police couldn't do anything about it. Last I heard they had to allow that loophole to expand into England and Wales too . .
And on the subject of digital cameras, these things are mounted 30odd feet in the air (ok, maybe a slight exaggeration) and can track you from over 6miles away. Beware those drivers on the M62 between Manchester and Leeds, they're testing them there!!
My scottish uni used isles for their names (skye, etc.)
but they had to start settling for numbers too, so my unix labs were telford-01, etc., and also muir-01, etc.
I have to say i've used 3 different naming conventions over the past couple of years.
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The first was a company I worked for in Scotland, they named all machines after various scottish lochs. Confusing at first, until I realised that each machine had a map/picture of the loch itself nearby!
The second is at my new place. It goes like this
UK W x sssss ff nn
UK - Country is UK
W - for workstation
x - number of workstation (first is 1, second 2, etc.)
sssss - first 5 letters of surname
ff - first two letters of first name
nn - number only if surname/first name pattern has already been used (and this is nationally!)
And, the 3rd pattern is my own . .
General servers are named after Star Trek computer cores (so first server is Primary_Core, then there's Starboard_Secondary_Core, and Port_Secondary_Core)
Other servers are named as their purpose (so my mail server is named Subspace_Comms)
Oh, and as i'm sad enough to have a Win98 box, i've renamed 'My Computer' to 'Computer Core', 'Network Neighborhood' to 'Optical Device Network', I did use to rename Outlook to 'Subspace Communications', but then I got rid of it for Pegasus, and i've got IE renamed as 'Subspace Data Network'.
Just for a bit of fun!
Well done! Congratulations!
I did Computer and Electronic Systems at Strathclyde. The course is designed to get the best of both worlds, and to make us "more marketable".
And guess what I do now?
Sys Admin.
Wonderful job.