Of course, some bright spark is going to suggest I change that value on the site, which would be great, if it was a reasonably straightforward thing to calculate your depreciation per mile, kind of like you need a website to do it... Wait.. what was the point of that site again?
Amazingly stupid design, has a clutch which is disengaged when you pull up to the lever, but a dead mans handle you have to squeeze to keep it running.
So when running it backwards, you have to let go of the clutch lever (which is cleverly just too far away to reach reliably) and if you let go of everything it carries on going straight over the top of you.
If the clutch lever had simply been reversed (squeeze to go) you wouldn't need the dead man's handle, and it would stop immediately if you fell over with the thing going backwards at you.
I seriously doubt it. Those pumps are bulletproof.
My Dad's fish pond runs on 6 of them, and he has to change them/fix them maybe once every 5 years.
I've seen them running basically underwater, so a bit of condensation is unlikely to be a worry.
However, I'd personally be more worried about the colour of the pool water, as the impellors of (most of) those pumps, and the body is made of cast iron. Pretty colours with the chlorine.
Hmm... I lived in a place with a tankless sytem, it was brand new - and totally crap.
It was probably cheap arse crap mind you, but it failed about 5 times in the 2 years I lived in that place, and it was impossible to run a bath as it would only pour out cold water from the bath taps if they were turned on more than a trickle.
I now live in a house with a condensing boiler with a tank, it's lovely in comparison. Plus you get a lovely airing cupboard to dry clothes.
As this house is better insulated than the last one, my heating bills seem about the same.
That must have taken some time to do, what a waste of time!
Those cables are totally useless, especially as a lot of kit puts only plastic around the slots.
At the school I work in, we had a batch of thefts that involved simply ripping the lock cable out of the side of the laptop, and projectors.
Then presumably punting them on down the pub or whatever. It was an obviously stolen (covered in security marks) bit of kit, but it still went somewhere.
Funnily enough there was no investigation, and it seems that the management at the school was more worried about the box of chocolates that was stolen the same week!
That's related to the reasons I'm getting out of there as soon as I can.
Well, Lloyds TSB seem to have it sorted now - but that was not always the case. There is somewhere on bugzilla a long explaination of why their site didn't work with any mozilla based browsers.
We spent ages trying to find out whose problem it was, but regardless we couldn't access the site from my mum's linux box for several months. To be fair the people at lloyds eventually understood the issue and once I got past the front line phone people, and to someone with a bit of sense, I got a lot of sense, and told that they had fixed the problem, but it would be 4 months before the site was updated! That's testing for you!
All sorted now, and to be fair it was a fairly complex problem, this was a while ago too.
I wish that HSBC were better on their online banking, it's rubbish, and IE only.
No, if you're *serious* about this you need to talk to the hundreds of publishers who sell educational software that only runs on windows. (In some cases only just on that too!)
That's the reason we have all windows boxes in our rooms, because I don't want to be the jerk who says, I know you spent £10,000 on that software, but you can't run it because I don't like M$
Yeah, and that figure is not a made up one. I dread to think what the accumulated value of the software on our network is. Let's just throw it all out an use OpenSource!
I happen to be a big fan of Open Source, and a bit of a Debian head, but schools really would struggle to go all linux, and I can't really see the advantage of going partially linux when you'd still have to pay M$ licenses for the linux rooms. (Check out the M$ Schools Agreement before you call me a liar.)
Dunno if it's the same in higher ed. and where you're from, but in Secondary Ed. (High school) in the UK our "Site License" is actually an upgrade from any 32bit MS operating system to XP Pro (or 2k if you prefer).
I think a lot of MS licensing works that way nowadays.
Looks like I'm fighting a losing battle here with the moderators here, but I'm afraid you've not met any of the students that I have.
"draconian lockdowns do NOTHING but taunt the kids into breaking the rules." Absolute bollocks I'm afraid. I've seen computer suites without locked down systems, they get trashed. Since then the same computers now have "draconian lockdowns" on them, and the only time we get problems in rooms is when we get hardware failure.
So the "NOTHING" that you talk of is actually making the computers usable for school work?
If you want to screw around on a computer, do it on your own one, not one that's paid for by tax payers and maintained by (usually) overworked and underpaid staff.
You don't seem to understand the simple premise that the teacher in the class expects the students to be doing their work, not turning all the colours in the windows settings to black, or indeed playing a game, no matter how educational YOU judge it to be. It's massively disruptive to have even one student doing something like that.
Plain and simple, (at least at the school I work at) by and large the students do not respect the equipment. That applies if the computer is locked down or not. That applies to chairs, tables, lockers, doors, partition walls, anything breakable at all.
We used to use cheap 2 quid mice, which were shite, and were more often than not smashed up very quickly. So I started using MS optical intellimice, and they're lovely - does that stop them getting smashed up? not a chance - they're harder to break so they get the wire pulled so hard that it breaks.
Have you not actually met any kids, ever? "So long as they still do all their schoolwork etc." how exactly are they going to do that after the kid in the class before completely fucked up the computer?
You think that they wouldn't? Then you're an idiot.
No one is "trying to interfere with the kids learning", we're (yes we, that's what I do) trying to provide them with the best possible LEARNING environment.
I've seen the devastation that a kid with a bit of knowledge but not a lot of sense can do to an unlocked computer.
We're there to provide computers for the kids to LEARN not to play the latest games, or surf for pr0n.
As one of those "lazy IT support staff" - I'll agree with you. Projectors are great in the classroom, and we see most of the smartboards being used as just projectors, but smartboards are really over-rated.
From what I can see, a good teacher is a good teacher, whether or not they're standing in front of a £2000 bit of kit or a £50 whiteboard.
I work in IT department in a school and we've fixed quite a few that have had the connector bent or snapped.
I love the damn things, and hate floppy disks with a passion, it's all I can do not to say "well, it's your own fucking fault you lost the only copy of your A Level coursework that you've been working on for months because you saved it onto that floppy disk that's now in the shape of a banana!"
What the fuck is it with Americans and "beer"? That fucking stuff is called "lager" and should be poured down the fucking toilet directly, bypassing the taste buds entirely as it is flavourless anyway.
Try a proper pint sometime and ditch the fizzy piss.
I would be amazed if you could find it, but Uley Brewery make some amazing beer. More accessable is perhaps London Pride, which is a nice tipple. Anything from Freeminers brewery (Forest of Dean) is amazing. In short smaller brewerys make the best beer, but some of the bigger ones can make a reasonable pint.
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Of course, some bright spark is going to suggest I change that value on the site, which would be great, if it was a reasonably straightforward thing to calculate your depreciation per mile, kind of like you need a website to do it... Wait.. what was the point of that site again?
Brilliant website that - I kind of lost interest when it used a fixed depreciation per mile...
Apparently, every year I drive my car, it loses twice it's value.
Only try not to insult people if they promise to do the same.
Rotovator/Cultivator hired recently.
Amazingly stupid design, has a clutch which is disengaged when you pull up to the lever, but a dead mans handle you have to squeeze to keep it running.
So when running it backwards, you have to let go of the clutch lever (which is cleverly just too far away to reach reliably) and if you let go of everything it carries on going straight over the top of you.
If the clutch lever had simply been reversed (squeeze to go) you wouldn't need the dead man's handle, and it would stop immediately if you fell over with the thing going backwards at you.
Yeah, but if you are coding for access you should be euthanised anyway.
I seriously doubt it. Those pumps are bulletproof.
My Dad's fish pond runs on 6 of them, and he has to change them/fix them maybe once every 5 years.
I've seen them running basically underwater, so a bit of condensation is unlikely to be a worry.
However, I'd personally be more worried about the colour of the pool water, as the impellors of (most of) those pumps, and the body is made of cast iron. Pretty colours with the chlorine.
Prove there wasn't a deer/rabit/fox/bird/child in the road.
The insurance companys are pretty clear about fault in accidents - the car behind is at fault.
As a driver it is your responsability to be able to react to what the car in front does.
Of course when playing it on radio4 it went through many, many stages of alteration before reaching the average radio.
One of the side effects of the compressor and expander that the signal is passed through is to lower the frequency of the high frequency sound.
Hmm... I lived in a place with a tankless sytem, it was brand new - and totally crap.
It was probably cheap arse crap mind you, but it failed about 5 times in the 2 years I lived in that place, and it was impossible to run a bath as it would only pour out cold water from the bath taps if they were turned on more than a trickle.
I now live in a house with a condensing boiler with a tank, it's lovely in comparison. Plus you get a lovely airing cupboard to dry clothes.
As this house is better insulated than the last one, my heating bills seem about the same.
Microsoft give away a tool that does basically the same as deepfreeze as part of the shared computer toolkit.
Not played with it yet- but will do soon.
That must have taken some time to do, what a waste of time!
Those cables are totally useless, especially as a lot of kit puts only plastic around the slots.
At the school I work in, we had a batch of thefts that involved simply ripping the lock cable out of the side of the laptop, and projectors.
Then presumably punting them on down the pub or whatever. It was an obviously stolen (covered in security marks) bit of kit, but it still went somewhere.
Funnily enough there was no investigation, and it seems that the management at the school was more worried about the box of chocolates that was stolen the same week!
That's related to the reasons I'm getting out of there as soon as I can.
Only if they is grammatically correct.
But all of the better ones do not work with severed fingers, they use various techniques to verify that the finger is alive.
Note that I said _better_ ones.
Well, Lloyds TSB seem to have it sorted now - but that was not always the case.
There is somewhere on bugzilla a long explaination of why their site didn't work with any mozilla based browsers.
We spent ages trying to find out whose problem it was, but regardless we couldn't access the site from my mum's linux box for several months. To be fair the people at lloyds eventually understood the issue and once I got past the front line phone people, and to someone with a bit of sense, I got a lot of sense, and told that they had fixed the problem, but it would be 4 months before the site was updated! That's testing for you!
All sorted now, and to be fair it was a fairly complex problem, this was a while ago too.
I wish that HSBC were better on their online banking, it's rubbish, and IE only.
Volts?
By checking the bit at the end?
.jpg or .pdf.
Hardly rocket science!
I'm yet to see any virus that actually is a
No, if you're *serious* about this you need to talk to the hundreds of publishers who sell educational software that only runs on windows. (In some cases only just on that too!)
That's the reason we have all windows boxes in our rooms, because I don't want to be the jerk who says, I know you spent £10,000 on that software, but you can't run it because I don't like M$
Yeah, and that figure is not a made up one.
I dread to think what the accumulated value of the software on our network is. Let's just throw it all out an use OpenSource!
I happen to be a big fan of Open Source, and a bit of a Debian head, but schools really would struggle to go all linux, and I can't really see the advantage of going partially linux when you'd still have to pay M$ licenses for the linux rooms. (Check out the M$ Schools Agreement before you call me a liar.)
Dunno if it's the same in higher ed. and where you're from, but in Secondary Ed. (High school) in the UK our "Site License" is actually an upgrade from any 32bit MS operating system to XP Pro (or 2k if you prefer).
I think a lot of MS licensing works that way nowadays.
If you're claiming that word isn't suitable for general long documents, then I think you're mistaken.
I've written 1000 page plus documents in word, and using it's styles support it does a pretty good job.
However if you don't use the styles properly, then it's crap.
Looks like I'm fighting a losing battle here with the moderators here, but I'm afraid you've not met any of the students that I have.
"draconian lockdowns do NOTHING but taunt the kids into breaking the rules."
Absolute bollocks I'm afraid. I've seen computer suites without locked down systems, they get trashed. Since then the same computers now have "draconian lockdowns" on them, and the only time we get problems in rooms is when we get hardware failure.
So the "NOTHING" that you talk of is actually making the computers usable for school work?
If you want to screw around on a computer, do it on your own one, not one that's paid for by tax payers and maintained by (usually) overworked and underpaid staff.
You don't seem to understand the simple premise that the teacher in the class expects the students to be doing their work, not turning all the colours in the windows settings to black, or indeed playing a game, no matter how educational YOU judge it to be. It's massively disruptive to have even one student doing something like that.
Plain and simple, (at least at the school I work at) by and large the students do not respect the equipment. That applies if the computer is locked down or not. That applies to chairs, tables, lockers, doors, partition walls, anything breakable at all.
We used to use cheap 2 quid mice, which were shite, and were more often than not smashed up very quickly. So I started using MS optical intellimice, and they're lovely - does that stop them getting smashed up? not a chance - they're harder to break so they get the wire pulled so hard that it breaks.
Only on Slashdot could that get a score 2.
Have you not actually met any kids, ever?
"So long as they still do all their schoolwork etc." how exactly are they going to do that after the kid in the class before completely fucked up the computer?
You think that they wouldn't? Then you're an idiot.
No one is "trying to interfere with the kids learning", we're (yes we, that's what I do) trying to provide them with the best possible LEARNING environment.
I've seen the devastation that a kid with a bit of knowledge but not a lot of sense can do to an unlocked computer.
We're there to provide computers for the kids to LEARN not to play the latest games, or surf for pr0n.
As one of those "lazy IT support staff" - I'll agree with you. Projectors are great in the classroom, and we see most of the smartboards being used as just projectors, but smartboards are really over-rated.
From what I can see, a good teacher is a good teacher, whether or not they're standing in front of a £2000 bit of kit or a £50 whiteboard.
Yup, exactly what we do in some of our computer labs where I work, works fine, even when epoxied to the case :-)
Er, why didn't you solder it back straight?
I work in IT department in a school and we've fixed quite a few that have had the connector bent or snapped.
I love the damn things, and hate floppy disks with a passion, it's all I can do not to say "well, it's your own fucking fault you lost the only copy of your A Level coursework that you've been working on for months because you saved it onto that floppy disk that's now in the shape of a banana!"
Hmm... that turned into a bit of a rant there...
What the fuck is it with Americans and "beer"? That fucking stuff is called "lager" and should be poured down the fucking toilet directly, bypassing the taste buds entirely as it is flavourless anyway.
Try a proper pint sometime and ditch the fizzy piss.
I would be amazed if you could find it, but Uley Brewery make some amazing beer. More accessable is perhaps London Pride, which is a nice tipple.
Anything from Freeminers brewery (Forest of Dean) is amazing. In short smaller brewerys make the best beer, but some of the bigger ones can make a reasonable pint.