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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 7:53 pm
by IanMelb
Real BOFHs exist, check out the 'Scary Devil Monastery', see the FAQ at
http://groups.google.com/group....a818cf5
And just last week I had a protracted email conversation with a cow-orker who was complaining that his PC's oscilloscope software wasn't working. We eventually found out that he hadn't plugged the oscilloscope hardware into the USB port - not only that - he didn't actually_have_ the hardware to plug in in the first place <sigh>
I must say, it's a relief to visit the BC for a touch of proper sanity.
Oh, and a link to the 'Excuse generator' :
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/bofhserver.pl
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 8:08 pm
by Dave_L
GB_Groundworks wrote:we had some servers that hadn't been rebooted in 8 years, if your geeky they were very cool haha.
Blimey! They must have been running on some badass UPS!
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 8:23 pm
by GB_Groundworks
the whole building was on a ups, we had a whole room of huge batteries then 2 60kva shipping container generators wired up in the underground car park.
the server room was like fort knox, over $50m worth of hardware and all on Co2 system for fire prevention with a 20 second alarm to get out or suffocate. maintained at 8 degrees c.
got some pics somewhere. will dig them out haha geek fest
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:52 pm
by seanandruby
:laugh:
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 11:58 pm
by flowjoe
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 6:39 pm
by GB_Groundworks
i've got a 17" mac book pro and battery swelled up other day and stopped working, laptop is 18months out of warranty and went into apple they replaced the battery and power adapter free of charge haha saved me £130 and they didn't even have to do it. wont get that with your PC's haha.
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 10:13 pm
by enigmaenigma
GB_Groundworks wrote:i've got a 17" mac book pro and battery swelled up other day and stopped working, laptop is 18months out of warranty and went into apple they replaced the battery and power adapter free of charge haha saved me £130 and they didn't even have to do it. wont get that with your PC's haha.
Despite all the rave reviews, and at times, the somewhat smugness of MAC users, I’m still not keen on them :p
It’s to do with the behaviour of most Apple programs or applications, which act in a way that can actually make M$ look as though they aren’t into hard selling or forcing a user to operate their computer how they tell them 
I can’t make out if it’s an American model, where the tech supplier things that that allows them or grants them the right to say you must use our software and not software of your choosing
And cross platform compatibility or allowing other third party apps to use or access our file formats, is totally alien to them
Time to dismount my soap box, and stop getting so annoyed at big corps and the way they attempt to shackle you to their products, regardless of whether that’s better for you or not 
Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 9:42 am
by xpuser
Just got back in after weeks, i clear cookies everynight, crap cleaner, a square, etc, can get in other forums ok, strange, see how long it lasts
Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 3:28 pm
by Tony McC
It's a pretty basic cookie that's used with The Brew Cabin, so I can't understand why it causes problems for a small number of users.
If anyone ever has access problems, they should email me at the usual address.
Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 7:35 pm
by xpuser
will do, everyone i get to check it for me on there pcs. all diff isps, are ok with it
Next time i try a diff pc
