Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: A nation bullied, in reply to Stephen Judd,
Without a local Guardian equivalent, how would we find out about something like this in New Zealand?
Blogs.
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Field Theory: 65 bottles of beer on the wall..., in reply to Sacha,
It does, and has done for a long time. Just put the raw link in your post with no square brackets in sight and behold the magic.
Yup. You only have to use the brackets if you want the link to apply to a specific piece of text.
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Up Front: Life on Mars, in reply to Kumara Republic,
No, that's Johnston. Taylor was a journo.
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Is there no one who is actually excited by the fact that we’ll be hosting a major sporting event this year?
Not me. I haven't been excited about rugby all year. The Super however-many-we're-up-to-now failed to spark me, and not just because the Canes were so abysmal this year. And I do like rugby. But less is more, and I think we've got too much. It's not a sport any more - it's a business. And I'm kinda meh on big business.
You go ahead and enjoy it, though. Somebody needs to.
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Lilith __,
You! I hold you to blame for destroying my productivity for the last day, and damn! but "DM of the Rings" is the funniest spoof I have read for years. And I speak as a Tolkien nerd and former gamer/DM. Very good stuff. Thanks.
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If Farrar and Coddington don't like it, we should probably order two.
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Hard News: Radio NZ: Sailing on in…, in reply to Russell Brown,
You have Richard Hulse to thank for the quality and smartness of that service. Dude is a hero.
Damn right, he is! And he came to the e-govt unit back in the early 00's to talk about doing it accessibly, when he wasn't required to as an SOE. And he's made sure that open formats are used as well as proprietary ones. Awesome sauce!!
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Sacha,
Bless those fervent deregulators; Atlases all
But it's the ground that shrugs...
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Up Front: Life on Mars, in reply to Sacha,
Not what I was talking about either. Hard to believe, I know.
Wasn't Craig saying he was trying to listen, earlier? Or does that only apply on Emma's threads?
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to James Butler,
The System now attaches the sign to the front of the dishwasher with velcro.
I think I may have told this story before but, in a different life, I worked for PostBank (in the days when New Zealanders still owned it) in IT. We established this new-fangled telephone banking service (around 1990 from memory) in 277 Broadway where we had a (banking) processing centre. And when I say "service" I mean 4 PCs manned 8am-7pm (I think - might have been longer. Anyway...)
After a few months, we got a call from 277 - there's something wrong with the PCs and they're corrupting the backups. We talk them through the process but can't sort out what's wrong. So Tony and I trot down from Nugent St to Broadway to check it out. We look at the backups (3.5" disks!) and sure enough, they're all buggered - totally corrupt. We check all the PCs (386SXs - those were the days!) and all are fine. Test disk after test disk is formatted and returned to the box. We run the backup and restore. Not a problem. We talk the staff through the process - they seem to know the steps and everything should be fine.
Finally, and with much eye-rolling on their part (and not-so- sotto voce comments about "bloody computers"), we got them to run through the process while we watched. We got all the way through to the end, got them to verify the backup and then said "What do you do next?"
"We put them on the board in the office."
"On the board?"
"Yes. In daily order."
"Please. Show us"And so they took us into the manager's office and showed us the board with each day of the week marked off as a square and we could see the little disks all stashed there.
Mounted on the whiteboard.With kitchen magnets.
"We'll get you a special box to keep them in" we said.
And we left, managing not to laugh out loud until we reached the street.