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dandy72 wrote: care to name them?
I'll gently pass on this one
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You have left enough clues over the years to make a qualified guess possible.
(I have two actually, but they're geographically quite close to each other)
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Congratulations!
If you tried that at my company, it would be rather interesting. We have a habit of taking perfectly good engineers and turning them into utterly wretched managers through surgery: they remove your brain, your spine, and if you're male, your *cough* two best friends *cough*. If you were smart enough to save all of these on your original ascension to the vaunted halls of manager-hood, the restoration shouldn't be too horrible.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary Wheeler wrote: two best friends
Not everything is back yet[^], but I will try and man up.
My company is a real good one, and I had only good managers so far, so it is not a matter of skills, it is a matter of philosophy - To me, increasing profit by two figures percentage every year is physically impossible, and I cannot stand behind things I do not believe in, let alone talk others into believing them.
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Rage wrote: Embedded world in automotive is just moving Have you tried Nexium?
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You get used to it after some time, so no medication. But everything is velcroed to my desk, pretty much the anti-world of the ISS
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Rage wrote: ISS Got it! 155, I'll get on it right away, Sir ...
[EDIT]
And on one of your previous posts (SciFi "best") I'd recommend
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726)
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modified 6-Apr-21 17:40pm.
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Painter out at eruption - tear up into one third mixed fame (10)
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Reputation ?
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Painter out PAINTEROUT
at eruption ATERUPTION
tear up into TEARUPINTO
one third (throw away any two out of three)
mixed (anag)
fame
REPUTATION
Just a quicky - I spent too much time getting the internet working this morning.
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That's not how I got it
Painter = Rope
out = anag indicator
at in was in there somehow
And I came up with Reputation for fame
I think I need to get out more
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pkfox wrote: I think I need to get out more
That's lockdowns for you ... everyone is losing track of what day it is ...
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Day ?? Or is it night ?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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OriginalGriff wrote: Just a quicky
Wow! A quadruple anagram is a Quicky? I'm glad you didn't do a Slowy.
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The rest of the world thanks you for flipping the switch to turn everything back on.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Because mine is the traditional "chuck it in the cable drawer ..." which is ... um ... unhelpful, if quick to implement initially.
I changed ISP today, so I needed to configure everything to the new WiFi: fun, fun, fun.
The printer: the WPS button didn't do the job, so I had to manually connect it - except it has no user interface, just ON / OFF, and WPS buttons. So it's "connect via USB" and Samsung software.
Which is fine, if you have any idea where the right USB cable is - "Standard USB"1 one end, and "BST"2 the other. And I had to look at every cable in the drawer to find it. Twice. I found it the third time, because I was expecting it to be black and it was blue.
Basically, I need a way to organise these damn things so I can find the cable I need (USB, HDMI, mains, CAT5, modem, you know the pile ...) and that isn't going to attract the cat to new playthings ...
Any ideas? I can't be the only one with this problem!
1 - USB Type A: Piccy[^]
2 - "Big Square Thing" - also known as USB Type B: Piccy[^]
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OriginalGriff wrote: I was expecting it to be black and it was blue.
Don't organise the cables by colour...
I just have separate plastic shopping bags for each cable type - earphones, audio cables, HDMI cables (separate bags for full/full, full/mini, full/micro), USB cables (separate bags for A/B, A/mini, A/micro, A/C ...), ... . All the shopping bags are placed in a large box with compartments, grouped according to category - earphones, audio, HDMI, USB, ...
To find a USB A/B cable, I go to the USB compartment, find the USB A/B bag, and voila. If a bag does not exist, I know that I have no such cable (or my wife/daughters have pinched one without telling me )
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Trouble is that all such bags over here are now biodegradable - they fall apart to dusty fragments in around 6 months ... apart from "bag for life" ones, which seem to last about 7.
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I use ordinary ziplock/etc storage bags of various sizes (sandwich to gallon) depending on what type of cable is in in them; some are probably 15 years old and all are holding up well.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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I have a small chest of drawers full of cables, chargers,adapters,testing equipment - the list is endless
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That sounds exactly like my current system, but mine is a bureau instead of a chest of drawers.
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Posh that is - him and his bureau
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I inherited it from an elderly neighbour - it was made by her father on the Isle of Aran, but when she passed away her family didn't want it (or more likely it wasn't worth enough to move round the country) so I got it as a "thank you".
It sits in a corner of my office and holds stuff - just like it did for Ella!
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More decades than I care to remember of tinkering with machines and peripherals, combined with a reluctance to throw anything on the grounds that it might come in useful one day, have left me with two very large boxes filled with cables.
When I started helping clients to start digitising what were once paper based offices (so full install of machines, network cabling etc) I discovered the joy of the velcro cable tie, which can be obtained in a myriad of colours.
My cable boxes have cables wrapped with different coloured ties (blue = usb, black = power etc etc) and, just because I could, I wrote a small application to keep tracks of them which is linked to the client's office setup tables. When they destroy cables it's pretty easy to establish if I a) have one in a box, and b) what colour velcro tie it will be sporting.
This also has one other small but not to be sneezed at advatage, they stay seperate and untangled!
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