Bits and Bobs - Thirteen

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Don't be too quick to blame reavers. It could also be spacecows.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 13:15

You need SPACE CCTV!

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38484

We often get people stealing innards from the lab PCs here, as most of them aren't covered by CCTV. The machines are all lashed together, so to steal one, one must steal all 12 with monitors, keyboards, mice and desks still attached. However, someone with a little bit of mechanical sense would be able to simply open the case and steal memory or processors. Even a motherboard once, I shit you not.

NervousPete · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 13:27

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Don't be too quick to blame reavers. It could also be spacecows.

We saw a space cow hoofing through the area, and thought it might be suspect, but when I sprintingly intercepted her and we both slowed down to shuffle, my special staring eyes saw that she was innocent, and we passed, and resumed our mutual running.

sinister agent · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 7046

Grim... wrote:

NervousPete wrote:

Somebody has managed to steal an entire desktop PC from this library

That's, er...

Impressive.

Yeah, it sounds like you don't need a security team so much as someone to, y'know, notice if someone's carrying an entire PC around with them.

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 13:40

Fuck me, even on "Beginner" X:Com is fucking hard as granite.

I mean, errr, property law is interesting.

TheAlbin0Kid · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 13:42

I like to think that they broke the staff fridge first and then stashed the stolen PC inside, and then turned up 15 minutes later posing as fridge repair men and carried the whole thing away. Would have had to be an inside job though.

sinister agent · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 7046

MaliA wrote:

Fuck me, even on "Beginner" X:Com is fucking hard as granite.

I mean, errr, property law is interesting.

Heh. I still remember my first ever mission. What a shambles that was. It was traumatising.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

sinister agent wrote:

Grim... wrote:

NervousPete wrote:

Somebody has managed to steal an entire desktop PC from this library

That's, er...

Impressive.

Yeah, it sounds like you don't need a security team so much as someone to, y'know, notice if someone's carrying an entire PC around with them.

Someone nicked a 42" plasma screen from TV centre once. Lord only knows how.

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 13:50

From uk.rec.motorcycles:

Quote:

> >When I was a solicitor's clerk, we were involved in a case where some
> >clowns had managed to nick a motor yacht from the London Boat Show.

> Sorry, but that's worth a round of applause!

Seriously. They turned up on a low-loader and just took it. A serious
ocean-going thing, it was.

We got involved because we were the solicitors for the Sheriff of
Greater London, and we did bailiff's work. It was seized for a debt,
while it was at anchor in the South of France.

The bloke who bought it[1] had had engine trouble, and had Telexed
(remember them?) the builders giving the serial numbers so he could get
the right bits, and the builders went...

"Oi! OI!!!! We recognise this!"

And so there was an argument over whose it really was, which is when we
got called in. In the end, it went to the insurers who'd paid out on the
theft, IIRC.

We also seized a Boeing 707, but that's another story....

[1] Believe it or not, he actually said he'd bought it off a bloke he
met in a pub.[2]
[2] And, it turned out, he really, really had. You couldn't make it up.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 13:53

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Don't be too quick to blame reavers. It could also be spacecows.

I am thinking about Space Cows far more than I should be.

Morte · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 14:03

Grim... wrote:

You need SPACE CCTV!

/
Hello BeeX, I'm Lempit Opik part time Cheeky Girl fiddler and I agree totally with your far sighted proposal.

DBSnappa · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 14:03

Grim... wrote:

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Don't be too quick to blame reavers. It could also be spacecows.

I am thinking about Space Cows far more than I should be.

Well, you should be thinking about Christina Hendricks, freshly bathed and talced awaiting your attention...

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

I'll be in my bunk.

devilman · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 14:23

Grim... wrote:

superdupergill wrote:

:D

* Something has broken here. Remind me to see if it's still a problem tomorrow.
* Please note that this feature is not 100% accurate, and uses data up to 15 minutes old.

Tomorrow!

Is it tomorrow yet?

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 14:23

It is.

Rodafowa · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 14:28

NervousPete wrote:

Somebody has managed to steal an entire desktop PC from this library.

Sounds like quite a caper.

Wullie · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 6183

A computer? A big telly? A fancy yacht? Bloody amateurs.

Try #five" class="postlink">two big bastard ships from what was essentially an army controlled port :DD

The 2nd one was pinched less than a month before I arrived over there

devilman · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 14:35

chinnyhill10 wrote:

sinister agent wrote:

Grim... wrote:

NervousPete wrote:

Somebody has managed to steal an entire desktop PC from this library

That's, er...

Impressive.

Yeah, it sounds like you don't need a security team so much as someone to, y'know, notice if someone's carrying an entire PC around with them.

Someone nicked a 42" plasma screen from TV centre once. Lord only knows how.

We're pretty good at locking stuff away here so if stuff gets pinched, it's usually crap that we've no need to lock away. The last thing was a laptop with a knackered screen that we just used for hooking up to a TV. They were welcome to it.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38484

*turns off lights*

metalangel · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 15:00

NervousPete wrote:

Somebody has managed to steal an entire desktop PC from this library.

On the last day of school before summer, someone in my school stole a laser printer (which was worth a lot of cash in those days)

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Oh god. Lunchtime naps always leave me groggy all afternoon.

Speaking of "grogg", why was the ship-board booze called "grog"? Etymology me do.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Mr Chris wrote:

Oh god. Lunchtime naps always leave me groggy all afternoon.

Speaking of "grogg", why was the ship-board booze called "grog"? Etymology me do.

[...]supposedly an allusion to Old Grog, nickname of Edward Vernon (1684-1757), British admiral who wore a grogram cloak and who in August 1740 ordered his sailors' rum to be diluted. George Washington's older half-brother Lawrence served under Vernon in the Carribean and renamed the family's Hunting Creek Plantation in Virginia for him in 1740, calling it Mount Vernon.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 15:04

Wikifiddlers wrote:

The name "grog" probably came from the nickname of Admiral Vernon, who was known as "Old Grog" because he wore a grogram cloak. American Dialect Society member Stephen Goranson has shown that the term was in use by 1749, when Vernon was still alive.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 15:04

Too slow, bitch.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Says you.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38484

Health and Safety be damned! I just nearly fell to my death from a 3 foot high table because I couldn't be arsed going for a ladder. Table rocked, I rolled, and unclaimable disaster was avoided!

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 15:15

Craster wrote:

Says you.

MOD ABUSE! MOD ABUSE!
RAGE QUIT!

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 15:15

Okay, I'm back.

kalmar · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 15:22

WullieOoster wrote:

A computer? A big telly? A fancy yacht? Bloody amateurs.

Try #five" class="postlink">two big bastard ships from what was essentially an army controlled port

Reports came in over the internets:

REEFER! UMFOLOZI! ZOMG!

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

kalmar wrote:

REEFER! UMFOLOZI! ZOMG!

I read these as "REAVER! OMFG LULZ!"

Grim... wrote:

Okay, I'm back.

Who had 2:15pm?

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Oh bloody hell - is this place on BST still?

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 15:26

metalangel · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 15:26

Oh the torment! During that brief period yesterday when the missus was out, the DHL man arrived with my copies of Borderlands and Fort-sa 3! AND when she went round later to collect them, they were out!

Got them now though. Except, having claimed them I then immediately had to head off to work.

TONIGHT, THOUGH.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Grim... wrote:

No.

So why is it telling me it's 3.28?

Malabelm · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 15:30

Mr Chris wrote:

Grim... wrote:

No.

So why is it telling me it's 3.28?

User Control Panel -> Board Preferences -> My Timezone, and check it's on [UTC]?

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Malabar Front wrote:

Mr Chris wrote:

Grim... wrote:

No.

So why is it telling me it's 3.28?

User Control Panel -> Board Preferences -> My Timezone, and check it's on [UTC]?

I'm not clicking through three screens.

devilman · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 15:31

Malabar Front wrote:

Mr Chris wrote:

Grim... wrote:

No.

So why is it telling me it's 3.28?

User Control Panel -> Board Preferences -> My Timezone, and check it's on [UTC]?

And 'Summer Time/DST is in effect:' is set to No.

Malabelm · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 15:31

Mr Chris wrote:

Malabar Front wrote:

User Control Panel -> Board Preferences -> My Timezone, and check it's on [UTC]?

I'm not clicking through three screens.

Whatever, Dice.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Malabar Front wrote:

Mr Chris wrote:

Malabar Front wrote:

User Control Panel -> Board Preferences -> My Timezone, and check it's on [UTC]?

I'm not clicking through three screens.

Whatever, Dice.

Turns out I *was* going to click through three screens.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

XBL Friends List wrote:

No, it's properly broken. I'll get rid of it later.

LULZ.

sinister agent · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 7046

Crazy lady at work trying to find out where she was baptised. I tentatively suggested the mental hospital, which probably didn't help. Now everyone else has wandered off, leaving only me and a volunteer with her.

Bit frightened. If I don't make it, tell my kids I was indifferent to their existence.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 16:19

Mrs Grim... was baptised at St. Paul's Cathedral

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38484

Baptism? Whassat?

I'm a heathen me, heading for limbo.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Limbo? My knees are too fucked for that. Is there something a little more sedate, like musical chairs?

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38484

Craster wrote:

Limbo? My knees are too fucked for that. Is there something a little more sedate, like musical chairs?

Ah, at least in eternity, you can lay down and pretend you're limboing. People will wait... forever.

Malabelm · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 16:25

I don't know where I was baptised, though I do know my parents decided to baptise my younger brother (as well as one of my mum's friend's daughters, in a joint ceremony) on my birthday. I was ignored practically all day, and to top it off they bought me a fucking Everton cake. I spent most of the day sulking in my room. Emo.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38484

Does anyone know if it's possible to move a save game from an XBOX1 to a 360?

The missus has put a lot of legwork into Burnout 3 and doesn't feel like playing it on the old system. I don't blame her. I guess you need some sort of USB device. I can FTP to the (chipped) Xbox if that helps?

ApplePieOfDestiny · **Joined:** 17th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 8293

Arse. Ordered L4D2 for both myself and my brother. My brother got his preorder demo code which works from today, because I got mine from tesco and not game, I have received no demo. Boo.

TheAlbin0Kid · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 20:02

Riles wrote:

Arse. Ordered L4D2 for both myself and my brother. My brother got his preorder demo code which works from today, because I got mine from tesco and not game, I have received no demo. Boo.

Are you in England now?

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