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What about USB? CD?

It's not picking up the USB or this blank disc either. Gah!

Looks like you are using the funky locked down version..

Gah x2!

DIY help needed.

I have a set of small box shaped shelves of different sizes, that we are intending to put up next to the bed, instead of a bedside table. So the only thing it will need to hold is an alarm clock, and a phone or two. (plus our collection of sex toys 'natch)
The shelves need to go directly above a socket, and my pingy voltage detector thingy goes mental all the way up the wall above the socket.

Will 'No More Nails' and the like hold a shelf like that, you think? I'd prefer not to electrocute myself with a drill...

It'd be fine for the things you want to put on there, but if you wake up one morning and rest one arm on it to lever yourself out of bed....

Unlikely, the shelves are only 12mm deep

They are stuck up now and seem relatively solid, i'll leave them for 24 hours and see how they go.

It's 2002 all over again with the woes of DVD writers not playing ball with newly released media.

May 2009 I purchase a 6x external Blu-Ray writer. This last month has been the first time that 6x discs have been generally available and indeed are being sold instead of 4x.

Can we guess what media the drive is unhappy with and spits out with "medium error"?

Have done firmware updates, been on the phone to LG for a loooong time. LG concede that "it's broken and it's a warrenty claim". Return to retailer they say.

Have now emailed Ebuyer asking if the RMA on the discs can be swapped for the drive itself. LG say its a 2 year warrenty and my invoice reads 15/05/2009.

Meanwhile I can't backup as ordering more 4x disks resulted in 6x turning up!

*Lunchbreak in office*

No! Toby! You invited him in - argh! Red faced incredibly irritating non-stop monologue borrower has entered the inner realm and now will not go away. I know you only wanted to help fix his USB stick Toby, but once he's got talking to you he will never be gone! His droning 'saying nothing' voice is penetrating through my headphones and disrupting the awesome Verdi I'm listening to... make him go away someone, help!

*Silent screams*

Can't you, by law, go "SHHHHH!" and look stern?

Can you not pick up a Greek dictionary and smack him over the head with it?

Middle aged business man behind me in Boots. I finish paying and put my card away but as I do so he reaches past me and passes the sales assistant a packed of ('three' - Ed). I didn't need you to reach over my shoulder like that mate.

"Meet you in the public toilets in 5 minutes" is what he was trying to say.

Is Dropbox a possibility?

Hmm, well there are no cameras in the office. "He tripped and fell guv'nor!"

Just added a friend on twitter, and was looking at his posts. He's a photographer and was taking pictures at an American school, this is what he found.

http://yfrog.com/gy6ktizj

Ooooooh! Well remembered.

That might go into the Best Man speech that I haven't written yet.

I'm so over this wisdom tooth business, need proper food!

Rachel Riley would so get it...

I just overheard the most amazing awkward silence of our times. Idiot Boss was talking to somone I work with and someone from another department about how "if you ask people their opinion, they think they have the authority to give their opinion later", but if you just change things without asking anyone, and then tell everyone how it is, that's "how it's done".

I swear I heard crickets chirping. And the guy from the other department excused himself and left immediately. Immediately.

My god, that was unreal. Just fixing things and not asking permission would be brilliant, yes ... if you actually knew what the fuck you were doing. If you're actually responsible for doing things, and you're the reason they're not working, it's complete fucking idiocy to just make shit up as you go along, when it affects dozens of people and thousands of students and fuck-ups can cost us millions. I mean, jesus. And it's not like she can say she knows better - she is the least experienced person out of nearly all the people she works with. She started after me, for christ's sake. At least I have the sense to admit when I'm out of my depth, instead of just lawing down the law for people I've never even met.

Fuuuck.

Oh my fucking god. Now I'm no longer allowded to delete things from a student's record. Any student. THIS IS MY FUCKING JOB. AMENDING RECORDS IS MY FUCKING JOB AND MY OWN BOSSES HAVE ASKED FOR MY ACCESS TO BE REMOVED BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY HAVE ALREADY ADMITTED ARE SOMEONE ELSE'S MISTAKES. AAAARGRHSARGH./

Are you actually going to do something about this?

Is this a good time to mention that your boss PM'd all of us and told us not to vote for you in the mod election because she considers you to be "a bit like Benny from Crossroads"?

I think it would be wise for me to calm down first. There are far too many sharp desk corners I could brain someone on otherwise.

That a 'no' then...

Calling my boss a witless cunt in the middle of the office isn't going to solve anything. Calmly explaining what an utterly belming idea it is in tomorrow's meeting might.

Bonus WTF: I just overheard them talking about it. Apparently I have to ask them to do it for me from now on. And they're right now trying to work out how to do it. They don't even know how to do it. They don't even know how to do it and they're the only ones allowed and they don't even know how to do it.

How do these people get jobs? How can anyone hire people like this and not realise what utter fucking morons they are?

Quickly find all the stuff you've to do that with and make it every fifth thing. That should keep them up and down for a while.

simplyhired.co.uk
http://www.agencycentral.co.uk/agencyse ... london.htm

Erm, OK, we get it. But I suppose you can be excused, in the circs.

It's gonna be fun'n'games constantly sending them stuff to do that you're perfectly capable ofdoing, even if they did know how to do it. Which I believe they don't.

L-LOL

Sorry sinister

I had a manager that did not trust contractors with system accounts, so i could not order parts for the laptops I was fixing. he assigned me a permy to do it for me, I was that quick the permy could not do his own job as he was just ordering parts for me.

After a week I was allowed to do my own.


SA just play the system, your boss is in charge, if things fuck up it stops with her as it is her department.

You really need to report her, but you previously said you would not do..

Eh, has he? that's not going to resolve anything, then. I thought there was a meeting or somesuch.

There was. Turns out her boss thinks the sun shines out of her arse (the word "synergy" was used. Without irony), so the only way I'll get anything done now is by filing a grievance, which would take tens of hours of compiling and explaining the hundreds of incidents I have logged, explaining the situation to everyone and putting the case together, as well as god knows how many life-sapping meetings. Or quitting and filing for constructive dismissal, which would involve the same, except with no income.

I'm currently putting all that time and energy into looking for another job instead, because the only real solution to this would be firing the fuck out of Idiot Boss, telling her lackey to back off, and telling their boss to stop trusting complete morons, but that's not going to happen.

Doesn't mean I'm not going to bring up specific idiotic things they do, though. I mean, apart from anything else, if I'm not allowed to change records when needed, I effectively don't actually have anything to do all day except ask other people to do my work for me, which is fucking absurd.

Fucking WIN!

Seriously, I understand this bit, the other bits, not so much.

Where have you been looking for jobs, who are you registered with?

Having never seen Crossroads, I remain un-offended.

Mali - a bunch of sites like lis and jobs.ac.uk , as well as some archiving related sites and mailing lists. There's a fair bit going, but the vast bulk of it is too few hours, temporary, or in london. Maternity cover seems to account for about 45% of jobs today.

Got bored waiting, so put stuff on shelves.

Shelves still up, more news at 10...

Have you ever seen a Benny SB Kelper Falklander?

Is she a Megacity Judge? You might want to check that first before reporting on her.

Just give 'im a powerbomb.

Oh man, the "please be my friend" visitors were always dreaded in our libraries, too. You couldn't hate them, but god, you wanted them to stop existing.

I still get them now. Lonely students who know my name and where my office is.

Not to sound utterly glib, but how does Dropbox work for this situation (bearing in mind that I've never heard of it before your post and I've just this minute googled it)? Can I download it on my computer but still access it through the Citrix desktop? Or do I need to download it on the Citrix desktop since that might be a problem.

Sinister Agent at work, yesterday.

Liam Gallagher, there are other ways to stand when shouting your Manc drawl down a mic.

I can only infer that Crossroads was not very funny.

Amazing how dated that UKGold intro looks, too. Wasn't that one on about 12-15 years ago? If I remember rightly, it looked pretty dated even then, mind.

The intro was bad enough, but it looked like someone was pissing on the "gold" brick at the end.

You install it on each computer, and it creates a folder. It then keeps the contents of that folder in sync.

Happy Birthday Zardoz. Hope it brings you joy, happiness and sexual satisfaction