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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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That is one reason why I love my iPad. Not much crap to start with and you can probably delete what you do not need. The fear of bricking it stops me from jailbreaking, but then I am happy with what options are available to me.
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Sat Mar 23, 2013 11:40 pm |
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pcernie
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Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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'Ninja Turtles' to film at ? http://tinyurl.com/bssavhaSomething to do with a crash landing maybe? Bloody strange place for a Turtles shoot 
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Sun Mar 24, 2013 12:17 am |
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am Posts: 12700 Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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How much I dislike the new rig I'm on. I've only been on shift here eight hours. To be fail the rig itself isn't terrible, it's just small, which limits it operationally. Also, the laptops we have are unusable. It took me an hour to do a five minute job earlier. Purely because I hate to wait 2-3 minutes for it to resond when I clicked on something. Plus they seem to have some weird random bugs in the lestest version of our software.
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Sun Mar 24, 2013 2:18 am |
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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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You would have thought that they would have decent laptops, when everything else costs so much. It would be very cost effective.
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Sun Mar 24, 2013 11:52 am |
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am Posts: 12700 Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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Internal politics at Halliburton there. All us engineers have been ranting for the last two years about it. Halliburton Baroid 'rent them' from Halliburton IT. I don't know the details exactly. But most are 6-7 years old. We're partly limited by the fact we have to run the software on XP 32 bit as that's what all Halliburton PC's use. The new sofware really needs much more RAM than a 32 bit OS can offer, even if we did get higher spec laptops.
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Sun Mar 24, 2013 9:53 pm |
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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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That sounds like a overcharging scam. They rent crappy hardware for an astronomical sum to offshore profits into some location. The IT company is probably in a tax haven or its own rental is. This way they can ship profits to lower tax countries or put funds into a pot for something else. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk.
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Mon Mar 25, 2013 5:31 am |
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paulzolo
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm Posts: 12251
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There is some science fiction thing going on in Whistable in June. This would give me a chance to catch up with a friend from school again, which would be good.
Sadly, it clashes with my mum’s 70th Birthday, so that has to have priority.
I’m sure we can find another excuse for a meetup, but this would have been ideal.
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Mon Mar 25, 2013 3:50 pm |
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pcernie
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Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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That I rather like what they've done with Kotaku from what I've seen so far http://kotaku.com/welcome-to-the-new-ko ... -458370679
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Tue Mar 26, 2013 12:13 am |
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oceanicitl
Official forum cat lady
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:04 am Posts: 11039 Location: London
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Two more days in the office including today then I won't be back until next Thursday
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Tue Mar 26, 2013 8:53 am |
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pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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Boredom's killing me... I'm in work 
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Wed Mar 27, 2013 12:14 pm |
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ProfessorF
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:56 pm Posts: 12030
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"Good camera Alex. Love it!" Yeah, because I didn't spend ages trying to get the shot right, juggling with the camera's minimum focal distance and movement to get the picture just right, did I? No, the f'ing camera magically did it all.... 
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Thu Mar 28, 2013 9:57 pm |
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timark_uk
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:11 pm Posts: 12143 Location: Belfast
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Anyone familiar with the Mourne mountains that's willing to be my guide at the weekend? No? Thought not. (8+(
Mark
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Thu Mar 28, 2013 10:48 pm |
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pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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No, but take every flask and coat you own 
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Thu Mar 28, 2013 10:52 pm |
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timark_uk
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:11 pm Posts: 12143 Location: Belfast
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Not sure I want my first trip there to be on my own with the current conditions. Still, we'll see what we see. *shrug* Mark
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Thu Mar 28, 2013 10:54 pm |
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pcernie
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Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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What's prompted it?
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Thu Mar 28, 2013 11:07 pm |
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