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E. F. Benson
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peripheral vision is all to [LIFTED].
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Wed Mar 30, 2016 8:32 am |
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Fogmeister
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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 |  |  |  | davrosG5 wrote: I really should have thought about this sooner. I got new glasses at the weekend from Boots. Took their advice and got their 'protect plus blue' lenses as I do a lot of computer work and the lenses are meant to result in less fatigue caused by the blue light from computer screens. That's all fine until you are doing something where colour is important. Was editing some photos in Lightroom and was trying various exposure presets. Happened to look over the top of my specs and the colour shift was very noticeable. Glad I spotted it otherwise the colour balance would be out. Also updated my iPad to 9.3 and had a look at the Night Shift setting. With my glasses on the white point looks very warm indeed, less so without. Shame I can't read the screen without them. This requires some thought. I don't particularly want to spend on another pair of glasses. Looks like I'll be holding on to my old specs for a while. |  |  |  |  |
Take them back and ask to change them for normal lenses. Shouldn't cost you anything.
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Wed Mar 30, 2016 8:46 am |
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John_Vella
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:55 am Posts: 7935 Location: Manchester.
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 |  |  |  | John_Vella wrote: If my name was Brian Blessed I would be bellowing "THE AMIGA'S ALIIIIIVE!"
For those of you who weren't aware, I took delivery of an Amiga 1200, from a colleague recently. It had been sat on a wardrobe for the past seven years and needed testing.
It came with a 256MB, yes MEGA Byte Hard drive, but strangely, no cable connecting it to the motherboard.
Long story short, I bough an IDE to Compact Flash adapter and a 4GB CF card, installed Workbench, (The Amiga Operating System) from my PC using an emulator, and we now have a working Amiga!
The floppy drive may be on the way out, as it's not reading any og the disks that came with it, but I've ordered a Floppy Drive USB emulator, so I can play ADF games directly from a USB stick.
Might be boring to most of you, but the chance to practice Kick Off 2 on a real Amiga before the UK Championships in May has got me strangely excited. |  |  |  |  |
I only bloody did it! After a couple of glitches, due to the use of sub folders on the USB stick, I'm only playing Kick Off 2 on an actual Amiga, for the first time in literally decades! WOOHOOOOOOO!
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Thu Mar 31, 2016 7:30 am |
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big_D
What's a life?
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No sport class this evening. I have to work late doing translations for our 20th anniversary invitation and itinerary.
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Thu Mar 31, 2016 4:10 pm |
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John_Vella
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I got the job. I am now officially the Service Desk Lead. Same company, same salary, new job title. Huzzah! 
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Thu Mar 31, 2016 8:09 pm |
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big_D
What's a life?
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Congratulations! 
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Fri Apr 01, 2016 3:51 am |
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davrosG5
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_________________ When they put teeth in your mouth, they spoiled a perfectly good bum. -Billy Connolly (to a heckler)
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TheFrenchun
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Is it an Aprils fool? Anyway congrats!
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Fri Apr 01, 2016 8:56 am |
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John_Vella
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No, it's not an April's fools. I posted it yesterday, which should have been a small, but vital clue  but thanks everyone! 
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jonbwfc
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Fri Apr 01, 2016 1:54 pm |
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davrosG5
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_________________ When they put teeth in your mouth, they spoiled a perfectly good bum. -Billy Connolly (to a heckler)
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big_D
What's a life?
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One of my colleagues played a joke on his manager yesterday. He put a ticket in the helpdesk system, saying that she should call one of our customers back, because they needed to start slaughtering donkies on the 2nd of April and they needed some advice in setting up the system.
The customer was warned about it last week, so she was in on the joke.
The problem is, it backfired. Instead of calling the customer back, she was running around talking to developers and getting everything configured - our system can cope with pigs, cattle, sheep, goats and horses, but it can't handle donkies. As soon as I realised what she was doing, I sent a message to my colleague, telling him he should tell her it was a joke, but he refused, instead telling her, that the customer had called and she should call back (that was after 15 minutes).
He let it go on for over an hour, before she finally called the customer to say that nearly everything had been configured!
She was furious, when she found out, that she had wasted a whole hour...
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Sat Apr 02, 2016 7:34 am |
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steve74
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Your colleague should be billed for the time she wasted
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pcernie
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Serial thief jailed after being snared by 'super recogniser' police unit | UK news | The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016 ... olice-unitWTF are they talking about?
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brataccas
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Anyone studied metals? found a possible ww2 aircraft part but its rotting and deteriorated but funny thing is the metal is turning a turqoise type colour, what does this mean?
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