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Random $h!t Thread - Part VI
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oceanicitl
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:04 am Posts: 11039 Location: London
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Colleague's belt broke so he used a VGA cable to hold his jeans up I said "if you hadn't bought so much lego you'd be able to afford a new belt'
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Fri Apr 13, 2018 10:23 am |
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cloaked_wolf
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:46 pm Posts: 10022
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Funnily enough, that's one of the reasons I quit the likes of facebook around 2007. Back when MySpace was all the rage, I had a friend who would sit at a computer in the medical room, perv on girls in myspace and facebook, and periodically check his abs as if they'd magically appear by doing so. I realised it was easy to get caught up in looking at friends of friends on FB. (The other reason was trying to avoid facebook friend requests with family or friends who I really didn't want to know about my personal life.
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Sat Apr 21, 2018 2:50 pm |
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big_D
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:25 pm Posts: 10691 Location: Bramsche
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Giving my notebook a real workout today.
I have to create a Metasploitable 3 virtual machine for testing... Only it needs around 65GB of free space to install and you need to install some unsigned software, not something we want to do on a production server. I tried running VirtualBox inside a VirtualBox VM, but Metasploitable 3 failed, because VBox only offer 32-bit clients, when running nested.
I then hit on the idea of running it on my Windows notebook under Hyper-V. Sure enough, the Debian virtual machine running on Hyper-V can run VirtualBox and it can install 64-bit client operating systems...
So I expanded the virtual drive to give it 65GB free space (the minimum Metasploitable needs to install!!) and I'm running a Debian VM in Hyper-V, with VirtualBox installed inside the Hyper-V and Debian is running a script to generate the new VM.
Once finished, the VM (only a few GB in size) will be exported and transferred to the testing platform.
I'm glad I've had my morning coffee, otherwise I don't think the above would make much sense to my little brain!
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Fri Apr 27, 2018 6:37 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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I'm not saying users are thick but a girl just came in asking for a wireless cable
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Thu May 10, 2018 9:17 am |
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cloaked_wolf
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:46 pm Posts: 10022
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One of the senior docs couldn't work out why their printer wasn't working. They had tried various settings and programs to print from. Nothing worked. Asked me to have a look. It was switched off.
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Thu May 10, 2018 9:47 am |
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davrosG5
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:37 am Posts: 6954 Location: Peebo
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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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Thu May 10, 2018 11:03 am |
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big_D
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:25 pm Posts: 10691 Location: Bramsche
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After ranting about quality of products, I thought that a positive bit of information on service might be in order.
I bought a Nissan Qashqai 2 years ago. It was a 2 year old ex-demo, with 1,900KM on the clock. Because it had been standing around so long, the rubbers on the suspension were hard and squeaked when it was wet.
Nissan replaced them without quibble. They replaced the fronts first, then it went in again for the rears.
Then it had problems with the ventilation, the driver's side would be cooled, but the passenger side wasn't. Nissan replaced the whole ventilation system of the car!
Then in winter, the drivers side was warm, but the passenger side was cold... The dealer took it in and they had forgotten to re-open the heating valve on the passenger side.
Then this spring, the AC didn't work... The condensator hat been punctured by a stone. Nissan took over 75% of the costs for the replacement out of goodwill. Heck, I took the car in, expecting to have to pay for the whole thing! I asked the dealer how much the repair would cost, they said, from their side, "we don't know, we have asked Nissan, if they will make the repair out of goodwill." That wasn't me having to fight for it, threaten or anything else, that was just good customer relations on the side of the dealer.
So, a lot of trouble with the car itself, but the dealer and Nissan have provided exemplary customer service.
_________________ "Do you know what this is? Hmm? No, I can see you do not. You have that vacant look in your eyes, which says hold my head to your ear, you will hear the sea!" - Londo Molari
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Thu May 31, 2018 11:45 am |
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brataccas
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:14 pm Posts: 5664 Location: Scotland
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broke up with American gf of 2.5 years, I now have a native Scottish partner who is in her 40s, we get on like fire life is good
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Tue Jun 12, 2018 7:11 pm |
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John_Vella
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:55 am Posts: 7935 Location: Manchester.
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That's great news!
_________________John Vella BSc (Hons), PGCE - Still the official forum prankster and crude remarker Sorry I'll behave now. Promise
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Sun Jun 17, 2018 7:57 am |
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brataccas
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:14 pm Posts: 5664 Location: Scotland
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yep lol, why is so quiet on this forum here? where is everyone...
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Sun Jun 17, 2018 6:23 pm |
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John_Vella
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:55 am Posts: 7935 Location: Manchester.
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It's Sunday evening... they're probably doing other stuff! I'm only here because I'm watching the football on my PC, and visiting the forum due to the wonders of split screen viewing
_________________John Vella BSc (Hons), PGCE - Still the official forum prankster and crude remarker Sorry I'll behave now. Promise
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Sun Jun 17, 2018 7:23 pm |
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John_Vella
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:55 am Posts: 7935 Location: Manchester.
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I've uploaded a new teaser trailer for my current W.I.P game. here is the YouTube LinkIf you could have a look and let me know what you think, via the comments, I would be most grateful. Thanks!
_________________John Vella BSc (Hons), PGCE - Still the official forum prankster and crude remarker Sorry I'll behave now. Promise
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Tue Jun 19, 2018 5:09 pm |
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cloaked_wolf
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For the first time in four years I was unwell enough to come home from work. Felt fantastic yesterday. Energetic. Started shivering last night out of the blue. Slept poorly. Ached all over this morning but persevered and got into work. Temp was 38.1*C. Took some paracetamol. Temp went up to 38.4 then 38.7. At that point I knew I couldn't cope for the rest of th day so took the afternoon off. Reception reallocated the booked patients. Feeling sorry myself and annoyed my weekend is ruined.
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Fri Jun 22, 2018 6:56 pm |
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John_Vella
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:55 am Posts: 7935 Location: Manchester.
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Just tweeted a tweet asking for help identifying a logo... If anyone who knows about these things could have a look, I would be most grateful. Thanks in advance. https://twitter.com/JohnVella68/status/ ... 13312?s=19
_________________John Vella BSc (Hons), PGCE - Still the official forum prankster and crude remarker Sorry I'll behave now. Promise
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Tue Jun 26, 2018 6:03 pm |
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big_D
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:25 pm Posts: 10691 Location: Bramsche
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I tried cutting out the logo and dropping it into Google and also searching on the product code at the top, but no luck.
_________________ "Do you know what this is? Hmm? No, I can see you do not. You have that vacant look in your eyes, which says hold my head to your ear, you will hear the sea!" - Londo Molari
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Wed Jun 27, 2018 10:28 am |
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