test please delete

[BrilloPad]

[cailin maith]

Hey

How is Mrs BP? Know when the funeral is yet?

[cailin maith]

Ok, night everyone

Sweet dreams

Night doggie, see you tomorrow

[Churchill]

Ok, night everyone

Sweet dreams

Night doggie, see you tomorrow

Night!

[BrowneIssue]

Designing the technical masterpiece ... $60,000,000

Coming up with a corporate brand ... $25,000,000

Making sure everything, but everything, is all shiny white, white, white to make it distinctive ... $7,000,000

Oh, FFS...

I come home, plug everything back in, and my MacBook isn't charging

I dick about for ages, even going to the extent of disconnecting the AC power, removing the battery, and resetting the SMC.

Does it work? Does it fsck.

Then I realise that, rather than plugging in the white plug of the MacBook's power supply, I've plugged in a light grey plug that isn't actually connected to anything

Note to self:

You're
A
Sodding
Imbecile!

Having sodding imbeciles for users?

Priceless!

[NickFitz]

Having sodding imbeciles for users?

Priceless!

I just discovered another fail on the Mac. When using Internet Connect (which is used to hook up to the net via modems and such) the "Connect" button turns into a "Disconnect" button when activated. As a result, an accidental tap on the trackpad when a connection is being established immediately causes that connection to be disestablished

I'm pretty sure this change in behaviour of the button goes against the Apple User Interface Guidelines... yet this comes from Apple themselves

The obvious (to me) UI is to have two buttons: a "Connect" button that is disabled when a connection is active, and a "Disconnect" button that is disabled when no connection is active.

It seems that somebody took the idea of simplifying the interface one step too far with this one - the idea is to simplify the user interface as much as necessary, not simplify it to the extent that it impedes the user

Re-purposing controls to have a different and opposite purpose when the system changes state can be useful in some circumstances. In this circumstance it isn't.

Ho hum

[NickFitz]

Thought For The Day

Although they clean these hotel rooms, it stands to reason that they can't do a deep clean every day.

Human beings shed loads of particles of dead skin every day.

Moving around in a room will inevitably disturb the finer of these particles, causing them to drift about in that part of the Earth's atmosphere contained within the room.

Therefore, there's a good chance that, as I sleep, fragments of other people who I will probably never meet are passing into my lungs with every breath.

On that note, goodnight

[BrilloPad]

Having sodding imbeciles for users?

Priceless!

I thought it was just me who had imbeciles for users?

[BrilloPad]

Thought For The Day

Although they clean these hotel rooms, it stands to reason that they can't do a deep clean every day.

Human beings shed loads of particles of dead skin every day.

Moving around in a room will inevitably disturb the finer of these particles, causing them to drift about in that part of the Earth's atmosphere contained within the room.

Therefore, there's a good chance that, as I sleep, fragments of other people who I will probably never meet are passing into my lungs with every breath.

On that note, goodnight

[BrilloPad]

Morning all