test please delete

[BrowneIssue]

NO! infra red mice get confused by sweat....

Bung it in the office microwave when no-one's about.

Sorted.

[BrilloPad]

It probably is between the modem and PC.

You've taken me back to the days of needing to replace the IO buffer chip on the serial card to ensure there enough bytes of buffer to be able to handle those mentally fast Hayes Optima 28,800 external modems. Wow! but those things flew!

The machine room at my last permie gig had cabinets full of them for connecting the various buildings. I used to spend ages in there with the lights off watching the LEDs.

Non-Drivel alert!

This Generalist is not-drivelling.

Move this thread to Technical at once!

Non-Drivel alert!

[BrowneIssue]

IMO what was important was who much we contributed elsewhere. so the top 20 tpd posters should be ranked by posts in other forums.

But that is the same as this list:

Rank Name Posts
1 zeitghost 11,379
2 AtW 9,578
3 sasguru 8,915
4 DimPrawn 7,123
5 wendigo100 6,458
6 Churchill 6,126
7 SallyAnne 5,957
8 TheFaQQer 5,333
9 threaded 4,861
10 Troll 4,676
11 Bagpuss 4,627
12 Lucifer Box 4,221
13 The Lone Gunman 4,152
14 Ardesco 4,100
15 Sockpuppet 3,451
16 milanbenes 3,441
17 DodgyAgent 3,401
18 DaveB 3,211
19 malvolio 3,114
20 BrilloPad 2,965

which is just the top 20 CUK posters.

[BrilloPad]

#97997
FiveTimes
Fingers like lightning

full house

[BrilloPad]

#97999
Diver
Lord of Ruin

four of a kind

[BrowneIssue]

Non-Drivel alert!

[BrowneIssue]

I could do a table showing the ratio of CUK post count (less LR, of course) to TPD posts. It wouldn't be a drivel %age (i.e. what proportion of one's posting is just to TPD) but would be a marker of how much drivel one generates relative to the good, high quality stuff one finds in General, etc.

[BrowneIssue]

Or another table I could do would be:

CUK post count minus TPD post count

which would be a "table of shame".

Each General, etc. post would be one point, a post in LR counts as zero but a post in TPD counts as minus one. The lower the score, the more that person is a Bad Person in the eyes of the Good Folks on General.

However, I already know who will be ranked Number One on that list.

[BrilloPad]

But that is the same as this list:

Rank Name Posts
1 zeitghost 11,379
2 AtW 9,578
3 sasguru 8,915
4 DimPrawn 7,123
5 wendigo100 6,458
6 Churchill 6,126
7 SallyAnne 5,957
8 TheFaQQer 5,333
9 threaded 4,861
10 Troll 4,676
11 Bagpuss 4,627
12 Lucifer Box 4,221
13 The Lone Gunman 4,152
14 Ardesco 4,100
15 Sockpuppet 3,451
16 milanbenes 3,441
17 DodgyAgent 3,401
18 DaveB 3,211
19 malvolio 3,114
20 BrilloPad 2,965

which is just the top 20 CUK posters.

hmmm - no wonder I do coding rather than business analysis! anyone would think I have a degree in maths or something.

is the idea to identify those who have drivelled most or drivelled least?

[BrilloPad]

I could do a table showing the ratio of CUK post count (less LR, of course) to TPD posts. It wouldn't be a drivel %age (i.e. what proportion of one's posting is just to TPD) but would be a marker of how much drivel one generates relative to the good, high quality stuff one finds in General, etc.

Can you find which posters have contributed to which forum?