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young Ed

Veteran
I have some sympathy for the lack of second IE but not stacking the disk shelfs high enough is just sloppy.. it's not like we wrote up a very specific install specification which included EXACTLY where equipment needs to be installed & what connections etc. will be provided for connecting to our network & power systems, where they're located and labelled everything very carefully... oh yeah we did


Oh that sounds like ACF training... been there done that :tongue:


A disk shelf is a chassis holding a large number of hard drives to be attached to some kind of server. We're looking at 36 3.5" drives per 4U shelf (about 100TB)
UPS, wikipedia has your answer
As for a 'U' take a look at wikipedia as well
thanks for the explantion as to the technical stuff :biggrin:

no wasn't ACF training just about 5 or so paras were in school to hand out leaflets and flyers etc at break and lunch to try and recruit. and brought 3 guns along including a 50 cal :biggrin: and all the gear they would wear on an average day patrolling in afghan and let me try it all on and go for a 200 metres ish run in it.
Cheers Ed
 

gbb

Squire
Location
Peterborough
now try lifting a bl**dy 70kg anvil when your 14! or running 200 metres with about 60kg of military gear on you and a military helmet on your bobbing around on your head when you are 15 and have hyper mobility and are feeling your ankle again after spraining it 2 or 3 weeks ago and you knees are about to collapse! its not fun :biggrin:
Cheers Ed
Eeee, that were nothing :whistle:
Working in Egypt, i asked them for more netting for the machines, it comes in a bale about 4ft x 2ft x 2.5 ft (excuse the mixed metric and Imperial)..and weighs about 40kg. The stores were about 100 yards across the yard, up two flights of stairs with no handrails, and maybe 30 yards into the building..:whistle:
This is gonna do my back in i thought....no, they shouted the tiniest slip of an Egyptian woman, about 5ft fork all and weighed about 8 stone soaking wet, she lifted it straight on her head and walked all the way back, including the two flights of stairs :ohmy:
I was amazed, embarrased and impressed, put me to shame she did :laugh:
 

young Ed

Veteran
Eeee, that were nothing :whistle:
Working in Egypt, i asked them for more netting for the machines, it comes in a bale about 4ft x 2ft x 2.5 ft (excuse the mixed metric and Imperial)..and weighs about 40kg. The stores were about 100 yards across the yard, up two flights of stairs with no handrails, and maybe 30 yards into the building..:whistle:
This is gonna do my back in i thought....no, they shouted the tiniest slip of an Egyptian woman, about 5ft fork all and weighed about 8 stone soaking wet, she lifted it straight on her head and walked all the way back, including the two flights of stairs :ohmy:
I was amazed, embarrased and impressed, put me to shame she did :laugh:
WOW not bad i must say! :biggrin:
Cheers Ed
 

Arch

Married to Night Train
Location
Salford, UK
I'm out working, and a woman approaches me:

Woman: I've got a house on Gillygate, do you collect recycling there?
Me: Yes. What number?
Woman: 19-21, I've got tenants in there..
Me: Oh yes?
Woman: Can I give you a key (to the lean to extension they use as a shed), they keep forgetting to put the recycling out..
Me: 'Spose so, we rather they put it out though, it's a nuisance having to remember a key.
Woman: I know but they're so lazy, can I give you a key, or send it to your office?
Me: (with a sigh), No, I might as well take it.
Woman: Here it is <takes key off ring> I know it's right, I tried it today.
Me: Right, ok.

<time passes. Enough time for me to get round to that house and decide to pick up the recycing, despite them not putting it out this morning when I actually did that bit>

<more time passes>

I see a youth returning to the back door.

Me: Do you live here?
Youth: Yeah...
Me: Can I give you this key. Your landlady just gave it to me but it doesn't work. Can you give it back and tell her she'll have to send one.
Youth: Yeah...

I'm not holding my breath until that message gets through.
 

GrasB

Veteran
Location
Nr Cambridge
So I'm eating an apple as I carry a few items between buildings with a friend. We come to a locked door so I need to get my keys out of my pocket.
Her: Eww! Don't hold that in your mouth!
I open the door and we go through
Me: But I'm eating it, it'll end up in my mouth anyway.
Her: But you'll get your germs all over the apple!
Me: I'm sure there's logic there, it's just more broken than that branch on the lawn.
Her: :angry: But
Me: It'll end up in my mouth anyway.
....
 

Maverick Goose

A jumped up pantry boy, who never knew his place
I'm out working, and a woman approaches me:

Woman: I've got a house on Gillygate, do you collect recycling there?
Me: Yes. What number?
Woman: 19-21, I've got tenants in there..
Me: Oh yes?
Woman: Can I give you a key (to the lean to extension they use as a shed), they keep forgetting to put the recycling out..
Me: 'Spose so, we rather they put it out though, it's a nuisance having to remember a key.
Woman: I know but they're so lazy, can I give you a key, or send it to your office?
Me: (with a sigh), No, I might as well take it.
Woman: Here it is <takes key off ring> I know it's right, I tried it today.
Me: Right, ok.

<time passes. Enough time for me to get round to that house and decide to pick up the recycing, despite them not putting it out this morning when I actually did that bit>

<more time passes>

I see a youth returning to the back door.

Me: Do you live here?
Youth: Yeah...
Me: Can I give you this key. Your landlady just gave it to me but it doesn't work. Can you give it back and tell her she'll have to send one.
Youth: Yeah...

I'm not holding my breath until that message gets through.
Maybe he was from Lancashire........:wacko::whistle:
 

colly

Re member eR
Location
Leeds
Hospital appointment today to have an itchy mole on my back looked at:

Consultant: Yes well that looks OK, nothing to worry about there. I'll take it off and we'll do a biopsy.
Me: OK that's good
Consultant: I'll do what's called a shave biopsy. Literally shaving it off with a scalpel.
Me: OK
Consultant: Then I'll use a hot wire to stop the bleeding.
Me: Right, I'll look forward to that then.
 

gbb

Squire
Location
Peterborough
During a follow up visit to see a hand specialist /physio..she asks..
'How did it happen ?'
'Slid on the bike, hand down, dislocated finger'
'Ooh, thats my biggest worry, falling off'
'You cycle then ?'
'Oh yes, I have a roadbike but just come on my Claud Bulter to work'
'Silver one, a Levant possibly ?' I ask
'Yes :thumbsup: Thats the one, not sure if mines a Levant though...i suspect shes wondering how i know so much
'Sorry, i saw it in the racks, its a bit sad, i love bikes, I did notice that one'
A nice discussion followed, shes a bit hardcore on the bike i suspect judging by one ride she described..it was a pleasure being treated by her.
 

young Ed

Veteran
During a follow up visit to see a hand specialist /physio..she asks..
'How did it happen ?'
'Slid on the bike, hand down, dislocated finger'
'Ooh, thats my biggest worry, falling off'
'You cycle then ?'
'Oh yes, I have a roadbike but just come on my Claud Bulter to work'
'Silver one, a Levant possibly ?' I ask
'Yes :thumbsup: Thats the one, not sure if mines a Levant though...i suspect shes wondering how i know so much
'Sorry, i saw it in the racks, its a bit sad, i love bikes, I did notice that one'
A nice discussion followed, shes a bit hardcore on the bike i suspect judging by one ride she described..it was a pleasure being treated by her.
you appear to have a severe case of sad nerdism and i know what will fix it coming down here and rebuilding my bikes! :biggrin: oh and donating me a dawes galaxy and a one of those pinarelli things! :biggrin:
Cheers Ed
 

Arch

Married to Night Train
Location
Salford, UK
Me: oh, here we go.

A woman dashes out in her pyjamas, with a box of recycling. I walk back to her.

Woman: I didn't put it out I thought I'd missed you.

Me: (thinks) well, you did miss us, didn't you, coz we're already past your house. And it's not like we're earlier or later than normal, so why did you think you'd missed us and not put it out? (say)... Nothing.

Woman: I'm sorry...

Me: (thinks) if you were actually sorry, you'd get your box out on time, instead of running out late 50‰ of the time. (say)... Nothing. Take box from her.

Woman:... It's just, I thought....

I never found out what she thought. I wasn't in the mood to listen so I just walked away to the truck, and she went back inside.

It probably seems trivial, but when do the job, day in, day out, in all weathers, without fail, using equipment that's falling apart and vehicles on the verge of death, it's really annoying when some people can't manage to put a box on their doorstep by 8am. Or in this case 9am, or for some people half way through the afternoon.

Still at least she actually speaks to us. Some people come out after we've passed and just put their boxes down loudly to attract our attention.
 

Arch

Married to Night Train
Location
Salford, UK
Then I'd silently ignore them.

Sometimes we do.

Trouble is, all that happens is they remember next week and put out twice as much. Just adds to the work next time.

(sigh) I like the job really, I'll be sorry to leave it. Great mates, fresh air, exercise, doing something useful, some really nice folk on the rounds. But this week's been hard, and we're all getting tired..
 

young Ed

Veteran
Me:sad:to my favourite member of staff at school) do you cycle then?
Her:yeah i love love cycling i have an old claud butler racer, what bike do you have
Me:just a cheap steel frame hybrid
Me:tells her about my planned eventual tours of europe and through russia and latvia and estonia and all the rest of it :biggrin:
Cheers Ed
 

vernon

Harder than Ronnie Pickering
Location
Meanwood, Leeds
Wife: Why did you eat that marzipan? Think of the calories that you could have saved by not eating it.
Me: Look on the bright side. Think of the calories that I have saved by not eating the christmas cake and icing that it could have been attached to.
 
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