@rohypnol said:
This sure makes it difficult for #**** Dracula to introduce himself.
Note: In this post, # is capital *.
On my keyboard, * is upper case "8"... :-)
@rohypnol said:
This sure makes it difficult for #**** Dracula to introduce himself.
Note: In this post, # is capital *.
On my keyboard, * is upper case "8"... :-)
Just had another thought... a colleague of mine works in Scunthorpe...
@dhromed said:
What the fucking fuck.
@RaceProUK said:
Subscription payments.
Yes, I know about Direct Debit. No, not everyone uses them.
I knew there was a reason I was keeping our IP Office on v7 software.... Not enough sunlight for v9!!
As an IT Department for a finance business, we do get some odd (business related) requests sometimes from the users, but this call - not from a staff member - was great.
We came in this morning, and one of the guys noticed we had a voicemail hit at 2am this morning, from a number in the same town - A bit unusual, and probably a wrong number... and then we listened to the message.
It was a desperate call for help from a local resident (who sounded either drunk or high, no idea which, if either!) who gave his full name and phone number (which was his real number as it came up on the caller ID as well), and requested that....
@Drunk or High Caller said:
Please can you call me back so I can learn IT. Erm, thanks.
Just found a creation date in the code:
<meta name="DC.date.created" scheme="W3CDTF" content="2006-03-13" />
So yeah, modern for seven and a half years ago....
@dhromed said:
What the fucking fuck.
I've only just started being able to use the joys of Bluetooth Audio on my shiny new car (never had it on the previous one), whilst parked up waiting for the wife, playing Candy Crush at full volume, with the windows open. Mmmmm, sweeeeeeet!
I was talking about this to a colleague earlier, and we thought the biggest issue would be the time-zone of the user as I'm presuming they want the user's local time displaying.
I came up (in my head) with a half-assed solution involving an AJAX call from the client including the time zone they are in (not used it, but apparently there's a getTimezoneOffset() in Javascript), and the BBC server returns the user's initial local time when loading the page up. This is assuming that their servers are time-synced to a reliable NTP source.
As for the 100 days to implement? Well, the BBC is the government, so that's probably under-estimating it!!!!
@ip-guru said:
The Uk drives on the left because our road nework dates back to knights on horseback.
Europeans drive on the right because Napoleon was left haned & made every one conform to his needs (& they never reverted back once we had defeated him)
This happened to me when I was with Virgin. The guy was calling from an Indian call centre, and (sorry to tar them all with the same brush) I thought it might be a scam, so said I'd call back on the sales number listed on their website.
Caller: "But sir, you can only take this wonderful offer if you sign up right now. Please can you give me the two characters from your password?"
Me: Got suspicious, hung up, called BT, got a much better deal than Virgin had me on already (and probably better than they were offering).
Wow! This makes me feel like my company's Doing It Right... Almost!