Glacial

[The Moan Ranger]

It runs like a dream on our "internet cafe" PCs in the building.

I'll try pinging the old address when I get back to my desk 

[tel]

You may have to try the tracert thingy on one of those boxes to check that they are going down the same pipe and therefore same route.

For some odd reason now thinking of "Down the dust-pipe" by Status Quo.

[Bar Wench]

It runs like a dream on our "internet cafe" PCs in the building.

I'll try pinging the old address when I get back to my desk 

so you are wandering round the building trying the pub on various machines? 

[The Moan Ranger]

You may have to try the tracert thingy on one of those boxes to check that they are going down the same pipe and therefore same route.

For some odd reason now thinking of "Down the dust-pipe" by Status Quo.

"Run" command not available on those - thin clients that when booted up simply load the internet and the company homepage, so my idiotic users can go onto Facebook or Arsenal FC or such other shite.

Old IP address times out too.

[The Moan Ranger]

It runs like a dream on our "internet cafe" PCs in the building.

I'll try pinging the old address when I get back to my desk 

so you are wandering round the building trying the pub on various machines? 

Yes, and also eyeing the extremely fit young ladies 

[Bar Wench]

It runs like a dream on our "internet cafe" PCs in the building.

I'll try pinging the old address when I get back to my desk 

so you are wandering round the building trying the pub on various machines? 

Yes, and also eyeing the extremely fit young ladies 

Oh dear oh dear. Still it's cold today so I imagine they are all covered up. Or have they gone into tight jumper mode.

[tel]

They haven't really started covering up here yet, but there again there isn't too much worth looking at

[Bar Wench]

They haven't really started covering up here yet, but there again there isn't too much worth looking at

[tel]

Could do with a few wenchy types here. There's very rarely anything worth looking at out-side, unless you go to park and then you run risks as children will be with their mothers.

[The Moan Ranger]

Not in this building - I have more cloth covering my little toe than most of the young lovelies here have on their entire bodies...

Not that I'm complaining mind...but it's awfully distracting...

[tel]

It's all that crawling around under desks, isn't it! One of the few perks of being in IT.

[Marley's Ghost (Imbiber of Spirits)]

It's all that crawling around under desks, isn't it! One of the few perks of being in IT.

Reminds me of when I was a sprog with IBM. Job title was Customer Engineer - in reality it meant running round various clients fixing their punch and verifier machines.

Now, this was in the days before PCs and cheap memory - all programming and data entry was by the old punched card. Data that needed to be entered was punched by young lovelies in a large pool - much like a typing pool. Then, to eliminate errors ( ) the same data was entered by the verifier girls. These machines shone a light at the cards, looking for holes and comparing what it found with the data typed by said young (and some not so young) lovelies.

Favourite job, when fault finding verifiers, was checking the bulb which involved crawling under the front of the machine (it was built something like a desk with inset keyboard and machinery above in a grey (always) case.

On numerous occasions, young lovely would just scoot back her chair while I crawled under the machine. One memorable day, I was down under (so to speak) checking out the bulb, when I happened to glance over my shoulder to behold one of the nicest bearded clams I have seen in many a year.

Unfortunately, I was too young and naive to realise that this was probably deliberate and I could, in all probability, been on to a winner.

Ahhh, the benefits of getting older/wiser. If I could go back to being that age, knowing what I know now, I'd have a field day!

[Snoopy]

Happy Memories Eh Ghoul?
Talking about beards ~ something like this was it?

[Marley's Ghost (Imbiber of Spirits)]

Happy Memories Eh Ghoul?
Talking about beards ~ something like this was it?

Good God no Snoops! It was much prettier than that! I said 'bearded clam' in the generic sense - that particular one barely qualified to be described as 'bearded' - think late model teenage male trying for the Brian Blessed look where it goes all velvety and wispy and you'll get the general picture. Plus, I think, a bit of 'topiary' had been applied.

That one looks like the wire wool I use to clean copper pipe prior to making soldered joints when I goes plumbin'

[Snoopy]

  I thought it looked like Willy Nelson.