2024 Rendezvous

[morninggents]

Originally Posted by Gerard C

May be half related to the above, at the moment our buses rear ends are showing adverts of Dell and of course AI. Those adverts refer to the Mclaren F1 team doing really well ATM. PR people dont read the forum I guess…

I understand they are going to put them on buses in Australia upside down.

[morninggents]

Originally Posted by morninggents

I understand they are going to put them on buses in Australia upside down.

Idiot. I was trying to be topical but was rushing to go out and should have said:

'I understand they are going to put them on buses in Australia swapped round.'

[ridaow]

Originally Posted by morninggents

Idiot. I was trying to be topical but was rushing to go out and should have said:

'I understand they are going to put them on buses in Australia swapped round.'

Very droll - at least the second time around ......

[Gerard C]

I must be idiot if not more because I got the picture at your first attempt. But having said that, I wonder about the Olympic flame in your country………… Hot topic, huh?

[John Elwin]

My trusty little weather station on my front window sill told me it was 60.2 degrees at lunchtime. It's in the shade now so has plummeted to 40 degrees.

I went to the supermarket in a nearby town this afternoon, where according to my car it was 44 degrees. By the time I got home & parked (in the shade) that had dropped to 36 degrees.

No doubt all the eco loons will be getting excited & squawking about it being the warmest day ever & we are all doomed... We are not of course.

[Gerard C]

Originally Posted by John Elwin

We are not of course.

Or course we are not. But from your observations we've better live in the shade!

[Tel 911S]

Thought it must just be me , but a couple of internet places I tried to go onto have been showing the dreaded 404 .
Then I saw that there had been another Microsoft problem , perhaps not as bad as the CROWDSTRIKE one recently . Now seems to be working again . Has anyone else noticed any problems with their internet

[John Elwin]

No problems here with internet but my mobile phone hasn't been able to find a signal since Sunday.

[Gerard C]

Waiting for grant's reaction here…

[Tel 911S]

Originally Posted by John Elwin

My trusty little weather station on my front window sill told me it was 60.2 degrees at lunchtime. It's in the shade now so has plummeted to 40 degrees.

I went to the supermarket in a nearby town this afternoon, where according to my car it was 44 degrees. By the time I got home & parked (in the shade) that had dropped to 36 degrees.

No doubt all the eco loons will be getting excited & squawking about it being the warmest day ever & we are all doomed... We are not of course.

In the UK we have the MET OFFICE , which for some time has been taken over by the Global Warming scammers .
A study shows that 80% of its weather stations / temp gauges do not meet MWO standards for accurate readings . And there are putting up more in unsuitable places so that they can keep up the " Warmest Ever " lies .
A year or so ago they had a "Hottest Ever " one from a gauge beside a runway on an RAF airfield when fighter jets were taking off .
So we can expect a constant ongoing load of lies .

[Peter Mallett]

Originally Posted by Tel 911S

Thought it must just be me , but a couple of internet places I tried to go onto have been showing the dreaded 404 .
Then I saw that there had been another Microsoft problem , perhaps not as bad as the CROWDSTRIKE one recently . Now seems to be working again . Has anyone else noticed any problems with their internet

My oultlook e mails have been somewhat hit and miss today.

[Tel 911S]

Originally Posted by Peter Mallett

My oultlook e mails have been somewhat hit and miss today.

OUTLOOK is a Microsoft system , so perhaps there have been a few minor effects .

[Gerard C]

They had some issus last night during the OG's table tennis semi final. A piece of chalk and a board are so romantic nowadays!

[John Elwin]

Originally Posted by Gerard C

They had some issus last night during the OG's table tennis semi final. A piece of chalk and a board are so romantic nowadays!

Every time you mention the OG's I think you are talking about my old school - the Old Greshamians.

Did you see Macron's very intimate moment with one of his minister's after the opening horror show? Poor Attal didn't know which way to look!

[Gerard C]

Ha no, didn't see that. Did he try to kiss Attal on the mouth? While we are here.

[midgetman]

Personally I reckon that The Virus and all computer related problems are the Chinese finding out how they can fight WW3 without going down the old-fashioned shoot 'em up Putin route.

Cue 2030 when we have a really virulent health virus backed up by Chinese sleepers at Microsoft /Crowdstrike/AWS wrecking the world's computer infrastructure at the same time. Also all electric cars will shut down blocking the main routes. China sells the antidote to the health virus and will unlock the cars/computers but at what cost?

PS I also have a tin foil hat and believe the world is flat

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[John Elwin]

Originally Posted by Gerard C

Ha no, didn't see that. Did he try to kiss Attal on the mouth? While we are here.

Worse than that! He got a full-on assault from the sports minister - the Spanish football guy would have been very proud of it.

Brigitte was not amused but Sarkozy was!!

[Gerard C]

The sports minister? No kidding! She's ugly, sounds stupid and looks a heck of a weirdo! Definitely he should have kissed Attal! Or Sarko-the-angry-dwarf…

[midgetman]

Daily Heil reports Microsoft is suffering outages again.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...tivemenubutton

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[Gerard C]

If my memory serves, this company has several contracts here, including army. They were found to be cheaper than others. French Air Farce too?

[John Elwin]

Originally Posted by Gerard C

The sports minister? No kidding! She's ugly, sounds stupid and looks a heck of a weirdo! Definitely he should have kissed Attal! Or Sarko-the-angry-dwarf…

My thoughts exactly! The photo is on The Telegraph website but apparently came from somewhere called Madame Figaro, who called it a "curious kiss".

Probably had a nasty bite-mark on his neck afterwards!

Everyone in the picture is laughing apart from Brigitte & Attal...

[VIVA GT]

Originally Posted by Tel 911S

Thought it must just be me , but a couple of internet places I tried to go onto have been showing the dreaded 404 .
Then I saw that there had been another Microsoft problem , perhaps not as bad as the CROWDSTRIKE one recently . Now seems to be working again . Has anyone else noticed any problems with their internet

We had problems yesterday with our (cloud based) workshop management software, this is part of the explanation we had from the providers:
"We want to inform you about a global issue currently affecting Microsoft Azure, which is impacting various services, including those accessed through Azure Front Door—Microsoft's global content delivery network. This outage is affecting a range of services provided by businesses worldwide."

[morninggents]

Originally Posted by VIVA GT

We had problems yesterday with our (cloud based) workshop management software, this is part of the explanation we had from the providers:
"We want to inform you about a global issue currently affecting Microsoft Azure, which is impacting various services, including those accessed through Azure Front Door—Microsoft's global content delivery network. This outage is affecting a range of services provided by businesses worldwide."

Sounds like there's still a place for old fashioned spreadsheets.

[grantp]

Originally Posted by VIVA GT

We had problems yesterday with our (cloud based) workshop management software, this is part of the explanation we had from the providers:
"We want to inform you about a global issue currently affecting Microsoft Azure, which is impacting various services, including those accessed through Azure Front Door—Microsoft's global content delivery network. This outage is affecting a range of services provided by businesses worldwide."

Ah, Azure is a regular point of failure, sometimes only in very limited areas, sometimes rather globally.

Still, at least it's comforting to know that it mostly only affects services accessed through the Front Door.

Personally, I am disinclined to engage with any form of services through the back door.

[Gerard C]

Originally Posted by grantp

Personally, I am disinclined to engage with any form of services through the back door.