Little things in life that make you smile

[Samba]

NOW you are f**king talking...

[prophet:marginal]

The wet slap of one of them in the face. :lol:

[Samba]

The getting a thorn in one & trying to melt-weld it...

[AnthraxDave]

Started my new job Monday last week and am loving every minute of it so far.
Private Sector is so much different to Public/Voluntary Sector I have done for the last 15+ years.
For example; They tend to actually have a clue what they are meant to be doing!

I was really scared leaving my Youth Work job for this role in Business Analysis, but I guess some skills are transferable?

Not sure whether to go to my old workplace Xmas party or my new workplace Xmas party. Or neither.

[FreeWheeling]

Our works piss ups are always an event, dozen or so ex squaddies on the piss together :lol:

[Samba]

Our works piss ups are always an event, dozen or so ex squaddies on the piss together :lol:

Aka, 'Carnage'...

[Greatest Cockney Rip Off]

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An anonymous poo parcel delivered to victims door anonymously.

Genius!

[Dover KUMB fan]

The getting a thorn in one & trying to melt-weld it...

You must have had hard thorns around your way. Those footballs were virtually indestructable

[DasNutNock]

Contacting Virgin Media to report a fault with my Media Hub router thing (failed ethernet port), fully expecting to spend the next 2 hours explaining to a call-centre cretin that I'd already swapped cables and restarted it, and that putting it into modem mode wouldn't make a f*cking difference etc.

Hung up the phone within 3 minutes of being put through, with a new appliance being delivered on wednesday.

[Hummer_I_mean_Hammer]

Contacting Virgin Media to report a fault with my Media Hub router thing .

Never would have expected someone like you who is IT savy to end that description with thing. :lol:

[sendô]

Virgin are arseholes and if I ever see Richard Branson in the street I'm likely to either launch a flying headbutt at him, or mutter something rude to myself just out of his earshot.

[DasNutNock]

Because they're more than just "routers", they work across layers 1 to 3 of the OSI model (physical, data link, and network layer), and routing takes place at layer 3. I think.

This stuff all makes far more sense at a commercial scale. Anyway, networking's boring b*llocks, for boring people.

[Samba]

Contacting Virgin Media to report a fault with my Media Hub router thing .

Never would have expected someone like you who is IT savy to end that description with thing. :lol:

And he was kindly dumbing it down for people like me!

[Samba]

Because they're more than just "routers", they work across layers 1 to 3 of the OSI model (physical, data link, and network layer), and routing takes place at layer 3. I think.
This stuff all makes far more sense at a commercial scale. Anyway, networking's boring b*llocks, for boring people.

thing was much better. You lost me at layers.

[Clacton-ammer]

My BB router / hub was playing up, so built up courage to speak to someone in India and get ready to say sorry, what was that, sorry, what was that, sorry, what was that but was put through to this Geordie lad instead.

He was brilliant!! Had a laugh about the football, cost of beer down here, he got 30 notes off my monthly bill and sent me the very latest hub/router FOC, he said all my calls now will be directed to UK based operators as well. Best ever call to BT, ever

[Hummer_I_mean_Hammer]

Because they're more than just "routers", .

Turn it off, then back on again. Works a treat.

[Greatest Cockney Rip Off]

Because they're more than just "routers", they work across layers 1 to 3 of the OSI model (physical, data link, and network layer), and routing takes place at layer 3. I think.

I remember we held interviews for second-line support and not one person could explain the Seven Layer OSI Model to a standard that was coherent. Sounds shocking as this really is essential for troubleshooting network problems.

Anyway, networking's boring b*llocks, for boring people.

It's definitley boring but I worked with a network team once who were the biggest bunch of coke-snorting alkys I'd come across in the world of IT (and that's saying something). Good at their jobs but absolute mentalists.

[Hummer_I_mean_Hammer]

^^^ I take it 'networking' doesn't mean in the social sense?

[Greatest Cockney Rip Off]

^^^ I take it 'networking' doesn't mean in the social sense?

Oh this lot alienated more people than they networked in their time, believe me :lol:

[DasNutNock]

I remember we held interviews for second-line support and not one person could explain the Seven Layer OSI Model to a standard that was coherent. Sounds shocking as this really is essential for troubleshooting network problems.

TBH, 1-4's where the action's at.

I usually ask an OSI question when I'm interviewing people, and rarely get a coherent answer. I usually start with the annoyingly open-ended "can you explain tcp/ip?" and letting them ramble on before asking a few specifics. Someone I recently spoke to for a Senior Engineer role told me he "hadn't done any tcp/ip for about 10 years".