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My old boss does not want to see me anymore after I quit, so I have a few weeka of paid free time. And what do I do with so much time? Build a helicopter, of course. It's a Vietnam Huey this time. I have already put together and adjusted the mechanical parts, tried them in a hovering flight behind the house and now I'm working on the fuselage.
I will need to print my own decals after the painting is done, including uncounted texts, labels and wornings which were airbrushed with block stencil letters onto the original. I have a diagram showing the position of those details on the aircraft, but there are many obvious errors. For example they wrote 'VIATION FUEL' instead of 'AVIATION FUEL'.
Now I have one which I don't understand, here is the text:
A. STARTER GENERATOR OIL DRAIN
B. OIL TANK VENT
C. FUEL FILTER DRAIN
D. ENGINE FUEL DRAIN
E. OIL TANK - TRANS OIL &
FILTER SCUPPER DRAIN
F. FUEL CELL VENT
G. OIL COOLER DRAIN
H. ENG. FUEL DICK DRAIN
J. TAIL PIPE DRAIN
It's H. that gives me something to think. Is that a joke? An error? Or does it really make some sense which escapes me?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Nice find! so it could be
H. FUEL DRAIN DRAIN TAP
Life is too shor
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Man-points awarded for using 'clbuttic !
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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Do the phrases "Magic Fingers," or, "Happy Landing" appear anywhere on the box ?
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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Might one suggest DECK?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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It's a pun. A google of "engine fuel dick drain" led me to a post about a "drain c**k." See for yourself[^]
[edit]hahaha - CP word filter. That's a legitimate device. I'm sure you can figure out the other 3 letters. [/edit]
Marc
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Perhaps "wick drain" ... though quite what one of those would be doing on a helo is beyond me
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$4000 to $7000 for a TV aerial and a few wires? On yer bike, son!!!! I'll stick to the one I picked up for a tenner in 1975!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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For real. 
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This is a very interesting article about how email came about and why it is not a great messaging system for the Enterprise.
A Modest Proposal: Eliminate Email[^]
HBR writes:
A consequence of this workflow is that an organization’s tasks become entangled in a complicated network of dependencies with inbox-enslaved individuals sited at each node. The only way to keep productive energy flowing through this network is for everyone to continually check, send, and reply to the multitude of messages flowing past—all in an attempt to drive tasks, in an ad hoc manner, toward completion.
If you step away from your human network router duties, the whole apparatus can grind into deadlock.
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raddevus wrote: and why it is not a great messaging system for the Enterprise.
Yeah, those shirt communicators are so much more efficient. Not to mention being able to just beam somewhere!
Marc
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Ah, someone entrenched in "old school". 
I'm 100% joking. I just couldn't hold back.
Honestly though, I had the same reaction to the title of the article and then I read it.
Very interesting about workflow and creativity and focus, etc.
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Yes! My team currently sends all mails to everyone.
I get dozens of emails daily for projects I've never even been part of 
Our manager (and other team members) find this 'handy' as they keep 'up to date' on all projects 
Currently I'm only checking emails that are addressed directly at me (and not team@company.com or project.support@company.com).
Heck I don't even want to receive all emails on the project I AM working on!
I get emails about a customer wanting a coworker to change some colors, some texts, or some buttons... Good luck coworker, please don't bother me with such trivialities! If you have questions you know where to find me!
Such emails are even worse when they're for a project I'm not even working on (or even know nothing about)...
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Great reply.
I agree with you 100%. Lots of noise generated by all the email and it's a huge waste of time to sort out what is important to you and what isn't.
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Yes, an interesting read, though I do wonder what evidence he (she?) based the following assertion on:Quote: Humans are not wired to exist in a constant state of divided attention
It's a somewhat meaningless statement - you may as well say humans are not wired to sit in an office all day either - but anyway... try telling that to your average mum while she's doing the housework while keeping an eye or ear out for little Johnny in his playpen, and at the same time compiling in her head what she needs to buy from the shops that afternoon in order to make dinner for everyone, and making a mental note to remind hubby that his in-laws are coming to stay at the w/e so he must get the shower-rail in the bathroom fixed before then...
(Yeah yeah I know - in today's enlightened world men are just as... oh, never mind!)
Seems to me that humans are quite capable of dividing their attention and, more than that, this has been an essential survival tool - we would never have survived otherwise. But still, while I don't want to dismiss all the article says just on this (and I may be wrong in arguing it anyway), a part of me also thinks he's pissing into the wind. The ability to communicate instantly with people is not going away anytime soon, methinks. Those of us that can't function in such a world may well find ourselves left behind by those that can. That's simple evolutionary theory: adapt to your environment, or suffer.
I'm aware that I've quietly ignored the word "constant" in the quote, but I rather think that was a lazy addition to the sentence anyway. No-one has their attention constantly divided - what is constant is the potential for something to come along at any time - an email, in this case and, as I've said, we've always had to be able to cope with that. But, as individuals, we do not have to check our email or Facebook or Twitter accounts every minute, and all he's arguing for is a work environment that formalizes when we do and when we don't. Which is fair enough, I guess. The proof of the pudding will be in the eating - whether productivity and work-satisfaction goes up or not.
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Edit: This post was a false alarm of sorts. After booting into safe mode and checking the event log, the system reported a disk error in a paging operation. Maybe the chkdsk fixed the problem(s), but it has been stable now for a few hours, enough for me to do what I needed to do initially...rebuild a couple of installers. A good end to the week!  I hope yours ended nicely as well!
You may disregard the rest of this message...but I leave for your entertainment since weekends are pretty slow here.
It's within reason to have multiple new systems such as Win10, failing on different systems at the same time (more technically, within an hour), but how about two 7 yo systems running a 16 yo OS? The only other commonality besides the OS is that they coexist on the same HDD which I just checked for errors to find none. The systems don't blue screen or crash, they both just become almost completely unresponsive after just a few minutes. A couple of months ago, they were both fine. What are the odds? (rhetorical)
I might think virus, but these two systems have never been used for web browsing. I'll try a few things before I give up on saving them. At least all of the data is still intact...it just means that I have to rebuild a few older InstallShield projects from scratch. 
Now, before I start thinking conspiracy, I thought I'd see if anybody else has experienced problems recently with Win2k. From recent posts, I know there are a few out there. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
modified 19-Feb-16 19:10pm.
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kmoorevs wrote: The only other commonality besides the OS is that they coexist on the same HDD...
Do they share the same motherboard, RAM, GPU, peripherals, etc...?
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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lol I was also wondering that. Is there some sort of IDE Y-cable out there?
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