Delay due to a needed software update
Aug 6, 2019, 12:19 pm
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The OP is due to arrive in BOS in just over 2 hours.
I hope the side topics are cleared by then.
If OPs flight is 3 hours late, then I’m sure they would appreciate constructive messages on EC261.
Good Evening to all
Last edited by BAEC; Aug 6, 2019 at 12:25 pm
Aug 6, 2019, 12:20 pm
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Aug 6, 2019, 12:25 pm
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Yes, we are surely off topic, but the OP is (we hope) airborne and on the way to their destination, even if unfortunately delayed. I'm sure a number of people will be willing and ready to assist the OP with data when they land, or even inflight if they are wifi enabled. Until then, perhaps you might be able to ignore the reminiscing of us old farts and fartesses.
Or, if not, hit the triangle, that's what it's there for.
Aug 6, 2019, 12:25 pm
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I fear to respond, in the current climate, but ... Typing Pool.
More typos than a BAFT poster at midnight on Friday, requiring work to be sent back and forth a few times for corrections.
I subsequently bought my own electric typewriter, with correction facility, to obviate delays.
More typos than a BAFT poster at midnight on Friday, requiring work to be sent back and forth a few times for corrections.
I subsequently bought my own electric typewriter, with correction facility, to obviate delays.
Aug 6, 2019, 12:25 pm
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Aug 6, 2019, 12:28 pm
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I note you added to the unnecessary posts by making a comment it was for an EU261 update for a pop up in post 20!
They don't have to read the whole thread. This happens a lot on FT where the topic diverts once an answer has been given.
Aug 6, 2019, 12:28 pm
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As a relative newbie, for me, one of the best things about BAFT is the astonishing breadth of experience and knowledge amongst the posters. It makes me both question my views and my recollections of a given period, and simultaneously look back (mostly) fondly.
Yes, we are surely off topic, but the OP is (we hope) airborne and on the way to their destination, even if unfortunately delayed. I'm sure a number of people will be willing and ready to assist the OP with data when they land, or even inflight if they are wifi enabled. Until then, perhaps you might be able to ignore the reminiscing of us old farts and fartesses.
Or, if not, hit the triangle, that's what it's there for.
Yes, we are surely off topic, but the OP is (we hope) airborne and on the way to their destination, even if unfortunately delayed. I'm sure a number of people will be willing and ready to assist the OP with data when they land, or even inflight if they are wifi enabled. Until then, perhaps you might be able to ignore the reminiscing of us old farts and fartesses.
Or, if not, hit the triangle, that's what it's there for.
Aug 6, 2019, 12:31 pm
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Aug 6, 2019, 12:34 pm
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However, as you say, you've reported it, so the mods will make their decision, and I'll respect that decision whatever it may be.
Aug 6, 2019, 12:38 pm
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My abiding memory of BBC Micros at school was my lab partner hacking the speech synthesiser that was the Comp Sci teacher's pride and joy, and getting it to tell said teacher to "$^%& OFF Mr XXX" repeatedly on endless loop and then locking it up somehow so it took him the best part of the lesson to get it to stop (somehow he struggled on rather than just pulling the plug on it).
Ahhhh - happy times. Don't know what ever happened to the teacher. My erstwhile lab partner has a fairly high profile and responsible job these days so go figure.....
Ahhhh - happy times. Don't know what ever happened to the teacher. My erstwhile lab partner has a fairly high profile and responsible job these days so go figure.....
He wrote a program to play jazz tunes through the speakers of the BBC Model B, and then used various featues of the networking feature ("ECONET") to force all machines in the room (about 30 of them) to play jazz, synchronised together. Attempts to stop one machine would simply cause it to be re-infested if it restarted, so eventually all machines had to be turned off at the same time. A very early instance of self-propagating software, and the cross-network synchronisation was particularly neat.
I believe he went on to have a sequence of successful programming and IT security jobs.
(I could describe the whole implementation in far more detail, but that's a bit off topic for a flying forum
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Aug 6, 2019, 1:26 pm
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