Inkjet printers are a rip off as well as being useless. Get a laser printer. More expensive up front and the cartridges cost more but works out cheaper pretty soon as well as being a good deal less inconvenient as you don't have to replace the things every ten minutes. I bought one a year ago and still haven't changed the starter cartridges it came with. They also don't get jammed up, bleed all over the place or go offline for no reason all the time; oh and the printing doesn't smudge or run on the page. HP and Brother seem to make the best ones or I suppose Canon.

Didn’t know you could do that! That’s easier than forum jump.

There should really be a BBS training school when first joining.

There’s a New Posts tab?

Oh wow, there’s a New Posts tab. Never noticed that before.

You can just click on the BBS Eagle logo to get there.

That’s what i thought he meant. :D

Realise now Hedgehog was talking about the bit just below the Eagle logo.

I’m sticking with the logo.

Are your lives THAT busy that you really need to shave a millisecond off of your bowsing?

Bowsing


(noun)- When a very ugly and large man, finds himself having sex with an attractive girl, through means which he has taken advantage of.

Agreed. New Trolly is a pale imitation.

Buy an Epson and then use 3rd party cartridges.

They usually cost about £13 for twelve cartridges delivered.

Nor me. :D

Ha this is what I do as well. I recon website navigation is a generational thing. I now spend half my time looking for stupid dots or whatever whilst my son berates me and say “just click there and do that” :(

This reminds me each time someone says the homepage is broken and I’m all “what homepage” and I never really ever bother to find out. I think Eddie eventually got bored of my ignorance on this and showed me. I was amazed (and then never used it again).

There's a homepage ?!

I’ve been on this site 12 years now. Those milliseconds add up! Who knows what I could’ve achieved had I known about the logo click.

Btw for the record....I’ve been using the new posts tag for about 2 years now so glad I’m not the technically dumbest round here.

fruit that takes 3 weeks to ripen. Then when it does, you have a 25 second window to eat it before it goes mushy.

Noob.

Yep, or I saved my self millisecond by not typing that "r".

Blimey.

Double blimey.

They were too busy reading PMs to notice.

This kills me everyday. It’s not hard, I just want to research them, follow them home then drown their pets, unless they keep fish then I will go to Plan B. Currently there is no plan b but confident when needed something will come up

There would seem to be a serious lack of organisation here. Bookmarks toolbar permanently open and job's a good'n!

(And yes, I know that doesn't work for devices...)

https://i.ibb.co/jZmJBNK/BBS.jpg

Also, you can add me to the 'Didn't realise that there was a New Posts tab' list. :)

I like Tenable, but by Christ every time Warwick says "You are terrible at Tenable" the audience shriek with canned laughter.

Except I read the BBS in the vBulletin 3 Style format (I personally don't like the red & blue classic style... maybe left over from reading the BBS at work). The Eagle logo is not visible.

Edit... although I just tried clicking on the vBulletin logo at the top and that takes you to the forums page... live and learn!

OK... I'll bite. How do you get the Bookmarks to show up on your page?

I just go back to the forums page and refresh. Latest five or six threads with new posts across all forums appear there.

No drama.

Actually it is easier than that. Just click forums at the top middle of the page.

I like your style, sir.

I think dynamite may be a useful tool against fish (and most other household pets).

In Firefox on the PC it's Ctrl+B (at the same time). I'm afraid I'm not sure about the other browsers Hedge.

Oh I see what you did (I think). You must have Bookmarked the different forums.

A bit of a sledge hammer to crack a nut, but if it works for you.... :p

Yep. I am a bookmark fiend. I have over 850 of them! :supergrin:

Which is why forum jump is so easy. I've only ever used the logo when the forum jump is taken down when the BBS is overloaded.

I'm beginning to see its use. Mainly as it is closer to the last post at the bottom of the page, than having to scroll all the way back to the top for the other methods.

I guess depending how far down the page the last post is, this is a considerable advantage... now what will I do with all these milliseconds I'm going to save?

Then again I just discovered Control Up Arrow takes you to the top of the page instantly... talk about teaching an old dog new tricks!

All this after spending all yesterday teaching myself to use a new CAD software I bought.

Bookmarks, me.

That's why I've always used it. Seemed a pain having to continually go back to the top of the page.

Oooh, which one? How are you finding it? I've been trying to learn AutoCAD Architecture recently and it's not exactly easy...

Punch! ViaCAD 2d

Amazon Link

Amazingly it only cost me $2.94... I'm still waiting for the catch. If you want the modelling (3D) version it's about $70 (or £ equivilent). I suspect nobody wants the 2D version anymore so they are basically giving it away as a bait and switch... hoping you will upgrade to 3D later.

I have used AutoCAD Lite quite a bit through work and another CAD software prior to that which was actually more powerful. My rogue copy of AutoCAD I had would not load to my new computer I bought about 4 or 5 years back so had not used it recently.

This ViaCAD software is very similar, and uses many of the same Control+letter shortcuts. It also opens my old drawing created in AutoCAD and I can work on them which is very useful.

It's taking me a while to figure it out, but yesterday I did a full on fictitious engineering drawing with all the bells and whistles using layers, pen colours and weight, dimensions and text etc..

It has a nearly 500 page .pdf manual, and 6 or 7 training videos that are in the drop down under the Help tab.

It actually has a whole Architecture mode you can use. I've not played with that yet, but did a quick look and appears like it would do a good job. I'll look a little deeper when I get a chance.

I'm pretty happy with it so far, and would have been if I had paid the $70 for it. I think I preferred AutoCAD as it was less complicated. Like many software packages they may have loaded too many features into it, which can make it over whelming, but for under $3.00 I'm amazingly pleased with it.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/news....scues-12038242

Staycationers putting their lives at risk in a 'tidal wave' of avoidable mountain rescues.


Mrs Bubbs always says whenever one of these stories used to come up on the news, her dad would shout out, ‘Leave them up there!’

Those rescued due being under prepared should bear the cost of their rescue. Who goes onto a mountain with a phone as a navigation aid? The satnav on the phone will not tell you that you are about to walk off a cliff. The contour lines on a paper map will. Maps never fail, phones run out of power. Maps and compass reliable. Phones not.

People banging on about RLC, how "he was never replaced" etc. He was only here for 20-odd games a couple of years ago, get over it.

People banging on about "Expected Goals" and other such useless information. they're human beings, they mis-kick balls occasionally, it's not a feckin' science. Paralysis by analysis.

Men wearing shorts to the office.

Drop me out.

Not in my office they wouldn't.

Nikon p1000 users who are obsessed with taking photo's of the moon and bombarding the forums with them. It's zoom takes excellent long range wildlife shots too ya know .

Saw some bell on the way to the station this morning with a brief case and pink shorts. No wonder the economy is finished.

(and no, it wasn't Richard)

Saying "My Friend" can now be entered onto the list of over-used conversational drop-ins. It's literally the new literally.

Dear Prince Phillip

"Bud" or "Buddy" is now used more often in this modern day.Black taxi drivers used to say "Guvnor" to their passengers but I don't know if this is still used by them as a form of address.Americans say "Sir" which sounds far more respectful.

Pink shorts. I bet he was wearing those god awful suede loafers and no socks. And had has collar turned up on his polo?
C U N T Z

I haven't put on a pair of long trousers since May.

Don't tease me. :love:

Poor WCB hasn't taken lockdown too well.

And condescending...

What did the white taxi drivers used to say?

As an aside, one time returning to London I got a red double decker bus from Heathrow to Victoria Station. When I got on the driver said to me, "That'll be 5 quid Gov"... Made me smile as I new I was home!

:p

I've been noticing recently quite a few young men (well in their 20/30's) wearing really short shorts as in 80's style.

I hope this is not a "thing" again.

I never stopped.

Yes - I find it makes for more even bronzing. Of course, you have to have the buns for it.

Theresa? Crikey!

Probably Teresa.

EFA.

And tank tops so I here.

Having to fart, almost as soon as I dry off after a shower

Talking of printers (which we were a day or so ago), mine took a dump today... sounds like someone threw a spanner into all the gears. Only getting half of the print printing and some colours not printing at all. Tried all I can think of to fix it, but think a new one is on the cards.

Most annoying thing is I just replenished most of the ink cartridges (which cost more than a new printer) will be going in the recycle dump with the printer.

As an aside, I just looked on-line and all the ones I'm interested in are sold out... must be another side effect of working from home/lockdown.

Originally Posted by Hedgehog View Post
I've been noticing recently quite a few young men (well in their 20/30's) wearing really short shorts as in 80's style.

I hope this is not a "thing" again.


Yes we noticed:frown::frown:

Garden hose spray guns. The hateful b@stards only last 12 months max for me, I always resent splashing out (boom boom) on a new one.

Same here, plus they seem to corrode themselves onto the hose pipe fitting, and the only way to get them off if with a hack saw carefully trying not to damage the hose fitting.

Maybe it's just me!

The BBS (and other sites) in MS Edge. That horrible out of focus scrolling bleed.

When the Internet goes down at home for no apparent reason, and the havoc it causes...

Does everyone look at you when that happens as if you did something or re the only one that can sort it out? That’s annoying......

The imminent onslaught of things threads that close season usually brings.

My wife was on me as soon as she woke up panicking because CNN and the weather App wouldn't open on her phone.

Had me crawling around under the desk trying to re-boot the router (which actually got it working again).

But yes, it was something I had done apparently that caused the issue.... :wallbash:

I find that breathing normally explains it. That and proximity. Too much breathing and proximity.

average speed cameras set to 50mph on what was and should be a 70mph road

MS edge. Shocking browser

Went to the store and picked up a new printer. It was just about the only one available at their warehouse. All the rest completely sold out with no restock date.

Ironically it is basically the same one I've had other than a new model number and a slightly different touch screen. The good news is it takes the same ink cartridges as my old one, so pulled them out prior to dumping as they were all pretty full.

It bit more than I wanted to pay, but hey... beggars can't be choosers.

I spent about 4 hours playing with the Architecture mode. I found it a bit hoaky really. Not as intuitive as the engineering mode.

Very basic, and I'm sure would work if you were just doing floor plans. Has a very limited selection of tools from what I could tell... basically just walls, door and windows. No toilets, bath tubs etc. templates.

Again, for under $3.00 what do you expect!

Doing an acoustic gig only spoilt by some slatternly fish wife talking so loudly next us it was distracting...and then slapping a.pair of headphones on her fat ******* child because "she doesnt like the music"...I'm amazed she can here it over you gobbing off about how your husbands a lazy **** and you have to do everything.

Cheer up, it's only rock n roll. ;)

One of the most bizarre gigs I did (and there were many), was at a club in Valencia, where there were scantily clad lovelies on trapeze swinging over the stage. Quite put me off my stroke..

Idiots not wearing masks

One young maskless woman in Camden said she believed it was her human right not to wear a mask.

“I’ve seen a lot of animosity for people like me who aren’t wearing masks,” she said. “But as long as we respect each other’s space I think it is OK not to wear a mask. I have a strong belief in God and I believe that the virus won’t touch me or if it does I won’t be badly affected.”

I don’t often wish ill on anyone but some deserve it

I'm 100% a mask wearer, and despise people who do not, or will not, wear one in public, but.... I have to respect their freedom to not wear one.

I do believe in Darwinism though, and I am beginning to see people here in the US that had this "no mask" belief get sick. Also more and more people actually wearing masks... it's a slow evolution, but it's getting there.

As I've alluded to before, it's like smoking, seat belts, helmets etc., it took years to implement changes in people's thinking... I put wearing a mask in the same category, and people will not buy into it in such a short time.

I have "Peter Crouch" legs, so short shorts is not a good look! :eek:

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Why can they not be specific about the numbers that are stopping me looking at my DD arrangements? :mad:

Is someone going to bite so I can say whoosh?

Selfish bitch

It’s not quite the same though is it. Wearing a mask isn’t to protect you, it’s to protect others.

Not wearing a mask says you don’t give a shit about others.

Hozelock plastic shit. Ours don't last long either. And the sprinklers.

Can't she put her own phone onto roaming to check her weather app?

Going up to 60 mph soon i heard this week. For roadworks.

Use descaled to clear your sprinkler.

I dont mind 50mph in roadworks you understand that as its safty of the roadworkers and alao safer for those idoits who crash in roadworks. I mean the roads that are main dual carriageways that have been 70mph speed limits for years, have below average accidents per year but now are all covered with 50mph average speed cammeras.

I thought it was just me.

Twice in a few weeks one of their things has broken on me. The first one took the socket on the hose reel with it and I had to bin the whole hose. Now I've got a snapped off Hozelock adapter stuck to a tap with a rusty screw and I'm going to have to use level 5 spells to get it off.

''So if you’re dissatisfied with your phone, you can return it in an unused
condition within 14 days from receipt'' How are you supposed to know if you are dissatisfied if you haven't used it!!!!!

This still bugs me. People who say ‘underestimate’ when they mean ‘overestimate’.

"You cannot underestimate the work that's required to get the ground at Aigburth up to speed," chief executive Daniel Gidney told BBC Radio Lancashire.

You’ve just said the exact opposite of what you meant, mate. And you’re the Chief Executive.

Either that or he's used "cannot" when he meant "should not".

Agreed. It’s got to a point where I’m now being an absolute, pedantic arse by correcting people who say this in meetings.

Similar women in The USA are being referrd to as 'Karens' I understand.

Although the 'Karens' are supposedly white, middle class racist women who have a tendancy to phone the police if a black person appears in their neighbourhood.

They like to confront protesters, make a big point about the freedom to not wear masks etc..

And they don't like being called 'Karen' in much the same way as gammoners don't like that term.

Have a read..

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-53588201

There is an hilarious tweet where some virtue signaller protests to a tweeter for using the term 'Karen' when he is actually replying to someone called Karen.

Thank you again, Hedge. What would be your considered opinion, mate, persevere with AutoCAD?

What sort of shitty server do they have that crashes with so few users?

Yep and I didn’t realise that one of the reasons you get roadworks with no one working is to get people used to it THEN put the workers out as it is much safer. Thanks Mr speed awareness course

... or look out of the window?

The b'stards still owe me for 11 months of my old cancelled licence from my previous address. 4 months ago.

Yes... well not on her own - I had to tell her to turn Wi-Fi off so that the cellular took over and she could open the Apps.

She has never quite got her head around the concept that our wi-fi doesn't extent beyond 20 feet from the house, or the cellular works in our house.

But to be fair, it used to confuse me when this all started.

I've only ever used AutoCAD Lite, which I don't recall having an Architecture mode. If you have the full blow AutoCAD I would preserve with teaching yourself that.

If you are starting from scratch this viaCAD for the price might be an option, but bottom line I would stick with AutoCAD.