Happy Spring Bank Holiday Weekend (UK only)
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OriginalGriff wrote:
the local houses are made of two-foot thick "riverstone" which is a major pain to cut, drill or anything else.
Same problem installing a LAN in a Victorian Town Hall. Wall, after wall, after bloody wall. :)
Everybody is elitist to a certain extent; except me - I'm better than that. Micah
Oooh that's fun - was it Listed? (For non-UK persons: "Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest" are protected in the UK by a Statutory Listing scheme[^] The lower the number, the less you can do to it: in the case of Grade 1 Listing, you can't do anything much: even decorating has to use the proper (period) paints and colors, etc. Now imagine trying to flood wire a building under those circumstances!)
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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Oooh that's fun - was it Listed? (For non-UK persons: "Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest" are protected in the UK by a Statutory Listing scheme[^] The lower the number, the less you can do to it: in the case of Grade 1 Listing, you can't do anything much: even decorating has to use the proper (period) paints and colors, etc. Now imagine trying to flood wire a building under those circumstances!)
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
OriginalGriff wrote:
was it Listed?
I never asked, best not to. Do you want this system installed now, or in 5 years time? I've just checked - it's a Grade 2 listed building. :-O :looks skyward: :whistles: Shuffles off stage sideways, then runs for it.
Everybody is elitist to a certain extent; except me - I'm better than that. Micah
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OriginalGriff wrote:
was it Listed?
I never asked, best not to. Do you want this system installed now, or in 5 years time? I've just checked - it's a Grade 2 listed building. :-O :looks skyward: :whistles: Shuffles off stage sideways, then runs for it.
Everybody is elitist to a certain extent; except me - I'm better than that. Micah
:laugh: I had to do much the same in a Grade 2 Listed in London a long time ago: replace the old cable with new flood wired CAT5. The best bits were the boss setting off the fire alarms with his pipe, and later drilling straight through a skirting only to find the mains cable behind it, and his beloved son wrecking two pairs of cable shears to cut a 20 foot length of network co-ax out, only to find it was the armoured fibreoptic cable bringing 400 telephone lines into the building...
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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That's two Wednesdays and one Tuesday. I'm still short of a full house.
Everybody is elitist to a certain extent; except me - I'm better than that. Micah
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:laugh: I had to do much the same in a Grade 2 Listed in London a long time ago: replace the old cable with new flood wired CAT5. The best bits were the boss setting off the fire alarms with his pipe, and later drilling straight through a skirting only to find the mains cable behind it, and his beloved son wrecking two pairs of cable shears to cut a 20 foot length of network co-ax out, only to find it was the armoured fibreoptic cable bringing 400 telephone lines into the building...
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
OriginalGriff wrote:
armoured fibreoptic cable bringing 400 telephone lines into the building...
:doh: Not one of the company's more profitable contracts? :-D (I love these tales - my cock-ups pale into insignificance.)
Everybody is elitist to a certain extent; except me - I'm better than that. Micah
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OriginalGriff wrote:
armoured fibreoptic cable bringing 400 telephone lines into the building...
:doh: Not one of the company's more profitable contracts? :-D (I love these tales - my cock-ups pale into insignificance.)
Everybody is elitist to a certain extent; except me - I'm better than that. Micah
I'll give them this: Mercury noticed before it was reported, and had a team there to fix it in less than half an hour. On a Saturday... Impressive level of service!
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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I'll give them this: Mercury noticed before it was reported, and had a team there to fix it in less than half an hour. On a Saturday... Impressive level of service!
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
Ah. But we had a BT engineer sitting atop a step-ladder with his ear-phones connected to the line, listening to the bits streaming by, telling us that he could not detect any fault. Now that's service.
Everybody is elitist to a certain extent; except me - I'm better than that. Micah
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Remember, don't put the wheelie-bin out on Monday!
Everybody is elitist to a certain extent; except me - I'm better than that. Micah
ict558 wrote:
Remember, don't put the wheelie-bin out on Monday!
You mean I'll have to stick her in the boot and push the car into the lake again? Damn. I was getting to like that car.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
