The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.

[barakta]

Shoulda come here for a brew instead, we could even have obtained TINS from a shop... Our bog is only a slight disgrace and <S>we</s>I usually clean it before visitors!

[Basil]

Shoulda come here for a brew instead, we could even have obtained TINS from a shop... Our bog is only a slight disgrace and <S>we</s>I usually clean it before visitors!

Thanks. However, parking the BFO van I was driving anywhere near yours wouldn't have been easy.

[Beardy]

Shoulda come here for a brew instead, we could even have obtained TINS from a shop... Our bog is only a slight disgrace and <S>we</s>I usually clean it before visitors!

surely you’re not saying that Kim is a slob? 

[barakta]

Shoulda come here for a brew instead, we could even have obtained TINS from a shop... Our bog is only a slight disgrace and <S>we</s>I usually clean it before visitors!

Thanks. However, parking the BFO van I was driving anywhere near yours wouldn't have been easy.

Students have almost gone, but yeah, makes sense.

[barakta]

Shoulda come here for a brew instead, we could even have obtained TINS from a shop... Our bog is only a slight disgrace and <S>we</s>I usually clean it before visitors!

surely you’re not saying that Kim is a slob? 

Nah, just that cleaning the toilet is *my* job, she hates it.

[Kim]

Shoulda come here for a brew instead, we could even have obtained TINS from a shop... Our bog is only a slight disgrace and <S>we</s>I usually clean it before visitors!

surely you’re not saying that Kim is a slob? 

Nah, just that cleaning the toilet is *my* job, she hates it.

This is true.  Barkata does bogs and occasional jobs involving asthma-inducing chemicals.  I do everything else, particularly washing-up and those jobs involving heavy lifting or power tools (hoovering, triffid killing, etc.)

[T42]

New nail gun has to be pressed against the workpiece before it'll fire. Rats: I wanted to shoot nails across the workshop.

[ElyDave]

Gaffer tape on the base plate 

[Cudzoziemiec]

Presumably an elfin safetea requirement to stop you killing people.

[hellymedic]

Don't forget nails from a gun can be barbed and can't always be removed by a simple pull.

[ian]

Presumably an elfin safetea requirement to stop you killing people.

Surely you just push it to their forehead and zap-thunk. It worked for Riggs in Lethal Weapon.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Yeah, there was some other film where they used a nail gun to fire nails at people long range, like a... gun. Might have been one of the Bonds?

[T42]

Yeah, and The Girl Who Nailed Down A Bloke's Feet.

Gaffer tape... yeah, but the nozzle has to return to pre-firing position otherwise the next shot won't load.  Cunning devils these foreigners.

[ElyDave]

Bah! Foiled again. Back to the drawing board for my plan to take over the world

[T42]

Aye well, you'd need a bloody long air hose.

[Torslanda]

Not necessarily...

[Cudzoziemiec]

"June 2019" is not a good title for a document. It does not tell me or anyone else what the document is about, nor distinguish it from the other "June 2019" documents. 

[Kim]

"June 2019" is not a good title for a document. It does not tell me or anyone else what the document is about, nor distinguish it from the other "June 2019" documents. 

"AAAJune 2019.doc"

[Beardy]

"June 2019" is not a good title for a document. It does not tell me or anyone else what the document is about, nor distinguish it from the other "June 2019" documents. 

"AAAJune 2019.doc"

Given that in this day and age you can call a document almost whatever you like, it’s just bloody laziness not to have an informative title.
I did get lazy with my file structure by the time I retired because between long names and a search function that works there’s no real need for complex nested directory trees.

[Andrij]

Aargh!  If you're going to use a date in a file name, at least make it useful: 2019-06.doc.

[Cudzoziemiec]

AAAJune 2019.doc would be great. If there was something that corresponded to AAA, which as I'm not compiling documents on hilly audaxes, there isn't. When I've sorted out the June 2019s, I'm going to produce "HLMN July 2019", which is meaningless to you but means something to the people who want it. Some of them do seem to even read it.

[Kim]

AAAJune 2019.doc would be great. If there was something that corresponded to AAA, which as I'm not compiling documents on hilly audaxes, there isn't.

Indeed.  The prefix-more-'A's-according-to-importance method beloved of barakta's mum made some sense for a dyslexic's contacts list on a Nokia 3310.  It became infuriating when she was allowed near proper computers.  Filenames of the form AAASheila.doc as far as the explorer window could see.  "Yes, we know it's yours, it's on your computer.  Which one's the essay you want me to proof?  Oh, the one with the most 'A's, of course..."

We did introduce her to sorting by date, but I don't think she really trusted it.  Or any other filesystem that doesn't involve Winnie The Pooh characters as icons.  I suspect she may have a point.


I find it hard to object to months as words in filenames.  What it lacks in ASCIIbetical sort-ability, it makes up for in transpondian unambiguity, so it only irks me about as much as the presence of space characters^[1].  Obviously ISO date (and big-endianness generally) is my preferred approach.


_{[1] I spend enough time at the command line to consider them harmful, but it's much better than 8.3 and there are bigger hills to die on.}

[Cudzoziemiec]

... it only irks me about as much as the presence of space characters^[1]. 

I've got documents on all sorts of things from a local old folks' cafe to theft of stock from UN warehouses in South Sudan, but nothing with Yuri Gagarin or Buck Rogers...

[Mr Larrington]

Spaces in filenames should be Strongly Deprecated.  We tried educating the lusers not to use them in files that were subsequently uploaded to the VMS boxen, but it was a lost cause.  Amazingly, no-one had thought to assemble any SCIENCE to rename them via FTP before trying to transfer them until I got there.

[ian]

It's 2019, filenames can have spaces and be as long as you want. Get with it, old people.