Recent content by tharglet

Wouldn't be surprised if it happened - there's plenty of shitty employers out there. As for my experience - I don't smoke or whatever, but I've had the opposite experience... being told I can have a no-smoking smoke break if I want to. Then again I work with computers, so breaks are prolly a...

Lol, couple of years ago I used to work for a company where their ISP *did* have a backup DNS server... only it was in the same data center.... Power went down, DNS died. Rang up the ISP to confirm the DNS was dead, asked them about backup, only to find the backup was in the same center ><...

If it's a first car, I'd definitely go for something second-hand, and not spend too much on it. Don't get something ridiculously cheap - cheap cars tend to be a nightmare in maintenance. If you don't spend a lot, then if something happens to the car, it's no great loss. Good to also get a car...

Also make sure what you're taking apart doesn't have large capacitors (in terms of energy storage) in it - known people to fall foul of that one. Old CRTs were good for that one.

Haha yep, I can second that one. Only damage I did was to the "j" key though. Thought I might have killed a RAM chip... turns out I prolly only nudged it out of the slot (checked out fine).

Yeah, in my line of work (programming) learning to estimate correctly is definitely worth doing. Don't think I've ever got burned because of it, but I'm pretty sure some of the others have. Also bear in mind other people don't know your job, so if it's an hour job, but it's gonna take you a...

If one of the defining qualities of the game is "linear", then it's a bad quality. If I (and I think most other people) call a game "linear", they usually mean "game is quite obviously set on a fixed path with no variation". Games like the original Half-Life were linear for sure, but they...

For me, it's Linux at work, Windows at home. If you use your box mainly for gaming, Linux is probably not going to be too useful for you, but for other tasks it may be a better experience. No harm in experiencing one or more of the many flavours of Linux for yourself - so I'm voting for dual...

Yeah, worth getting the line test done, if you can get through to BT in a reasonable time frame lol.

There are a few things that can cause it - very likely to be a hardware fault along the way. If you ring up BT, they can do a line test. If that comes up as problematic, then chances are there's something for them to fix. Ensure every phone that's plugged into a wall has a microfilter...

Put the correct sleeve on the game, and store the other one for safekeeping? :P

Tastes like plastic... I had a pen in my hand. And it's a chewed-to-oblivion one too. XD

For me, when I read critic reviews, I'm not interested in the overall opinion, but the bits they liked and didn't like and why. If the controls are clunky, chances are I won't enjoy it. If playing the game is just plain fun, then chances are it'll make up for a poop story. Majority of...

I also went into the game, not knowing much about it beforehand - my personal opinion was it started out well, but it was far too much of the same. There's some really nice stuff in there, but the game just felt too long to me.

I found the dungeons fairly variable in quality. Never was a fan of the "let's stick a random puzzle in the middle of this instance for no real appreciable reason" thing either. I mean, I like pipes, but not as part of an MMORPG. Generally the dungeons added after and the starter dungeons were...