The Noodle Compound V. 2.0

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This test is a bit of a slippery slope. Say you heat someone up too much, then try to cool 'em down again, and you end up going too far, resulting in a frozen person again. A vicious circle could ensue.
 
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Doesn't matter, I'm still giving you credit.

That actually makes me feel quite bad, like an imposter. Not able to come up with anything original etc. :(

That was just a dirty trick to try to get me to like reading. Shame on you.

Kestegs, I'd be not worth my money if I didn't continue to do so. It comes with the job.
If it makes you feel better: I am at my last library job ever - it simply seizes to exist in this world, this job I do - so eventually I'll stop pushing you or anyone else into getting caught reading. But if it is up to me, not for a long long time.
 
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Nah...there will be different sort of librarians. People who are good with fancy stuff and whatnot. Not me then - I'm very good at very fast putting sticky plastic protection foil on books, putting books into the system, sorting, shelving, that sort of thing. It'll seize to be. Pity.
 
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I don't see why that won't continue to be useful.

My kids and wife still go to the library every week or so, so maybe there's still hope.
 
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I don't see why that won't continue to be useful.

My kids and wife still go to the library every week or so, so maybe there's still hope.

It seizes to exist. Libraries are closed down everywhere in villages, leaving just one in the city. Leaving everywhere with an abundance of jobless librarystaff that will be placed in existing libraries or vacant jobs first. We're already talking about lots of jobless library people. I don't want to join the queue to get a job for - as they are these days - 4 hours a week only.

The school I am with - I'm grateful they still see room for a library. But you never know for how long, or how long the school itself will last. Should they chose to dispose of the library, I am on a permanent contract and they'd have to put me up elsewhere.

Given that my 2 library colleagues (who are librarians, I'm the only assistent left) want to push me into the direction of IT (library related on this occassion) I do hope they're not going to put me with IT. That would be terrible for them.
 
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I am at my last library job ever - it simply seizes to exist in this world, this job I do - so eventually I'll stop pushing you or anyone else into getting caught reading. But if it is up to me, not for a long long time.

I'll cross my fingers you'll still get to be a librarian for as long as you wish! And I hope you don't stop pushing people to read, despite not having a library job. You can always push us here on the forums! :D

In fact it's about time I acquired a new book or three from Terry Pratchet! Thanks to you and an ex co-worker, I bought 2 books so far, and loved them. Of course being somewhat of a completionist (if you can call it that), I'm reading them from first to last. ^_^

Is this about global warming again?

Isn't it always about global warming? >_>

Given that my 2 library colleagues (who are librarians, I'm the only assistent left) want to push me into the direction of IT (library related on this occassion) I do hope they're not going to put me with IT. That would be terrible for them.

Hey it'd be an AWESOME opportunity for you, if you put your mind to it that is. You'll have to apply yourself a bit, and be open to learning new stuff, but IT isn't all that difficult on a basic level. The biggest obstacle is (from my experience) people just refusing to learn. They seem to set in their mindset that learning to operate computers on the basic level (IE installing programs, uninstalling programs and basic troubleshooting) is like rocket science. At that point trying to teach them something is nigh on impossible, because they've already given up. But hey even my step-mom who DESPISES computers have learned to use one, even if not well enough for installing programs and stuff without help. But she was hopeless to begin with, and she even had the mindset of learning it being too difficult.

Of course it might not be easy on the IT guys, but if they're half decent people, they'll be reasonable about it. And if you really do try to learn as best you can, you might even surprise them as well as yourself. Who knows, maybe it'll get you to the point where you can install your own games! :jig:

PS: Last I read you had a friend help you with installing games. If you've learned that since, then I apologize for sounding rude. In fact if I did sound rude, I apologize, that wasn't my intent.
 
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On another completely unrelated note: YAY WEBPAGES LOAD QUICKLY AGAIN! :jig: :jig: :jig:

I've had some network issues for a while now, I think I posted about it. At first it looked like ISP was at fault, since I tried some of the basic network troubleshooting, and the signs were pointing in that direction. So after the ISP helped out, the issue went away for a short while, but returned in full force, albeit if not as bad as the first time late last week. So I've been meaning to talk with my ISP again, but never got around to it, and this evening I got a bit fed up with the whole thing. So I started monitoring my network use, set up pings and did some traceroute's, and started killing off every single program I could think of that would eat up bandwidth. The pings and bandwidth usage didn't seem to change at all. So I continued closing processes that could potentially use bandwidth, before I cam across pando media booster. Now keep in mind I've had this one around for a few years now, around 2010 or 2011 IIRC, never had an issue. So I knew what it did, and part of that is using bandwidth. Killed that, and whaddya know, pings went down from 600-1200 to 11-25ish. Task manager went from reporting around 1 Mbps upload to 0. Well that is now uninstalled, but before you guys start spouting PEBCAK and error ID10-T, there actually was an issue with the ISP as well which was sorted out. I mean after that I at least didn't get completely disconnected from the internet. ^_^
 
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I have gotten random decreases (and increases) of bandwidth. If I cannot resolve them myself, they usually get fixed by having the telephony supplier either turn up the gain, or turn it down, at the exchange. This use to happen every couple of months, until I stopped the practice of turning off my router.

I've been told that turning off your router on a copper-wire ADSL connection sometimes triggers the exchange line provider to take the step of turning down the speed of your broadband connection. The rationale seems to be that the exchange registers the fact that your router isn't connected, and attempts to "fix" the "cause" of the disconnection proactively.

That to me sounds a bit like a crock ... and yet, I have had reasonably stable connection speeds for quite some time now.

Of course, I am still suffering from an early 18th Century 2Mbps total connection speed, but that's what i deserve for living in a pissant berg on a pissant rock of an island :nod:
 
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I guess it depends on the provider if turning it off and on again will help or not. It does help sometimes tbh, and I've been asked before by my provider if I've tried to turn it off and on again. I had my provider tune my connection a bit to increase the speeds, and it stayed like that despite several modem restarts and release/renew IP etc. They manually turned it down when I asked a part of the troubleshooting process. Maybe some ISP's have a system turned on that automatically adjusts a persons connection back to default values in case of a disconnect, as increasing the bandwidth by reducing the noise cancellation can cause a very unstable connection, to the point where if your copper line is underneath a road, and an 18-wheeler or some such drives over it, your line could get disconnected due to noise. Or so I've been told.
 
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We haven't lost any of the 4 libraries we have in our town, so that's why I didn't realize how bad out was getting I guess. Hope it all works out.
 
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Sorry kor, I wasn't clear. I mean turning off the router overnight, or for a few days when you are out of town.
Not simply when you do a SOSO (switch off, switch on).
 
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Sorry kor, I wasn't clear. I mean turning off the router overnight, or for a few days when you are out of town.
Not simply when you do a SOSO (switch off, switch on).

Ahhh yes makes more sense now. I've had my router switched off over the weekends on occasions, but I can't recall doing that after they tuned my connection, but you might be on to something there.
 
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Well in a few days I should have a working pc at our house again and probably wont have any problems with my ISP and such, I've never had problems with it.
 
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I'll cross my fingers you'll still get to be a librarian for as long as you wish! And I hope you don't stop pushing people to read, despite not having a library job. You can always push us here on the forums! :D

In fact it's about time I acquired a new book or three from Terry Pratchet! Thanks to you and an ex co-worker, I bought 2 books so far, and loved them. Of course being somewhat of a completionist (if you can call it that), I'm reading them from first to last. ^_^



Isn't it always about global warming? >_>



Hey it'd be an AWESOME opportunity for you, if you put your mind to it that is. You'll have to apply yourself a bit, and be open to learning new stuff, but IT isn't all that difficult on a basic level. The biggest obstacle is (from my experience) people just refusing to learn. They seem to set in their mindset that learning to operate computers on the basic level (IE installing programs, uninstalling programs and basic troubleshooting) is like rocket science. At that point trying to teach them something is nigh on impossible, because they've already given up. But hey even my step-mom who DESPISES computers have learned to use one, even if not well enough for installing programs and stuff without help. But she was hopeless to begin with, and she even had the mindset of learning it being too difficult.

Of course it might not be easy on the IT guys, but if they're half decent people, they'll be reasonable about it. And if you really do try to learn as best you can, you might even surprise them as well as yourself. Who knows, maybe it'll get you to the point where you can install your own games! :jig:

PS: Last I read you had a friend help you with installing games. If you've learned that since, then I apologize for sounding rude. In fact if I did sound rude, I apologize, that wasn't my intent.

It was a schoolfriend who got me onto Pratchett, no colleagues ever read Pratchett. They should though.

And no, I'm still a clutch. I still can't install anything let alone games. With this new version of Word I can't even make Word do what I want anymore. Same with internetbrowsers.
Software more and more does the thinking for you, whilst I like things plain and add my own ideas of how documents should look etc. If anything it's all getting more complicated, today being a particularly depressing day on this subject and I feel pretty useless right now.

No, I'm no use for IT. I'd be an assett to the administration though.
 
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Sorry kor, I wasn't clear. I mean turning off the router overnight, or for a few days when you are out of town.
Not simply when you do a SOSO (switch off, switch on).

What's the point of an acronym if you have to explain it?

Well in a few days I should have a working pc at our house again and probably wont have any problems with my ISP and such, I've never had problems with it.

Yay!

Where is this and would they need librarians in a few years time when my job seizes to exist? ;-)
Colorado! And yes, come on over!
 
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