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#2702817 6-May-2021 09:27

networkn:

IT companies who register client domains under their own company name (and therefore legally own the domain from the registrars perspective.

For some reason it used to be common for accountants to register domain names for their clients and they would often list themselves as the registrant (and therefore legal owner of the domain name). I don't know why this was common, but I had a few clients that had let their accountants do this and then had trouble getting the records updated and getting themselves listed as the registrant.

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#2702831 6-May-2021 09:57

SirHumphreyAppleby:

alasta:

When someone walking in front of you in a public place exhales a cloud of steam, forcing you to walk through it.

Something small that really annoys me: People calling water vapor steam :)

Also, steam is invisible.

Whatever it is, I'm assuming it's a huge risk as a viral vector.

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#2702839 6-May-2021 10:19

The same risk is going to be there whether you can see it or not. Being able to see it is actually a plus.

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#2702896 6-May-2021 12:58

SirHumphreyAppleby:

Something small that really annoys me: People calling water vapor steam :)

Also, steam is invisible.

I thought water vapour and steam were the same thing - and invisible (i.e steam is just the name for H2O in it's gaseous state). Whereas what most people refer to as "steam" isn't actually pure steam, but rather a combination of water vapour (true steam) and visible aerosol liquid water droplets.

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#2702901 6-May-2021 13:16

Condensing droplets of suspended water vapour keep falling on my head
And just like a bloke whose head is too big for his bed
Nothing seems to fit
Those condensing droplets of suspended water are falling on my head
They keep falling

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#2702917 6-May-2021 14:14

We need to buy some equipment.

We buy two machines per year and the last 10 year supply contract has expired.

Ok let's get suppliers to show use their latest kit so we can see whats in market.

But no.

Can't do this until a sum has been put aside in capex even though we don't know the sum because we haven't seen the current equipment on market.

So....we going to guess a figure to allow us to ask vendors to show us gear we don't know the price of to the decide the kit we want but will have to submit another capex figure because we didn't know the cost originally.

As opposed to letting us look at kits under the understanding that nothing is decided and then apply for funding for gear we professionally think is appropriate.

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#2702919 6-May-2021 14:20

neb: Dunno how small this counts as, but the monkey at Resene who mixed a 4L pot of paint in the wrong shade so that after painting almost the entire deck in it and needing another 500ml or so to finish up few areas we've got a shade of paint that matches no known Resene colour. And short of tearing off a piece of the deck to take down to them to beat them over the head with, no sample that they can colour match with.

Had this happen a few years ago - may have been Guthrie Bowron - chose colour from chart, got paint mixed by young guy in shop, got home, opened tin and colour nothing like on chart. Went back, saw same young guy, got another tin mixed, back home, same issue. Back to store again, saw supervisor who completely lost it with the young guy calling him incompetent, decided he would mix it himself. I made him open the tin in the store and of course same issue. Turned out the recipe was wrong...

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#2702966 6-May-2021 14:26

Handle9:

Rikkitic:

I don't object to ads connected to the product. People can then choose what they want to do about them. But what Huisman has done here is take over Kodi completely! Every time it starts, the ad appears until it is clicked on. This has nothing to do with whether any Huisman app is actually being used. It happens as long as Slyguy is installed at all. This is an unacceptable intrusion. Fortunately, uninstalling all Slyguy apps has fixed it.

Have you contacted him to ask if that's expected behaviour? It could well be something peculiar to your setup, I'm not seeing it on multiple platforms.

Likewise not seeing it on a Mi Box 3 or a SmartVu+

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#2702987 6-May-2021 15:43

I might delve into it further if I really cared that much, but I don't. There are a number of apps that depend on the Slyguy add-on. I am not actually using any of them. I used to but I moved on to other things. A couple of days ago the Electric Kiwi ad started popping over the entire Kodi page and remaining until it was clicked on. This happened every time Kodi was closed and restarted. It only happened on the Shield. I decided to uninstall all of the Slyguy apps and when I did, the problem disappeared. As far as I am concerned, it is fixed and for me the issue is closed.

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#2703009 6-May-2021 16:30

Paul1977:

SirHumphreyAppleby:

Something small that really annoys me: People calling water vapor steam :)

Also, steam is invisible.

I thought water vapour and steam were the same thing - and invisible (i.e steam is just the name for H2O in it's gaseous state). Whereas what most people refer to as "steam" isn't actually pure steam, but rather a combination of water vapour (true steam) and visible aerosol liquid water droplets.

Neither steam nor water vapour are visible (apart from making the sky blue). Steam is water in a gaseous state above boiling point. Water vapour is water in a gaseous state (typically mixed in air) below boiling point. If water vapour and liquid water are in close proximity, they tend towards an equilibrium. Changing the temperature and/or pressure changes the equilibrium point between liquid and vapour. Increase the pressure on air containing water vapour and/or lower the temperature, and some water vapour will condense (creating visible droplets i.e. cloud or fog or "steamy breath"). If a cold surface is in contact with warm moist air, water will condense on the cold surface. Lower the pressure and/or raise the temperature and liquid water will evaporate to water vapour.

Only when water is above the boiling point do you get steam, and fairly soon no liquid. So long as you're above the boiling point aka "saturation" (100C at 1bar, 200C at 5bar) all you have is steam (no liquid, no vapour). If you're below the boiling point you have liquid water and some vapour.

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#2703102 6-May-2021 21:37

That Waka Kotahi can snail mail me an A4 paper reminder that I need to renew my rego, complete with all details required, including a QR code to "Scan and do it now".

Scanning said QR code takes me to a page where I have to enter all my details manually. Surely they could do something with the code that would pre-populate the form?

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#2703110 6-May-2021 23:10

alasta:
When someone walking in front of you in a public place exhales a cloud of steam, forcing you to walk through it.

" " " " " " vents " " " not-steam " " " ".

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#2703138 7-May-2021 07:42

The way “privacy” is becoming an excuse for government departments and companies not to do logical or useful things.

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#2703176 7-May-2021 09:04

Rikkitic:

Condensing droplets of suspended water vapour keep falling on my head
And just like a bloke whose head is too big for his bed
Nothing seems to fit
Those condensing droplets of suspended water are falling on my head
They keep falling

Thanks. Now I have Burt Bacharach stuck in my flamin' head!

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#2703203 7-May-2021 09:33

frankv:

Neither steam nor water vapour are visible (apart from making the sky blue). Steam is water in a gaseous state above boiling point. Water vapour is water in a gaseous state (typically mixed in air) below boiling point. If water vapour and liquid water are in close proximity, they tend towards an equilibrium. Changing the temperature and/or pressure changes the equilibrium point between liquid and vapour. Increase the pressure on air containing water vapour and/or lower the temperature, and some water vapour will condense (creating visible droplets i.e. cloud or fog or "steamy breath"). If a cold surface is in contact with warm moist air, water will condense on the cold surface. Lower the pressure and/or raise the temperature and liquid water will evaporate to water vapour.

Only when water is above the boiling point do you get steam, and fairly soon no liquid. So long as you're above the boiling point aka "saturation" (100C at 1bar, 200C at 5bar) all you have is steam (no liquid, no vapour). If you're below the boiling point you have liquid water and some vapour.

So at @SirHumphreyAppleby and myself were each half right? He's correct that steam and water vapour aren't the same thing, but I'm correct that what people generally refer to as "steam" is actually liquid water droplets (as both steam and water vapour are invisible)?

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