• (cs) in reply to DeLos
    DeLos:

    We need that software CSI and 24 uses. Then we could enhance this to complete clarity... Maybe we need to use a VB interface ...

    On a wooden table.

  • Franz Kafka (unregistered) in reply to greenup
    greenup:
    Alex Papadimoulis:
    John:
    My own amaturish CSI style zoom-in;

    ...

    Psshh, I see someone needs a better zoom algorithm. ...

    To my eyes, I had thought it looked like minutes, but still, I call cheating! I tried a variety of resample algorithms on the "original" posted to this article, before actually looking at the pixels... there is no way to get this: [image] from this: [image]

    too much information has been lost.

    Alex just has the original image and is engaging in some snark.

    WHat?:
    In similar vain.

    You know whats cheaper than screwing the servers into racks? Using entire 1u's as though they were shelves.

    http://i38.tinypic.com/op3h8x.jpg

    Do you mean not screwing servers into racks?

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to Franz Kafka
    Franz Kafka:
    greenup:
    Alex Papadimoulis:
    John:
    My own amaturish CSI style zoom-in;

    ...

    Psshh, I see someone needs a better zoom algorithm. ...

    To my eyes, I had thought it looked like minutes, but still, I call cheating! I tried a variety of resample algorithms on the "original" posted to this article, before actually looking at the pixels... there is no way to get this: [image] from this: [image]

    too much information has been lost.

    Alex just has the original image and is engaging in some snark.

    No! I want to believe that Alex has the super secret CIA, FBI, CSI infinite image enhancing software. Come on Alex, use the spectral analyzer function and tell us where the paper came from (to the exact tree in the exact forest). You could probably lift some finger prints and look them up on the "everybody in the world" database and get there last known address and drivers license photo.

  • Morasique (unregistered) in reply to Alex Papadimoulis
    Alex Papadimoulis:
    John:
    My own amaturish CSI style zoom-in; [image]

    Psshh, I see someone needs a better zoom algorithm.

    [image]

    Both your algorithms suck:

    [image]
  • Izkata (unregistered)

    My laptop was running off of a similar setup for 4 or 5 months earlier this year!

  • (cs) in reply to mplscodedev

    Well. No. Contestants get Carol there to pick out a vowel or consonent until all 9 spots are filled. They then have 30 seconds to find the LONGEST word, not as many as possible. There is no system to automatically bring up letters, and if there was it would probably have a swear filter built in. This combination clearly never happened.

    Why anyone felt the need to add a caption to a silly photoshopped image is beyond me.

  • Deckard (unregistered) in reply to WhiskeyJack
    WhiskeyJack:
    John:
    My own amaturish CSI style zoom-in;

    [image]

    Enhance that section over there!

    And let's turn the image around so we can see what was written on the other side of the paper. There might be a clue...

    Give me a hard copy right there.

  • (cs)

    So taking the matrices off air, takes the station off air too!

  • Vic Tim (unregistered) in reply to SomeCoder
    SomeCoder:
    BlueNovember:
    DeLos:
    We need that software CSI and 24 uses. Then we could enhance this to complete clarity... Maybe we need to use a VB interface ...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni_rAamVP2s "I'll create a GUI interface using visual basic and see if I can track an IP address" Fail on so many levels. A GUI interface. /resign

    Dear god... I hadn't seen that one before. Could they have failed any harder?

    Indeed, I never want to see anything like that again unless it's ATHF or some satire.

  • silent d (unregistered) in reply to Vic Tim
    Vic Tim:
    SomeCoder:
    BlueNovember:
    DeLos:
    We need that software CSI and 24 uses. Then we could enhance this to complete clarity... Maybe we need to use a VB interface ...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni_rAamVP2s "I'll create a GUI interface using visual basic and see if I can track an IP address" Fail on so many levels. A GUI interface. /resign

    Dear god... I hadn't seen that one before. Could they have failed any harder?

    Indeed, I never want to see anything like that again unless it's ATHF or some satire.

    I think the screenwriter just paged through a copy of VB for Dummies and picked out a couple terms that s/he thought sounded like cool tech jargon.

  • (cs) in reply to mallard

    <snip> UK Countdown pic <snip>

    Would this picture be cause for a nonverbal assault lawsuilt? (As opposed to Christian Bale's verbal assault case..)

  • whicker (unregistered) in reply to diaphanein
    diaphanein:
    I can't believe no one thinks of the EM interference an AC fan such as this causes and the effect is has on electronics when in such proximity.

    When I lived in the dorms all those years ago, we didn't have air conditioning, so I used to keep a much smaller fan than that about a few feet from my desktop. That is until I realized the wavy lines I was seeing on my monitor were only there when the fan was off. I did have some data corruption on my HD, as well. You live, you learn, you place the fan farther away.

    completely irrelevant. The wavy lines are because magnets are being used to direct an electron beam. And hey, the fan's motor also works with the principle of magnetism. A hard drive corruption is just coincidental, it just happens.

    Anyway, I just had a vision of how this would work in my workplace:

    1. So if you were there, you'd move the fan out and away from the rack, so it was incidentally visible from the hallway.

    2. Then some person would walk by and remove the sign from the fan and take it to her supervisor because the tone of the note was unprofessional.

    3. The supervisor would toss it into the trash without reading it.

    4. Soon thereafter, somebody else would come in and complain about "wasting electricity" and shut off the fan.

    5. Then the equipment would stop working. Then the tech would need a special trip to arrive to fix it.

    6. The tech would get asked why it didn't work. Overheating would be the answer, and then would be laughed at for not doing something so simple as pointing the fan already in the room at it.

    7. The person who typed up the note would get talked to, regarding a complaint about posting non-approved fliers in the hallway.

  • TInkerghost (unregistered) in reply to SomeCoder
    SomeCoder:
    BlueNovember:
    DeLos:
    We need that software CSI and 24 uses. Then we could enhance this to complete clarity... Maybe we need to use a VB interface ...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni_rAamVP2s "I'll create a GUI interface using visual basic and see if I can track an IP address" Fail on so many levels. A GUI interface. /resign

    Dear god... I hadn't seen that one before. Could they have failed any harder?

    I believe CSI Miami once used an IP address with a 1024 in it - does that count?

  • Stephan Rose (unregistered) in reply to TInkerghost
    TInkerghost:
    SomeCoder:
    BlueNovember:
    DeLos:
    We need that software CSI and 24 uses. Then we could enhance this to complete clarity... Maybe we need to use a VB interface ...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni_rAamVP2s "I'll create a GUI interface using visual basic and see if I can track an IP address" Fail on so many levels. A GUI interface. /resign

    Dear god... I hadn't seen that one before. Could they have failed any harder?

    I believe CSI Miami once used an IP address with a 1024 in it - does that count?

    Well how do you expect them to catch criminals with 8-bit bytes? They gotta use those new state of the art 10-bit bytes...

  • TexDex (unregistered) in reply to Stephan Rose
    Stephan Rose:
    TInkerghost:
    SomeCoder:
    BlueNovember:
    DeLos:
    We need that software CSI and 24 uses. Then we could enhance this to complete clarity... Maybe we need to use a VB interface ...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni_rAamVP2s "I'll create a GUI interface using visual basic and see if I can track an IP address" Fail on so many levels. A GUI interface. /resign

    Dear god... I hadn't seen that one before. Could they have failed any harder?

    I believe CSI Miami once used an IP address with a 1024 in it - does that count?

    Well how do you expect them to catch criminals with 8-bit bytes? They gotta use those new state of the art 10-bit bytes...

    I know I've seen one with an IP address that had a number over 300 in it. In all fairness they might have been trying to make it fake, just like all the phone numbers they say begin in 555, so nobody would get attacked, but if that's the case they should have included the IP address of the CBS website or something.

  • Alfred (unregistered) in reply to Stephan Rose
    Stephan Rose:
    TInkerghost:
    SomeCoder:
    BlueNovember:
    DeLos:
    We need that software CSI and 24 uses. Then we could enhance this to complete clarity... Maybe we need to use a VB interface ...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni_rAamVP2s "I'll create a GUI interface using visual basic and see if I can track an IP address" Fail on so many levels. A GUI interface. /resign

    Dear god... I hadn't seen that one before. Could they have failed any harder?

    I believe CSI Miami once used an IP address with a 1024 in it - does that count?

    Well how do you expect them to catch criminals with 8-bit bytes? They gotta use those new state of the art 10-bit bytes...

    I know I've seen one with an IP address that had a number over 300 in it. In all fairness they might have been trying to make it fake, just like all the phone numbers they say begin in 555, so nobody would get attacked, but if that's the case they should have included the IP address of the CBS website or something.

  • SomeCoder (unregistered) in reply to Alfred
    Alfred:
    Stephan Rose:
    TInkerghost:
    SomeCoder:
    BlueNovember:
    DeLos:
    We need that software CSI and 24 uses. Then we could enhance this to complete clarity... Maybe we need to use a VB interface ...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni_rAamVP2s "I'll create a GUI interface using visual basic and see if I can track an IP address" Fail on so many levels. A GUI interface. /resign

    Dear god... I hadn't seen that one before. Could they have failed any harder?

    I believe CSI Miami once used an IP address with a 1024 in it - does that count?

    Well how do you expect them to catch criminals with 8-bit bytes? They gotta use those new state of the art 10-bit bytes...

    I know I've seen one with an IP address that had a number over 300 in it. In all fairness they might have been trying to make it fake, just like all the phone numbers they say begin in 555, so nobody would get attacked, but if that's the case they should have included the IP address of the CBS website or something.

    Yeah, IP addresses that are impossible aren't as big of a deal to me because it's like the 555-5555 phone numbers that movies and TV shows use. However, the fact that somebody looked up enough computer terms to say "GUI Interface in Visual Basic to track his IP" just screams "we found some tech sounding words. Aren't they neat?"

    That actress (though not her fault) just sounded like a dumb ass while saying them :)

  • (cs) in reply to mallard
    mallard:
    Of course if all of the UKTV "networks" did "fall of air", nobody would notice.

    They are one of those stations that only have about 5 unique programmes per day...

    Ah, but are those programmes unique in prime time?

    1!

    Oops, sorry.

    Frist!!!!!

  • diaphanein (unregistered) in reply to whicker
    whicker:
    diaphanein:
    I can't believe no one thinks of the EM interference an AC fan such as this causes and the effect is has on electronics when in such proximity.

    When I lived in the dorms all those years ago, we didn't have air conditioning, so I used to keep a much smaller fan than that about a few feet from my desktop. That is until I realized the wavy lines I was seeing on my monitor were only there when the fan was off. I did have some data corruption on my HD, as well. You live, you learn, you place the fan farther away.

    completely irrelevant. The wavy lines are because magnets are being used to direct an electron beam. And hey, the fan's motor also works with the principle of magnetism. A hard drive corruption is just coincidental, it just happens.

    Anyway, I just had a vision of how this would work in my workplace:

    1. So if you were there, you'd move the fan out and away from the rack, so it was incidentally visible from the hallway.

    2. Then some person would walk by and remove the sign from the fan and take it to her supervisor because the tone of the note was unprofessional.

    3. The supervisor would toss it into the trash without reading it.

    4. Soon thereafter, somebody else would come in and complain about "wasting electricity" and shut off the fan.

    5. Then the equipment would stop working. Then the tech would need a special trip to arrive to fix it.

    6. The tech would get asked why it didn't work. Overheating would be the answer, and then would be laughed at for not doing something so simple as pointing the fan already in the room at it.

    7. The person who typed up the note would get talked to, regarding a complaint about posting non-approved fliers in the hallway.

    Was in a rush to get to lunch. I meant to say I only saw the interference when the fan was on, not off.

  • bjZ (unregistered) in reply to Dwedit
    Dwedit:
    The real WTF is that the janitor who only speaks Spanish will move the fan anyway.
    Except this is UK so he would only be speaking Polish. Or maybe Romanian.
  • (cs) in reply to DeLos
    DeLos:
    WhiskeyJack:
    John:
    My own amaturish CSI style zoom-in;

    [image]

    Enhance that section over there!

    And let's turn the image around so we can see what was written on the other side of the paper. There might be a clue...

    We need that software CSI and 24 uses. Then we could enhance this to complete clarity... Maybe we need to use a VB interface ...

    You can get the interface from 3024.321.54.23!!!

  • (cs) in reply to Stephan Rose
    Stephan Rose:
    TInkerghost:
    I believe CSI Miami once used an IP address with a 1024 in it - does that count?

    Well how do you expect them to catch criminals with 8-bit bytes? They gotta use those new state of the art 10-bit bytes...

    You may want to go back and check your math. I think you may be a bit off... (What did you forget, you ask? Nothing - or something similar.)

  • DHager (unregistered) in reply to greenup
    greenup:
    I call cheating! I tried a variety of resample algorithms on the "original" posted to this article, before actually looking at the pixels... there is no way to get this [...] too much information has been lost.

    Seconded. Perhaps someone resized the picture before posting and isn't working off of the same source data as the rest of us?

  • Mr.'; Drop Database -- (unregistered) in reply to TexDex
    TexDex:
    I know I've seen one with an IP address that had a number over 300 in it. In all fairness they might have been trying to make it fake, just like all the phone numbers they say begin in 555, so nobody would get attacked, but if that's the case they should have included the IP address of the CBS website or something.
    I think it'd be a better idea to use an address from a private range, such as 10.0.0.0/8.
  • Me (unregistered) in reply to Mr.'; Drop Database --
    Mr.'; Drop Database --:
    TexDex:
    I know I've seen one with an IP address that had a number over 300 in it. In all fairness they might have been trying to make it fake, just like all the phone numbers they say begin in 555, so nobody would get attacked, but if that's the case they should have included the IP address of the CBS website or something.
    I think it'd be a better idea to use an address from a private range, such as 10.0.0.0/8.

    Damn hackors on our system again.. but i have tracked their ip address '127.0.0.1'

  • Esther (unregistered) in reply to Alex Papadimoulis

    Wow, I need that zoom algorithm. What is it?

  • Joshua Cranmer (unregistered) in reply to danixdefcon5
    danixdefcon5:
    That * seems to say something else, though; I can only distinguish "* In a matter of ??????. Probably."

    We need a better zoom!!!

    You need better eyesight: I'm wearing thick old (well, not so old) glasses, and I clearly read "In a matter of minutes. Probably."

  • Phire (unregistered) in reply to SomeCoder
    SomeCoder:
    Alfred:
    Stephan Rose:
    TInkerghost:
    SomeCoder:
    BlueNovember:
    DeLos:
    We need that software CSI and 24 uses. Then we could enhance this to complete clarity... Maybe we need to use a VB interface ...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni_rAamVP2s "I'll create a GUI interface using visual basic and see if I can track an IP address" Fail on so many levels. A GUI interface. /resign

    Dear god... I hadn't seen that one before. Could they have failed any harder?

    I believe CSI Miami once used an IP address with a 1024 in it - does that count?

    Well how do you expect them to catch criminals with 8-bit bytes? They gotta use those new state of the art 10-bit bytes...

    I know I've seen one with an IP address that had a number over 300 in it. In all fairness they might have been trying to make it fake, just like all the phone numbers they say begin in 555, so nobody would get attacked, but if that's the case they should have included the IP address of the CBS website or something.

    Yeah, IP addresses that are impossible aren't as big of a deal to me because it's like the 555-5555 phone numbers that movies and TV shows use. However, the fact that somebody looked up enough computer terms to say "GUI Interface in Visual Basic to track his IP" just screams "we found some tech sounding words. Aren't they neat?"

    That actress (though not her fault) just sounded like a dumb ass while saying them :)

    You would think that it was a 555 number thing, but a few episodes later, they had the ip address of a sexual predator, which was not only valid, but resolved to a actual comcast user.

  • Trillian (unregistered) in reply to dkf

    Yeah, that's why "we get signal"

  • Drak (unregistered)

    I love the way you all read 'In' as the first word.

    It looks more like 'As' to me, unless UK folkses use a really weird I.nibh

  • Jukka (unregistered) in reply to Alex Papadimoulis
    Alex Papadimoulis:
    John:
    My own amaturish CSI style zoom-in; [image]

    Psshh, I see someone needs a better zoom algorithm.

    [image]

    Ugh you guys totally lack the right tools.

    [image]
  • (cs) in reply to BlueNovember
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni_rAamVP2s "I'll create a GUI interface using visual basic and see if I can track an IP address" Fail on so many levels. A GUI interface. /resign

    Despite that being a funny video from quite a few fronts, the GUI Interface is not one of them.

    I bet you have used ATM Machines with your PIN number before. And I hope you never get the HIV virus either... could you tell me the ISBN number of a book that teaches the basic principles of AC current?

    What about CSS Stylesheets?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome

  • (cs) in reply to silent d
    silent d:
    Vic Tim:
    SomeCoder:
    BlueNovember:
    DeLos:
    We need that software CSI and 24 uses. Then we could enhance this to complete clarity... Maybe we need to use a VB interface ...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni_rAamVP2s "I'll create a GUI interface using visual basic and see if I can track an IP address" Fail on so many levels. A GUI interface. /resign

    Dear god... I hadn't seen that one before. Could they have failed any harder?

    Indeed, I never want to see anything like that again unless it's ATHF or some satire.

    I think the screenwriter just paged through a copy of VB for Dummies and picked out a couple terms that s/he thought sounded like cool tech jargon.

    Exactly! Since she should have used a WYSIWYG deobfuscator Protocol to hypertextualize the projection matrix, but I guess everyone is allowed to make a few mistakes in life, you live and learn. ;)

  • Sionnach (unregistered)

    This used to happen at The Great Big British Quiz. Took me a while to convince them that all the computer equipment should be placed in it's own room with proper air conditioning. When this did happen eventually, of course the guys in the Gallery, when too hot, would open the server room door to try and benefit from the lovely air con.

    Some people just don't get it.

  • Rangsk (unregistered) in reply to quis

    In all honesty, I was hoping it said:

    • No pun intended. Probably
  • Larry Laffer (unregistered) in reply to snoofle
    snoofle:
    Bah, no redundancy. They need a backup fan blowing at the primary fan, just in case the primary fan overheats.

    And to stop the EM interference, surely you just need to shield the fans. Say in a nice lead-lined box...

    Oh, and Carol Voderman isn't lovely, because she sells high-interest loans on TV to people who can't afford them. But it's OK, she's Carol Verderman, she wouldn't lie to us. She's good with numbers so it must be alright.

  • aristos_achaion (unregistered) in reply to Deckard

    Track left 45...stop...

  • Offended (unregistered) in reply to mplscodedev

    COCKNEY? It's filmed in Yorkshire. Londoners are not welcome there.

  • m0ffx (unregistered) in reply to Mr.'; Drop Database --
    Mr.'; Drop Database --:
    TexDex:
    I know I've seen one with an IP address that had a number over 300 in it. In all fairness they might have been trying to make it fake, just like all the phone numbers they say begin in 555, so nobody would get attacked, but if that's the case they should have included the IP address of the CBS website or something.
    I think it'd be a better idea to use an address from a private range, such as 10.0.0.0/8.
    Until some stupid luser finds the IP address at his work. I'd say use a localhost address. Say 127.26.53.112
  • (cs) in reply to Offended
    Offended:
    COCKNEY? It's filmed in Yorkshire. Londoners are not welcome there.
    As a Yorkshireman I take offence at that. We will happily welcome all Londoners, as long as they've come to spend money in our pubs and gift shops...
  • (cs)

    This one would be a lot funnier if I hadn't actually had to implement this exact cooling mechanism to make the backups run for one of my previous employers. To be fair though - I had a proper pedastal fan with about twice that diameter, so it looked a lot more professional (for a given value of "professional", anyway...)

  • My Name (unregistered) in reply to gabba

    This reminds me of my current job before I finally got them to build a server closet. For the last couple of years BC (before closet) I had 2-3 fans blowing on equipment that was overheating. This kept the "cool" input air down to a toasty 85 degrees year round. For some reason I had a lot of drive failures.

  • me to you (unregistered) in reply to aristos_achaion
    aristos_achaion:
    Track left 45...stop...

    Enhance 15 to 23. Give me a hard copy right there

  • (cs)

    Dammit - we've all missed this one:

    " I didn't know UKTV had any fans ! "

    [I believe I've read all the previous comments and no-one beat me to it. If I'm wrong, put it down to old age.]

  • Mike (unregistered) in reply to Alex Papadimoulis

    "In a matter of minutes. Probably" Maybe.

  • (cs) in reply to Jukka
    Jukka:
    ... Ugh you guys totally lack the right tools.

    [image]

    Your cheat is particularly lame because you claimed to "have the right tools" but either only rotated, or failed to skew enough to match the original.

  • moz (unregistered) in reply to Offended
    Steven G. Aldana:
    The station is in UK somewhere, so the janitor is probably South Asian.
    If she only speaks Spanish, she's far more likely to be from Spain.
    Offended:
    COCKNEY? It's filmed in Yorkshire. Londoners are not welcome there.
    Is that why they're getting rid of Des O'Connor?
  • Anonymous former UKTV(ish) employee (unregistered)

    OP here. Only realised this had made it onto the front page when I got an amused email from a colleague at the time, asking if I knew who'd taken the photo. I acted casual.

    Anyway, yes, the * text is indeed "In a matter of minutes. Probably".

    To answer someone else's query above, the matrix (and the rest of the equipment) was carrying digital video (ITU Rec. 601 aka SDI) so AC interference is the least of the problems.

  • Binny V A (unregistered) in reply to Alex Papadimoulis

    Thanks for the zoom - I was wondering what the * said.

  • Bob L (unregistered)

    Oh god.. oh wait, I did almost the same thing yesterday... only it wasn't the output matrices, it was a Quantel Edit Seat with a failing fan controller..

    The fan was way larger though.. :-)

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