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a man and a woman are dancing on a stage with purple lights behind them

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ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 7h

Are London Boys fans on Tenor going to be cross with me?

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a couple of people are dancing on a stage with purple lights

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ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 7h

The lads have been approved!

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a close up of a red car 's hood with a white background

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ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 7h

Ep 12 onwards apparently

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ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 7h

One of the usual suspects is uploading The Pallisers to Youtube. Dreary as hell but have to keep checking as I want some Tony Ainley beard twirling action.

The only reason anyone remembers the series is because JNT worked on it and remembered Ainley's beard twirling when casting his Master.

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ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 7h

NB due to the size of the deployment I did have MS's ear. They promised to look into it............ Was still doing it 2 years later when I had to deploy a single encoder on its own.

ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 7h

My solution was to double the memory in each encoder which would buy me enough time that it became someone else's problem as I'd have left by then.

This was 100% successful

ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 7h

20 years ago I used to look after racks full of machines running Windows Media encoder. It would slowly leak memory over time. Ticking away until the system froze.

Yes it would take about 9 months but eventually the system froze.

ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 13h

Well that's the most mental thing I've seen on Linkedin this year.

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ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 13h

Uniquely useless management charged with overseeing egotistical twats. I've been on the inside. It isn't pretty.

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ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 13h

Alan wanted the screen to be in portrait but Orion told him that it would cost a fortune.

Imagine the later black and white monitors in portrait. Would have looked great.

ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 13h

The PCW is very much the forgotten player. Sold huge numbers and many users had twin drive models so they could have Locoscript in one drive and their document disc in the other.

ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 13h

Bare drives yes but plenty of unloved cheap PCW's knocking around. Obvs double density ones are harder.

Belts are easy enough. Direct drive units may still need work if lubrication has dried up.

ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 13h

Refused to have any part of the graduation money making charade and had them post me the certificate.

ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 13h

Details are online. I remember driving past with the building ripped open.

ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 13h

Why is a CP/M + disc on the table? Why do they say 3 inch is difficult and rare? I've seen very few 8 inch in the wild but loads of 3.

an elderly man is standing in a living room with his mouth open and a blurred background .

ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 13h

I see a presenter from BBC local radio hasn't had his employment appeal upheld because he failed to learn the lessons of predecessors mouthing off in public.

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a man wearing a crown and a purple robe is called brian " gold belt " maxine

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Ben Baker @benbaker.bsky.social · 22h

Wonderful to see the Jackie archives appearing on the British Newspaper Archive so we can see which hot to trot hunks the teen girls of 1964 were moistly pinning to their walls.

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ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 19h

Hello, I'm Shaw Taylor. You might think fraud's a big laugh but I'm here to tell you it's serious business.....

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ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 20h

Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

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