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There was a famous incident at the last day of the Sydney Olympics where the only British athletes who came down to the early breakfast were the Modern Pentathletes Steph Cooke & Kate Allenby and the Boxer Audley Harrison - they ended up with 2 Golds and a Bronze.

Bacon! Don’t chance any of those salmonella-infested so called “vegetables”, stick to bacon!

Wow brother & sister actually they’re twins - team Rada/Radova crush the opposition in the 400m hurdles!

She will certainly have bright career prospects when the Parliament requires / translators.

If this was the US relay team…..somebody would be persuaded to go down with COVID.

Men’s 400m another record fest.

Surely Kratochvilova’s WR record must be under threat!

And big capital letters all the way down the line!

Kaczmarek another NR!

We are underway on the BBC. If you can’t see it…..you’re missing a lot of chat.

Doesn’t improve her time, but it is GOLD!

Aha, seemingly it is even worse than that…..in any sane rational well-managed system the boot sector is password protected because otherwise your students are going to boot from USB & watch porn. bad things will happen. Guess how many people know their BIOS password? That’s OK, as a well organised IT team we always store a record of all BIOS passwords in an Excel spreadsheet on the…….ah. Never mind, if you don’t the solution is as simple as opening the PC (which should be padlocked and chained btw) & fiddling with a jumper switch on the motherboard. https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2024/07/19/massive-it-outage-grinds-cyber-world-to-a-halt-n3791994

Posted this elsewhere but it deserves to be immortalised here.

I wasn’t watching this morning, but those that did were lucky enough to see the failingest fail in the entire history of faildom.

If they are on they can be rebooted centrally. If not on, reboot with with a USB to start the rebuild. BUT - you still have to schedule. Every September we had a crisis with all the student lab rebuilds, could only do so many at a time. 150 max I think.

Ouch! Like I say at the University 90% of our PCs ran an identical build, so at least it could be done centrally, but still at least 90-180 minutes to reboot, rebuild & roll out the fix.

Onto our final climb at Isola. Two possibilities. Something happens Nothing happens

Or similar, weekly virus update wasn’t it?

It's easy to read between the lines. If the BBC says a white person did XXXYYY, then that is clear. If the BBC says a "youth" or a "community leader" or some equivalent phrase, then that too is equally clear. Also "Woman accused of rape" always means only one thing.

It's an idiot operative failure, frankly. When I was at the University we NEVER rolled out our weekly batch of MS security etc updates on Day 1 without testing them first in controlled environments. Just for this reason. Guess airlines don't think their business is important enough to take the same precautions

Maybe the logic is Live FTA on an intentionally crippled service - fulfils a sponsor’s agreement. Replays later chopped into individual events on YT - maximises ad revenue.

Preview for London tomorrow afternoon. Global stars head to London for final pre-Olympic tune-up | PREVIEW | World Athletics Also, those of you who can get BBC1 can see a bit of the early action - although of course it will be mostly blethering - starting at 13:15 UK Time before the official World Feed start at 14:00 UK Time.

I think it's intentionally crippled for some obscure copyright reason. It also cannot be cast - only a direct HDMI feed from PC to TV works - which I've only ever seen before with Sky TV function.

It’s good & bad. You can’t rewind or pause a live stream. Streams go up onto the website as soon as they finish. Also to for a big crowd turnout on an all-heats day.

No, I think they have rights for a certain time….three months or something. That’s the way it has been in the past. Then the copyright reverts to the IOC.