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Confessions of an Electrician...

Lisa Miles

So while we’ve not been able to log into the community (you can do so now if you didn’t already know) I’ve been keeping myself out of mischief Blush by going through some of the discussion topics on the old Wiring Regs forum and came across this one: Walking off site where some of you were sharing stories about your experiences with client's pets while on the job. 


So I thought it would be a bit of fun to ask you to share some of your funny/bizarre or just weird stories (keeping it relatively clean and protecting the privacy of others please!) from any jobs you’ve been on or done.


… And I’ll send some swag to the author of the story that gets voted the ‘Most helpful/liked’ from the community so don't forget to hit that 'Good Answer' link on any that make you chuckle! (Log in required)



  • Thanks Lisa?

  • Lisa Miles:

    I go on holiday for a week, come back and you guys have taken this completely #offtopic... ?




    Isn't that what forums are about? ?


    Many year's ago, a librarian at work advised me to learn HTML instead of relying on 3rd party software. Sound advice! I still occasionally refer to my reference books.


    In some forums, you can get away with it; in others not. Going into source mode may be rather daunting if you have never done any programming, but I have been doing it for about 50 years, so I am used to the language.. And yes, that is fifty years. ??

  • Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

    FORTRAN


    I remember struggling with it as an undergraduate in 1975...............


    And again with Intel 8086 (I think) in 1985...............


    Nothing has changed with my approach to PC skills since then!


    Give me proper Amps and Volts!!!!!!!!!!!! 


    Regards


    BOD

  • perspicacious:


     

    FORTRAN


    I remember struggling with it as an undergraduate in 1975............…


     



    from the date, presumably FORTRAN 66?

    I was a bit later and had the new fangled FORTRAN 77.

    ... I've just had a quick google and apparently it is now up to Fortran 2018  (non capitalised).
  • FORTRAN 66, yes I think that that was the one - on punched cards. But why 66 - surely not 1966?
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    Like most "software" it gets "improved" over the years and I believe its origins are well before 1966 and as above, a 77 was brought out and later versions since.............


    I had to write for a project in 1975 and was given the punched cards back by the lecturer to try out (several times....)


    Regards


    BOD

  • Chris Pearson:

    FORTRAN 66, yes I think that that was the one - on punched cards. But why 66 - surely not 1966?




     

    According to Wiki      FORTRAN was released in 1957, followed by FORTRAN II in 1958, followed by FORTRAN III and IV, then FORTRAN 66 in March 1966. ?

  • Chris Pearson:



    Isn't that what forums are about? ?


    Not necessarily Chris... Depends on the style of forum and how well it's maintained/moderated. Going 'off-topic' or hijacking someone else's thread on a forum to discuss something unrelated to the OP's question is considered really bad forum etiquette... ? If you have a comment or a question that's not truly relevant to the OP then start a new topic thread and in a relevant category.  With a 'support' style forum category where users come to ask questions and get answers (much like the Wiring Regs category) they don't want to have to read through irrelevant content not related to the answer they're seeking. For example, if a question is asked about RCD ratings and then midway through the post someone randomly starts talking about the Spurs/Arsenal match scores at the weekend which then results in 7 pages of discussion posts about the Goalkeepers lack of skills and how the Ref needs to go to Specsavers, then that's not appropriate and definitely off topic. A little bit of topic drift is only to be expected but a complete shift away from the title of the topic is not good practice and may result in a topic being locked. 


    Chat rooms and the old school 'Newsgroups' i.e. online places where you just ramble on about whatever you want and where the 'topic' changes rapidly throughout the conversation, are a completely different entity with a different set of etiquette rules ... 


    HTML - ah yes I learnt HTML coding way back when the internet had just become 'mainstream'. I was writing websites for people long before the WYSIWYG platforms of today were conceived and yes it's really handy to be able to work your way around the source code even if you are using a 3rd party WYSIWYG platform as even they don't always behave themselves! ?
  • " Chat rooms and the old school 'Newsgroups' i.e. online places where you just ramble on about whatever you want and where the 'topic' changes rapidly throughout the conversation, are a completely different entity with a different set of etiquette rules ... "


    Sic enim hic locus non erit electrica sola cordibus vestris?


    Legh
  • ?


    No, sorry Legh... not in this community.. ?

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