Level of Traffic on ROOL forums
mark stephens (181) 125 posts |
Is there some recent stats on traffic, downloads, posts on ROOL forums? It seems to be getting busier to me and wondering if this is the case. |
Glen Walker (2585) 469 posts |
Or is it just that I’ve come back after a year away and like to waffle…? |
Rick Murray (539) 13385 posts |
The clocks have changed1. Winter is looming. No more sitting out in the sun with a cat and a good book. Now it’s keyboard&cuppa time. Well, that’s my theory. ;-) 1 Don’t tell Dalí. |
Glen Walker (2585) 469 posts |
I really wish they wouldn’t… |
Dave Higton (1515) 3404 posts |
You’re nearer the equator than most of us are. It makes less difference to you. That having been said, I also wish we would leave the clocks alone. Preferably on GMT+1. |
Clive Semmens (2335) 3122 posts |
Preferably on GMT+x. I don’t care what value of x, as long as x is constant, and an integer. |
Steve Pampling (1551) 7921 posts |
I’m a firm believer in using an international standard – so UTC it is. Since Paris is virtually dead on UTC 0 I’m sure the French would be happy with that. NB. UTC0 is not GMT (defined as a different standard) As for adding and subtracting bits at different times: Really? all those millions and millions of people who haven’t mastered getting up at different times? |
Clive Semmens (2335) 3122 posts |
Suits me. One lives and learns: I’ve just read the Wikipedia article on UTC.
Nor me neither. |
Rick Murray (539) 13385 posts |
UTC+2 please, so there remains a little bit of daylight when I finish work. As for the morning? Who cares about the morning! It doesn’t count until the third mug of tea. As for dealing with changing times, it is a pain to have the rough expectation of “when it gets light” and “when it gets dark” messed with for tenuous reasons; but that’s nothing like the pain of checking the battery powered clocks, other stuff with time abilities (digital camera?) plus verifying that a bunch of things that are supposed to be smart enough to change have, in fact, changed. |
Clive Semmens (2335) 3122 posts |
It can be UTC+7 (7 or any other constant) so far as I’m concerned, regardless of where I live. I can adjust my getting up and going to bed times accordingly. This is not a big deal. Having them shunted arbitrarily forward or backward by an hour messes with my body clock, so I actually get up at the same UTC time as before, regardless of what the silly clocks say. But yes, changing all the clocks is a pain. |
Steve Pampling (1551) 7921 posts |
I think you rather missed the point. Get up two hours earlier, do all the daily items two hours earlier. If you think about it your employer wants you to work a number of hours, probably in sync with other people. On the various items where I work on switch stack changes that are service affecting I start the task at 2, 3, or 4am so I’m finished by 10, 11 or 12 having done 7.5 hours (with a break) PS. My normal/regular 9am start is a convenience to sync with other people but the director when prompted speaks of “putting in the hours” and points out that if start later you finish later and vice versa. Also been known to point out to some of us that starting earlier means we are supposed to leave earlier… |
Rick Murray (539) 13385 posts |
Actually, I’m a floater so I work completely different hours to the other hundred-and-fifty. :-) |
Clive Semmens (2335) 3122 posts |
I lurve retirement, but ARM wasn’t bad: I’m an early bird, and they were quite happy for me to come in before rush hour, and, most days, go home again before the afternoon rush. (Not quite as quiet as the morning trip, but a hell of a lot better than the rush hours.) Exact times varied from day to day, depending when I happened to get up etc. – and relative to everyone else, the mean shifted an hour twice a year. |
mark stephens (181) 125 posts |
It’s all flexible hours and remote teams in the software industry now ;-) |
Rick Murray (539) 13385 posts |
Isn’t that a pretty sounding euphemism for “work more, get paid less”? Something I noticed recently, the management at work (the people there as opposed to at head office) no longer take their laptops home with them. They look them up in a supplies closet instead. |
Steve Pampling (1551) 7921 posts |
Rick doesn’t do IT for a job – deliberately. It’s a choice that means the IT stuff is always fun for him because what and when is his choice. I do support and new installs. The hospital likes the changes to occur when most people are asleep and the system use is minimal. Starting last Tuesday at 6pm and through to Tuesday 8am I’m either in work or responding to a bleep/phone. Being third line makes the calls less frequent. Flexible hours is pretty much for the convenience of the employer, remote working is for lower on costs (you pay to heat your house not the employer, you pay for the power running your computer not your employer, …) Although if “working from home” the cats get better regular service. |
Steve Pampling (1551) 7921 posts |
Truthfully, I don’t clock watch and I never have. I could probably have been paid more for what I know and what I do if didn’t “work” at the hospital, but I like doing what I do so it’s more like fun than work. 1 I have been described as “unmanageable” and they gave up pushing, while others have said I didn’t need managing and that allowing me to do what needed doing was a better idea. I merely note their comments. |
Rick Murray (539) 13385 posts |
Depends on the country. ;-) Here in France, I make only just over poverty level, which is about twice what the basic English state pension comes to (and that’s before one takes into account the horribleness of the post-referendum exchange rate. |