Biggles87 Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 Well, you learn something new everyday, and if you don't you're probably dead. Have a nice day Ced. John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob85 Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 Sooooooo that's sounds ace.... Book me on! I will be spending the day with the visual team visiting different stores to see the good bad and ugly of our visual presents.... There will be lots of made up words and key words I must say to pass this challenge with them and be accepted as one of them .... A bit like monkeys in the jungle but more corporate and wearing suits other than the birthday kind with hair on Rob 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted July 8, 2015 Author Share Posted July 8, 2015 Thanks Julian - can't wait to try out the Gator glue! Thanks John. It's officially very hot here so, apart from the occasional outing for a vape I'm staying inside! Yesterday was, apparently, the hottest July day in Madrid on record. Hi Rob - I hope your day went well and that your BS tank wasn't depleted before you'd had a chance to impress. I assume these aren't just monkeys... Had a really interesting talk this morning by a guy from The Weather Company. They're using sensor data from all over the place, including those weather stations you can buy for the garden, and using IBM's Big Data stuff to deliver 'personalised' forecasts depending on your GPS location. I think the correct technical term for this is 'cool' The 'imperative' session was as expected. No, scratch that, it was worse. As you can tell by the time of this post I didn't last anywhere near the whole seven hours - there's only so many eggs an old man can suck! I hope tomorrow's Healthcare session is better, but I'm not holding my breath. Can't wait to get home (definitely an old man) but I now hear there's a rail strike on First Great Western. Teerrriffic! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbudde Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 (edited) Hallo cedb. This may help in hot spain. Temperature here in NRW of yesterday's 32°C decreased about 15°C to actually 17°C with some showers: http://www.abrewcadabrew.com/wiffling-hell-or-wash-out-your-potty-mouth-with-beer/ Cheers Edited July 8, 2015 by bbudde 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob85 Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 Well Ced highlights were... I got to pull over at Gloucester airport to see a private jet taxi and take off, also while traveling to Gloucester store stop off in hobby craft and get some maskol to copy stew (again!) And a set of cheap detail brushes had to stop myself buying more spitfire but I did oggle the bbmf as mine has not arrived yet... My old staff were always slow this just proves it Oh and actually I did learn a lot about my new job role in all fairness and I appear to have impressed them and have them on my side! Hope you day was cinterlating..... Rob 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted July 8, 2015 Author Share Posted July 8, 2015 Thanks bbudde - glad it's cooled down for you... I'm not sure I want to follow your link after the mankini... oh well, here we go... ah, it's just beer... called WHAT! How do you order that in bars??!! Hi Rob, glad today went well - of course you impressed them! Be patient for the BBMF - it will fly in soon I'm sure. Thought you might like me to share my online chat with Vodafone 'support' tonight... Chat Transcript info: Welcome to Vodafone! You will now be connected with a service adviser. Your approximate wait time is 16 minute(s) and 0 seconds. . We’re looking forward to assisting you today. info: Thanks for your patience - your approximate wait time is 16 minute(s) and 25 seconds. info: Thanks for your patience - your approximate wait time is 12 minute(s) and 38 seconds. info: Thanks for your patience - your approximate wait time is 9 minute(s) and 13 seconds. info: Thanks for your patience - your approximate wait time is 6 minute(s) and 15 seconds. info: Thanks for your patience - your approximate wait time is 5 minute(s) and 0 seconds. info: You are now connected with Osama.Ced Bufton: Hi. I'm in Spain and have EuroTraveller and 4G coverage on my iPhone 6 but it 'cannot activate cellular network'. I've updated my settings and have the latest IoS version (8.4). I've checked the forums and internet but cannot find a solution. What next please?Osama: Hello, you're chatting with Osama, one of Vodafone's online customer service specialists. How may I help you today?Osama: Hi Ced Ced Bufton: hi Osama. Hi. I'm in Spain and have EuroTraveller and 4G coverage on my iPhone 6 but it 'cannot activate cellular network'. I've updated my settings and have the latest IoS version (8.4). I've checked the forums and internet but cannot find a solution. What next please?Osama: i see Ced Bufton: Can you help me please?Osama: Definitely, We can help you with to sort this issue, StraightawayOsama: Could you please click Settings, Carrier, Turn off Automatic and Search Networks?Ced Bufton: OK, hold on...Osama: thank you Osama: is it a Corporate account please ?Ced Bufton: It's a business (5 phones) but online says it's personal?Ced Bufton: OK, I have Vodafone ES (auto selected), Movistar, YOIGO and Orange.Osama: That's right it's a business account.Osama: Would you select vodafone spin please Ced ?Osama: Spain*Ced Bufton: OK, now says 'vodafone ES 4G' at top of phone.Osama: yes please select Ced Bufton: Done. Still can't activate cellular network.Osama: no worries Osama: In this case we need to speak to one of the business team, You can contact our Customer Care on 191 from any Vodafone number or 03333040191 from a land line. These calls are free of charge.Ced Bufton: OK, will do. Thanks. ByeOsama: you welcome Osama: Before we end the chat, are you satisfied with the level of service Vodafone offered you today through our Live Chat?Ced Bufton: Well it's not cured my problem so I'm afraid not, sorry. I'll call 191. ByeOsama. Really? And he was about as much use as a chocolate teapot... no, an ashtray on a motorbike... oh, you know, just useless. The last line got me and I took great delight in completing the survey. 'Nil point', as they say on the Eurovision song contest. Just holding for the technical team who "are really busy at the moment". No poo Mr Holmes... oh, sorry, they're calling... OK fixed. Only took me a couple of hours. What a load of loonies... Their auto-download settings create the wrong username and password. That's what I call secure. I shall now be able to browse BM at 4G speed if the WiFi here goes down again. Yep, IBM conference, WiFi issues... I thought they invented it? Apparently the hotel network can cope with 2000 people, but not their 5000+ devices (phone, iPad, laptop). Ho hum. Enough moaning from me. Until the 'morrow!! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 Oh, you guys and your IT devices. I keep my life rooted firmly in 1955 technology. I must say I understood none of the above, except the frustration part. Few years ago, I was the guest of the General Manger of the Pasadena Hilton to the Rose Bowl football game on New Years Day. Suffice to say, these tickets are priceless, so I set out to enjoy a new experience having never been to a live game. ( More on my impressions of American football later if interested ) Anyway, toward the end he tells me he'll give me his cell number in case we are separated by the masses and throngs before we get to the hotel car. He starts rattling off numbers, then pauses, and says "Aren't you going to put it in?" "Put it in what?" I ask. "Your phone". The look on his face when I told him my phone was at home, attached to my kitchen wall. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted July 9, 2015 Author Share Posted July 9, 2015 Hi Mike I know, I know. I think things are too complicated for most people now, me included. Remember the quote about telephones when first introduced that, if expansion continued at its current rate, everyone in the US would be operators? Can't remember who said that. I think it's the same with computer technology now, except that there aren't enough techies so everyone's in a call centre, with scripts. Ho hum. I shall look forward to my retirement when I can ditch the mobile and have some peace! I've decided to stop moaning now before I turn into a grumpy old man left muttering in the corner. Sorry if I've put anyone off the thread. Perhaps I should have started a chat - apologies. I've rearranged my flight on Friday so that I get home before the trains to Bath stop at 20:30. BoB GB and Tommy await for the weekend! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Dapple Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Ced stay focused matey, not long to go now... Cheers, Stew 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggles87 Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 We probably still have a transcript of a very similar online chat with Apple, can't remember now what the problem was, but they didn't solve it either. Isn't technology wonderful? Until it goes wrong. Stay loose John Our technical guys at Heathrow when confronted by a seemingly un-fixable problem would resort to switching everything off for 30 secs. then back on. It's surprising how often it worked, I use this method all the time now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 (edited) I regularly get looks of disbelief when I pull out my eight-year-old phone with buttons on it. Pointing out that it works conveniently and brilliantly as a phone cuts no ice, I'm afraid... Hope you survive your conference without running amok! Most of my most hated conference sessions have had the words "social" or "media" in them, sometimes both! Of course, as my (younger) colleagues at work point out, I'm the only person who regularly posts on t'interweb (here), so I must be doing something right! [edit] Oh, and there was a Lancaster in here too wasn't there? Looking very nice with all that etch stuff... Regards, Adrian Edited July 9, 2015 by AdrianMF 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob85 Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Not put off Ced it adds to the drama and suspence of the thread! Your nearly there now! Rob 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Thanks bbudde - glad it's cooled down for you... I'm not sure I want to follow your link after the mankini... oh well, here we go... ah, it's just beer... called WHAT! How do you order that in bars??!! Hi Rob, glad today went well - of course you impressed them! Be patient for the BBMF - it will fly in soon I'm sure. Thought you might like me to share my online chat with Vodafone 'support' tonight... Chat Transcript info: Welcome to Vodafone! You will now be connected with a service adviser. Your approximate wait time is 16 minute(s) and 0 seconds. . We’re looking forward to assisting you today. info: Thanks for your patience - your approximate wait time is 16 minute(s) and 25 seconds. info: Thanks for your patience - your approximate wait time is 12 minute(s) and 38 seconds. info: Thanks for your patience - your approximate wait time is 9 minute(s) and 13 seconds. info: Thanks for your patience - your approximate wait time is 6 minute(s) and 15 seconds. info: Thanks for your patience - your approximate wait time is 5 minute(s) and 0 seconds. info: You are now connected with Osama.Ced Bufton: Hi. I'm in Spain and have EuroTraveller and 4G coverage on my iPhone 6 but it 'cannot activate cellular network'. I've updated my settings and have the latest IoS version (8.4). I've checked the forums and internet but cannot find a solution. What next please?Osama: Hello, you're chatting with Osama, one of Vodafone's online customer service specialists. How may I help you today?Osama: Hi Ced Ced Bufton: hi Osama. Hi. I'm in Spain and have EuroTraveller and 4G coverage on my iPhone 6 but it 'cannot activate cellular network'. I've updated my settings and have the latest IoS version (8.4). I've checked the forums and internet but cannot find a solution. What next please?Osama: i see Ced Bufton: Can you help me please?Osama: Definitely, We can help you with to sort this issue, StraightawayOsama: Could you please click Settings, Carrier, Turn off Automatic and Search Networks?Ced Bufton: OK, hold on...Osama: thank you Osama: is it a Corporate account please ?Ced Bufton: It's a business (5 phones) but online says it's personal?Ced Bufton: OK, I have Vodafone ES (auto selected), Movistar, YOIGO and Orange.Osama: That's right it's a business account.Osama: Would you select vodafone spin please Ced ?Osama: Spain*Ced Bufton: OK, now says 'vodafone ES 4G' at top of phone.Osama: yes please select Ced Bufton: Done. Still can't activate cellular network.Osama: no worries Osama: In this case we need to speak to one of the business team, You can contact our Customer Care on 191 from any Vodafone number or 03333040191 from a land line. These calls are free of charge.Ced Bufton: OK, will do. Thanks. ByeOsama: you welcome Osama: Before we end the chat, are you satisfied with the level of service Vodafone offered you today through our Live Chat?Ced Bufton: Well it's not cured my problem so I'm afraid not, sorry. I'll call 191. Bye Osama. Really? And he was about as much use as a chocolate teapot... no, an ashtray on a motorbike... oh, you know, just useless. The last line got me and I took great delight in completing the survey. 'Nil point', as they say on the Eurovision song contest. Just holding for the technical team who "are really busy at the moment". No poo Mr Holmes... oh, sorry, they're calling... OK fixed. Only took me a couple of hours. What a load of loonies... Their auto-download settings create the wrong username and password. That's what I call secure. I shall now be able to browse BM at 4G speed if the WiFi here goes down again. Yep, IBM conference, WiFi issues... I thought they invented it? Apparently the hotel network can cope with 2000 people, but not their 5000+ devices (phone, iPad, laptop). Ho hum. Enough moaning from me. Until the 'morrow!! Now THAT was a top quality rant. I am proud of you. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Not put off Ced at all - in a way it's a vicarious thrill that my choices are not all bad. I have enough trouble with the internet and cable TV when chatting to a script reader overseas. We had a violent wind storm here once, almost like a dry hurricane, and the little old lady across the road had half her roof torn away. She came over and asked me if I had a cell phone. Disappointed that I did not, she explained that she needed a pic of her roof for the insurance company. Well I do have a camera I told her, will that work? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulcanicity Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Just stumbled on this thread, you're doing a quality job despite the heat! You'll be glad to know that it's cooled down a bit (well, it has in Reading, anyway) so hopefully the conclusion of the cockpit might be under less harsh conditions! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted July 9, 2015 Author Share Posted July 9, 2015 Conference over for me, all done apart from the bar this evening - hooray! Ced stay focused matey, not long to go now... Cheers, Stew Thanks Stew. I'll try to stay focussed, although it will depend on how much beer-like stuff I consume this evening! We probably still have a transcript of a very similar online chat with Apple, can't remember now what the problem was, but they didn't solve it either. Isn't technology wonderful? Until it goes wrong.Stay looseJohnOur technical guys at Heathrow when confronted by a seemingly un-fixable problem would resort to switching everything off for 30 secs. then back on. It's surprising how often it worked, I use this method all the time now. Thanks John - I expect to get looser as the evening progresses I regularly get looks of disbelief when I pull out my eight-year-old phone with buttons on it. Pointing out that it works conveniently and brilliantly as a phone cuts no ice, I'm afraid... Hope you survive your conference without running amok! Most of my most hated conference sessions have had the words "social" or "media" in them, sometimes both! Of course, as my (younger) colleagues at work point out, I'm the only person who regularly posts on t'interweb (here), so I must be doing something right! [edit] Oh, and there was a Lancaster in here too wasn't there? Looking very nice with all that etch stuff... Regards, Adrian Thanks Adrian! I hope to recommence Tommy operations on Saturday, definitely Sunday, after I've posted by place in the GB Not put off Ced it adds to the drama and suspence of the thread!Your nearly there now!Rob Thanks Rob! Just the flight and train journey (yuk) tomorrow... fingers crossed! Now THAT was a top quality rant. I am proud of you. Thanks Crisp! Not put off Ced at all - in a way it's a vicarious thrill that my choices are not all bad. I have enough trouble with the internet and cable TV when chatting to a script reader overseas. We had a violent wind storm here once, almost like a dry hurricane, and the little old lady across the road had half her roof torn away. She came over and asked me if I had a cell phone. Disappointed that I did not, she explained that she needed a pic of her roof for the insurance company. Well I do have a camera I told her, will that work? How quickly we forget... I found some pieces of paper with pictures on in a cupboard the other day. I think they're called 'prints'. Not sure how they work though... I've tried pinching outwards and the damn things won't zoom. Just stumbled on this thread, you're doing a quality job despite the heat! You'll be glad to know that it's cooled down a bit (well, it has in Reading, anyway) so hopefully the conclusion of the cockpit might be under less harsh conditions! Welcome Vulcanicity and thanks for the kind comments. I'm glad it's cooling off at home and I can't wait to get out of this damned heat... mad dogs and all that 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted July 10, 2015 Author Share Posted July 10, 2015 Morning all. Packing ready for the journey home. Just time to post my BoB GB entry here. Tommy will not be neglected! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted July 10, 2015 Author Share Posted July 10, 2015 The last post about the conference - glad it's over! Apart from the new words there was also a slide that made me wince: Now I look at it again I can see it's supposed to be a V-tail - I originally thought it had a tailplane missing. Even so that's not a model I'd be proud of, business or not Simon's kindly donated crew have arrived: Thanks Simon! Once I've progressed a bit more with the internals and can see how much room there is we can have a beauty parade. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beard Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 (edited) I'm glad they might find gainful employment, I'd had enough of them moping around the house. Edited July 10, 2015 by Beard 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookenbacher Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 Glad you're back and didn't melt in Spain Ced. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted July 12, 2015 Author Share Posted July 12, 2015 Thanks Simon - they're stuck on sticks for better viewing and we'll have our beauty parade soon! Thanks Cookie - cooling down here, thank goodness. A friend's wedding anniversary party yesterday left me a little tired (and emotional, hic) so only a little done this morning on the really fiddly PE: Yep, that large panel was not aligned and I only saw it in the photo; now removed and repositioned. Future builders note that fitting that big box requires removal of the ridges on the plastic, not in the instructions. I'm not sure why there's no PE for the other three panels here - perhaps they're detailed enough? To be honest the kit was detailed there so we're relying on Eduard to have produced more accurate panels I'm in two minds about this self-adhesive PE to be honest. A lot of the parts that fold end up with no sticky back; for example the right hand panel here has three parts stuck to it and the left hand one is double thickness - when you bend it in half the sticky is on the inside. Out with the Gator Glue Thin: my first use of this and pleased so far. That's made my eyes wobbly now so a rest period required. Hopefully more later. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spookytooth Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 Wobbly eyes Ced....... Time for a lay down me thinks. Good to see you back safe and sound. She is coming along nicely, despite the little annoying things that occur. Simon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrlx Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 Hi Ced, the PE looks really good and provides an additional level of detail that is worth the effort. Looking forward to seeing it coming together! Cheers Jaime 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gremlin56 Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 I've taken to glueing all the " sticky" Eduard pieces I am using on the Ju because a lot seem to abandon ship a few days later if I don't. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted July 12, 2015 Author Share Posted July 12, 2015 Thanks Simon Still a bit wobbly but can't resist a bit this afternoon (fnaar fnaar). Thanks Jaime, the PE is nice although it's now caused 'analysis paralysis' as you'll see below... Thanks Julian - good tip and I think I'll take your lead. Did a test fit this afternoon just to make sure everything's in place and to try to solve a puzzle. If the i/p fits like this: Then where does PE part #19 go? Circled. The boys and I (original Joe on red stick, others from Simon) would appreciate any help: Searching the 'net has provided no help. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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