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I smell a BOFH
I'm not a BOFH*, and I m certainly not PFY* not any more, but I recon I can think like them. 
I recon that BOFH would spring for the full 4 years of Lenovo Lenovo Premium Online Support on a company laptops cos its the companies money, even if they were planning on flogging them out he back door long before the 4 years is up.
They'd not want to fix it. If one does break well there's a form for that, singed and submitted and its marked broken on the bean counters register, Lenovo fixes it and its on eBay by the end of the day. Which I where I got it.
I bought min on eBay 3 years back. Its now about to go out of warrantee, and I can think like a BOFH, it unlikely one would have a laptop approaching 4 years old, but if they did they'd probably log every minor glitch an fault the could just before the warrantee expired. Which it what I did.
Lenovo just came and replaced 90% of my laptop, including the motherboard. Thanks Lenovo.
I could be bad mouthing the IT Dept of what ever company originally owned this laptop. I mean they could have given it to a remote worker, who promptly flogged in on Ebay and used their own one. Safe in the knowledge they'd not be asked for it back for years. That might piss of a BOFH, but to be honest it sounds primarily like a bean counter problem.
Unless of course the Sysadmin was planning on flogging it on ebay.... oh my god there're been a terrible remote workplace accident...
* note for lusers BOFH "bastard operator from hell" and the PFY "pimply faced youth" are the creations of Simon Travaglia spanning decades. You should read them though not on your phone near windows lifts or using a company device.
DNS V DNC V NSC V OMG
Why do the DSC Results change usually later. Well its not about those who race so much as those that didn't.
There are three different scores a boat can get:
- Her position on corrected time on finishing.
- Total number of boats that came to the starting area in that race + 1
- Total number of boats that raced in the series +1
Finishing always pays even if you are last. The non finishers for any reason will be get a larger score.
It pays to try, the worst points go to DNC, which means "Did not come to the starting area" For this you get total number of series entrants +1.
If you try and fail, e.g. you lock out or launch, but break your boat before the start. You will be scored, DNS, this means "Did not start, but tried too"
Wrong tagging of boats as DNS instead of DNC increases the scores of retired boats.
Not just retires, all the things that can happen during a race are scored 'Total number of boats that came to the starting area in that race + 1', that is:
- DNF - did not finish e.g. time limit expired
- RTD - Retired
- OCS - On course side over the start line, didn't go back
- NSC - Not sailed course
- DSQ - Disqualified
and more...
Never sailed boats push up the DNC Scores, we usually have boats that intend to race at some point in a series, register but don't actually sail. Only after the last race can we clear these out. When that happens the score fo DNC goes down - even for past races. Also if I the very last race of a series a new boat turns up then the points for ALL the DNCs go up one.
None of these changes effect people who finished. The volunteers have 'race access' if someone is not entered properly they have to scrawl it on a piece of paper, it goes done afterwards, by and admin which increases DNC number. Then Fred who, runs his own software and he keeps an eye on our results balls me out and I correct it. If you win the race - no worries none of this stuff effect you.
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