Please pay for parking – CMOS batteries don't buy themselves
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It is the Hove branch of the UK grocery retailer Tesco feeling the pinch today as a number of Register readers and your correspondent separately spotted the same bit of sick signage outside the store.
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The not-so-smart signs themselves were erected a few years ago, as Tesco tried to deal with the problem of customers using its car park for stores other than itself. After all, George Street – a semi-pedestrianised road flanked by a Wetherspoon's Pub and the "George Street Tap" – is not far away and the retail delights of Blatchington Road lie to the north.
The retailer would be forgiven for fearing that customers might use its parking spaces for purposes that might not directly enrich its shareholders.
So up went the parking machines and away went the two hours of free parking in favour of a mere 30 minutes – [2]much to the dismay of nearby retailers .
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That, of course, was in 2017. And things have certainly changed since then – not least the abrupt removal of the parking charges and the change of the screens from demanding a registration plate and proof of purchase to, well, you can see for yourself.
[4]Heart FM's borkfast show – a fine way to start your day
[5]Take a look, and you'll see... Windows XP? Bit of Dairy Milk, Fruit and Bork at Cadbury World
[6]With a Lidl bit of luck, this Windows installation will make it through the night
[7]The bork on the sign goes round and round, round and round, round and round
The BIOS set-up screen dates from happier times. 2012 and all that. In fact, we'd wager that the problem here could well be a failed CMOS battery resulting in the re-entry of the time and date. Let's face it, we could all do with forgetting about 2021…
Parking charging have been suspended during the pandemic. Somehow, the grievances of 2017 seem like small beer compared to what was coming down the pipe.
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One day, Tesco's parking charge screens will echo with the complaining of drivers once more. For now, we'll have to make do with American Megatrends and its seemingly ubiquitous Setup Utility. ®
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[1] https://regmedia.co.uk/2021/12/13/12boc_03.jpg
[2] https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/15082656.anger-as-tesco-says-only-its-customers-can-park-free-now/
[3] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_offbeat/bootnotes&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=2&c=2Ycmc3GRDdFSzw7rSO0If-wAAAMw&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0
[4] https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/18/bork/
[5] https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/28/bork/
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/08/bork/
[7] https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/17/bork/
[8] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_offbeat/bootnotes&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44Ycmc3GRDdFSzw7rSO0If-wAAAMw&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
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[10] https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/26/bork/
[11] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_offbeat/bootnotes&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44Ycmc3GRDdFSzw7rSO0If-wAAAMw&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[12] https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/25/bork/
[13] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
It was a legal maneuver to make renaming the initials "AMIBIOS" unnecessary. The original name of the company was Access Methods Inc. The founders had a difference of opinion, and split up. One side got the name, the other got the BIOS. The new name is a reflection of the childish bickering that was going on between the former partners at the time (or that's how I read it in the trade press at the time ... mid 1980s).
Paid parkng Tesco....
Tesco introducing paid parking always seemed a bit pointless....
For example, the Tesco Wellington Extra @ Slough (please don't judge, I'm still taking treatment) has these. Now, in it's case, across the road was the Queensmere Shith.... Shopping Centre
Tesco mandated that you had to get the voucher from them, free for two hours (but you had spend a fiver instore). One pack of bumwipes, sorted.
That seemed an appropriate purchase for being in Slough
Re: Paid parkng Tesco....
That seemed an appropriate purchase for being in Slough
Ah yes.
"Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough...
...I still haven't practiced pronouncing it enough."
:)
Re: Paid parkng Tesco....
My dad’s local Tesco has a two hour free limit, camera controlled. There are all blue badge bays and my dad, who’s 92, has a blue badge. Last week he nipped in to get some oranges and forgot to put his blue badge on the dashboard - probably in the store for no more than 15 min (he doesn’t walk fast). A few days later a letter arrived demanding £60 for contravening the parking rules. The letter has a phone number to call to appeal… he tried calling but it wasn’t a valid number. Going online is the other option but (having looked at the page) he needs to send them a photo of his blue badge (I live several hundred miles away so it will be a struggle talking him through transferring a photo to his laptop or tablet to them upload); even then, there’s no guarantee they’ll accept the appeal as the parking signs say blue badge must be clearly displayed. He’ll pay the fine and start shopping at Lidl!
Having for years had motherboards that had Award/Phoenix as the BIOS, I then bought the first (of several) with American Megatrends as a BIOS.
I sincerely thought I'd bought cheap knockoff boards, after all nobody would seriously call themselves American Megatrends..... would they?