BBS activity.

[BBS Guy]

Many members will remember the days when we first took over the Nanocom, it's many warts and all, and many members on this forum were especially supportive and instrumental in helping us debug it and get it to a state that was jointly beneficial to owners and producers alike and more representative of BBS equipment standards

While once we were able and known for our ability and willingness to jump on any problem and fix it, producing an upgrade with the fix at but the drop of a hat. Sadly a few minor problems that we have since become made aware of are now no longer able to be dealt with so swiftly.

My development guys are largely now occupied on other major developments and aspects that really cannot be interrupted.

However, i would wish to express that we have never lost any focus and our desire to sort any bug out in the Nanocom software remains as strong as it has always been. As soon as is humanly possible, we absolutely intend to address the small list of reported bugs we have been compiling.

I can but only thank anyone affected for their patience.

[oldyella 76]

Thanks Colin for the info, speaking for myself as long as you keep us in the loop with developments to remedy these bugs I am happy to wait till you fix my 2.2 defender instrument monitoring operation.
Regards Lindsay.

[Dougal]

I just got an autoreply from BBS saying they are closed for Easter until May 8th.

Is this right or is it a month out?

[Roverlord off road spares]

I just got an autoreply from BBS saying they are closed for Easter until May 8th.

Is this right or is it a month out?
I think Greek easter is at a different time. BBS is in Cyprus

[Dougal]

I think Greek easter is at a different time. BBS is in Cyprus

Apparently so: Greek Easter - Greek Orthodox Easter Dates 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and beyond (http://gogreece.about.com/cs/greekorthodox/a/easterdates.htm)

But that's next week (may 5th). It ain't Easter yet in Greece.

[OffTrack]

Why would you look on a Greek site for public holidays in Cyprus? You may as well refer to the NZ govt website for Australian holidays :)

According to the Bank of Cyprus website 1st May is Labour Day, 3rd May is Good Friday. I'd guess BBS has closed Monday, Tuesday and Thursday this week as well too.

[Dougal]

Why would you look on a Greek site for public holidays in Cyprus? You may as well refer to the NZ govt website for Australian holidays :)

Can I blame Roverlord for that?

Cyprus holidays here, how do they get anything done: Public holidays Cyprus 2013 (Events and holidays) (http://www.feiertagskalender.ch/index.php?geo=3523&hl=en)

[OffTrack]

Can I blame Roverlord for that?


Probably not. :angel:

[BBS Guy]

Cyprus does indeed have some unique dates for it's Bank Holidays but there are not that many Dougal, as the link you gave includes events too ;)


1st May is Labour Day, 3rd May is Good Friday. I'd guess BBS has closed Monday, Tuesday and Thursday this week as well too.

Quite Correct OffTrack

The 6th and 7th are also Bank Holidays here, although the 7th is not reported by some sites.

I apologize for anyone affected by this closure, but with the current financial crisis here in Cyprus and all the stress it has been causing us and our staff, we thought it would be a good thing to offer our staff the opportunity to add some of their own Holiday allowance days to the Bank Holiday days and have a decent length break. It also gives us a break we would not otherwise have.

As such we had a vote with options between no extra days off and not re opening until may 13th with the winner being somewhere in the middle.

So not only is this a reasonable compromise, but by our staff taking some of their days off at the same time, as with our Christmas Break, means less disruption during the rest of the year due to individual staff members taking holidays. It also means all staff come back fully charged which helps the teamwork aspect.

[BBS Guy]

Although BBS has closed for our Easter.

TBH i have personally had another distraction recently i would wish to introduce to you all.

While i appreciate that not everyone is an animal lover, i most certainly am and somehow or another i do seem to attract animals needing help.

Although i have two dogs, also dumped on us that we have taken in, I have pretty much lost count of the amount of the other dumped dogs and puppies i have helped find new homes.

About 10 weeks ago, while working on building a carport on my home, out of nowhere this dog suddenly appeared and day after day did not want to leave.

Being light brown in coluor and happy to lie in the same colour wood shavings we named this dog, that turned out to be female, Camo, short for Camoflage.

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/05/1071.jpg

TBH i have never known a dog to have such a pleasant nature.

We did all the usual lost dog posters and local shop poster stuff and eventually took her to our Vets who confirmesd she had no Microchip but was otherwise healthy beyond a little dental work we happily paid for.

One of my guys was willing to give camo a new home, but then we were totally suprised by what happened next

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/05/1072.jpg

I really and truly wish i could tell you that after this things turned out happily but i cannot. The Mum who was appently dumped in her hour of most need was so malnourished that she could not produce enough milk and that she did produce was infected and within 48 Hours had killed 2 of her 3 pups and left the last one with only a few hours left to live.

Me and my wife tag teamed staying awake all night and every night for many days and nights relentlesly bottle feeding this last pup such that it never sucked of it's mum.

TBH it is pretty hard to argue against the results of our efforts that we now call Poppie

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/05/1073.jpg


Of course me and BBS has never lost any importance to what we provide but in the meantime i hope most will appreciate and forgive this additional and most unusual interruption.

[sheerluck]

Love your latest product Colin!

[BBS Guy]

Certainly a one off prototype sheerluck :lol2:

TBH i have only provided you all with only the most basic details of what is really quite an amazing success story.

The Vet said that this last pup would almost certainly die in the next few hours, and to be honest it was already so lifeless and lethargic, just like the 2 before that had died in the previous 24 Hours, this was as expected.

But we really wanted to try anything we could to give this last pup any possible chance of life not only for our peace of mind but also for the Mums sake, as she really is so kind and gentle and what happened to her was an utter disgrace to human kind.

There was apparently a high end Milk substitute, but it was ridiculously expensive, hard to find, Pup too weak already, Getting pup to suckle from a bottle really difficult, not worth the effort, and any further suckling from Mum nearly impossible to prevent and likely fatal.

A seemingly impossible and probably fruitless challenge it may have seemed, but otherwise right up my street.

It was not easy and i may well have violated many traffic laws to get what i needed ASAP.

Me and the Missus then got hardly any sleep at all for many days, and were like zombies at work, and the staff at BBS were just fantastic and helped pick up most of the slack.

But by some miracle we managed to get this Pup suckling of a bottle, brought it back from the very brink of death, and kept it away from Mum's teats for long enough for the Antibiotics to clear up her infection and although still not producing enough milk, between us and the Mum we managed to provide more than enough nourishment for this pup and have since seen it grow at a really amazing rate and become incredibly healthy.

That last picture was taken when the Pup was only 6 weeks old

Poppie is now 8 weeks old and has grown considerably larger as you can see in this picture.

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/05/991.jpg

[landy]

Mate,
I take my hat off to you and your wife. What a terrific story and a great ending.
It's nice to see. Thank you.

Nino.

[BBS Guy]

Hiya Landy

Yea it is a truly terrific and most uplifting success story, which makes a nice change given all the current doom and gloom, and despite our input and effort, and having such eye melting results, i really do not consider myself or my wife as being especially heroic or having done anything any other animal lover would not have done in the same circumstances.

For anyone wanting to follow and read a more detailed account of the events of this story and see more pictures, have a look at this thread

DISCO3.CO.UK - View topic - New family member(s) Big shock for me this morning. (http://www.disco3.co.uk/forum/topic92098.html)

Perhaps i should pre warn you that this post contains very Graphic images that you may regard as unsuitible for Wives, Girlfriends, young children and workmates.


ATB

Colin (http://www.blackbox-solutions.com/photos/Camo39.jpg)