OK. You both got me bang to rights. I've used the term 'mainframe' without really thinking about it.
To be honest I never had anything to do with the PDP 11/84. I worked on the PC, MAC, Unix side of things and the 11/84 was, to me, a beast that sat in the corner that the editorial and pre-press department used.
... that they want to reduce the use of borrowed or second hand games and at the same time reduce piracy.
Simple solution is not to ban or otherwise engineer out second hand or borrowed games but to reduce the cost of buying the game brand new.
In the good old days (I'm talking about the 80's and ealry 90's) games cost around £10-£15. Everybody could afford to buy the game new. Ok I know piracy still happened but not on the scale it does not.
Alright modern production costs for developing games is vastly more than the old days but not everybody can afford between £30-£50 for a game. Thats why some people borrow games or wait for them to be available second hand. And many more pirate games.
Time for the industry to grow a set of balls and try selling games at half the price. They may be surprised at the outcome. Personally I feel that their revenue would increase as those who borrow or buy second hand would start buying new, less piracy would occur due to games being more affordable.
Piracy will never be stamped out as there are always those out there who want something for nothing.
Personally the cost of games put me off investing in a modern console. I'll stick with my Retro computers for retro gaming, my PS2 for other gaming and my PC for the latest stuff when I can afford it.
1. My first computer was a ZX81 which I got in the 3rd year of comprehensive school. Learnt to program it and had wonderlust for computers since that day.
2. Didn't move onto Commodore computers. Instead moved to Acorn BBC's and as these were the computers we used at School.
3. When I started working I bought a modem and rigged up a telephone point in my bedroom. Also got addicted to BBS's. Somewhere I still have my little red book of BBS numbers, usernames and passwords. Of course the BBS's are long gone but it was happy memories.
4. Got addicted to some of the online games on the BBS's. Shame I can't remember the names of any of them.
5. Ran up a big phone bill. Game my dad a few grey hairs and worry lines until he mentioned this big bill and he did not know how it had got so big. Of course I confessed as, like many others, I did not associated what I was doing with the cost of the time online. Luckily as I was working I was able to pay the bill and was very very carefull after that.
6. Moved onto an Amiga 500 and later a 1200. Joined a local computer club where we met up every few weeks in a rented room at a social club where everybody setup their kit and demoed the latest software, hardware, etc.
7. Work bought Amstrad 1512 and 1640 computers for the accoutants which we then networked using some third parts expansion cards, cables and a 1640 (with hard drive) as a central server. These were the days of Lotus 123 and Supercalc. Long before Microsoft Office. I remember using an early Norton Tools to defragment 300k 5.25" floppy disks.
These days I don't have a rack of severs bit do have computers in practically every room of the house. The wife won't let me put one in the toilet.
I agree with your last sentiment. Those days were very exciting. There was a certain euphoria every time you open a new game, read about the latest computer or Hardware addon. I just don't get the same feeling with modem gadgets.
You are right about reporter using the TRS80 Model 100's. I worked for a newspaper in the IT department back in the late 80's/early 90's. We had these built into attache cases with a specially built rechargeable battery pack and an acoustic coupler. This made the computer useable over prolonged periods of time and allowing the reporter to send in their copy from any telephone that was available (including public phones). The receiving computer was a PDP 11/84 mainframe.
Wish I had kept a few of them. Alas they were binned many years ago and are probably at the bottom of a land fill.
"Whenever it does eventually go off, the star will be one of the closest to Earth to explode when there was someone here to see it, giving an impressive view to folks on the surface."
Given that the start could go supernova anytime in the next million or so years then how can you be sure there will be somebody here to see it?
We may have become extinct by then or moved elsewhere due to noisy neighbours.
Not the first computer I owned, which was ZX81, but I lusted after a Beeb.
I used them at school in the early 80's and spent every break time and lunch time in the computer room writing programs and playing games.
Eventually over time I owned and have built up a collection of most models of Acorn computers. In fact my loft is full and I get strange looks from the wife when I buy more stuff from car boots and Ebay.
Even though I have an Electron, Beeb model B (several), Master (currently setup and using), Master Compact, Archimedes 310 and a couple of A3000's my true love is the humble Acorn BBC Model B which excited me with it's versatility and potential.
The computer revolution in the 80's was a wonderfuly and exciting time and helped to launch both my career and many others into IT and helped to shape the technological future that we now live in.
"That model could be undermined if punters were allowed to buy content from the cheapest sources rather than be forced to use the provider in their own country."
Well then... In a nutshell. Reduce the prices in the Model to a competative level and then people, like this landlady, wouldn't need to source their services from elsewhere. Then the 'model' may show an increase of punters and either maintin a their profit or possibly increase their profits.
Yes what you propose is doable but you are forgetting the bleedin obvious. Not all binaries are made up of illegal content.
There is lots of legitimate legal content which is distributed via Usenet Binaries. Ok I know the vast majority of Binaries are likely to be illigal content but you cannot tar everything with the same brush. Therefore companies providing access to usenet content would not want to block access to all binaries groups as they could not be sure that they are only blocking access to illegal content.
I do not see how it is possible to electronically scan every single binary file in the newsgroups to ascertain if the contents is illegal. The name of the file is no guarantee and the digital content could be anything. Ok software would be easier to identify but a ripped DVD would be harder as the digital content would vary depending on the bit rate and encoding used and would not contain any of the identification markers associated with a DRM.
Therefore the only guaranteed way to block Usenet Binaries with illegal content would be for a human to manually extract and review the content and make a decision on the legal status of the file. The cost to provide this level of checking would be prohibitive and probably more than these companies earn.
The ability to connect the reader to your PC (or computer of choice) and upload ebook and documents from other sources without sending these documents through their servers first would win my vote and open my wallet (despite the risk of loosing the moths that live in there).
HP have said that they will be shipping more units into the country.
However it is not clear yet if they will be available thorugh reseller channels or direct from HP. Also not clear exactly when they will be available but I would expect them soonish.
What is clear is that they will be sold at the bargain price.
I used to have a Ford Focus which was build in 2003. Whilst out shopping the wife managed to lock the keys in the boot.
Called out the AA who promptly arrived, unscrewed one of the lights (I won't say which one), removed the bulb and connected a small box of tricks to the connections in the bulb socked. Pressed a button and the central locking unlocked all the door.
Time taken to from start to finish was about 2 minutes.
So there you go. Ford named as a manufacturer that certainly has done this in the past and probably still does.
Admittably you would still need the small box of tricks but I would imagine it was nothing special and any self respecting car thief would have one of these in their arsenal.
The local chip shop cooks all their fish and chips in beef fat (or dripping). They have a small domestic deep fryer at the back with Veggie oil in just in case a vegitarian comes in but I don't think it gets much use.
The batter on the fish comes out a lovely deep brown colour and tastes devine.
Their portion sizes are huge and I think they get more daily trade than all the other chippies in the town put together.
The beef dripping way is the only way. Mmmmmmmmmm.
Shame in on a diet. I now fancy fish and chips for tea tonight. Going to have to convince our lass.
"Eric Goldman, a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law said. “Our government is going into court with half-baked facts and half-baked legal theories and shutting down operations. This is exactly what we thought the government couldn't do. I'm scratching my head why we aren’t' grabbing the pitchforks.”
I now have visions of the US Government living in a dark castle at the top of the hill with the US citizens marching up with pitchforks and flamming torches to burn them out.
Nemesis - One of the few games I could complete. With the crowds gathering round to watch. Ahh the memories.
Gauntlet - Played this for many hours and many 10p's. I remember stacking up the 10p pieces on the machine to show you were playing for a long time and hogging the game.
Slap Fight - staying alive for as long as possible with out killing anything to get all the power ups.
Bubble Bobble - Lovely graphics, colourfull and fun to play.
Rear Gunner - One of the first sit down cabinet games. Simple vector graphics and once you learn the sequence you could play for hours on 10p.
I could see this taking off if it was redesigned as a stylish watch. And of course it would need to allow installation of widgets to customise the display to diferent clock/watch styles and notification styles.
It would also need some amount of inbuilt storage to allow syncronisation so if you were out of range of your phone (e.g. it's been left in a desk drawer) then you would still have access to your appointments/calendar, etc.
"TV cameras invited to record Ellis being led from his home in handcuffs"
So the police knock on his door (or knock down his door), handcuff him, read him his rights, then lead him out the door to face TV camera so that the whole world knows who he is and what he has been accused off.
Stinks of an attempt at trial by Media. Of course the police would say they invited the cameras for the positive publicity for the police. Shame nobody though (or did they?) about the negative publicity for the accused who is later acquitted.
OK he may have committed a crime (or not) and got away with it but what every happened to Innocent until proven guilty?
I'll buy the MK14 from you for £50 if that's all you want for it. I'll then sell it on ebay for a small fortune (especially if it is workin). Last one I saw sold for a few hundred quid
"someone living on a single 2D plane-space - that is as a mysterious circle suddenly blossoming into existence, growing, perhaps moving about and then shrinking down and vanishing again."
Surely for somebody to see the circle they would have to be living in 3d plane-space. Somebody living in 2D plane-space would just see an object (possibly like a line or wall) pop into existance, move about, grow wider, move nearer or further away and would curve away from them on either side.
Paris - Because she likes things that pop up, get bigger and move towards her!
But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Glasgow Council ever done for us?
Surely if the driver is ejected out of the vehicle, in his seat, when he arrives at the scene and then decides that he needs to take the patient to hospital, he then has to waste time getting the seat back into the vehicle before he can drive it again.
There will then be an increase of cases where the patient either died at the scene or on the way to the hospital.
"The BBC notes that in October this year company Coolbai acquired the right to many of his characters, and said it "planned to introduce Bagpuss to a new generation". "
No doubt using high end computer graphics therefore loosing the wonderful charm of the original animation.
I grew up with these characters and feel it is a sad day with the loss of one of their creators.
"He explained: "I use batter mix that I pick up on my trips back to Blighty and my mum's old Pyrex dish. Perhaps the secret is to make them as she, as a true Yorkshirewoman, did. I try to follow in her steps."
Pyrex! Bloody Pyrex! Lad's got to be a bloody southerner.
What you need my lad is a good old fashioned metal Yorkshire Pudding Tin with a coating of carbon on it and bits of the last yorkshire pudding you made. Never wash the tin.
Put a good dollop of beef dripping or fat in the bottom and let it get very hot and smoking before you put in't mixture.
Bloody Pyrex!
I remember when all this were fields.
And Yes. I am a Yorkshire Lad born a and Bred. Bloody Pyrex!
Paris - because she knows you have to put it in hot.
Microsoft plans to issue seven security patches next Tuesday, three of which are rated "critical" because they could allow an attacker to remotely execute malicious code on an end user's machine.
Shouldn't that read 'stop' an attacker and not 'allow' an attacker?
Nope. Sorry. You were right first time. After All we are talking Microsoft.
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Re: @Simon Round
@Peter Gathercole & @AC
OK. You both got me bang to rights. I've used the term 'mainframe' without really thinking about it.
To be honest I never had anything to do with the PDP 11/84. I worked on the PC, MAC, Unix side of things and the 11/84 was, to me, a beast that sat in the corner that the editorial and pre-press department used.
It Strikes me...
... that they want to reduce the use of borrowed or second hand games and at the same time reduce piracy.
Simple solution is not to ban or otherwise engineer out second hand or borrowed games but to reduce the cost of buying the game brand new.
In the good old days (I'm talking about the 80's and ealry 90's) games cost around £10-£15. Everybody could afford to buy the game new. Ok I know piracy still happened but not on the scale it does not.
Alright modern production costs for developing games is vastly more than the old days but not everybody can afford between £30-£50 for a game. Thats why some people borrow games or wait for them to be available second hand. And many more pirate games.
Time for the industry to grow a set of balls and try selling games at half the price. They may be surprised at the outcome. Personally I feel that their revenue would increase as those who borrow or buy second hand would start buying new, less piracy would occur due to games being more affordable.
Piracy will never be stamped out as there are always those out there who want something for nothing.
Personally the cost of games put me off investing in a modern console. I'll stick with my Retro computers for retro gaming, my PS2 for other gaming and my PC for the latest stuff when I can afford it.
Re: Ahhh....
Quite scarily similar to my story.
1. My first computer was a ZX81 which I got in the 3rd year of comprehensive school. Learnt to program it and had wonderlust for computers since that day.
2. Didn't move onto Commodore computers. Instead moved to Acorn BBC's and as these were the computers we used at School.
3. When I started working I bought a modem and rigged up a telephone point in my bedroom. Also got addicted to BBS's. Somewhere I still have my little red book of BBS numbers, usernames and passwords. Of course the BBS's are long gone but it was happy memories.
4. Got addicted to some of the online games on the BBS's. Shame I can't remember the names of any of them.
5. Ran up a big phone bill. Game my dad a few grey hairs and worry lines until he mentioned this big bill and he did not know how it had got so big. Of course I confessed as, like many others, I did not associated what I was doing with the cost of the time online. Luckily as I was working I was able to pay the bill and was very very carefull after that.
6. Moved onto an Amiga 500 and later a 1200. Joined a local computer club where we met up every few weeks in a rented room at a social club where everybody setup their kit and demoed the latest software, hardware, etc.
7. Work bought Amstrad 1512 and 1640 computers for the accoutants which we then networked using some third parts expansion cards, cables and a 1640 (with hard drive) as a central server. These were the days of Lotus 123 and Supercalc. Long before Microsoft Office. I remember using an early Norton Tools to defragment 300k 5.25" floppy disks.
These days I don't have a rack of severs bit do have computers in practically every room of the house. The wife won't let me put one in the toilet.
I agree with your last sentiment. Those days were very exciting. There was a certain euphoria every time you open a new game, read about the latest computer or Hardware addon. I just don't get the same feeling with modem gadgets.
Re: First laptop?
@Herby
You are right about reporter using the TRS80 Model 100's. I worked for a newspaper in the IT department back in the late 80's/early 90's. We had these built into attache cases with a specially built rechargeable battery pack and an acoustic coupler. This made the computer useable over prolonged periods of time and allowing the reporter to send in their copy from any telephone that was available (including public phones). The receiving computer was a PDP 11/84 mainframe.
Wish I had kept a few of them. Alas they were binned many years ago and are probably at the bottom of a land fill.
Re: My perfect telly!
Agree with the specification. Just need to add Wireless networking to enable access to online content and TV services without the need for Cat5 Cable.
Re: FTL Velociraptors
And don't forget your towel.
"Whenever it does eventually go off, the star will be one of the closest to Earth to explode when there was someone here to see it, giving an impressive view to folks on the surface."
Given that the start could go supernova anytime in the next million or so years then how can you be sure there will be somebody here to see it?
We may have become extinct by then or moved elsewhere due to noisy neighbours.
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Bravo
Congratulations. A beer will be downed later today in celebration.
eBay anyone?
I imagine a lot of Playbooks will suddenly appear on eBay following this give away to Devs.
Mines a pint. It's Friday.
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Simon Round and The Fuzzy Whatnot. #
Hmmm. Now there's an idea.
Should I aim the book at Kids or adults?
It would never work. I can't carry a tune to save my life!
@The Fuzzy Wotnot
I see your "oooh" and raise you an 'aaah!'
We should also be told how many I/O operations we should expect to get out of this interface.
The Mighty Beeb.
Not the first computer I owned, which was ZX81, but I lusted after a Beeb.
I used them at school in the early 80's and spent every break time and lunch time in the computer room writing programs and playing games.
Eventually over time I owned and have built up a collection of most models of Acorn computers. In fact my loft is full and I get strange looks from the wife when I buy more stuff from car boots and Ebay.
Even though I have an Electron, Beeb model B (several), Master (currently setup and using), Master Compact, Archimedes 310 and a couple of A3000's my true love is the humble Acorn BBC Model B which excited me with it's versatility and potential.
The computer revolution in the 80's was a wonderfuly and exciting time and helped to launch both my career and many others into IT and helped to shape the technological future that we now live in.
Happy Birthday BBC Micro.
I Think this explains it all really ......
God's Final Message to His Creation, written in letters of fire on the side of the Quentulus Quazgar Mountains - "We apologise for the inconvenience."
― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Nice....
...looking piece of kit. Like the dual fuctionality (laptop/tablet)
Would love to buy one but just can't afford the price.
May have to sell my soul, kidney, body, eldest child, wife* to be able to afford one.
* delete as applicable.
Beer because it's Friday.
Shirley!
"Large Bottle of Whisky and a razor blade, surely..."
I'm sure that using a sharp implemement whilst drunk will mean they will have to start calling him Shirley!
Then the model is wrong..
"That model could be undermined if punters were allowed to buy content from the cheapest sources rather than be forced to use the provider in their own country."
Well then... In a nutshell. Reduce the prices in the Model to a competative level and then people, like this landlady, wouldn't need to source their services from elsewhere. Then the 'model' may show an increase of punters and either maintin a their profit or possibly increase their profits.
Slaps forehead..
@Stoneshop
Yes what you propose is doable but you are forgetting the bleedin obvious. Not all binaries are made up of illegal content.
There is lots of legitimate legal content which is distributed via Usenet Binaries. Ok I know the vast majority of Binaries are likely to be illigal content but you cannot tar everything with the same brush. Therefore companies providing access to usenet content would not want to block access to all binaries groups as they could not be sure that they are only blocking access to illegal content.
I do not see how it is possible to electronically scan every single binary file in the newsgroups to ascertain if the contents is illegal. The name of the file is no guarantee and the digital content could be anything. Ok software would be easier to identify but a ripped DVD would be harder as the digital content would vary depending on the bit rate and encoding used and would not contain any of the identification markers associated with a DRM.
Therefore the only guaranteed way to block Usenet Binaries with illegal content would be for a human to manually extract and review the content and make a decision on the legal status of the file. The cost to provide this level of checking would be prohibitive and probably more than these companies earn.
here ya go....
Playmobil or it didn't happen..
..Ohh I feel all Dirty Now.
re: "attached to something cheap and expendable"
Unfortunately Lawyers are not cheap, unless refering to their aftershave and dress sense.
Although I totaly agree with you about them being expendable.
Paris: Because she's cheap....
Connectivity and Formats
The ability to connect the reader to your PC (or computer of choice) and upload ebook and documents from other sources without sending these documents through their servers first would win my vote and open my wallet (despite the risk of loosing the moths that live in there).
Hmm. A Pint cos it's Friday.
Touchpad Anyone?
So now I know how they are using their last few remaining Touchpads
This is a remarkable sight people get to see all too rarely
Oh yes it is!
and...
It's Behind You!
@Martin
HP have said that they will be shipping more units into the country.
However it is not clear yet if they will be available thorugh reseller channels or direct from HP. Also not clear exactly when they will be available but I would expect them soonish.
What is clear is that they will be sold at the bargain price.
Next it will be a Horse's Head in Bed.
"The last thing we want is for anyone to get hurt," Said Jobs
Blimey. Didn't know that Jobs was a member of the Mafia!!!
@Micky 1
I used to have a Ford Focus which was build in 2003. Whilst out shopping the wife managed to lock the keys in the boot.
Called out the AA who promptly arrived, unscrewed one of the lights (I won't say which one), removed the bulb and connected a small box of tricks to the connections in the bulb socked. Pressed a button and the central locking unlocked all the door.
Time taken to from start to finish was about 2 minutes.
So there you go. Ford named as a manufacturer that certainly has done this in the past and probably still does.
Admittably you would still need the small box of tricks but I would imagine it was nothing special and any self respecting car thief would have one of these in their arsenal.
Look on the bright side.
I think you will find that Repeat Business is exactly what the Post Rapture pet care trade did expect.
The saying 'A fool as his money are easily parted' has never been more true.
Paris: because I wouldn't mind looking after her pet beaver post Rapture.....
"The chips are properly beef-fat fried."
The local chip shop cooks all their fish and chips in beef fat (or dripping). They have a small domestic deep fryer at the back with Veggie oil in just in case a vegitarian comes in but I don't think it gets much use.
The batter on the fish comes out a lovely deep brown colour and tastes devine.
Their portion sizes are huge and I think they get more daily trade than all the other chippies in the town put together.
The beef dripping way is the only way. Mmmmmmmmmm.
Shame in on a diet. I now fancy fish and chips for tea tonight. Going to have to convince our lass.
@Warhouse?
I wonder how long a contract you have to take out to get a free Uzi 9mm or a Phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range!
Ahhhhhh. The memories......
My First ever computer. Badgered my dad for one for ages in the run up to christmas. First computer I ever owned/programmed/tinkered with.
This was the computer that launched my interest into all thing computers and gadgets and ultimately launch me in a career in I.T.
Still got a couple in my collection along with one of every Spectrum Model (including the resonably rare 16k Spectrum (fully boxed)).
I also had an Acorn electron and then a BBC model B. Those were the days...........
Of cours these days I still run emulators to play the old games for these computers and tinker with programming.
I shall lift as pint or two tonight in celebration.
Mathster! Mathster! The villagerth are resthleth!
"Eric Goldman, a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law said. “Our government is going into court with half-baked facts and half-baked legal theories and shutting down operations. This is exactly what we thought the government couldn't do. I'm scratching my head why we aren’t' grabbing the pitchforks.”
I now have visions of the US Government living in a dark castle at the top of the hill with the US citizens marching up with pitchforks and flamming torches to burn them out.
Not a Bad....
..... List
But how about...
Nemesis - One of the few games I could complete. With the crowds gathering round to watch. Ahh the memories.
Gauntlet - Played this for many hours and many 10p's. I remember stacking up the 10p pieces on the machine to show you were playing for a long time and hogging the game.
Slap Fight - staying alive for as long as possible with out killing anything to get all the power ups.
Bubble Bobble - Lovely graphics, colourfull and fun to play.
Rear Gunner - One of the first sit down cabinet games. Simple vector graphics and once you learn the sequence you could play for hours on 10p.
Right... Where did I put my MAME roms...
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Nice Idea
I could see this taking off if it was redesigned as a stylish watch. And of course it would need to allow installation of widgets to customise the display to diferent clock/watch styles and notification styles.
It would also need some amount of inbuilt storage to allow syncronisation so if you were out of range of your phone (e.g. it's been left in a desk drawer) then you would still have access to your appointments/calendar, etc.
Trial my Media!
"TV cameras invited to record Ellis being led from his home in handcuffs"
So the police knock on his door (or knock down his door), handcuff him, read him his rights, then lead him out the door to face TV camera so that the whole world knows who he is and what he has been accused off.
Stinks of an attempt at trial by Media. Of course the police would say they invited the cameras for the positive publicity for the police. Shame nobody though (or did they?) about the negative publicity for the accused who is later acquitted.
OK he may have committed a crime (or not) and got away with it but what every happened to Innocent until proven guilty?
@Richard Scratcher
I'll buy the MK14 from you for £50 if that's all you want for it. I'll then sell it on ebay for a small fortune (especially if it is workin). Last one I saw sold for a few hundred quid
Shurley Not......
"someone living on a single 2D plane-space - that is as a mysterious circle suddenly blossoming into existence, growing, perhaps moving about and then shrinking down and vanishing again."
Surely for somebody to see the circle they would have to be living in 3d plane-space. Somebody living in 2D plane-space would just see an object (possibly like a line or wall) pop into existance, move about, grow wider, move nearer or further away and would curve away from them on either side.
Paris - Because she likes things that pop up, get bigger and move towards her!
@DarkNerd
"Who uses VGA cables anyway"
Dell on their M109s LED Projector obviously!
The clues in the article!
Mines the one with the bend VGA cable in the pocket.
@The March Hare - Here you go....
But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Glasgow Council ever done for us?
Ejector Seats? In Ambulances!
Surely if the driver is ejected out of the vehicle, in his seat, when he arrives at the scene and then decides that he needs to take the patient to hospital, he then has to waste time getting the seat back into the vehicle before he can drive it again.
There will then be an increase of cases where the patient either died at the scene or on the way to the hospital.
What a fecking ridiculous idea!
I bet Rob Thompson of the RCA backpedalled!
Hmmmmm....
"The BBC notes that in October this year company Coolbai acquired the right to many of his characters, and said it "planned to introduce Bagpuss to a new generation". "
No doubt using high end computer graphics therefore loosing the wonderful charm of the original animation.
I grew up with these characters and feel it is a sad day with the loss of one of their creators.
Pyrex!
"He explained: "I use batter mix that I pick up on my trips back to Blighty and my mum's old Pyrex dish. Perhaps the secret is to make them as she, as a true Yorkshirewoman, did. I try to follow in her steps."
Pyrex! Bloody Pyrex! Lad's got to be a bloody southerner.
What you need my lad is a good old fashioned metal Yorkshire Pudding Tin with a coating of carbon on it and bits of the last yorkshire pudding you made. Never wash the tin.
Put a good dollop of beef dripping or fat in the bottom and let it get very hot and smoking before you put in't mixture.
Bloody Pyrex!
I remember when all this were fields.
And Yes. I am a Yorkshire Lad born a and Bred. Bloody Pyrex!
Paris - because she knows you have to put it in hot.
@David Cornes
The article states:-
"VelociRaptor is actually two 2.5-inch 150GB platters housed in a 3.5-inch "IcePack" mounting frame. "
It's 2 platters not 2 drives. 1 platter on top of the other with read.write heads for each surface.
- Paris cos I can.
Yes Please!
Cool. I'll have one. No. Better make that two.
There you go nice mister salesman, one shiny new credit card.....
What do you mean 'It doesn't work'? But it hasn't been near any powerfull magnets......
...... Oh Bugger!
Paris, because she can float up and down on my guide bar any time she likes.
@Robinson
"I apologise in advance for my rant."
If your going to apologise in 'advance' then best get it in before the rant and not after.
Hang on a Minute...
Microsoft plans to issue seven security patches next Tuesday, three of which are rated "critical" because they could allow an attacker to remotely execute malicious code on an end user's machine.
Shouldn't that read 'stop' an attacker and not 'allow' an attacker?
Nope. Sorry. You were right first time. After All we are talking Microsoft.
Coat. Door. Pub. Taxi.
@ Lloyd
"Nice, they even got something for the ladies"
Surely it's a glass of wine for the Ladies! according to the Pub Landlord.
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