Posts by IanTP

Have The Martians disabled it in readiness for an attack?

"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one" he said... IYKYK :)

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Happy Days

Remembering my first PC after my Amiga, it was a 486 SX/33 which I upgraded to a 486 DX4/100, the modem was a 28.8 baud and my first ISP was Compuserve from a magazine CD, the PC came installed with WFW 3.11, a friend had a copy of Win 95 on floppy which was quickly installed.

Happy days indeed.

Mines the one with the Win 95 floppies in the pocket -->

Windscale 10th October 1957

approx 22 years then

Three Mile Island 28th March 1979

approx 7 years then

Chernobyl 26th April 1986

approx ?

?

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Memories

I had an Amiga 500+ with an extra floppy drive which made life much easier, apart from game playing I also created documents. flyers and rotas for work, I had a HP inkjet printer connected, happy days, wish I still had it.

It's Friday, have one on me -->

20 foot robots with nail guns, I'm sure it will be fine, what could go wrong...

Around Here

My estate was built in the late 1960's \ early 70's and was quite unusual to me that there were no telephone poles, now the estate is covered in them, why couldn't openreach use the original ducting that they probably put in originally I wonder?

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Correction

The corrections link has vanished, so

Paragraph 7, line 1 Huge Grant should read Hugh Grant, does no one proof read anymore?

Beer because its Friday

Oh Dear, How Sad

What A Pity,

Never Mind.

Persecutor of disabled people in the UK and probably elsewhere too.

Mines the one with the work capability assessment in the pocket.

'Apple iCloud, Apple Music, and Apple Fitness appear to have been spared from the latest round of price increases, for now at least.'

iCloud increased in price a few months ago, my 2TB plan went from £6.99 to £8.99 an increase of around 25%

Beer because its Friday eve :)

Do Not Change The Settings

Staying in Croyde, Devon one year and the toaster had the following above it:

Please do not change the settings on the toaster as this will set the fire alarm off.

Still makes me chuckle.

How many trillions in debt is the US, waiting for it to be called in.

Friday tomorrow and we all know what that means. Be well

If we don't end war, war will end us - H.G. Wells

Said the in the 1936 film, Things to Come.

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My First PC

It was from Radio Rentals (who remembers them) it was a 486 sx33 and came with Windows 3.11 for workgroups, my first upgrade was to a 486 DX4/100 and a friend who had a Win 95 CD, I still miss them both.

Mines the one with a box of floppys in the pocket :)

Who Me?

I sense a story here in a couple of years. hey it's also Friday :)

House Insurance

So working from home, how would this affect your house insurance, would you need to have extra cover because you are now taking part in business? Just a thought.

Mines the one with Insurance for Dummies in the pocket.

Just checked the link on the Outemu Blue-equipped and it's back to £60, never mind, I am now seriously looking for a new keyboard, so may give the Aukey KM-G6 a try.

Current keyboard is a MS 200 wired one, which is not bad i have to say.

Thanks for the article.

New equipment required!

Thank you, although you do owe me a new keyboard and monitor, due to 'issues' quite possibly the best BOFH yet :)

Size matters?

It's shrunk, as the actress said to the bishop....

Sorry, it's Friday and I'm off to Skegvegas,

Have one on me -------->

Thanks Richard, I must have missed this gem on Friday as it's now 2am Sunday morning with a bottle of Haig Clubman on special. Have one on me

faecal recognition?

"Well, faecal recognition software for door access."

You owe me for a new keyboard, Simon!

Mine's the one with the bog roll in the pocket :)

That's no moon....

Sorry, I'll get me coat.

Beer later :)

Lloyds affected?

Problems using my debit card today, 1st time was declined, 2nd time ok, person behind counter said it had been happening a lot today.

Will it run Crysis?

Sorry, having a daft day here, have an almost midweek beer on me :)

The Burger King vs McDonalds war is coming. (Judge Dredd, Cursed Earth story) The final breakdown of American society :)

Obligatory nuke icon.