Life's so drokking fantastic because (the rebirth)

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

Happy honeymoon etc.

[staticgirl]

Awwwwwwwwwww. 

[I, Cosh]

Congratulations Mr & Mrs Banner. I shall try to conceal my disappointment at how little you look like Shade in real life.

[Something Fishy]

Congrats Banners and Mrs Banners.

[maryanddavid]

Congrats, health and happiness to you both!

[TordelBack]

Well done you two, enjoy the honeymoon, and no sneaking off to the internet terminal in the lobby at 3am to check the forum for new Dredd movie pics.

[Tiplodocus]

Belated Congrats to the Banners!

I've spent most of the day playing on my new tablet and loading about a year's worth of digital progs onto it so I can finally read the prog on the bog again.  So this DAYS OF CHAOS story? Is it any good?

[Tiplodocus]

"Dad, can I borrow some comics to read before I go to bed? What's Robusters? Stainless Steel Rat? Batman Year One?"

[DoomBot]

Jeez, you go away and fail to check a thread in a week or two and all sorts of stuff goes on. Belated congrats to the Bannerses ... and Sharkey! Glad you're still with us, take it easy.

Now paying more attention...

[TordelBack]

Yesssss, let the dead fluidsss flow!  After gutting no less than four antiquated PCs salvaged from various skips (one from a hay barn, I kid you not) I have finally succeeded in cobbling together a Frankenstein's monster of a thing that actually turns on, doesn't emit any smoke, and housed and ran my knackered 1996 hard-drive long enough to Ubuntu its pre-millennial arse and extract all my juicy files, previously lost to a shocking 50% survival rate on a pile of backup 20-year old floppies (one still housed my very first ever PC document, from 1989...).

I stand before you a living god of irreplacable data retrieval, a minimum of 200 euros heavier, thank you very much rapacious IT parasites of the greater Dublin area.

I'm also absurdly proud of my hideous creation as it whirrs away on the desk beside me, its guts still hanging out of an undersized Dell case, the first PC I've owned in a decade - Pentium 4 2Ghz processor, 1.5GB ram, 30-ich flat screen monitor, puny 80GB hard-drive (the 250GB one I salvaged turned out to have a non-standard power connector), DVD burner and floppy drive, all just ripe for some gratuitous open-source experimentation.  And all free - nay, morally superior even to that - recycled.

Rise, my undead patchwork offspring, riiiissse!


OBLIGATORY CHILDISHNESS:  Hall-ooo 20th C porn!  Cripes, I'd forgotten how much I've missed pubic hair.

[Professor Bear]

"Is that why they called it Bush Porn in your day, da?"

[Frank]

After gutting no less than four antiquated PCs salvaged from various skips (one from a hay barn, I kid you not) I have finally succeeded in cobbling together a Frankenstein's monster of a thing

Fearlessly challenging the outside world's tired preconceptions concerning the quaint, rural and slightly shambolic nature of life in your part of the word. Alan Parker and John Ford are in a bidding war for the movie rights to this anecdote.

[TordelBack]

Fearlessly challenging the outside world's tired preconceptions concerning the quaint, rural and slightly shambolic nature of life in your part of the word.

Evacuate?  In our moment of triumph? 

[staticgirl]

I have a frankenputer. Various bits of it date back to the late 90s. It works as fast as a weasel on crack now since I reformatted it and refused to put more than about 5 programs on it. I don't use it as much as my netbook any more but it's good to have a backup.

[TordelBack]

It works as fast as a weasel on crack now since I reformatted it and refused to put more than about 5 programs on it.

I've gone a bit overboard playing with my little abomination, but it really is fun.  I've scavenged up WiFi and Bluetooth adapters, a monstrous Wacom A3 tablet from the middle palaeozoic, patched in a secondary HD, and have it merrily running the current distro of Ubuntu at a brisk pace.  I'm using most of the same cross-platform opensource apps on a Mac desktop in a temporary storage place I'm working in, and on an old PC laptop I use for mobile work, and they're all synced through Dropbox, and double-backed-up in turn on Ubuntu One.  I'm now happily hopping from one to the other depending on where I am and picking up exactly where I left off.  It all seems frightfully modern to my smart-phoneless mind, it's been mildly educational (Linux was a revelation - great stuff altogether, and it really is just like Unix), and more importantly, it's entirely free.

My next project is rehabilitating a huge Windows server which I had partly cannibalised before I realised that there was a full-clone backup HD left in there that worked fine, so all the server software is still there.  I'm sure I'll find a use for it.