h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

*wonders whether it will get its own smiley*
*reflects that isn't far off*
*feels slightly more cheerful in a beanbaggy way*

Welcome Geggs and (cool smiley)

Phil already covered most of our techy gadgets. I also have my Kindle and an ancient, broken PS1.

Pastey, well done on the entry, no big surprise the subject relates to fermented beverages.

MC

Thanks Eats, unfortunately Virgin aren't so obliging, rang them and they said they would charge £15.32. They recommended scouting online for a free code.

Oooh dear the backlog has returned to normal levels .

Tech bits
Typing this from my 4 year old laptop with a partially fried video card, the colours are getting worse every day, typical, it is a known fault with these that the video card gets cooked, but mine only started to show trouble a year after the guarentee ran out.
Two other working machines around a first generation Asus netbook and an old IBM laptop (Pentium 3 and a whole 256M of ram).
A newer Asus netbook also around but I need to put it back together, I bought it cheap as it had a failed hard drive, I've replaced that but haven't got round to loading software on it (it won't be windows no matter how many stickers M$ seem to have fixed to it).

Phone mine does calls & texts only but it has one big advantage, it's a company one
However I keep looking at the reviews for the Galaxy note and thinking one of them could be useful....

Hi to Geggs and the Mammoth (I think I've seen that bean bag before?)

Workwise at the moment I seem to mostly in the land of Two Legs, but with occasional visits to the kingdom of the Dreadfuls. Unfortunatly both sites mean I haven't had time to be socialable (off to work for yet another night very shortly.)

Eats the old railway telegraph and teleprinter codes were much the same, very precise and easy to understand if you knew what they meant.

Nice entry, Pastey. Are you going to submit it to PR?

Ooooh, shiny new smilies!

Let's see....

*sips *

Wonders if the little has found all the gnomes and hampsters yet, and if the is coming to the meet in February.

mini

A ! Another furry animal to cuddle up to.

That's not too good Candi. Bummer. What a rip off though. For 2 minutes work.

Where's Wandering Albatross? I just realized we haven't seen him in a few days. I hope he will be nicer to this little mammoth than he was to the mammoth mammoth.

Not sure what WA told us he'd be up to, but I very recently spotted a Bruce...

That answers my questions about the iPad. Thanks

Hello to Mammoth, Geggs, Bondage, and anyone else I don't know yet!

I must keep reminding myself that people in other places don't go for long car rides. First I was surprised to see that it takes 3 hours to get from Swindon to Manchester. When S used to live at the other end of my State, I was doing a 6 hour one-way drive, spending two days with her, and then the 6 hour drive back once a month.

Once I drove down there at 11 o'clock at night, because she was sick. I didn't tell her. I got there at 5am, then realized that she probably wanted to sleep, and not have someone knocking on her door.

[GDZ]

Yes, I am seriously trying to go to the Manchester meet. I will work out the logistics this weekend.

Back to my backup question, what I really want is something that runs in the background periodically, all by itself. Perhaps even a cloud solution so the backup is stored offsite. I worry about that, though because I want to make sure all my passwords are secure. And I don't want to backup just the data. I want my programs backed up, too. Acronis does what I believe is called a disk image?

WM, you might check out mozy too. In open disclosure, I now work for the corporation that owns the parent company of mozy. Their solutions may work for you, however.

Thanks, Marv. That might do the trick.

Bruce, Titania, you spotted Bruce?!

Yes. I think he posted in Pastey's journal.

Lil said: "I wish there was some way we could see the conversation we're replying to, while we're replying to it."

The only way I've been able to do that, Lil, is to click the "Reply" link below the posting you want to directly respond to. Then the text of ~that~ posting shows below the Posting window. Typically what I do is keep a word processing document open in the background and simply add comments concerning particular posts to the document as I read through the backlog. Then it's a simple matter of Cut-n-Paste to transfer my responses onto the thread. I even save the document with a filename identifying the forum to which it pertains, i.e., the running Subject line of the thread. I've got a bunch of Yours, BTW...

Howdy to Geggs and to the Little Lost Mammoth!

So we are beginning to see a whole slew of 'undocumented' smileys showing up in the threads. Wonder if they're slipping across the border under the cover of night.


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