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

Um, long and pointless story:

My brother and I used to write silly little games in the Games Factory, or QBasic or whatnot. We used to use the name "Software Owls (UK)" after the hilarious owl sprite in Klik & Play (Games Factory's predecessor). We even gave ourselves owl pseudonyms too... I was "Owl of Doom" (Doom being a place!) and my brother was "Owl from Beyond" (silly Magic: the Gathering joke).

When my mother first got AOHell (our first taste of the 'Internet' *cough*) all those years ago, we needed screen-names for ourselves. I chose "OwlofDoom", and the rest (apparently) is history. I chose OwlofDoom as my login name for everything - even Yahoo and MSN had no-one of that name!

How come you're Snowman, then?

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Oh, I do have an unhealthy obsession with owls too...

I have about 15-20 stuffed toys of owls, and various other things too, including an owl snail-fork holder (seriously!), an owly-bank, an owl mouse-mat and (for this year) and owl calendar!

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Triple-post! at Owl!

I meant "an owl calendar". Stupid damn fingers won't type!

How did I become ?

Well its to do with my surname, I think you can sort of guess the rest.

Aha. You're Mr Snow?

Fun indeed. Or perhaps your real name is Bonhomme deNeige (well, we can only hope ) ...

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Aha you'd be right
It's annoying having snow as a surname when you're young because you get asked things like:
"Will it snow tomorrow ?" and this could be in the summer time

You're OK, I got all the rubbish about "Daley Mail" ... blah. And then when you're a bit older, it naturally becomes "Daley Sport". Oh ho ho ho ho ho.

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I had to think for a minute there, but I have visited you personal website so it makes sense.

. indeed.

I was about to say you were a conversation killer but it would appear you want people to talk about talkers. I have read A976557 so I may pop over to PeerReview

Heh heh. Hooray!

I was going to accuse you of killing the conversation again but luckily for you I've updated my personal space and I was wondering what you think of it.

I think it looks great, Snowman! And I get a namecheck too (not just a tag either, even though there is one there)...

There are a couple of typos in the paragraph about linux (I needn't spell them out to you, as you're blatantly a competent SubEd) which presumably come from being too key-happy (real expression?)...



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nedd!?! and wan!?! It comes from thinking faster then I can type.
From one of our other conversations, do you know how to rebuild a kernel?

Don't mind me, just moving this to the top of your conversations.

Oops. How I didn't notice that I don't know.

Yeah, I know how to rebuild a kernel. It depends on what distro you're using, of course. I have some instructions for debian, but it's part automated for debian users.

I know there's a generic kernel-building script developed by a spod I know at http://sty.nu/packages/kernel/kernbuild.sh , but I don't know how good it is for newbies.

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I wasn't really asking how to rebuild a kernel I just wanted to know if you knew which you do.

Ahaaaaaaaaa. Yes, I have a nice 2.4.20 on my system. But it's kind of important to build your own kernel, cos it's very unlikely that all your hardware will work otherwise...

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Well I daren't rebuild my kernel because the modem will stop working because it's driver only works for my current kernel and I'd have to get new drivers and a new kernel may not be supported.
Anyway?

Nah. You just make sure you get the right modem patch for your kernel before you build it. And 2.4.20 has support for most of the winmodem thingies built in...

Hmm. New conversation time? You seen that you get a plug on my PS now?

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