On 27/4/06 22:18, "Alan Brand" wrote:
>
> Stuart Rogers wrote:
>> My goodness, it's quiet around here.
>
> Too bl**dy true - I've hardly been awoken from my napping at all in the
> last few weeks.
Sorry, did I wake you?
>> My usenet client must be getting
>> lonely as it's suddenly downloaded about seventy headers from a few
weeks
>> back. Most of it is from that rush of cross-posted junk we had - maybe
>> my usenet program's decided to stage a retrospective exhibition.
>
> Is it displaying them in a tasteful Gothic Sepia font?
Funnily enough, yes.
> AlanB, planning a Norman Wisdom retrospective girl
I've been suffering a PC retrospective all this week. One of my old
PCs has come back to haunt me. A couple of years ago I gave it to
Rachel, who has recently given it to her brother, who has promptly
managed to break it, so I've been fixing it. It was dreadfully sick,
and after many hours of surgery I decided it was better to nuke
it - well, wipe the hard disc and start again. It was a scary reminder
of why I had abandoned Windows. Windows Installation hell, and the
merry-go-round that is the Windows Update system. And then there's
all the drivers to find and install. And then the applications.
And then setting things up so as to minimise the chances of its
return any time in the near future...
Stuart
|
