Hi List, this is a reminder including amendments to the previous post...
BaB meeting Saturday 6th March
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Talks
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We have one offer for a talk so far;
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I have been asked to recommend a laptop to replace a 3 year old and ailing HP
running XP, and to fit the following brief:
Must be durable
Must not run Windows (specifically mentioned as acceptable were MAC OS and
Linux)
Budget c. £800/£900 (that is based on the cost of a suitable MAC)
I have
On 4 March 2010 11:51, Lisi hants...@googlemail.com wrote:
I have been asked to recommend a laptop to replace a 3 year old and ailing
HP
running XP, and to fit the following brief:
Ailing? Three years old? I usually don't buy them until they're that old!
Budget c. £800/£900 (that is based
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 11:51:40AM +, Lisi wrote:
I have been asked to recommend a laptop to replace a 3 year old and ailing HP
running XP, and to fit the following brief:
Must be durable
Must not run Windows (specifically mentioned as acceptable were MAC OS and
Linux)
Budget c.
On 1 February 2010 12:21, Chris. Aubrey-Smith cas...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, all!
Quite a while ago, I had a problem with a machine which suddenly wouldn't
start. After several attempts it started and ran normally and then would,
again, refuse to start. On power-up, the fan would sometimes
On 4 March 2010 12:48, Hugo Mills h...@carfax.org.uk wrote:
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 11:51:40AM +, Lisi wrote:
I have been asked to recommend a laptop to replace a 3 year old and ailing HP
running XP, and to fit the following brief:
Must be durable
Must not run Windows (specifically
On Thursday 04 March 2010 12:59:21 Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
I've been ill for
a while.
I'm so sorry to hear that Chris. I hope that you are soon back to your usual
outgoing appearance of health. (I hate to accuse anyone of our age of
actually _being_ healthy!)
Lisi
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On Thursday 04 March 2010 12:42:49 Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
Ailing? Three years old? I usually don't buy them until they're that old!
That's why he wants to buy something of higher reliability and greater
longevity. :-)
Lisi
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On Thursday 04 March 2010 14:25:54 Lisi wrote:
On Thursday 04 March 2010 12:59:21 Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
I've been ill for
a while.
I'm so sorry to hear that Chris. I hope that you are soon back to your
usual outgoing appearance of health. (I hate to accuse anyone of our age
of
On Thursday 04 March 2010 11:51:40 Lisi wrote:
I have been asked to recommend a laptop to replace a 3 year old and ailing
HP running XP, and to fit the following brief:
Must be durable
Must not run Windows (specifically mentioned as acceptable were MAC OS and
Linux)
Budget c. £800/£900
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 02:46:19PM +, Lisi wrote:
I would also be glad for any comments fron anyone who would feel able to
compare with Mac for hardware quality.
My experiences (both direct(*) and vicarious(**)) of Apple hardware
is that it's actually not terribly reliable. Anecdotally,
On 4 March 2010 14:32, Lisi hants...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Thursday 04 March 2010 14:25:54 Lisi wrote:
On Thursday 04 March 2010 12:59:21 Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
I've been ill for
a while.
I'm so sorry to hear that Chris. I hope that you are soon back to your
usual outgoing
Lisi wrote:
On Thursday 04 March 2010 14:25:54 Lisi wrote:
On Thursday 04 March 2010 12:59:21 Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
I've been ill for
a while.
I'm so sorry to hear that Chris. I hope that you are soon back to your
usual outgoing appearance of health. (I hate to accuse anyone of our
Jacqui Caren-home wrote:
I was in a discussion with someone on a spam list about the definition of
old school and I suggested that anyone who remembers a time before SMTP
was de-facto should not be called old school but old gits and yes that
includes me :-)
Does that make me a old-old git
On 4 March 2010 16:40, Jim Kissel j...@osml.eu wrote:
Jacqui Caren-home wrote:
I was in a discussion with someone on a spam list about the definition of
old school and I suggested that anyone who remembers a time before SMTP
was de-facto should not be called old school but old gits and yes
That would be a 'yes' I think, or perhaps a grand old git (paving the
way for great grand old gits later in the thread who would need to
demonstrate their skills in hand-punching paper tape bootstrap
programs)
Not a bootstrap but I can remember splicing paper tapes to make corrections
in the
** Jacqui Caren-home jacqui.ca...@ntlworld.com [2010-03-04 15:54]:
Lisi wrote:
On Thursday 04 March 2010 14:25:54 Lisi wrote:
On Thursday 04 March 2010 12:59:21 Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
I've been ill for
a while.
I'm so sorry to hear that Chris. I hope that you are soon back to your
Victor Churchill wrote:
First job at IBM had punch cards. Second one at EMI used paper tape
reader/writers mounted on the side of the teletypes as I recall.
Punch cards were better than paper tape for roaches ;-)
Yes, but paper tape made better Christmas decorations.
cheers
Chris
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Jacqui Caren-home wrote:
BTW: I did my back in this morning and am teleworking OK but have to stop
far more often than normal. Why is back pain so distracting?
Well, simply put, pretty much all of the information from the top of you
neck down is sent and received via your spinal chord -
On 4 March 2010 18:24, Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com wrote:
Victor Churchill wrote:
First job at IBM had punch cards. Second one at EMI used paper tape
reader/writers mounted on the side of the teletypes as I recall.
Punch cards were better than paper tape for roaches ;-)
Yes, but
Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
A philosophical question: O.T. or not O.T?
I've been amusing myself recently with an old machine on which I've
installed Version 7 Unix, ported to the x386 architecture. (System III was
the latest thing when I started, but there was still a lot of Version 7
On Thursday 04 March 2010 18:16:19 Victor Churchill wrote:
On 4 March 2010 17:18, Bob Dunlop bob.dun...@xyzzy.org.uk wrote:
That would be a 'yes' I think, or perhaps a grand old git (paving the
way for great grand old gits later in the thread who would need to
demonstrate their skills in
On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:50:30 +
Jacqui Caren-home jacqui.ca...@ntlworld.com wrote:
BTW: I did my back in this morning and am teleworking OK but have to
stop far more often than normal. Why is back pain so distracting?
I suffer with back pain due to a crushed vertebra resulting from riding
a
On 4 March 2010 21:59, Lisi hants...@googlemail.com wrote:
We had to carry data in Securicor vans on the motorway from the various sites
to HQ, so that the punch card room could punch the data up and computer
operators could feed it into the one enormous machine .
I recall an old
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 17:36:28 +
Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote:
I can't for the life of me think whether it was pre-SMTP being
de-facto, but I do remember the fun of setting up special addresses
on the IBM gateway at work to route internet addressed email into my
IBM Profs/Office Vision
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 21:59:10 +
Lisi hants...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Thursday 04 March 2010 18:16:19 Victor Churchill wrote:
On 4 March 2010 17:18, Bob Dunlop bob.dun...@xyzzy.org.uk wrote:
That would be a 'yes' I think, or perhaps a grand old git
(paving the way for great grand old
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 11:29:03PM +, Victor Churchill wrote:
On 4 March 2010 21:59, Lisi hants...@googlemail.com wrote:
We had to carry data in Securicor vans on the motorway from the various
sites
to HQ, so that the punch card room could punch the data up and computer
operators
john lewis wrote:
Our moggy doesn't mind me lying flat as it gives her a nice place to go
to sleep ;-)
That reminds me of the now-departed Patsy, who used to act as a feline
heat pad and acupuncture machine when I was study with the OU while
awaiting surgery on my back. A lot of my reading
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