Well College finished for summer a few weeks ago. I've been busy sorting out life in general which is why I haven't been around. It's now the holidays and I've got nothing to do as the girlfriends gone to Australia.

I'm currently sat in full bunny costume surrounded by furs, pirates, the grim reaper and several agents of the matrix. Everything seems completely normal, i didn't think the vodka was THAT strong!

I remember the recall; I wasn't handy at the time to check but didn't think that board was one affected... I may have been wrong though. Ho hum. Never mind. It's an excuse to upgrade my desktop machine a bit, not that I use it much :/

Ahh... let me guess, the board is only a year or two old and had capacitors of bulk supply Taiwanese origin - possibly an ABit board? There was a well publicized recall of a large number of mobos for precisely that problem over a year ago - something to do with one of the capacitor manufacturers supplying the motherboard firms using a slightly unstable chemical compound that degraded, slowly releasing gas and causing the caps to leak.

Ummm, leaking capacitors on the mainboard actually. Though I don't know what caused them, since it's behind a surge protector and the rest of the machine is fine...

Are you implying that you managed to single-handedly, or by act of God, render the family PC's existing components completely non-functional? If so, how? Only three things spring to mind -

1. A power spike (this would also mash the HD and screen, so unlikely)
2. All the fans grinding to a halt due to dust/overuse and the machine going pop due to heat (unless someone had been overclocking it, or keeping it in a woodshed I think this is also unlikely)
3. Someone repeatedly poking the components with big, pointy, statically charged sticks until it broke

What did I tell you about cleaning CPUs with a tesla coil? ;)

Anyway, www.novatech.co.uk and www.ebuyer.co.uk are the usual sources of shiny new cruft. Novatech are cheap for most stuff, but EBuyer is sometimes better for memory and cases. Bear in mind that it's worth checking delivery charges though, since you can always bribe someone to drive you to Novatech to save on postage.

Well, due to act of Rob, Nanki currently has no motherboard, CPU, or RAM in it, due to being cannibalised to get the family PC up and running again. Gr.

Soooo... I need, as soon as I can afford, to buy new ones, plus a new case. Any suggestions for cheap? Other than novatech?

Rob: Which machine did we do "The Craft" rip on? I have a feeling it was Nanki. Any sign of a distinctly oversized, underquality DivX on that drive - my copy went walk-about in an act of Microsoft.

On another note, on a scale of Notepad to Frontpage, how irritatingly bad is the output from the new Blogger "Compose" window? I personally rate it somewhere just short of Frontpage. I assume that everyone is using the "Edit HTML" tab until such time as Blogger come to their senses.

Purple yay.

Um, anyone who had files in their home directory on nanki-poo, please let me know if you want them back; I'm decommissioning the main hard disc in that machine (not in any explosive way, just putting it in the cupboard and hoping it rots), and I'd rather not have to play IDE-swapsies again.

*goes to play with FreeBSD*

ooo... purple :D did kinda prefer it at the side though *waits for a slap from jimbly* :P

He loves it really.

(Too big text is entirely my fault - I put everything up half done and tried to finish it live, but forgot about sorting out the archive links.)

Thinking about it, he's not actually been Jimbly'd for nearly nine months now, the frigid old bollock.

Question is, does Mr. Warbeck mind being forcibly Jimbly'd on an irregular basis? And in purple, no less.

Funky logo, though the archives bit at the bottom doesn't seem to like Firefox much - the text is too big. </nitpicking>

Oh well, at least Linda will approve of the colour scheme ;)

Currently broken in Konqueror. This will be fixed in the next few days. This should now be working in pretty much everything.

*raises his pint on high in honour of the developers of the BSDs*

Although admittedly I've not had to do kernel recompilage on any of them yet...

Ah, fresh meat I see ;)

On another note, kernel recompiles are the spawn of Satan. mod_perl installs are the fetid excrement of the spawn of Satan.

Just thought I'd clarify that, for the benefit of those who do not regularly abuse Linux for profit :P

Hello.

hello world.

Impressive...

(21:48:08) Ficlogic: oh yes, jimmy, how much do you know about perkin warbeck? the man I mean

(21:48:17) jimbly: not a huge amount, really

(21:48:40) Ficlogic: I found him in a historical chronology I'd been reading, hadn't realised he was a real person

(21:48:57) Ficlogic: only two things I remember, that he was executed for treason, and the date of the execution. November 23rd 1499

(21:49:15) Ficlogic: 1+4+9+9=.....

(21:49:30) Ficlogic: amused me greatly

*twitches*