The message <48c2f493$0$517$bed64819>
from Richard Robinson <richardR> contains these words:
> Rusty Hinge 2 said:
> > The message <313030303432373948C241B231>
> > from Guy King <guy.king> contains these words:
> >> The message <48c1c156$0$521$bed64819>
> >> from Richard Robinson <richardR> contains these words:
> >
> >> > Mousealepsy, then.
> >
> >> It's a trackball.
> >
> > Horsalepsy.

> Batalepsy.

Pat O'Lepsy

The message <kcu5c4tpkslp612poii1pu8oqgrrjt1bjp>
from Frank Erskine <frank.erskine> contains these words:
> On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 19:33:43 +0100, Rusty Hinge 2
> <rusty.hinge> wrote:
> >The message <Ws6dnWG6-4XS1F_VRVnyiQA>
> >from Andy Burns <usenet.april2008> contains these words:
> >> On 06/09/2008 09:54, Austin Shackles wrote:
> >
> >> > Mind you, the number of files is scary, too.
> >> > The C: partition has file numbers
> >> > (NTFS) getting close to 100,000
> >
> >> On this flatpot, the NTFS partition is only 30 jiggerbites, but
> >> "DIR /S C:\" shows 174812 files in 74802 directories
> >
> >On my flaptop the whole HDD is only 4 gigglebites.

> IRTA:- "On my flapjack the whole HDD is only 4 gingerbites."

Sugar-coated lenses in yer glarses, ArFrank?

The message <1imvbnp.13azpibdnkpkmN%robraitxxxxx>
from robraitxxxxx (Rob) contains these words:
> Rusty Hinge 2 <rusty.hinge> wrote:

> > On my flaptop the whole HDD is only 4 gigglebites.

> Mine too - is yours an EEE? Nice bit of kit. Jbexf amazingly well at
> running DivX videos - the sound it produces through headphones is
> eggcellent.

'Tis indeed, EeeeeeeeeeeBaaaaaaGooooom. Word to the wise, if you haven't
discovered already - there's something in it wot eats batris, so if you
want the batri to stay charged for more than a few days, remove it from
the flaptop.

The message <313030303432373948C3084706>
from Guy King <guy.king> contains these words:
> The message <slrngc4tou.5j2.Ivan.Reid>
> from "Dr Ivan D. Reid" <Ivan.Reid> contains these words:

> > Muck on the rollers is a recurring problem -- one of the reasons I
> > always carry a Swiss Govenrnment Issue pocket-knife.

> I ain't seen a mechanical mouse for ages.

I have one attached to the compooter next to the one I'm tryping into.

On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 22:47:36 +0100, Rusty Hinge 2
<rusty.hinge> wrote:

>The message <o8Bwk.54060$E41.50800>
>from Esra Sdrawkcab <admin> contains these words:
>>Looxury! We 'ad an abacus.

I had Frank Castle's Logarithmic and other Tables for Schools.
And a six-inch (or so) ( I don't like to brag) slide rule, in a
leather case with two scale rules (one of which I still have
(somewhere)).

Serpently we didn't have any of these electric thingies (battery OR
mains).

A few years after I left school I visited the alma mater (at a nopen
day/evening) and the back end of one of the classrooms had been
partitionèd off and been fittèd with some sort of pewter terminals
connectèd, I goove, to the Technical College - all punchèd tape type
technology.

The thin end of the wedge, I fear...

The message <313030303230303848C3149986>
from Rusty Hinge 2 <rusty.hinge> contains these words:

> Sugar-coated lenses in yer glarses, ArFrank?

IRTA penises

In message <313030303230303848C2DB1759>, at 19:33:43
on Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Rusty Hinge 2 <rusty.hinge>
wibbled
>The message <Ws6dnWG6-4XS1F_VRVnyiQA>
>from Andy Burns <usenet.april2008> contains these words:

>> On this flatpot, the NTFS partition is only 30 jiggerbites, but
>> "DIR /S C:\" shows 174812 files in 74802 directories
>
>On my flaptop the whole HDD is only 4 gigglebites.
>
Coo! Posh!

My old flaptop has a 10MB MFM HD in an expansion box - along with 2MB of
EMS memory.

Rusty Hinge 2 <rusty.hinge> wrote:

> The message <1imvbnp.13azpibdnkpkmN%robraitxxxxx>
> from robraitxxxxx (Rob) contains these words:
> > Rusty Hinge 2 <rusty.hinge> wrote:
>
> > > On my flaptop the whole HDD is only 4 gigglebites.
>
> > Mine too - is yours an EEE? Nice bit of kit. Jbexf amazingly well at
> > running DivX videos - the sound it produces through headphones is
> > eggcellent.
>
> 'Tis indeed, EeeeeeeeeeeBaaaaaaGooooom. Word to the wise, if you haven't
> discovered already - there's something in it wot eats batris, so if you
> want the batri to stay charged for more than a few days, remove it from
> the flaptop.

I'd noticed that the battery didn't hold a charge too well - mine tends
to get used every now and then for many hours (on mains) then not very
much for a week or so - it always seems to be on half (or less) battery
after a week of being switched off, despite being fully charged after
the mains session. Can't think of anything that would discharge a
plugged-in battery on a switched-off loptap...

Will try the battery removal thing next time it's fully charged.

Rusty Hinge 2 said:
> from Esra Sdrawkcab <admin> contains these words:
>> Austin Shackles wrote:
>> > I can unforget 8K computers and cassette tapes for storage...
>
>> Looxury. we' ad sliderules.
>
> Looxury! We 'ad an abacus.

Eeeby'ecketc. We 'ad to evolve digits.

In uk.rec.sheds, (Andy Burns) wrote in
<2eKdnQON7sbcoV_VnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d>::

>On 05/09/2008 23:26, Carlton Miniott wrote:
>
>> Half a gig's about the min for XP
>
>IRTA "a gig's about half the min for XP" and was about to unagree.

Lydia runs XP Pro in 192MB - well, "strolls" would be nearer the truth.

Delivered an eee 1000 to a custard today, for her son what is off to
uni. Very nice little chamine it is too, sorta handbag/big pocket size
but a usable screen and keyboard. Also supplied a separate LCD monitor,
wireless rodent and keyboard and outboard DVD box and disk box, for when
it's in desktop mode. Lydia wants one, now. *sigh*

On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:48:36 GMT
Esra Sdrawkcab <admin> wrote:

> Austin Shackles wrote:

> > I can unforget 8K computers and cassette tapes for storage...
>
> Looxury. we' ad sliderules.

I still use my slide rule occasionally.

On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 14:23:44 +0100, Rob <robraitxxxxx>
wrote in <1imunvt.8ua65n372jswN%robraitxxxxx>:
> Dr Ivan D. Reid <Ivan.Reid> wrote:

>> Remember that memory should be installed in matched pairs. (If one
>> of your new sticks has failed, I expect that'd disable its mate as well.)

> Is this still true? I thought that with modern DDR RAM you could install
> single modules - you serpently can in this Mac, which only has one
> upgradable RAM slot - I recently replaced the 512Mb one with a 1Gb one.

Well, I intended the emphasis on "matched"; DDR can usually be
installed as singletons but then you lose the dual-channel interface so
memory access is slower. Looking at a mobo manual it seems DDR2 is the
same, but I have a vague recollection that DDR3 must be installed in
pairs, like RDRAM.

Costing the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Andy Burns said:
> On 06/09/2008 19:21, Carlton Miniott wrote:
> > I know, I'm wondering if the check where the numbers scroll up is a
> > check of the NVRAM or the ordinary RAM.
>
> The ordinary RAM, chamines generally have between 64bytes and 512bytes
> (not kB, MB or GB, just B) of NVRAM wot is flattery backed CMOS.
>
Yeh I had a vague memory (haha DYSWIDT?) of it going all the way up to
2.5G after I first fitted the modules.
I reseated them last night just after switching off and it's all there
today. Must ask L how many attempts it took to boot today.
I suspect the problem has been that it was unseated and randomly giving
trouble on that account.
And I know why it was unseated - the CPU fan makes a hideous noise (but
spins fast enough to keep the CPU under 50degrees), and until I get a
replacement I've been fixing that by giving the case a bit of percussive
maintenance until it shuts up. Must have managed to knock the RAM loose!

Costing the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Rusty Hinge 2
said:
> The message <MPG.232c452de051df5c98a59a>
> from Carlton Miniott <davebudd> contains these words:
>> Assuming you has more than one slot crammed with memory, I'd guess the
> biggerer one isn't seated comfortably.
>It was. I mean, it was that, inasmuchas it wasn't (seated comfortably)

Costing the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Esra Sdrawkcab
said:
>
> Looxury. we' ad sliderules.
>
I've still got 2.

A nabacus hit me on the head yesterday morning.

I'm now storing it on a different shelf, and flat.