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I used to have the Galaxian machine shown on this page Coleco Mini-Arcade Tabletop Games | Like Totally 80s I might still have it in my mother's loft - she's in Australia - I'll have to have a look when I go for a visit at Christmas.

Found this today 18 Star Trek screen projects that never happened | Den of Geek

More, More, More by Andrea True Connection (more for the circumstances than the song itself)

Another masterpiece by Akira Kurosawa, my favourite director.

Sputnik-1 replica used to test the real thing goes under the hammer The auction catalog https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24253/ (It's lot 52)

My garage gets used for three things : making things - my bench and vice are in there my weights and bench are in there drying the washing in the winter - I can do this in the washer/dryer but a couple of fans are much cheaper to run and it drys fine With that, the car sits on the drive outside. The weight bench takes up about 1/3 of the garage and more if you include my wall mounted chinup bar. The bar also gets used to hold a safety post when I want to use by cycle rollers. Here's a pic - the bike is my Brompton. http://images.yuku.com/image/jpg/b850f07645634649b14a3646b36cd967_r.jpg

Isn't that what the NT kernel is supposed to be? AFAIK NT, 2000, XP, Vista, W7, W8, W10 and Phone 8 are all built on "New Technology"

I wonder if the automatic tills at the Tesco by college will be handing out the old £1 after the 15th October? Every day this week I have received on old £1 as part of my change. Last week I had trouble getting an old £1 into one till.

I had to unblock the site to make it available https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/zm3eay/i-broke-some-old-laws-in-front-of-police-to-see-if-theyd-arrest-me The laws broken : It Is Illegal To Beat Or Shake Any Carpet, Rug Or Mat In Any Street In The Metropolitan Police District After 8am It Is Illegal To Gamble In A Library It Is Illegal To Handle Salmon In Suspicious Circumstances It Is Illegal To Jump The Queue In A Ticket Hall It Is Illegal To Sing Any Profane Or Obscene Song Or Ballad In Public It Is Illegal To Wear A Suit Of Armour In Parliament

Midshire here. We used to be with Danwood but SMT wanted a change.

We've found the generic W10 graphics driver to be pants - better to use one from the graphics card manufacturer. For my ATI Radeon HD2400 Pro there is no W10 driver but the W8 version works just fine.

I'm a fan of JoergSprave, maker of lethal slingshots and assorted rubber band powered weapons. This would destroy an hard drive

Here's one https://www.quietpc.com/mono-aio and another ATX Desktop, Tower, Combo PC case chassis with monitor VESA mount. BL-01B. WT01L or roll your own Mounting Monitor to Computer Case: 6 Steps

We experienced less problems back in the big iron and mini days. The problem is computers these days are cheap and nasty. I was only thinking the other day, how I never experienced o/s crashes on the £60,000 (that's 1997 pounds), IBM RS/6000 that was my development machine. I really miss the days when I regularly worked in £1,000,000+ boxes, and you had to know what you were doing before you were even allowed to look at one.

I run openSuse on my home box; I've been running it for three years. It's great except for the dreaded systemd. I'm going to reinstall it soon and try PCLinuxOS - the only rpm distro without systemd. 17 years of Linux at home now (I've never owned a Windows box) and I first used Linux professionally in 1997.

I watching the season of Laurel and Hardy films being shown on Talking Pictures TV. I don't know the last time that any where on the TV, except for The Flying Deuces which pops up sometimes. Yesterday was Block-Heads , still very funny.

Why do you hate the way Apple work? With Apple you buy the complete solution. With M$ you buy an o/s and then you have to buy some hardware to run it on. Different marketing strategies. Apple is akin to buying a car. Microsoft is akin to buying a kit car. Kit car are usually unfinished and unreliable.

What do you call a man with a rabbit up his bum? Warren What do you call a man in a swimming pool, who has no arms and legs? Bob

I do like the Terry Pratchett method https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/30/terry_pratchetts_unfinished_works_destroyed_by_steamroller/

we used Koha at one school - very good it was too!

At one place I worked, we used a combination of the odd job man (who was a body builder), a sledge hammer and a cold chisel. Guaranteed destruction and very cheap!

@Ephelyon perhaps you need one of these? Top 5 SAD Lights in 2016 Our science techie is in an office with no windows and she has second one on the list.

Here's 1,069 Robots Dancing in Unison - Atlas Obscura Speaking of robots, for only £2,500ish you can own Samantha, a NSFW bot Synthea Amatus - Synthea Amatus Maybe that C4 series isn't too far away.

I used to sort of have one. At one job that I had for a year, my desk was a monitor on the wall with a shelf underneath for keyboard and mouse. It was in the server room, with no windows but on the plus side it was great in the summer. I used to spend as much time as possible visiting the users - anything for daylight. The standing up wasn't too good either. A good chair will help your back no end. I have a BackApp Chair on loan and I'm finding it very good although I still get up and walk about a lot. The downside is they are quite high and I had to put my desk on bricks. I went to the Back Pain Show a couple of months ago and saw one there, and tried it for 20 mins or so. Felt great. When I had one delivered, it didn't feel too good for the first week, but I gave it time and now I love it. I have to convince the college to fork out for it. One of our teachers sits on a Swiss Ball. They are quite cheap. Several years ago I used to sit on one off these https://www.amazon.co.uk/Teknik-Ergonomic-Kneeling-Chair-Charcoal/dp/B00359Z8VE and I have one at home, but my knees don't like it much these days. If you go for a stand-up desk, perhaps consider a stand-up stool? Stand Up Chairs & Office Stools from Posturite There are some saddle chairs on this page which I also tried at the Back Pain Show. They seemed OK but I didn't find them as confortable as the BackApp. This company is the one that loaned me the chair. What about this for the ultimate in back support? I have no idea as to how you get in and out of it and it looks to me to be very easy to fall asleep in. http://furnituresonlineusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/the-awesome-along-with-interesting-proper-office-chair-posture-with-regard-to-residence-proper-idea-for-kitchen-table-500x578.jpg

I've never been a fan of marmalade or strawberry jam (as far as I'm concerned anything labelled strawberry is a waste of time). Give me raspberry or apricot jam on toast anytime. Honey is good too.