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    Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
    Vaguely looking at the piles of crap in here quietly wondering wtf I'm going to do with it all.

    It's quite overwhelming really.

    I suppose I could watch a film & stop worrying about it.
    I find that just ignoring the issue is almost as good as dealing with it

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      That's all well and good until the mice appear.

      Though the multiplicity of traps seems to limit their numbers a bit.

      Or would if said traps were put out.

      The dehumidifier in the laundry room seems to discourage the slugs a lot.

      It was slug city in there previously.

      They even managed to get into the fridge.

      Of course back in the 70s I was working with this stuff:

      Golden Age TV Recreations

      While at 3M it was

      Total Rewind

      And I took one of these to bits:



      Went on a training course in Reading for a fortnight for one of these bad boys:



      I was supposed to do a lot of work with this sort of thing configured to test half inch 700 and 777 computer tape, but I didn't like it much:

      Tape Transport - Control Data, 3200 Computer System, Tape Transport Model 604, circa 1962

      And the dept got one of these, not that I did anything with it:

      PET – Vintage is the New Old, Retro Games News, Retro Gaming, Retro Computing
      "We" bought a GPIB to current loop converter for it so we could print out stuff on an ASR33 that someone got from somewhere.

      Not that one ^, this one with the calculator keyboard:

      Commodore PET - Wikipedia

      Some EyeTea chappie found out we'd bought it and wanted to take it away as a pernicious nuisance that should never be allowed to catch on.

      Currently watching the thing on PBS about the Cuban Missile Crisis.

      We've currently reached October 27th 1963. <- wot we'd all have been doing if the faeces had really hit the aircon.
      Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 16 March 2019, 16:27.
      When the fun stops, STOP.

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        Admin and I are currently collaborating on database shenanigans on an AWS EC2 instance I set up. If all goes according to plan, there may be a forum closure for a little while later on; no more than an hour, I wouldn't have thought

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          Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
          Admin and I are currently collaborating on database shenanigans on an AWS EC2 instance I set up. If all goes according to plan, there may be a forum closure for a little while later on; no more than an hour, I wouldn't have thought
          Should be back soon, complete with fixed ☂︎, , and ☣︎

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            panic CUK was offline
            Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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              Originally posted by vetran View Post
              panic CUK was offline
              We were fixing the database to make it safe for weird characters

              ?

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                Thanks for your help Nick, no way I would have been able to work out that mess myself ?

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                  Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
                  We were fixing the database to make it safe for weird characters

                  ������
                  Goodness me.

                  Nice century with added cat.

                  Originally posted by administrator View Post
                  Thanks for your help Nick, no way I would have been able to work out that mess myself ������
                  Good to see the ape got his act together.

                  I was worried in case we had to find a different kind of monkey.


                  This evening's dining was what theoretically passed for kedgeree.

                  It didn't start out that way, but that's how it ended up.

                  Used up 5 of the eggs BBE 16AUG18 that have festered in the fridge for far too long.

                  This evening's entertainment is starting off with "Young Adult (2011)" with Charlize Theron, for which I don't hold out much hope for the kick assery of "Atomic Blonde" or "Mad Max 97".

                  Young Adult (2011) - IMDb

                  Er, wtf happened there?
                  Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 16 March 2019, 19:05.
                  When the fun stops, STOP.

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                    Originally posted by administrator View Post
                    Thanks for your help Nick, no way I would have been able to work out that mess myself ?
                    Fun, wasn't it

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                      Going to the pub tonight, so I'd better be getting down the Chinese a bit earlier than usual

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