Bits & Bobs 44

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

I've thought I was 38 all week, no idea why.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Sun Feb 15, 2015 12:03

Happy Kernday.....

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25701

Bobbyaro wrote:

you probably do what I do; when I am, say, 35 I think I am 35, until I am >~35.6, then I just think of myself as 36, then when I pass my birthday I add 1 to 36, so think of myself as 37 for a while.

That would make sense, but I am still a good while from getting up to the .5 year jump. I'm 36.15 years, born at the end of December. I think the problem is it's my birthday, then the new year, and then I think 'I'm (age)+1 this year' and that gets lodge in my head.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Sun Feb 15, 2015 13:10

Bobbyaro wrote:

you probably do what I do; when I am, say, 35 I think I am 35, until I am >~35.6, then I just think of myself as 36, then when I pass my birthday I add 1 to 36, so think of myself as 37 for a while.

...and they let you have a child!

MaliA · **Posted:** Sun Feb 15, 2015 13:43

Curiosity wrote:

Bobbyaro wrote:

you probably do what I do; when I am, say, 35 I think I am 35, until I am >~35.6, then I just think of myself as 36, then when I pass my birthday I add 1 to 36, so think of myself as 37 for a while.

...and they let you have a child!

Bobby totally did The Sex!

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22294

Well, that's mildly annoying! Had a hard disk failure in the NAS, so replaced the disk and set it to repair. Second disk has just failed while repairing!
Luckily there was nothing important on there, just downloaded TV shows, but still, bit of a faff to get all that again!

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22294

Trooper wrote:

Well, that's mildly annoying! Had a hard disk failure in the NAS, so replaced the disk and set it to repair. Second disk has just failed while repairing!
Luckily there was nothing important on there, just downloaded TV shows, but still, bit of a faff to get all that again!

Hmm... looks like I can still pull things from the volume even though it has a crashed disk. No idea how many files are corrupt, but might as well try that in the first place. Current estimate to copy all files from the NAS... 2 days

Kern · **Posted:** Sun Feb 15, 2015 19:00

KovacsC wrote:

Happy Kernday.....

Many thanks. I am one year off being the same age as my waist line. This is probably a good thing

TheVision · **Posted:** Sun Feb 15, 2015 20:03

Kern wrote:

KovacsC wrote:

Happy Kernday.....

Many thanks. I am one year off being the same age as my waist line. This is probably a good thing

Your waist line was born a year before you? Wow. That's impressive!

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2015 7:36

Motherfucking baddies need to STOP ROBBING MY OFFICE NOW, THANKS

TheVision · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2015 7:42

Shit. That's bad. What did they take?

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Trooper wrote:

Well, that's mildly annoying! Had a hard disk failure in the NAS, so replaced the disk and set it to repair. Second disk has just failed while repairing!
Luckily there was nothing important on there, just downloaded TV shows, but still, bit of a faff to get all that again!

RAID 5 is not enough. Disk failures are often correlates; buy a set of disks together, use them together, and they tend to fail together. I'm going away from RAID 5 next time k rebuild my NAS.

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2015 7:51

TheVision wrote:

Shit. That's bad. What did they take?

Laptops, some trifling amount in cash.

Third time in two weeks.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22294

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Trooper wrote:

Well, that's mildly annoying! Had a hard disk failure in the NAS, so replaced the disk and set it to repair. Second disk has just failed while repairing!
Luckily there was nothing important on there, just downloaded TV shows, but still, bit of a faff to get all that again!

RAID 5 is not enough. Disk failures are often correlates; buy a set of disks together, use them together, and they tend to fail together. I'm going away from RAID 5 next time k rebuild my NAS.

I'm using synology hybrid raid, which states that it can handle 2 drive failures without total loss. I'll see how much gets copied off successfully in a couple of days

I'll stick with the hybrid raid in the NAS, but also use a couple of massive single drives to backup to overnight in future. You can get 5tb drives for £120 these days!

edit : of course, it would be a bit easier if my gaming PC (that i'm using to rip the content) was a bit more reliable

It seems it likes to crash if it is left on overnight :facepalm:

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2015 10:13

I'M MEANT TO BE ON HOLIDAY TODAY, FUCKERS

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2015 10:13

The Child is one year old, today. Cripes.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2015 10:24

Grim... wrote:

I'M MEANT TO BE ON HOLIDAY TODAY, FUCKERS

Boo! Baddies!

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2015 10:24

Ruining my Breaking Bad binge watching, and shit.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22294

Grim... wrote:

Ruining my Breaking Bad binge watching, and shit.

You're allowed to shit at work dude.
It's the best place, as you get paid for doing it.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22294

£300 for the management company to send out their leasehold information pack, which involves printing out a few bits of paper they already have on file. Daylight bloody robbery and nothing I can do about it, the bastards!

Still, got a mortgage agreed on the house today, subject to valuation. Now just my valuation to try and sort out

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2015 14:12

Kern, knowledge drop me about your Amiga Emulator. I have a sudden urge to MegaLoMania

Kern · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2015 14:23

MaliA wrote:

Kern, knowledge drop me about your Amiga Emulator. I have a sudden urge to MegaLoMania

viewtopic.php?style=19&p=587788#p587788

Probably a few more updated versions now. If it doesn't come with Megalomania, you can probably find a disk image from ('your local gaming store' - FAST )

Kern · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2015 14:28

MaliA wrote:

Kern, knowledge drop me about your Amiga Emulator. I have a sudden urge to MegaLoMania

I think the main advantage is that it comes with all the ROMs preinstalled.
Haven't loaded it up in a while. I remember struggling to get 'Cannon Fodder' to work properly.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

MaliA wrote:

Kern, knowledge drop me about your Amiga Emulator. I have a sudden urge to MegaLoMania

Amiga Forver is probably what your looking for (to make it easy)

http://www.amigaforever.com/

Either buy it (10 euros) or find a torrent with it - it includes the Amiga ROM's and gives you some easy ways to launch the emulator without much faffing around.

I used to have an old CD image of it which you could boot just about any machine with and it would come up as an Amiga

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38504

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Retro-Sensibl ... 339d95d6e3

That thing has Sensible Soccer, Cannon Fodder and Mega Lo Mania built in.

Mega Drive versions though

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2015 15:53

Kern wrote:

MaliA wrote:

Kern, knowledge drop me about your Amiga Emulator. I have a sudden urge to MegaLoMania

viewtopic.php?style=19&p=587788#p587788

Probably a few more updated versions now. If it doesn't come with Megalomania, you can probably find a disk image from ('your local gaming store' - FAST )

Ta.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2015 15:53

zaphod79 wrote:

MaliA wrote:

Kern, knowledge drop me about your Amiga Emulator. I have a sudden urge to MegaLoMania

Amiga Forver is probably what your looking for (to make it easy)

http://www.amigaforever.com/

Either buy it (10 euros) or find a torrent with it - it includes the Amiga ROM's and gives you some easy ways to launch the emulator without much faffing around.

I used to have an old CD image of it which you could boot just about any machine with and it would come up as an Amiga

Ta

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2015 15:53

DavPaz wrote:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Retro-Sensible-Soccer-Mega-Drive-Game-/221687174883?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item339d95d6e3

That thing has Sensible Soccer, Cannon Fodder and Mega Lo Mania built in.

Mega Drive versions though

Hmm. Interesting g.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2015 16:02

Link between smoking strong cannabis regularly and psychotic episodes established.

myp · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2015 16:03

MaliA wrote:

Link between smoking strong cannabis regularly and psychotic episodes established.

This bit is quite important:

Quote:

Those who reported smoking milder forms of the drug, such as hash, did not appear to be at increased risk, for instance. Murray said that, in line with this finding, he recommends hash to patients who are struggling to give up smoking altogether.

“You’re not going to go psychotic after a couple of puffs,” he said. “It’s like alcohol – drinking the odd glass of wine is fine, but if you’re drinking a bottle of whisky a day you’re heading for trouble.”

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16579

Also the reason that skunk is so prevalent is prohibition. If it were legal then people would be able to choose what they would prefer and most would tend toward the milder forms.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22294

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Feb 17, 2015 12:44

Oh, that's what day it is.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

Witchcraft !

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22294

http://textstomydaughter.tumblr.com/

A friend of mine makes these and sends them to his 7yr old daughter

myp · **Posted:** Tue Feb 17, 2015 16:34

Trooper wrote:

http://textstomydaughter.tumblr.com/

A friend of mine makes these and sends them to his 7yr old daughter

You're friends with an American? Ew.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22294

Future Warrior wrote:

Trooper wrote:

http://textstomydaughter.tumblr.com/

A friend of mine makes these and sends them to his 7yr old daughter

You're friends with an American? Ew.

I am friends with someone who currently lives in America. There is a difference.

Jem · **Posted:** Tue Feb 17, 2015 16:44

The thought of a 7 year old with a phone terrifies me.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Tue Feb 17, 2015 17:39

Not as much as a 5 year old and a sledgehammer

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Feb 17, 2015 17:41

Myp with a toothbrush

Jem · **Posted:** Tue Feb 17, 2015 17:44

KovacsC · **Posted:** Tue Feb 17, 2015 17:57

This is like a weird top trumps...

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11845

KovacsC wrote:

This is like weirdo top trumps...

GazChap · **Posted:** Tue Feb 17, 2015 18:28

KovacsC wrote:

This is like a weird top trumps...

My myp is better than your myp.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Tue Feb 17, 2015 18:31

GazChap wrote:

KovacsC wrote:

This is like a weird top trumps...

My myp is better than your myp.

No Myps beats any other amount of Myps.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Having a Myp automatically means you lose.

myp · **Posted:** Wed Feb 18, 2015 9:14

Cunts

ApplePieOfDestiny · **Joined:** 17th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 8293

Can someone with an ounce of technical knowledge and personality just rock up at our office and come and fix our network please? 3 days of crawling and getting increasingly worse and our adept IT team have said that they may have a solution next week.

Jem · **Posted:** Wed Feb 18, 2015 14:36

Turn it off and on again.

myp · **Posted:** Wed Feb 18, 2015 14:39

ApplePieOfDestiny wrote:

Can someone with an ounce of technical knowledge and personality just rock up at our office and come and fix our network please? 3 days of crawling and getting increasingly worse and our adept IT team have said that they may have a solution next week.

A whole ounce?!

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