Minor announcement.... ;)

I'm Baaaaaaack!


Noel

Noel Paton wrote:

I'm Baaaaaaack!

.... and about time! Mobile broadband too it would appear!

Speak soon. :-)

Mike

"Mike M" wrote in message
...
Noel Paton wrote:

I'm Baaaaaaack!

... and about time! Mobile broadband too it would appear!

Yup - splurged on a USB dongle on PAYG...... getting used to its foibles,
ATM - seems to be rather low bandwidth here at home, but I'm prepared to put
up with that for the flexibility....
Next stop a laptop! (may have to come to London for that )

--
Noel Paton (MVP 2002-2006)
(CrashFixPC)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.crashfixpc.co.uk

Noel Paton wrote:

Yup - splurged on a USB dongle on PAYG...... getting used to its
foibles, ATM - seems to be rather low bandwidth here at home, but I'm
prepared to put up with that for the flexibility....
Next stop a laptop! (may have to come to London for that )

Just don't try pulling down Win7 x64 beta or it will cost you an arm and
two legs (3.15GB).

As for London, spare room's free - I just need to move the cat. :-) BTW I
burned the first half of season nine for you yesterday but haven't managed
to ski to the post-box yet..

Mike

"Mike M" wrote in message
...
Noel Paton wrote:

Yup - splurged on a USB dongle on PAYG...... getting used to its
foibles, ATM - seems to be rather low bandwidth here at home, but I'm
prepared to put up with that for the flexibility....
Next stop a laptop! (may have to come to London for that )

Just don't try pulling down Win7 x64 beta or it will cost you an arm and
two legs (3.15GB).

As for London, spare room's free - I just need to move the cat. :-) BTW I
burned the first half of season nine for you yesterday but haven't managed
to ski to the post-box yet..


LOL!
we just about managed to make 3 inches yesterday.... and it all melted today


Thanks for thinking of Season 9 - I was wondering when it would start.

I have a mate who downloads a fair amount... I'll have to access his
machines for the Windows 7 Beta downloads via FTM (have you played with it
yet?), I'm registered, but haven't downloaded anyuthing yet apart from one
of the 'client' builds, which I haven't installed anywhere.
The deal with 3 is not too bad - £15 for 1 month/3GB or £25 for 7GB. The
dongle came preloaded with 12GB-worth of credit.

--
Noel Paton (MVP 2002-2006)
(CrashFixPC)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.crashfixpc.co.uk

Noel Paton wrote:

LOL!
we just about managed to make 3 inches yesterday.... and it all
melted today

Still lying pretty thickly (for London) here.

Thanks for thinking of Season 9 - I was wondering when it would start.

9x01 aired 9 Oct and 9x12 (12 filling a disk) aired 29 Jan hence the burn
yesterday. g

I have a mate who downloads a fair amount... I'll have to access his
machines for the Windows 7 Beta downloads via FTM (have you played
with it yet?), I'm registered, but haven't downloaded anyuthing yet
apart from one of the 'client' builds, which I haven't installed
anywhere.
The deal with 3 is not too bad - £15 for 1 month/3GB or £25 for 7GB.
The dongle came preloaded with 12GB-worth of credit.

Seems expensive _until_ one remembers that you don't have to pay BT
monthly line rental that then makes the deal quite attractive provided one
keeps to reasonable limits.

I've been playing with w7 on and off and whilst I find it addresses many
of the problems that people find with Vista I haven't spent over much time
with it. I had a bad initial experience with beta 1 (I also had the
earlier alpha M3) which took 9 hours or so to install on one box here.
Long story and part of the problem seems to have been due to the presence
in the system of a PlusCom sata caddy containing a drive although not
being used as a target for the install. After numerous abortive starts
due to the caddy, removing it solved that particular problem, I then found
the faffing around had initiated a bios controlled RAID verify (again not
the target of the install) which, since the raid is 2.1TB, took a good few
hours to complete.
--
Mike

I have a mate who downloads a fair amount... I'll have to access his
machines for the Windows 7 Beta downloads via FTM (have you played
with it yet?), I'm registered, but haven't downloaded anyuthing yet
apart from one of the 'client' builds, which I haven't installed
anywhere.

I'll mail you an x64 dvd if you want, Noel.

P.

Hey, this is a family newsgroup! Keep your dongle in your pants,
buddy, and...

WELCOME BAAAACK!!
~~
~PA Bear
Errabundi Saepe, Semper Certi
www.postingviagooglegroupsjust4.you

Cousin Noel wrote:
Yup - splurged on a USB dongle...

Ah - I was wondering when the maruading Bear would appear!....good to BE
back!


--
Noel Paton (MVP 2002-2006)
(CrashFixPC)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.crashfixpc.co.uk

(p.s. - what idiot in MS decided that putting a 248MB download in compulsory
Windows Updates was a good idea??)

"PA Bear" wrote in message
...
Hey, this is a family newsgroup! Keep your dongle in your pants,
buddy, and...

WELCOME BAAAACK!!
~~
~PA Bear
Errabundi Saepe, Semper Certi
www.postingviagooglegroupsjust4.you

Cousin Noel wrote:
Yup - splurged on a USB dongle...

On Feb 4, 4:00*pm, "Noel Paton" wrote:
Ah - I was wondering when the maruading Bear would appear!....good to BE
back!

Noel! Awesome! Glad to "hear" your sweet voice again. (Windows
ME?!!!) ;-)

Cheers and here's to happy days ahead from Malke.