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[voodooflux]

And when I do at Branson, it will be my Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 91TXM 21" monitor... an excellent CRT, and a shame to lose it; but it weighs a ton and would almost be worth sacrificing if I knew it was going to land on Beardy's bonce

That's still my main monitor on my desktop rig! I bought it *very* cheap when I worked for Mitsubishi (in the guise of Apricot Computers) a good few years ago. Happy days.

[voodooflux]

couldn't wait for a wii resort sport review so i just bought it anyways.

[voodooflux]

That's me finished with the TPD time machine for now. I'll put it on to charge.

[voodooflux]

Afternoon denizens

Afternoon Nick

Sorry to hear about your Mum, VF

Cheer Nick. She's where she needs to be at the moment, and she'll hopeully be out in a few days.

My Dad's back home and feeling fine now

That's good news - TPD best wishes to him

Right, time to call Virgin Media and report this fault...

Good luck with that!

[NickFitz]

That's still my main monitor on my desktop rig! I bought it *very* cheap when I worked for Mitsubishi (in the guise of Apricot Computers) a good few years ago. Happy days.

Good kit

I had one in the design studio I worked in a few years ago. One Saturday I used Remote Desktop to connect to my machine at work, then used that to connect to our IIS server down in Telehouse... it was quite confusing when I closed down that connection and saw my work desktop, exactly as if I was in the office due to the monitors being the same - then disconnected from that and, suddenly, I was back in OS X

[voodooflux]

Good kit

Absolutely, and even more so given that I paid £120 for it rather than the list price of over £1000

I first saw one on a demo system at Apricot that was equipped with a 3DFX Voodoo graphics chip and running the original Tomb Raider. Within days I had purchased my first PC with the same top end spec as that demo system, and it still set me back more than £2000 after my staff discount

[Zippy]

Good kit

I had one in the design studio I worked in a few years ago. One Saturday I used Remote Desktop to connect to my machine at work, then used that to connect to our IIS server down in Telehouse... it was quite confusing when I closed down that connection and saw my work desktop, exactly as if I was in the office due to the monitors being the same - then disconnected from that and, suddenly, I was back in OS X

I did that on my last contract - remote into dev machine, remote from there into web servers. Erm, so which process am I terminating exactly? Where am I?

It was by sheer luck that I never cocked anything up, but it was close ...

[RichardCranium]

When it's hot outside, there's nothing like a guided tour of a national archive. (Sometimes it's not just what you know, it's who you know too )

[RichardCranium]

I bought some "Cadbury Oat and Chocolate chip" biscuits (the lower case 'c' is theirs).

They have all the appeal of chewing gravel.

[NickFitz]

Well, that was a waste of time

I decided that the time has come to get an iPhone. Off I went into town and, having eventually found a parking space, made my way to the foul Temple of Mammon that blights the city centre.

Entering the O2 store, things were quite promising: it only took three minutes for one of the sales assistants to notice me and ask if they could help:

"I'd like a 32 Gig Pay & Go iPhone, please."

"I'm sorry, we don't have any."

"Ah..."

"Your best bet is the Apple Store - along there in the new bit of the shopping centre."

"OK, thanks." (Thinks to self: Ooh goody, we've got an Apple Store at last!)

Steeling myself to the wretched ordeal of passing among the throngs of consumers, I wandered deeper into the bowels of the place and eventually espied the big white Apple logo.

Entering the store, I wandered around for a bit, somewhat confused by the lack of anything resembling a counter. Eventually I determined that a small gaggle of people in blue t-shirts must be the staff.

Approaching them, I managed to catch one's eye long enough that he broke off his conversation with one of his mates:

"Can I help you?"

"I'd like a 32 Gig Pay & Go iPhone, please."

"I'm sorry, we can't sell them at the moment."

""

"Yeah, the system we use to activate them has gone down - we've no idea when it'll be up again, it could be half an hour, it could be two hours... sorry."

"OK..."

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