Here we go again then...
Printed From: Bavarian-Board.co.uk - BMW Owners Discussion Forum
Category: General Forums
Forum Name: General Off Topic Forum
Forum Discription: Discuss off topic issues related to BMWs.
URL: http://www.bavarian-board.co.uk/forum_posts.asp?TID=17206
Printed Date: 26-May-2024 at 02:43
Topic: Here we go again then...
Posted By: Goldryder
Subject: Here we go again then...
Date Posted: 01-May-2005 at 04:17
|
A new day and a new month and a new thread....
Finally there is sunshine outside my windows...although it has been raining overnight cos the pond level is up a bit from yesterday and the fish are hyperactive (which always happens after fresh rainwater goes into the said pond). Today I have nothing planned, might go for a walk later, but then again there is motor sport on British Eurosport Channel, so might just sit an watch that instead. Oh well, best get some breakfast I spose.... 
------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Replies:
Posted By: Nigel
Date Posted: 01-May-2005 at 04:23
|
Pinch and & punch to you Ally. After a glourious day yesterday, at dusk it rained here. Overnight we have had some rather good thunderstorms, and the ground is still damp this morning. Wifey has gone to her usual sunday morning boot sales, on her return we are going to Rhyl for a picnic etc, as according to the met office home page, it should be 17 centigrade there today, and only part cloudy. I didnt know you were into fish, I enjoy the odd day on a river bank, and have a tropical tank, along with a garden pond. I'd like to upgrade to a marine tank, but being as I work away so often, its not such a good idea, tropical are very easy for Jackie and the girls to look after when i'm not here. I think I've finally got the Central web site ok, have a look, let me know what you think http://bmwcarclubgb.co.uk/regions/centrl/CentralContentsPage.htm - http://bmwcarclubgb.co.uk/regions/centrl/CentralContentsPage .htm ------------- Best Wishes Nigel |
Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 01-May-2005 at 04:42
Site looks nifty Niggles 
The fish are the ones who were living in the 5ft tank on my kitchen worktop in the shed that I lived in, they are now terrorising the frogs in the pond in my back garden 
Not having a car I won't be going anywhere this weekend, just as I don't any weekend 
Least I got this poot to play with, borrowed from Master Rhys so I can annoy you with daft threads Niggles, that is til I get my own pooter which is, I believe, in the pipeline at the mo  ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 01-May-2005 at 04:48
|
Oh and by the way people..this may be a non car type silly thread, but that doesn't mean you can be naughty with language or insults...cos Uncle Niggles doesn't like that and neither do I cos it gets the thread shut even quicker than Cinderella's wardrobe
Express yourselves and let off steam but behave and then Uncle Niggles will be happy
(is that enough grovelling Uncle Niggles?) ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 01-May-2005 at 06:18
|
Spoke too soon....the bright sunny stuff has now been replaced by 'orrible cloudy stuff that threatens wet stuff..typical Bank Holiday weather, totally grotty ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: speedy
Date Posted: 01-May-2005 at 07:12
|
I have glorious hot sunshine here today, i've been out and washed & polished my pride & joy Now that's done i've got to go to the in laws house ------------- 1995 520i se auto 24v saloon |
Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 01-May-2005 at 07:21
For rubbing it in about your hot and sunny stuff...you deserve to have to go to the in-laws ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
speedy wrote:Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 01-May-2005 at 13:53
|
Flipping sun has now decided to come out...been cloudy and wet all day, typical..even had the gas fire on too cos it was a bit chilly...British Summer Time...yeah right
Soon have all the other nutters online, then the fun should start..even Uncle Niggles might join in too ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: Rhys
Date Posted: 01-May-2005 at 20:19
|
Think all the other nutters have been away for the day and gone to bed early (by the looks like). ------------- V reg Rustbucket Merc C220 Cdi estate J Reg Saab 900i 16v '63 Ford Anglia 105e deluxe R reg Honda PC50 moped.. No BMW as yet... |
Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 02-May-2005 at 03:16
|
WOW!!!
Its the morning and its still unlocked...all that grovelling must have worked..fank you Uncle Niggles  ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: owenw
Date Posted: 02-May-2005 at 06:17
|
either that or it hasn't reached the cut-off point.... yep another sunny day.. time to clean the car to wthin an inch of it's life. Play nicely children
------------- OwenW - E36 318is |
Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 02-May-2005 at 06:20
|
It is finally sunny here too, although too cold to go for a walk, so Ise staying indoors with the fire on instead.
Anyway, its nice that the thread is still open, bit like old times really ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 02-May-2005 at 07:35
|
At last...something to take the strain of those wash day blues....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4504393.stm - get the bloke to take some of the workload.. ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: owenw
Date Posted: 02-May-2005 at 09:19
|
"But there is one bone of contention. The same person can still load the washing time after time. The finger print sensor only controls who starts the programme. " I could live with that! ------------- OwenW - E36 318is |
Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 02-May-2005 at 09:24
Women can load the washing cos we are less likely to mix a red sock with the whites, like you fella's..and you can push the button..seeing as you love pushing the right button so much and you can empty it, hang washing out AND iron it. ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 02-May-2005 at 10:36
I spy that Ian seems to have gone into anonymouse mode....hmmmmmmm....sneaky..very very sneaky 
If you can't beat them...join them ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: rubberknees50
Date Posted: 02-May-2005 at 10:39
|
Hi all, central site looks ok, be very helpful when more info on "recommends" bit. As for washing machines, one problem, if one partner goes away anywhere, holiday, course,anything, only one load of washing can be done....... ------------- IanT E28 528, E23 735 
|
Posted By: rubberknees50
Date Posted: 02-May-2005 at 10:41
|
Not entirely, supposed to be wp'ing letters, only having quick look around on wendys new pooter. Her old one that I have now loads windows then comes up with "fatal error" before anything can be done. Think I downloaded something incompatible.....oops! ------------- IanT E28 528, E23 735
|
Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 02-May-2005 at 10:43
|
Good afternoon anonymouse one....
One load of washing? I wish
Just completed yet another marathon washing session...3 loads, all washed, tumbled and put away  ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 02-May-2005 at 10:45
You bad lad...you mean you broke it already???? And Rhys thought I was bad with this one when it kept throwing its thingy wotsit out of the playpen ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: Rhys
Date Posted: 02-May-2005 at 10:55
|
Least you don't use a hammer on it, the case is packed full of high explosive, ready to detonate if it comes into contact with any sudden impact.. ------------- V reg Rustbucket Merc C220 Cdi estate J Reg Saab 900i 16v '63 Ford Anglia 105e deluxe R reg Honda PC50 moped.. No BMW as yet... |
Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 02-May-2005 at 10:57
Don't worry Rhys, my Irish spanners are safely tucked away in the cupboard..the pooter is safe from bodily harm, although it does get yelled at and sworn at occasionally though ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 02-May-2005 at 13:24
|
Right then, its that time of the evening again when the nutters start to appear...on with the hysterical frivolities... ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 02-May-2005 at 14:16
Looks like they done the same this evening too....too much partying me finx ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: Rhys
Date Posted: 02-May-2005 at 15:51
|
Mmm maybe, or they have gone to bed early as they won't be able to get up in the morning ------------- V reg Rustbucket Merc C220 Cdi estate J Reg Saab 900i 16v '63 Ford Anglia 105e deluxe R reg Honda PC50 moped.. No BMW as yet... |
Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 02-May-2005 at 15:52
Perhaps Uncle Niggles has frightened them away... Not like it was last year, is it? ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: Rhys
Date Posted: 02-May-2005 at 16:29
|
Hey Ally, did you realy ask me to lock a thread?
..wasn't this one you meant was it? ------------- V reg Rustbucket Merc C220 Cdi estate J Reg Saab 900i 16v '63 Ford Anglia 105e deluxe R reg Honda PC50 moped.. No BMW as yet... |
Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 02-May-2005 at 16:32
|
Erm..no Rhys..not this one...the 'other one' and you have, thank you muchley...I didn't want that thread to start going in the direction of personal slanging, just for it to be there for healthy debate, but as with a few things recently, it didn't go as planned.
Thanx for leaving this one alone and sorting the other one ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 02-May-2005 at 16:34
|
Got a flipping great firework dispaly going on near me..frightened me half to death all the banging going on... ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: Rhys
Date Posted: 02-May-2005 at 17:12
|
It's quiet on here tonight, just watched a very interesting programme on 'hobits' a race of people that were only 4 foot tall, lived on a volcanic island many thousands of years ago. Did a facial reconstruction from a skull.. very interesting. ------------- V reg Rustbucket Merc C220 Cdi estate J Reg Saab 900i 16v '63 Ford Anglia 105e deluxe R reg Honda PC50 moped.. No BMW as yet... |
Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 02-May-2005 at 17:15
|
I am shifting tween here and the other site...the subject of frying fish is now at 13 pages and has gone into the 'afters'...including everything.... its getting naughty ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: rubberknees50
Date Posted: 02-May-2005 at 20:29
|
You bad lad...you mean you broke it already???? And Rhys thought I was bad with this one when it kept throwing its thingy wotsit out of the playpen [/QUOTE]
Well in doghouse, neither Telewest or packard bell helplines could reset pooter. Wendy had it in safe mode but even putting it back a couple of days wouldn't stop the fatal error coming up as soon as windows icons on screen. She had to do a total wipe and reload from recovery discs - started at 7pm, still going. Think I have a lot of grovelling to do. It is a few years old and can only be upgraded so far, but maybe getting the max RAM it'll take so it'll run XP would be a good move, even Microsoft don't recognise 98SE anymore and I can't run to £200 for a new one this month! ------------- IanT E28 528, E23 735
|
Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 03-May-2005 at 02:47
|
You killed it then Ian....bad bad boy!!!
At least this one wasn't mortally wounded..just got its chipsets in a twazzle. Pooters are a pain in the rear most of the time anyway...hope you get it sorted soon. ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 03-May-2005 at 03:22
I get the feeling that Ian was doing a reconstruction of a badly behaved pooter last night...with Wendy standing over his shoulder looking none too happy ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: rubberknees50
Date Posted: 03-May-2005 at 13:58
|
Close, Wendy doing reconstruction with me grovelling and fetching/making drinks etc! ------------- IanT E28 528, E23 735
|
Posted By: Rhys
Date Posted: 03-May-2005 at 18:06
|
OK folks, the thread is safe for a few days at least. Ally (Goldryder) is taking a vacation in Yorks biggest hotel, unfortunatly the only entrance pass is that you need to be poorly.
She didn't feel very well, went to the medical drop in centre which immediatly called a big white taxi, u-turns in road siren, belting out, running red lights (legaly) and is now feeling a bit better. and is enjoying the hospital-ity at the general while they run a few tests. She has asked me to keep her posted as to whats happening, and I will pass on any messages, just pm them to me and I'll pass them on. ------------- V reg Rustbucket Merc C220 Cdi estate J Reg Saab 900i 16v '63 Ford Anglia 105e deluxe R reg Honda PC50 moped.. No BMW as yet... |
Posted By: Rhys
Date Posted: 03-May-2005 at 18:08
 ------------- V reg Rustbucket Merc C220 Cdi estate J Reg Saab 900i 16v '63 Ford Anglia 105e deluxe R reg Honda PC50 moped.. No BMW as yet... |
Posted By: whiterider
Date Posted: 04-May-2005 at 09:26
| hi rhys, could you send our best wishes to Ally, and tell her to hurry up and get better, need my partner in crime back very soon, wendy |
Posted By: billgates e30
Date Posted: 04-May-2005 at 12:47
|
tell her to get well soon and that we shall try not to do anything she wouldn't do ------------- Bill Gates aka Chris 
http://www.bmwclubne.co.uk - BMW Club NE |
Posted By: owenw
Date Posted: 04-May-2005 at 13:53
|
Any updates on the condition of her condition Rhys? The Nutter Revenge Party needs their (ring)leader!
------------- OwenW - E36 318is |
Posted By: whiterider
Date Posted: 04-May-2005 at 14:46
|
[QUOTE=owenw]
Any updates on the condition of her condition Rhys? The Nutter Revenge Party needs their (ring)leader! Owen, while ally is away i'm 2nd in Command!!!!! < id=kpfLog style="DISPLAY: none" src="http://127.0.0.1:44501/pl.?START_LOG" onload=destroy(this)> < =text/> |
Posted By: rubberknees50
Date Posted: 04-May-2005 at 14:47
|
I though I was the only only one watched those sort of programmes! I found it very interesting as well. Shame Gandalf didn't assist. ------------- IanT E28 528, E23 735
|
Posted By: owenw
Date Posted: 04-May-2005 at 16:01
------------- OwenW - E36 318is |
Posted By: rubberknees50
Date Posted: 04-May-2005 at 16:21
She's babysitting me at present since I crashed her old computer the other night. Took at total restore and several hours loading stuff back on before it'd work again and I'm banned from altering or downloading anything without supervision, lol! ------------- IanT E28 528, E23 735
|
Posted By: rubberknees50
Date Posted: 04-May-2005 at 16:22
|
oops how the hell did I manage to quote myself as I wrote it? see what I mean, lmao! ------------- IanT E28 528, E23 735
|
Posted By: Rhys
Date Posted: 04-May-2005 at 17:19
..give Ian a computer and he'll keep himself happy for the rest of the day. ..who says you are never alone with schizophrenia? i did ok.. ------------- V reg Rustbucket Merc C220 Cdi estate J Reg Saab 900i 16v '63 Ford Anglia 105e deluxe R reg Honda PC50 moped.. No BMW as yet... |
Posted By: rubberknees50
Date Posted: 04-May-2005 at 17:24
|
Well, we WERE told to use the chatroom, and no-one else was in so I talked to myself...........Computer? give me one and I'll swear all day, can play in garage for hours! ------------- IanT E28 528, E23 735
|
Posted By: owenw
Date Posted: 04-May-2005 at 18:39
|
I feel your pain with pooter reloads... I can't be bothered trying to learning how to fix XP when it goes pear shaped just format c: and clean reinstall - sorted for another few months.
------------- OwenW - E36 318is |
Posted By: Rhys
Date Posted: 04-May-2005 at 18:45
|
Is chat working? ------------- V reg Rustbucket Merc C220 Cdi estate J Reg Saab 900i 16v '63 Ford Anglia 105e deluxe R reg Honda PC50 moped.. No BMW as yet... |
Posted By: owenw
Date Posted: 04-May-2005 at 18:58
|
sort of... some of my replies dont seem to appear
------------- OwenW - E36 318is |
Posted By: whiterider
Date Posted: 05-May-2005 at 05:07
Don't mention XP to Ian, he thinks 98SE is too modern,lol. Oh, Rhys, yes, chat room is working if anyone goes in it - or do you mean your chat lines in which case nah! |
Posted By: owenw
Date Posted: 05-May-2005 at 07:06
|
LOL I still have my MS-DOS 6 floppies from circa 1994 in case I need them one of these days! Imagine how fast it would run on a P4 If Rhys's chat lines are anything like his jokes..... ------------- OwenW - E36 318is |
Posted By: Nigel
Date Posted: 05-May-2005 at 07:51
|
Wendy You seem to be getting the same problems as Peter Heinz regarding your posts, and stuff appearing below them "< id=kpfLog style="DISPLAY: none" src="http://127.0.0.1:44501/pl.?START_LOG" onload=destroy(this)> < =text/> " What have you changed from when this didn't appear to when it does ? ------------- Best Wishes Nigel |
Posted By: whiterider
Date Posted: 05-May-2005 at 12:54
|
nigel, i have just changed my computer from windows 98 to windows XP thats the only thing i have done, also in the box where you right the message i keep getting another box inside, i have to keep removeing it before i can do anything. < =text/> |
Posted By: bmwz3
Date Posted: 05-May-2005 at 13:01
|
Have you changed your electricity supplier recently ? |
Posted By: Doive
Date Posted: 05-May-2005 at 13:12
|
Do you reckon dos 6.0 would actually have any idea what a P4 is?!
------------- 1987 BMW 525e Lux Auto (sadly deceased) http://www.getfirefox.com - Get Firefox - Ditch Hopeless Inertnet Exploder http://www.doive.co.uk - www.doive.co.uk 
|
Posted By: owenw
Date Posted: 05-May-2005 at 13:28
 ------------- OwenW - E36 318is |
Posted By: Horsetan
Date Posted: 05-May-2005 at 17:23
Ah, P4. http://www.scalefour.org - NOW you're talking.... -------------   
|
Posted By: billgates e30
Date Posted: 05-May-2005 at 18:36
|
booooooooo...dirty oil burner ------------- Bill Gates aka Chris
http://www.bmwclubne.co.uk - BMW Club NE |
Posted By: Rhys
Date Posted: 05-May-2005 at 18:49
|
I used to have a 386, running 33MHz and 8 meg of RAM. Think it was Windows 4.1 with a 95 emulater running. Had to type WIN at dos prompt to start Windows.
Ah, happy memories.. ...not ------------- V reg Rustbucket Merc C220 Cdi estate J Reg Saab 900i 16v '63 Ford Anglia 105e deluxe R reg Honda PC50 moped.. No BMW as yet... |
Posted By: billgates e30
Date Posted: 05-May-2005 at 18:59
|
i used to have a 286 with only 4mb ram, ran windows 386....now theres a blast from the past.
then 386 with 8mb ram and win 3.1 then p60 with 32mb ram, win 95 then p90 same as above then 166mhz with 64mb ram win 95 then 266mhz same as above then PIII 600mhz 128mb ram win 95, then to win 2000 now Athlon XP 3000+ 1.6Ghz with 1GB Ram win 2000 still miss DOS and Test Drive though ------------- Bill Gates aka Chris
http://www.bmwclubne.co.uk - BMW Club NE |
Posted By: Rhys
Date Posted: 05-May-2005 at 19:19
|
think mine must have been W 3.1.. I know the computer had a turbo button... lol.
Had a DOS game called 'Mystic Towers' brill game, wonder if I can get it to work on this thing? At moment, got a custom made tower unit running a dual bios mother board (Gigabyte), an AMD 2000 chip and about 256meg of RAM and a 60 Gb H/D. Also got a Dell Lattitude C510, 384 Meg RAM 20 Gig H/D running am Intel celeron (don't like em) 1.2 GHz chip. Prefer Lappy, and Ally is borrowing the tower. ------------- V reg Rustbucket Merc C220 Cdi estate J Reg Saab 900i 16v '63 Ford Anglia 105e deluxe R reg Honda PC50 moped.. No BMW as yet... |
Posted By: owenw
Date Posted: 05-May-2005 at 19:35
|
Ahhh the good ol' days C:\> Bad command or filename A mate of mine had an IBM 286 25 with Wolfenstein3D on it. It seemed so cutting edge back in 1989! My first PC was a Dell Dimension P90 8Mb RAM which I got back in 1995 when 486 DX4's still walked the earth. Needless to say it cost a heap and even upgrading to 16Mb RAM cost £500!! Was great for playing Descent, Doom, Quake and the classic Duke Nukem! Got pretty handy with the DOS commands too and tweaking the autoexec.bat and config.sys files to squeeze the most out of the 640k conventional memory. Also remember the joy of loading all 11 Windows disks or even more fun all 25 MS Office floppies! ------------- OwenW - E36 318is |
Posted By: owenw
Date Posted: 05-May-2005 at 19:45
|
I used to work in a PC store when those were still common on PC cases. Apparently it was supposed to allow you to slow down 386 / 486 DX2/DX4 processors which were double-speed. This would allow you run your old 286 programs. Course the button outlived the usefulness when Pentiums came along but some gullable foo... er.. respected clients thought they were impressive - you could add a few quid to the price of a Turbo-charged PC! How sad am I, still able to remember this stuff ------------- OwenW - E36 318is |
Posted By: Doive
Date Posted: 05-May-2005 at 19:46
|
Ooooh I remember the floppies! First PC was a P75 with 16MB ram and a
512MB hard drive, running windows 3.1 and MS Works. However, by far the
best aspect of that PC was Wolfenstein 3D! Great game. This machine became my parents computer, I got a celeron 733 which was quite slow. Now have myself an AMD 2000 with 512MB RAM, GeForce FX5200 graphics and twin 80GB drives running Suse 9.2 - much better than Windows. Good system, I'm happy with it. ------------- 1987 BMW 525e Lux Auto (sadly deceased) http://www.getfirefox.com - Get Firefox - Ditch Hopeless Inertnet Exploder http://www.doive.co.uk - www.doive.co.uk
|
Posted By: owenw
Date Posted: 05-May-2005 at 20:05
|
do you need a decent spec pc to run Linux? I have an old P166 / 64Mb RAM lying idle (too slow for anything newer than Win98!)... would Linux it run on this? ------------- OwenW - E36 318is |
Posted By: Doive
Date Posted: 06-May-2005 at 06:14
|
If you had one of the 'light' distros such as ubuntu it would work.
Actually you could always try running knoppix on it to see if it will
support the gnome graphical interface. Knoppix is a downloadable
version of linux that you can burn to CD and use as a system recovery
tool when windows inevitably falls over. Stick it into your CD rom and
the system will auto boot from that. Good way of seeing if your system
could run it or not. I have heard of a P233 with 64MB RAM happily
running Suse before, so it may well run on your system. It all depends
what you want - I assume you won't be doing any sort of high res image
processing on that PC?!
------------- 1987 BMW 525e Lux Auto (sadly deceased) http://www.getfirefox.com - Get Firefox - Ditch Hopeless Inertnet Exploder http://www.doive.co.uk - www.doive.co.uk
|
Posted By: owenw
Date Posted: 06-May-2005 at 07:50
|
LOL no I'll stick with the P4 for image & video editing! Just want a system to learn how to install and use *nix and maybe eventually configure it as an internet gateway, plus web & mail server at some point. I'd like to learn php and set up mysql on it too. Course, I havn't a notion where to begin with any of this! I also have an old P3 800 with 384Mb RAM which is only used for file storage, so I could try setting it up as a dual boot system. Will *nix run on an NTFS-formatted drive? ------------- OwenW - E36 318is |
Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 06-May-2005 at 10:57
|
Well, Ise back...won't be playing for long though cos still not 100% well.
Thanks for all messages, much appreciated and nice to know peeps care ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: billgates e30
Date Posted: 06-May-2005 at 11:35
good to see you back ally, get plenty of rest and look after your self. we don't want to see you getting into trouble now do we. 
------------- Bill Gates aka Chris
http://www.bmwclubne.co.uk - BMW Club NE |
Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 06-May-2005 at 11:39
|
Moi???..I never get into trouble Chris
I won't be online til late at night for a while, under doctors orders to rest as much as I can do, got huge amounts of pills and inhalers to take..so will be rattling before long, no doubt. Was fun being taken to hospital in an ambulance with blues and twos going though..although at the time I have to admit I was a bit scared. ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: billgates e30
Date Posted: 06-May-2005 at 11:50
|
been there done that.
not great is it. get well soon. as you can see we didn't get up to much while you were gone, i have hardly had a chance to get on here since thursday night ------------- Bill Gates aka Chris
http://www.bmwclubne.co.uk - BMW Club NE |
Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 06-May-2005 at 11:55
|
Thanks for your concern Chris, its much appreciated
I was looked after very well though, certainly won't complain. Not been for a 'blues & twos' run for a few years...hopefully not for another few either ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: billgates e30
Date Posted: 06-May-2005 at 11:57
me an all. never in them for a good reason eh!! give the car a good polish at the weekend though....looks soooooooooo shiny ------------- Bill Gates aka Chris
http://www.bmwclubne.co.uk - BMW Club NE |
Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 06-May-2005 at 11:59
|
This weekend I shall probably do the washing, hoovering, change the bedding....then I might just manage to sit down for a while....thats the theory, anyway ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 06-May-2005 at 12:02
|
...just realised...Ise still got my hospital name tags on...should have taken them off before I was discharged...oh well, I shall keep them as a souvenir of my stay ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: billgates e30
Date Posted: 06-May-2005 at 12:05
|
better than taking MRSA with you
looky here  ------------- Bill Gates aka Chris
http://www.bmwclubne.co.uk - BMW Club NE |
Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 06-May-2005 at 12:07
|
OOOOOOOOHHHHHH...a nice shiny red rear end.... ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: billgates e30
Date Posted: 06-May-2005 at 12:08
|
i have a nice a.r.s.e don't you know ------------- Bill Gates aka Chris
http://www.bmwclubne.co.uk - BMW Club NE |
Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 06-May-2005 at 12:10
|
mmmmm...true..you have got a nice shiny one Chris....whats the rest like though?
(car that is...incase any moddygyrators are geting worried) ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: billgates e30
Date Posted: 06-May-2005 at 12:23
|
take a look here
http://photobucket.com/albums/v225/billgatese30/sig%20pic/ - my fantastic body theres two pages ------------- Bill Gates aka Chris
http://www.bmwclubne.co.uk - BMW Club NE |
Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 06-May-2005 at 12:27
|
Very snazzy Chris
Looks like a very well loved car, nice one ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: billgates e30
Date Posted: 06-May-2005 at 12:28
|
thanks. shame the driver is not so fortunate in the look s deparment ------------- Bill Gates aka Chris
http://www.bmwclubne.co.uk - BMW Club NE |
Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 06-May-2005 at 12:29
Post up a pic and we can all see what you look like.....and judge you out of 10 ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: billgates e30
Date Posted: 06-May-2005 at 12:31
you as well then
 ------------- Bill Gates aka Chris
http://www.bmwclubne.co.uk - BMW Club NE |
Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 06-May-2005 at 12:40
|
mmm...not bad.....
not bad at all....
Sadly I have no pics of me on this pooter, seeing as its a borrowed one... ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: billgates e30
Date Posted: 06-May-2005 at 12:46
thanks.......i bet you do have some pics.....your just shy ------------- Bill Gates aka Chris
http://www.bmwclubne.co.uk - BMW Club NE |
Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 06-May-2005 at 12:48
|
I had one pic of me but that was on the old pooter that I threw away before I moved up here. There is one of me on this site somewhere...taken at a Scottish BM meet late last year. Its a pic of me with Rhys taken by Rhy's g/f. ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: owenw
Date Posted: 06-May-2005 at 13:31
|
Ally what are you doing out of bed, young lady?! Don't let me get Dr. Nigel and Dr. Rhys after you! Glad to see you back online (in both senses of the word!) Chris what do you use to buff up yer car mate? That is a seriously nice shine. Love the colour Where was the mugshot taken - that your yacht parked modestly behind the palm tree? ------------- OwenW - E36 318is |
Wouldn't mind an E30 M3 if i had the dosh.Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 06-May-2005 at 13:43
|
mmm I like the 'young lady' reference....
Oddly enough as you posted about Dr Rhys...up he popped...in a manner of speaking ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: owenw
Date Posted: 06-May-2005 at 14:11
|
That'll be the moddygyratorvision. I know those spycams iare in here somewhere ------------- OwenW - E36 318is |
Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 06-May-2005 at 14:15
Dr Rhys is now on his way back home...he called by to see if I was OK.which was much appreciated. I am definately not used to having anyone worry about me...its usually me worrying about everyone else. 
I will probably have an early night tonight, got loads to do in the morning so need to recharge the old battery a bit ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: owenw
Date Posted: 06-May-2005 at 14:30
|
it always feels odd when others worry about us. I don't suppose thay had a chance to use the difribulator (sp?) by any chance? Surely the coolest and most dramatic piece of hospital equipment ever devised! Hope you feel nicely rested tomrorrow. I'm sure Dr Rhys will be round to make sure you don't overdo it!
------------- OwenW - E36 318is |
Personally can't s tanfd being fussed over. Just leave me to die quietly in bed!Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 06-May-2005 at 14:38
|
The old ticker threw a tantrum last Friday..I thought it was just really bad indigestion. Had a few more chestpains over the bank holiday but it was Tuesday when the clot moved into the lung that floored me. A few injections of Heparin to thin the blood and a shedload of pills etc....and a scan yesterday with radioactive stuff flowing through the bloodstream and I was let home provided I don't over do anything from here on in.
Some chance of that though.. ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: owenw
Date Posted: 06-May-2005 at 14:59
|
Well i hope you do take it easy, you dont want to go thru all that again. All the household jobs and whatever else can wait for the time being. Get well soon Ally! ------------- OwenW - E36 318is |
Anyway enough lecturing from me, I'll make sure Rhys banishes you to bed. Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 06-May-2005 at 15:02
|
Cheers Owen
I will try and slow down a bit, its not going to be easy though cos I'm so used to rushing about getting everything done all the time
And as for Dr Rhys banishing me to bed....I somehow think his g/f might not approve of that ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: owenw
Date Posted: 06-May-2005 at 15:12
|
i was going to say tying you to the bed, but would have been taken the wrong way by all the dirty minded reprobates on here ------------- OwenW - E36 318is |
Posted By: Goldryder
Date Posted: 06-May-2005 at 15:16
erm..he should be so lucky...he ties his g/f to the kitchen sink though, so I guess that would be about the same ------------- October 2-6 2008 - Houston, Texas - Long Distance Wedding March 15-April 1 2009 - Transatlantic Cruise October 10-25 2009 - China, Korea, Taiwan & Japan Cruise |
Posted By: whiterider
Date Posted: 06-May-2005 at 15:30
|
hi ally, i thought the hospital was keeping you in over the weekend,!!! any way nice to have you back, |
Posted By: whiterider
Date Posted: 06-May-2005 at 15:31
|
hi chris, nice pic. < =text/> |