Who's having a Computing Saturday.

Luny · January 2018

Back in the day and sometimes the present I always looked forward to Saturday as one of my computing at home days. Saturday has always been special for me having been born on a Saturday, the FA was on so we all know where my Dad was at the time.

Anyway like many others Saturday meant sitting in front of my fave computer, the Speccy of course and doing things. Games, coding etc.

mel the bell · January 2018

not as such, no different from any other day sat at mi pc lol, just found drivers for two old scanners tho, sadly ones only xp, and the other is xp/vista, mi old pc is vista but im hoping to go back onto it and upgrade to 7 so wont be any good lol

zx1 · January 2018

I'm hopefully having a Speccy Day next week as i'm off work but today is the Masters Semi Final so no games for me but back in the day i would play my Speccy all day and sometimes into the night. Did that once with Frankie Goes To Hollywood, me and my Dad tried to complete it but gave up at about 2am :))

mel the bell · January 2018

well i had a pc hardware day lol, took out a crappy dvd drive from my in use pc to install into my old vista machine forgetting its sata only, the drives ide, so had to go back in and take out the other drive which is sata (was originally in mi old vista machine) so hopefully gonna upgrade to win 7...if it allows me too (its already installed on this in use pc)

Luny · January 2018

Its amazing how much time a simple job like that can take?

Scottie_uk · January 2018

Yes. I'm teaching myself a bit of node.js and brushing up on my Linux command line skills.

mik3d3nch · January 2018

Whats wrong with this message entry box? Why is the top filled with bold cap B's ?

Today is my writing day, I interrupted the daily flow of my serialised adventure about a week before Christmas and have only just kicked my brain back into gear. Spent too many frustrating days glumly reaching the conclusion that Basic is all I can manage to get to grips with.

Once I entered this post the message box heading went back to normal. Weird.

Luny · January 2018

Well Mike, as I always say, if BASIC is your bag, stick with it and enjoy it. My first three years of coding was just BASIC. you'll be surprised at what you may achieve. Give time my friend :)

mel the bell · January 2018

Luny wrote: »

Its amazing how much time a simple job like that can take?

still not done :( set it all up on this tv using hdmi all comes on etc AND....for some reason the dvd drive wont eject, it keeps trying but it like judders and clicks but the tray doesnt pop out, it did in this machine, the other it has to go in vertical as its a small form factor so thought id put it in the wrong way round, but then theres no screw holes visible, the way i put it in, one is.
so taken it out and gonna put it back into this one and double check it still does eject Oo

F_Clowder · January 2018

^^^ Tried putting a paperclip into the tiny hole to eject? Usually there is a tiny hole for that.

F_Clowder · January 2018

My computer is amazingly working. I installed that game Mel mentioned in the Wii thread. So, yeah, I'm rimming the sky, or however that goes. Never tried it before. The computer is holding up admirably, since it's nearly a decade old. Already sunk over 5 hours into it. Just finished the Bleak Bowels quest and am in the Earl's court giving away the Dragonstone. Evidently there is a dragon afoot. In the sky. Nearby. Wherever it is. No clue yet, am just following the wiz. Seems ok game so far.

mel the bell · January 2018

F_Clowder wrote: »

My computer is amazingly working. I installed that game Mel mentioned in the Wii thread. So, yeah, I'm rimming the sky, or however that goes. Never tried it before. The computer is holding up admirably, since it's nearly a decade old. Already sunk over 5 hours into it. Just finished the Bleak Bowels quest and am in the Earl's court giving away the Dragonstone. Evidently there is a dragon afoot. In the sky. Nearby. Wherever it is. No clue yet, am just following the wiz. Seems ok game so far.

it WASNT the wii thread, it was the switch thread where we naughtilly started talking about the wii in

F_Clowder · January 2018

^^^ What she said.

Your Spec-chum · January 2018

Eee, I remember the days when I had Saturdays off. No actually I can't, what's it like having Saturday off?

F_Clowder · January 2018

Same as having Sunday off.

Your Spec-chum wrote: »

Eee, I remember the days when I had Saturdays off. No actually I can't, what's it like having Saturday off?

Luny · January 2018

F_Clowder wrote: »

Same as having Sunday off.

Your Spec-chum wrote: »

Eee, I remember the days when I had Saturdays off. No actually I can't, what's it like having Saturday off?

No, Saturdays were always better, people seem to be around, the shops were open. Oh yeah you are right, things have changed over here and Sundays are just like Saturdays now. Yay, two for the price of one.

F_Clowder · January 2018

^^^ Come to think of it, there is always that issue with Sundays carrying that "Oh-no,Monday-tomorrow :-("

mel the bell · January 2018

Luny wrote: »

No, Saturdays were always better, people seem to be around, the shops were open.

yup, up to the village see mi gran, go buy an action man at the post office, then go back watch grandstand and the wrestling, have mi dinner, lots of hendies relish :) then go play in the park

dm_boozefreek · January 2018

.....Whilst in t'park I hope thi looked out for glueys, and flashers :))

mel the bell · January 2018

dm_boozefreek wrote: »

.....Whilst in t'park I hope thi looked out for glueys, and flashers :))

nowt like that in that park tbh, pretty open, and in the centre of the OAP bit, but we used to hang around in there with the redheads (dodgy family)

Later on Timothy redhead was done for murder
https://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/topic/382-the-headless-corpse-and-the-pop-singer/

it involves the singer Gabrielle sort of :P

He was also in the news again for stoving peoples heads in
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/7453042.stm

and his brother became a crack dealer lol
https://www.thestar.co.uk/whats-on/out-and-about/crack-house-barons-jailed-1-252374

also another brother was done for heroin
https://www.skegnessstandard.co.uk/news/commercial-drug-dealer-jailed-for-six-years-1-1344877

i was only about 7-10 when i used to hang around with those :O their sister was a big mama and pushed the roundabout that fast you hung on like superman flying

zx1 · January 2018

they sound like a lovely family :))

mel the bell · January 2018

zx1 wrote: »

they sound like a lovely family :))

i know, and they lived where it was decent lol, i lived in the supposedly dodgy area

zx1 · January 2018

Where i used to live (with my parents) we had neighbours from hell, it was all started by a very trivial issue but that's a story for another time. The area was a private estate, anyone passing would say it was a nice area but these people belonged in a run down, druggie council estate. To this day i despise what they did to my parents, but again, that's a story for another day (and thread).

F_Clowder · January 2018

Ooh, ooh! Tell us more, please, zx1. We are ever so intrigued! Gather round, one and all!

zx1 · January 2018

(clears throat). Perhaps another day. It would take a post of ewgf style length and i'm off to bed - tomorrow if i remember i will resurrect my old 'neighbour from hell' thread and post it in there.

F_Clowder · January 2018

^^^ Oooh, I remember that thread with fondly fronds! Look forward to it, as do we all! Sleep well, rest well. You need your typing fingers to type away for us tomorrow!

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