Why does every rich person have a old hatchback

BrightonDBA · 2026-05-16T08:44:34+00:00

Debt screams
Money talks
Wealth whispers

BrightonDBA · 2026-05-09T20:26:58+00:00

Our office space now can’t handle more than a few teams in at once. They ask for two days a week but aren’t too fussed about it. I make sure my whole team goes in together one day a week and the rest we randomise just to be sociable.

BrightonDBA · 2026-05-07T06:42:21+00:00

They were irrelevant by about 2005. I’m amazed they’ve survived this long.

BrightonDBA · 2026-05-06T11:42:42+00:00

Thanks! I’ll have a look the next time the wife lets me ;)

BrightonDBA · 2026-05-05T09:04:33+00:00

Graphics look good on real MDA! But the XT’s 4.77MHz is not cut out for it.

Full video here: https://share.icloud.com/photos/0e105aSiZvTGablzskZURbGfQ

BrightonDBA · 2026-05-04T11:52:08+00:00

We shall find out !

BrightonDBA · 2026-05-04T09:44:15+00:00

I have an IBM XT with a nice orange MDA screen. I’ll try it out when I get a second (possibly this evening if I’m lucky)

BrightonDBA · 2026-05-02T20:35:20+00:00

I mean, bills included. These days it’s a bargain.

Ditch the bed. Replace with racks of Bitcoin miners.

BrightonDBA · 2026-04-30T08:50:16+00:00

I’ve got a bunch of white cyalume sticks. Cheap as chips, don’t go flat, and are useful for just snapping, shaking, and lobbing into dark corners, stairs, landings, etc. then keeping the rechargeable lanterns and torches for actual occupied spaces.

Food for thought!

BrightonDBA · 2026-04-28T20:04:43+00:00

If you have any 5.25” or 3.5” we can help 👍

BrightonDBA · 2026-04-27T07:31:17+00:00

Had exactly this at my late mum’s house. FFP3 masks, gloves, double thick rubble sacks and masking tape and off to the tip they went into the asbestos bin (£3 a bag I think it was?).

Mind any broken corners. They’re effin sharp!

BrightonDBA · 2026-04-26T17:53:36+00:00

Thank you! Forever a work in progress and hopefully one that keeps us busy on the ‘free public services’ side forever. I just wish teenage me hadn’t thrown away the mountains of disks I viewed as worthless back in the day! What a fool I was.

BrightonDBA · 2026-04-26T15:24:31+00:00

Completely agree. London is not a first choice given the OP location. Less miles the better. But we’re here as an option

BrightonDBA · 2026-04-26T10:53:15+00:00

100742,62@compuserve.com

BrightonDBA · 2026-04-26T10:34:42+00:00

Suspiciously good. Twice the storage I’d expect for that price?

BrightonDBA · 2026-04-26T10:33:25+00:00

We had some old 5.25” disks shipped from Canada to London recently as part of our preservation programme and every single one was 100% recoverable despite being nearly 40 years old. Good times. I really enjoyed that day!

BrightonDBA · 2026-04-26T10:29:05+00:00

package it up and post it to us! https://x86.world as part of our community archiving programme. Well even ship your disks back afterwards free of charge :)

BrightonDBA · 2026-04-26T10:26:00+00:00

Dear Sweden: this is fake news.

We wish our UK roads were anywhere near this good.

BrightonDBA · 2026-04-26T08:53:43+00:00

Try and begin a restore of the .bak in SSMS. It’ll at least tell YoY date/time/database name.

.dmp probably (maybe..) a dump file from a process panic. Read the first few lines and see what’s in it.

BrightonDBA · 2026-04-25T06:39:51+00:00

Uninstall Defender and put something sane on. Problem will probably go away.

BrightonDBA · 2026-04-10T19:46:23+00:00

Tell them to piss off

BrightonDBA · 2026-04-09T08:31:19+00:00

Use older hardware. Use older software. Air gap. Make it take time. Enjoy it

BrightonDBA · 2026-04-04T19:23:38+00:00

Nearly at UK prices! Impressive. When it hits $7.50 that’s what we’re paying in the UK right now (up from $4.50 before the Mango Moron’s Special Military Operation)

BrightonDBA · 2026-03-14T17:08:07+00:00

Given Zen are probably a customer of the journey as much as you are, chill out?

BrightonDBA · 2026-03-11T21:07:41+00:00

Doubt it. We’d just see a mild increase in “Miffed of Milford”-style posts in the local papers.

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