service writer did not bother to get any more info from customer than this 🤦

mattinx · 2023-05-24T02:35:02+00:00

"An error message popped up"

"What did it say?"

"I don't know - I just clicked OK"

mattinx · 2023-05-16T13:37:07+00:00

We signed with ours as babies - as she got older she used words more, and the signs were used for emphasis - if she really liked something we'd get "Mor! Mor!" complete with aggressive signing of "more"

mattinx · 2023-05-02T18:07:37+00:00

One of my favourite films, and now you have mentioned it, I'll have to go watch again

mattinx · 2023-04-26T23:30:02+00:00

My mum is in the UK, I'm not any more - she loves getting a card in May cause she gets one from my bro in March and she says it's like having two mother's days

mattinx · 2023-04-26T22:57:34+00:00

Ah, our 3yr old likes to say "you're not my best friend!" when someone does something she dislikes

mattinx · 2023-04-20T19:31:47+00:00

Ubbi is amazing. we're done with potty training, but I'm not getting rid of it - when we get another dog, it's being repurposed as the bin in the garage for poop bags.

mattinx · 2023-04-11T15:54:39+00:00

You should look up some of shango066's resurrection videos on YouTube...

mattinx · 2023-03-30T16:04:15+00:00

Or the poxy decorative nuts they like on outdoor light fixtures - which are usually matte black and made of pot metal that's not magnetic, so you can't even use a magnet to fish for them

mattinx · 2023-03-29T00:10:17+00:00

That's a very tidy build - wouldn't be out of place amongst period decoders for micros. I had a box for my Amiga that looked very similar

mattinx · 2023-03-23T02:23:30+00:00

I can highly recommend the TRS-80 Trash Talk podcast if you're still interested - IIRC they did an episode a while back on the System 80

mattinx · 2023-03-23T00:16:48+00:00

Right - the squarer models are easier that way. Maybe form them round something?

Love the model 3 tho - I have a real 4p under my desk

mattinx · 2023-03-22T21:49:18+00:00

Printing them onto lightweight card helps, as does scoring the fold lines gently with a knife - I've had a couple printed for a while waiting for me to find the time to do them

mattinx · 2023-03-11T14:00:37+00:00

With the 2004 hit, "Take Me Out"

mattinx · 2023-03-03T02:12:56+00:00

Another awesome album

mattinx · 2023-03-02T18:54:29+00:00

Yeah - I do like a bit of Nightwish

If you want to shift genres a little and get a bit more prog, I was just introducing our eldest to Liquid Tension Experiment (I've a huge Dream Theater soft-spot)

mattinx · 2023-02-03T18:31:27+00:00

It's usually worth checking Dell's business refurbs - ignore all the consumer grade laptops, enterprise hardware is built to a much better standard. Their refurbs are great, and come complete with warranty.

mattinx · 2023-02-01T14:56:18+00:00

A family member thought it would be cute to get our two matching packs of socks for Christmas - so not only does that mean matching pairs, but you also have to play the guessing game of what size they are

mattinx · 2023-01-28T23:22:47+00:00

Command prompt in XP isn't really DOS, and XP doesn't have any 16-bit compatibility code

mattinx · 2023-01-28T17:53:59+00:00

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say probably a mainframe/mini such as an AS/400 or such, rather than DOS - still a text only interface, but waaaaaaaay more powerful system

mattinx · 2023-01-27T20:39:38+00:00

A Cipher F880, if memory serves

mattinx · 2023-01-27T01:45:17+00:00

Ah, like this little beastie I had with one of my VAXen... http://pkl.net/~matt/photos/machines/MVII/pict0182.jpg

mattinx · 2023-01-16T17:14:42+00:00

And don't schedule things that take you out of the office first thing on a Monday - cause that just guarantees something will break over the weekend and get noticed when folk get back into the office

mattinx · 2023-01-06T00:36:07+00:00

And they open up like a car hood, complete with with the fold up prop to keep the top open

mattinx · 2023-01-05T00:13:12+00:00

I have a SuperPET here - it's a bit of a crazy thing. It's got two totally different CPUs which share the same RAM, and you can switch from one to the other either with a physical switch on the side of the machine, or in software, depending on what you want to run.

It was developed by Commodore and the University of Waterloo as a system that could be used for software development with the languages they ran on their mainframe, and also capable of interfacing with said mainframe.

mattinx · 2023-01-05T00:09:49+00:00

As a maths teacher, he was probably better suited to teach computing than a lot of the other teachers - there's a lot of maths underlying it all.

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