The Euro at $1.55

Martin wrote:

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 12:00:11 +0100, (David Horne, _the_
chancellor (*)) wrote:
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I'm interested in the airbook ditching the optical drive... done for
obvious reasons in this case, but I wonder if the optical drive will go
the way of the floppy soon? I haven't used one of the latter for almost
a decade now...

I've never used the floppy nor the cassette archiving drive on my PC.

I haven't owned a machine that had one since 1999!

DAT backup? That takes me back to the mid 90s!

--
(*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate -www.davidhorne.net
(email address on website) "If people think God is interesting, the
onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about.
Otherwise they should just shut up about it." -Richard Dawkins

Martin wrote:

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 12:02:06 +0100, (David Horne, _the_
chancellor (*)) wrote:

Martin wrote:
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Which B&W telly?

Ah, you haven't saved up enough for it yet.

I have one orange B&W Telly that has no sound because the person who gave
it to me was an electronics expert and tried to modify a UK set to receive
Dutch sound.

Don't you just put a spit-proof coating over the screen?

--
(*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate -www.davidhorne.net
(email address on website) "If people think God is interesting, the
onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about.
Otherwise they should just shut up about it." -Richard Dawkins

Martin wrote:

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 12:20:09 +0100, (David Horne, _the_
chancellor (*)) wrote:

Martin wrote:

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 12:00:11 +0100, (David Horne, _the_
chancellor (*)) wrote:
[]
I'm interested in the airbook ditching the optical drive... done for
obvious reasons in this case, but I wonder if the optical drive will go
the way of the floppy soon? I haven't used one of the latter for almost
a decade now...

I've never used the floppy nor the cassette archiving drive on my PC.

I haven't owned a machine that had one since 1999!

DAT backup? That takes me back to the mid 90s!

An Iomega Zip drive. It had a disk in the cartridge?

Ah- yes the Zip drive, I remember that too. It held more on its 100MB
disk than I currently could on the hard drive!

--
(*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate -www.davidhorne.net
(email address on website) "If people think God is interesting, the
onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about.
Otherwise they should just shut up about it." -Richard Dawkins

Martin wrote:

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 12:42:15 +0100, (David Horne, _the_
chancellor (*)) wrote:

Martin wrote:

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 12:20:09 +0100, (David Horne, _the_
chancellor (*)) wrote:

Martin wrote:

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 12:00:11 +0100, (David Horne,
_the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:
[]
I'm interested in the airbook ditching the optical drive... done for
obvious reasons in this case, but I wonder if the optical drive will go
the way of the floppy soon? I haven't used one of the latter for almost
a decade now...

I've never used the floppy nor the cassette archiving drive on my PC.

I haven't owned a machine that had one since 1999!

DAT backup? That takes me back to the mid 90s!

An Iomega Zip drive. It had a disk in the cartridge?

Ah- yes the Zip drive, I remember that too. It held more on its 100MB
disk than I currently could on the hard drive!

We used them at work fir backups. They weren't perfect the only time I really
needed to recover something the Zip wasn't readable.

The three disks I had were OK. I used one as my start-up disk for about
a year!

--
(*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate -www.davidhorne.net
(email address on website) "If people think God is interesting, the
onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about.
Otherwise they should just shut up about it." -Richard Dawkins

"Martin" wrote in message
...

One fix is to use an external DVD drive that is set up for the USA.

Why bother?

Ebuyer do a USB 2 read/write multiregion one for about £32...

--
William Black


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.

William Black wrote:

"Martin" wrote in message
...

One fix is to use an external DVD drive that is set up for the USA.

Why bother?

Ebuyer do a USB 2 read/write multiregion one for about £32...

Well, the real annoyance is that as my laptop has a DVD drive, why
should I have to fork out for another one, plus the extra hassle of
carrying it around. If it really bothered me, I'd probably look at
replacing the optical drive itself with a third party model that can be
firmware hacked.

--
(*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate -www.davidhorne.net
(email address on website) "If people think God is interesting, the
onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about.
Otherwise they should just shut up about it." -Richard Dawkins

"David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)" wrote in message
...
William Black wrote:

"Martin" wrote in message
...

One fix is to use an external DVD drive that is set up for the USA.

Why bother?

Ebuyer do a USB 2 read/write multiregion one for about £32...

Well, the real annoyance is that as my laptop has a DVD drive, why
should I have to fork out for another one, plus the extra hassle of
carrying it around. If it really bothered me, I'd probably look at
replacing the optical drive itself with a third party model that can be
firmware hacked.

The whole 'DVD Region' thing is dead outside the USA.

The only reason they can make this crap stick on computers is because the
computer companies all want US government contracts, or, like Apple, have
a vested interest in the whole ghastly twisted mess that is the modern
copyright system (and I've earned a few quid from it myself, but it's still
a ghastly mess unless you're an ex Beatle or Frank Sinatra's heirs)

--
William Black


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.

..

"Martin" wrote in message
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On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 11:53:06 +0100, (David Horne, _the_
chancellor (*)) wrote:

Martin wrote:

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 11:22:09 +0100, (David Horne,
_the_
chancellor (*)) wrote:

Martin wrote:

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 08:47:48 +0100, (David Horne,
_the_
chancellor (*)) wrote:

Mxsmanic wrote:

Go Fig writes:

But its OK for the government of France to basically dictate
when you
can have an annual SALE ?

French government has long been very instrusive, and French people
seem
to like it that way, or at least they put up with it (perhaps they
don't know any better).

LOL does Mixi know any better?



It helps them save up for a B&W telly!

or a single ticket home.

Weren't we going to start a collection for that?

Were we? )

You promised to auction your B&W telly, remember?

I did?

Which B&W telly?

Are you confusing me with DFM? I volunteered to shop him to the French
immigration people if it meant they would repatriate him.


And it couldn't have been me because I am still saving up for mine
(according to Mixi).
--

JohnT

JohnT wrote:

"Martin" wrote in message
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On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 11:53:06 +0100, (David Horne, _the_
chancellor (*)) wrote:
[]
You promised to auction your B&W telly, remember?

I did?

Which B&W telly?

Are you confusing me with DFM? I volunteered to shop him to the French
immigration people if it meant they would repatriate him.


And it couldn't have been me because I am still saving up for mine
(according to Mixi).

If you sell your 42" flat screen colour, you might be able to scrape
together enough for that B&W?

--
(*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate -www.davidhorne.net
(email address on website) "If people think God is interesting, the
onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about.
Otherwise they should just shut up about it." -Richard Dawkins

Martin wrote:

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 12:53:26 +0100, "William Black"
wrote:


"Martin" wrote in message
.. .

One fix is to use an external DVD drive that is set up for the USA.

Why bother?

Ebuyer do a USB 2 read/write multiregion one for about £32...

That's another £32 I have saved by not being an Apple lover.

Oddly, I saved the £32 too!

--
(*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate -www.davidhorne.net
(email address on website) "If people think God is interesting, the
onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about.
Otherwise they should just shut up about it." -Richard Dawkins