Posts by Jamie

Ryanair may charge cattle to use the bog

Bags of pee in seat-back pockets

I think the Daily Mash sums it up quite well.....

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/business/ryanair-planes-to-smell-stronly-of-urine-and-faeces-200902271609/

Lame Mac Trojan limps into view

@Pierre

I still think the Amish virus is the best cross-platform virus ever.

Serial troll vents steam through ears

@Hollerith

Hollerith? As in the IBM Hollerith censor machines that enabled the Holocaust? I should probably add "allegedly", as apart from the 528-page, meticulously-referenced book "IBM and the Holocaust" by Edwin Black I have no evidence....

Jamie

Euro guidelines will allow Bluetooth spam

@ Everyone

Look at the above - 100% in agreement for once (!!!). Gotta be a first!

MS takes Windows 3.11 out of embed to put to bed

Nostalgia

My first job was diskless DOS workstations on a Novell 2.2 network for a school. I upgraded it to Novell 3.12 after reading the 3,200 page manual with 3.11 clients. Seemed like such progress!

My first PC was a Gateway 486 DX66 imported from America; two weeks after it arrived it was on the front cover of PC Mag as "Fastest ever". I really liked laying out the windows just so so I could see every icon. I also remember installing 400 fonts on it and grinding it it a halt.

Moment of true sadness coming up: I asked for and got MS-DOS 5.0 for my 27th birthday....