All of those plus Cannon Fodder. "War ain't never been so much fun" At the time, the highest quality game music I'd ever heard.
Posts by AbelSoul
751 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Jan 2013
Commodore Amiga turns 40, headlines UK exhibition
Age verification biz claims no-payment model for 40% of Brits ahead of July pr0n ban
SpaceX Crew Dragon: Launched and docked. Now, about that splashdown...
Monday 4th March 2019 12:29 GMT
Re: Wonder if they will go for the triple?
They went for it the last time and almost pulled off all three.
'They took away our Cup-a-Soup!' Share your tales of bleak breakout areas with us
Techie in need of a doorstop picks up 'chunk of metal' – only to find out it's rather pricey
Monday 18th February 2019 09:53 GMT
Re: Have you ever heard a story about something you did told second-hand?
Go and DuckDuckGo the origins of the phrase Cock and Bull story. The Cock and The Bull were two pubs on The Great North Road.
I had a peek and apparently the claim that's where the phrase originated is a bit of a cock and bull story itself.
I helped catch Silk Road boss Ross Ulbricht: Undercover agent tells all
Amazon's self-driving AI robo-car – THE TRUTH (it's a few inches in size)
NASA has Mars InSight as latest lander due to arrive today
BT: We're stocking warehouses with kit ahead of Brexit to avoid shortages
Thursday 1st November 2018 14:38 GMT
Re: A timely reminder...
"adding another crate of single malt to my post-Brexit stash"
Any excuse for a bit of shameless advertising of my own single malt.
One of only 248 ever produced.*
*sort of. ;-)
Fast food, slow user – techie tears hair out over crashed drive-thru till
Police block roads to stop tech support chap 'robbing a bank'
TSB outage, day 5: What do you mean you can't log in? Our systems are up and running. Up and running, we say!
Wednesday 25th April 2018 15:24 GMT
Still humped
Been trying to get in all afternoon.
Finally got in a couple of minutes ago and second stage of 2 factor authentication crashed.
Tried again and finally got to see a list of my accounts, tried to access one and was greeted with a "Thank you! You have successfully logged out of your account." message.
Omnishambles springs to mind.
User asked why CTRL-ALT-DEL restarted PC instead of opening apps
Friday 23rd March 2018 09:24 GMT
Re: Feeling Old...
Kids these days don't understand that we used to have to buy a card specifically to get sound out of a computer
To be fair, having grown up using a Commodore16 then eventually an Amiga, on encountering an "IBM Compatible" for the first time, I didn't understand that either; "What do you mean, it can only go beep?"
Half the world warned 'Chinese space station will fall on you'
Wednesday 7th March 2018 09:22 GMT
Chicken Licken
For some reason this has reminded me of an occasion in the early 90s, leaving the arena of a music festival in a several thousand strong throng of revellers in various states of intoxication. One particularly inebriated young chap suddenly decided to serenade a WPC with the unforgettable verse:
All my life I've been lickin'
Your fanny lips cause they taste like chicken
Oh boy
Ahh.... what a time to be alive that was... nostalgia sure ain't what it used to be... etc, etc.
Home taping revisited: A mic in each hand, pointing at speakers
UK's iconic Jodrell Bank Observatory nominated as World Heritage Site
Tuesday 30th January 2018 09:43 GMT
Look again at that dot...
It has hosted the Bluedot festival for the last two years and is doing so again this year. This event combines music and science and is tailor-made for a tune-loving-nerd such as myself. Professor David Nutt's presentation in the inaugural year was a personal highlight. I've yet to miss it.
Staying on site for the weekend also solves your transport issues.
Scotland, now is your time… to launch Brexit Britain into SPAAAACE!
Forget Sesame Street, scientists pretty much watched Big Bird evolve on Galápagos island
Alexa, please cause the cops to raid my home
Boss put chocolate cake on aircon controller, to stop people using it
Your data will get hacked anyway so you might as well give up protecting it
Red (Planet) alert: Future astro-heroes face shocking adventures on Martian moon Phobos
Super Cali's futuristic robo-cars in focus – even though watchdogs say they're something quite atrocious
Support team discovers 'official' vendor paper doesn't rob you blind
Friday 6th October 2017 09:44 GMT
Re: What have you fixed with sticky tape?
Tape.
I used to fix tape with tape.
More specifically, back in the mists of time when home taping was killing music, I was an enthusiastic home taper.
Some of these cassettes became quite precious.
Occasionally such a cassette would suffer from snapped tape.
A little scalpel blade and a few well-placed millimetres of (possibly the same frosted type of) Scotch tape could resurrect them with only a split second of distorted wobble to belie the repair job.
Ahh, nostalgia. Even after all these years it still aint what it used to be.
Kebab and pizza shop owner jailed for hiding £179k from the taxman
Fruit flies' brains at work: Decision-making? They use their eyes
Robocall scumbags already target Hurricane Harvey victims
James Webb Telescope will be infatuated with Europa and Enceladus
San Franciscans unite to smite alt-right with minefield of doggy shite
US engineer in the clink for wrecking ex-bosses' smart meter radio masts with Pink Floyd lyrics
Varjo promises Oculus-killing VR/AR, but is it the next Magic Leap?
Bye bye MP3: You sucked the life out of music. But vinyl is just as warped
Man nicked trying to 'save' beer from burning building
Squirrel sinks teeth into SAN cabling, drives Netadmin nuts
Friday 24th March 2017 15:29 GMT
Re: Best traps
It might not surprise you (given my posting name) that I've never lived in a house with a mouse problem. Or a rat problem.
I never had a mouse problem or a rat problem until I got my cat. He was already about a year and a half old and has a habit of catching various creatures and bringing them home, usually (although by no means always) in pretty rude health. Everything from mice, voles and shrews, through frogs and newts, to rats and birds, but mostly mice.
Last summer he was sometimes bringing in three or four critters a night. This makes for some "hilarious" late night escapades, trying to catch and release the wee beasties.
I live in the city centre, about half a mile from the nearest water course and had no idea there was so much wildlife outside my back door.
Decapitating Rockall: How a 1970s Navy expedition blasted the top off the Atlantic islet
Wednesday 22nd March 2017 16:10 GMT
Re: It's 90 miles closer to Donegal than it is to Britain
Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
Scotland (the nearest permanently inhabited place is North Uist) is still part of Britain.
Google Maps' Street View can now lead you into a bubbling lava lake
NASA swerves serious cash cuts – but Earth climate probes, asteroid snatcher face axe
If fast radio bursts really are revving up interstellar sailcraft, here's the maths
Move over, Bernie Ecclestone. Scientists unearth Earth's oldest fossil yet: 4bn years old
Low-key Samsung: Psst. We've got new Galaxy tablets and new Gear VR
Sysadmin's sole client was his wife – and she queried his bill
Soon only Ticketmaster will rip you off: Concert scalper bots face US ban
Friday 2nd December 2016 11:05 GMT
Re: Even email delivery costs money
Yes. I have grudgingly paid £2.50 to TicketBastard on more than one occasion for the "privilege" of printing out my own ticket.
Come the revolution, first order of business:
Ticket prices will be all-inclusive by law.
If a gig is advertised at twenty squids, then all you should pay is twenty squids, including standard delivery.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
