Am posting this from Safari running on dual-boot Vista/OSX 10.5 on my standard HP laptop. This would have been a lot easier to accomplish if it hadn't been for the AHCI-enabled nForce chipset - google for AHCI nForce OSX86 and you'll find page after page describing methods that people have had no success with. Eventually managed to get this working ( Read more... )

Connected to Windows XP 2600 x86 compatible target, ptr64 FALSE ( Read more... )

It's off the market and let to us. Slap bang in the middle of Angel, just off Upper Street, but quiet and with decent sized rooms in what looks almost like a converted school and costing barely more than the XLA place I've been living this past nine months. Plus, an entire fucking roof terrace spanning no less than six properties surrounded by tree ( Read more... )

Or more contemporarily (relatively speaking):

Water, water everywhere
and all the noise did shrink
water, water everywhere
nor any active sink

Top on the list of recent totally unnecessary purchases was one of these. Whilst not technically silent, it is very, very quiet - perhaps if I were living somewhere out of london and didn't use the ( Read more... )

Colloquially, shooting yourself in the foot, hoisted by your own petard, cutting off your nose to spite your face, premeditated masochism, self-sabotage, the jinx, sod's law, call it what you will, the self-defeating principle embodies a distinct yet subtle flavour of stupidity quite unlike any other. To the man in the street it may be as simple as ( Read more... )

I've fucking well had it with English mentality today. What is it with this national sentiment of mediocrity? Almost no one in the entire fucking country seems even vaguely capable of doing what they say they're going to do when they say they're going to do it. Instead of being frowned upon, under-achievement, lack of education, incompetence and ( Read more... )

Suggestions on a postcard. Winner gets an anal probe. Three runners up prizes of a lucky dip from my box of old shoe-laces. Loser gets a holiday to Spain. Booby prize for least workable idea gets a pot of strawberry yoghurt, without the pot (delivery charges may apply for applicants outside the EU ( Read more... )

Minimum system requirements (software) - Windows 2000/XP with DirectX 9.0c, or fully compatible open-source equivalent. Wine rocks ( Read more... )

This morning, which is Sunday, I woke up in my own bed after a night's sleep. I cannot remember the last time this happened, but given the requirements of (a) having my own bed and (b) not having gone to the Slimelight, I can determine that this event has not occurred since at least June 2005 ( Read more... )

Worked really hard this week. Tired now. Don't think that's going to affect me too much, though *g*.