Xmas. What a f&*$load of s%$@ "Celebrities" ponce around and provide "Christmas carol entertainment [?]". I'm more entertained by a wall coated in s@!* Then there is the great bearded one. What a load of f*(&#@% s*%$. If there is an upside to gloabl warming it's that the poles will melt so his North ...

I am an aussie. I have no New Zealand relatives. But still, I am SO proud of the kiwis tonight! Two very solid legs of football against a good team. Call it ANZAC spirit. I dunno. Who cares? All that matters is that THE ALL WHITES ARE GOING TO STH AFRICA!!!!!!!!! :) A team that sweltered in the ...

I liked this one:

It is human to make mistakes. But to really foul things up use a computer.

OK. Today I opened up the ancient monstrosity. This was a beats of a job to do. But anyway, I found the RAM slot and put in one of the two RAM cards that PuppyT was kind enough to post me. Now when I look up system info it says 91 MB memory, 28 MB used. It doesn't say this is RAM but I gather that ...

So Jack Meredith in the novel "My Brother Jack" will no longer be pi**ing in the wind?

Twitter can go tweet tweet itself. It's only useful for plants who can tweet "water me". For humans it's a twatzone.

I am an openoffice guy. I always will be.

There is no doubt in my mind that Iran is trying to get nukes. A couple of points about nukes: [1] Getting the nuclear material is the easiest part; there's stacks on the black market, especially discards from the Soviet break up. The hard part is getting a working, accurate launching device ...

I have a tabby cat. There is a program called "Fishcam" that comes on from time to time - a filler with fish in an aquarium. Once I had it on the TV and the tabby was in the room. Next thing I know she goes right up to the screen and claws at the "moving fish"!!!! She goes at like a mad cat for 5 ...

There is only one answer: superman-style undies on the outside as you save the world from electric charge :twisted: I have reached a bit of a dead end with getting the computer to connect to the net. The modem works. Puppy recognises it and even adds a driver :) But then it won't connect to the net ...

PuppyT, just received the gear to try out! I am a bit busy so some time next week I will try it out! Thanks again!

I just added ruby on rails to my skillset! Today I set up mysql and ruby/rubygems to a web localhost for web development. It wasn't easy to nut it out. But I managed it.

Even if I could get it to 128 MB RAM even that would be an improvement.

As I said in the PM I am so new to this - I have no experience or qulaifcations in computer repair. I suppose all that I could offer in exchange is for you to pick my brains. I am studying graphics design and some programing.

MIke, thanks for the message! But I feel that sending stuff internationally is a but much. MY folks send me stuff from the UK and it takes a long time and postage costs.

Thanks all the same!

BTW I am writing this on my kbuntu 9.04 box :) I never got into programming at school. In fact I was put off programming for life by very crummy classes in basic. But since late 2007 I have started getting into programming a lot. I am studying a cert of .NET through O'Reilly Media. It involves OOP ...

Main Pc: dual boot Windows xp/kubuntu 9.04
offline main back up pc: windows xp
junkyard computer that is going to be a powerhouse, solve my golf swing, power all the world's nuclear reactors and create Elvis from DNA: Puppy 4.3

Is there any way of me looking inti/at the motherboard itself, or finding its specs in puppy?

PuppyT that's fine. If you can't find anything that would work with my ancient machine then that is not so surprising!

When my sister gave me it last week to save space in her flat, I expected that I wouldn't succeed in turning it on. I've already got way further than I thought I would.

A free CD burner is imgburn. That's what I use. It is really intuitive; I have never read the help documents and don't need to. The interface uses pictures that you push to make your choices.

OK. I have PMed PuppyT with where to send stuff. I have to say that here in case PMing doesn't work for some reason.