Hah, Trevor McDonut. Classic. Not forgetting Algernon Winston Razzamatazz and his bread and condensed milk sandwiches. Also, the appearance of Sylvester McCoy, future unpopular Dr. Who and Radagast.

This one comes as standard with an ethernet adapter built into the external power brick.

It'll grow past the game it is and some people will figure out that they enjoy the indirect aspects of the game. Fitness groups, history study groups, faction gatherings, strategy planning groups. Ingress went from a game on the screen to people actually meeting and doing other stuff.

Switched from Twonky to Plex. The metadata makes it worth while, plus the server is available for a few different flavours of Linux. Basic CentOS install gets the work done. Even has a DLNA server built in so the WDTV's work. (I have one servicing an old TV in the shed).

Mostly thanks to This Guy

This price is inclusive of the bumped up transcoding CPU. Most NAS systems are woefully under powered and can barely transcode a single 480p stream. Apparently this will transcode 4K video.

It's still the 90's in South Australia.

They had code listings for games. I wanted games really. Then I wanted to change the game, so a learnin' was in order. Initially Sinclair BASIC, but read up on the CPU and learn't Z80 pretty quickly. Carried around a Z80 cheat sheet and wrote as much as I could before upgrading to a ZX81, then a Spectrum 48K. Applied for a few jobs with the hope of getting into places like Ultimate. Ended up getting a sweet paid job working at a PCB manufacturer writing Z80 for test harnesses.

Picked up 68000 and C. Bought an Amiga and did a ton of stuff there. Joined the demo scene.

Switched jobs to one making general ledger and debtor/creditor systems for small companies doing more C with a smattering of x86 to fill the gaps. Then hit the 90's and an explosion of Windows work, C++ learning, mix of other languages popping up here and there. Learning other frameworks and libraries, moved around between Borland and Microsoft stuff.

Finally got on the Microsoft bandwagon, embraced MFC and ATL, then de-embraced MFC and ATL. Learn't a lot about X windows, made it into government defence contracts with stints doing medical imaging work. Lots of standards you have to learn. Started mixing lots of other languages into the mix. Right tools for the job.

Past 1998 I've kept up with the web stuff, loads of different stack types and tool chains. Went through a .NET phase for a while, more frameworks, diverse languages. It keeps getting better, I love this stuff, learning is a magnificent beast.

I've had a couple of family members bring me their laptops with Windows 10 issues. While I'm for people learning about their own computers and taking decisive actions, but the current Windows 10 upgrade push is irresponsible. From Microsoft's perspective things are looking great if this works. More people will be on the later versions of Windows. Great for them.

But this push is advertised to EVERYONE, regardless of hardware age. So that older Toshiba laptop gets an upgrade courtesy of grandma pushing yes to the Windows 10 prompt. Everything installs correctly until a week down the track when there's obviously something wrong with the NVidia drivers, or the bluetooth stack. Head off to the Toshiba support site to grab drivers and only 8.1 is supported with NO intention of providing anything later. And they aggressively version check in the setup, so a very manual installation is required. Same goes for HP.

While I think it's great getting everyone on a level playing field. I think they really should make sure that the hardware is supported by the vendors before recommending the upgrade.

Balloons count for 19% of Helium consumption each year. A standard tank of Helium fills about 50 balloons for a party. According to the PDF here a single tank fills 10,000 drives. Seems minimal.

"This guy's shouting at me like a rich COBOL dev on anti-inflammatries"

That's what it's about. Enjoying the learning experience keeps it flowing.

Either that or learn COBOL. That shit ain't going away any time soon and it pays well.

"We found DNA from 12 different people, a cow, three different pigs, a chicken, genetically modified pineapple, tomato and yeast. Only one of these lived in the house."

Following a compass that is. Not sure if the magnetic north pole is still in Canadian territories as it has been wondering northward, but I'm pretty sure the magnetic south pole is well into the Indian ocean by now.

KeySmart contains a 64Gb flash, two office keys, 2 house keys, and a boat ignition key. Leatherman isn't airport save, but has a carabiner so it gets left in the car, scissors, blade, tweezers and flathead screwdriver. All up everything is smaller than the palm of my hand.