Well since it is played near constantly on TV in the UK, you could probably set your recorder to record every episode that airs and have the whole lot in a week or so anyway. They are currently filming a new series too :)

Last time I used Slackware I used it with NetBSD's pkgsrc as the package management tool. It worked reasonably well. Even a traditional BSD UNIX has a more modern package management system.

I used Stampede for a while, and it was pretty much Slackware but compiled for 686 processors, where Slackware was still using 386 as the target. You could achieve a similar speed up to Stampede's level by just compiling your own Slackware packages for the most heavily used libs and applications.

With current fuel prices being so high, will some lucky person in the area have hit the jackpot when they check their pool for the stuff? They could skim it off the top and run their truck for a week or two. I really should Google aviation fuel, for some reason I have it in my head as being pretty similar to diesel.

I sit three feet away from my 40inch screen, and I prefer 1080p to be fair. When gaming, I like plenty of anti aliasing switched on too, as it is quite noticable without it, even at 1080p. I would like to get a bigger screen in a few years time, but I'm waiting for HD3DHDTV as unless I move my seat back it is just going to annoy me without a good increase in resolution.

I'm in the UK and get 41 to 8.8.8.8 and 124 to slashdot.org. 30ms to my ISP.

Until December I used an 18 month old graphics card, then bought myself an early x-mas present to improve my BF3 experience. Within a few weeks it seemed to develop a fault so got RMA and put a spare card in (~4 years old) which could still play more than I thought. Anyway, on getting the new card back, this would have been my 4th change, (although back to an old hardware setting).

Cheers, and others. Seems I had the wrong idea about this.

And now you are just trying to scare me I think. My heart is fine... I smoke a few cigars a day, have a beer or a cider, maybe once every 6 months or so indulge in something a little stronger. I stop smoking for a few months now and again and get quite fit before I go on my winter holiday snowboarding, but my job is fairly demanding and... say, would the occasional dizzy spell, light head as I stand up have anything to do with this? I'm only 30...

I've had chest infections in the past, and the doctor has told me it's viral, and then that he's going to prescribe me some antibiotics. Wait... what? "It won't cure it, but it might help you get over it" or something along those lines was his attitude.

So after getting prescribed antibiotics a few times for various things, I then developed an allergy to penicillin and my face went numb and my lip welled up during a course of treatment. Well, that's just great that is. Now I am screwed should I ever catch a real disease and need such things, although as I'm a dairy farmer my immune system is pretty good comparably.

I think I'm allergic to something else too which I haven't figured out yet, just my lip goes a little numb from time to time. Maybe just the traces of anti-biotics in my day to day diet...

I thought he was joking actually... but no-one has moderated yet. Could somebody please moderate and tell us whether this is supposed to be a funny?

I am surrounded by fields, but I still use encryption. I take my portable out into the workshop about 20 yards away, but I just can't get a reception. My router is in the window, and there's only an old tin garage between the asbestos workshop and the house... need an external antenna I guess.

The single player Bad Company 2 isn't too bad, and you feel a bond with your squad mates that you don't often get... not bad at all.

I think it was the latest Medal Of Honour however, that actually brought a tear to my eye in one part of the story. This is certainly one of the few games ever to have this effect. Maybe I was just feeling tired or something.

I attacked the problem from another angle. My single screen cost was around £1300 (~$2k) when I bought it a few years ago... probably cost around half that to buy one similar now. I have this 40 inch 1080p LCD on a desk I built myself so the screen is a better height. I turn the FOV up a little above standard in first person shooters, not terribly high but just what feels right to me. I am happy... I would like a few small screens to go around my main screen now though I think.