...you insensitive Google clods!

(Yes, I am THAT old).

This reminds me a complaint my mom gave me about her birthday gift (precisely a cellphone):

"Next time don't buy me a gadget which is smarter than me".

Finally I managed to move his lazy butt:

http://tirsabril.com/slashdot

Don't expect anything awesome, though.

Oookay guys, I asked for pics to him. As soon as he sends them, I'll put them somewhere and post the address here.

Rary: Thanks for your offer, but probably transportation would be way too expensive, unless you happen to live in Catalonia (then we could ever go to pick them up personally and pay for them in beer).

I have a friend who builds telescopes (and even domes for them!). He uses the dead hard disks I bring him to build filter holders (for the ones who are not into astronomy: it's quite common to take the pics of the three colour channels separately and then mix, to reduce EM interference. Don't ask me about the details). Well, he removes all the plates but one, then makes 3 big holes in the plate, separated 120 degrees, to accomodate the filters, and uses the step-by-step disk engine to control the rotation of the filters very quickly, so he can take the three channels pics in a very fast sequence to avoid misalignment because of movement.

(It's a pity I don't have any pics around; the results are really impressive)

Shouldn't "two languages" stand for "[Quebecoise]Canadian"?

Something similar happens to me too.

My wife says it's because I have a "friendly face". Maybe this is your case as well.

- Bilingual society (Catalonia): shops, bars, etc.
- Japanese wife.
- Chinese coworkers (I use English with them).
- Italian friends to hang out with.

Total: five.

Not counting German, which I speak very seldom.

Sorry man, but your use of the "f" word is totally inadequate in this conversation. Let me correct you:

How the fsck is he supposed to store 80 GB files on a filesystem that maxes out at 4 GB?

Much more in-context, eh?

Hah! In my company we call it "NoTeFíeS" (for non Spanish-speaking people: "Don'tTrustIt").

1) Barracks.

2) Everything, each thing, counts and helps.

3) Haiti was just an example. In theory NPOs send stuff to places where they are needed, so they should take care of deciding whether Haiti or (let's say) Madagascar, but the important thing is, they need to have something to send.

Yes I do. Did you really read my message?

I agree. Trash them, same as you trashed your {2|3|4}86 boxes and your {MSDOS|WIN31} floppy disks.

An alternative is to donate them to some non-profit organisation which sends them to third-world countries; imagine for example how a Haiti school could benefit from some wifi equipment (provided, of course, the NPO also gets a few computers for them!)