troll8901: Just watch out for the underpants gnomes.

maxwell demon: i put 95-99 as my option, and i was 17 when i would have written/saved those files. Mind you i had only had a computer for about 4 years at that point. I am certainly not old enough to legitimately be able to make any punchtape gags, so can appreciate what you mean.

One of the few times that it pays to keep an old computer as well as floppy drive then i guess. I have a QIC-80 drive with very very little use on it sitting at home that im sure would make some random hardware glutton happy with.

Speaking of which, aside from hardware that has gone up in smoke, i pretty much have all the old processors and motherboards i have used over the years from upgrades. At last count it was about 6 (celeron 300a, p3/667, duron 1200, athlon xp 2000+, Pentium 4, celeron 330 D) plus associated ram, pci/agp video cards peripherals and psu's from each era.

In re-reading my post i just realised why my wife has the shits with how much space all my old crap takes up in the spare room....... Damn, i think i know what i'll be doing when i get home from work.

Ouch, that would have stung. The worst thing i did was use fips (im not sure if that's dating my cockup) and then proceeding to delete & then ext2 format the wrong partition and THEN noticing all my stuff was gone.

  Unfortunately despite my best efforts, everything i had on my one hard drive was lost.
Two things have happened as a direct result of this:
1) I have never attempted to install linux after 1am since.
2) i don't dualboot operating systems on the one hard drive, ever.

The only "rights" that are managed are those of the guys creating the game. Everyone else is bending over and taking it with a smile, or is that a wince?

Heh, now that 6 pages of complaints is pared down to just a 1 post 2 reply/mod closed thread. Was surprised it didn't happen earlier

As my missus has said once or twice, "That hurts my brain". I'm just glad that i've managed to miss out on a lot of the "internet fads". When someone starts bringing out what i can only presume is "4chan speak" my eyes glaze over and i have to remind myself not to punch them in the face.

Oh and yeah, +11 here, so came across as an april 2nd joke, God bless timezone differences.

You sir, are awesome!
Thankyou for the link.

Western Digital is based out of Illinois? That's news to me.

Right. So rocks, tiny holes, dog squeezing the Tabasco sauce out. You see where im going with this? That is unless your talking about putting tobasco in the pool, in which case you need about 20 gallons of it and the pinprick idea may not be such a hot idea.

Seriously though, stopping the dog's rock carrying habit is a good idea, especially as carrying rocks like that seriously screws up their teeth.