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Greetings from new computer! I now have internet, due to having thought to try the non-USB option at the back of my modem.

So having been told to stay in from 9am to 5pm for my new computer to arrive, it duly arrives at ten to four. I start to connect it, get to the point where the instructions say to put my keyboard and mouse in their ports, and find that unlike the installation guide's picture or the current PC, I only have one such port. So I will not be using that ( Read more... )

Star Trek is 45 today. They even found a nice thing to say about Voyager.

Meanwhile, a group in the UK is trying to re-contact the British satellite Prospero sixteen years after the original programme ended. Look at us, we're a space power. :D

Fifty years ago, Yuri Gagarin took off and left the Earth behind. A human being stepped beyond the world. We did that. Look up, and imagine what more we can do.

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My very first email is no more. Of course, for the past two years it was a shell routed straight to my googlemail/gmail but never mind. So if you've sent me a mail to the ol' lineone address in the past two days, send it again.

Happy birthday to Joss Whedon.

And Alan Turing as well.

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Data recovery was somewhat successful. The main stuff I seem to have lost is the stuff that was partitioned separately on the main drive to keep it safe. So I've lost the original Corel files for a couple years' worth of stuff like the TWH DVD boxes, pictures downloaded from the net for gaming, all the music I moved out of "My Music" - which, ( Read more... )