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[Conway]

Somehow, my broadband internet connection speed has doubled. It use to be 150k, and now it's about 300k! O_O It's not due to the RAM upgrade either, as it's also faster on the laptop which shares the same connection. ::

[G3K]

Conway> So long as you're not complaining

Today I went up into my attic out of lack of anything better to do (well, to tidy up, but I didn't have anything else to do anyway) and decided to have a rummage about. I discovered that I have quite a lot of stuff, ranging from the useful to the complete and utter pointless. I found *deep breath* six or so network cards, two sound cards, a 3DFX graphcs card, three hard drives, a 52x CD drive, a 100Mb ZIP drive, a Pentium II processor, an Epson dot-matrix printer, an Apple Mac without a monitor, an Apricot computer, countless keyboards and mice, three old PCs (one running OS/2), a BBC Master Micro with a secondary processor, mouse and graphics tablet, a Sinclair Spectrum ZX81, an ancient joystick, a stick of RAM (probably 32Mb), way too many different kinds of cables, and a network hub with the names Morag and Carol on it (WTF?)

All of those were more or less overshadowed by the discovery of my old Megadrive, though, which I lovingly photographed. Then shoved back in its box again.

W00+, I found it
16 bits of power in a small black plastic box
Some games

[Lemeri]

I like the way your house looks in the pictures.

[G3K]

That's just the attic... it's covered in loads of carpet and vinyl scraps left over from when we first put them down in the house.

[Andi]

*anime-like-fell-on-the-ground*

ARGH! Where the hell did you get that lots of stuff???

[Conway]

G3K, you should buy a box (if you don't already have one of them lying around) and build your own custom-made PC. B)

[G3K]

Andi> I've got no idea where half of it came from, actually ::

Conway> Actually not a bad plan; all I'm missing is a motherboard and PSU, I could just construct a case out of Lego or something.

[Conway]

Wouldn't it melt?

[G3K]

Oops, almost forgot the fan; I've got some thermal paste as well.

[Conway]

You're all equipped! Well, almost, anyway . . .

[Andi]

Hm,... I SHOULD have a motherboard around here. But it's a very strange one from an old 486.

[Conway]

How is it strange?

[Lemeri]

'Uln'Hyrr' is the Drow word for 'liar.

(Challenge: Figure out which recent post this applies to.)

[Liebatron]

is drow a language?

[Liebatron]

dos ist goot ya. is german for "that is good yes"(i think)

does anyone know the rest of the german song

mine hoot er hat drei ecken,
drei ecken hat mine hoot,