Thread: Another ebay Fur Ball

Originally Posted by Metmachmad

Further to my above post, I went to the web site as advised be excitement2009,-
www.roehm-spannzeuge.com and ther eis no mention of the flight rust being included with your arbor, think of it as that you got a bonus.

Hey the animal theme on the Rohm site is a bit.... gay.
Roehm Clamping Technology

I didn't even look at that until your comment, Bryan. and yeah, it is over the top. They must have hired the same advertising twits as Optus. And ING Bank. As if an adult would take advice from an animated animal

Then again, I have one of these:

Originally Posted by Greg Q

You mean...you mean, (sniff) that was all an act? How dare you!

I'll bet your computer can't do this: 

GQ

I bet yours cannot do this...

Hah. My old Toshiba did that one too many times until I misread it as "Warning! Gravity Check Required! Dash laptop to ground from high place!"

Man! Those things just explode!

Originally Posted by Greg Q

Hah. My old Toshiba did that one too many times until I misread it as "Warning! Gravity Check Required! Dash laptop to ground from high place!"

Man! Those things just explode!

Hah. We used to perform float tests on various items of equipment.

"I wonder if this thing floats... no, it doesn't. Guess we'll have to buy a new one now."

Amazing what you can lose or break aboard an icebreaker and nobody EVER raised an eyebrow. I did leave a piece of equipment off of the Amery Ice Shelf about 10 years ago. It isn't lost, we know exactly where we left it. In 600m of water.....

PDW

(I too use a Mac because I write code for a living, and life is far too short to waste any of it dealing with a POS like Windows.)

Oooh, A Mac Vs Windows flame war, I love these. Greg, I must mention that using your beloved Mac as a background is a bit sacrilege. If my kids go within 6 foot of my Macbook I start to hiss, but if you did that to a PC I'd begin to think you'd thrown the arbor at it in anger.

Please don't do this to your Mac again!

The odd thing about this Macbook, come to think on it, is that it is three years old, gets used daily and has travelled probably about a million miles. Yet it is unblemished, and it works like new. Starts up from cold in less than 20 seconds, ready to go. I can get another this year but see no need.

I have never had a Windows computer go more than two years. Two hate-filled, vitriol laden years.

Funny you should say that Greg, I have a Windows laptop computer here that ran continuously for nearly 10 years - rarely switched off. It's been off for the past nearly two years. You post encited me to try and see if it would still run. It did after I removed the CMOS battery and gave it the time and date. Good as it did in 1997, when I relented and wiped it's Windows 3.11 OS and installed Win95, followed later that year with Win95B. I added wireless networking in '98 and it's travelled with me all over the world, until I got a newer one that weighed half it's weight.
I still have my Toshiba Libretto 50 that rean as my mail server and router under Win95B for nearly as long 24 hrs a day after it was replaced with a faster Libretto as the day to day pocket PC.
I really don't think it's got anything tp do with the OS. More with the machines' build quality and the drivers and other software under the control of the user. Apple just prevent the user to make poor decisions better than other OS sellers - at a price.
No OS war needed here. Really.
Joe

Mine used to do that ,but I bought some new ram sticks and replaced the old ones with the new , fixed it.

Kev.

Originally Posted by jhovel

I really don't think it's got anything tp do with the OS. More with the machines' build quality and the drivers and other software under the control of the user. Apple just prevent the user to make poor decisions better than other OS sellers - at a price.
No OS war needed here. Really.
Joe

Agree. I've got a working Toshiba laptop as well, made in 1995. Even got a spare HDD loaded with linux for it. What use is it to me, though?

WRT O/S, Apple had a total POS up to OS X which is basically unix with a custom GUI. I used to be incredibly rude about them and would never own one. Microsoft was better, but that's not saying much, more like 'incredibly bad' is 'better' than 'appalling'. But then I learnt to program on mainframes back in the late 70's and early 80's so my expectations for computers were somewhat different (like, reliability). Steve Jobs dumped their old o/s, adopted a unix variant and the damn thing is now almost as robust as my beloved Sun Microsystems Solaris, where the uptime is measured in years not days between reboots.

As a matter of curiosity, I just checked the uptime on my Macbook. 375 days 17 hours 52 minutes since its last shutdown/reboot.

Comparing OS X to Windows is like comparing a Hercus to a Monarch 10EE. They both cut metal, have close to the same work envelope, but......

PDW

What an banana! I hope everyone on this forum gets to see this post. I hope he also gets to see this forum!
Your name takes a lifetime to prove and a second to be lost.

You cannot use that at all! It's a big punch now.
The reason it was posted to you already opened is because excitement2009 bought it, opened it up and thought "darn I just bought a paper weight".

He just lost his reputation over $5... Damn mr excitement2009.. You really have no respect for yourself! for 5 bucks you just gave it away?!

Hahah it reminds me of when I lived in Sydney. You would see these "adults" driving around with their kids in the car. They would make a mistake while in traffic ( we all make them while driving) but they would deflect it by loosing it and yelling at the other driver involved! I always thought that they are just teaching their kids that they don't have to be responsible for their actions any more. Sorry, that's a rant!

For the record, I drove in Sydney (15yrs) up until 6 months ago and I don't think I ever really used the horn! I did the country thing and smiled and thet them through... It always worked out better.

I filed a Paypal dispute today since he stopped replying to me after I sent him photos. We'll see what transpires...

Beats me why he is so nuts over the eight dollars, but he is probably thinking the same thing.

It's not the 8 bucks it's the principal! Had he listed it as a lucky dip as the package was a little suspect then you would enjoy the big punch.

Originally Posted by Ben Dono

What an banana! I hope everyone on this forum gets to see this post. I hope he also gets to see this forum!
Your name takes a lifetime to prove and a second to be lost.

You cannot use that at all! It's a big punch now.
The reason it was posted to you already opened is because excitement2009 bought it, opened it up and thought "darn I just bought a paper weight".

He just lost his reputation over $5... Damn mr excitement2009.. You really have no respect for yourself! for 5 bucks you just gave it away?!

Hahah it reminds me of when I lived in Sydney. You would see these "adults" driving around with their kids in the car. They would make a mistake while in traffic ( we all make them while driving) but they would deflect it by loosing it and yelling at the other driver involved! I always thought that they are just teaching their kids that they don't have to be responsible for their actions any more. Sorry, that's a rant!

For the record, I drove in Sydney (15yrs) up until 6 months ago and I don't think I ever really used the horn! I did the country thing and smiled and thet them through... It always worked out better.

I agree, whats a few seconds to be courteous if some made a mistake and left it to late to get in or wants to get in from a side steet in a trafic jam. Some people inch forward and block people in like there life depends on it. It only spoils your day (and theirs) doing that sort of stuff, much better to sit back a bit or politely let someone in and get a wave or thanks and feel good about it.
I have driven through Sydney many times, but Newcastle is worse in my opinion.

Dave