It's An Eee PC!!!

Oh, since I started working out in the Carter Community (I'm a librarian when I am not writing) I even hear a difference there from the Fountain City community in which I was raised, and they're both in the same county seat.

Of course, I get a LOT of mountain folks and farmer folk, and good old salt of the earth folk because it is an extremely rural community...

Huh...just looked over and Toby (the Toshiba) informs me he's looking for wireless connections.

Silly laptop doesn't HAVE wireless unless I insert the card in the PCMCIA slot.

Must have accidentally clicked the icon.

That, or he's jealous of The Black Pearl..

(Okay, just kidding--I name my devices but I know they're just machines...aren't they?)

Laura J. Underwood
 
When you collect enough of them, you begin to need names to keep them straight, whether you're concerned about hosts on a network or referencing your tools, of course (after all, who'd want to say "Toshiba Laptop without Wireless" when they could just say "Toby")?!
 
I have Toby the Toshiba (my main machine), Moss the NEC Versa 5080X, The Brick (aka the old NEC Versa 2405--still works fine), Hippy (the HP desktop).

And then there are the MobilePros (Moby, the 800, Moby II, the 880, Moby Jr the 450 and The 900c--which is a joke no one ever gets, but hey--probably should have named it Sparta instead...), and the various Velo 500s (starting with LittleBit, Velo II, Velo The Third and My Prrreccciousss...who is the Velo with the coveted V-Module attached, two of whom suffered the nasty broken hinge problem and one of whom just doesn't recognize anything that gets attached to it, but works otherwise).

And then there's The Black Beauty--but that's my truck... ;-)

Laura J. Underwood
 
The defense rests! ;)

And may I amend my earlier statement to say that you have a fine collection of the aforementioned devices, indeed!
 
i have but one machine and it's affectionately known as Bloody Stupid Thing IV.

there were 3 previous BSTs, components of which are still scattered through the house....
 
chopper said:
i have but one machine and it's affectionately known as Bloody Stupid Thing IV.

there were 3 previous BSTs, components of which are still scattered through the house....
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Now then, there's no need for verbal abuse -

Take one hammer and as my old boss used to say "Why use a one pound hammer when you can use a TEN pound hammer.
With a rotational movement pivoting at the elbow in a vertical plane such that the face of the hammer meets the horizontal surface of the BST in a perpendicular axis, apply several heavy blows to the aforementioned BST.

Repeat this action as required until one of the following occurs :-

A. The BST behaves itself, boots normally and greets the user with the cheerie vision of pretty wallpaper with correctly operating desktop icons (it is acceptable if these are somewhat more disorganised than before). Sit down with a smug smile of self satisfaction from knowing that you taught it who's the boss.

or ,

B. Smoke, fumes and sparks errupt from all orifices of the machine accompanied by horrendous screeching noises as the heads on the hard disk gouge deeply into the soft semi-permanant ferous magnetic surfaces of your 450GB drive.
Then, ensuring absolutely that the area below is clear of possible colateral damage victims and holding the machine in two hands, taking extreme precautions agains the risk of personal injury, cast the BST out through the window, which depending on your own preference, you had previously opened. A first, second or even higher floor window located above a source of standing water produces the more spectacular effects.

Sit down with a smug smile of self satisfaction from knowing that you taught it whats what and there'll be no more of that thank you very much.

WARNING: It is advisable in most cases to take a backup of the system before attempting the above procedures.

Since we're trawling up memories of previous technolgies. I was once involed in the design and coding of the first PDA, the good old Amstrad PenPal.
 
i've looked, but i can't find the secret cameras you've clearly hidden inside my house. :D
 
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