stigzler

Yeah - taking my life into my own hands and downloading an English image from a torrent as we speak - that is in the absence of any kind of support from M$ what so ever (despite paying a lot of money for their OS). No downloadable image available - wtf!? All kosha too - have my licence key etc. 

Got the iso/usb install thing down eventually, although that was incredibly unreliable and mysterious.  And of course, like everything else on the web - everyone's an expert and no=one's wrong (folllowing 4 bad installation guides b4 finding an accurate one!)

thanks t for the backup though - seriously gutted after so much hard work (read: years!)

man that sucks!!

sorry bro

sure does, chap. And only getting worse. Did source a UK image, but no just simply wont install for s***. Wondering whether it's hardware. Terrible do, given that I do need to get it reinstalled somehow to restore 15 years worth of files. 

Good call, that and a good Hakko setup will do you right

Ahhh - I couldn't quite afford a Hakko - they did look good though. This one (tenma) however is great +  great value. Also, it's heaven after using cheap, crap low- watt soldering irons for years

I was looking more at the helping hands setup and missed that in the background.  I picked up a Hakko 936 a few years back, I can't remember what I paid, but I'm frugal, so it was reasonable or I wouldn't have bought it.  You're absolutely right, makes my old Radio Shack feel like soldering with the wife's curdling iron.

For me it looks like caulking the main bath, how bout you?

Interestingly, I have 2 weeks off and a bit of a bathroom revamp to do myself... DIY...coding...DIY...coding...hmmmmm. Oh I know! Coding..

burble...mutter..yawns..

Today I'll mainly be bug hunting....

Urgh - .net My.Settings sucks for anything beyond saving your name. Save yourself time + deliberation - custom settings class using ini/xml or registry.

lol gotta admit stigz, sometimes you're so sharp! And so dry with it. As dry as a Nun's count some might say

Thanks Dazzle. It's true - I have some dirty habits, but that's nun of yer business

Aww, c'mon, no need to shroud yourself

Heh - yeah I remember you posting that before. How about we drop the other 13 and use the GameEx standard?

May be it needs a female touch? It's well known that males have clouded minds, mainly due to our naturally driven urges, but women are not burdened like this - they are organised and methodical by nature, some might agree even too methodical...

I think we may have met very different women, Dazzle!

I think that is officially the geekiest thing I've ever done. I tried to make a joke out of coding esoterics. I scare myself.

Notes 'n' Quotes really do come in handy

Re-reading my comment, it's a bit like getting lost up yer own...weather's a bit gray for this time of year...

After a year.. it's all starting to knit together. Thank

god.

I know right, if I could afford to pass on the responsibility I would. *shrug, burp*

Have a duff for me...

Sure thing - it's plugged into me veins. One Duff has though already...2...3... tell me soon if i should turn the tap off

Dunt matter - figured it. Well - lucked out on it..

Ever thought about building a pincab?

behave...

You love it! =P

Always loved the level-up, never liked the grind

But you need to grind to level up - so by necessity you must grind =P Needs must hehe

in Folsom Prison

up a Banyan tree without a paddle

Bloody Adobe. They couldn't design their API vb Control like everyone else does.. like with mouse click events! Propriety b******rds

Speak for yourself. I'm more "the sewers" myself

Heroes in a Half-Shell ... Turtle Power.

Cowabunga !!!!

I like them now...

Z-Windows are even more fun... :s

However, I DO NOT like scale,transform and matrices

Feels like cheating, but all over that like a cheap suit.

Nah, it's the bees knees. I mean, of course your code is perfect, but they're called *Exceptions* for a reason ...

If only the England Cricket team made as many catches as my code does...

Now you're messing with a [duh duh] SON OF A BAAAATCH!

a combo of batch and the lurverly "run as administrator" phenomena. I really wish I hadn't started all this...

You've convinced me, I'm sticking to my original "arcade only" plan, for the foreseeable future anyway.

Life is funny sometimes, or perhaps it's just your timing all around today stigzler!

Some down time may be in order, with a few cold ones!

Heh. Can't - I'd forget how everything works then..

Yep, a bit of a break would be a good thing. Well 'cept for the logos project 8)