Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

My sandwich of 5.25" MS-DOS floppy disks order came with a free side of 512 MB RAM stick because MS & eBay require all OEM software to be distributed with hardware. All it's missing is a bottle of Jolt.

Cursed image? Blessed image?

I have a 1.6 GHz desktop computer made in 2017 that takes longer to pass POST than the 4.7 MHz desktop computer made in 1981 that it's a long-descended clone of. I don't know where we went wrong.

Spell check & grammar check can't catch every error journalists make.

"It appears that Liu may have gotten hold of the hotel chain's data when a developer accidentally uploaded part of its database on GitHub." https://www.zdnet.com/article/chinese-police-arrest-hacker-who-sold-data-of-millions-of-hotel-guests-on-the-dark-web/

LB: Langoliers, skill level, "That wasn't a nightmare, *this* is a nightmare!"

Well, that's a new one... I left it alone for a while, then when I went back, it was doing this weird coloring thing. I started a game then took a photo:

Tilted Goldeneye carts aside, computers generally don't like it when parts of the memory map suddenly go missing.

I can see why the RAM pack is bolted on now. The case top standoffs look okayish, but the case bottom standoffs that are supposed to meet the motherboard & let the screws hold it on are completely missing, filed & sanded down to nothing. The motherboard is now so misaligned that the pack is actually suspended in the air, held on only by the edge connector & the weird support bracket. Any movement of the bracket makes an edge connector pin break contact.

I should look at the RF modulator in the nicer-looking one next.

But for the desperately modded one... Woohoo!

LB: weird coin.

The trouble with trying to keep a desk organized is that everything suddenly grows legs and wanders off.

*whew* After inspection and testing, I can't find anything new wrong. The motherboard screws aren't original, and one of them just dug into the plastic standoff wrong.

TFW you hear an unsettling *crunch* after you line up all the motherboard's mounting holes and start turning the first screw in.

After so much Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon 5, Buck Rogers, & who remembers what else, when I think of starships, I still think of these real-world proposals shown in Carl Sagan's Cosmos.