New year's day.

[reddragdiva]

• Cat Le-Huy needs your money to pay a Dubai lawyer. See here and here, PayPal here. We put in five quid just now.

• A Microsoft marketer announces his homework.

• Star Wars in cardboard.

• Vintage girly magazines (NSFW). Women with bodies! And a female body hair blog (NSFW).

So much for that on-call. I slept all afternoon and am now sitting around not doing housework. We just upped arkady's laptop from 384MB to 512MB RAM and it's booting fast and not thrashing. Don't try running Kubuntu in less than 512MB, mmmkay. (She just upgraded from 6.06 to 7.10 and is using the XP Teletubby lookalike theme. Ew.)

I've made no actual plans for next week. I suppose I should. (*wave* to faithais and pndc) Prace bookings now!

This Sunday, 5pm to closing: my birthday drinks at the Pembury. See you there.

Comments

[steer.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I'll have to miss birthday drinks.

That cardboard star wars is just great!

[shesmymonkey.livejournal.com]

Cardboard Star Wars is teh win!!!

As per most comments of this sort, wish I lived in London, would at least sneak into the pub under the pretence of a paying customer to hug you a happy birthgay!

But have an ace one.

Can we have more pics and such of Freeeeeeeeeeda please? Love her name so much.

booked

[faithais.livejournal.com]

might be able to pop out for your bday drinkies Sunday, and regarding next week, what day would be better for you? i have a few afternoon/evenings off (like tuesday and wednesday). you tell me.

faith

[ayrton-nix.livejournal.com]

Hope you have lovely birthday drinks.

[steer.livejournal.com]

xubunutu is a little less memory hungry than ubuntu in my experience. Not compared with kubuntu. Xubuntu runs just fine in 512 with no swap.

[reddragdiva]

Yeah, a bit less. KDE's arse is fat, GNOME's is even fatter. That's reasonable given that memory and CPU is a small price to pay for usability, but ahh it's a nuisance if your machine is more than a few years old.

[secretlondon.livejournal.com]

256MB is borderline for most stuff. Live CDs certainly very unhappy. I've got 768MB in this celeron 1200 and gnome is happy :)

[ladykathryn.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link. I'm passing it on, because this particular situation just pushes all of my WHAT FUCK NO buttons.

[davefish.livejournal.com]

I've still got 1Gb of laptop memory I tried to give away a while ago and failed...

http://davefish.livejournal.com/268234.html

[reddragdiva]

Ooh cool! What's the spec? We may have much use for that.

[davefish.livejournal.com]

200pin SODIMM
2x 512Mb modules
Can't remember the speed of them offhand (And they are in work at the moment, so not able to check until Monday)

[reddragdiva]

Yes please!

[davefish.livejournal.com]

According to the back each stick is 512Mb 2Rx16 PC2-4200
Is the address on your contact details the best to post a parcel to? If it isn't then my work e-mail is david.mcknight@malvern.com where you can send a different address.

[reddragdiva]

Yep, top post on my LJ is where we live!

[reddragdiva]

Arrived, thank you!

[pndc.livejournal.com]

I'm completely unsurprised to discover that the female body hair blog is French.

As for a booze-up plans next week, I'm up for that, but we can figure out details at your 21st 21st. I've found some actual *nice* pubs in Soho now...

[secretlondon.livejournal.com]

That was blocked by vodafone's content control. the vintage pin ups were fine though.

[pndc.livejournal.com]

I was so underwhelmed by the quality of Vodafone's content proxy, that I ended up slapping a copy of Squid on an external box and setting up a ssh tunnel from my laptop to said proxy.

In theory it's possible to get the content bar lifted by getting a nominal charge to your credit card to prove that you're over 18, but Voda changed their T&Cs on me and I left before I got to test this. One of those anonymous disposable Mastercards would probably suffice if you don't have a credit card.

[secretlondon.livejournal.com]

Yeah - or I need an current passport or driving license. I don't have either of those - but I'd only be getting a disposable credit card for this (and some of them require a passport etc to set up..)

I have a friend offering me a SOCKS proxy but ssh is broken on this machine. I've been using Tor to look at things on flickr.

Vodafone's content control is a totally retarded piece of crap. It's not close to over 18 - it's more like over 12..

[baljemmett.livejournal.com]

T-Mobile's isn't much better. I'd have concrete examples, except the browser in the Samsung I keep the T-Mobile SIM in is utter, utter shite and so the only sites I've tried to load on it so far are LiveJournal, Facebook and eBay -- all three of which got the "prove you're 18 first, boyo" page. Oh, wait, add The Hun to that list (although in that case, fair play) and also the BBC News site. Bleh.

[secretlondon.livejournal.com]

Thank fuck vodafone don't block LiveJournal. BBC news site being blocked would be really fucked.

This evening content control broke (briefly) and I looked at flickr for an hour. I also had the option to use google chat!

[faithais.livejournal.com]

is this the pembury in hackney? may i assume you'll still be there at 9?

faith x

[reddragdiva]

Yes it is, and I plan to be there until thrown out ;-)

[pndc.livejournal.com]

If you'd care to check your email, I've tried to lure you out to buy you a birthday pint...