The little laptop that couldn't quite.

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• Life outdoes notnews. Honestly, I wish I'd written that. And had been lying.

pcm1: at addr ? (1p/0r/0v channels) — the FreeBSD box thinks it can send sound out to the turntable, but not receive it. Cock.

Backup plans: (a) install something else on said box (requires dicking about with floppies); (b) find and press into service an ancient Thinkpad 560X as the host. Leengux on that with no GUI should be just fine in 96MB on a Pentium (I) MMX 233MHz.

I have two such laptops here: one Windows 2000 and one Debian Sarge. The latter goes straight into X and has a broken mouse (I lost track of it when our ceiling fell in four and a half years ago and just found it again today), so I'm currently doing Satanic experiments upon the Winders beast (not used in nearly four years). Windows 2000 in 96MB is as painfully slow as it sounds. Not to mention four years' security updates. VNC server, so at least I can do it in a window on this laptop. The USB hard disk works through the Pound Shop USB hub to the one and only USB 1.1 port. Next: try connecting the turntable.

(Where have all the cloverleaf kettle cords gone? Fucksake! I've had to nick Freda's for the moment.)

arkady has just sent an incendiary legal LART to the borough's educational authority regarding the older teenager's schooling. I am filled with admiration.