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Wednesday Mar 31

Fionnuala, Daire and James arrive to visit in Limerick. Brian is back from Frankfurt and Eoghan is home from Cork so it's a full house.

Thursday Apr 1

IOL disks arrive in the post. They are installed on the PC (486SX 8M) together with modem. IExplorer and Mail work very briefly but the system crashes VERY frequently, IEx and Mail are just too memory hungry.

An AST pentium with 32M, 2.4GHD, .. is spotted in Limerick leader ... for £ 350!!!!

Friday Apr 2

Off we go in the evening to visit a nice French guy and we buy that pentium. IOL disks are installed on new PC and IExplorer & Outlook are now zippy quick to use. They look stable too. Hooray!

Saturday Apr 3

Fionnuala, Daire and James head off to Cobh after the family is tutored in email and web, doorbell rusty problems are investigated and a broken laMPtop is replaced. A phone call from Brian that evening with something worrying about an invalid password?

Sunday Apr 4

The Philips remote control is hacked apart, all the gunk (from Cornflake spillage) is cleaned out (with a combination of old toothbrushes, whitespirit, and dishwater) the control is sellotaped back together and the thing actually works!!!!
James messes with setup of lynx and pppshare for the older PC in Cobh, and ?fixes? soundcard-something conflict on new PC. Can't find any info on Dairygold's milk-recording service on web.

Monday Apr 5

Back to Dublin for James, Fionnuala and Daire.

Tuesday Apr 6

Fionnuala> Did you realise Brian was ringing last night to say he'd totally
Fionnuala> cabunked the new PC(Sunday)? He tried reinstalling Windows and

James> WHAT!? NO.
James> *thump* (head on table)
James> fk c#$&@* s^%~@! Why did he decide a reinstall was necessairy?
James> Is it too late for them to lock the PC away from Brian?
James> Next time this happens Linux goes on the machine and we keep root
James> to ourselves >;) No way to stop bonehead reinstalls with Windoze :-P'''

Fionnuala> things just went from bad to worse. Now when you boot
Fionnuala> from the floppy drive, the PC doesn't realise it has a hard drive
Fionnuala> nor a CD ROM drive.

James> WHAT!?!? It's too far from Apr 1 to be hearing this.

James> He can't see the CDROM cos the BIOS needs to be patched (with one of
James> the floppies) (don't tell them - don't leave them mess up those
James> floppies we got or they're DOOMED)

James> I can think of a few reasons why the hard drives are invisible but the
James> BIOS was automatic so it should detect them by itself. SO ... if the
James> PC can't see them I'm REALLY wondering wtfk happened!?!?
James> If he's lost the disks fair enough - I can get them back - but if he's
James> removed MSOffice or other stuff we should break his legs.

James> :-E #o$$^%^#er *more obscenities deleted*