Shutdown day

I dares ya

I hope I am on my computer, I would be very bored without it. How would I get all my work done?

Angus Higgins

I'll do it!

> su -c 'shutdown -p now'

Xaero_Vincent quit -- Lost terminal.

this sounds like a great idea.
I wonder if I'll actually do it!

Do i get a day of work for this

I don't need to prove nothing!

It's obvious I can cope.

I mean I must've. 'Cuz I must've been a fairly functional human being before 1985 when I got my C-64.

ah too simple . with power outages sometime lasting the entire day  anything is possible

<excuse>
     Well I have to work that day.
</excuse>

Minh wrote:

I mean I must've. 'Cuz I must've been a fairly functional human being before 1985 when I got my C-64.

Speaking of C-64, I just found a driver that allows my PC to read, write, and format disks formats used on that system and dozens of others like several Atari, Spectrum, Acorn, Tandy, Radio Shack, Amstrad, Apple Macintosh systems; 122 floppy formats in all!

OmniFlop

I've managed to transfer ROMs downloaded from the internet and image them onto 3.5" floppy disks and play them on my real C-64!

It's totally bad @$$. :D

Though, I have a very fancy 3.5" drive for my C64 called the FD-2000.

Now I just need a joystick so I can actually play the games.

Other programs I used to convert image formats and manuplate files on those images:

64Copy
DirMaster

Should be easy, as I'll be at the future mother-in-laws house, and there's nothing interesting to do on her iBook.

Although it does mean I'll have to consult something other than radiotimes.com to see what's on the idiot box.

Hey it's a Saturday, how hard can it be not to log-on?  If it's a nice day I may even go outside.


Herbie

Minh wrote:

I don't need to prove nothing!

It's obvious I can cope.

I mean I must've. 'Cuz I must've been a fairly functional human being before 1985 when I got my C-64.

I also got my C64 in 1985 and I also was a fairly functional human being before that. All went downhill from then. But I was a confirmed geek by then, so with or without computers, I was a lost cause anyway. One of my favorite timewasters was doing calculations of atom degradation. I could paper the walls of Bill Gates' house with them.

Anyway, the only thing that might keep me from it is a particular online pot limit omaha tournament this month. The date has not been confirmed but it is either on a thursday or a saturday. Odds are 10:1 against it being that day (10 possible days, 1 of them the 24th). Actually 6:1 because it's unlikely it will be during the first 1/3 of the month.

Hi,

Thanks for your support!

Just to let you know, we now have a Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8OMijrTVBU

 and have just opened a forum:

http://forum.shutdownday.org

Regards,

Michael
www.shutdownday.org

Dr Herbie wrote:

Hey it's a Saturday, how hard can it be not to log-on?  If it's a nice day I may even go outside.


Herbie

Saturday is the day that large pieces of homework and coursework are done on for school children all over the country, so I don't think it will be all that popular with them.

(At least that is my excuse).

Angus Higgins

Angus wrote:



Dr Herbie wrote: Hey it's a Saturday, how hard can it be not to log-on?  If it's a nice day I may even go outside. Herbie

Saturday is the day that large pieces of homework and coursework are done on for school children all over the country, so I don't think it will be all that popular with them.

Well, this will be a perfect exercise to teach them time management skills! As well as contingency planning!

Herbie

Don't make me laugh, Sunday evening before bedtime is when all the homework gets done. Probably Monday morning before school as well.

Any kid efficient enough to do their homework on a weekend is probably so efficient they'll have done it all the afternoon after it was set. I never understood those kids...

Kids do homework now?

Sven Groot wrote:

Kids do homework now?

Well, it can take a little time to cut and past from a web article, then change the grammar a little to make it look like you own work.


Not that I'd know, we didn't have the interweb in my day.  Had to walk thirty miles through four feet of snow to get to school, etc., etc.


Herbie