Round up

Well the laptop got sorted - more memory arrived, was fitted, iTunes stuff was removed and a new build of XP that had been put on a severe diet by nlite was slapped on. Take that virus ridden, under powered laptop!

Climbing - went to Pleasley Vale to see what it was like and the answer is rather good indeed and far better than the area we had to travel through to get there. It was a bit of a shock to travel through a rather awful housing estate to then suddenly find yourself in pristine English countryside and the only thing that marred the experience of the last couple of miles were the biggest sleeping policemen of ever. They would be classed as mountains in Lincolnshire!

Anyway welcome back to the limestone (or some geological variation thereof truth be told) and prepare for decent handholds and very shiny footholds. Was good to get reacquainted with the lime once the conditions improved - it was like a 30 foot high bar of soap when we arrived. Surprisingly there were other people there as well which we didn't expect to see - in fact during the course of the evening quite a lot of people came and went and a good time was had by all. Nice to see the place is being restored with a great deal of care and attention by Tony Simpson after the problems of last year.

Lastly I am rather pissed off at the minute due to my box of Cheerios deciding to "commit suicide" from the second floor window of our office resulting in no breakfast for me till Waitrose opens at 10AM. Bugger, arse, bollocks and all that.

Waiting for the man.

Currently waiting for UPS to attempt delivery of the much needed memory for my brothers woefully underpowered laptop.

A short story of the laptop - it was brought up North to be seen to as it was running slowly even by it's own awful standards and a "quick" look over revealed that it had a massive 256Mb of RAM in it. Given that it has a sticker on it that states it is "Designed for XP" this has to be absolute minimum spec to run XP - even without seeing it try and run anyone with an iota of computer knowledge can appreciate that this is a laughable statement - one that is firmly encamped in LOL territory! Anyway I managed to strip off the old AV which had died horribly and then removed 33 various viruses and lord only knows what else from the hard drive. Also ripped off a shed load of old programs that hadn't been used since it was built (circa 2006) and just generally cleaned it up. While this made some improvement to the overall running speed it was still shit so I told my brother that he was going to have to spend some money on it and then proceeded to order a whole 1Gb of memory to max it out.

And so we reach the present - waiting for the man to deliver the goods. Once the memory is installed all the iTunes stuff can hopefully be removed from the hard drive and once that is done it is going to be time to learn how to use nlite and rebuild it with a massively stripped down version of XP.

Should be fun...