Remember dial-up? Here's a spectral analysis of what you used to hear:

http://windytan.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/ ... tured.html

I love that someone went to all that effort just for a walk down memory lane. I've been doing quite a lot of that recently, having read up on the NES architecture for example. It's cool how they squeezed so much out of so little. Emulating the NES is actually very complicated, because every cartridge actually modified the physical hardware, adding features such as split-screen which it was never designed to support.

:edit: OMG that girl's a regular genius. I'm going to be stuck reading her blog for a while it seems; ridiculously cool projects like reading a vinyl record via a camera image...

:edit again: oh, she only has a couple of posts. Oh well, bed time now anyway lol.

I dream of dial-up speeds here on the rig.

I remember dial-up. A tower PC sized box, with an acoustic coupler to provide a 300 baud link to the mainframe, the link was shared by 50 people all working on terminals!

It eventually got replaced by a dedicated Kilostream line, which was then upgraded to Megastream - and BT managed to set a record of digging into the old cable 6 times in one day, as they laid the new cable!

Round here you can GUARANTEE that builders will cut into the Virgin Media cable.

Has anyone here ever ordered from ThinkGeek? I want to get a TShirt (20$). It would come with a delivery charge of $9 which I'm not too annoyed with. However I really don't want to pay a £10 parcelforce release fee on top of this. Would I have to?

I've never had to pay any customs or duty on any of the shirts I've bought from the US.
Should be fine.
I think it's something to do with it being under £20 or something, I'm not sure.

This is NOT an animated GIF file.

I like the way it's done in CGA colours. Although it's about 6.6x the resolution, it's rather nostalgic. It used to take my first PC about an hour to create a Mandelbrot like that!

I ordered $30 of stuff last year, paid the postage and then got an £18 bill to get it in from customs. I've resisted looking at the sight since and bought cool stuff from firebox instead.

ah, Arse! oh well, I'll see what happens

Some stuff from Firebox actually comes from ThinkGeek. I discovered this when someone bought me the USS Enterprise pizza cutter From Firebox.
The actual item was from ThinkGeek.

Mark

The T shirt I want is not available from firebox, amazon or anyone else I checked

That's a t-shirt?!?
Looks more like a dress.
Still, cool looking item.

Mark

I was thinking of getting that cutter, so have been watching the price on Amazon.