Oh dear..

My problem with the non-Intel suppliers of motherboards is that the support material available from their websites is almost always rubbish - and the number of motherboards we've purchased that have had such useful features such as duplicate motherboard GUIDs and other enterprise stuff that Intel just got right and others didn't.

Our suppliers can customise the fleets of PCs we buy from them because Intel provide the tools to customise the BIOSs - no idea if ASUS, etc. are geared up for doing the same - I hope they are.

Hooke?

Someone suggested Robert Hooke - admirable sentiment - but they're going to have trouble doing it since Newton has his only portrait destroyed. Could put a picture of a slinky on the back of the tenner, I suppose...

Plastic - ack!

I'll be building a Meccano case for mine when I've found a firm description of the exactly measurements of the damn thing so I can ensure I make something that isn't going to electrocute the thing. Can't been brass fittings!

Gutted...

I was forced by my boss to send a fully operational doomsday^H^H^H domesday machine to the scrapyard in '99 - alas, I only wish I'd had the room to keep it myself. Damn shame.

Bah - poor mans Dwarf Fortress

I wouldn't try and compare Portal 2 with Mincraft - they're both very different beasts. But for sheer creativity, give my Dwarf Fortress everytime. Yes, you can build mega-constructions but the important difference is 1) You don't have to do all the grunt work yourself - it's what your minions are for and 2) there's a lot more gore.

Too awful

I'd been lucky to meet her a couple of times, and she was a lovely, warm and generous person - it's so sad she's died.

Pah - plastic rubbish...

I think this is much more impressive - Babbage's Difference engine, done in Meccanno

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL_wy-CxBP8

Ewww

That is going to be utterly disgusting...

Oh crikey..

That makes me feel old... I had no idea it was twenty years old... Blimey..

Fibreless fibre optics?..

with line-of-sight restrictions. Doesn't this == semaphore?