The totally off-topic thread

[codash1099]

Stop getting on topic all, please.

The shirt I have on right now is blue.

Also, the sky is blue.

And if you watch for it, so is the moon. (Two new moons in the month).

 

[oz_mark]

There's an A380 on its way to Antarctica for New Year, and I' not aboard Oh, well, maybe next time....

 

[samh004]

There's an A380 on its way to Antarctica for New Year, and I' not aboard Oh, well, maybe next time....

Does the A380 have a nose-cam too, or just tail? Would be quite cool if you could get a video made after the flight from either camera, but I recall seeing the prices. Seems like it’d be more fun to take a trip that takes you onto the land.

 

[serfty]

There's an A380 on its way to Antarctica for New Year, and I' not aboard Oh, well, maybe next time....

Guess what?

I was just outside and heard an unusual* jet aircraft noise and looked up - that very 388 bound for the southern nether regions - if flew right over Patto probably around a third of its way into it's climb (the 737's are normally much higher by the time the get here).

I looked at my watch and it was 6:54pm.

* Don't get very many 4 engines jets over here since the demise of the 146's.

 

[serfty]

... Here's one from near where I live: Patterson River Motor Boar Club Web Cam (The one on the right faces ~NW)

Here's where it is located: patterson river - Google Maps

That link was dud, I have fixed it.

Patterson River Motor Boar Club Web Cam

 

[oz_mark]

Does the A380 have a nose-cam too, or just tail? Would be quite cool if you could get a video made after the flight from either camera, but I recall seeing the prices. Seems like it’d be more fun to take a trip that takes you onto the land.

Yes, I've long wanted to do one of those cruise type things down there...

 

[oz_mark]

I was just outside and heard an unusual* jet aircraft noise and looked up - that very 388 bound for the southern nether regions - if flew right over Patto probably around a third of its way into it's climb (the 737's are normally much higher by the time the get here).

Hope it didn's startle the locals too much...

 

[drron]

Well 2010 is the year of the polar regions-August we are cruising the Arctic,december the Antarctic.Looking forward to it.

 

[serfty]

Hope it didn's startle the locals too much...

Most wouldn't even look up.

It was rather quiet, more of a low whoosh ...

I'm guessing it took off on 34 into the wind, long banking right and headed almost due south from there.

Would have been great views of the CBD from the Starboard windows.

fromatterson river to:Balaclava Rd to:Station St to:Albert St to:Albert St to:Mahoneys Rd to:-37.668603,144.985199 to:Western Ring Rd to:Roxburgh Park Dr to:MEL airport - Google Maps

 

[Saab34]

Big storm has just passed over Geelong, was starting to look like a tornado was forming out there...

 

[serfty]

64 km Melbourne Radar Loop

We just all moved inside on the strength of this (we near "Carrum")

 

[samh004]

64 km Melbourne Radar Loop

We just all moved inside on the strength of this (we near “Carrum”)

Holy Sh¡t! Then again, it looks to be clearing now. Been light to heavy rain here all afternoon/evening. Better than scorching heat I reckon.

My mum is now picking up my sister from the venue we dropped her and transporting her to another. I’ve told my mum to tell her she’s used her free ride of the night!

Rule of NYE, you get dropped at one place and stay there, that’s it!

 

[QF WP]

Yes, like stay at home where you can have a quiet drink....but I can't have too uch, never know if and when I may be called upon to be the taxi driver to ferry sick children to hospital.

 

[codash1099]

but I can't have too uch,

Wot no m? I'd have thought you'd have plenty of m left over from Christ-as

 

[Flashback]

Happy New Year all! Straight into the office for me today as we're relocating.. such fun

 

[samh004]

Managed to somehow catch the Y2-10k bug with my HDD crashing shortly after midnight. It's unbootable and isn't recognised by the system now, plus making a clicking noise, so it's clearly dead.

I'm just glad I have a fairly recent backup to restore from when I buy a new disk on Monday!

Using my spare computer hooked up to the HDTV currently, but it's hard to read the forums sat all the way back on the couch

 

[2muchplastic]

Managed to somehow catch the Y2-10k bug with my HDD crashing shortly after midnight. It's unbootable and isn't recognised by the system now, plus making a clicking noise, so it's clearly dead.

I'm just glad I have a fairly recent backup to restore from when I buy a new disk on Monday!

Using my spare computer hooked up to the HDTV currently, but it's hard to read the forums sat all the way back on the couch

Sounds like your house is nearly as bad as ours - we've got 4 live PCs, 2 others semi-live, 2 laptops and 2 netbooks. All of which back up periodically to one drive on one machine which is then backed up itself to an external drive.
After a lethal virus infection a few months ago, I might have gone a little OTT with the security :mrgreen:

 

[Flashback]

Managed to somehow catch the Y2-10k bug with my HDD crashing shortly after midnight. It's unbootable and isn't recognised by the system now, plus making a clicking noise, so it's clearly dead.

I'm just glad I have a fairly recent backup to restore from when I buy a new disk on Monday!

Using my spare computer hooked up to the HDTV currently, but it's hard to read the forums sat all the way back on the couch

I'd say it's more so the clicking noise that's the reason it's not working and just a co-incidence as to when it happened.

Fear not, that's how I was AFF'ing after my laptop was stolen, I used the media PC.

Sounds like your house is nearly as bad as ours - we've got 4 live PCs, 2 others semi-live, 2 laptops and 2 netbooks. All of which back up periodically to one drive on one machine which is then backed up itself to an external drive.
After a lethal virus infection a few months ago, I might have gone a little OTT with the security :mrgreen:

Not really OTT... all my PC's / Servers run an off-site backup to a DR facility in Perth (which itself also has data redundancy).

 

[samh004]

I'd say it's more so the clicking noise that's the reason it's not working and just a co-incidence as to when it happened.

Fear not, that's how I was AFF'ing after my laptop was stolen, I used the media PC.

And you thought I was serious about a Y2-10k bug? It's just extremely bad luck, somehow. Lately I've had a few memory leaks though with extreme caching on the disk, so I thought this could be coming... I've got to the stage where 3GB RAM isn't enough

 

[straitman]

I've got to the stage where 3GB RAM isn't enough

Now that is a worry.