I noticed your musical selection in a pic earlier this summer. I know the traveling bit would be a little out of your way, but have you ever done Merlefest? ;) 

I've heard of the Merelefest but never thought to come over for it or any of the other many festivals that you have over there.

Although I have been to the US (and Canada) many times, I have only managed to catch a few concerts and gigs by chance, not by design. I tend to be a bit of a tourist and therefore stick to the blindingly obvious - mainly skiing in Colorado and Vermont. However, when in Boston (some friends lived there) I used to go (got taken) to a couple of clubs/bars that had some good live music with a few 'names'.

But I've been quite lucky in that I have seen and heard some of the greats in the UK and Europe as they always end up coming over here. I've seen Bukka White, Sony Boy Williamson, Rev Gary Davis, Doc Watson, Tom Paxton, Dave Van Ronk, Michelle Shocked, Suzanne Vega, Bob Dylan, Happy Traum, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee, John Sebastian, Stefan Grossman; oh, and so it goes on - yup, you could say I've been around a long time. My greatest claim to fame is having met and chatted to Jessie Fuller. I even held his guitar, although I wasn't allowed to play it! 

Sounds like your hard drive could be dying.. back that shit up ASAP! 

I said earlier that there was no compelling reason to buy Vista but maybe there is.

So, I related earlier that Vista found and cleared the problem with the D:\ drive so that everything was working under Vista: well the problem remained in XP - it ended up freezing or at least going so slow that it was unworkable. Therefore, just before I took the irreversible step of over-installing, I decided to give Sytem Restore one more go. It worked.

I suspect that whatever the problem was, XP was incapable of self-repair. Vista found the problem that XP couldn't, and corrected it; and the Restore took XP back to a system configuration that was prior to the D:\ problem. The first Restore I did was before Vista had done its bit, which is why it didn't work. The only problem is that I don't know what caused it in the first place. Perhaps it was one of those dodgy Chinese sites that I visit from time to time ;-)

Anyway, all's well that ends well. So maybe I will get my finger out and get the final FMB finished before XP does it again.

And as for backups - I will continue to do so with my music as a lot of it really is not replaceable: 10,000 tracks, including around 500 LPs from way back when "I was just a little bitty baby, my pappy would rock me in the cradle..."

But as for everything else, nah, there's nothing else on there that would cause me too many sleepless nights. OK, a year's worth of new Quake mapping; yes, and the 10 year's worth of family photographs; and the correspondence that I haven't kept paper copies of; and all my Excel VBA modules that I have accumulated over the years; yes, allright, and the plans for my new house that I would have to pay an architect to redraw; and...

Gulp, I hope Santa brings me a new remote HD so I can do some backups! 

Be VERY with Windows' fixing harddisks. If you want to recover something from a delete/whatever harddisk, you better not access it with anything except recovery tools. 

coul'dn't be so hard disks anyway 

i'm leaving on a jet plane... have a good holiday everyone. 

Judging by the date on this thread, Func is 4 years old tomorrow. Congratulations everyone! I'm actually a little suprised there's as much life left in this community as there is. 

Happy holidays to you.

Thanks for keeping Func_Msgboard going. 

I dont like the logo, especially the color combo 

Stop being a spoilsport and embrace the capitalistic festival of purchasing! 

fuck you Speeds in MY NACIONAL FLAG

green and red :p OWNSSSSSS


http://www.flagsonline.it/Bandiere/bangrandi/portugal.jpg

nice one metlslime and megazoid :p

Boas festas para todos
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Merry Christmas to all 

Speeds u are a bitch but...

Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva i s Novim Godom 

Big respect to Metl for the board, and him and everyone else who posts and stuff - it's nice to have a bit of the gaming community that's stable enough that you can chat about shit with vaguely familiar oiks ;).

* Shambler goes to sit in SM130_neg!ke for a few more minutes 

It's ok, the logo doesn't like you either. 

Get your fat ass on IRC 

...it might happen yet! 

I figured this wasn't really news, but Freakman released his Prey DM map over at 3D Realms. Even if you don't like Prey (I'm looking at YOU, Trinca) the pics are still purdy.

LINK!!

http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/showthread.php?t=24305 

a restful Festivus, Lovely but belated Ramadan too you as well, and fuck you Kwanza, you silly made up patronizing holiday whom even my African kin hate, like some mutant May Day in December. 

the lighting is really nice, which is impressive in that engine. 

keep your fat ass off irc

it smells better in there lately. 

Merry Christmas and all that. Off to work. 

I am mostly playing:

Call of Duty 3 (360)
Rainbow 6: Vegas (360)
Gears of War (360)
Guitar Hero 1 and 2 (PS2)

I will be posting unnecessarily critical reviews after christmas where I will rip each game to pieces over their perceived minor flaws (except for Guitar Hero which I won't say a bad word about because it kicks arse).

Also: Merry Christmas everyone and so forth etc. 

...we're 70 minutes into it over here so Merry Yule to all of you. I'm going retro this year, and will probably spend more than a few hours over the break helping my aged mother get through Myst. Anything to keep those brain cells operating :)

To those that thought we might be offering Travail as a stocking stuffer...apologies, but we want it to be more than worth the download. Why is the last 5% always the hardest? 

maybe santa will bring my connection at home back to life...