Liam's write-only LJ

Aargh! Forgot to do this last week & now there's only a day and a bit to go...

· Belkin 3-port Firewire (IEEE1394) PCI card
· 2½" notebook 344MB IDE Hard Drive (IBM H2344-A4)
· 2½" notebook 220MB IDE Hard Drive (Toshiba MK2224FC)
· 2½" notebook 540MB IDE Hard Drive (IBM DBOA-2540)

No bids & ¾ of them start at 1p. :¬)

I appear to have a new lodger, courtesy of alyxzandrauk. She's moving in on Monday. I am really rather glad of this - it's been a long time. She's already been through my attic like a whirlwind, moving and tidying so that she can store some of her own stuff up there. And she likes the mice.

(I have had to lubricate the mice. The constant grinding of their wheel was driving me insane. I've dribbled some cooking oil on the bearings and now it spins in near-silence, with only the faintest of rumblings. This means that I can hear the occasional protesting squeak as a mouse gets caught between wheel and stand. I don't think they're bright enough to work out that it's fairly essential for all users of the wheel to face the same direction. They're still small so they don't weigh much compared to the weight of the wheel itself. If one mouse stops but the other keeps going, it goes round and round and is intermittently trampled. If it tries going in the opposite direction, well, the more determined or energetic mouse wins and the loser gets trampled twice as often. Also, now that the wheel spins more freely, when they stop, they tend to do another dozen or so revolutions. It's somehow fascinating to watch them looping the loop, going round and round, little heads pivoting to try to make sense of the whirling world. I've had mornings that felt like that myself. And bike crashes, come to that. But the exercise seems to be making the mice more tame. They're stopped clambering all over the roof, and though they're still terrified of me, they let me stroke them now. Don't dare try to pick them up, still.)

Anyway, since Bianca is moving in, I have to get shot of Tony "Scroteboy" Beasley's former belongings. So the fancy footwear and his bong are up on eBay; I reckon that's the only stuff that's worth selling. I might add a few DVDs later.

So, if you actually want to dress like a complete chav, or know anyone who does...

Original Timberland tan suede rolltop boots, UK 8.5

Black Nike Tn Air trainers, size 10

Nike Airmax trainers, blue, UK size 9, used

Nike Tn Air trainers, black & red, used, size 10

"Smirkoff" novelty water pipe or "bong"

I've been doing some memory-swapping of late.

Thanks to the wonders of eBay, I have acquired a 1GB SO-DIMM for my laptop, giving it a remarkable 1¼GB of total RAM. That's more than the next 2 best-endowed machines put together! It's noticeably quicker than it was with ½G & I have enough RAM to run VMware and an Ubuntu session alongside everything else. It strikes me as a silly amount of RAM to have - it's even more than the_major's Beast with its 1GB - but it was only £50.

I've sold the ¼G DIMM I took out to a client, whose laptop now has ½G - the max it will take - and it's quite a bit quicker, too.

I also acquired a couple of PC133 SO-DIMMs a little while ago, a 64M and a 128MB. I've downgraded my old Thinkpad from its illegal and problematic 320MB to its legal max of 192MB and sold its ¼G DIMM to chorleycakes for her laptop, which leaves me with the 64. Mine's now running Ubuntu (natch) with the ROX Desktop on. Any nostalgic Acorn Archimedes or RISC-PC or whatever users should check this out. It's a little rough around the edges still but it's very good.

Anybody want a 64MB laptop memory module? Should fit almost anything in the Pentium II-Pentium III era, laptops from a few hundred MHz up to a GHz or so. This includes Apple Powerbooks. Make me an offer. It's currently going for a quid on eBay.