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From: Graeme on 19 Mar 2010 13:29 In message <mkb7q5dtj17mdnrloccp14s2cmvmijghic(a)4ax.com> Geoff Berrow <blthecat(a)ckdog.co.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:13:44 +0000, > real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk (D.M. Procida) wrote: > > >> I'm the same. I'm vaguely aware of them but can easily ignore them. > > > >How do you ignore them when they grind your browser to a halt, consume > >all your CPU time and make the fans spin up like a 707 taking off from > >Nairobi in the hot season? > > Never noticed anything like that. I'm a PC remember. I remember watching 707s taking off from Nairobi in the hot season[1], didn't sound a bit like my computer :-) [1] Two and a half mile runway and they needed every last inch. -- Graeme Wall My genealogy website <www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/>
From: Peter Ceresole on 19 Mar 2010 13:39 Graeme <Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: > I remember watching 707s taking off from Nairobi in the hot season[1], didn't > sound a bit like my computer :-) > > [1] Two and a half mile runway and they needed every last inch. They damn well did. It always felt to me like we were going all the way by road. -- Peter
From: D.M. Procida on 19 Mar 2010 14:18 Geoff Berrow <blthecat(a)ckdog.co.uk> wrote: > >How do you ignore them when they grind your browser to a halt, consume > >all your CPU time and make the fans spin up like a 707 taking off from > >Nairobi in the hot season? > > Never noticed anything like that. Believe me, the noise that a 707 would make on take-off on a hot day from Nairobi is not the kind of thing that anyone who'd heard it would forget. > I'm a PC remember. Really? I'm a person. Daniele
From: Graeme on 19 Mar 2010 15:04 In message <1jfm3nx.1wkxpjx1nehluiN%peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote: > Graeme <Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > I remember watching 707s taking off from Nairobi in the hot season[1], > > didn't sound a bit like my computer :-) > > > > [1] Two and a half mile runway and they needed every last inch. > > They damn well did. > > It always felt to me like we were going all the way by road. It was watching the giraffe ducking in the game reserve the other side of the Mombasa road that made me nervous. -- Graeme Wall My genealogy website <www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/>
From: Elliott Roper on 19 Mar 2010 15:26
In article <b19594fa50%Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk>, Graeme <Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: > In message <1jfm3nx.1wkxpjx1nehluiN%peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> > peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote: > > > Graeme <Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > I remember watching 707s taking off from Nairobi in the hot season[1], > > > didn't sound a bit like my computer :-) > > > > > > [1] Two and a half mile runway and they needed every last inch. > > > > They damn well did. > > > > It always felt to me like we were going all the way by road. > > It was watching the giraffe ducking in the game reserve the other side of the > Mombasa road that made me nervous. I'll stick my neck out and claim it's a tough job being a giraffe at the end of the Nairobi runway! -- To de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248 |