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Guess that answers if I'm the only Greg Colborne. Gregory is a good name.
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Incidentally, I took an hour or two to build the system(80GB of Music from backup, that sort of thing).
The 15 minutes was from when I decided to get my applications running on the new computer to having them running.
No SSD, no lie.
Oh, and while we're being completely honest, there is one fault with 14.04 on this PC; Broadcom doesn't supply the exact Linux driver for my BCM43142 dual wifi/bluetooth card, so the distro reverts to an alternative driver which really isn't very good. Still, 14.10 is out in two weeks; I've checked, it has updated BCM drivers, which *may* improve things.
If not, they will get around to it eventually. I buy brand, spanking new hardware very rarely, so I'm in it for the long term anyway.
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"The 15 minutes was from when I decided to get my applications running on the new computer to having them running."
So basically you keep changing your story to make it valid k got it lair
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While you are there, I give insight from the other side. My Linux mint (only) based laptop is the only working computer (for now) that I currently have. And I'm not working now, I am taking a huge holiday (as an unemployed) so it is time to play some games. What Linux has for good graphics games - OpenGL: it is open, it is great, it is highly unused. Most of the titles are not ported to Linux, so be happy with your Windows and its DirectX technology. The Linux computer is only usable to work and nothing else but work.
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What you have will change: Windows 1000000 is coming and force you to upgrade. 
TOMZ_KV
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Incidentally, I was told by somebody connected that the reason they're going to 10 is because millions of people have applications and code containing functionality based on "Win 9X" macros, which would of course crash all the legacy (and not so legacy) applications as soon as they detected Windows 9.
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Tomorrows flight has been cancelled due to offshore weather.....another night it is at home then! 
In fact it is more the sea state that is the problem at 6 to 11m, wind is only 55 to 65 Knots (63 to 74 mph)
edit: here is a big picture of my other home...here[^]
modified 7-Oct-14 6:53am.
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har har - some days you win huh 
enjoy the time with the missus & bairns mate (and maybe some boy tool/gizmo/gadget time)
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IIRC, you got payed last time can't fly home...Are you paying now to be at home?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Yes.... 
Paid to be at home you meant to say!
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I didn't meant that - but you answered me anyway...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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The middle of the North Sea is a silly place to build a rig, they should have built it onshore.
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And convince the oil the get there...Great idea...Patent it before some make use of it...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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I agree totally -- apparently, at sea is where worse things happen, so the whole idea of building there is silly.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Maybe they put the sea in the wrong place and should swap it with the land?
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: Maybe they put the sea in the wrong place and should swap it with the land?
I can fix that. Do you haz teh codez? 
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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Awesome pic. Does one have to take a psych test before being allowed to live out at see for long periods of time? Serious question. I liken that to a brief stay on a sub, maybe a little more room, but it's not like you can go for a 5 mile run by the lake. 
Be safe.
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No, but those that don't like it soon leave.
I have seen young guys turn up for their FOET and get up and walk out the classroom in the middle of the instructors brief saying things like "this isn't for me".  They could at least give it a try!
FOET => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7mDmWye4QQ[^] So much fun! 
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I'd think it'd be better that they realize it's not for them at the start of training than after they've already been flown out to the rig for the 1st time.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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But they are typically just reacting to fear rather than genuine experience related decision making.
Think about kids who wont go on a roller coaster, but force them to do it once and then you can never get them off the things!
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I've ben on roller coasters a few times I still don't like them.
A oil rig might be an interesting Day trip but not to stay.
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Looks calm enough to me. 
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