The Billy Idol Concert is “out there” as a full dvd, too, if anyone’s interested.
A while ago, my old laptop crapped the bed, then set it on fire, urinated on the ashes, and called in an airstrike afterwards.
Anyhoo, had 3 “extra” laptops… that turned out to be totally useless. Missing charger for one. Missing altogether other one (found the box, not the laptop). Another with busted hinges as the plastic degraded to that point.
Found an ancient tablet that I knew ran 8.1, figured that was “new enough”. Battery won’t even take a charge. Runs fine from the charger, but the bottom was covered in sticky goo. Display was f’ed, too, as it looked like virga falling from the top-right corner, a bright white squiggle running diagonally and darker in the area between that and the corner. Ah! The glue, or goo, or whatever, that must’ve been holding the gorilla glass to the screen must’ve just seeped out over time. Yeah, wtf? Still usable, though.
Or is it? Only had an ancient version of exploder on it, and no sites would even allow me to connect to them!! Had to get the craptop whose disk would just… stop… after 2-3min or so, and stuck an ubuntu dvd to run live, stuck a flash thingy in it, then grabbed the version of firefox portable that I kept on there. Disk only had to stay active long enough to grab that, then I wouldn’t care what would happen after. It worked!
Transferred FFP to the tablet, and that’s what I was using, ohhh, about the last month or so. Was looking for the MIA laptop that’s known good (ubuntu, could create a winsucks vm), no joy, can’t find it or remember where I had it last.
So ordered a refurb dell for 2hunnit, and it’s quite nice, actually. Works a treat. Installed most of the goodies I used most often, and am almost back online 100%.
Anyhoo, whole point of that nightmare fuel is that I got all that stuff on external disk somewhere. Dunno if the concert’s dvd5, dvd9, etc. But it’s out there in full. Reeeeally top notch. Good reminder to try to find the Real Thing and get a hardcopy of it. Worth it…