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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 3:37 pm
Nodding, Doc bob did as he was asked, placing the datacard first in one slot, then, as that read error, he tried a few more until he got the right one, " maybe I should take out those broken extra ones....er...uh, here ya go, I think this is what you wanted." after a few minutes of downloading, Bob removed the datacard and held it out to natalia.
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 4:07 pm
After removing the back up card from her own, Natalia inserted the one from bobs into the appropriate slot and typed in the scan command. Once a dancing icon poped up she closed it. "Mine will beep when its done, it shouldnt take very long unless yours has a lot of errors on it." Natalia said taking the remote she had found buried under some records and hit a couple keys. Two panels in what had appeared to be the solid top low chest of drawers lifted up and then slide to the side allowing the visual projectors to come out on there thin metal arms. Most home sets only had between three and six but Natalia had add some bringing the count on hers up to twenty four, she liked clarity when on the few occasions she actually chose to watch anything. "You just press the orange arrow keys to move up or down through the signals. The green ones control volume and the labeled ones are for playing movies." She said as she passed Bob the remote. "Don't touch anything else without asking first." She added before walking over to the set and opening the doors on it, revealing a port and compatible cylindrical rods. "This is my movie collection, watch what ever you want. The red are documentaries, the blue are technical courses, and the green are just some random movies I've collected." She said gesturing to the colored sections as she spoke. Twenty-five percent of the green collection were old b-movies her mother had stared in that she had been meaning to get rid of for years but always forgot about. They hadn't been particularly well scripted and she always found it disturbing to watch them. Helen Nova had been a good actress but the woman Natalia remembered was a pretty voice speaking softly and black hair, not the one in the movies.
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 4:14 pm
blinking, Doc bob nearly fell over as he turned on the holoprojector. "its so.....so real....so beautiful, the detail, the sound...the....moving pictures....." looking over to the blue section, bob quickly chose the first one, setting it to play as his eyes widened and he watched intently, like a child watching thier first movie, or a kid at christmas getting exactly what they wanted. with these, I can learn all I need and more....yes, tonight I sleep not!
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 4:21 pm
((Is there anything funky about its software that I should know about or is it just out dated or something along those lines?)) "Alright, enjoy then..." Natalia knew by Bob's expression it had been unnecessary to say it as she turned back to her computer. Ten minutes later, which was far too long, her data pad beeped. Having forgotten about the diagnostic completely she looked at it in mild annoyance before remembering what it had been doing. Curious about the amount of time that had elapsed she opened it and started reading the system report.
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 4:30 pm
((strange? yes....it was all written by hand over a course of a few years, first by someone who knew what they were doing and doing so with a proficiency nearly unmatched. and second by a bumbling young doc bob. it also has a few insignia's of the pirates of shard embedded in it, along with a rather complex anti-virus package, which strangely enough seems like it would be on par with the average one currently available. as for needed updates? mostly compatability issues, but they can be easily smoothed over.))
Doc bob's face was an example of sheer joy.....or someone who's just passed out from too much drug use. his eyes wide and his jaw in a slackened smile, bolturan simply kept watching the holo-images, nearly unaware of his surroundings.
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 4:45 pm
((gottcha)) "Oh the hell I am!" She mumbled as her read the 'blocked' message. With only Bob's system and a few of her key programs in place to read and fix it she was getting to see just how out of date the program really was. It's anti-virus package was reading her programs as viruses because of the coding language and had quarantined them. That it had failed to recognize her programs wasn't a surprise, the fact that it had been able to stop them was. With a grunt she hooked the data pad into her computer and the main program editor. The OS code began scrawling across the screen as text. More then once over the course of the three hours it took to repair, update and debug the program Natalia would looked over at Bob, glared, shook her head as if denying something, then went back to work.
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 4:51 pm
by the time that third hour was through, Bob had worked himself into such a state that he was simply rocking back and forth, his eyes effetively glued to the visual as his ears picked up all the information and ferreted it away to it's respective place in his mind. to some it may have seemed like he was a spice addict, to others...well, it still would have looked like he was a spice addict, however to a select few, those who were aquainted with meditation, he would look like a man in deep thought.
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 5:03 pm
((got to go, bye.)) Once her work with the program was done Natalia popped another data card into her computer and made a copy of the new program then set it aside. Outside of any hardware issues there might be it was now compatible with newer systems. That done she got back to her original work and began looking up parts and ordering what she was going to need to fix Bob's ship along with a number of upgrades and charged them to her fathers credit account. She would have to pay for it latter but it would be worth it for once. Hell, if all went well she might actually manage to smile the next time she saw the b*****d.
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 10:23 am
by the time morning's light had broken into the sky (even though the lights of coruscant never went off) Bob was still in his 'spice addict/meditation' state, watching through the instructive courses.
((he's going to be watching these until told to stop, poked, finishes them, or starves to death, whichever happens first.))
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 11:42 am
Natalia came back up to her apartment at what constituted morning for most people and found Doc in the exact same place she had left him. A glance around the apartment told her he hadn't done anything to disturb her property. The trash can still held the trash from there dinner but nothing else and the purge cycle hadn't lapsed yet. For a moment Natalia entertained the idea of leaving him as he was just to find out how long he could go. The thought was only a passing amusement though. Millie had raised her to be considerate of the needs of others and the habits of thirteen years were difficult to change in a mere two. Natalia did leave there while she ducked into the bathroom and took care of her hygiene and changed her clothes. Normally she would have opted for one of her many black coveralls and tank tops no matter what she was going to do. Unfortunately since she needed to pick up parts from a particular dealer she had to put on more business appropriate attire. The Rodian who ran the place had acquired a rather inflated ego when she became manager of the facility after starting as a humble mid level pencil pusher. That wasn't much of a problem and wouldn't have necessitated a change of style but she always tried to drive the price up on anyone she viewed as inferior in station and while her coveralls were comfortable and highly functional Natalia wasn't willing to pay an extra ten percent on her order to wear them. "Doc snap out of it, were going out." Natalia said matter of factly as she buttoned the cuff of her white long sleeve button up shirt. That done she added a navy coat to the outfit and smoothed her hair a bit.
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 11:46 am
Snapping out of his daze, Bob looked around, " oh? do I have to? these lessons are so interesting...or...may I continue watching them when I get back?" after fumbling around with the control for a few more moments Bob managed to pause the recording and looked around. "oh...it's morning....um...." After taking a whiff of his armpit, bob cringed, " is there somewhere that I can bathe first? it's been far too long, escpecially considering I didn't have enough space to throw a cleaning area into my ship."
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 11:56 am
"In there, do you have any clean clothes?" Natalia pointed toward the door she had recent come out of. It wasn't a particularly large facility but adequate provided you didn't want to do something odd like take a bath. If Doc lacked appropriate clothes it wouldn't take long to remedy the situation on the way.
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 11:59 am
after a few minutes of fumbling around in his ship, Doc bob emerged with a set of semi-ragged robes, including: a kilt, a pair of boxers, a short sleeve shirt, and a cover-all robe of green. before entering the fresher, he asks, " um...is this one like a ship one? or is it more elaborate? also, are these clothes acceptable?"
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 12:08 pm
Natalia sighed as she looked at the clothes but chose to address Doc's questions in the order received. "Basically though I didn't opt for the multi species model since I don't entertain much." Much in this instance meaning ever. "And no your clothes wont work but we can pick up some today. Well be near enough to the right distract for it anyway." She said and shrugged then walked to her desk and retrieved the data card with the modified OS for Doc's data pad on it. "Oh, and I finished this last night. You shouldn't have any compatibility issues with current programs now." She said, holding the card out to him.
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 12:14 pm
nodding, Doc replied, " right....okay..." taking the datacard, he left it with his datapad. then, after entering the fresher took around 15 mintues to relax and clean up. upon emerging, he wore the clean outfit (with the robes covering his entire body up to his head), and his hair had seemed to have shrunk and plastered itself to his head. " so, where to m'lady? "
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