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Aaargghh - I am ROYALLY peaced off at the moment -- hope nothing major

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by deadly ernest

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happened while I was absent.

(rant alert - in case you haven't guessed yet)

About 24 hours ago my screen went blank in the middle of writing a post to a discussion. Nothing I did would make it come back up. I little trouble shooting and it looked like the VGA card, and bit more trouble and it turned out to be a post boot sync error by the monitor itself. In the meantime, trying to get another graphics card working meant I had a mess of messed up graphics drivers. Arrgh.

I'm just getting that sorted when the power goes, and guess what else went at the same time - yep the UPS chose that exact second to leave with the power. Over the following six hours power was up and down five times, catching me in mid work each time.

When it finally came back up permanently about ten hours ago, I finally able to get my system started again. But it's so scrambled now I had to actually finish building the replacement I've been meaning to switch too for four months. And spent the rest of the day getting it up to where I want it with all the apps tuned right and critical data transferred.

Oh woe is me, my bloody external hard drive doesn't want to play nice now and won't let me have my back up data back. So back to the original, carefully rebuild that and copy the data to DVD and carry it across.

Now I'm back to where I was this time yesterday and in bad need of some sleep.

Only good thing to come out of this is I'm now working with SimplyMepis 8 because I want my KDE 3.5 and not KDE 4 - so I switched back from Kubuntu.

I've still got a lot of data to move across, but should get that done. The big issue now is my pages of web site passwords. I couldn't get it to export so I brought them up and did screen shots, and now have to log in to them all and save the passwords again. Oi vey, what a task - but I'll leave that for later.

For some years I've had NO trouble, but now it all comes at once. Arrgh.

If I bite anyone's head off in the next day or so, I apologise in advance as I don't really mean it, but am a bit short on patience at the moment.

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by gadgetgirl

Hit the button, and thoroughly enjoy that little box that comes up - "Are you sure you want to report this post as spam? It cannot be undone". Enjoy the feeling of hitting the ok button knowing you're only harming one of the braindead.

Exasperation is the one thing these computers are great at manufacturing. Having nearly thrown the lappie out of the window whilst trying to upload my pics, I, for one, understand.

Have a good rest, recuperate, and come back refreshed, ready for the spammer hunt.

I'll keep my trigger finger under control and leave any I find just for you!

Best of luck with the rest of the restoration!

GG

by santeewelding

About these neat little implements I've been relying on all this time, and, now that I am privy to your plaint of travail, their slam-dunk utility.

One is called a, "pencil".

The other is called keeping your head while all about you isn't.

by deadly ernest

I just would've liked to be able to do it with a few flicks of the mouse and not have to type it ALL in again.

I keep my cool during the crisis, then vent later.

by older mycroft

Always thought it sounded like an excessively stilted, American atomic attack - a Nuke-Assault.

There's probably some in-bred redneck somewhere, sitting in an underground missile silo bunker, that can pronounce [b]NEWCASTLE[/b] perfectly.

All that is now needed is to edumuficate him in the art of properly pronouncing the word [b]BROWN[/b].

Of course, then begins teaching him the art of sitting in a Pub, resisting the urge to kill anyone around that taunts him for drinking the delicious liquid via a short tumbler, which should be constantly replenished straight from the bottle sitting alongside. ;)

And for all the Peers that attended the get together and are missing GG's accent - here - try and figure this load out '[i]fawr yersels[/i]'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FS0YrTHaEI&feature=related

:^0

by Member 25348569

Mum, I'm hungry, Mum. Can I have these strawberries?

No! They are for...Mummy and Daddy's picnic.

Mum, can I have this whipped cream?

No, that's for Mummy and Daddy's picnic, too.

Mum, Mum, can I have this chocolate body paint?

Eat the strawberries!

:)

It's an advert for a Seat car??!!

by gadgetgirl

thanks babz!

Haven't heard that one yet, but now I'll keep an ear out for it!

Gawsh... choccy body paint, and you thought of me... who'da thunk it?! ;)

I owe you a large email, as soon as I get the chance.... not in the next coupla days, I think.... I'll catch up with you!

:x

GG

by ontheropes

I sometimes have entire weeks when nothing works like it should and not just PC-wise. Usually ends up costing me lots of moolah, works on my nerves.

by peconet tietokoneet

Years-a-go I had a similar situation happen to me, but I only had the ONE computer back them, but i learned from that. Now i have three on stand-by at ALL times. The only thing is they do not run the same operating software of which is a god send. Thanks to Linux, my faithful system, Xandros, has not gone down since i built it two years ago.
My point here being, always prepare for the worst. Another plus also is that i have three Ups systems on stand-by. Unless there is a shortage/electrical storm, then my systems are on call when ever i need them.
Always have a backup of your backup. :)

by peconet tietokoneet

But if you have a second hand store near-by you can pick up some old computers and stick Linux on them. Over the short term this is what i did and it worked out well, for me that is. You do not need the up-to-date speed machine, just something that works. Then i had a little wind fall of cash so i got the speed stuff to tie myself and the wife for at least nine years, back ups and UPS connectors included. If you are down on cash then try and see if you are any good with a soldering iron, it comes in handy if just one component goes on the motherboard as these components are very cheap to buy.
But to be honest, i have built up my electronics kit (including tools, motherboards, books etc) over many years (10 years to be precise).

by deadly ernest

and the Commodore 64 I gave away twenty years ago, I've still got every computer I ever bought; and they all still work. Plus, I've got the legal software to run on them - even if MS isn't supporting it anymore, I can.

But the UPS stuff is costly, as all that stuff down here is imported.

by gadgetgirl

Margaret BLUDDY Thatcher, and what she has to do with it, is that she virtually one handedly closed every manufacturing base within the Tyneside area, including shipping, coal, rail and breweries.

Bluddy woman.

;)

GG

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