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Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5123 |
Thanks for that. I'll be avoiding London though, probably a marvelous city but not to drive in.Except in a completely mud-covered Land Rover - preferably 15 years old. You don't care. Even taxi drivers respect that. |
Send message Joined: 18 Oct 14 Posts: 1487 |
Upload grumbles continue @ Einstein, if this continues Seti will be the beneficiary, Crunching is good uploading sucks atm. |
Send message Joined: 28 Jun 10 Posts: 2662 |
Other half's laptop has self diagnosed problems. Automatic repair failed. I hate working on M$ machines! Edit: USB stick with Ubuntu finished backing up data to external drive, now doing system restore. |
Send message Joined: 12 Jun 09 Posts: 2102 |
Yep, Land rovers are sturdy as Prince Phillip has just found out. Just glad there were no fatalities. Quite a few parts of the A149 really are rat runs. :-( |
Send message Joined: 28 Jun 10 Posts: 2662 |
Quite a few parts of the A149 really are rat runs These days, most of the time, I save time by cycling rather than driving. - Last drove the A149 regularly for work about 17 years ago. |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15549 |
Spoiler alert! Or perhaps no?! |
Send message Joined: 28 Jun 10 Posts: 2662 |
System restore failed. Other Half now reduced (promoted) to using Ubuntu18.10 to access her files via USB stick. Wonder if I can convert her completely to Linux? (Currently making noises about wanting a new laptop with Win10.) |
Send message Joined: 18 Oct 14 Posts: 1487 |
Avoid W10 like the plague. |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15549 |
Oh, I don't know, perhaps the plague is preferable to Win10? |
Send message Joined: 18 Oct 14 Posts: 1487 |
Well it has killed my mouse at least 3 times and my ethernet adapter once, I'm in the process of seeing if I can deal with Linux. |
Send message Joined: 21 Nov 13 Posts: 641 |
System restore failed. Get a MacBook Pro instead! Put LibreOffice on it copy the former Windows Data to it, and be done! TL Have TARDIS, will travel... Come along K-9! Join Calm Chaos Pluto is still a planet |
Send message Joined: 28 Jun 10 Posts: 2662 |
If she does get another machine, I get to put Linux on her old one and I have another machine to crunch on, faster than my ageing ones. (On the rare occasions I manage to break Linux I just do a fresh install and having data on a physically different hard disk so far have never wiped it out by formatting the wrong disk.) Might even get past the ./configure stage of rolling my own BOINC with another machine to play with. |
Send message Joined: 28 Jun 10 Posts: 2662 |
Fresh install of doze10 from usb stick seems to be working with no issues. Will have to think of some sabotage in order to get machine for myself. |
Send message Joined: 18 Oct 14 Posts: 1487 |
More glory from the upper left coast. The bathroom remodel is done and is quite good. The kitchen remodel is at least 80% done and the contractor says the final cost will come in under his estimate. He works for time plus materials. |
Send message Joined: 12 Jul 14 Posts: 656 |
I'm being dumb on a smartphone. |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15549 |
It's only as smart as its user. |
Send message Joined: 12 Jul 14 Posts: 656 |
Well the poor thing is doomed then... They might be letting me go home in a couple of hours! I'll find it easier on the computer to sort out a bit of a mix-up I caused in over in politics then... I only went there out of boredom. Four days in a row of handing yourself in to ACU can do that to you. |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15549 |
They might be letting me go home in a couple of hours!Or they might not. What does the rule book say? Four days in a row of handing yourself in to ACU can do that to you.Willingly or forcibly? It's not pre-shock of meeting the bearded Dutchman, is it, as then we'll cancel that. :) |
Send message Joined: 18 Oct 14 Posts: 1487 |
More glory on the upper left coast. The kitchen is 95% done and looks real good, the new appliances work and meet my expectations. The contractor is off to a new job next week and he'll be back next Sat. to finish up. I know he will show because I owe him a bit more money, besides I trust him. |
Send message Joined: 28 Jun 10 Posts: 2662 |
And Glory for an ageing Aspire One netbook that I am passing on. (some of the recent CPDN work would be crunching for over a year!) Hasn't been used for about a year and update to Lubuntu18.04 went smoothly with minimum intervention from myself. I particularly like that the only reboot is right at the end! |
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