I hate computers
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Last week, I wasted a day uninstalling and re-installing SQL server. Today, my HDD goes on the fritz. CRC errors and NT/SYSTEM AUTHORITY mandatory restart. Followed by wont-boot-in-safe-mode. Gulp. So, in the interests of speed (and because my PC was quite old) I went out to buy a new desktop machine. I'll talk about that later...:mad: So, new PC turned on, Weven installed, restore disks (all 4 DVDs) made, time to scrap Mcafee, and norton, and office trial, and put MSE on. Right, now Chrome. Does IE want to play nice? Nooooo, it takes three tries before it even starts downloading Chrome, but finally it realises I'm serious and lets me do it. So, now I can just install from a backup...except my NAS broke a few weeks ago, and I haven't got it back yet. So I have a huge pile of backups I can't get at. So, now I'll have to install SQl Server again, and VS (though I might bite the bullet and use 2010 instead of 2008). And then I can recover my projects (as far as possible) from the old HDD by bolting it in the wifes PC and copying over - at least I have gigabit, so that shouldn't take too long. Then I can find and download my utils, and email... Oh, and I hate this new keyboard. All the keys are in different places, the feel is horrible, and it feels cramped. What else can go wrong? :laugh:
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
OriginalGriff wrote:
I hate computers
Then stop buying new ones. And next time, avoid those pesky AZERTY keyboards. They're no good for programming... :-D
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OriginalGriff wrote:
I hate computers
Then stop buying new ones. And next time, avoid those pesky AZERTY keyboards. They're no good for programming... :-D
Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
:laugh: This is QWERTY, but they are all out of place by a few millimetres - enough that I miss the key. Plus the numeric and arrows are shoved together and hard against the enter, so I completely miss when I try to use them. I may well go back to my heavy, tatty, cheap keyboard I bought for my first non-amstrad PC - I know where the keys are! I have a small pile of AZERTY, German, Spanish and so forth keyboard - all of which I avoid using!
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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Last week, I wasted a day uninstalling and re-installing SQL server. Today, my HDD goes on the fritz. CRC errors and NT/SYSTEM AUTHORITY mandatory restart. Followed by wont-boot-in-safe-mode. Gulp. So, in the interests of speed (and because my PC was quite old) I went out to buy a new desktop machine. I'll talk about that later...:mad: So, new PC turned on, Weven installed, restore disks (all 4 DVDs) made, time to scrap Mcafee, and norton, and office trial, and put MSE on. Right, now Chrome. Does IE want to play nice? Nooooo, it takes three tries before it even starts downloading Chrome, but finally it realises I'm serious and lets me do it. So, now I can just install from a backup...except my NAS broke a few weeks ago, and I haven't got it back yet. So I have a huge pile of backups I can't get at. So, now I'll have to install SQl Server again, and VS (though I might bite the bullet and use 2010 instead of 2008). And then I can recover my projects (as far as possible) from the old HDD by bolting it in the wifes PC and copying over - at least I have gigabit, so that shouldn't take too long. Then I can find and download my utils, and email... Oh, and I hate this new keyboard. All the keys are in different places, the feel is horrible, and it feels cramped. What else can go wrong? :laugh:
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
It could be raining...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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:laugh: This is QWERTY, but they are all out of place by a few millimetres - enough that I miss the key. Plus the numeric and arrows are shoved together and hard against the enter, so I completely miss when I try to use them. I may well go back to my heavy, tatty, cheap keyboard I bought for my first non-amstrad PC - I know where the keys are! I have a small pile of AZERTY, German, Spanish and so forth keyboard - all of which I avoid using!
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
You're lucky. I have to make sure all our machines have Hungarian and English keyboards; Mrs Wife has got to the skill level of swapping depending on mood / language in use. She is threatening to start trying to work /onlne/ in Arabic. I shall not help.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Last week, I wasted a day uninstalling and re-installing SQL server. Today, my HDD goes on the fritz. CRC errors and NT/SYSTEM AUTHORITY mandatory restart. Followed by wont-boot-in-safe-mode. Gulp. So, in the interests of speed (and because my PC was quite old) I went out to buy a new desktop machine. I'll talk about that later...:mad: So, new PC turned on, Weven installed, restore disks (all 4 DVDs) made, time to scrap Mcafee, and norton, and office trial, and put MSE on. Right, now Chrome. Does IE want to play nice? Nooooo, it takes three tries before it even starts downloading Chrome, but finally it realises I'm serious and lets me do it. So, now I can just install from a backup...except my NAS broke a few weeks ago, and I haven't got it back yet. So I have a huge pile of backups I can't get at. So, now I'll have to install SQl Server again, and VS (though I might bite the bullet and use 2010 instead of 2008). And then I can recover my projects (as far as possible) from the old HDD by bolting it in the wifes PC and copying over - at least I have gigabit, so that shouldn't take too long. Then I can find and download my utils, and email... Oh, and I hate this new keyboard. All the keys are in different places, the feel is horrible, and it feels cramped. What else can go wrong? :laugh:
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
OriginalGriff wrote:
I might bite the bullet and use 2010 instead of 2008
If you don't already have a copy of VS2010 handy, why not bite the bullet extra hard and go for the VS 11 CTP. I'm running it at the moment and no probs after a few days. After reading one of your posts a few days ago *****PLEASE NOTE***** it is Visual Studio 11 NOT Visual Studio 2011. By the time it escapes into the retail channel it will probably be VS 2012, so MS only expect you to upgrade every two years instaed of every year as you supposed then.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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Last week, I wasted a day uninstalling and re-installing SQL server. Today, my HDD goes on the fritz. CRC errors and NT/SYSTEM AUTHORITY mandatory restart. Followed by wont-boot-in-safe-mode. Gulp. So, in the interests of speed (and because my PC was quite old) I went out to buy a new desktop machine. I'll talk about that later...:mad: So, new PC turned on, Weven installed, restore disks (all 4 DVDs) made, time to scrap Mcafee, and norton, and office trial, and put MSE on. Right, now Chrome. Does IE want to play nice? Nooooo, it takes three tries before it even starts downloading Chrome, but finally it realises I'm serious and lets me do it. So, now I can just install from a backup...except my NAS broke a few weeks ago, and I haven't got it back yet. So I have a huge pile of backups I can't get at. So, now I'll have to install SQl Server again, and VS (though I might bite the bullet and use 2010 instead of 2008). And then I can recover my projects (as far as possible) from the old HDD by bolting it in the wifes PC and copying over - at least I have gigabit, so that shouldn't take too long. Then I can find and download my utils, and email... Oh, and I hate this new keyboard. All the keys are in different places, the feel is horrible, and it feels cramped. What else can go wrong? :laugh:
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
OriginalGriff wrote:
What else can go wrong?
Well, if you were Christian you'd just be warming up...
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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It could be raining...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997I live in Wales. Here, a good summer is one where you don't drown. We don't tan here - we rust. Trust me - it's raining! :laugh:
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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I live in Wales. Here, a good summer is one where you don't drown. We don't tan here - we rust. Trust me - it's raining! :laugh:
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
OriginalGriff wrote:
We don't tan here - we rust.
As an ethnic Paddy, I have used that for many years.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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OriginalGriff wrote:
I might bite the bullet and use 2010 instead of 2008
If you don't already have a copy of VS2010 handy, why not bite the bullet extra hard and go for the VS 11 CTP. I'm running it at the moment and no probs after a few days. After reading one of your posts a few days ago *****PLEASE NOTE***** it is Visual Studio 11 NOT Visual Studio 2011. By the time it escapes into the retail channel it will probably be VS 2012, so MS only expect you to upgrade every two years instaed of every year as you supposed then.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
It's not a bad idea, but I'm not a fan of Betas - and I think of Microsoft released software as Beta until SP1 at the least! :laugh:
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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You're lucky. I have to make sure all our machines have Hungarian and English keyboards; Mrs Wife has got to the skill level of swapping depending on mood / language in use. She is threatening to start trying to work /onlne/ in Arabic. I shall not help.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
Surprisingly, it's not a problem to have multiple keyboards simultaneously - I have had my (old, much loved) PS/2 UK and three other (USB wired/wireless) variants simultaneously without problems. Well, except hitting the wrong keys all the time...
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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OriginalGriff wrote:
What else can go wrong?
Well, if you were Christian you'd just be warming up...
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
if you were Christian you'd just be warming up
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OriginalGriff wrote:
What else can go wrong?
Well, if you were Christian you'd just be warming up...
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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Last week, I wasted a day uninstalling and re-installing SQL server. Today, my HDD goes on the fritz. CRC errors and NT/SYSTEM AUTHORITY mandatory restart. Followed by wont-boot-in-safe-mode. Gulp. So, in the interests of speed (and because my PC was quite old) I went out to buy a new desktop machine. I'll talk about that later...:mad: So, new PC turned on, Weven installed, restore disks (all 4 DVDs) made, time to scrap Mcafee, and norton, and office trial, and put MSE on. Right, now Chrome. Does IE want to play nice? Nooooo, it takes three tries before it even starts downloading Chrome, but finally it realises I'm serious and lets me do it. So, now I can just install from a backup...except my NAS broke a few weeks ago, and I haven't got it back yet. So I have a huge pile of backups I can't get at. So, now I'll have to install SQl Server again, and VS (though I might bite the bullet and use 2010 instead of 2008). And then I can recover my projects (as far as possible) from the old HDD by bolting it in the wifes PC and copying over - at least I have gigabit, so that shouldn't take too long. Then I can find and download my utils, and email... Oh, and I hate this new keyboard. All the keys are in different places, the feel is horrible, and it feels cramped. What else can go wrong? :laugh:
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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Last week, I wasted a day uninstalling and re-installing SQL server. Today, my HDD goes on the fritz. CRC errors and NT/SYSTEM AUTHORITY mandatory restart. Followed by wont-boot-in-safe-mode. Gulp. So, in the interests of speed (and because my PC was quite old) I went out to buy a new desktop machine. I'll talk about that later...:mad: So, new PC turned on, Weven installed, restore disks (all 4 DVDs) made, time to scrap Mcafee, and norton, and office trial, and put MSE on. Right, now Chrome. Does IE want to play nice? Nooooo, it takes three tries before it even starts downloading Chrome, but finally it realises I'm serious and lets me do it. So, now I can just install from a backup...except my NAS broke a few weeks ago, and I haven't got it back yet. So I have a huge pile of backups I can't get at. So, now I'll have to install SQl Server again, and VS (though I might bite the bullet and use 2010 instead of 2008). And then I can recover my projects (as far as possible) from the old HDD by bolting it in the wifes PC and copying over - at least I have gigabit, so that shouldn't take too long. Then I can find and download my utils, and email... Oh, and I hate this new keyboard. All the keys are in different places, the feel is horrible, and it feels cramped. What else can go wrong? :laugh:
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
OriginalGriff wrote:
my NAS broke a few weeks ago, and I haven't got it back yet. So I have a huge pile of backups I can't get at.
Backups are pretty critical. NASs don't use special filesystems, put the disk in another PC and share files from there. Use a live Linux CD for temporary access.
OriginalGriff wrote:
Oh, and I hate this new keyboard. All the keys are in different place..
That's why keyboards are replaceable :). DIN-to-PS2 and PS2-to-USB adapters allow any keyboard to be used with any system (except new MACs).
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Last week, I wasted a day uninstalling and re-installing SQL server. Today, my HDD goes on the fritz. CRC errors and NT/SYSTEM AUTHORITY mandatory restart. Followed by wont-boot-in-safe-mode. Gulp. So, in the interests of speed (and because my PC was quite old) I went out to buy a new desktop machine. I'll talk about that later...:mad: So, new PC turned on, Weven installed, restore disks (all 4 DVDs) made, time to scrap Mcafee, and norton, and office trial, and put MSE on. Right, now Chrome. Does IE want to play nice? Nooooo, it takes three tries before it even starts downloading Chrome, but finally it realises I'm serious and lets me do it. So, now I can just install from a backup...except my NAS broke a few weeks ago, and I haven't got it back yet. So I have a huge pile of backups I can't get at. So, now I'll have to install SQl Server again, and VS (though I might bite the bullet and use 2010 instead of 2008). And then I can recover my projects (as far as possible) from the old HDD by bolting it in the wifes PC and copying over - at least I have gigabit, so that shouldn't take too long. Then I can find and download my utils, and email... Oh, and I hate this new keyboard. All the keys are in different places, the feel is horrible, and it feels cramped. What else can go wrong? :laugh:
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
I have a computer that behaves just fine for me and the kids, no matter what we do. The minute my wife needs to do something urgent, she gets a blue screen or the network or the printer craps out. That, my friends, is true pain. (It's probably it's revenge on her for powering down the entire house on everyone as a joke)
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:laugh: This is QWERTY, but they are all out of place by a few millimetres - enough that I miss the key. Plus the numeric and arrows are shoved together and hard against the enter, so I completely miss when I try to use them. I may well go back to my heavy, tatty, cheap keyboard I bought for my first non-amstrad PC - I know where the keys are! I have a small pile of AZERTY, German, Spanish and so forth keyboard - all of which I avoid using!
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
Is there some reason the keyboard from the broken computer can't be used?
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Is there some reason the keyboard from the broken computer can't be used?
Only it's old, and a bit dirty (I clean it out every few months, but with cat and my hands all over it, it does get grubby fairly quickly). I probably will go back to the old one, but I thought it would make some sense to use the new...
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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Last week, I wasted a day uninstalling and re-installing SQL server. Today, my HDD goes on the fritz. CRC errors and NT/SYSTEM AUTHORITY mandatory restart. Followed by wont-boot-in-safe-mode. Gulp. So, in the interests of speed (and because my PC was quite old) I went out to buy a new desktop machine. I'll talk about that later...:mad: So, new PC turned on, Weven installed, restore disks (all 4 DVDs) made, time to scrap Mcafee, and norton, and office trial, and put MSE on. Right, now Chrome. Does IE want to play nice? Nooooo, it takes three tries before it even starts downloading Chrome, but finally it realises I'm serious and lets me do it. So, now I can just install from a backup...except my NAS broke a few weeks ago, and I haven't got it back yet. So I have a huge pile of backups I can't get at. So, now I'll have to install SQl Server again, and VS (though I might bite the bullet and use 2010 instead of 2008). And then I can recover my projects (as far as possible) from the old HDD by bolting it in the wifes PC and copying over - at least I have gigabit, so that shouldn't take too long. Then I can find and download my utils, and email... Oh, and I hate this new keyboard. All the keys are in different places, the feel is horrible, and it feels cramped. What else can go wrong? :laugh:
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
Windows 8
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Last week, I wasted a day uninstalling and re-installing SQL server. Today, my HDD goes on the fritz. CRC errors and NT/SYSTEM AUTHORITY mandatory restart. Followed by wont-boot-in-safe-mode. Gulp. So, in the interests of speed (and because my PC was quite old) I went out to buy a new desktop machine. I'll talk about that later...:mad: So, new PC turned on, Weven installed, restore disks (all 4 DVDs) made, time to scrap Mcafee, and norton, and office trial, and put MSE on. Right, now Chrome. Does IE want to play nice? Nooooo, it takes three tries before it even starts downloading Chrome, but finally it realises I'm serious and lets me do it. So, now I can just install from a backup...except my NAS broke a few weeks ago, and I haven't got it back yet. So I have a huge pile of backups I can't get at. So, now I'll have to install SQl Server again, and VS (though I might bite the bullet and use 2010 instead of 2008). And then I can recover my projects (as far as possible) from the old HDD by bolting it in the wifes PC and copying over - at least I have gigabit, so that shouldn't take too long. Then I can find and download my utils, and email... Oh, and I hate this new keyboard. All the keys are in different places, the feel is horrible, and it feels cramped. What else can go wrong? :laugh:
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
Sounds about like my weekend too. My home server (just WinXP using file sharing) UPS died in the middle of a Microsoft Update. BSOD and unable to boot to Safe Mode thanks to an apparently corrupted registry. Took an image of the broken state to be safe before restoring to a 2-yr-old image (my bad for not staying on top of backups!), but that wasn't quite working either. Brought everything except Windows files back from my messed up image, and that was pretty wonky. Decided to put back the messed up image entirely, and after a couple forced chkdsk sessions on boot, I was able to get into Safe Mode and use System Restore to get back to a working state again. I'm just glad I didn't have to upgrade hardware. The kids were already about to mutiny on me for not having their videos available for their network media players. Getting a new machine into a functional state would've taken a couple extra days at least.
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I have a computer that behaves just fine for me and the kids, no matter what we do. The minute my wife needs to do something urgent, she gets a blue screen or the network or the printer craps out. That, my friends, is true pain. (It's probably it's revenge on her for powering down the entire house on everyone as a joke)
My wife is similar, but no blue screen. The tech can watch her at work and then says "It CAN'T DO that!" Or, she turns it on at home, nothing... Tells me to look at it. (I'm going to myself, if it won't turn on what can I do about it?) Anyway, sit done in front of the computer and it immediately comes up. (It was dark for a full 10 minutes and I didn't even touch it.)
