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Come Inside... => The Computer Room => Topic started by: GROWLER on April 02, 2010, 09:59:43 AM
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Mate of mine is due any minute.
Wiping the puter and installing a brand new legit copy of Windows XP proffesional.
He's here! cloud9:
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Growler's digital suicide note eeek:
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Mate of mine is due any minute.
Wiping the puter and installing a brand new legit copy of Windows XP proffesional.
He's here! cloud9:
Too late prolly but you should get him to install Windows 7
XP is nearly ten years old and due to end its support life soon...
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Still very good tho.
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Still very good tho.
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As they are still selling it (mainly on netbooks) they may have to change their minds.
There are rumblings of challenges in the states, and the EU may take things up.
Stoopid to be still selling in 1st qtr of the year and then dropping it in 2nd qtr.
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Mate of mine is due any minute.
Wiping the puter and installing a brand new legit copy of Windows XP proffesional.
He's here! cloud9:
What can possibly go wrong?
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The silence means it probably has.
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Goodbye Growler sad24:
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Goodbye Growler sad24:
Hello again.
I'm on this Internet Explorer thing now and it all looks odd.
Had major issues with the puter today. Some virus had bollxed up the modum apparently, so we tried to install this new wireless thing, but ut was then found that where you plug it in was goosed.
I had to go out and buy a new wireless stick thing to stick in the back, and now it werks again...sort of.
Can't get an internet connection now as aoHELL keeps demanding that I install updates before it connects. Has to close down first which it does, but when it fires up again, the same bloody message keeps appearing, so it's like a dog chasing its tail really. ::)
This'll do for now, but I'll ring up India again later today. scared2:
Meanwhile, I have a new 2nd hand laptop now too and it's ace....ish.
This thing is running so much faster now anyway. Only takes 60 seconds to the log on page instead of nearly 6 minutes in the past, so that's progress anyway.
Windows XP is requiring 1hr 30 mins to do its updates apparently. eeek:
I'll let it do it while I'm in the Asda this morning.
You lot of little faith in me ey. ::)
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I have a new 2nd hand laptop now too and it's ace....ish.
Mind you don't cut your fingers on the slivers of broken glass in the keyboard. ;)
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All too technical for me, I have lost everyones Avatars so can't tell who is saying what to whom now. noooo:
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How strange, now they are back and everything looks normal again. Think I will go back to sleep, it may help. surrender:
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I have a new 2nd hand laptop now too and it's ace....ish.
Mind you don't cut your fingers on the slivers of broken glass in the keyboard. ;)
happy001
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I have a new 2nd hand laptop now too and it's ace....ish.
Mind you don't cut your fingers on the slivers of broken glass in the keyboard. ;)
Stereo typing again are we DS? ::)
Getting a bit mono tonous IF you don't mind me saying so like?
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I have a new 2nd hand laptop now too and it's ace....ish.
Mind you don't cut your fingers on the slivers of broken glass in the keyboard. ;)
happy001
....and YOU, yes YOU, can stop bloody well encouraging him too. evil:
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I bought, YES BOUGHT, LEGIT like, this 2nd hand laptop for MM, not that she deserves it at the moment, for her to do her course work on, and her 'chatting' to her mates on faceache and the like, mainly to free this thing up for the rest of us.
However, Mrs G is already ranting and raving about the dangers of placing it on her lap. Dagerous electronic waves being ommitted or some other such shite.
What's the truth behind this latest wives tale of hers then?
Problee come from the MIL, as most of her garbage statements do. ::)
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If she lets MM talk on a mobile phone and is satisfied this is not going to fry her brain, then what's the difference between that and her laptop ?
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Make her a tin foil apron ::)
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If she lets MM talk on a mobile phone and is satisfied this is not going to fry her brain, then what's the difference between that and her laptop ?
I dunno. You ask me, I ask you. Shrugs:
Yet more mumbo jumbo from the archives of Mrs G's for me to decipher into probably utter scare mongering shite then I presume?
NEVER warns me about any potential dangers for anything I notice. ::)
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I bought, YES BOUGHT, LEGIT like, this 2nd hand laptop for MM, not that she deserves it at the moment, for her to do her course work on, and her 'chatting' to her mates on faceache and the like, mainly to free this thing up for the rest of us.
However, Mrs G is already ranting and raving about the dangers of placing it on her lap. Dagerous electronic waves being ommitted or some other such shite.
What's the truth behind this latest wives tale of hers then?
Problee come from the MIL, as most of her garbage statements do. ::)
It is all bollocks Growler...
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The perceived danger of sitting with a lap-top on your lap is based in the fact that a number have been known to burst into flames ..... this was a battery issue and has supposedly been resolved. The only other problem is that some lap-tops get very hot and some people have suffered burns to their thighs.
But of course the techies will say this is bolloxs. ::) So I'll provide some sources for them to ponder.
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/dell-battery-fire.htm
In conjunction with the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Dell and Apple Computer announced large recalls of laptop batteries in the summer of 2006, followed by Toshiba and Lenovo. Sony manufactured all of the recalled batteries, and in October 2006, the company announced its own large-scale recall. Under the right circumstances, these batteries could overheat, potentially causing burns, an explosion or a fire.
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09035.html
Most people seem agreed that using a laptop will not expose the user to any more "radiation" than using a mobile phone.
Of course if people would stop calling them "Laptops" which strictly speaking they ain't and start calling them "Notebooks" which is what they are ~ the problem would go away over night. whistle:
Prepares for tirade of abuse for presuming to answer a computer related question.Whatevah:
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Bollocks like I said then...? ::)
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Bollocks like I said then...? ::)
....and me too.
Total utter pure as the freshly driven snow, unmitigated grossly incompitant scare mongering bloody bollox...as usual, fresh from the annals of crap 'so called ' facts in Mrs G's clouded mind.
She's just gone to work! happy088
Sweet as a nut. cloud9:
Apparently though, did you know, I said DID YOU KNOW, "nuts aren't sweet". It's a FACT..apparently ::)
These Asda cashews are ssssso bitter you know, and as for the Honey roast ones, well what can I say? noooo:
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I have a new 2nd hand laptop now too and it's ace....ish.
Mind you don't cut your fingers on the slivers of broken glass in the keyboard. ;)
Stereo typing again are we DS? ::)
Getting a bit mono tonous IF you don't mind me saying so like?
You have every right to feel miffed if I omit the ;).
We all know really that the proportion of light-fingered folk round your way is much less than 100%.
Just like the proportion of snooty, overpaid shandy-drinkers down here. whistle:
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I have a new 2nd hand laptop now too and it's ace....ish.
Mind you don't cut your fingers on the slivers of broken glass in the keyboard. ;)
Stereo typing again are we DS? ::)
Getting a bit mono tonous IF you don't mind me saying so like?
You have every right to feel miffed if I omit the ;).
We all know really that the proportion of light-fingered folk round your way is much less than 100%.
Just like the proportion of snooty, overpaid shandy-drinkers down here. whistle:
Oh yes. Don't be offended. I'm being particulary snarly and reaching new previously unchartered heights of extreme bad temperdness with virtually everyone at the moment.
I have had the most unbelievably shitty bad week,both at work and home, and DO NOT ask what happened to me this morning on the way home from Asda that did actually push me 'over the edge' with rage. Explode:
" THE CAT" is getting his own back on me now, of that I'm sure.
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I have a new 2nd hand laptop now too and it's ace....ish.
Mind you don't cut your fingers on the slivers of broken glass in the keyboard. ;)
Stereo typing again are we DS? ::)
Getting a bit mono tonous IF you don't mind me saying so like?
You have every right to feel miffed if I omit the ;).
We all know really that the proportion of light-fingered folk round your way is much less than 100%.
Just like the proportion of snooty, overpaid shandy-drinkers down here. whistle:
Oh yes. Don't be offended. I'm being particulary snarly and reaching new previously unchartered heights of extreme bad temperdness with virtually everyone at the moment.
I have had the most unbelievably shitty bad week,both at work and home, and DO NOT ask what happened to me this morning on the way home from Asda that did actually push me 'over the edge' with rage. Explode:
" THE CAT" is getting his own back on me now, of that I'm sure.
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scared2:
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What happened on the way back from Asda then like...? rubschin:
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scared:
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scared:
redface:
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What happened on the way back from Asda then like...? rubschin:
I thought I had just said............. Explode: Explode: Explode:
Look in the petrol head zone later for the full grizzly heart breaking confession and health damage I've probably inflicted upon myself due to my stupendous self confessed utter utter utter utter utter utter and puresestests of unbelievable mind blowing stupidity. sad32: sad32: sad32:
I need putting down with a lethal injection, fast.
Meanwhile, I'm going up 'me 'ill' for some serious soul searching and solitude.
Oh and no, I didn't have an accident. THAT would have been more forgivable to myself, and probably with extenuating circumstances attached.
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What happened on the way back from Asda then like...? rubschin:
I thought I had just said............. Explode: Explode: Explode:
Look in the petrol head zone later for the full grizzly heart breaking confession and health damage I've probably inflicted upon myself due to my stupendous self confessed utter utter utter utter utter utter and puresestests of unbelievable mind blowing stupidity. sad32: sad32: sad32:
I need putting down with a lethal injection, fast.
Meanwhile, I'm going up 'me 'ill' for some serious soul searching and solitude.
Oh and no, I didn't have an accident. THAT would have been more forgivable to myself, and probably with extenuating circumstances attached.
You got your BMW crushed under a lump of concrete? eeek:
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