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Re: My PC had crashed...
« Reply #15 on: September 23, 2008, 10:51:49 AM »
It'll only be his porn stash anyway. That's what infects these things, causing the crashes, in the first place

He prolly needs the massive file server for the porn stash rather than the PC. Backs up the pub on the PC I imagine.  noooo:

Taking that seriously for a minute ~ backing up the pub takes very little space or time. whistle:

USB flash drive then. He's bound to lose that when falling off roofs (rooves?) or similar.

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Re: My PC had crashed...
« Reply #16 on: September 23, 2008, 11:01:20 AM »
It'll only be his porn stash anyway. That's what infects these things, causing the crashes, in the first place

He prolly needs the massive file server for the porn stash rather than the PC. Backs up the pub on the PC I imagine.  noooo:

Taking that seriously for a minute ~ backing up the pub takes very little space or time. whistle:

USB flash drive then. He's bound to lose that when falling off roofs (rooves?) or similar.

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Thanks TG you have reminded me of something I was meant to do today. It's been bugging me since SWMBO left for work two and a half hours ago.
Browse some porn on your USB flash drive...?

No ~ contact HP to ask their techies why some flash drives work on my PC and some don't. Those that do not work on the PC are fine on the wife's laptop (XP) and on my Asus (Linux) but the Vi$ta won't read them at all.
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Re: My PC had crashed...
« Reply #17 on: September 23, 2008, 11:05:05 AM »
It'll only be his porn stash anyway. That's what infects these things, causing the crashes, in the first place

He prolly needs the massive file server for the porn stash rather than the PC. Backs up the pub on the PC I imagine.  noooo:

Taking that seriously for a minute ~ backing up the pub takes very little space or time. whistle:

USB flash drive then. He's bound to lose that when falling off roofs (rooves?) or similar.

I knew you had a use!

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Re: My PC had crashed...
« Reply #18 on: September 23, 2008, 11:41:39 AM »
Its a driver issue with Vista Snoop. Linux and XP have been around long enough for the relevant drivers to be available but some items such as certain flash drives dont have that support yet.
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Re: My PC had crashed...
« Reply #19 on: September 23, 2008, 12:07:27 PM »
Its a driver issue with Vista Snoop. Linux and XP have been around long enough for the relevant drivers to be available but some items such as certain flash drives dont have that support yet.

So someone, at HP, with an Indian accent has just told me.  Banghead

It's bloody annoying when you have done some work on a laptop, saved it and then can't download it onto the PC to edit/work on it. The PC give a little "Bllep" when you put the flash drive in and then it simply refuses to accept that it exists. Even going to "My Computer" and looking for it will not show it, then when I try to click off "My Computer" it refuses to let me until I remove the flash drive when everything starts working again.
Another flash drive will let me save to it from the PC no problem. Any of them, when plugged in, sit there with their little light flashing so the bloody machine is aware of them.

Where this gets to be a problem is that Wife and Daughter both have laptops but save to pen drives and use the PC to print from. It was deemed cheaper that having four printers. Also those connected to the PC, which being the most used piece of kit for business purposes, is the one with the expensive laser printer is the one they both want to use for their presentations. I really don't want to have to go back to them putting stuff on discs, apart from anything else the Asus doesn't have a disc or a CDR slot in it.
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Re: My PC had crashed...
« Reply #20 on: September 23, 2008, 12:12:52 PM »
Setup is formatting... 94%  ::)
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Re: My PC had crashed...
« Reply #21 on: September 23, 2008, 12:17:23 PM »
Setup is formatting... 94%  ::)

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Re: My PC had crashed...
« Reply #22 on: September 23, 2008, 12:17:55 PM »
Buy a typewriter and a pigeon. You know where you are with a pigeon
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Re: My PC had crashed...
« Reply #23 on: September 23, 2008, 12:19:17 PM »
Buy a typewriter and a pigeon. You know where you are with a pigeon

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Re: My PC had crashed...
« Reply #24 on: September 23, 2008, 12:19:52 PM »
And they are ecological too  cloud9:
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Re: My PC had crashed...
« Reply #25 on: September 23, 2008, 12:21:12 PM »
Coo ~ aint nature wunnerful.
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Re: My PC had crashed...
« Reply #26 on: September 23, 2008, 12:22:51 PM »
The cooing ones outside drive me nuts. All day long. Coo Coo Coo. Are they deaf?
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Re: My PC had crashed...
« Reply #27 on: September 23, 2008, 12:25:03 PM »
The cooing ones outside drive me nuts. All day long. Coo Coo Coo. Are they deaf?

They sit on my chimney pots and do that a lot.
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Re: My PC had crashed...
« Reply #28 on: September 23, 2008, 12:25:43 PM »
Setup is coppying files... 82%
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Re: My PC had crashed...
« Reply #29 on: September 23, 2008, 12:26:37 PM »
Its a driver issue with Vista Snoop. Linux and XP have been around long enough for the relevant drivers to be available but some items such as certain flash drives dont have that support yet.

So someone, at HP, with an Indian accent has just told me.  Banghead

It's bloody annoying when you have done some work on a laptop, saved it and then can't download it onto the PC to edit/work on it. The PC give a little "Bllep" when you put the flash drive in and then it simply refuses to accept that it exists. Even going to "My Computer" and looking for it will not show it, then when I try to click off "My Computer" it refuses to let me until I remove the flash drive when everything starts working again.
Another flash drive will let me save to it from the PC no problem. Any of them, when plugged in, sit there with their little light flashing so the bloody machine is aware of them.

Where this gets to be a problem is that Wife and Daughter both have laptops but save to pen drives and use the PC to print from. It was deemed cheaper that having four printers. Also those connected to the PC, which being the most used piece of kit for business purposes, is the one with the expensive laser printer is the one they both want to use for their presentations. I really don't want to have to go back to them putting stuff on discs, apart from anything else the Asus doesn't have a disc or a CDR slot in it.

You could always try and set up a wireless network but Vista security is picky about those as well.

Setup is coppying files... 82%

Setup has farted and fallen over 99%  whistle:
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