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On 3 Feb 2009 20:03:26 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
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>Welcome to the 21st century. ;-)
>
We got there 7 hours before you did :)
>>>> You force me to go to Portsmouth.
>>>
>>>Indeed, not a lot of choice there. :-) Southampton.
>>>
>> Well we are running out of time since Samantha has to leave now as she's
>> hosting a traditional Cockney music and dance night with a pearly king
>> and queen at a nearby pub. All the locals are saying they can't wait to
>> see her knees up round the King's Head. So lets head up the M3 to
>> Sunbury-on-Thames.
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>Hmmm, interesting but a little unexpected. And so was your move, at
>that.
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>In the same general direction, Richmond.
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Ah! The lass of Richmond Hill. OK wrong Richmond but I invoke the London
Keellie's option.
I'll take the district line to Gunnersbury and bide awhile in Chiswick.
>> Sysadmin, whatever gave you the idea that I'd ever been a sysadmin?
>> Maintenance and hardware maintenance at that. :)
>
>Well, then that's sensible, you should turn the backup stuff over to the
>software guys. ;-)
>
No option, generally
>> There has been several occasions that I've asked for a restore of files
>> from backups and never had a result. But I managed to do a restore today
>> to a basic Vista installation without messing any other files up.
>> Unfortunately my laptop has developed a hardware fault where the black
>> parts of the screen turn a rastered green when the screen is opened too
>> far. And it was not booting properly from CD, shutting down with a
>> "clunk". What I don't believe is it still has a couple of months of
>> warranty left.
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>You mean it developed the problem before the warranty ran out? I didn't
>think that ever happened. ;-)
>
I know, the toast landed butter side up. A miracle. A miracle. :)
>> A spring cleen is a good idea and sometimes it take a kick to do it ;)
>
>LOL. That it is; sadly, the latest video driver borked something up, and
>the sim wouldn't run anymore. Fortunately, I was able to downgrade the
>driver to the one that actually works, as opposed to NVidia's idea of a
>"working new driver" that is in fact braindead and broken. Nice of them
>to test it.
Computer, who would have them? ;)
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Regards
Stephen
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