On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:19:51 +0000, Stephen wrote:

> On 1 Feb 2009 13:51:02 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> 
>>On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:21:26 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>>
>>> On 30 Jan 2009 19:49:06 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> <hands up>
>>>>
>>>>Is this a robbery? ;-)
>>>>
>>> No, just a donation to charity.
>>
>>Oh, OK.  Don't forget to get a receipt for your tax return, then.
>>
> I'll do it online

Welcome to the 21st century. ;-)

>>> 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.

Hmmm, interesting but a little unexpected.  And so was your move, at 
that.  

In the same general direction, Richmond.

>>>>Having had problems like that with various laptops, you have my
>>>>sympathies.
>>> 
>>> No, I will try a restore of the system later today. You know this year
>>> I'll have worked in computing for 40 years and I've never gotten (:-))
>>> a proper backup to work.
>>
>>LOL, I hope there have been other sysadmins available who have managed a
>>backup. :-)
>>
>>
> 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. ;-)

> 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.

You mean it developed the problem before the warranty ran out?  I didn't 
think that ever happened. ;-)

>>A crashed hard drive, though, is a great way to clear the cruft off the
>>drive.  It's just too bad it takes the other stuff away as well.
>>
>>I was installing X-Plane (a really good flight sim) on my system here,
>>and ran out of disk space; installing all the scenery requires 70 GB of
>>space (it comes on 6 DL DVDs).  I started digging through the drive and
>>found a whole bunch of old junk I no longer needed.
>>
>>Probably better than a hard drive crash, too.  :-)
>>
> 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.

Jim

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