On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:08:47 +0000, Stephen wrote:

>>> 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.
>>
> Ah! The lass of Richmond Hill. OK wrong Richmond but I invoke the London
> Keellie's option.

I was going to say, Richmond Hill is in Ontario, Canada (I have a friend 
who lives there, coincidentally) - a suburb of Toronto.

> I'll take the district line to Gunnersbury and bide awhile in Chiswick.

Oooh!  Cheeky move, that.  I'll switch to the Picadilly line and pause 
for tea and biscuits in Hammersmith.  Obviously, though, I won't get 
either of those in the actual station.  I'll go to Frank's for that, just 
round the corner from the station.

>>> 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

Ah, so either no backups that work or no backups that work?  I guess that 
isn't really an option. ;-)

>>> 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. ;-)
>>
>>
> 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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