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

>> 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.

>>>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. :)

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.

>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 ;)
-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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