The OS was wiped on the crashing pc after a ghost backup of all the drives (27gb worth!) and XP was installed on the freshly formatted disk. For about 5 minutes it looked like everything was working again, until we went to copy a file across the network and boom – a reboot. Aha! Network card we thought (again), and tried to copy the file again when the machine was back online……swine thing worked this time, and the next two times……..until we clicked on the start button – KABOOM! At this point I almost cried but it was time to leave my patient co-techie to have his lunch and go do the hoovering of our lounge carpet….to be continued 🙁
Month: December 2003
Password safe for Windows and pocketpc sounds good. I’ve not tried it yet but its on the eternally long list of things to do.
A very useful list of Outlook keyboard shortcuts from KC Lemson which would have helped me with my mouse problem on the laptop (if I had known them earlier!)
A funny page about renting a car from Thrifty at O’hare airport. This is who we used this year and we did receive good service, especially as I was allowed to drive, but the comment about the ridge in the road is very true (and a daft idea)
A funny page about renting a car from Thrifty at O’hare airport. This is who we used this year and we did receive good service, especially as I was allowed to drive, but the comment about the ridge in the road is very true (and a daft idea)
The 2003 Blogging Survey results are in and make interesting reading even if they do focus on advertising a tad too much. I’ve posted a comment on the page too.
I can never find the phone number for Chopstix in Congleton which is 01260 272006/280636. If you are ever in the area and fancy a great Chinese meal then you won’t go wrong. There is a long wait at the weekend though as they are extremely popular and you often have to wait longer than they say to pick your food up. I reckon they should use an SMS method to communicate to people that the meal is ready – would save hanging around and trying to find somewhere to park nearby.
As mentioned in the previous post, I had to return my Toshiba laptop for repair yesterday. The mouse has been going haywire and after being told to install the mouse drivers from the Recovery CD (of all the weird places to put drivers – personally I would have put them on the Utility and Drivers CD) and not finding it on either of the supplied cd’s I rang back up and was told they would come and collect it. Didn’t bother telling me how long it would be before I’d get it back though (and I didn’t want to depress myself by asking). Their website says that its a hardware fault so fortunately there was no arguing needed to persuade them to fix it. Shame there was no on-site warrenty purchased though.
Incidentally the nipple mouse is more politically referred to as an Accupoint mouse.
NFO has a quick article about building a Network Monitoring Centre, although he calls it a NOC (operating/Monitoring) including EtherApe which draws a pretty picture of network traffic. I’ll be trying that when the laptop gets back from it’s repair.
Found a new blog, Noded where the author has a similar sense of humour to me.