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Religions > Atheism |
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"Jez" |
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13 Nov 2004 03:12:12 PM |
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OT: Ohh bugger |
Aww man...what a bloody nightmare !
Windows screwed up good and proper.
(Tried to install the Colin Mcrae rally 2005 demo)
It shut the pc down.....and wouldn't re-boot.
Refused to go into safe mode...refused to load last known configuration.
Nothing..diddly squat !!
So I ended up having to bloody well Re-Install Windows !!!
Ahhhhh
3 & 1/2 years of bookmarks....gone.
3 & 1/2 years of e-mails......gone. !!
Thank ***** I have all my music compositions on another drive !!
That would have been a catastrophe !!
So the first sunny Saturday we get in ages....and I had to spend it
re-installing all my damned software !!
AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Not going to buy that bloody game now, that's for sure !!
I need a damned beer.
--
Jez
'Realism is seductive because once you have accepted the reasonable
notion that you should base your actions on reality, you are too often
led to accept, without much questioning, someone else's version of what
that reality is. It is a crucial act of independent thinking to be
skeptical of someone else's description of reality.'-
Howard Zinn
Skype callto://hellward
NFS Porsche Unleashed, Hot Pursuit 2, Underground.
Yeowww
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| User: "Bob Dog" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Ohh bugger |
14 Nov 2004 05:13:51 AM |
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Jez <iced_spear@NODAMNSPAMpipex.com> wrote in message news:<hM-dnW6lb9Yy5QvcRVnyiA@pipex.net>...
Aww man...what a bloody nightmare !
Windows screwed up good and proper.
(Tried to install the Colin Mcrae rally 2005 demo)
It shut the pc down.....and wouldn't re-boot.
Refused to go into safe mode...refused to load last known configuration.
Nothing..diddly squat !!
So I ended up having to bloody well Re-Install Windows !!!
I just bought a new laptop with all the bells and whistles
and it won't work with anything but XP or DOS 6 (no linux,
no 95/98/NT, nothing). The documentation says otherwise,
the so-called "tech support" tells me to reinstall XP (If
I wanted to use it, why did I remove it?) and they still
insist that it will work with all OS even after I proved
it by demonstration in their store.
The only good point: the unnamed chain store has a 1-year
"no questions asked" return policy and I still have the
receipt.
Bob Dog
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| User: "Jez" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Ohh bugger |
14 Nov 2004 12:01:40 PM |
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Bob Dog wrote:
Jez <iced_spear@NODAMNSPAMpipex.com> wrote in message news:<hM-dnW6lb9Yy5QvcRVnyiA@pipex.net>...
Aww man...what a bloody nightmare !
Windows screwed up good and proper.
(Tried to install the Colin Mcrae rally 2005 demo)
It shut the pc down.....and wouldn't re-boot.
Refused to go into safe mode...refused to load last known configuration.
Nothing..diddly squat !!
So I ended up having to bloody well Re-Install Windows !!!
I just bought a new laptop with all the bells and whistles
and it won't work with anything but XP or DOS 6 (no linux,
no 95/98/NT, nothing). The documentation says otherwise,
the so-called "tech support" tells me to reinstall XP (If
I wanted to use it, why did I remove it?) and they still
insist that it will work with all OS even after I proved
it by demonstration in their store.
I keep getting advised to use Linux by a friend of mine...
but aww man....took me long enough to figure out windows !
The only good point: the unnamed chain store has a 1-year
"no questions asked" return policy and I still have the
receipt.
Hehehe..go for it..
--
Jez
'Realism is seductive because once you have accepted the reasonable
notion that you should base your actions on reality, you are too often
led to accept, without much questioning, someone else's version of what
that reality is. It is a crucial act of independent thinking to be
skeptical of someone else's description of reality.'-
Howard Zinn
Skype callto://hellward
NFS Porsche Unleashed, Hot Pursuit 2, Underground.
Yeowww
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| User: "Bob Dog" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Ohh bugger |
20 Nov 2004 03:03:22 AM |
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Jez <iced_spear@NODAMNSPAMpipex.com> wrote in message news:<7pidnaDNmf0fAArcRVnyjw@pipex.net>...
Bob Dog wrote:
I keep getting advised to use Linux by a friend of mine...
but aww man....took me long enough to figure out windows !
I use Basic Linux which you can run from DOS (but not from
Windows), though I haven't yet figured out how to install
software. It's small and stable, but probably limited in
what it can do.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/baslinux/
The only good point: the unnamed chain store has a 1-year
"no questions asked" return policy and I still have the
receipt.
Hehehe..go for it..
I took it back...the idiot salesman calls the factory to find
out why it won't work with 95 or 98: it was built only for XP.
Since I asked the moron to check before I bought it, it begs
the question of why he didn't. Clearly, it was to get product
out the door, not give me what I wanted.
I took it back. Now I have my money, and they have a laptop
they have to reinstall and probably refurbish to sell at a
loss (no, I didn't damage it). All for the lack of a phone
call by them. 9_9
And I still don't have a new laptop.
Bob Dog
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Ohh bugger |
20 Nov 2004 09:13:36 PM |
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On 20 Nov 2004 01:03:22 -0800, (Bob Dog) wrote:
Jez <iced_spear@NODAMNSPAMpipex.com> wrote in message news:<7pidnaDNmf0fAArcRVnyjw@pipex.net>...
Bob Dog wrote:
I keep getting advised to use Linux by a friend of mine...
but aww man....took me long enough to figure out windows !
I use Basic Linux which you can run from DOS (but not from
Windows), though I haven't yet figured out how to install
software. It's small and stable, but probably limited in
what it can do.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/baslinux/
The only good point: the unnamed chain store has a 1-year
"no questions asked" return policy and I still have the
receipt.
Hehehe..go for it..
I took it back...the idiot salesman calls the factory to find
out why it won't work with 95 or 98: it was built only for XP.
Since I asked the moron to check before I bought it, it begs
the question of why he didn't. Clearly, it was to get product
out the door, not give me what I wanted.
I took it back. Now I have my money, and they have a laptop
they have to reinstall and probably refurbish to sell at a
loss (no, I didn't damage it). All for the lack of a phone
call by them. 9_9
And I still don't have a new laptop.
http://www.linux.org/hardware/laptop.html
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Laptop-HOWTO.html
--
Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
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| User: "stoney" |
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17 Nov 2004 11:37:06 AM |
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On 14 Nov 2004 03:13:51 -0800, (Bob Dog) wrote:
Jez <iced_spear@NODAMNSPAMpipex.com> wrote in message news:<hM-dnW6lb9Yy5QvcRVnyiA@pipex.net>...
Aww man...what a bloody nightmare !
Windows screwed up good and proper.
(Tried to install the Colin Mcrae rally 2005 demo)
It shut the pc down.....and wouldn't re-boot.
Refused to go into safe mode...refused to load last known configuration.
Nothing..diddly squat !!
So I ended up having to bloody well Re-Install Windows !!!
I just bought a new laptop with all the bells and whistles
and it won't work with anything but XP or DOS 6 (no linux,
no 95/98/NT, nothing). The documentation says otherwise,
the so-called "tech support" tells me to reinstall XP (If
I wanted to use it, why did I remove it?) and they still
insist that it will work with all OS even after I proved
it by demonstration in their store.
The only good point: the unnamed chain store has a 1-year
"no questions asked" return policy and I still have the
receipt.
Search the Linux area and you'll get info on what laptops are linux
compatable.
--
Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
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| User: "Brian E. Clark" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Ohh bugger |
13 Nov 2004 08:34:11 PM |
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Jez <iced_spear@NODAMNSPAMpipex.com> wrote:
3 & 1/2 years of bookmarks....gone.
3 & 1/2 years of e-mails......gone. !!
Why are they gone? Did you reformat your hard drive?
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Brian E. Clark
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| User: "Jez" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Ohh bugger |
13 Nov 2004 09:13:28 PM |
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Brian E. Clark wrote:
Jez <iced_spear@NODAMNSPAMpipex.com> wrote:
3 & 1/2 years of bookmarks....gone.
3 & 1/2 years of e-mails......gone. !!
Why are they gone? Did you reformat your hard drive?
Yeah just the boot partition...it wouldn't allow a re-install without one.
:(
--
Jez
'Realism is seductive because once you have accepted the reasonable
notion that you should base your actions on reality, you are too often
led to accept, without much questioning, someone else's version of what
that reality is. It is a crucial act of independent thinking to be
skeptical of someone else's description of reality.'-
Howard Zinn
Skype callto://hellward
NFS Porsche Unleashed, Hot Pursuit 2, Underground.
Yeowww
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Ohh bugger |
16 Nov 2004 04:45:06 PM |
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On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 21:12:12 +0000, Jez
<iced_spear@NODAMNSPAMpipex.com> wrote:
Aww man...what a bloody nightmare !
Windows screwed up good and proper.
(Tried to install the Colin Mcrae rally 2005 demo)
It shut the pc down.....and wouldn't re-boot.
Refused to go into safe mode...refused to load last known configuration.
Nothing..diddly squat !!
So I ended up having to bloody well Re-Install Windows !!!
Ahhhhh
3 & 1/2 years of bookmarks....gone.
3 & 1/2 years of e-mails......gone. !!
Thank ***** I have all my music compositions on another drive !!
That would have been a catastrophe !!
So the first sunny Saturday we get in ages....and I had to spend it
re-installing all my damned software !!
AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Not going to buy that bloody game now, that's for sure !!
I need a damned beer.
Keep all the critical stuff *off* the OS partion.
--
Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
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| User: "Jez" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Ohh bugger |
16 Nov 2004 07:51:11 PM |
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stoney wrote:
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 21:12:12 +0000, Jez
<iced_spear@NODAMNSPAMpipex.com> wrote:
Aww man...what a bloody nightmare !
Windows screwed up good and proper.
(Tried to install the Colin Mcrae rally 2005 demo)
It shut the pc down.....and wouldn't re-boot.
Refused to go into safe mode...refused to load last known configuration.
Nothing..diddly squat !!
So I ended up having to bloody well Re-Install Windows !!!
Ahhhhh
3 & 1/2 years of bookmarks....gone.
3 & 1/2 years of e-mails......gone. !!
Thank ***** I have all my music compositions on another drive !!
That would have been a catastrophe !!
So the first sunny Saturday we get in ages....and I had to spend it
re-installing all my damned software !!
AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Not going to buy that bloody game now, that's for sure !!
I need a damned beer.
Keep all the critical stuff *off* the OS partion.
Yes indeed ! I learnt that a long time ago.
The thing I found odd was with Win98se..it would allow you to re-install
Windows, while leaving the old installation there...so you ended up with
a Windows folder...and a Windows01 folder...which you could then
transfer all your data from, but XP didn't offer that option !
Ho hum !
--
Jez
'Realism is seductive because once you have accepted the reasonable
notion that you should base your actions on reality, you are too often
led to accept, without much questioning, someone else's version of what
that reality is. It is a crucial act of independent thinking to be
skeptical of someone else's description of reality.'-
Howard Zinn
Skype callto://hellward
NFS Porsche Unleashed, Hot Pursuit 2, Underground.
Yeowww
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| User: "Tukla Ratte" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Ohh bugger |
17 Nov 2004 12:20:33 PM |
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Jez wrote:
< snip >
The thing I found odd was with Win98se..it would allow you to re-install
Windows, while leaving the old installation there...so you ended up with
a Windows folder...and a Windows01 folder...which you could then
transfer all your data from, but XP didn't offer that option !
Well, XP is so stable, you don't ever need to reinstall it!
Or so I'm told.
--
Tukla, Eater of Theists, Squeaker of Chew Toys
Official Mascot of Alt.Atheism, aa 1347
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| User: "Jez" |
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17 Nov 2004 04:00:07 PM |
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Tukla Ratte wrote:
Jez wrote:
< snip >
The thing I found odd was with Win98se..it would allow you to
re-install Windows, while leaving the old installation there...so you
ended up with a Windows folder...and a Windows01 folder...which you
could then transfer all your data from, but XP didn't offer that option !
Well, XP is so stable, you don't ever need to reinstall it!
Or so I'm told.
LOL....it took over 3 years to screw-up. And then because of a stupid
game demo that shut the PC down...so not so bad I guess.
--
Jez
'Realism is seductive because once you have accepted the reasonable
notion that you should base your actions on reality, you are too often
led to accept, without much questioning, someone else's version of what
that reality is. It is a crucial act of independent thinking to be
skeptical of someone else's description of reality.'-
Howard Zinn
Skype callto://hellward
NFS Porsche Unleashed, Hot Pursuit 2, Underground.
Yeowww
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Ohh bugger |
17 Nov 2004 11:37:57 AM |
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On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:51:11 +0000, Jez
<iced_spear@NODAMNSPAMpipex.com> wrote:
stoney wrote:
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 21:12:12 +0000, Jez
<iced_spear@NODAMNSPAMpipex.com> wrote:
Aww man...what a bloody nightmare !
Windows screwed up good and proper.
(Tried to install the Colin Mcrae rally 2005 demo)
It shut the pc down.....and wouldn't re-boot.
Refused to go into safe mode...refused to load last known configuration.
Nothing..diddly squat !!
So I ended up having to bloody well Re-Install Windows !!!
Ahhhhh
3 & 1/2 years of bookmarks....gone.
3 & 1/2 years of e-mails......gone. !!
Thank ***** I have all my music compositions on another drive !!
That would have been a catastrophe !!
So the first sunny Saturday we get in ages....and I had to spend it
re-installing all my damned software !!
AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Not going to buy that bloody game now, that's for sure !!
I need a damned beer.
Keep all the critical stuff *off* the OS partion.
Yes indeed ! I learnt that a long time ago.
The thing I found odd was with Win98se..it would allow you to re-install
Windows, while leaving the old installation there...so you ended up with
a Windows folder...and a Windows01 folder...which you could then
transfer all your data from, but XP didn't offer that option !
Ho hum !
Your email stuff is still there, and accessible.
--
Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
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| User: "Jez" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Ohh bugger |
17 Nov 2004 04:01:33 PM |
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stoney wrote:
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:51:11 +0000, Jez
<iced_spear@NODAMNSPAMpipex.com> wrote:
stoney wrote:
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 21:12:12 +0000, Jez
<iced_spear@NODAMNSPAMpipex.com> wrote:
Aww man...what a bloody nightmare !
Windows screwed up good and proper.
(Tried to install the Colin Mcrae rally 2005 demo)
It shut the pc down.....and wouldn't re-boot.
Refused to go into safe mode...refused to load last known configuration.
Nothing..diddly squat !!
So I ended up having to bloody well Re-Install Windows !!!
Ahhhhh
3 & 1/2 years of bookmarks....gone.
3 & 1/2 years of e-mails......gone. !!
Thank ***** I have all my music compositions on another drive !!
That would have been a catastrophe !!
So the first sunny Saturday we get in ages....and I had to spend it
re-installing all my damned software !!
AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Not going to buy that bloody game now, that's for sure !!
I need a damned beer.
Keep all the critical stuff *off* the OS partion.
Yes indeed ! I learnt that a long time ago.
The thing I found odd was with Win98se..it would allow you to re-install
Windows, while leaving the old installation there...so you ended up with
a Windows folder...and a Windows01 folder...which you could then
transfer all your data from, but XP didn't offer that option !
Ho hum !
Your email stuff is still there, and accessible.
Urm, well, there's the rub....they were in Outlook express..which was on
the OS partition.
--
Jez
'Realism is seductive because once you have accepted the reasonable
notion that you should base your actions on reality, you are too often
led to accept, without much questioning, someone else's version of what
that reality is. It is a crucial act of independent thinking to be
skeptical of someone else's description of reality.'-
Howard Zinn
Skype callto://hellward
NFS Porsche Unleashed, Hot Pursuit 2, Underground.
Yeowww
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| User: "wbarwell" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Ohh bugger |
18 Nov 2004 10:02:45 AM |
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Jez wrote:
stoney wrote:
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:51:11 +0000, Jez
<iced_spear@NODAMNSPAMpipex.com> wrote:
stoney wrote:
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 21:12:12 +0000, Jez
<iced_spear@NODAMNSPAMpipex.com> wrote:
Aww man...what a bloody nightmare !
Windows screwed up good and proper.
(Tried to install the Colin Mcrae rally 2005 demo)
It shut the pc down.....and wouldn't re-boot.
Refused to go into safe mode...refused to load last known
configuration.
Nothing..diddly squat !!
So I ended up having to bloody well Re-Install Windows !!!
Ahhhhh
3 & 1/2 years of bookmarks....gone.
3 & 1/2 years of e-mails......gone. !!
Thank ***** I have all my music compositions on another drive !!
That would have been a catastrophe !!
So the first sunny Saturday we get in ages....and I had to spend it
re-installing all my damned software !!
AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Not going to buy that bloody game now, that's for sure !!
I need a damned beer.
Keep all the critical stuff *off* the OS partion.
Yes indeed ! I learnt that a long time ago.
The thing I found odd was with Win98se..it would allow you to re-install
Windows, while leaving the old installation there...so you ended up with
a Windows folder...and a Windows01 folder...which you could then
transfer all your data from, but XP didn't offer that option !
Ho hum !
Your email stuff is still there, and accessible.
Urm, well, there's the rub....they were in Outlook express..which was on
the OS partition.
Sighhhhh. Backing up stuff is not that hard.
A cheap CD-RW and a pack of CDRs isn't
that expensive. Backing up the ol' e-mail
and bookmarks isn't hard.
When was the last time everybody here bothered?
What if tomorrow your hard disk died? Would you be
here moaning and saying "I wish I had bothered to
back it up"?
I just upgraded my linux system CDrecord SW and
backed up everything. I can afford to be smug.
Anybody here not bothered to back up anything
in the last year?
--
Kerry - two medals a silver and bronze star.
Bush? Well they don't give medals
for going AWOL, missing your medical and
getting grounded or falling off of a bar stool.
Kerry - a hero, Bush - a zero
Cheerful Charlie
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Ohh bugger |
18 Nov 2004 03:40:45 PM |
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On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 22:01:33 +0000, Jez
<iced_spear@NODAMNSPAMpipex.com> wrote:
stoney wrote:
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:51:11 +0000, Jez
<iced_spear@NODAMNSPAMpipex.com> wrote:
stoney wrote:
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 21:12:12 +0000, Jez
<iced_spear@NODAMNSPAMpipex.com> wrote:
Aww man...what a bloody nightmare !
Windows screwed up good and proper.
(Tried to install the Colin Mcrae rally 2005 demo)
It shut the pc down.....and wouldn't re-boot.
Refused to go into safe mode...refused to load last known configuration.
Nothing..diddly squat !!
So I ended up having to bloody well Re-Install Windows !!!
Ahhhhh
3 & 1/2 years of bookmarks....gone.
3 & 1/2 years of e-mails......gone. !!
Thank ***** I have all my music compositions on another drive !!
That would have been a catastrophe !!
So the first sunny Saturday we get in ages....and I had to spend it
re-installing all my damned software !!
AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Not going to buy that bloody game now, that's for sure !!
I need a damned beer.
Keep all the critical stuff *off* the OS partion.
Yes indeed ! I learnt that a long time ago.
The thing I found odd was with Win98se..it would allow you to re-install
Windows, while leaving the old installation there...so you ended up with
a Windows folder...and a Windows01 folder...which you could then
transfer all your data from, but XP didn't offer that option !
Ho hum !
Your email stuff is still there, and accessible.
Urm, well, there's the rub....they were in Outlook express..which was on
the OS partition.
(pause)
Hasta la bye bye then.
--
Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
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| User: "Apostate" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Ohh bugger |
17 Nov 2004 05:16:10 PM |
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On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 22:01:33 +0000, Jez <iced_spear@NODAMNSPAMpipex.com> wrote:
stoney wrote:
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:51:11 +0000, Jez
<iced_spear@NODAMNSPAMpipex.com> wrote:
stoney wrote:
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 21:12:12 +0000, Jez
<iced_spear@NODAMNSPAMpipex.com> wrote:
Aww man...what a bloody nightmare !
Windows screwed up good and proper.
(Tried to install the Colin Mcrae rally 2005 demo)
It shut the pc down.....and wouldn't re-boot.
Refused to go into safe mode...refused to load last known configuration.
Nothing..diddly squat !!
So I ended up having to bloody well Re-Install Windows !!!
Ahhhhh
3 & 1/2 years of bookmarks....gone.
3 & 1/2 years of e-mails......gone. !!
Thank ***** I have all my music compositions on another drive !!
That would have been a catastrophe !!
So the first sunny Saturday we get in ages....and I had to spend it
re-installing all my damned software !!
AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Not going to buy that bloody game now, that's for sure !!
I need a damned beer.
Keep all the critical stuff *off* the OS partion.
Yes indeed ! I learnt that a long time ago.
The thing I found odd was with Win98se..it would allow you to re-install
Windows, while leaving the old installation there...so you ended up with
a Windows folder...and a Windows01 folder...which you could then
transfer all your data from, but XP didn't offer that option !
Ho hum !
Your email stuff is still there, and accessible.
Urm, well, there's the rub....they were in Outlook express..which was on
the OS partition.
Notice that while OE is automatically installed in the "Program Files" subtree,
a) with some difficulty the latter can usually be relocated off the OS partition, b) with
greater difficulty OE can be relocated elsewhere (though both of the above may not obtain
in XP) but most usefully for this case c) OE always supports the option (under the
options|maintenance menu) of putting the storage dircetory anywhere the user spaces into
putting it. Keeping it off the OS partition is *strongly* recommended by this writer.
--
/Apostate
atheist #1931 I've found it!
BAAWA Knife AND SMASHer
EAC Supernumerary Deputy Director, Department of Redundancy Department
plonked by Lani_girl, first post; Billions Served!
I doubt, therefore I might be.
For e-mail, hold that tiger!
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Ohh bugger |
18 Nov 2004 03:41:21 PM |
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On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 18:16:10 -0500, Apostate
<Apostate.invalid@yeehaw.org> wrote:
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 22:01:33 +0000, Jez <iced_spear@NODAMNSPAMpipex.com> wrote:
stoney wrote:
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:51:11 +0000, Jez
<iced_spear@NODAMNSPAMpipex.com> wrote:
stoney wrote:
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 21:12:12 +0000, Jez
<iced_spear@NODAMNSPAMpipex.com> wrote:
Aww man...what a bloody nightmare !
Windows screwed up good and proper.
(Tried to install the Colin Mcrae rally 2005 demo)
It shut the pc down.....and wouldn't re-boot.
Refused to go into safe mode...refused to load last known configuration.
Nothing..diddly squat !!
So I ended up having to bloody well Re-Install Windows !!!
Ahhhhh
3 & 1/2 years of bookmarks....gone.
3 & 1/2 years of e-mails......gone. !!
Thank ***** I have all my music compositions on another drive !!
That would have been a catastrophe !!
So the first sunny Saturday we get in ages....and I had to spend it
re-installing all my damned software !!
AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Not going to buy that bloody game now, that's for sure !!
I need a damned beer.
Keep all the critical stuff *off* the OS partion.
Yes indeed ! I learnt that a long time ago.
The thing I found odd was with Win98se..it would allow you to re-install
Windows, while leaving the old installation there...so you ended up with
a Windows folder...and a Windows01 folder...which you could then
transfer all your data from, but XP didn't offer that option !
Ho hum !
Your email stuff is still there, and accessible.
Urm, well, there's the rub....they were in Outlook express..which was on
the OS partition.
Notice that while OE is automatically installed in the "Program Files" subtree,
a) with some difficulty the latter can usually be relocated off the OS partition, b) with
greater difficulty OE can be relocated elsewhere (though both of the above may not obtain
in XP) but most usefully for this case c) OE always supports the option (under the
options|maintenance menu) of putting the storage dircetory anywhere the user spaces into
putting it. Keeping it off the OS partition is *strongly* recommended by this writer.
In short, use any other email program.
--
Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
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| Title: Re: OT: Ohh bugger |
18 Nov 2004 05:30:13 PM |
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On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:41:21 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 18:16:10 -0500, Apostate
<Apostate.invalid@yeehaw.org> wrote:
Notice that while OE is automatically installed in the "Program Files" subtree,
a) with some difficulty the latter can usually be relocated off the OS partition, b) with
greater difficulty OE can be relocated elsewhere (though both of the above may not obtain
in XP) but most usefully for this case c) OE always supports the option (under the
options|maintenance menu) of putting the storage dircetory anywhere the user spaces into
putting it. Keeping it off the OS partition is *strongly* recommended by this writer.
In short, use any other email program.
A matter of taste.
None of the others *that I've tried* is satisfactory, for my purposes.
Those that have come somewhere near, have had some fatal flaw, such as an inability
to import existing accounts, with their settings, from a standing installation of O.E.,
or having non-intuitive operations, or being based on "a new paradigm" that makes
e-mail as I've come to appreciate it impossible.
Most recently, the standalone mail client for Firefox (name escapes me at the moment)
was still in alpha, performance-wise, when I tried it, a scant couple of months ago. Same
story for the client that grew out of SpamAssassin (its name also escapes me.)
Maybe I'd find better results from one of the old standards that run on Linux, but I'm not
going to Linux, except as an extreme pain-in-the-***** marginal hobby, until there's a
usable pointer available, i.e. one that isn't microscopic, and will track across the
desktop in real time, without spraining my arm. Linux is too psychologically abusive
for me in the mean time, with all its secret, undocumented or illegibly documented,
had-to-be-born-using-them apps.
<screams into fist>
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/Apostate
atheist #1931 I've found it!
BAAWA Knife AND SMASHer
EAC Supernumerary Deputy Director, Department of Redundancy Department
plonked by Lani_girl, first post; Billions Served!
I doubt, therefore I might be.
For e-mail, hold that tiger!
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| User: "towelie" |
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| Title: Re: Ohh bugger |
13 Nov 2004 03:57:29 PM |
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TV's Jez wrote:
Aww man...what a bloody nightmare !
Windows screwed up good and proper.
(Tried to install the Colin Mcrae rally 2005 demo)
It shut the pc down.....and wouldn't re-boot.
Refused to go into safe mode...refused to load last known
configuration.
Nothing..diddly squat !!
So I ended up having to bloody well Re-Install Windows !!!
Ahhhhh
3 & 1/2 years of bookmarks....gone.
3 & 1/2 years of e-mails......gone. !!
If you had an extra hard drive, you could have put Windows on it and at
least saved your bookmarks and emails.
Thank ***** I have all my music compositions on another drive !!
That would have been a catastrophe !!
What kinds of music do you compose?
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"Them white boys had me on crystal meth" - some crackhead in GTA:SA
aa #2133
ap #19
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| User: "Jez" |
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| Title: Re: Ohh bugger |
13 Nov 2004 04:30:48 PM |
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towelie wrote:
TV's Jez wrote:
Aww man...what a bloody nightmare !
Windows screwed up good and proper.
(Tried to install the Colin Mcrae rally 2005 demo)
It shut the pc down.....and wouldn't re-boot.
Refused to go into safe mode...refused to load last known
configuration.
Nothing..diddly squat !!
So I ended up having to bloody well Re-Install Windows !!!
Ahhhhh
3 & 1/2 years of bookmarks....gone.
3 & 1/2 years of e-mails......gone. !!
If you had an extra hard drive, you could have put Windows on it and at
least saved your bookmarks and emails.
Hmmm indeed. Windows was on boot C drive...along with my e-mail prog and
browsers....and most of my software, but all my Music and assorted junk
is on a different HDD...so at least they are all safe.
Not much of a trouble to re-load the software, I still have all the
discs, but it is a bloody annoyance.
I'll have to back-up my e-mail stuff on a separate drive in future, but
as for the software, it doesn't matter where it is, 'cos after
re-installing windows it can't find them anyway..all the registry
entries get cleaned out....
Ho hum !
Thank ***** I have all my music compositions on another drive !!
That would have been a catastrophe !!
What kinds of music do you compose?
All kinds of junk...some bits can be found at
http://www.hellward.dsl.pipex.com/page10.htm
Dunno where my Classical Guitar stuff is though...thought I'd up-loaded
some...gawd, more damned messing about to come.
Man my site looks a mess without the correct fonts installed !!
Should be 'papyrus'.....
Here goes font re-installation.
Whoever invented beer deserves a medal.
--
Jez
'Realism is seductive because once you have accepted the reasonable
notion that you should base your actions on reality, you are too often
led to accept, without much questioning, someone else's version of what
that reality is. It is a crucial act of independent thinking to be
skeptical of someone else's description of reality.'-
Howard Zinn
Skype callto://hellward
NFS Porsche Unleashed, Hot Pursuit 2, Underground.
Yeowww
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: Ohh bugger |
17 Nov 2004 11:36:04 AM |
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On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 22:30:48 +0000, Jez
<iced_spear@NODAMNSPAMpipex.com> wrote:
towelie wrote:
TV's Jez wrote:
Aww man...what a bloody nightmare !
Windows screwed up good and proper.
(Tried to install the Colin Mcrae rally 2005 demo)
It shut the pc down.....and wouldn't re-boot.
Refused to go into safe mode...refused to load last known
configuration.
Nothing..diddly squat !!
So I ended up having to bloody well Re-Install Windows !!!
Ahhhhh
3 & 1/2 years of bookmarks....gone.
3 & 1/2 years of e-mails......gone. !!
If you had an extra hard drive, you could have put Windows on it and at
least saved your bookmarks and emails.
Hmmm indeed. Windows was on boot C drive...along with my e-mail prog and
browsers....and most of my software, but all my Music and assorted junk
is on a different HDD...so at least they are all safe.
Not much of a trouble to re-load the software, I still have all the
discs, but it is a bloody annoyance.
I'll have to back-up my e-mail stuff on a separate drive in future, but
as for the software, it doesn't matter where it is, 'cos after
re-installing windows it can't find them anyway..all the registry
entries get cleaned out....
Ho hum !
So what? The old email proggy and files are all still there (provided
they're on another partion). Simply rename the old email proggy.
You'll be able to access everything there from 'explorer' via the
'email.exe' file.
--
Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
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