The Vent and Rant Thread - Page 231

badgoodDeb · 05-20-2009, 01:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by montsnmags

So sayeth the passionate heart of DGMa, a.k.a. Conan the Barbarian's mother:

Cheers,
Marc

WOW!!! Great sword! And a marvelous picture all round!

Greg Anos · 05-20-2009, 04:54 PM

Lest you think Ralph Sir Edward is never goofs up......

My brother comes by this morning with a computer making a rasping noise. He thinks the boot drive is going bad. I'm busy loading data to a USB hard drive. I give him a spare drive in a removable cartridge. Sound goes away and then comes back. Swap hard drive to other cases with fans, still noise. Diagnosis - bad fan in system case.

Brother wants to back up boot drive onto the drive I gave him. OK, I have him bring over the boot drive and the drive he want it loaded to. Shut down my machine. Put both of his hard drives in the data drives slots on my machine. Ready to go. Try booting up my machine. Dies when the floppy kicks in. OMG. Pull out his packs. Try to boot the machine. Fails again, same place. Try using the recovery disk. Machine never gets to reading the CD drive. Swap my System pack to another operation system. Fail again. Oh <bleep>. Can't get at the BIOS with F2. Plug a USB thumb drive in. No dice! I must have hammered the BIOS! Break out the netbook for Googling a seven year old machine's BIOS. Can I restore it? SOL.

Brother is upset (so am I!) that trying to help him croaked my machine. Offers to buy a cheap replacement. Go shopping and find a $189 refurb from IBM/Dell (Pentium 4 @ 2.93 Ghz + XP Pro). I planned to gut it and put the innards into my existing case.

Get home. It's been a trying 4 hours. Open box and get docs to read at my study chair. Turn my head. Remember I was backing up data to an USB hard drive?

Drive light is on...

Turn off USB Hard Drive. System boots perfectly....

If brains were dynamite, I wouldn't have enough to blow my own nose...

ShortNCuddlyAm · 05-20-2009, 05:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

Get home. It's been a trying 4 hours. Open box and get docs to read at my study chair. Turn my head. Remember I was backing up data to an USB hard drive?

Drive light is on...

Turn off USB Hard Drive. System boots perfectly....

If brains were dynamite, I wouldn't have enough to blow my own nose...

I can sympathise with you - done that myself! I also discovered that neither my old PC nor my current Mac will boot if the ipod is left plugged in...

kazbates · 05-20-2009, 08:06 PM

My husband and I both have degrees in Computer Science and have worked in that field. In never fails to cause us immense frustration when our computers (we have 8 in various shapes, sizes, and configurations) act up when we need them the most!!

GeoffC · 05-21-2009, 05:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kazbates

My husband and I both have degrees in Computer Science and have worked in that field. In never fails to cause us immense frustration when our computers (we have 8 in various shapes, sizes, and configurations) act up when we need them the most!!

you'll be OK, as long as you are both aware of who is the mother(board)

LazyScot · 05-21-2009, 05:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kazbates

My husband and I both have degrees in Computer Science and have worked in that field. In never fails to cause us immense frustration when our computers (we have 8 in various shapes, sizes, and configurations) act up when we need them the most!!

The criticality detector circuit. Originally invented by Xerox for their photocopiers to ensure you took out the fastest (and therefore most expensive) maintenance and support contract, by causing failures and jams at the most critical times possible. Unfortunately it contaminated the work they did at Xerox PARC, and so migrated into computer software (especially those involving GUIs). And the rest, as they say, involves a lot of inventive use of Anglo-Saxon.

kazbates · 05-21-2009, 09:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GeoffC

you'll be OK, as long as you are both aware of who is the mother(board)

Oh, they KNOW who's in charge. . .THEY ARE!!

phenomshel · 05-23-2009, 12:48 AM

Wow,the vent and rant thread was on the second page of posts! That's gotta be a first. But I'm putting it back on top, because ...
We actually had enough people tonight that I thought I'd be able to stay off a register and get the liquor department at the store ready for the long weekend. Well, I should have known better...it was like shoveling quicksand. No sooner would I get the cooler stocked, than a group would come in and decimate it. It went like that clear up til I left at 11:30. I finally just started following people around and filling holes they left. I might have made some of them uncomfortable, but dangit, that liquor department looked GOOD when I left! What they do to it over the weekend is someone else's problem...

Curly · 05-23-2009, 01:22 AM

Good grief! Everyone must be planning for a long weekend of drinking. Is the weather good at the minute? Must be a lot of barbeques or something. At least it won't be your problem over the weekend!!

GeoffC · 05-23-2009, 01:43 AM

Morning sunny people....

phenomshel · 05-23-2009, 03:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Curly

Good grief! Everyone must be planning for a long weekend of drinking. Is the weather good at the minute? Must be a lot of barbeques or something. At least it won't be your problem over the weekend!!

The weather is gorgeous. And it's Memorial Day weekend here in the States, which is why everyone's stocking up.

GeoffC · 05-23-2009, 03:41 AM

memorial day

ah ! - a-kin to our Remembrance Day - November....

edit: - these days should be celebrated everyday.....to give thanks to those whos lives are lost in the so-called name of freedom..

phenomshel · 05-23-2009, 01:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GeoffC

memorial day

ah ! - a-kin to our Remembrance Day - November....

edit: - these days should be celebrated everyday.....to give thanks to those whos lives are lost in the so-called name of freedom..

I totally agree, and the fact that they aren't is one of my rants. But here in rural IL, the emphasis seems to be on partying rather than remembering. Or maybe they're drinking to forget, I don't know.

Verencat · 05-25-2009, 01:26 PM

This is my twelfth (oooohhh ugly word!) consecutive day of work (even uglier word), I'm currently at home having my lunch break, and just thinking about going back there makes me cry (literally).
Tonight I've got homeworks, tomorrow I work all day then go to school, day after it's work+homework, day after the day after it's work and school again. Friday I'll (finally) have a day off from work but I'll have a paper to prepare.

Does anyone have a happy place I could think of?

And does anyone know if Tirsales survived his weekend of work?

Curly · 05-25-2009, 01:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Verencat

This is my twelfth (oooohhh ugly word!) consecutive day of work (even uglier word), I'm currently at home having my lunch break, and just thinking about going back there makes me cry (literally).
Tonight I've got homeworks, tomorrow I work all day then go to school, day after it's work+homework, day after the day after it's work and school again. Friday I'll (finally) have a day off from work but I'll have a paper to prepare.

Does anyone have a happy place I could think of?

And does anyone know if Tirsales survived his weekend of work?

You could go look at pshrynk's Mexico photographs where it looks warm, sunny and relaxing.

That is a gruelling work / school schedule. It is too bad your manager couldn't have spread the work load around a bit more.

05-23-2009, 03:41 AM	#3462
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	memorial day ah ! - a-kin to our Remembrance Day - November.... edit: - these days should be celebrated everyday.....to give thanks to those whos lives are lost in the so-called name of freedom.. Last edited by GeoffC; 05-23-2009 at 03:45 AM.

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05-20-2009, 04:54 PM	#3452
Greg Anos Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,531 Karma: 37057604 Join Date: Jan 2008 Device: Pocketbook	Lest you think Ralph Sir Edward is never goofs up...... My brother comes by this morning with a computer making a rasping noise. He thinks the boot drive is going bad. I'm busy loading data to a USB hard drive. I give him a spare drive in a removable cartridge. Sound goes away and then comes back. Swap hard drive to other cases with fans, still noise. Diagnosis - bad fan in system case. Brother wants to back up boot drive onto the drive I gave him. OK, I have him bring over the boot drive and the drive he want it loaded to. Shut down my machine. Put both of his hard drives in the data drives slots on my machine. Ready to go. Try booting up my machine. Dies when the floppy kicks in. OMG. Pull out his packs. Try to boot the machine. Fails again, same place. Try using the recovery disk. Machine never gets to reading the CD drive. Swap my System pack to another operation system. Fail again. Oh <bleep>. Can't get at the BIOS with F2. Plug a USB thumb drive in. No dice! I must have hammered the BIOS! Break out the netbook for Googling a seven year old machine's BIOS. Can I restore it? SOL. Brother is upset (so am I!) that trying to help him croaked my machine. Offers to buy a cheap replacement. Go shopping and find a $189 refurb from IBM/Dell (Pentium 4 @ 2.93 Ghz + XP Pro). I planned to gut it and put the innards into my existing case. Get home. It's been a trying 4 hours. Open box and get docs to read at my study chair. Turn my head. Remember I was backing up data to an USB hard drive? Drive light is on... Turn off USB Hard Drive. System boots perfectly.... If brains were dynamite, I wouldn't have enough to blow my own nose...

05-20-2009, 08:06 PM	#3454
kazbates Wizard Posts: 2,627 Karma: 406616 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Northern Virginia Device: SurfacePro, SurfaceBook 2	My husband and I both have degrees in Computer Science and have worked in that field. In never fails to cause us immense frustration when our computers (we have 8 in various shapes, sizes, and configurations) act up when we need them the most!!

05-23-2009, 12:48 AM	#3458
phenomshel ZCD BombShel Posts: 4,793 Karma: 8293322 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: The Frozen North (aka Illinois, USA) Device: iPad, STB Kindle Oasis	Wow,the vent and rant thread was on the second page of posts! That's gotta be a first. But I'm putting it back on top, because ... We actually had enough people tonight that I thought I'd be able to stay off a register and get the liquor department at the store ready for the long weekend. Well, I should have known better...it was like shoveling quicksand. No sooner would I get the cooler stocked, than a group would come in and decimate it. It went like that clear up til I left at 11:30. I finally just started following people around and filling holes they left. I might have made some of them uncomfortable, but dangit, that liquor department looked GOOD when I left! What they do to it over the weekend is someone else's problem...

05-23-2009, 01:22 AM	#3459
Curly I need a holiday! Posts: 1,227 Karma: 4622 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Scotland Device: PRS-505, ipod touch	Good grief! Everyone must be planning for a long weekend of drinking. Is the weather good at the minute? Must be a lot of barbeques or something. At least it won't be your problem over the weekend!!

05-23-2009, 01:43 AM	#3460
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	Morning sunny people....

05-25-2009, 01:26 PM	#3464
Verencat Wizard Posts: 2,615 Karma: 96491 Join Date: May 2009 Location: Montreal, Qc Device: xxx	This is my twelfth (oooohhh ugly word!) consecutive day of work (even uglier word), I'm currently at home having my lunch break, and just thinking about going back there makes me cry (literally). Tonight I've got homeworks, tomorrow I work all day then go to school, day after it's work+homework, day after the day after it's work and school again. Friday I'll (finally) have a day off from work but I'll have a paper to prepare. Does anyone have a happy place I could think of? And does anyone know if Tirsales survived his weekend of work?