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Old 05-18-2010, 09:31 AM   #9616
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Nothing worse than being woken at 2 in the morning for something that can take 2 minutes to sort out; after a 35 minutes drive there........

my PC switched on okay this morning at 7.....went out for a few hours, returned home to switch on to "boot record missing!".

windows7 could not repair...

thinking I'd have to re-install, I remembered the last time this happened and disconnected my second hard disc and powered up.

huh ! PC loaded no problem ....


worryingly I've two hard drives, windows recognises as C: & L: ..... looking at my system through the windows7 disc, I have a C: and an E: ....

BUT C: in this state is my normal L: and the E: is my main drive ...

I'll never understand computers......
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Old 05-18-2010, 11:29 AM   #9617
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...At 2:30am the phone rang and woke me again. It was the might supervisor. She just wanted to tell me she was able to get to the files and I didn't have to worry about it...
Well, she did wake you at 2:30 AM to let you know that you could go back to sleep. That was... thoughtful?
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Old 05-18-2010, 11:41 AM   #9618
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Well, she did wake you at 2:30 AM to let you know that you could go back to sleep. That was... thoughtful?
For suitable values of "thought". (Negative ones...)
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Old 05-18-2010, 11:44 AM   #9619
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Well, she did wake you at 2:30 AM to let you know that you could go back to sleep. That was... thoughtful?
That reminds me of the old story.
The King visits the town of XXXXX. To honor him they make up his bed with linen richly embroided with pearls. And he cannot sleep all night.

An year later the King returns. This time they do not want to mess it up with an uncomfortable bed. So every hour on the hour two smiling maidens make up the bed again smoothing all wrinkles ...

The story continues with what they did with the toilet bowl to better honor their beloved King. But I spare you the details (available privately on request).
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Old 05-18-2010, 11:44 AM   #9620
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Well, she did wake you at 2:30 AM to let you know that you could go back to sleep. That was... thoughtful?
I'm reminded of a scene from "Yes, Minister". Hacker has finally found the memo 'hidden' at the bottom of his red boxes, and phones Sir Humphrey about it, waking him up, as it's around 1am.

After hanging up the phone, he realises he has forgotten to mention one important point.

"No, don't ring him back now" says Hacker's wife.
"Yes, you're right, I suppose it is a bit late" says Hacker.
"No, wait twenty minutes, then 'phone him back..."
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Old 05-18-2010, 11:53 AM   #9621
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"New Chief Secretary to the Treasury David Laws has revealed his predecessor left him a note reading: "I'm afraid there is no money."
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Old 05-18-2010, 12:02 PM   #9622
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"New Chief Secretary to the Treasury David Laws has revealed his predecessor left him a note reading: "I'm afraid there is no money."
At least he did not call him in the middle of the night ...

Does it have anything to do with this?
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Old 05-18-2010, 12:13 PM   #9623
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and that would be worse ?
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Old 05-18-2010, 12:27 PM   #9624
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Climate wise no. Instead of Claret you'll drink Sherry. Instead of strawberries you will have mangoes and papayas and few bananas. No more dog races but coridas de toros. Olè
And those beautiful herrings? Bacalao.
Haggis? Paella, de pollo. On sunday paella de camarones.
Yorkshire pudding? Gazpacho, por todo el mundo.
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Old 05-18-2010, 08:43 PM   #9625
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Poor Geoff. I think you have jinxed computers from far away.

I spent half of yesterday trying to recover a dead hard drive (the one with our main database file on it shit!) ,by phone 1500kms away talking to the ladies (computer illiterate) on site.

Eventually we decided that it was too hard and I suspected the drive was shot. So then we wait for a particular bloke to come back from up the river so he can disconnect it and drive 7 hours to town for fixing(replacement). He gets back so late he can only drive half way last night. He was to get up early today and be on the doorstep of the tech people for a replacement and restoration of our database(they are already saying it might take all day). Then he will drive seven hours back to site and I have to be ready tonight or tommorrow morning to guide him through putting it back in the system. Hopefully only two days down time. pheww that feels better just whining to you mob.

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Old 05-19-2010, 04:52 PM   #9626
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and drive 7 hours to town for fixing(replacement). <snip>

Then he will drive seven hours back to site and I have to be ready tonight or tommorrow morning to guide him through putting it back in the system.
Do you not have overnight delivery companies down under?

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Old 05-19-2010, 06:25 PM   #9627
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Nah - they just have the world's deadliest reptiles, spiders, assorted bugs, etc. No overnight delivery service unless it's 8-legged! Who else would want to be out at night?
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Old 05-19-2010, 09:19 PM   #9628
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In more civilised places yes.

But the site is so remote you don't even get mobile phone at all, internet or television (except by satellite)
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Old 05-20-2010, 06:25 AM   #9629
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bah! what is it with networks the last couple of days!? my internet went down sometime between 0130 and 0600 tuesday morning. of COURSE I had left printing everything out until the last minute including my travel itenerary! it was still out until right before I left yesterday morning. am now in D.C. got into Baltimore late last night, the son unit had decided it would be easier for me to take the train to Union station last night. yeah right. got into D.C. around 1130 last night. had about 2 hours sleep last night between the knee in agony and the cold coming back in full force. about time to get ready for the funeral. see y'all soon
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bah! what is it with networks the last couple of days!? my internet went down sometime between 0130 and 0600 tuesday morning. of COURSE I had left printing everything out until the last minute including my travel itenerary! it was still out until right before I left yesterday morning. am now in D.C. got into Baltimore late last night, the son unit had decided it would be easier for me to take the train to Union station last night. yeah right. got into D.C. around 1130 last night. had about 2 hours sleep last night between the knee in agony and the cold coming back in full force. about time to get ready for the funeral. see y'all soon
Sending you some huggavibes.........

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