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hmm, see what you're saying from the pics although It looks much worse in the flesh. Where can I get the plastic?
Tell you one thing Tankster you need a lappy like this - It's good fun - If I'd have thought I'd probly have bought one on ebay where the seller says "Just stopped working yesterday - Won't get past bios screen -99p" etc - If you sees what I meanz!
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Tried purchasing a Sony Vaio on ebay yesterday (no HD) but got outbid at £26 One of the lads wanted it for his daughters school work etc. Nice looking machine for sprucing up.
I'm "fixing" an emachines Pentium 2.8GHz/256mb/80gb atm Runs XP home (very slowly) Cleaned the drive etc and managed to get it working somewhat faster although it still suffers with acute memory starvation (obviously). I was wondering, last night, whether there's any point purchasing memory for it and getting it a bit more up-together i.e. 1gb even (I think it only has 2 slots) Or whether it's better to just sling it out and buy something new/make their computing immeasurably more pleasurable - Especially as this is their only machine.
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Sling it out. I retired my 1 gig to crunching as it's too aggravating for doing more than writing a simple letter. And with formatted manuscripts running into the hundreds of pages and crashing it if I needed to edit - flippin' useless.
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I told him to give it a go. If it gets choked up again just to buy a new case. What's been going down in Geeps world then?
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On antibiotics
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What hideous disease are you infected with now then?

My SSD has broken already. Big broken ~ I'm going to email Super Talent to see if they have a utility for reinitialising without loosing everything Such an arse!




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Stress from the numbskulls behind me continuing the legal action year after year. Came down with fever last weekend, then started peeing blood as the kidneys decided to protest. BP is high as well, but doc thinks could be the pain levels - which ain't great.

Ye olde barrister is seeing if we can't get dismissed or in front of a judge as the games playing is starting to look like an out take from Bleak House. Pointed out if I died intestate it would take generations to sort them out, but wouldn't do ME much good.
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First thing I did was go in the Bios and reset/refind everything etc. The images above are from Rontgen.
I'd struggle to reproduce the circumstances under which it broke i.e. Lappy was running on battery - less than 30% to go so I plugged it in to the mains - Thought it had gone to sleep and pressed the power button a few times to wake it up - Then realised I hadn't turned the mains power on!!!! So it must have used all the remaining battery coming out of sleep mode/stuck halfway.
I emailed Super Talent and then thought hmmmm I'll get a new drive anyway so emailed Play to say I wanted a refund.
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Tankster - What do you use to make a disk image? I've tried using Ghost in the past but can never get it to work properly.
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I use the Seagate Disk Wizard. You need one Seagate/Maxtor drive in the process for it to work, which is why my backup drive is an old Maxtor. It's a version of Acronis which works better than Acronis seemingly!

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I wonder if that will be able to see the partition on the Super Talent. Be good If I can get the Vista install off it at least. Saves all the reinstall rigmarole later - Worth a try.
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Robots playing football at this years CeBIT -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8uGqTtqFPI
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I took down the Halogen "capsule" kitchen lighting and returned it to B&Q yesterday. B&Q were very good and gave a full refund without any trouble at all Final straw(s) were - a) mrs nec went to move one of the spots and the shade/glass insert (capsule protector thing) fell off in her hands b) Two of the capsules had blown already. They still have this very type on display in the shop - Only they seem to have done a better assembly job than we did! Bought a couple of light bulb holders and hung them temporarily where the mad capsules used to be. Interestingly the digital light switch (which doesn't work with low energy bulbs) can turn low energy bulbs on but can't seem to switch them off. This means we now have to turn the switch off and (with the bulbs flickering like crazy in disco mode (they turn back on if you touch them)) you have to get the bulbs out. mrs nec thinks this is nearly as dangerous as the capsules but I assured her the stray juice is just the light switch checking there are bulbs attatched to it - i.e. once you take the builbs out the green ready light on the switch goes out.
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