ForumHostPB

I’ll bet you do. I nearly got lynched myself a while ago when I mentioned the new Korean cookery book called “1,000 ways to wok your dog”….. so I know how it feels.

Well it sure sounds as though you ought to fully review your disaster recovery plan – particularly as a business you absolutely cannot afford to lose data.

Your comment about most users not performing regular backups of their computers is frighteningly accurate. OK, you CAN recover data from a damaged or corrupted hard drive (as I can testify)…[Read more]

Er…. yes. Well the lines going down the laptop screen could be several things ranging from a physical screen defect to an improperly installed driver to a screen resolution issue to a screen refresh rate issue.

Re: the wireless connectivity.…[Read more]

@Pete wrote:

@ForumHostPB wrote:

Let that be an awful warning to all video game players. If you over use them, an effing big dog will bound over and shag you sensless.

sensless eh; are you inferring there are JC members over using video games :-k

This is a distinct possibility …… after all (as you recently discovered the hard way) there are…[Read more]

@fastcars wrote:

@Bat wrote:

Pats did you try cleaning it? The fan gets an awful lot of dust, which will cause it to overheat and turn it,s self off. Give it a try, you never know.

Give a woman a technical problem and they will try everything except the most obvious… :-

I agree Fasty ….. my favourite comment was “I think I’ll give the modem…[Read more]

Let that be an awful warning to all video game players. If you over use them, an effing big dog will bound over and shag you sensless.

@Esmeralda wrote:

Oi you speccy tw.at..who said you could nick the title of my..let’s face it..MUCH funnier thread..you are soooo cruising for a bruising! :lol:

Maybe it should be re-named “Shush” …. what do you think???

Yeah watching it was a bit unpleasant. We were lucky in one way though. The video (and sound) feed was chopped pretty much instantly as the US conference room must have been in the area where the plane initially hit and exploded.

It would have been far far worse if it had been say a couple of floors above and we would have been forced to witness…[Read more]

I suspect that the “magic card” is an onboard data encryption device and is needed to ensure the security of your data as it is sent to the backup (off site) server.

Whilst it may be that your backup stuff is ‘compressed’ to save storage space, I also suspect that the backed up data is pretty limited in either it’s scope or content. Probably…[Read more]

Sorry Pete …. ‘fraid it is, ah the memories that brings back !!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUDshT19j8Q&feature=related

There’s a kind of hush ………..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y6TpPz3YuQ

I have a particularly unpleasant recollection of ”that day”. The company I then worked for was hosting a video conference for clients in the UK, who were connected (through our equipment) to an office in the World Trade Centre.

We had several people in the video conference suite and at the US end there were around a dozen people in a meeting…[Read more]

The size of backup required will depend entirely on the content of the C: drive – amazingly enough.

The ‘old days’ of 5 or…[Read more]

Tell us what anti-virus / firewall you are using. Some of them use an enormous amount of computer resource to run and this might be a possible source of your problem.

However, if by ”load” you mean that it takes…[Read more]

Copying backup files to a CD or DVD isn’t always successful as they CAN get corrupted. Also, when you come to copy them back again you have to go into the ‘Properties” of each file and de-select ‘read only’ or ‘hidden’ otherwise it won’t open when you access it.

Flash (or removable) drives, by comparison, don’t alter the file attributes AND they…[Read more]

@sharongooner wrote:

@ForumHostPB wrote:

@lil fek wrote:

How much of a nuisance are they and have you ever been attacked by one?

They’re not as much of a nuisance as parrots …. always swearing and cussing and nipping you with their horrid multicoloured beaks. Ugh !!!

multicoloured beaks????!!!!!

Yup. Nasty horrid scabby things parrot’s…[Read more]

God I give up. Same advice as for Bat ……. set fire to it and claim on the insurance.

PATS ….. I think that Bat has got it about right. However there is a virus (can’t remember what it is called) that does roughly the same thing – i.e. shuts your computer down without warning and sometimes delays a re-start.

If the dust and crap removal exercise doesn’t work, then try running a full virus scan.

Too much information !!!

@bon bon wrote:

A lot of people used to want a bank manager in their cupboards
I want a wise person who I can bring out occasionally

Yoo hoo …. I’m here !!!!!