What d'ya mean..."big freeze"?  It be Summer m' dear girl.. and a friggin'one at that.  However, my advice to you is get stuck into it before Winter arrives cos I reckon it'll be a cold one... cold enough to feeze the balls off a billiard table.

Yeah, it's always the software that gets me... it doesn't always behave logically, well not logically as we mere humans think it should. 

Well how I think it should.

I know all about the stupidity factor, only too well.  When I was eliminating bits of hardware as the cause of the BSOD's, I'd unplug the tower from the power supply, do what I had to, and plug it it again, but on one occasion the damned thing wouldn't fire up again.  WTF, I thought, and proceeded to check everything but the cause.  The previous PSU did not have a on/off switch like the new one, so I didn't think (very late at night... and not having intentionally switched it off in the first place) to switch it back on again.  No, I was checking the mobo connections, the HDD connection, the CPU connection... everything but what should have been obvious.  What a dickhead.

Hehe, that fixed it orright... and you have such a way with words.

Yeah, I get a tremendous sense of satisfaction when I solve problematic issues all by my lonesome... and while things aren't going so well, the frequent expletives do help a lot.

mark of a true tinkerer. nice to meet ya! me too!

LOL starkers, I meant the big freeze as in, my P1's drive .. that was the final nail in it's coffin, the drive had physical damage, and would freeze after 10 minutes

Jafo shan't relate his computer dramas here....yrag might be reading....

Sorry to hear the troubles, Cap'n. I knew you weren't having fun, but I didn't know it was that bad!

Having to deal with fixing Anne's computer woes (she uses "regular" XP...and not much skill with it) is torture...I agree.

Getting back to my laptop with my SD software feels so good after that, I can't even begin to say.

Well, here's  to ya....for being the good guy who tried to help! 

That's where the aforementioned slipstreaming comes in. Both my desktop and my laptop I've done that way, with no floppies at all. Though granted I did try an external floppy on the laptop at first to save the extra trouble, but all that did was crash setup, lol.

I think it was a conspiracy by bankers and Sarah Palin for all of the abuse of late.  The NSA, CIA, FBI, WTF are always watching you CAP'N.

Unfortunately, in his haste to build a computer for his daughter, he completely forgot to add the replicator and cookie dispensor...

By the way, the software always acts logically. It is programed to. You just do not understand it's logic.

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Besides, you'd need an entire web page dedicated purely to your cock-ups.

Nah, it wasn't that bad... frustrating at times, yes... but the end result was/is a working PC. So all is well that ends well, as they say.... and did I mention that the frequent expletives helped immensely.  

Ah, so that explains the black SUV out front with the moosehead on thre bullbar... but WTF it the WTF... the World Tossers Federation?  Dunno why they'd be watching me, I let my membership lapse when I gave up tossing a few years back... and I've moved since then.

And what's this bit: "all the abuse of late"??  Those were fair and deserved comments... and they were backed up by Wikipedia, so not only were they fair and deserved, they were factual.

Yeah, fool me... but I did remember the crumpet warmer and coffee dispenser... and the USB rocket launcher.

Software may always act logically, but it was all programmed by humans, and that sometimes is where the illogical comes in.  For example, I had an image editing app once (can't remember what it was called because it was a POS and I ditched it) that wouldn't save images in the normal manner... it was all ass backwards and very frustrating.  Instead of right clicking or going to 'File' to save an image 'as', you had to select all the parameters and details first, then navigate to the image file to save it... and quite often it would error out because the image 'so-say' was an unrecognised format and did not meet the selected requirements.  Like it couldn't save as a 1024 x 768 jpeg when it imported it as one?  The blurb said that it worked with and saved all popular image formats, but the missus and I could never get it to save one, just 'tifs' and 

Admittedly, most software behaves as one would expect, but on the odd occasion one will strike an app that does things the other way around for some strange reason, and that's where the confusion comes in.  As for me not understanding its logic, tell me something I didn't already know... fortunately for me, most of the software I use is near idiot proof.

Ah, so, I've finally won something!  Now that's I trophy I'd mount on the mantlepiece with pride and caringly polish every day.

The dirty rotten scoundrel... wait 'til I get my hands....   On second thought, being he's a paid up member of the World Tossers Federation he might actually like/welcome that.  Maybe getting the board of directors to 'toss' him out on his ear would be more appropriate.

. . . and this is why Windows 7 is very high on my wish list once it's released. I'll get a temp job over the summer if I have to.

After installing Windows 7 beta and seeing how incredibly smooth and fast the install is and how it fixes everything in Vista - there's no way I'm going back to XP after 7 is out.

Not that I'm using XP anyways - I'm using Vista. But I understand why people don't like Vista.

..mmh, sexy