Originally posted by RichardCranium
View Post
-
Now that's proper fiction
+50 Xeno Geek Points
Come back Toolpusher, scotspine, Voodooflux.Pogle
As for the rest of you - DILLIGAF
Purveyor of fine quality smut since 2005
CUK Olympic University Challenge Champions 2010/2012
-
Poxy Avast! antivirus.
When it does an update, it completely ties up my machine.
The drive light goes on and stays on for about 3 minutes.
The keyboard is utterly ignored.
The mouse can be moved but is otherwise seemingly ignored (all clicks are, of course, being saved up for action later...)
Then it goes "Bing!"
Then a couple of minutes later a wanky blue box pops up saying "Update done, sucker. Click here for more information."
That sits there for a minute or so.
Then a voice says "Virus database updated."
Then the blue box disappears.
About two minutes late the drive light goes intermittent and all those mouse clicks get actioned. In the wrong places, of course.
I have NEVER been able to click on that poxy blue box "for more information".
The whole process takes up to about eight poxy minutes.
It is so annoying, I'm tempted to run it with updates disabled.My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.Comment
-
And once it has done an update, the drive light never really goes out again. The PC runs like a dog and has to be rebooted to work properly again.
Poxy pox pox.My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.Comment
-
... which took about 16 minutes.Originally posted by RichardCranium View Post
My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.Comment
-
Oh. So you're a 'she'?Originally posted by norrahe View PostMy all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.Comment
-
My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.Comment
-
I see 80W's trolling is working. I wonder how long this will go on.My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.Comment
-
Originally posted by NickFitz View PostOops - due to over-enthusiastic tapping of the "Download" button I now have a copy of Jerome K Jerome's Three Men on the Bummel translated into Catalan
The Iliad kept me amused for seven days on a canal boat holiday. Your downloaded selection would keep me going for a year. And I read lots.My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.Comment
-
I made the effort to find and reconstruct it.Originally posted by RichardCranium View PostMany years ago I invested in a spiffy power supply. It provides about 10 different output voltages. It comes with 12 or 14 connectors each of which can be turned so as to provide reversed polarity.
It's a great gadget.
I bought it when a power adaptor got broken about 15 years ago.
The doobrie that holds the connectors went into one box of bits. The adaptor itself went into another.
Since then, the connectors and the adaptor have never been brought back together.
When we were packing up for this move, I came across each component so neither has been lost. But where they are now, I am not sure.
It is now back in its packaging with all bits intact.
Not as many bits as I recalled, though. Funny thing, memory.My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.Comment
-
Yes, she is.Originally posted by RichardCranium View Post+50 Xeno Geek Points
Come back Toolpusher, scotspine, Voodooflux.Pogle
As for the rest of you - DILLIGAF
Purveyor of fine quality smut since 2005
CUK Olympic University Challenge Champions 2010/2012Comment
Comment