The grumpy thread

[anonymous user]

I think my laptop is knackered, it's only eight years old. It has been getting slower and has now been installing updates for the last hour and is still only on 4 of 14. I tried giving it a good shake but that's made no difference. It's probably time to buy a new one but I've just spent that money on an old dentist's drill so it will have to wait. I hate using this phone as my fingers are too big.

[seth]

Four years to the day since my sister died. I know I'm not the only one that has lost someone close, and it might seem selfish to bleat about it, but she was taken at 44 years old, which is younger than I am now, and never does a day go by where I don't miss her. 

 

Sorry for the downer, just feeling it a bit more today.

 

Know exactly what you mean. Sunday marked 20 years since my dad died. Its very close now to me having lived longer without him being around than with and there's been a lot in my life I know he would have enjoyed seeing.  

 

I think missing them and thinking of the ongoing affect loved ones have had on your life allows them to still be around somehow.

[Lacquer Peel]

I think my laptop is knackered, it's only eight years old. It has been getting slower and has now been installing updates for the last hour and is still only on 4 of 14. I tried giving it a good shake but that's made no difference. It's probably time to buy a new one but I've just spent that money on an old dentist's drill so it will have to wait. I hate using this phone as my fingers are too big.

 

Sack Windows off and install Lubuntu, it's good for reinvigorating old laptops.

[cort16]

8 years old is about 257 in laptop years. Windows gets into a right old state  after a while, formatting the disk and re-installing it from scratch will help. While you're at it If you feel brave buy and fit and SSD disc you'll not believe the difference it makes.

[angle]

My parents live on the edge of a village, where the road straightens out and the speed limit goes up from 30 to 40. Many people choose to interpret this as 'floor it' - including me on occasion, so I won't get too self righteous. However, at what point did braking and indicating right become a signal for 'please overtake me'? A house down the road had an upside down C5 estate in the front garden a year or so back after he tried to overtake someone turning into their drive, I almost impaled myself on a maroon Corsa that came from two cars back just before that, and I've just had a lady in a Mini give me the finger because she decided to try to go round me after I put my indicator on and got a blast of the horn for her troubles. Nobs.

[Roverageous]

Roads. The roads are all shite. Driven to Henley and back today and I'm sure my suspension now requires work. The roads are fucking terrible. I used to love driving and now it's just a dodge-the-pothole-and-sunken-manhole-covers stressfest.

[Ghosty]

However, at what point did braking and indicating right become a signal for 'please overtake me'?

 

Left yes, assuming you're on a road in the countryside with nothing going off it, right no, never.

 

I've had people pass me while hand signalling and attempting to turn right into a street on a pushbike FFS, people are dicks.

[gordonbennet]

They carry on driving like arse holes because it doesn't hit them in the pocket, especially with company vehicles or when someone else (mum dad husband wife partner boss) is footing all the bills, always been easy to fritter your way through someone else's money, ask the government they've been borrowing in our name and pissing it up the wall for decades..

[beko1987]

I had a bloody wasp enter my car whilst driving home this afternoon. I take all the moaning about my brakes back, their fucking fine! 55 to a dead stop in a handy place just by breadvans gaff, open all the doors, wasp fuck off, I fuck off.

 

Dont like wasps, or spiders. Was in the shed trying to find a dc07 hose earlier, looked up and a massive one was right above my head. Decided I didnt want or need a dc07 hose suddenly and shut the door. Time to clean the shed out after winter at the weekend I think, with a Premiere Mini 175 in each hand...

[Parky]

Had to have a suspicious freckle removed. No problems there, all done by the GP this afternoon following a small injection to numb the area.

 

The injection is wearing off and it feels like someone is holding a lit cigarette against my skin. Owwwwww!

[purplebargeken]

Do wasps really serve a genuine purpose? Is it fair that wasps can sting you to their bastard hearts content whilst poor fuzzy bees do it once and they are brown bread. Just not fair.

[purplebargeken]

Had to have a suspicious freckle removed

 

I'm so sorry. I read that and just started pissing myself at the phrasing of it. Now my side hurts. Damn.

[anonymous user]

Sack Windows off and install Lubuntu, it's good for reinvigorating old laptops.

 

 

8 years old is about 257 in laptop years. Windows gets into a right old state  after a while, formatting the disk and re-installing it from scratch will help. While you're at it If you feel brave buy and fit and SSD disc you'll not believe the difference it makes.

Thanks for the advice, but it may as well have been written in Swahili; I am totally clueless with computers, they either work or they don't as far as I'm concerned, if I tried to do anything with it I would balls it up completely. I am the person that Tesco refused to sell a smartphone to as the sales-lads thought I was too stupid to work one (I have since got one and can work the bits I need to). I wouldn't know how to reinstall Windows let alone another system, re-formatting sounds serious, does this mean everything would go of the disc? Also the stickers underneath which I think had important things like serial numbers, that I might need, have worn through. I shall struggle on with it for a bit and buy a new one soon, once I've stopped buying crap on ebay.

 

 

This is what I bought instead of a new computer, you've got to admit that it looks much nicer (OK it's totally useless, but that's not the point)

[beko1987]

If the battery runs it for a few hours, or we can get power at SF, buy this

 

http://www.ebuyer.com/712133-sandisk-plus-240gb-sataiii-2-5inch-ssd-sdssda-240g-g25 

 

(presuming it takes SATA, it should do) or A N other SSD, and I'll bring my copy of windows 7 and fully* legit* way of making it activated and legal, and a USB caddy to get everything off your old hard drive, then we can put your old HD on the train tracks or summat afterwards

[anonymous user]

A nice thought, the battery died ages ago so would need power and 

 

(presuming it takes SATA, it should do)

What does that mean, how would I be able to tell? It probably is nearly time for a new one though, as it has several keys missing after the dog jumped on it, it's on its third power pack/charger as two have been eaten by dogs.

 

It seems to be working a bit better after the updates which took a couple of hours, but how long for is anyone's guess.

 

My grump about the computer is now trumped by discovering that the lovely Sheerline pick-up I posted in the tat thread appears to have sold. I had put it on watch and had asked the vendor a question about it and was trying to work out how to get it down here from Argyll and Bute. I should have just hit buy it now and worried about the details (like where to put it, how to pay for it and how to get it home) later.

[beko1987]

Its the connector used to plug the hard drive in. Whats the make and model of the laptop? Google will then tell us! (and tell us if its worth bothering with)

 

Failing that, ebay, find one with an early i3 processor and 3gb ram, ignore what the hd is, buy that, buy the ssd and back to the shitefest plan!

[anonymous user]

As far as I can work out from the remaining labelling it's a Toshiba Satellite, (I realise this may be the equivalent of someone I know who thought that her loan car was a Vauxhall Airbag), It looks like model L450-13? on the bottom.

[hairnet]

someone I know who thought that her loan car was a Vauxhall Airbag), It looks like model L450-13? on the bottom.

massive lol and yes im the same when you start talking ssd and nerd pc stuff

 

you wanna install whaaa?? to make it do whaa???

 

unless i get the BSOD or the BSOU i leave it alone and just hope it turns on in the mornings

[cort16]

Beko is right an i3 with and ssd disk will be rapid . You don't need to spend a fortune. It also means you can copy all your stuff over from your old one at your leisure.

 

Edit

That's pretty old have tried shovelling more coal in through cd rom drive ?

[HH-R]

Looked up the spec online and it should be usable, you'd benefit from a 2nd hand 4GB stick of memory and an SSD drive for storage if you're looking at getting that one up and running again. Even doing a clean install of Windows will help. Not sure if they still do but Toshiba were terrible for installing a boat load of unnecessary software that runs in the background hogging resources at the time, which a clean install from a non Toshiba Windows disc will get rid of.

[sheffcortinacentre]

lost me after laptop.

[Angrydicky]

Anonymous User, what is that?

[Cavcraft]

Trying to pay for and collect an eBay car. Ten hours and two hopeless email replies to me later, still nowhere nearer.  

[wuvvum]

Anonymous User, what is that?

 

I've just spent that money on an old dentist's drill

HTH.

[purplebargeken]

Your dentists drill setup looks like a tree human balancing things in its hands. Most excellent. 

[MarvinsMom]

having something like that in my house would creep me out.....

 

and i hate dentists.

[Ghosty]

Looks like I'm resitting a year of uni.

[HH-R]

Stuck behind some old duffer for miles going slow as fuck, then when I overtake, he finds the accelerator. No doubt he will have done it because I'm a dangerous driver!1111!!1 and wanted to teach me a lesson!!1111! for wanting to do 60 on a ruler straight road in perfect visibility, doesn't matter about nearly causing a head on. Of course he dropped down to doing about 40 after. I hate driving.

[tooSavvy]

8 years old is about 257 in laptop years. Windows gets into a right old state  after a while, formatting the disk and re-installing it from scratch will help. While you're at it If you feel brave buy and fit and SSD* disc you'll not believe the difference it makes....

 

.. Suddenly, Surprisingly, DEAD

 

Not for 'a lifesworth of unrepeatable fotties' perhaps...... ??

 

 

TS

[twosmoke300]

I specced a ssd for my works Pc . It boots in less than 10secs on Windows 10 ! Massive difference in performance