The grumpy thread

[trigger]

And the alarm on my phone has stopped working.

 

Iphone?, I read on faceache this morning that they aren't working today for some reason.

 

BBC news report here on it http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12104890

[maxpower]

And the alarm on my phone has stopped working.

 

Iphone?, I read on faceache this morning that they aren't working today for some reason.

 

BBC news report here on it http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12104890

 

that's alarming news!!.....

 

i'll get my coat

[brammy777]

My iPhone alarm worked fine yesterday, but my normal alarm clock has been a right **** lately, pressing the snooze button has made it go off a little later than the normal 9 minutes. A whole hour later.

[Pillock]

The slow dawn of realisation that the "spare" hard drive I've just used to install Windows on an old laptop was in fact the one I'd put to one side as it contained the only full-resolution copies of all the photos I've taken in the last two years.

 

Ass.

[Timewaster]

The Ebay tat thread.

 

 

20 pictures of that bloody Rover (admitedly 16 of those were in retalliation of me complaining about the previous 4

 

5 pictures of a fucked up Saxo pick up abortion.

 

Whats with all the reposts all of a sudden?

 

Every car seems to appear at least 3 times. Cant anybody post a reply without reposting the picture?

[Pillock]

It's handy if it's gone onto another page though, save flicking back to see what people are talking about.

[Timewaster]

It wouldn't go onto another page if every page wasn't 50% reposts

[Lankytim]

My garden is full of catshit. No matter how often I clear it up, the next day its everywhere again.

 

"They are only doing what cats do naturally" cat apologists whine, yeah well its natural for me to get pissed off with other peoples cats shitting everywhere. Maybe I should leave bowls of antifreeze out for the furry vermin.

 

I feel like going next door and coiling one off in the cat basket, see how he likes it.

[Richard]

The slow dawn of realisation that the "spare" hard drive I've just used to install Windows on an old laptop was in fact the one I'd put to one side as it contained the only full-resolution copies of all the photos I've taken in the last two years.

 

Ass.

 

Shouldn't be hard to recover the pictures, was there an OS on the disc when you put the pictures on it?

[Pillock]

Yeah, it was Vista and I've done an install of Win7 on it.

I'll "borrow" the gear we use at work and see if it finds anything. Still annoyed but more at my own stupidity.

[Richard]

I had to reformat and reinstall Windows on a drive a few years ago and I think I managed to recover pretty much everything using a paid-for programme called Zero Assumption.

[M'coli]

FTK Imager is worth a try.

[Pillock]

We do data recovery at work, i'll quiz the guys about what software they use. It's pretty good by all accounts, or it should be for how much we charge!

[boobydoo]

My garden is full of catshit. No matter how often I clear it up, the next day its everywhere again.

 

"They are only doing what cats do naturally" cat apologists whine, yeah well its natural for me to get pissed off with other peoples cats shitting everywhere. Maybe I should leave bowls of antifreeze out for the furry vermin.

 

I feel like going next door and coiling one off in the cat basket, see how he likes it.

One of the reasons I moved last time was because my front garden had become a cat toilet. My neighbour had about 5 of the poxy things and they all shat in my front, every day. There would literally be loads of the stuff. I got so fed up, I used to flick it out onto the street, then the neighbours had the cheek to complain that doing that was unhygenic as their kids played there.

 

Give a f**K.

[dollywobbler]

I can sort of sympathise, as our cat has taken to shitting in the fireplace. Good job it's winter as we can combat this by keeping the fire lit. It then admits defeat and goes outside...

[CIH]

My iPhone alarm worked fine yesterday, but my normal alarm clock has been a right **** lately, pressing the snooze button has made it go off a little later than the normal 9 minutes. A whole hour later.

 

You snooze you loose.

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

We do data recovery at work, i'll quiz the guys about what software they use. It's pretty good by all accounts, or it should be for how much we charge!

 

Do they recover HDs damaged by water?

My sister lost a HD with lots of baby photos, etc. on it after spilling water on a laptop. She doesn't trust local computer shops so wants to send it to a company in the UK who quote £600 to recover.

 

Also, needless photo quoting can bugger off.

[Lankytim]

+ they foul OTHER PEOPLES gardens.

I found this pic here,

http://cat-chitchat.pictures-of-cats.or ... -cats.html

 

The people seem nice, too.

 

Although I'll be honest, your comments did get me sexually aroused. I find cat abuse extremely pleasurable.

[Pillock]

Do they recover HDs damaged by water?

My sister lost a HD with lots of baby photos, etc. on it after spilling water on a laptop. She doesn't trust local computer shops so wants to send it to a company in the UK who quote £600 to recover.

 

It's very rare that the water will get inside the hard drive - they're sealed airtight so water has bob hope. It's probably fried the PCB though. We use a company for when we can't recover data that charge £700, but as long as the drive spins we can usually recover something. The £700 covers them basically stripping the drive and using a clean room and fancy equipment.

 

One method is to buy, borrow or steal an identical drive and swap the circuit board. I did this a few times for customers who'd lost things like baby and wedding photos, before we were doing it officially. It gave me a warm glow. It needs to be identical though....

[peter9000uk]

Are you sure it's cats and not foxes? They shit everywhere and it is very similar to catshit, ours always digs a hole and buries it

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

I did suggest that to her, but she's far too terrified of losing the images. I think this 'recovery expert' has put the fear of death into her, saying that there's only one chance to recover the disk, disturbing it will destroy it, and so on.

[Lankytim]

Are you sure it's cats and not foxes? They shit everywhere and it is very similar to catshit, ours always digs a hole and buries it

 

I haven't seen a fox in our garden in the 5 years we've lived here. Seen lots of cats parking their lunches/ eating our guinea pig though.

[autofive]

cats hate orange peel and being squirted with a water pistol

 

my two fave non-lethal forms of cat deterrent

[Pillock]

I did suggest that to her, but she's far too terrified of losing the images. I think this 'recovery expert' has put the fear of death into her, saying that there's only one chance to recover the disk, disturbing it will destroy it, and so on.

 

Bollocks. It's an airtight sealed box, so taking the cover off will royally screw it but anything else is fine. You can change the circuit board on the bottom because it doesn't expose any "holes" in the casing, it's still sealed. Worst case is it doesn't fix the problem, nothing lost.

 

Does it spin and clunk when you plug it into a computer? Or totally silent?

[Minimad5]

Not a fan of cats either, great picture Lankytim

 

On another note, rather fond of my "friend" at the moment:

 

Thanks for lying and fucking everything up.

Why can't people just be honest ?

[trigger]

Christ, Listening to your sisters plight Leonard makes me glad i bought an external hard drive of a mate for £35 a couple of days ago incase my PC has a EPIC MELTDOWN.

[dollywobbler]

Christ, Listening to your sisters plight Leonard makes me glad i bought an external hard drive of a mate for £35 a couple of days ago incase my PC has a EPIC MELTDOWN.

 

And reminds me that my laptop is overdue a back-up! (especially as it has started making a rather nasty sound when booted up...) Must find somewhere else to store it as well. Used to keep it at the office - thinking being that keeping my back-up in the same house as the laptop was a bit silly.

[scaryoldcortina]

With orange peel the streets were strewn

and pips beyond computing,

on every sholder save my own,

'twas fractured from saluting.

 

Cats R bastards. Their only saving grace is the ability to purr. Ours irritate the shite out of me. Believe me, you could take a crap in the cat basket, it wouldn't bother them at all, they never bloody use it. Permanantly trying to get into my bed instead. Toilet. habits? Fussy AND disgusting. Won't use the tray if they are shut inside, put them out and they meow at the door until you let them in, and then take a big shit in the tray and stink the house out for a week. Nice sofa? Not for long, I haz claws..... My wife likes cats.

 

The water pistol trick works tho. Pisses them off no end.

 

Len - send her to the guys from CSI (on 't telly...) I saw recently they recovered data from a bit of a drive they found in the desert, using an electron microscope to reconstruct the data. It weas brill, it took like 5 seconds, and they had files and shit.....

[pogweasel]

I bought one of those external HDD's a supa 1-TB thing. Thought it would be the dog's whatsits.

Unfortunately after moving everything onto it (due to new computer / old computer lurgi issues) the frigging USB port fell to pieces and I had to rip the fugga to bits to get the sata drive out of it to recover all my shit. DOH.

[trigger]

I know nothing about computers really, My mate's into computers and made this HD, i know it's 500gb and it has a Icybox or something, I've just dragged and clicked all my music and Photos onto it, I'm not sure how you back up a computer onto it though.