The grumpy thread

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Takes me back. I used to spend a lot of time messing about with computers, but a few years ago decided to cut them out of my life. Can't remember why anymore. Sold or binned any computer things I had and bought an expensive Apple laptop. Since then my computer knowledge has been fading and overwritten with mechanical stuff.

 

People still ask me to help them with computer issues and I get frustrated because this or that button isn't in the same place in Vista as it was in Windows 98.

[dollywobbler]

The fan on my laptop has an iffy bearing. Sounds a bit like a Simca when I start it up, but it quietens down, so I continue to ignore it in the hope it'll somehow cure itself. Problem is, I think this fan is probably the first thing to go in when they build these laptops. It is the heater matrix of the computer world.

[RoadworkUK]

I want a computer that sounds like my Dads old Elonex 286 did. Sounded like a bloody underground train / air-raid siren when the fan got going, even more if you put it on 12mhz "Turbo" mode...

 

And it NEVER broke. Unlike this one, which is broken as I type.

[Pete-M]

and whilst I'm whining about PCs and the like.

 

Virgin Media, bunch of wilted cocks that they are, are obviously employing an Indian call-centre without any real training.

 

Phone rings.

VM - "Hello, Mr M. Give me your password please, I need you to pay your bill"

Me- "Who is that?"

VM - "Mr M, it is Virgin Media. Your bill is due. Please give me your password and we can pay your bill"

Me - "Er, if I'm going to give people my passwords, I make sure that I ring them"

VM - "But Mr M, we will cut you off if you don't pay your bill"

Me - "I was about to pay it online when you called, as it happens"

VM - "Give me your password"

Me - "You know what my password is, don't you?"

VM - "Yes"

Me - "Well, you give it to me, you called me. I don't know who you are"

VM - "I cannot do that, Mr M. I am from Virgin Media. Calling about your bill. Which needs to be paid."

 

Dearie fucking me. I paid it online.

[Guest]

I think my lovely CD player is on the blink. It's taking ages to read CDs when you load them in the transport. Fortunately one of the techs at work has said he'll look at and repair it for a crate of beer, which is nice.

 

Bit gutted really, it's a NAD C542 which I paid a packet for about 6 years ago. It's been playing up for 6 months or so, but the last time I took it to be looked at, the fucking thing behaved perfectly and made me look like an eejit. Funnily enough, the service bloke couldn't get it to reproduce the no read \ ages to read fault, and he said he'd had it on test for a couple of days.

 

Ah well, gives me an excuse to 'borrow' that Cyrus dAD3 I 'found' at work..............

[Lord Sterling]

Takes me back. I used to spend a lot of time messing about with computers, but a few years ago decided to cut them out of my life. Can't remember why anymore. Sold or binned any computer things I had and bought an expensive Apple laptop. Since then my computer knowledge has been fading and overwritten with mechanical stuff.

 

People still ask me to help them with computer issues and I get frustrated because this or that button isn't in the same place in Vista as it was in Windows 98.

 

This is exactly whats happend with me, I loved taking computers apart and putting them back together, discovering how programes worked and what shortcuts I could use, but somehow I completely lost interest, now its frustrating to sya the least when something goes wrong and I have to try and guess whats happend, most of them time I'll lob it at the computer shop for them to sort out.

 

I used to have ask me to help them with computer issues as it was well known I had been on a computer course, though what they didnt know was that it was only basic IT certificate. Same people dont bother me anymore apart from a few close fmaily members who still think I'm some sort of computer whizzkid.

[scaryoldcortina]

[dollywobbler]

For several years, I based a career in IT on that very flowchart principle! Thank you Google.

[Guest]

For several years, I based a career in IT on that very flowchart principle! Thank you Google.

 

This is more or less how I trouble shoot problems at work when some dullard rings up. THANX FOR LOTS OF TRAINING WERK U IS DA BEST.

[Negative Creep]

For the first 3 1/2 hours at work there was nothing coming in. I sat there for the entire time playing Angry Birds. Not as great as it sounds and i was lucky they let me wait around getting paid to do nothing. Since im earning such a crap wage there is no way i can afford to come in when needed - its either full time or nothing at all

[warren t claim]

I am now single. My life has changed so much in 48 hours.

[RoadworkUK]

Ah well, gives me an excuse to 'borrow' that Cyrus dAD3 I 'found' at work..............

 

You wouldn't happen to know anyone a bit handy with repairing old Cyrus gear, would you? I have an ancient dAD1.5, nothing amazing but I always loved the sound, especially through my little DAC. Unfortunately it's been unwilling to read anything for a while now, I've been using the PS3 for audio duties...

[RoadworkUK]

I am now single. My life has changed so much in 48 hours.

 

Shit mate, sorry to hear that. Here's to a better day tomorrow.

[Lord Sterling]

I am now single. My life has changed so much in 48 hours.

 

Shit mate, sorry to hear that. Here's to a better day tomorrow.

 

Sorry to hear that Warren, it cant be nice. Sometimes you will have to hit rock bottom before things really take a turn for the better and I hope it will for you.

[outlaw118]

"Mates".

 

Someone who I have been friends with for a long time - 15+ years, is the subject to a rumour that he's knocking off another mates fiance. He's got a bit of a reputation this bloke, but when someone mentioned it to me "Oh, what's the crack with "A" and "B", I thought she was supposed to be marrying "C", I laughed it off, and said that as "A" and "C" were long standing friends, that wouldn't happen, crediting "A" with more moral fibre than perhaps was expected.

Had a chat with another mate ("D") last night, and apparently "A" accused "D" of initiating the rumour, and spreading it about. They denied it - as they're entirely innocent, as far as I'm aware - so "A" said "Oh, it was Outlaw118 then".

He put a message on his facebook page a couple of weeks ago about people spreading rumours and the consequences blah blah, knock them out blah blah.

I'm not bothered if he tries it on, I'm so fucking angry that I've been implicated he'd better get the first punch because that's all he's going to get.

Why do I bother?

[tonedepear]

Sorry to hear of your ongoing shit wtc. Nasty business all round. Hope it all works out for the best in time.

 

In lesser news, I was up from 3-5am cos there were noisy chavs being noisy in the street, work 7am-7pm, and work so far has been an absolut crock of cunts. Nightmare day already. Aaaargh.

[maxpower]

I am now single. My life has changed so much in 48 hours.

 

Shit mate, sorry to hear that. Here's to a better day tomorrow.

 

now go out an put the lottery on..... ya just neva know

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

WTC, as long as you're still on the right side of the bars, I wouldn't worry too much about being single...I've been single for a while (and it doesn't look like changing anytime soon due to an unavoidable surge in standards- my last gf was a 19 y.o. Venezuelan that did part-time modelling and I obviously have no hope of finding anyone half as attractive!) and, while occasionally boring, it gives you inner peace of mind.

 

Now let's have a serious grump: Washing machines, and in particular the crooks who 'repair' them.

 

When I moved into the flat I was informed the machine was suffering from some kind of leak, so I got the landlord to agree to get it sorted. Called out a repairman, he came round, had a look and said "the tank's cracked, you can get it sorted for sixty quid". I obviously asked for his thoughts on whether the machine is in good enough condition to warrant spending that on it, and he was pretty positive about it (and I had no reason not to believe him, seeing as it's only about 6 years old). He came back, fixed it (no parts, mind, just a bodge with a very strong kind of putty) in 12 minutes, got the money (yes, that's 300 pounds per hour that he charged me!) and buggered off. Of course, he didn't bother testing it. Although the fix seems to be working, the machine is fooked! It doesn't use any washing powder, and the wash cycle seems to only last about 25 minutes instead of around an hour. I thought I'd beaten it by using the capsules that go inside the drum, but my clothes came out smelling a bit funny. Turned out that, for an unknown reason, the rubber bit separating the door from the drum contained more muck than the rusty wheelarch of an R-reg Sprinter...therefore my clothes quite possibly came out dirtier than they came in. I tried cleaning it and I'm doing an empty wash now, but I'm not too hopeful for a result...

[Guest]

Ah well, gives me an excuse to 'borrow' that Cyrus dAD3 I 'found' at work..............

 

You wouldn't happen to know anyone a bit handy with repairing old Cyrus gear, would you? I have an ancient dAD1.5, nothing amazing but I always loved the sound, especially through my little DAC. Unfortunately it's been unwilling to read anything for a while now, I've been using the PS3 for audio duties...

 

Have you tried ringing Cyrus themselves? They're happy to repair \ service any of their old kit. They do fixed price repairs on stuff as well, or so I'm told.

[tonedepear]

The photography thread has left me extremeley fucked off that I have currently 0 working cameras. (Not including the one on my phone, which does a job, but it's still tiny, and therefore a bit shit)

 

I snapped the battery door off my k100d which - it turns out, is not the simple fix I expected.

My shitty hand-me-down small digital camera has stopped responding to requests to turn on.

My out of date and not really very good anymore Sony H1 has disappeared off the face of the fucking earth.

 

Bol-locks.

[peter9000uk]

 

I snapped the battery door off my k100d which - it turns out, is not the simple fix I expected.

 

 

Gaffer tape, the autoshite way

[eddyramrod]

^^No, for a truly shite repair: Elastoplast!

[tonedepear]

 

I snapped the battery door off my k100d which - it turns out, is not the simple fix I expected.

 

 

Gaffer tape, the autoshite way

 

That was the simple fix I expected. Seems there's metallic current-carrying gubbins within the door which remain hidden some 6 months after the actual incident. So it doesn't bloody work.

 

Also, all my neighbours are ignorant wankers.

[Father Ted]

Spotted a very tidy MG-ZR parked up with a notice in the window "For Sale £795".

No phone number, asked in the pub, no one knew whos it was. What kind of balloon doest put a bloody phone number on the ad?

 

Left a note under the wiper.

[Pillock]

I snapped the battery door off my k100d which - it turns out, is not the simple fix I expected.

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/PENTAX-K100D-BATTER ... 0513402463

[tonedepear]

I snapped the battery door off my k100d which - it turns out, is not the simple fix I expected.

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/PENTAX-K100D-BATTER ... 0513402463

 

Yeah, that also lacks the metal gubbins which are causing me the grief.

[Negative Creep]

Realising i didnt fully back up my NZ photos, so around 10% or so are on my laptop with a likely corrupted hard drive. Fuckbeans.

 

Also a lack of work resulted in me putting letters in envelops this afternoon

[M'coli]

Realising i didnt fully back up my NZ photos, so around 10% or so are on my laptop with a likely corrupted hard drive. Fuckbeans.

Ubuntu can sometimes retrieve what Windows can't.

[Negative Creep]

Realising i didnt fully back up my NZ photos, so around 10% or so are on my laptop with a likely corrupted hard drive. Fuckbeans.

Ubuntu can sometimes retrieve what Windows can't.

 

Im waiting for my folks to send down their old xp disc so i can run recovery console and at least get the data i need off. Then use it to reinstall xp on my desktop as i cannot get the wireless to work due to a likely software conflict. THEN i can send off more job applications as i doubt ill be at my current place for much longer

[RoadworkUK]

Ah well, gives me an excuse to 'borrow' that Cyrus dAD3 I 'found' at work..............

 

You wouldn't happen to know anyone a bit handy with repairing old Cyrus gear, would you? I have an ancient dAD1.5, nothing amazing but I always loved the sound, especially through my little DAC. Unfortunately it's been unwilling to read anything for a while now, I've been using the PS3 for audio duties...

 

Have you tried ringing Cyrus themselves? They're happy to repair \ service any of their old kit. They do fixed price repairs on stuff as well, or so I'm told.

 

The thought did cross my mind, but I feared they'd just laugh at my geriatric player. Might still call them, though. Mind you, I've found where I can buy a complete replacement Phillips transport, while I'm feeling brave I might just have a go. Can't be any worse than a KV6 cambelt...