The grumpy thread

[cobblers]

cool, well while i download windows 7, try disabling other extensions just in case its bundled itself with another

[cobblers]

right well no luck with that, I've tried stacks of ways to get infected with it and no luck, but the odds are it's bundled with another program or extension (that you could have installed long before coupondropdown appeared)

 

Disable all your chrome extensions and see if it goes away, if not have a neb round your installed programs for anything suspect epecially related to ripping videos off youtube and that kind of thing.

[Guest]

Appreciate that cobs, both malwarebytes and the other uninstaller ashmicro recommended can't find it, although I'm running the former on a full sweep now to see what I can pick up.

 

I do some t**ren*ing sometimes, and while MWB has been running it's blocked some foul shit coming off my torrent client host thingitits - it's probably come from there. Best get Full Metal Alchemist in the pot and bin that off.....

[cort16]

Try searching the registry for it incase it's installed itself as a service rather than a browser extension

[Guest]

It's an eBay grump I'm afraid.

 

At the start of October I won a Yashica Minister D off a bloke just up the road in Middleton. Paid more or less straight away but the payment didn't clear. Checked on paypal and found that the funds had gone unclaimed. A month and 15 messages later, the seller still hasn't responded. I reckon he's sold it on for more elsewhere and doesn't want to tell me. Plus for some bizarre reason customer services reckon he's in the US and keep telling me that I'll have to email some septic twonk on eBay.com.

 

The gash PC problems continue too.

Ran Glary and found 635 problems with the registry. On a longer sweep Malwarebytes has found 3 infections and it hasn't even finished yet.

[wuvvum]

The welding that the P6 needs doing to pass a test has, predictably, turned out to be rather more extensive than initially thought. To the extent that the garage I took it to has declined to take on the job. A mate who can weld has offered to do it for me, but he hasn't got a welder so I'd need to buy one. At the moment I'm trying to decide whether to bite the bullet and fork out for a MIG or whether to just sell the fucking thing as it is and get what I can for it.

[Craig the Princess]

Isn't there any way of making it appear like you're working for "another" company, either your own or somebody else's?

 

The agency have other staff working on site and make regular visits. I wouldn't get away with it for long.

 

I'm surprised the company who offered you the job didn't tell the agency how competitive the market is at present and just how many agencies could fill those roles.

[coalnotdole]

I've spent £250+ this week on Essex engine bits (namely a set of aluminum rocker covers and a paired steel timing gear.) The prices were the going rate so thats not the problem. My grump is that I bought the engine bits thinking I had a decent commission from a national newspaper to cover the costs. They wanted to use some photos I'd taken with an article they were running, which is not uncommon I get this sort of work through every few months.... They emailed today to say the feature had been postponed. So now I have a shortfall in cash where I was expecting to be quids in. Serves me right for counting unhatched chickens.

[Richard]

Appreciate that cobs, both malwarebytes and the other uninstaller ashmicro recommended can't find it, although I'm running the former on a full sweep now to see what I can pick up.

 

I do some t**ren*ing sometimes, and while MWB has been running it's blocked some foul shit coming off my torrent client host thingitits - it's probably come from there. Best get Full Metal Alchemist in the pot and bin that off.....

 

I've been away all week so it might have been suggested/tried already but I find that SuperAntiSpyware deals with things that nothing else seems to manage.

[Guest]

Appreciate that cobs, both malwarebytes and the other uninstaller ashmicro recommended can't find it, although I'm running the former on a full sweep now to see what I can pick up.

 

I do some t**ren*ing sometimes, and while MWB has been running it's blocked some foul shit coming off my torrent client host thingitits - it's probably come from there. Best get Full Metal Alchemist in the pot and bin that off.....

 

I've been away all week so it might have been suggested/tried already but I find that SuperAntiSpyware deals with things that nothing else seems to manage.

 

Haven't tried SSR but I'll give it a go.

 

Also, slight eBay grump:

 

Saw some second hand Koni suspension on German Bay for the 460. Noticed it was at £130 with a day to go. Didn't bother bidding because I reckoned it would have gone miles out of my reach.

 

Checked this morning. They finished for £166 and I could have had them shipped to the UK for £180 all in. They only had 3000 miles use. Balls.

[dollywobbler]

The welding that the P6 needs doing to pass a test has, predictably, turned out to be rather more extensive than initially thought. To the extent that the garage I took it to has declined to take on the job. A mate who can weld has offered to do it for me, but he hasn't got a welder so I'd need to buy one. At the moment I'm trying to decide whether to bite the bullet and fork out for a MIG or whether to just sell the fucking thing as it is and get what I can for it.

 

I'd punt it on and consider it a lesson learnt. P6 rot can be horrific.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Me too, any supposed 'welder' who needs you to buy him a welding machine before he can start sounds like a dead loss

[shedvan]

People who say "oh my days"

[Negative Creep]

People who say "oh my days"

 

 

I thought people stopped doing that c.1953?

[shedvan]

People who say "oh my days"

 

 

I thought people stopped doing that c.1953?

 

Sadly not, now it seems people like to do it in a patois way to emphasise how street they are, when in reality they come from Surbiton.

[eddyramrod]

This might take several attempts to post; depends on my connection. I have been having what I can only describe as terrible trouble with Tesco Broadband, whose idea of Customer Service is precisely the opposite of any sane definition of Customer Service. I may or may not have enough connection left to post this, it comes and goes as it feels like. Twice in the last week I have responded to their emails that tell me the service is activated, by telling them to call me and collect their fucking router. They are worse than useless. I've completely given up on their call centre. I have, in fact, given up on them; as far as I'm concerned, any access I get at the moment is "borrowed time." It may be a while before I'm able to post with any regularity. But, as mentioned in Grin, at least I'm here, finally.

[Albert Ross]

Glad you made it back Sir! I hope all things are well considering.....

[Cavcraft]

This might take several attempts to post; depends on my connection. I have been having what I can only describe as terrible trouble with Tesco Broadband, whose idea of Customer Service is precisely the opposite of any sane definition of Customer Service. I may or may not have enough connection left to post this, it comes and goes as it feels like. Twice in the last week I have responded to their emails that tell me the service is activated, by telling them to call me and collect their fucking router. They are worse than useless. I've completely given up on their call centre. I have, in fact, given up on them; as far as I'm concerned, any access I get at the moment is "borrowed time." It may be a while before I'm able to post with any regularity. But, as mentioned in Grin, at least I'm here, finally.

 

Tesco's can be pretty lame, been with them for years. Their biggest trouble is they're full of shit, different 'advisors' tell you different things at any given time. They also buy their internet off whoever is cheapest at the time (something they were always at pains to deny) and when they change providers the service usually dips chronically. The way to find out is to do a speed test thing as it will actually tell you which company is providing it, I have found Virgin to be the worse, they were absolutely hopeless.

 

To be fair to Tesco though I've not had a problem in absolutely ages now (it used to constantly cut out) so I'm loathe to move for the sake of it.

[richardthestag]

People who say "oh my days"

 

 

I thought people stopped doing that c.1953?

 

Sadly not, now it seems people like to do it in a patois way to emphasise how street they are, when in reality they come from Surbiton.

 

I come from surbiton, folks dragged me away from its mediocrity before I was a year old. My kids did say oh my days though until I thrashed it out of em.

 

Now everything is sick, which either means it is very good or very bad, confused? I couldn't give a shit!

[meshking]

I come from Hampton Wick, to me people from Surbiton are practically true cockneys.

[richardthestag]

I come from Hampton Wick, to me people from Surbiton are practically true cockneys.

 

Don't google cockney and Hampton

 

[myglaren]

Looks like they've done something to YouTube so you can't use Ad Block on it anymore. I've just been getting a blank screen unless I disable AB and of course that puts fucking adverts everywhere, including on top of the video I'm trying to watch....

 

I have nothing like that on mine (Firefox or Chromium) although last weekend each clip I started was preceded by a Microsoft ad for something or other - seems to have gone away now.

[Cavcraft]

The utter stupidity of new in cartridges costing more than a new printer: once again we ended up with a new printer as it was 25% cheaper than buying ink. I know they say it's a throw away society, but really what a fucking waste to lob a perfectly useable bit of kit out.

[Wilko220]

The utter stupidity of new in cartridges costing more than a new printer: once again we ended up with a new printer as it was 25% cheaper than buying ink. I know they say it's a throw away society, but really what a fucking waste to lob a perfectly useable bit of kit out.

 

I've often thought the same. It succinctly sums up a lot that is wrong about the modern world.

[Albert Ross]

Well it's like throwing out a usable car because it's low on fuel/oil/tyres/brakes etc. Some people would rather shackle themselves to a £250 pcm deal for 5 years.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Couldn't you find compatible inks? I've never liked the CartridgeWorst-type refills, but I've used some GR9 non-OEM cartridges.

[Cavcraft]

No! We did try and we looked at those cheap refills which would be ideal, but seemingly none of them are compatible.

[myglaren]

The utter stupidity of new in cartridges costing more than a new printer: once again we ended up with a new printer as it was 25% cheaper than buying ink. I know they say it's a throw away society, but really what a fucking waste to lob a perfectly useable bit of kit out.

 

 

Cartridges in new printers have very little ink in them, the printer makers aim to make their money on replacement cartridges.

Replacement cartridges have much more ink in them and for an additional cost you can often get larger capacity ones.

 

I pay around £13 for the extra capacity ones with about 50% more ink.

 

 

These are remanufactured ones from some place in Jersey but after I bought the last batch I saw an ASDA advert offering genuine HP ones for less.

 

I always used to refill them myself until I made a bodge of it and literally filled the printed with a flood of ink, essentially buggering it as it was leaking all over the place, using a free printer (came with a s/h computer) at the moment.

 

The computer, given to my daughter when she needed one a couple of years ago, died yesterday. Dragged it back here and had a poke around, pulled the heat sink/processor out to find:

 

AA033137 by myglaren, on Flickr

 

Cleaned it out and put fresh heat sink compound on the processor, it now starts and runs but won't boot, no signal to the keyboard or monitor, no beep codes, zilch.

 

And someone in France got into my BT account and spammed the world before I got home and recovered it

[ashmicro]

@Cav - Epson inkjet printers FTW. Compatible inks are £3 a cartridge or less. I've never had any issues with them (despite warnings of nuclear holocaust from FellyMagic). The printers aren't even that dear. Tescunts were selling a printer/scanner/copier Epson SX215 for £39.

[cobblers]

Yup, I've got an Epson SX438 wireless scanner printer jobbie, it was £40. Being wireless is great because you can just stuff it in the spare room out of the way without running any wires or wasting any desk space on something I'll only use once a month at most.

Cartridges are £12 for four of each colour plus 6 black ones off ebay - If they ruin the printer over time I don't really care too much, print quality isn't as good as with the OE colours but again I couldn't give a shit - All I use it for is printing shipping labels off, wiring diagrams and the occasional CV.

 

It doesn't need chipping or anything to take knockoff cartridges and the drivers don't fill my PC with bloat, you can tell it to STFU about the cartridges being low or whatever and it does. I can print stuff off from anywhere in the world as well by emailing it to the printer which is crazy really, but absolutely no use to me at all.