I hate it when this happens

Potato cheese soup? what on earth are you going on about?

 

YAY!
Damn SQL server. :grumpy: Good thing MS doesn't make potato cheese soup. If someone else was trying to eat the soup at the same time as you, it might dissappear from your spoon before it got to your lips.

 

I hope "Potato cheese soup is here!!!" sisn't the quote you worked on all morning. If so, maybe MS was trying to tell you something.

 

:rofl: That would be bad.

I hate when a computer freezes up just as you hit save. :grumpy: Considering you work at a company that is supposed to be dealing with technology all day, you'd think they'd get their own technology a bit more up-to-date and functional. What sort of confidence does that inspire in a customer? "We'll sell you all these important, hi-tech, quality network components that your business is going to depend on, just as soon as we reboot our frozen computers." (I don't know exactly if that's what your company sells, but you get the point.)

 

I can relate. My boss likes to say, the cobbler's children have no shoes. :rofl:

 

:grumpy: I think this needs to be expanded upon

 

Well, take a break from the PC and enjoy Potato Cheese soup.

What kind of cheese, Cheddar? I think a jalapeño Monterrey Jack would be pretty good. Do they have French Onion soup on other days? :tongue2:

As for MS, perhaps set autosave for every 10-15 minutes.

In the previous company we 'had' to do that :yuck: , as MS Apps and OS seemed so unreliable.

Now I if I do a major change, I just automatically do a manual save.

Sometimes I open a new document and work in that completely separately.

I have had spreadsheets crash for some trivial reason, and that really pisses me off.

 

Ouch! I've had experience with a similar situation - piss poor customized software.

Something is very wrong if the company is paying an ex-employee millions to use software that in theory was developed while he was an employee. :uhh: What do the company IT people think about it? Possibly if written under an earlier OS, its not upwardly compatable. Now - how do we rescue you from this place?

 

Now - how do we rescue you from this place?

Use a bouncing bomb to breach the wall, have to pinch a lanc from somewhere, maybe we could get some locals to take care of the outer defences, any buildings in the flight path? we would need to get down
to about 100ft agl if memory serves, the tail gunner could straff the pill boxes, we would need a fast car for the final escape any one have a cobra?
then it would be to the air pick up point ,we could use a lysander for the
short hop to an international airport, then to the secret location in england

So lancaster, bouncing bomb, lysander,cobra, packet of mints, heroic music
and some good luck.

 

I'll send mints - I've got some right here.

 

Macho hero thwarted by a plane ticket, drat and double drat. i suppose we
could break the speed limit on our way here

 

Nah! Too easy! They'd be expecting that. Besides, that'd take the fun out it.

What we need is a surprise and a ripping diversion. I envision Wooly riding up on his motorbike, jumping the moat, sliding to a stop, you jumping on the bike, getting a firm grip of Woolie, Woolie racing his bike across the parking lot, jumping several cars, and you both riding of into the sunset, then ditching bike for the Cobra, racing to air pick up point, using a lysander for the short hop to an international airport, then to the secret location in England (actually it's another country disguised to look like England), but then we take you to the real one in secret.

Woolie is really 006³/₄

 

Boy do I know how that feels... You would not believe the POS printer and computer I have to use at work. Finding a printer cardridge used to be easy.. there were huge bins of them just take what you need... Now we buy them from Staples!

 

What's with MS OS's and the Blue Screen of Death.

I turned on my Laptop yesterday in order to download my presentation for someone to transfer to the PC for the meeting.

It gets to the point where I am supposed to log in, and then goes into "Blue Screen of Death" with a subsequent "Main Memory Dump". :surprised

Fortunately, I had emailed the presentation to the chair of the meeting.

I need to get a memory stick.

 

Memory sticks are quite handy. I can't believe how much I use mine now.

 

Whenever I go to a technical meeting, just about everyone has a memory stick in the pocket or on a string/tether around the neck. I presume they are safe from the airport X-ray machines.

I was finally successful in starting up the Laptop in Safe Mode. I just had to hold down the F8 key from the very beginning. So later I will retrieve what I need from the HD, and the bash the H@$& out of it. :grumpy:

 

Yep, they're pretty durable. I have two now, and am thinking of getting a third, but then I was drooling over the tiny external harddrives when I was at the Apple Store, so might get one of those for back-up. They have a couple that are no bigger than a spare battery for my laptop.

 

They key is redundancy - redundant backup and redundant power supply. Sorry to be so redundant.