WAIT I'm not through whining :-(

[Evo]

Of course you are well aware that this is a pretty sure suicide attempt.

Just checking to see if anyone was paying attention.

 

[turbo]

I don't know anyone that cleans with bleah. I thought that was confined to the Peanuts strip.

 

[turbo]

If you pour ammonia into chlorine bleach, it will create chlorine gas, but chlorine is an "honest" poison because it will irritate you and force you to leave the area before it can kill you. I don't recommend it, but it is a much safer gas than Hydrogen Sulfide, which in high enough concentrations can kill your sense of smell AND be concentrated enough to kill you.

 

[tim_lou]

I didn't read the whole thread and I'm not sure if the computer problem is fixed yet.

Anyway, I've had some windows no boot problem and the best way to restore the back up files is to pop in a linux live cd. It'll mount your harddrive using linux so you may copy things to other media.

Also, if you have a windows XP disk lying around, pop it in and boot to restore mode, then type
chkdsk C: /f
this will run the checkdisk utility in your windows CD. That fixed my sister's laptop's no boot problem. She couldn't go into windows nor safety mode. She was also installing some software which failed, then whenever she restarts her laptop, it would just give blue screen (about 1/10 of a second and restart). We took a camera and apparently that blue image says something like chkdsk... that's how we figured out what to do.
you can run
chkdsk C: /f /r
that will check for bad sectors but might take a while longer to finish.

And if all things fail, you could get that harddrive out, get a linux machine and do a complete imaging of that harddrive to another one. I believe there are certain free linux (detective style) restoring programs that you can use to try to recover things.

 

[Andre]

I didn't read the whole thread and I'm not sure if the computer problem is fixed yet.

Anyway, I've had some windows no boot problem and the best way to restore the back up files is to pop in a linux live cd. It'll mount your harddrive using linux so you may copy things to other media.

Also, if you have a windows XP disk lying around, pop it in and boot to restore mode, then type
chkdsk C: /f
this will run the checkdisk utility in your windows CD. That fixed my sister's laptop's no boot problem. She couldn't go into windows nor safety mode.
you can run
chkdsk C: /f /r
that will check for bad sectors but might take a while longer to finish.

It appears that you just posted in the wrong window.

 

[dlgoff]

... but it is a much safer gas than Hydrogen Sulfide, which in high enough concentrations can kill your sense of smell AND be concentrated enough to kill you.

IIRC. You can detect its smell at about 2 ppb but at 20 ppb the nose can't detect it.

 

[turbo]

IIRC. You can detect its smell at about 2 ppb but at 20 ppb the nose can't detect it.

That's about right. If the concentration is high enough to kill you, you can't smell it. I was a process chemist in a pulp mill and had primary authority (on my shift) for operating a Class IV waste-water treatment plant. Hydrogen Sulfide was a major concern because it could be generated in copious quantities if the pH of the Pulp mill effluent dropped. I stayed in regular (several times an hour) contact with the hourly employee who was responsible for starting, stopping, valving-in pumps, etc.

 

[Evo]

I often clean with bleach. Ultra cheap and does a great job. The guy that installed my tile floors told me to just add a bit of bleach to a bucket of water to mop the floors. I use bleach on my laminate counter tops, use it to clean toilet bowls ( no need for that expensive toilet bowl cleaner). It kills mold, so is great any place that is damp.

 

[Hurkyl]

I often clean with bleach. Ultra cheap and does a great job. The guy that installed my tile floors told me to just add a bit of bleach to a bucket of water to mop the floors. I use bleach on my laminate counter tops, use it to clean toilet bowls ( no need for that expensive toilet bowl cleaner). It kills mold, so is great any place that is damp.

Let's see... Evo overuses bleach... bleach is a hazardous material... Evo is very clumsy... what can we infer from this?

 

[turbo]

Let's see... Evo overuses bleach... bleach is a hazardous material... Evo is very clumsy... what can we infer from this?

She's not dead yet, so bleach is perfectly safe!

 

[~christina~]

why is my screen icons and menu bar blinking??

I know it's a virus..that same one that made my desktop icons disapear the last time, but why they keep blinking on and off now is beyond me. At least nothing is disapearing.

 

[lisab]

why is my screen icons and menu bar blinking??

I know it's a virus..that same one that made my desktop icons disapear the last time, but why they keep blinking on and off now is beyond me. At least nothing is disapearing.

Maybe it's tapeworms, or Giardia...

 

[tim_lou]

You can try to hit alt-ctrl-del to see if there are any suspicious processes running. Try to close some of them to see if the blinking stops.

 

[Red Rum]

Maybe it's tapeworms, or Giardia...

In which case Evo's bleach will probably do the trick

 

[Red Rum]

Gulp it down, guaranteed inner cleanliness

 

[Evo]

Hey, I answered your pm.

 

[qspeechc]

My life is just a long story about viruses. I spend one month getting rid of one virus, only to find I have four more. But that's life on the internet right.

 

[Evo]

My life is just a long story about viruses. I spend one month getting rid of one virus, only to find I have four more. But that's life on the internet right.

Not if you have proper protection, what are you using?

 

[mgb_phys]

Not if you have proper protection, what are you using?

Bleach !

 

[Andre]

Bleach !

Careful, mgb, bleach may be harmful to irony.

 

[Red Rum]

Not if you have proper protection, what are you using?

It just invites too many answers, doesn't it!

 

[Moonbear]

It just invites too many answers, doesn't it!

Just one answer comes to my mind. Evo should consider it...I think a latex wrapper around the computer would protect it from coffee spitting too.

 

[Red Rum]

Just one answer comes to my mind. Evo should consider it...I think a latex wrapper around the computer would protect it from coffee spitting too.

The barrier approach is rather crude and not very elegant and the failure rate unacceptably high by all accounts

 

[Red Rum]

Typically I use a belt and braces approach. Use the barrier as a last resort but perform a trajectory analysis to identify and then eliminate the source and establish standard operating procedures with appropriate one point lessons (diagrammatic, of course) to minimise the risk of a reccurrence.

 

[hypatia]

My SOP is to turn sideways in my chair, drink the coffee, swallow, then turn back to the PC.

 

[Red Rum]

My SOP is to turn sideways in my chair, drink the coffee, swallow, then turn back to the PC.

That's not very lean. With a good OPL you'll soon be able to drink your coffee while facing the PC

 

[Evo]

Oh, I think Evo Child has a new boyfriend. I saw a picture of him on her phone today, cute guy. And for those of you guys that always whine about girls wanting "bad boy" types (which is absolutely not true of intelligent girls/women), all she talks about is how nice he is.

Anyway the leg is healing up nicely, I swear Neosporin can cure anything.

 

[turbo]

Anyway the leg is healing up nicely, I swear Neosporin can cure anything.

I think you should get a transfusion of Keith Richards' blood. That could make you last longer than cockroaches.

 

[Red Rum]

Oh, I think Evo Child has a new boyfriend. I saw a picture of him on her phone today, cute guy.
It's George Clooney, isn't it?
Anyway the leg is healing up nicely, I swear Neosporin can cure anything.

Great. I'll try it for my gout.

 

[Andre]

Oh, I think Evo Child has a new boyfriend. I saw a picture of him on her phone today, cute guy.
It's George Clooney, isn't it?

Perhaps, can't tell

Anyway the leg is healing up nicely, I swear Neosporin can cure anything.

Great. I'll try it for my gout.

I'll try it too then.