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Oh holy God, today sucked.
Biggest problem of today? The TV. Or maybe it was just the rubbish being chosen by my family. It was so bad I went and sat outside in the increasing wind to get away from it. Location Location Location followed by Ground Force followed by some awful cheesy kid film followed by old Poirot and then more freakin’ Ground Force.
It got so bad I told my brother I would have a look at his laptop which had been running a ‘little slowly’. 10 minutes after turning the evil thing on Windows finally loaded… with a huge number of ‘antivirus’ programs. All of which had viruses and adware and you name it attached. Turns out my darling baby 23 year old brother had switched off and disabled his antivirus software after a scan started making a game he was playing run a little slowly… and that was a week ago… oh, and he hadn’t downloaded any updates for it in a couple of months!
Then the damn thing started BSOD-ing and that was me left with two choices: -
- Throw the damn thing out of a window
- Wipe and start again.
Because I knew he would be quite pissed off if I threw it I grabbed the recovery disk and loaded everything back up. Luckilly he is good at keeping his files of flash drives so the only thing he was going to lose was his music… At this I would be crying my eys out proclaiming the end of the world, he wasn’t bothered – walking away with a ‘I’ll just transfer your iTunes library to my computer.’
And by ‘I’ll…’ he meant, ‘You, sister, will do it becasue you are quite the mug.’
And the stick he gave me to do it with? 512Mb. Yeah, it took some time!
My reward for transferring at 16 Gig this way? An episode of American Chopper (the best thing on) and a piece of my Mum’s chocolate cake.
The cake was particularly tasty as, other than a tiny bit of dinner, this was the first thing I had eaten all day – new thing – not hungry. Which can only help the losing of weight!
But I made my brother take the oath to never switch off his antivirus again… He, taking the easy way out, has started looking at the Apple Store. So in his head,right now is a small fight – Sony Vaio vs MacBook. Easy for me but as he said, James Bond uses a Vaio…
9 Responses to “Bank Holiday Monday”
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August 26th, 2008 at 12:37 am
I took advantage of the lack of good telly to watch ‘Miss Potter’, which I recorded when it was on sometime ago.
And yes, I guess if one wants to buy an overpriced laptop the choice would be Sony versus Apple.
August 26th, 2008 at 1:12 am
I am a PC fanboy, and I’ll never switch to a Mac. Like Luke Skywalker once said, “I’ll never join you!”
I used to be the go to guy for many of my family’s computer problems, but I haven’t had anyone ask for my help in a long time. Maybe I’m just that good.
I commend you for fixing the problem. I know it must have been very tedious.
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August 26th, 2008 at 1:37 am
yorksdevil – I was given that DVD for my birthday and haven’t, as yet, gotten round to watching it. My brother is all about the overpriced now having had too many chap laptop horrors!
Paul Johns – Next up for me is the family PC – a 5 year old POS Dell. I’ve been putting this one off for a long time. I must admit to hugging my MacBook afterwards… but that’s just because I am quite tragic!
August 26th, 2008 at 6:31 am
I’d pick the Vaio as I hear it’s a fine laptop to wipe winders and install Ubuntu Linux on. For the win I feel.
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August 26th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Your brother is damn lucky to have you! You must have the patience of a saint ;o)
Oh and I have a Vaio, but my company bought it for me. It is terribly sexy ;o)
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August 26th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
That’s when you pull out a gun and just shoot the stupid computer. It’s Windows… the world won’t miss it.
August 26th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
Kevin Spencer – Ubuntu – ah, how I loved it when I had my PC. May be the winner after all! Heh, just running that conversation in my head!
Penelope – Your company loves you very very much! I have the patience of a small goldfish normally, I think I was too tired to put up any resistance!
kapgar – Ah, the shoot it and have glee method – I’d forgotten about that as an alternative to formatting! Thank you for the reminder!
August 27th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Bec, next time a Miss Marple double bill is on the box I may give my old laptop some attention. Any hints or tips on how to solve a “forearm smash” catastrophe?
It was running a little slow, now it runs away at great speed from me when I approach!
I don’t understand, we used to have such a loving relationship, my little flattened breeze block and I. Maybe It is jealousy rearing its ugly head. It seems ever since I rang that Dell date line and got me a younger more powerful machine things have wained, but can you blame me?
August 27th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Martin Howarth – a forearm smash catastrophe can only really be fixed by dinner and a movie… and maybe a nice bunch of flowers.