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FatRakoon

FatRakoon

FatRakoon

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I am at this time, stuck in Hospital yet again, having yet another OP on my leg.

So, naturally, I am not at home.

I do have my lappy and I asked my wife if she could put some linux ISOs ont oa flash drive for me to piddle about with on a VM just to kind of relieve the boredom more than anything, but she had to confess somethign to me...

She has broken the main PC somehow?

When I asked her what was wrong, she said that my mate had used it last, but now when she went to the computer, the screen was all silly lines and the mouse didnt work.

Immeditately, I thought the GFX card might be iffy because Its the third in a line of that very same card to do this.

Anyway, in typical women fashion, she was going nuts with me blaming her of breaking it, when I said nothing of the sort, hell it just happens sometimes, and no one is to blame, it just the bad luck of the draw sometimes as you all know.

Anyway, she had calmed down and now she took it to text messages in case she got upset.

We talked about it, I said that this is not a problem and she could simply use one of the laptops in stead. I explained that the PC does not need to be on for the internet to work because thats the box on the shelf above it and as long as there is some green lights on it and no red ones, the laptops will work just fine.

And eventually after some 3 hours of texting back and forth, she then told me that she had seen the same squiggly mines in the past, but it got worse since I did a fresh install.

It was at that very moment, the penny dropped.

Its the Windows 8 screensaver isnt it!!!

I told her to start the PC back up and tell me what happens... A few seconds later she said the desktop was up. I then told her that all it is, is that I have not yet done the power stuff and that the PC will go to sleep if its left alone for a while and you will have to press the power button again to get it back up... I never got round to it because I was rushed into hospital before I could finish the reinstall, and I got my kids to do what they knew what to do.

But at least it has finally calmed her down eh?

Ok, so probably nothign big, but Im bored here... Thats a massive bit of news for me right now. LOL
 
I liked the bit where you took it to text messages in case she got upset the best. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time! Have you ever considered writing a screenplay or novel?

Hope your leg is ok.
 
Hahaha! Just to confirm you'd like her to burn some iso to flash but she didn't work out a screen saver?

Hope the ops not too serious :) speedy recovery hopefully.
 
Efour said:
well thats all i needed to push me to go to bed.... thanks.

get well soon
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Glad the PC problem appears to be sorted, and wishing you a speedy recovery!

What are hospital's / general NHS attitude on internet access these days? I recall years ago when wifi/mobiles was prohibited, then later wifi was offered but it cost something stupid like £6/day. I'm guessing you can bring in your 3G stick and mobile these days? Or is there still captive market operating on the wards?
 
Monserrat said:
Glad the PC problem appears to be sorted, and wishing you a speedy recovery!

What are hospital's / general NHS attitude on internet access these days? I recall years ago when wifi/mobiles was prohibited, then later wifi was offered but it cost something stupid like £6/day. I'm guessing you can bring in your 3G stick and mobile these days? Or is there still captive market operating on the wards?
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I'm pretty sure I'd just be bringing in my 3G stick/tether from phone regardless of some ban...
 
Well **** me. I just finished watching Wolf of Wallstreet and thought that was an entertaining life to live, but the Op has just ruined it for me and now I wish I had some Linux ISOs instead :(

Ever thought of pitching it to the movie companies?
 
When I asked her what was wrong, she said that my mate had used it last, but now when she went to the computer, the screen was all silly lines and the mouse didnt work.
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So while you are stuck in hospital your mate is back at yours with your missus using your PC....
 
Am I the only one expecting that you found out your mate was smashing your good lady's pasty while you laid up?

Epic build up though, was like the opening scene to Casualty except no one ended up in the wood chipper
 
so there we were at 2.
30am.
I was wishing I'd never come to cadet training school.
To the south lay water.
We couldn't cross that.
East and west, two armies squeezed us in a pincer.
The only way was north.
I had to go for it and pray the gods were smiling on me.
I picked up the dice and threw two sixes.
Caldicott couldn't believe it.
My go again.
Another two sixes! Rimmer, don't you realise that no one is slightly interested in anything you say? You've got this psychological defect which blinds you to the fact that you're boring people to death.
How come you can't sense that? Anyway, I picked up the dice again Unbelievable! Another two sixes! Rimmer! No one wants to know some stupid story about how you beat your cadet school training officer at "Risk".
Then disaster! I threw a two and a three.
Caldicott threw snake eyes.
I was still in it! - Cat, can you talk to him? - What? Anyway, to cut a long story short, I threw a five and a four, another double six, followed by a double five, then a six and a three.
This guy could bore for his country.
How can you remember what dice you threw in a game you played when you were 17? I jotted it down in my "Risk" campaign book.
I always did that so I could replay my moments of glory over a glass of brandy in the sleeping quarters.
- What better way to spend a Saturday night? - You got me.
So, he came back with a three and a two Rimmer, can't you tell the story is not gripping me? I'm in a state of non-grippedness.
I am completely smegging ungripped.
Shut the smeg up! Don't you want to hear the "Risk" story? That's what I've been saying for 15 minutes.
I haven't got to the really interesting bit.
- What really interesting bit? - Ah, well, that was about two hours later, after I'd thrown a four and a one.
- I picked up the dice - Hang on.
- This is the same as the dull bit.
- You don't know what I did with the dice.
I could have jammed them up his nostrils and they could have blasted out of his ears.
- That would've been interesting.
- OK.
What did you do with the dice? I threw a five and a two.
- And that's the really interesting bit? - Well, it got me into Irkutsk.
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