Be Excellent To Each Other

Yes, it's true. My compy has finally kicked the bucket after eight years faithful and diligent service. It all began with that virus that I kept scrubbing. Eventually, I scrubbed too hard and combined with installing Win XP Service Pack 3, completely screwed my computer. Now when it boots it restarts every time it's about to get to the Windows Log In screen. Tried safe mode, last safe mode restore... nuthin'.

I need a new computer. I can't buy one until I get my bond back on July 1st. I don't have a registered XP disc or anything, a mate built the computer. So either I format and buy XP, or resign myself. (And I'm reluctant to buy XP 'cos I want Vista with the new system, for the DX10. I guess I could get Vista and try it on my current one but I only have 2 gigs of ram and a 2500 AMD single processor.)

Hmm...

Anyone got a spare XP disc and code going, that I could purchase for nay so much?

I've got a perfectly good XP disc somewhere that I could bring ya. PM me!

Are you not a student? If you are you can get XP free from your uni.

Nah, I work tragically.

Ta, mate! I shall shortly-ish.

You can always torrent a student version, as it does not need activation.

While crying and wailing?

Yes. The constantly hovering Greek Chorus makes shelving difficult, too.

Torrent it with his brain, maybe?

And then shout at a CD-R?

Better not get thoses 1s and 0s in the wrong order, he might open a portal through space and time.

Check a copy out of the library and tape it?

Actually - you quite often get bootable linux discs on magazine covers and the like, you could probably pick on up today and be back up and running, via the excitingly different linux. (obviously, do install XP again once you get it, as the novelty quickly wears off).

Doh, I just asscumed he had accss to a PC because he was posting

Last time I visited a library the internet access computers were 486s with the floppy drives glued shut.

Not to worry, the inevitable sarky comments made me laugh. All good!

Nah, I'll just have to swipe that one of Metal Angel's and then work out how to do my first format & install. No XP discs here in this library, or compy mags apart from PC Format.

Ooh... good job I saved my pics and abortive novels to a USB stick, eh?

He does get around the scamp.

There was this story in the paper today http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009 ... le-records And it made me think of that case. In a sort of tangential way.

Maybe they'll get him that way?

You mean.. he may have stuck again?

Buy a 360 Sorry to hear that, Pete. Hope you get it sorted soon.

man, everytime I get ready to make a joke like that, people always get in first.

By gum, let's not start with all these epoxy puns again.

Tsk, you wood start this sort of thing again. You think yourself super-ior?

Both of you are pritts, start adhering to the rules or else.

I think this thread should be loctite before it desolvents any further.

Bah! Humbol! I think we should sticky this thread securely to the front page!

Uhu! *flirts*

I can't think of any decent glue puns, so I'm just going to Copydex everyone else.

Glue

You won't eat our meat, but glue with our feet?

If a thread turns into yet another shit pun thread, could you at least mark it so in the thread title.

I am getting really quite annoyed with how many threads go this way, and would like to avoid having to read this crap.

It's almost as though puns should have their own thread, or something.

You'll never get that to stick.

Sorry.

Apologies Mr Dave, as I started it this time. Fair comment.
In my defence, the question was answered quite satisfactorily by then, so there wasn't much more to be discussed. And you could have stopped reading at that point.

CEASE!

/Robotwars voice

Righto. MetalAngel has hopefully solved my problems, being the wizard chap he is. Anyway, I'm looking forward to the joys of lengthy installations and driver hunting and so on to follow. I'll have to shift my music collection back on there as well. Garn.

It's rarely the first one that I object to, because it's generally clever and follows well. It's the pages after it of people trying their best to ram in some tangentially related pun that just doesn't fit.

Hurrah!

Formatted hard disc, installed XP - it worked! Glee! Thanks Steve! Exciting having so much free space to fill, currently only four gigs of seventy six are used. Now I've just got to get wireless working again and download drivers. Also need to rummage Microsoft Word from somewhere, though if anyone has a good freeware word processor suggestion, that'd be nice.

Open Office might be worth a look if you need MS compatibility.

It works! Excellent. And you were able to read my scribble of the serial. *thumbs up*

Ooh, does anyone know of a good online thing that converts passwords to ASCII 40bit script? Need it for the WEP, not sure if the old password to my house wireless is working or nay. The entire things borderline impenetrable, to be honest.

Hurrah!

I've done it, I'm back online! Updated sound card and video drivers and all is peachy. Well, almost all - I accidently installed/downloaded Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Naggathon to get to the Service Pack 3 download, and it rubs bitter salt into the wound of me being unable to install Win Media Player 11 due to the copy not being genuine... but never mind! Same as old.

Now to install service pack 3. Should be fun. Gngh.

Odd thread -- Windows 7 is free for a year... does it not run XP stuff very well? [Eyes .iso suspiciously].

Comes with a builtin xp virtual machine, so it should be peachy if you've got a decent box.

I agree. It's tacky.





















sorry

Gloy Vey! <Shakes head in exasperation>

Is that what a rabbi says while ejaculating?

No idea, though of course I'd have to download it to get it and I couldn't do that without installing XP. My machine ain't terribly fast either, so humble old XP is the best for me, I reckon.

Anyway, installed service pack 3 okay and just been playing TF2. I missed it. Just a shame I'm bunged up with a horrible cold at the moment.

Oh dear, are you okay for tomorrow?

Hope so. I've got tomorrow off so a lot of rest and I should be. Man, getting a cold on a weekend! What are the odds, a hundred to one!

Okay, keep us posted, eh?

Wilco, I'm not going anywhere. *Blub*

[Edit: Astonishingly, I misstyped this as: "Wilco, I'm not going anyway. *Blub*" And had to frantically nip back and correct. Phew.]

Yeah I'm going to chance Win7 on my laptop at some point but with half a gig of ram (the recommended being a full, whole gig) I'm not expecting it to be terribly happy.