Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

the rain has arrived - we are down to a mere 24C! No massive storms just November grey skies terrible humidity this am, it rained at 5am, then again at about 11,1300, and 1700. It does mean I don't have to get dressed and water the plants and the air is slightly cooler - but I really really want a BIG MASSIVE THUNDERSTORM TO TAKE THE HEAT AWAY TOTALLY!!!

I mightt feel better if it does!

No huge thunderstorms here but some heavy rain - still humid but cooler at least!

still raining........temperature not low enough yet.........its pathetic rain..just right for the pansies etc!!

Richard Ruck wrote:

huntertitus wrote:I went out on my bike today in the (to some) intolerable heat

I found that if you move in slow motion you can actually keep quite cool

The people I most pity is those who are rushing to work on the London underground at rush hour

Pray for them!

by the way - Ora pro nobis meand pray for us

What is the latin for Pray for them?

Ora pro eius?

Ora pro eis.

Or orate pro eis if you want more than one person to do the praying.

I DID IT I DID IT I DID IT!

I found out why they're green. They're the people that learnt stuff at school. I knew the first one (ora pro nobis) so maybe I learnt a tiny bit, but only from being in the choir, but they actually know Latin so they can use it. Ha. Green = clever.

in that case can I have pink - that way no one will ask me questions I can't answer - like "how are you feeling today?" - errrrrrrrr ummmmmmm errrr umm 9do I tell the truth, or glisendo over how I really feel??)

so for those of us who can't get to being green, or who know we no longer have brain as there is now cotton wool, can we go pink?

I went green overnight. It just happened when I was asleep, so it can't be anything to do with brain power.

Just to let you know I'm back, so those of you that thought sanity had decided to dwell on this forum are mistaken.

I GORGEOUS long weekend away in Peacehaven and Brighton. Loads of sun and even more alcohol.

On return, I found a decidedly sick computer. Various cat-sitting grand-children were suspected of inviting a virus onto the hard-drive. A two day wait for our friendly computer doc. to arrive and remove the sick tower.

It transpired the power control unit in the tower had decided to play silly b*ggers, so 40 quid poorer, and I'm back !

Do you want us to feel sad for you? or give you any sympathy??? Most of us deal with computer glitches on a daily basis!

The computer I use at work is so old that the the battery died and the time was going backwards.

I bet you didn't even know that computers had a battery did you?

Now the cd/dvd writer is playing up !


SCREAM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Poor JR!!

OK I can offer you advice, or you can pay me (in hours) to fix it, or send it to me and I wil fit it..

Unless of course you are able to all the above and fix it yourself.... I have asick Toshiba laptop coming to pay a visit - this house is fast becoming a home for down and outs! Computers, odd animals, cars, (usually my sons!) and people in need of food and nuture for a few days (one coming next week!)

and all you worry about is the drivers are not working on your pc?????

1: go to the control panel, open system icon and remove the cd/dvd/ writer from your system.
2. make sure you have the cd handy and the restore disk in case of ememrgency
3. reboot pc - if you are XP or higher then the pc will find the hardware and look for the driver - put in the cd and select the correct driver - tally ho it should after another reboot work!

Jude wrote:Poor JR!!

OK I can offer you advice, or you can pay me (in hours) to fix it, or send it to me and I wil fit it..

Unless of course you are able to all the above and fix it yourself.... I have asick Toshiba laptop coming to pay a visit - this house is fast becoming a home for down and outs! Computers, odd animals, cars, (usually my sons!) and people in need of food and nuture for a few days (one coming next week!)

and all you worry about is the drivers are not working on your pc?????

1: go to the control panel, open system icon and remove the cd/dvd/ writer from your system.
2. make sure you have the cd handy and the restore disk in case of ememrgency
3. reboot pc - if you are XP or higher then the pc will find the hardware and look for the driver - put in the cd and select the correct driver - tally ho it should after another reboot work!

Unfortunately, we were silly enough to buy a computer from the now defunct Tiny Computers. Everything pre-installed, with only a disc to restore the machine to it's factory settings which is fine if you want to spend a couple of days re-installing all your previously saved files.

The CD is reading fine. It's only when you try to burn from cd, or do a disc copy for back-up, the system slows down and eventually tells us the writeable cd 'isn't writeable, which it IS!

It's approaching it's fourth birthday, so maybe getting beyond it's sell-by date. As you can now pick up a very good cd/dvd rw for around 30 quid, that may be the option. Only other possibility is that the laser is dirty, and I can't find my cd lens cleaner at the moment. Probably one of the grand-daughters on the 'borrow' again !

J.R. wrote:

Jude wrote:Poor JR!!

OK I can offer you advice, or you can pay me (in hours) to fix it, or send it to me and I wil fit it..

Unless of course you are able to all the above and fix it yourself.... I have asick Toshiba laptop coming to pay a visit - this house is fast becoming a home for down and outs! Computers, odd animals, cars, (usually my sons!) and people in need of food and nuture for a few days (one coming next week!)

and all you worry about is the drivers are not working on your pc?????

1: go to the control panel, open system icon and remove the cd/dvd/ writer from your system.
2. make sure you have the cd handy and the restore disk in case of ememrgency
3. reboot pc - if you are XP or higher then the pc will find the hardware and look for the driver - put in the cd and select the correct driver - tally ho it should after another reboot work!

Unfortunately, we were silly enough to buy a computer from the now defunct Tiny Computers. Everything pre-installed, with only a disc to restore the machine to it's factory settings which is fine if you want to spend a couple of days re-installing all your previously saved files.

The CD is reading fine. It's only when you try to burn from cd, or do a disc copy for back-up, the system slows down and eventually tells us the writeable cd 'isn't writeable, which it IS!

It's approaching it's fourth birthday, so maybe getting beyond it's sell-by date. As you can now pick up a very good cd/dvd rw for around 30 quid, that may be the option. Only other possibility is that the laser is dirty, and I can't find my cd lens cleaner at the moment. Probably one of the grand-daughters on the 'borrow' again !

Sir thinks that Tiny is operating again (yes he has a Tiny computer) although not selling machines. He suggests trying the help line

midget wrote:

J.R. wrote:

Jude wrote:Poor JR!!

OK I can offer you advice, or you can pay me (in hours) to fix it, or send it to me and I wil fit it..

Unless of course you are able to all the above and fix it yourself.... I have asick Toshiba laptop coming to pay a visit - this house is fast becoming a home for down and outs! Computers, odd animals, cars, (usually my sons!) and people in need of food and nuture for a few days (one coming next week!)

and all you worry about is the drivers are not working on your pc?????

1: go to the control panel, open system icon and remove the cd/dvd/ writer from your system.
2. make sure you have the cd handy and the restore disk in case of ememrgency
3. reboot pc - if you are XP or higher then the pc will find the hardware and look for the driver - put in the cd and select the correct driver - tally ho it should after another reboot work!

Unfortunately, we were silly enough to buy a computer from the now defunct Tiny Computers. Everything pre-installed, with only a disc to restore the machine to it's factory settings which is fine if you want to spend a couple of days re-installing all your previously saved files.

The CD is reading fine. It's only when you try to burn from cd, or do a disc copy for back-up, the system slows down and eventually tells us the writeable cd 'isn't writeable, which it IS!

It's approaching it's fourth birthday, so maybe getting beyond it's sell-by date. As you can now pick up a very good cd/dvd rw for around 30 quid, that may be the option. Only other possibility is that the laser is dirty, and I can't find my cd lens cleaner at the moment. Probably one of the grand-daughters on the 'borrow' again !

Sir thinks that Tiny is operating again (yes he has a Tiny computer) although not selling machines. He suggests trying the help line

Thanks Margaret. To be honest, I wouldn't waist my time with 'em. When we bought the equipment we purchased the full maintenance contract on the same credit card, then they got bought out by 'Time', who refused to honour the agreement, so we had to go through the Ombudsman to get that part of the credit transaction refunded.

Our local friendly 'puter doc is an ex, disgruntled employee of the former mentioned company. 'Nuff said ??

most of us who now do it for friends etc are disgruntled employees of some PC company - I used to be IBM - I've Been Moved!

but then we were the revoluntanaries of the time - before timy and time itself!

perhaps that's why we know more about the nuts and bolts?

ho hum.........