Murk: But you're a God! The Sacred Glorificus! Glory: I'm a God in exile. Far from the Hellfires of Home and sharing my body with an enemy that stabs my boys in their fleshy little stomachs!
'Dirty Girls'
Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."
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Dana - May 18, 2015 4:43:03 pm PDT #24468 of 25496
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Amy - May 19, 2015 3:17:03 am PDT #24469 of 25496
Because books.
Dana! You're awesome.
Dana - May 19, 2015 8:14:36 am PDT #24470 of 25496
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Thank the IT guy at my last job. Hooray!
omnis_audis - May 20, 2015 6:28:49 am PDT #24471 of 25496
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
How frelled is my old laptop? It is stuck in update mode. The screen has said the "do not power down. Installing 1 of 31 updates" for over 8 HOURS!
It's about 5 year old laptop. Compaq single core guy running Win7 home premium. It's USB ports have become less responsive of late, and the processor just spikes with no apps running. I've done security scans, and it's come up clean. It's become rather frustrating.
So is this update thing a death nail in its coffin?
Wolfram - May 20, 2015 7:46:16 am PDT #24472 of 25496
Visilurking
I had that happen with a cheap Acer laptop that I was updating to windows 8.1. It took about 25 hours for the first update, no joke.
omnis_audis - May 20, 2015 7:58:47 am PDT #24473 of 25496
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Holy motherboard, Batman. That is crazy!
Ok, I will leave it spinning while at work.
Jon B. - May 20, 2015 9:20:07 am PDT #24474 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Omnis: [link]
DXMachina - May 20, 2015 10:51:44 am PDT #24475 of 25496
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Of course Microsoft tells you everything except the required first step for those resolution steps, which is to unplug the frelling thing and restart it, so that it won't be frozen anymore and you can actually carry on with the troubleshooting.
omnis_audis - May 20, 2015 4:30:20 pm PDT #24476 of 25496
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Thanks for the link, Jon. And the reminder to power down first, DX. When I got home, it's showing "shutting down...". No clue how long it's been in that state. I'll cook dinner and come back to it. There is a swirly thing still moving, so it's not frozen.
sj - May 21, 2015 2:14:02 pm PDT #24477 of 25496
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
My computer just came back from repairs for something else, and now it is working when plugged in but not charging. I can't bring it back to the shop until they re-open tomorrow, but any advice on what could be wrong?