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Thought I'd stick this in here rather than start a new thread. A stroke of pure and rarely seen (at least in our garden, my wife is a small bird feeder and hates any threat to them) a beautifull sparrow-hawk perched on the fence long enouigh to grab a quick pic with the camera. Gorgeous birds even though they are predators.
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Again, not wanting to start a new thread for a triviality but I've just had two days of stress because my beloved old Dell computer fin ally gave up the ghost. I've lost a whole load of items from my documents and my picturers and had to go out buy a refurbished computer. My computer needs are pretty basic these days (I worked for 17 years at The National Computing Centre in Manchester) , art, dance and football supporting but I'd be lost with no pc. Problem is I used Windows XP Professional for years and loved its simplicity. This new beast has Windows 10 and I feel a bit like Dan Dare and Digby must have felt in Issue One of The Eagle comic way back in the dark ages about 1950. I'll apologise in advance for what may be a little messy till I pass my splutter test. My wife has a laptop with Windows 8.5 (I sound like I know what I'm talking about, but she's helping me along right now. ) Anyway, I thought I'd make early excuses until I progress some. 😆
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I know the feeling Jim and can sympathise. I have an old desktop pc with Windows 7, which does what I want albeit quite slowly these days. When it finally dies I shall have to struggle with Windows 10, and unlike you no-one to help. However you've reminded me to catch up on about a year's worth of backing up! Was a tech person able to retrieve anything from the Dell?
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Thanks for the helpful inputs. I'm a total minimalist is other things than painting. My mobile phone is for absolute necessities and I only use, e-mail, the local newspaper and a few select hobby programmes etc. I even have my own T.V to avoid all the soap noneses that my wife follows. I'd sooner have my hair pulled out by the roots than watch shows like Jeremiah K and sex island etc.
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If it's any consolation, it certainly won't be of any help, my Windows 10 computer died on me a month or so ago, and I've been using a borrowed machine running Linux (I'm certainly not running it...). Every morning the ******* thing crashes, screen freezes, or it just won't boot to start with. So, while I find Linux perfectly good when it works, and the problem may be nothing to do with Linux anyway, I am now in search of a new computer, and fortunately have people to help me. I entirely relate to Jim's 'stress' point - not knowing when the old bucket is going to give out on me, but sure that it will, my work has been, shall we say, punctuated.
One word of comfort though - while Windows 10 has its annoying little ways, including bloody Cortana (which I did manage to disable on the old machine, but yes it will still have been chuntering away somewhere), I found it a fairly seamless transition from Windows 7; I'm not so sure the computer did, but then it, like me, was getting on a bit. Don't be nervous of it - just make sure you get a computer able to run it properly: I've had to go looking, and notice that the price has come down remarkably since I last bought a 'puter.
Back up your files though, Jim: no computer will last forever, and the moment at which you think you'll be friends for life, it'll turn up its toes and utter a despairing gurgle.
I'm hoping this one will last me until I get a new one ...... but what is that most disturbing noise it's making at the moment......?
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Robert and all:
The reasons for all our problems seems to be the insane desire of the modern world to re-invent the wheel every anum. We have something that is initially a little complicated (I worked for a major computing firm although not in I.T and my first pc had a black screen, green text and one game of pacman table tennis, along with Wordstar) but we learn, get used to and eventually master.
Fine, along come the next generation of inventors who complicate things out of sight and tell us they are improvements which, decidedly they are not. It goes alongside the same insanity experts in our native language by adding all sort of nonsensical new ways to describe cats, dogs and meat pies in language that even beloved Jane Austen couldn't cope with and would describe as "insupportable". I realise if they didn't do this we'd all eventually master everything and put all the universities out of business, but which is the lesser of two evils; we all only live for one hundred years max if we're exceedingly fortunate, so pension, T.V licences and bus passes aren't, as we are told, breaking the country's back but anyway can eventually be replaced by fund organisers climbing Mount Kilamanjaro, walking the great wall of China and winning IronPerson (all in gap years of course as too much stress is a killer). All these things are so that The Inland Grabalot and other government bodies can fund their overseas villas , yachts and restaurant bills without actually doing much. "Privateisation" I believe is the word, totally unable to accept that Since Oliver Cromwell and co were running Number Ten, River Thames Drive, we haven't actually moved anywhere government wise except backwards.
Ah well, another twenty years and at least the housing and immigration problems may be solved as half the population will be shipped off to the moon, Mars etc. The world owes a lot to H.G.Wells, Aldus Huxley, Dan Dare, and even Bob Dylan who warned us "The times they are a changing". We just didn't listen, or at least the robber barons didn't. There, I feel better for that little rant. Achieved nothing, but hey, that's how it crumbles or your house falls down.
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