…of people saying I need to get out more, have a life etc etc.

Today I decided to build a Unix machine - that is to say a COMPLETELY FREE operating system and office suite of applications.
Some minor bug fixing and fun with printers gave me a surprisingly good machine :)
Email, surfing, document creation etc. were all as good as any Microsoft based system – more so if you take into consideration the price.

Perhaps this warrants more investigation…

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Had to laugh today…

Whilst on site at one of my clients, one of the girls noticed that the printer was fading out in the centre of the page.
She correctly decided to change the cartridge, but was a little surprised when the subsequent test print exhibited EXACTLY the same error.
Much trauma and unhappy rumblings ensued, along with replacing the cartridge again.
Then she noticed her error…
She had, in an attempt to “save the planet”, reinserted the original page into the printer to test print the new cartridge on the reverse.
Unfortunately, she neglected to look on the reverse for the perfect print of the document, instead electing to notice that the original side still had the same error.

She’s not even blond

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Simply a matter of damaged Windows Profile today – the client panicked (quite rightly) when all their documents and email etc. ‘vanished’.
They were, of course, still there, just not available without a little digging.

Roche to the rescue :idea:

Recovered and rebuilt – nothing missing

And hopefully jump started the client in to using the server to store all his files

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… for postings, but a busy week for me!

Feels like I have travelled the length and breadth of the county fixing the world!

Installed a new spam killer into WordPress too - Got kinda sick of nuking too many spam comments
Check the footer out for the current running total!

It’s a networking breakfast day – so I’m off for a sleep.
It’s bloomin’ early for me

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Today was a great test of my ingenuity – I had to install windows XP Pro, from DOS (those that remember that far back will get all nostalgic at this moment, and probably curse the GUI based OS’s!)

No optical media drive (CD or DVD rom)
No USB for a memory stick
No network to copy the files from
Just me and a floppy disc and a copy of XP Pro on CD

Hmm…

Got it on though

Now I have about 6 hours of updating to look forward to

The joy of things technical is never ending

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