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I Love Computers

07/03/2010 2:22 AM

Here's a good one. I started my Dell Laptop. A little window popped up in the lower right hand side of my screen. I asked me if I wanted to update my Hp programs. I like to stay as current as I can so I clicked the box that said "Continue." I have a wireless 3g modem. 10 minutes go by. I watched a picture of a desktop PC bounce a a few squares over to what I think was a picture of a printer. Then another window covers the first one. It says "run update." I hit "Continue." It tells me I must close down the first program. I do so promptly. I hit "Continue" on the, now second, window. (Fifteen minutes gone by, now mind you.) Now for five minutes I watch a little ball bounce back and forth between A desktop PC and a pic of a globe,Planet Earth I presume. Here's the kicker, the screen now prompts me "NO UPDATES AVAILABLE." hahahahahah I hit "Finish" and crack open a cold beer! I love computers!

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07/03/2010 3:32 AM

Join the club

You may want to check out some more super error messages that are waiting to grab unsuspecting you .... error messages

Here is a tip of the iceberg.....

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07/03/2010 3:41 AM

Yeah, whatever did we waste our time on before we had computers...TV?

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07/03/2010 5:26 AM

HP software (for cameras and printers) is some of the most unwieldy, resource-greedy stuff I've come across.

Next bit is off-topic.

Also have to vent some spleen re. the crap power supply in the HP M417 camera. I once walked up a very long, steep hill to get a snap of the view from the top. Switched on camera and started framing the view - red SOD - the rechargeables were dead. "No prob!" thought I, and bunged in a couple of new Energizer alkalines I'd brought along for just such an emergency. Switched on, lined up the shot, pressed the button - pic started saving (flashing LED). Bugger! RSOD before the save finished. I didn't get even one snap of that view! The alkalines were thansferred to the torch in my toolbox, and provided light when needed (couple of minutes every now and then) for many months.

In mitigation, when it did manage to take pics, they were pretty good.

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07/03/2010 6:05 AM

If it's any consolation the pic would prob have been dissapointing anyway.
I find views from hill tops tend to, you don't get the sense of height.
Took some on an Iron age hill fort a while back, where I'd carefully got a steep slope showing like an edge like this \ at one side of the shot it gave some idea of the slope otherwise it just looked flat.
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07/03/2010 7:38 AM

This is the view - it's stitched together from 4 shots I took the following year (Fuji Finepix S5700):

OK, maybe the hill's not that long & steep - but I'm getting on and I smoke way too much. (And I use hyperbole a million times more than I should ).

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07/03/2010 7:58 AM

Nice, I see you have a few steep edges which help to frame it and show the steepness.
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07/03/2010 9:11 AM

Thats a beautiful view. Where is that?

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07/03/2010 6:20 PM

The Blue Lagoon - Abereiddy, Pembrokeshire, South Wales.

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07/03/2010 10:45 PM

Del-

Maybe your hills are too short?
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07/18/2010 12:27 AM

I found another thing out the hard way. Don't ever have an "uncapped" red Sharpie magic marker in you pocket, then lean over the back of of a laptop to plug something into a USB port. I now have a bright red line on my screen LOL!

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