Windows 10

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

One school I worked in had a break glass type fire alarm in stalled next to a basket ball hoop - fair few false alarms there !

IanS

[Techno]

 

You have to be kidding, Ian. 
Sadly......You're probably not ! 

(Truth is often stranger than 'friction'.)

Cheers - Phil

[d_Guy]

Thanks for the commiseration Techno!
There was a day when I could more or less fix most anything on my car and, to a lesser extent, my computers - those days are long gone.
Have most of it sorted out by turning off (forever I hope) several new Windows apps. Norton 360 is back in charge. The display is more or less fixed but am now running an app that claims it will fix the problem (without re-writing the driver don't know how that's possible) so we'll see.

I still like W10 - it still runs the major programs I use and love the One Drive interoperability with my Apple stuff.

Once at work a lightning strike took out our UPS and set fire to our Novell server (an event I actually thought impossible) while one guy ran to get the halon extinguisher, we yanked all the drives (they were hot swappable). This actually worked.

[Techno]

You're welcome, 'Guy'. 

Having downloaded Open Office this morning, what's peed me off, is that anything I've used it for (Just test 'documents', so far,) doesn't go straight onto my hard drive (which is where I want to save things....Not the frigging cloud.).....It bogs off onto 'One drive.'....(I'm sorry...I hate that !)..I'm sure I can sort something out on that, even with my lack of computer skills.

I truly do not have the slightest trust in Microsoft now.....(I haven't for months now, anyway !  )

When THIS PC gives up the ghost......I'll make damn sure that the next one I get uses (or gets converted to) Linux as an OS.

Cheers - Phil

[Ithoriel]

From within OpenOffice Writer
1) Go to Tools > Options.
2) Expand the OpenOffice section and highlight "Paths"
3) On the right side (where it says, "Paths used by OpenOffice"), highlight My Documents and click Edit (or just double-click My Documents).
4) The Select Path window opens where you can tell OpenOffice where to put your saved docs (or spreadsheets, etc.)
5) Click OK, OK, and you're good to go!

[toxicpixie]

The Windows 10 Anniversary update seems to have screwed a shed load of machines, knocking off lots of exciting Windows components. all of these machines seem to belong to my places customers 

[Techno]

From within OpenOffice Writer
1) Go to Tools > Options.
2) Expand the OpenOffice section and highlight "Paths"
3) On the right side (where it says, "Paths used by OpenOffice"), highlight My Documents and click Edit (or just double-click My Documents).
4) The Select Path window opens where you can tell OpenOffice where to put your saved docs (or spreadsheets, etc.)
5) Click OK, OK, and you're good to go!

Thanks Mike.

That sounds a lot simpler than the way I did it a few minutes ago.

Basically....Drag and drop, to where I wanted things to go...(And sod one drive).....

I'll do that......Very soon.

Then Mrs T won't wonder why her horsey stuff isn't easily 'findable'.

Cheers - Phil

[d_Guy]

Pixie it IS the W10 anniversary - Dang! That explains a lot!
Cortana was back up and running and it had logged me into Skype (I don't have webcam). Have killed d'em b**ches!

The app (which I bought for about $17 per year) is called  "Driver Update" (by Slimware). it is very highly rated by CNet and PCworld.
It found 5 driver issues - the AMD video being my prime concern. It then got an AMD driver (that is completely different then any I would have picked) - loaded it and budabing it works!

Have now turned it loose on the other issues it found.

This is NOT how I wanted to spend two days! 

[paulr]

Brand new computer room, fire safety rules required a power kill switch for the whole room near the door

A few days after room was commissioned the engineer in charge of building the room turned out the lights as he left...

Wrong switch, turned off way more than the lights

The following day the kill switch had a cover that had to be lifted before you could get to the switch

[Ithoriel]

Brand new server being delivered on a pallet on the back of a lorry on a steep street. The lorry's crane swings the pallet out, pallet tilts, webbing snaps, £250k of computer becomes about £25 worth of scrap in a matter of moments.

Replacement arrives within a few days and is installed over a weekend. Monday morning I'm in the server room to start testing. Nothing the server team does will persuade the thing to boot up.

Being part of the end-user department not the IT one, I tentatively raise the question of whether it is plugged in. Much amusement ensues and I'm assured it was plugged in on Sunday morning. Nonetheless,I wander round the back, pick up the unattached plug and wave it around and ask if I should unplug the work light one of the "sparks" had plugged in and plug this in instead.

Zum projects is cursed I tells 'ee, cursed!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Well I once broke a mainframe by snapping an elastic band. It worked on a teletype printer, driven by said band - which snapped, and the system crashed 10mins later, whilst I was doing something else.

It took them about 5 years to move the school fire alarm. Idiocy.

IanS

[d_Guy]

After thinking everything was once again sorted out with my W10 machine - the new cumulative update is failing to install. After three days of repeated attempts (which involves auto-reboot) it fails and the has to spend even more time rolling back to previous. 
I can at least control when it happens but this is  making using the machine a pain.

From what I've seen so far this problem is wide spread - with no apparent workaround. Sic transit Gloria mundi.

[Techno]

I should think Gloria is as sick as a parrot ! 

Sorry, Guy......I'm genuinely not laughing at you.
With all the problems (and time wasted) I had, continually fending off those attempts to force me to 'upgrade to' W10.  (Pah !!....Become one of the unpaid beta testers, more like.)...I'm just so, so pleased I didn't give in.

Sympathies, Matey !

Again....Hope it's sorted as soon as.
What an appalling **** up.

Cheers - Phil.

[d_Guy]

Well at least the parrot isn't bl**dy dead yet! 

Now about  to put iOS 10 on iPad - who knows what fresh hell will come from this!

[Techno]

Well at least the parrot isn't bl**dy dead yet! 
Now about  to put iOS 10 on iPad - who knows what fresh hell will come from this!

He/she's probably pushing up the daisies, though. 

Cheers - Phil