h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

My beloved Apple Mac has developed a couple of faults after 2,500 years' loyal service, so my appearances will be deciderably* erratic for the next century or so. Sorry. It's not for want of trying. Apples are good at faults, too!

Jabs



[*decidedly]

(Please send messages of hope and forgiveness and love and bundles of money whenever you can)

Sorry Jabs to hear that you are having a lot of problems with your Apple, I hope that they can be fixed.

Get well soon Apple

Will this , do for now?
Sorry about the cash, I forgot to put some.

When Apples are good, they are very very good,
But when they're bad, they're rotten to the core.

Hope that gets sorted soon.

Thanks folks [I'M ON LINE FOR A BIT -I won't say for a bit of what - and thanks for your sadly true observation, Paul. (Am I thanking him for one of his infamous puns? Real proof of how dodgy the computer's gone).

Thanks,

Pip! pip!


Jabs

a doctor a day keeps the apple fit

erm! a fit doctor doesn't need apples

err! an apple a day is far too expensive - nope

maybe! don't have an apple and don't have a fit

sod it! who ever - get well soon

I like to eat an apple with a bit of white-chocolate yogurt at night just before bed. I can afford *that* kind of apple.

Disaster - and I feel for you. My Mac is struggling (after 3 000 years continuous use and I quite expect it to just say 'enough is enough', but it staggers on. Fortunately, someone is coming out from Ol Blighty and bringing me a nice shiny new one for 1/3 of the price here. I hope the old one survives.

I buried my first computer after nine years (1997-2006). [Not buried *literally*, as it's just stored in a shed behin dmy house...]

er...friends...don't worry, the only fits I have are fits of temper - and then only about once every 2 years. Computers I have had are a different story.


Jabs

If the computers don't fit, you have to acquit.

If the socks atop stop fittin'
Then it's time for the credit card
Or time to start knittin'
Or to start (again, again), dietin'

[I had Rottweiller dogs once
An' it was time to up their diet
Once chewed up socks were found
around]

Hope you'll get it sorted soon.

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you've a long way to go to catch up Jab
my record for wipe & reinstall, is 15 times from a Friday teatime to the Sunday eveningdue to a very sneaky viruson the hard drive

Sneaky viruses are the worst kind.

I have two different anti-virus programs on my computer. One checks the system daily, the other weekly. They spend significant time doing their work.

I found out from a friend (who's pretty good with PC's)that every time you wipe XP, it leaves a small section on the hard drive, to aid in "installing XP" and the virus was "hiding" in that bit, so every time I thought I'd got shut and reinstalled XP, it sort of reappearedso I found and used this freebie

http://www.killdisk.com/downloadfree.htm

it totally wipes your hard drive of everything

That may come in handy sometimes. Thanks. :-0

I feel for you, Jab....my French Acer notepad died, iäm on mz fiendäs German one, not easie, seem to be no WI letter!

Mz email is still same and TRiG is helping sort things, mazbe we can coßordinate and sort this

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