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

**warning - major geeky whinge ahead**


August, the month the whole of France (except me apparently!) goes on holiday.

I've been back at work a week and I've this horrible feeling the next couple of days at work are going to be a pain in the neck!

1) The boss is away so nobody can sign any cheques
2) Our IT consultants' have all b***ered off on holiday (the whole firm!) and I'm not supposed to buy hardware from anyone else
3) Our file/database server has just started to make a horrible grinding noise - one of the fans seems to be giving out!

Now, if the thing breaks down we've no network, no internet access, no accounts details and no translation databases (which basically means the company grinds to a halt! and I can't even plug the disk drives into another existing machine as some bright spark thought it'd be a bright idea to use SCSI drives for the server!

So, if it does go I'm going to have to persuade someone else to sell me a new server in a hurry and come and install it (when they've never seen our network setup before) and on top of that, theoretically I don't have the authority to sign orders of that size and I can't pay them either. This is going to be fun!

Can you not just shrug and say 'tough, you shouldn't have all gone on holiday at once then should you! " when they get back then?

No? Though not.

You could try saying it in French too even

Or, if you're the only one in the office, you could go outside and sunbathe instead.

B

Sunbathe? Me?

I've red hair (what's left of it!) - all I've got to do is spend half an hour outside in the sunlight and I end up doing a passable impression of a lobster!

Here, have a - it'll cool you down...

Back from your holiday, eh? We didn't even notice you were gone...

I knew this was Whisky's journal when I saw it on my PS- I wonder how?

I can't sunbathe either.<--me after getting caught out in hot sun.



W*rk, don't talk to me about w*rk.

Do you wanna swop? You can mind my son & grandson, I'll come to France & w*rk...

Hi GB - Erm... Think I'll pass on looking after yours... Mine's quite enough of a handful on his own

Titania... It's been ages... I haven't had the chance to insult you for months... Here - just so you don't feel neglected...

If the problem is with the fan, you might consider taking the lid off the server. That way it will cool more efficiently. They're not dangerous, but you run the risk of dropping something into it.

Put a big desk fan blowing into. Don't blow the desk fan in through the existing "fan hole" as the air is supposed to come out that way.

Tried that yesterday... Unfortunately the way the thing's designed the casing itself makes up part of the trunking that channels the air away from the processor - so there's a great big yellow sign stuck on the inside of the casing warning you not to run the computer without the case on...

For the moment the fan's running ok and still shifting air - it's just very noisy

You know Whisky, when we first met I was upset because you were complaining about chemists being closed over lunchtime in France. Now here you are complaining about something I do not understand anything about!!.

You are so lucky to be living in France - and why on earth are you not on holiday when everyone else is?

Red hair? Mine is a deep plum colour now *I tell everyone it is my medication) but it has made me feel so good!!.

Nice to talk to you again.

Go well.

Christiane
AlsorRan1

Why do I complain...

I'm an English Ex-pat... We're instructed by the British Embassy that it's our national patriotic duty to complain about the French at every possible opportunity

I went on holiday early for two reasons - one - so we could keep our offices open throughout august and secondly because my parents came across to see me a month ago and being completely miserly I cadged a lift back with them in their camper van - thus saving myself the air fare for myself and my son.

(Only joking by the way about complaining - I don't think I'd come back to the UK permanently now even if I had the choice!)

look at the bright side whisky...

first of all, getting to work is a breeze. and did i read right? are you actually complaining that the boss is not in????? quand le chat n'est pas là...

Also Ran is a damson in distress!

Oh no I'm not!!

( I realise that you are a tease now Whisky - before I took you seriously and got

VERY CROSS!!!

AR1

Sowwy!


Please feel free to slap my wrists!

I'll try to behave myself from now (I'll tell you in advance I'll fail - but I will try )

We're instructed by the British Embassy that it's our national patriotic duty to complain about the French at every possible opportunity



Good, keep up the good work.



Testing:

My goodness Gnoman, I am slow to the level of no motion at all,

That was very clevaire, mon ami - damson plum etc. and I suddenly saw the joke when I was in the garden and broke into uncontrolloble mirth!!.

thankx

Christiane
AR1

Dear Whisky,

I forgive,
Thou forgivest,
He/she forgives.

No slapping of wrists.

Just a little laugh

and thanks for teasing again.

But what is Galaxie Babe up to?

Is s/he serious?

Or also pulling legs?

Go home and rest your poor tired brain from all your labours of whatever you are trying to achieve on your own. It sounds as if you are trying to save the hardware of La France!1.

A demain

Also Ran1

Galaxy Babe is never serious

In fact - for some reason very few 'serious' people have ever been seen anywhere near my journal


A demain