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

My PC has been struck down with a mysterious condition. I know not if it be virus or worm or trojan or what. But he can't connect to the internet, the A drive is dead and many of the programmes have gone weird and not in a good way.
So I won't be around at weekends and will likely only be checking e mail during the week.
It will be sometime before I can afford to pay someone to look at it, if I can figure out what's wrong myself.

Have you tried a clean reinstall?

It sucks when technology craps out on you. Been there, done that, invested in a bunch of CD-RWs.

I wish the problems just to disappear

Milla

I have resorted to a complete reinstall yet, will get some advice from someone that knows what they are doing before that, should it be needed.

I really like you calling your PC Myrddin!

Milla

Well compae to the PC I had prior to Myrddin he's a real !

My last post of course wouldn't make much sense to anyone not familiar with where the name Myrddin comes from...

I would like to think that Myrddin is welsh for Merlin...

Milla

Ind33d it is.
I work3d out a way to g3t onlin3, as you can s33. But th3r3 ar3 still all th3 oth3r w3irdn3ss3s with Myrddin y3t to m3nd. And I aint 4ound th3 caus3 y3t. C3rtain k3ys on my k3yboard don't work, h3nc3 th3 Ps3udo-L33t-Sp3ak. 4or which I apologis3.

Thank Whoever I got introduced to Megatokyo last week. Otherwise, I'd have no chance of understanding that.

Sorry. Mom was an English teacher. I got spelling drilled into me.

Until now I had thought Megatokyo to be the good thing to come 4rom L33t. Still I guess l33t and cut and paste alphabet are what I'm gonna rely on 4or bit.

uggh, I thought you were joking with the 333's but this seems serious!

Milla

You haven't got some numlock mysteriously switched on?

Milla

I ha>3 two k3yboards not on3 works. I'm >3ry annoy3d!!!

Still, perhaps there is some keyboard / regional setting gone wild? Several times I've hit the wrong keys and suddenly my keyboard types as if it were English American, not Swedish, and the keys are pretty jumbled (the åäö and all the !¤%"&! stuff) And sometimes the numlock perhaps believes it is supposed to work like arrow keys... Just a thought.

Milla

Ch3ck3d that... to no a>al3.

Is it just keys, or are programs weird too?

You typed "programme". You must be English Brit.

So I guessed right! LOL.

Alright, I am away from Internetland for now.
Bye bye.

I'm British, I was born in England, I'm of Welsh ancestry on my mother's side and that's the only side that counts, to me.

You think the Welsh are the true British?

Hmmm, I do know that the Welsh are the Celts who fell westwards as the Angles and Saxons came invading. But I won't talk about that. Instead I thought of a movie I saw years ago, and again last year. This movie is called "The Englishman who went up a Hill and came down a Mountain". This movie is about the true story of a Welsh village and its villagers who were proud of their mountain. But the English surveyors who came to their village in 1917 scaled the mountain and measured it be a hill. The mountain was short of the 1000 foot height. But the Welsh decided to not settle with that judgement, and they started to haul dirt and mud and pile that stuff on top of their short mountain to make it measure up. Have you seen this movie?

My British background is a mix of all the British Isles peoples, so that is Scottish, Irish, and Southern English (as I call it) with that fabulous Anglosaxon mix. The Anglosaxon mix probably includes Roman, but I am not sure. My last name is Hill, and whenever I watch movies made by the English, I see many-a-time the last name Hill show up in the credits!

You would like to see Canada? It is a very wide and big country. LOL. You want to come to the Great White North? I have to tell you to avoid staying in the cities. If you want to see any true wilderness whatsoever, avoid the human urban dwellings -- but you already know that. Toronto, in Ontario, for instance, is just like an American city. I call Toronto the Los Angeles of the North. City of Angels is an ironic name. LOL.


[this is some dribble about Canada]
Canada's three major cities, which are Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal are great cosmopolitan centres but with only urban jungle. Obviously, if you were to come to Canada you were to arrive at one of these cities. You would arrive in Toronto if you were flying from the UK. If you want to see the Canadian Rockies, you would have to take a transfer flight from Toronto and then arrive in Calgary, which is in south central Alberta.
[the dribble is over]

I am prattling on.

How are you feeling today?

Oh, and I just guessed that your computer's name is a Welsh name. What does Myrddin mean? Is it literal like my last name, which means to literally "live by a Hill"? When I was living in the mountains, I thought that my name was truly GREAT -- -- I still do. I think the name Myrddin looks fabulously pretty, but you could laugh at me for that.

Please keep writing (ah hmmm, typing) to me. I am continually pleased to make your aquaintance.