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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted May 14, 2005
Oh, I can *use* the machine; there's just the level of uncertainty that I know it will restart *sometime* without further warning... Thus I can't really get into anything "creative". 
Waiting to restart.
Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted May 14, 2005
Traveller in Time 
off to the Television
"Still, must be frustrating to know you are about to get a blank screen. (Doctor Who in minutes)"
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted May 14, 2005
I'll be taping it on my domestic DVD-R. 
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted May 15, 2005
Another day's gone bye; still no restart. 
Waiting to restart.
sue_green Posted May 15, 2005
Your days don't usually end at 8.30pm There is time before midnight for it to whir to a sucessful halt.
Sue
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted May 15, 2005
Yup, but the original day *started* at 4:05pm...
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted May 16, 2005
It's now Monday, almost 10:30pm, and still no restart. 
Waiting to restart.
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted May 17, 2005
Tuesday, 10:25am... Nope. 
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted May 17, 2005
Tuesday, 6pm. Has it booted? Has it buggery. 
Waiting to restart.
woofti aka groovy gravy Posted May 17, 2005
is there a user group or messageboard run by the makers of this software that you could go on and ask whether anyone else has had this problem? Or a FAQ somewhere online?
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted May 17, 2005
They explicitly say there's no support of any kind for their trialware. I just sent my second sarcastic email to them anyway. ("Executive Software"... To be fair, the older versions of this package were rather good. I just fear the trial period will expire before this operation completes. )
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted May 18, 2005
00:30 on Thing morning; still waiting.
Waiting to restart.
Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted May 27, 2005
Traveller in Time concidering using 5 1/4 floppies again
"How are things going?
By now even a pile of floppies would have been formatted, filled, defragmented and compressed 
"
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Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Jun 5, 2005
Waiting to restart.
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Jun 5, 2005
It got rebooted. Manually. With extreme prejudice. See a later journal for details.
Waiting to restart.
martine_s Posted Jun 6, 2005
You've got at least the first chapter of a novel here Peet. Better still, a serial, with a cliff-hanger each week : will it ever restart?
The title alone is a winner: "With extreme prejudice". Find an agent now.
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- 21: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (May 14, 2005)
- 22: Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired (May 14, 2005)
- 23: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (May 14, 2005)
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- 25: sue_green (May 15, 2005)
- 26: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (May 15, 2005)
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- 30: woofti aka groovy gravy (May 17, 2005)
- 31: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (May 17, 2005)
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- 33: Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired (May 27, 2005)
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- 35: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Jun 5, 2005)
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