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Last night, I mailed my community entry off. I did this by attaching it to an email. the email was sent from Linux, and the file attached from it's home on a drive the windows machine has exported as a share to the linux machine.

Later last night, I put a region code back on my DVD rom (it had lost it in an attempt to help brother Digi). I unmounted the windows shares from the linux machine (I have to do this because Xp just crashes network shares when it reboots, and that has nasty effects on anything connected to it) and rebooted. Machine came back up again.....DVD drive now SAYS region 2 and still cannot read R2 discs. But this morning....I went to try and hear some NO.....and there is no network. The Xp box no longer shares it's drives nor mounts the shres exported to it from the other machines in the house.

I wouldn't mind but I aint touched it's networking in months (that fisher price interface gives me mouse rage).

So I have no network anymore, and since i didn't DO THE DAMAGE, not the mildest idea what to do about it. AND I am gently going insane because I unshared and reshard a drive (hey, you know window, of and on is usually the best fix)...and for nearly an hour it's been reading file permissions on the drive before sharing it......the fact that it still wont be shared at the end of this, and the fact that even if it were, Windows file permissions are giberish in the real world of real computers is really starting to make me very errrrrrr bad tempered.

This means I have about 4 NO tracks in my collection now as the rest are on the winbox ( I COULD play them there I suppose, but it's sounds so shite...even with 150 quids worth of soundcard.)

anyway......if anyone knows in what way the DVD region is connected to the network sharing system...please tell me...else...send me a version of cubase that works in linux so I can format this fucking tumour once and for all.

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don't jump Ste. please don't jump!!!!

:rofl:

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Steve Campbell wrote: Last night, I mailed my community entry off. I did this by attaching it to an email. the email was sent from Linux, and the file attached from it's home on a drive the windows machine has exported as a share to the linux machine.

Later last night, I put a region code back on my DVD rom (it had lost it in an attempt to help brother Digi). I unmounted the windows shares from the linux machine (I have to do this because Xp just crashes network shares when it reboots, and that has nasty effects on anything connected to it) and rebooted. Machine came back up again.....DVD drive now SAYS region 2 and still cannot read R2 discs. But this morning....I went to try and hear some NO.....and there is no network. The Xp box no longer shares it's drives nor mounts the shres exported to it from the other machines in the house.

I wouldn't mind but I aint touched it's networking in months (that fisher price interface gives me mouse rage).

So I have no network anymore, and since i didn't DO THE DAMAGE, not the mildest idea what to do about it. AND I am gently going insane because I unshared and reshard a drive (hey, you know window, of and on is usually the best fix)...and for nearly an hour it's been reading file permissions on the drive before sharing it......the fact that it still wont be shared at the end of this, and the fact that even if it were, Windows file permissions are giberish in the real world of real computers is really starting to make me very errrrrrr bad tempered.

This means I have about 4 NO tracks in my collection now as the rest are on the winbox ( I COULD play them there I suppose, but it's sounds so shite...even with 150 quids worth of soundcard.)

anyway......if anyone knows in what way the DVD region is connected to the network sharing system...please tell me...else...send me a version of cubase that works in linux so I can format this fucking tumour once and for all.

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Life is FAR too short for windows.

And that's exactly how I feel Jack. ;)

PS....it can't even see itself over the network.

ARGGGGGH

think I'm gonna go to bed or something cos I already hurt my foot kicking the fucker.

(it didn't help)

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I think they are really great. If I didn't have them my house would be very dark

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I love windows too. It's just cost me a lot of money to get all mine done. They're brilliant. You can look out of them, and guess what? You can look in as well. Mine open too. Marvellous.

Can i just say Lucy beat me to it, i wasn't stealing her joke!!

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:angry:

yeah well watch out for them turning black if you switch the radio in the kitchen on ;)

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Missy Jem wrote: I love windows too. It's just cost me a lot of money to get all mine done. They're brilliant. You can look out of them, and guess what? You can look in as well. Mine open too. Marvellous.

Can i just say Lucy beat me to it, i wasn't stealing her joke!!

Great minds and all that

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Steve Campbell wrote: Last night, I mailed my community entry off. I did this by attaching it to an email. the email was sent from Linux, and the file attached from it's home on a drive the windows machine has exported as a share to the linux machine.

Later last night, I put a region code back on my DVD rom (it had lost it in an attempt to help brother Digi). I unmounted the windows shares from the linux machine (I have to do this because Xp just crashes network shares when it reboots, and that has nasty effects on anything connected to it) and rebooted. Machine came back up again.....DVD drive now SAYS region 2 and still cannot read R2 discs. But this morning....I went to try and hear some NO.....and there is no network. The Xp box no longer shares it's drives nor mounts the shres exported to it from the other machines in the house.

I wouldn't mind but I aint touched it's networking in months (that fisher price interface gives me mouse rage).

So I have no network anymore, and since i didn't DO THE DAMAGE, not the mildest idea what to do about it. AND I am gently going insane because I unshared and reshard a drive (hey, you know window, of and on is usually the best fix)...and for nearly an hour it's been reading file permissions on the drive before sharing it......the fact that it still wont be shared at the end of this, and the fact that even if it were, Windows file permissions are giberish in the real world of real computers is really starting to make me very errrrrrr bad tempered.

This means I have about 4 NO tracks in my collection now as the rest are on the winbox ( I COULD play them there I suppose, but it's sounds so shite...even with 150 quids worth of soundcard.)

anyway......if anyone knows in what way the DVD region is connected to the network sharing system...please tell me...else...send me a version of cubase that works in linux so I can format this fucking tumour once and for all.

I dont even have a clue what u said :confused:

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I like doors.They can open many windows of opportunity

lame , i know.Sorry

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i got new ones on the front. top and bottom. last year.

now...there's no damp patches. no leaks. and no evil Billy Wind rustling the blinds.

cushty (and cosy)

:thumb:

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I love Doors. Jim Morrison is my favourite singer.

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Lucyjane wrote:

Missy Jem wrote: I love windows too. It's just cost me a lot of money to get all mine done. They're brilliant. You can look out of them, and guess what? You can look in as well. Mine open too. Marvellous.

Can i just say Lucy beat me to it, i wasn't stealing her joke!!

Great minds and all that

or "Fools never Differ" :crazy:

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Missy Jem wrote: I love Doors. Jim Morrison is my favourite singer.

i love shower doors.

steamy shower doors.

guuuhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

:p

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J.A.K wrote: i got new ones on the front. top and bottom. last year.

now...there's no damp patches. no leaks. and no evil Billy Wind rustling the blinds.

cushty (and cosy)

:thumb:

Do your window cleaners have sanders instead of bucket and cloth??

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I don't like shower doors because they are a bugger to clean and always go streaky. Plus horrible children draw faces and breasts on them in the steam.

Bastards (not shower doors, Kids)

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Bollocks Steve.

if computing was left to the geeks no fucker would know how to use them, no fucker would have one (or a use for them) and we certainly wouldnt be able to download and talk about music with them.

If it wasnt for Fords there would be no roads on which to drive an Aston. Think on.

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Lucyjane wrote: I don't like shower doors because they are a bugger to clean and always go streaky. Plus horrible children draw faces and breasts on them in the steam.

Bastards (not shower doors, Kids)

not if you buy shower/glass door cleaner spray, available in Asda & erm...Tesco.

:thumb:

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Steve Campbell wrote:

anyway......if anyone knows in what way the DVD region is connected to the network sharing system...please tell me...else...send me a version of cubase that works in linux so I can format this fucking tumour once and for all.

That really doesn't make any sense...I switch back and forth all of the time for that specific reason and I never had it happen and I can't even begin to fathon why it would. Did you try google?

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Barney Army wrote: Bollocks Steve.

if computing was left to the geeks no fucker would know how to use them, no fucker would have one (or a use for them) and we certainly wouldnt be able to download and talk about music with them.

If it wasnt for Fords there would be no roads on which to drive an Aston. Think on.

i see your point of course....but aren;t Ford's meant to be slightly more reliable than a Ferrari?

The point is....if a geek like me can't fix this spontaneous change on my machine.....what hope would a mere mortal...if it was my linux box, I could open 2 text files and read the problem and fix it and save it and restart the network...but in windows is "press the brightly coloured button and get a made up error".

And I've sat many a person including a 6 yrold and 3 blondes down at a linux box and heard no complaints...I mean...they couldn;t install it...but could they install windows either?

And besides...of course my beloved aint perfect....if it ran cubase and GPl..I could format the crapbox and be done with it.

Anyway I am using Acronis Trueimage to fix it from the backup I made on Valentine's day (sad cunt)...and guess what the last thing you see before the acronis interface appears.....yup..."loading linux"..see even windows developers use it (actually the guy who founded Gentoo is one of MS senior programmers).

And yes....my linux box did a VERy simillar thing just after xmas...no networking at all, and for no reason I could find (in the end I ralised I HAD done it myself), but I didn't have to format anything to fix it like i have to now.

C'mon man if you want easy....you know it's a Mac...neither windows or linux....FFS design students can use them LOL

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ChrissMari wrote:

Steve Campbell wrote:

anyway......if anyone knows in what way the DVD region is connected to the network sharing system...please tell me...else...send me a version of cubase that works in linux so I can format this fucking tumour once and for all.

That really doesn't make any sense...I switch back and forth all of the time for that specific reason and I never had it happen and I can't even begin to fathon why it would. Did you try google?

I honestly can't imagine that is the true cause either, but it is the one modification I made to the system since the previous boot.

Googling for windows trouble is useless because it's error messages 1. cannot be pasted. and 2. are meaningless....I mean...almost ANY network problem generates.."the network cable is unplugged...even if windows own activity monitor is blinking away)

Anyway, thanks to the magic of Acronis trueImage....it's all sorted out now.

the moral.... BACK UP BACK UP BACK UP

can you imagine if it had pulled this mid-community production....OMG I'd have been foaming mental (even more than usual)

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system restore on the xp box no good? Never dealt with networks, not since my amiga days anyways. Try asking on a linux forum for help :)

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duroc wrote: system restore on the xp box no good? Never dealt with networks, not since my amiga days anyways. Try asking on a linux forum for help :)

Never used it.....not since it went mental on ME for me.

Anyway, we're all sorted.

bloody hell if I mentioned this on a linux forum....they'd tell me to complete my defenestration once and for all ;)

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Steve Campbell wrote: Last night,..exported as a share to the linux machine. if anyone knows -the DVD region is connected to the network sharing system---send-- in linux so I can format this fkng .

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pic. isn't even hosted properly with the url/img/http:/business. for hope that helps is ideal here. shoot it S. Campbell. just shoot it.edit- all sorted. cool.

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Steve, is that you in your avatar?

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Jack_H wrote:

Steve Campbell wrote: of soundcard.)

anyway......if anyone knows in what way the DVD region is connected to the network sharing system...please tell me...else...send me a version of cubase that works in linux so I can format this fucking tumour once and for all.

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Audio and video on a PC? :brow: Chuck it and buy a Mac! :music:

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Why don't I have any problem with it? ;-)

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If I could afford one.....I'd buy one.

BUT, the windows machine is really for Music production (which the mac excels at) and games (which the mac has NONE of..FFS you can't even buy a steering wheel for it). Everything else is on linux (which is basically OS-X but free LOL)

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Steve Campbell wrote: If I could afford one.....I'd buy one.

BUT, the windows machine is really for Music production (which the mac excels at) and games (which the mac has NONE of..FFS you can't even buy a steering wheel for it). Everything else is on linux (which is basically OS-X but free LOL)

I have a bunch of freeware audio programs for linux. I'm at work at the moment but will send you an email tonight.

I understand the games thing with the Mac but for video and audio it is far superior.

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Spotnick wrote: Why don't I have any problem with it? ;-)

You can, hand on heart, swear it's never spontaneously BSOD'd or changed a setting, or made you reboot when you install a program?

C'mon man.

Actually, Xp's been OK with me until today....but it says a lot for it's ease of use that someone who can handle the "difficult and Geeky" Unix found it easier to wipe his HD than fix it. And also that no one ran in here to say...twat, all you need to do is....and that includes at least one more than competant IT pro who posted to have a laugh at me ;)

BTW...regarding system restore...the last time I used it was on ME, it was told to use 500MB of disc, and actually used 3000, and the day I needed to restore (cos IE5.5 has broke javascript support and I downgraded it, which stopped ME booting as IE is it's shell)...it got half way through and stopped.....rendering the machine format ready. not getting bitten twice. It was easier when the two OS's lived on one machine, I could just

dd if=/dev/hda1|gzip>backup.img

and that was me backed up, but when windows is on it's own it needs all sorts of life support for backup.

It's not just not-the-best OS I ever used...it's probably the worst, tho I'll admit XP is nearly out of the Beta phase :D

By 2012, there should be a version that is actually readyfor release and is actually easy to use.

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Cath wrote:

Steve Campbell wrote: If I could afford one.....I'd buy one.

BUT, the windows machine is really for Music production (which the mac excels at) and games (which the mac has NONE of..FFS you can't even buy a steering wheel for it). Everything else is on linux (which is basically OS-X but free LOL)

I have a bunch of freeware audio programs for linux. I'm at work at the moment but will send you an email tonight.

I understand the games thing with the Mac but for video and audio it is far superior.

Ahhhh, I have ardour (protools, only free and not full of shit like the windows version) and audacity and all those.

BUT...the fact is...I have been using Cubase since 1992, I'm too dyed in the wool to change...I lose the plot using any other audio app in windows too. So basically...until steinberg change the half dozen lines of code needed to convert from Free-BSD ( which is OSx) and Linux, I'm boned :D

But thanks for the offer :D

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I'm a protools user myself. I have the mbox. Best thing to use with my laptop and at home. I find it works better with video programs such as Final Cut and Avid. I've used cubase in the past but wasn't impressed. Maybe I should try it again.

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Cath wrote: I'm a protools user myself. I have the mbox. Best thing to use with my laptop and at home. I find it works better with video programs such as Final Cut and Avid. I've used cubase in the past but wasn't impressed. Maybe I should try it again.

Not if you primarily do AV work, yer probably better wth what you have....tho Cubase's twin, Nuendo may be worth looking at.

Protools on a Mac works....protools in windows, pretty much spends all day telling you your OS is ballix and to buy a mac :D

then agin, I never ran it with a DG-01 or whatever Digidesign call it now.

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Steve Campbell wrote:

Cath wrote: I'm a protools user myself. I have the mbox. Best thing to use with my laptop and at home. I find it works better with video programs such as Final Cut and Avid. I've used cubase in the past but wasn't impressed. Maybe I should try it again.

Not if you primarily do AV work, yer probably better wth what you have....tho Cubase's twin, Nuendo may be worth looking at.

Protools on a Mac works....protools in windows, pretty much spends all day telling you your OS is ballix and to buy a mac :D

then agin, I never ran it with a DG-01 or whatever Digidesign call it now.

I would be more or less interested in the effects plug ins for Cubase. Just curious to see what else is out there.

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Most plugins come with an Rtas option for PT these days. I assume there must be some other non proprietry system on macs like directX plugs for Dos-XP.

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how i love looking at all those pretty pictures.

wait for 1,2,3, won't be long now.

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I must say Steve that I would agree with you if you were talking of Windows 95/98/ME, those were shitty OS, but gee, since I am on Windows XP, I never reinstalled my machine, which I had to do every 4 months on the other OS because it was getting too slow.

Of course, I'm not a good person to check since I actually had classes about Windows networking and everything, and I make my living out of Windows softwares... so without Microsoft, I'd be doing lousy PHP and CGI on Apache instead of doing very cool web applications such as NOOL ;)

Ok, I'd maybe be doing JSP as well ;)

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J.A.K wrote: i got new ones on the front. top and bottom. last year.

now...there's no damp patches. no leaks. and no evil Billy Wind rustling the blinds.

cushty (and cosy)

:thumb:

scousers must be the experts in this field.they come round here asking to put them in all the time :deal:

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WHO GIVES A FLYING FUCK????????? GO OUTSIDE AND GET SOME FRESH AIR COMPUTERS ARE FOR CUNTS GET OVER THEM THIS WILL BE MY LAST POST, IM AWAY TO THE SKIP WITH THIS PILE OF JUNK - FUCK YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!

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WHO GIVES A FLYING FUCK????????? GO OUTSIDE AND GET SOME FRESH AIR COMPUTERS ARE FOR CUNTS GET OVER THEM THIS WILL BE MY LAST POST, IM AWAY TO THE SKIP WITH THIS PILE OF JUNK - FUCK YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!

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I hope that's not your works computer Gerry!!

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gerry jamieson wrote: WHO GIVES A FLYING FUCK????????? GO OUTSIDE AND GET SOME FRESH AIR

But it's pouring with rain... :(

Snorri xxx

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wonder how far luddite boy will get without them. no car no phone no microwave no tv no video no washing machine no paycheque no ATM no cheap newspapers and books

I mean personally I too am againt logic control in such devices but it's a reality.

Besides.....do y'all not think if I could be outside I would....wonder if cuntface goes up to blind people and says "fucking braile's for losers man, look around you" or suggests cripples go for a walk?

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cuntface? who are you referring to??????

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Missy Jem wrote: I hope that's not your works computer Gerry!!

of course it is, im not going to damage my own pc am i?

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Snorrimon wrote:

gerry jamieson wrote: WHO GIVES A FLYING FUCK????????? GO OUTSIDE AND GET SOME FRESH AIR

But it's pouring with rain... :(

Snorri xxx

well just open the window then

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gerry jamieson wrote:

Missy Jem wrote: I hope that's not your works computer Gerry!!

of course it is, im not going to damage my own pc am i?

I don't know, the mood you're in today :laugh:

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gerry jamieson wrote: cuntface? who are you referring to??????

work it out, while your burning all those NO records made by such apalling geeks who took the time to learn things like computers and synths and samplers (which you also seem to think the understanding of is close to having plague).

If you do not like the modern world, or it confuses you, there are any number of moorland area's where you can live under some piles of heather branches.

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Missy Jem wrote:

gerry jamieson wrote:

Missy Jem wrote: I hope that's not your works computer Gerry!!

of course it is, im not going to damage my own pc am i?

I don't know, the mood you're in today :laugh:

Jem, im in a great mood, dont you worry about that.

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Steve Campbell wrote: wonder how far luddite boy will get without them. no car no phone no microwave no tv no video no washing machine no paycheque no ATM no cheap newspapers and books

I mean personally I too am againt logic control in such devices but it's a reality.

Besides.....do y'all not think if I could be outside I would....wonder if cuntface goes up to blind people and says "fucking braile's for losers man, look around you" or suggests cripples go for a walk?

and again, may i ask who you are reffering to as cunt face?

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im a music fan, not a geek im certainly not a , as you put it - cuntface brave words indeed if windows and linux and fucking machine code are your thing - great but i have the right to voice my opinion without getting called such things, and my noble looks have never been compared to a cunt, when you see a cunt you may realise your folly take it easy big man

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here hold the bus there lad.....you're the one that came in here shouting "fuck all of you". So don't get all shirty when someone fires back.

And people who remain willfully and happily ignorant of how things work, bother me, it's a fact, a pet hate if you like.

And remember every little insult you level at people here for MUSIC geekery, is levelled at New Order too, for they (particularly barney and Steve) are UBERgeeks.

As I said, if you have a problem with computers, don't use them ( tho i doubt you could achieve that), if you have a problem with Music technology, may I sugesst going to some african drumming concerts...no actually...drums are a machine too ( actually synths are NOT, but we'l leave that), a product of technology, I guess that leave primitive tribal chants as the only inoffensive form of music.

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I WAS BEING FLIPPANT not really meant to be taken that seriously but you have a pet hate of people being ignorant? about anything and everything? how is your knowledge of shipbuilding oon the clyde between 1900 and 1972? i hope you know plenty it would worry me if you were ignorant of something

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I said WILLFUL ignorance. I know little about shipbuilding on the clyde, but it's not something I'm proud of.

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wel now i have alerted you, jump to it, there is a lot to learn

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:laugh:

Really boys. Now off to the Library with you.

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gerry jamieson wrote: wel now i have alerted you, jump to it, there is a lot to learn

i'll make a point of it :D

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good man

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Missy Jem wrote: :laugh:

Really boys. Now off to the Library with you.

jem im finished

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come to think of it...i DO know something......

the big yin was a welder in a yard on the Clyde :D

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Aye that he was! I remember his story about hairy arsed welders!

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Steve Campbell wrote: bloody hell Jemma...you still in work? Must be a record :D

Don't be bloody stupid, at me ma's (broadband holder)!

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Sorry, I thought the moon was still the standard non-blue :D

Means you never got me last mail either...well wont that be nice for you in the morning :D

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I had something very similar happen to me on the 2k box just 8 months ago. Grant this - the 2k setup I've tweakered with had made it quite customized and stabler than it already comes as (I do hold a great respect for the OS on the right hardware.) and I'd been trasferring rather large amounts of data over to the containment *nix box, Ginger, so I could clear off some space for a few other projects I was on.

And the shared drive disappeared mid-transfer. So I twiddled with remapping, reassigning, re-sharing to no avail. Brought the network up and down, then rebooted Fred the win box.

And nothing. I keep my Fedora box pretty spare in terms of no vid or audio cards - it truly is just a wee server, so I couldn't just see the files there. I started thinking on what could be done, and how the network had been working, and it occured to me to copy and paste the share folder from Fred from the originating location in documents&settings to the desktop and back again - lo and behold, there all the information showed up as being there and was once again workable for all who use this computer.

I had figured it'd been the indexing service or the backup service that gave me the issue, but they were looked into and both had been working as they needed to. Just a bizarre flap on the Windows highway.

(And the funny tale is that regarding ME (Millenium), I managed to have that running fairly stable at one time, too. It just hated certian games of mine. )

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Yeah, windows is supposed to be easier to use, and my Ubuntu boot got network support on the halls almost immediately, whereas it took me several hours to get it working on Windows. There's a lot of fiddling around on Linux, but there's similar fiddling around on Windows and it's often a lot more time consuming and tedious.

Fuck, I love linux just because you can type apt-get install (program) and that's all you need, automatically downloads it and puts everything in the right place. Perfect.

This said multimedia support is poor at best, for linux straight out the box.

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