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OriginalGriff9-Mar-16 2:55

OriginalGriff

9-Mar-16 2:55

Not bad service!
A company worth remembering, thank you. Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

glennPattonWork39-Mar-16 3:00

9-Mar-16 3:00

I just could believe the service I paid less £100 from Amazon and was expecting to have to do the rebuild myself, but no I get a shiny new one and a Saturday morning(!)

OriginalGriff9-Mar-16 3:47

OriginalGriff

9-Mar-16 3:47

What kind of spec is it? I looked at the website, but they don't seem to list any prices. And Amazon is it's usual lack of help... Laugh | :laugh:

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

glennPattonWork39-Mar-16 4:53

9-Mar-16 4:53

It's a Dual Core, I've looked on the Amazon order it's not available any more the up date is Newly Refurbished Encore Dell Dual Core PC Bundle with Microsoft Windows 7 and WIFI - 17" Monitor - New Microsoft Keyboard and Mouse and 1 Year Warranty ...: Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories[^]. However was the best £64.99 I have spent on a PC in along time. It's not the most powerful I own or most flexible but it was cheap and worked in a way that didn't confuse parents 'till Win 10 landed. What I need from a PC, cheap, reliable & cheap Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

One down side was the Microsoft keyboard, like typing in treacle, replaced with a USB from my bone yard all good!

modified 9-Mar-16 11:09am.

dandy729-Mar-16 3:38

dandy72

9-Mar-16 3:38

glennPattonNotInThePUB wrote:
I end up calling the Stone Group with all the Serial numbers and Keys I could find to beg for an ISO download

For future reference:

As long as you have a key, anyone can get the ISOs for Windows 7[^] directly from Microsoft these days. The 8.1/10 links at the top bring up pages to download those versions.

glennPattonWork39-Mar-16 5:04

9-Mar-16 5:04

Point, but when I tried to download the ISO, I was told to contact re-seller. Good thing I did! always be wary of upgrade licenses. But thanks anyway Smile | :)

dandy729-Mar-16 6:44

dandy72

9-Mar-16 6:44

Upgrade licenses?

I've used those ISOs to do clean installs and they work and activate just fine.

glennPattonWork39-Mar-16 7:25

9-Mar-16 7:25

Ahh, I will give it a go again, before it becomes neccessary Smile | :)

No Access

snorkie9-Mar-16 2:16

snorkie

9-Mar-16 2:16

The wife designed her own Access database and wanted my help connecting a many to many relationship. Bonus points to her for remembering what I taught her. She didn't have any columns/tables with special characters in the name (this time), again a win.

I spent the next 90 minutes cussing in my head (kids around) trying to make it work. I finally hung my head in shame giving up. She spent the rest of the night watching Youtube videos till she figured it out.

I'm not sure if I'm a failure for not figuring it out, or a genius for quitting so she won't want my help with the next part of this project.

Hogan

Duncan Edwards Jones9-Mar-16 2:35

Duncan Edwards Jones

9-Mar-16 2:35

Say "chasm trap" in an authoritative manner, look concerned, then back away slowly... that'd be the recommended approach.

90823659-Mar-16 3:05

9082365

9-Mar-16 3:05

You think you're a genius. She knows that she has something else to add to her list of things to remind you of when next you step out of line, or the vacuum cleaner gets clogged, or it's a Tuesday!

I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!

snorkie9-Mar-16 3:26

snorkie

9-Mar-16 3:26

Good thing I don't vacuum!

Hogan

Cornelius Henning9-Mar-16 3:37

Cornelius Henning

9-Mar-16 3:37

Quote:
Good thing I don't vacuum!

It's a useful skill that I am sure she is willing to teach you!

I last used Access more than a decade ago. [bleah!] Since then I learnt to do any databases I need, writing a C# app that configures, controls and manipulates SQL (Express) databases.

Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!

kmoorevs9-Mar-16 4:11

kmoorevs

9-Mar-16 4:11

snorkie wrote:
genius for quitting so she won't want my help with the next part of this project.

This one!

Now you know the easy way out! Unfortunately, it has cost you some points, but she has solved her own problem so both of you have succeeded! Laugh | :laugh:

"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse

Mark_Wallace9-Mar-16 10:24

Mark_Wallace

9-Mar-16 10:24

Where you went wrong is that you should have used Excel.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Well

James_Parsons9-Mar-16 2:08

James_Parsons

9-Mar-16 2:08

I posted earlier about a technical failure I had faced when presented my competition. I figured it had ruined my chances altogether and that I would not progress to nationals.

Well, I was wrong, my team and I barely made it to nationals Smile | :)

. We placed fourth, and only the tops four at state can go to nationals. I'm kind of cringing at the 1st place tech stack of a LAMP back-end on GoDaddy with an Objective-C App though. I guess now we are going to migrate from Parse Frown | :(

and buy an Apple VGA adapter Wink | ;)

i cri evry tiem

Re: Well

Jacquers9-Mar-16 2:32

Jacquers

9-Mar-16 2:32

Congrats

Re: Well

Dan Neely9-Mar-16 2:44

Dan Neely

9-Mar-16 2:44

I hope that's a rootbeer. Poke tongue | ;-P

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt

Re: Well

Slacker0079-Mar-16 5:35

Slacker007

9-Mar-16 5:35

That was painful...

OriginalGriff9-Mar-16 1:06

OriginalGriff

9-Mar-16 1:06

...Herself has just sent her second ever SMS...and it took her about 20 minutes, copious swearing, and several "technical support" screams of frustration: "Where's it gone?!?!" (Screen timeout), "How do I send a comma?" (that key there, the one with the comma on it, yes), "Why did you capitalise that?" (because it's after a full stop), and the best "Send the elephanting thing you elephanting elephant!" (tap the "send" button - that one, looks like a split arrow head; yes, that one. No, tap it. It doesn't work with evil stares.)

At this rate, she should be proficient in about, oooo, six years... Sigh | :sigh:

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

Richard Deeming9-Mar-16 1:29

Richard Deeming

9-Mar-16 1:29

To be fair, it must be hard to operate a touch-screen with hooves. Sheep | [baah]

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer

Nagy Vilmos9-Mar-16 1:31

Nagy Vilmos

9-Mar-16 1:31

Mrs Wife is away currently. Last night she e-mailed me to ask to call her on Skype. I was online on Skype at the time, it was just "easier" for me to call her then for her to call me...

veni bibi saltavi

Cornelius Henning9-Mar-16 1:59

Cornelius Henning

9-Mar-16 1:59

Been there, done that, fully understand! Smile | :)

Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!