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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2014 13:02:33 GMT
Scorp. After my recent upgrade - destructive interference I spoke to my PC guru. And I spoke to him again this morning. He ahs installed something called team viewer and after I had read the numbers to him as if by magic (keep your hands off everything JJ) my curser flashed round the screen, all kinds of boxes came up and went away and finally it was 'There you go, that seems to be OK now' It turned out that he had installed Windows 7 but had forgotten to put the registration numbers in.
The screen background is one I put on, and is I assume the desktop theme. (what is a browser background?)
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Post by Nobody on Aug 1, 2014 3:12:50 GMT
Who is Paul Daniels?
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Post by scorp on Aug 1, 2014 6:17:18 GMT
Probably one of the best and most successful magician entertainers we've had. Does the lot, from close-up to full scale illusion. Pres. of the Magic Circle, I think...
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Post by jimshoo on Aug 1, 2014 9:25:58 GMT
He can even make a sausage disappear!
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Post by scorp on Aug 1, 2014 11:52:01 GMT
I've played Hide the Sausage myself...
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Post by Nobody on Aug 2, 2014 3:31:45 GMT
I can make a bottle of red disappear reasonably fast.
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Post by somebody on Aug 2, 2014 8:49:51 GMT
Can you make yourself disappear Scorp ... nobody can do it better .... He doesn't only hide it he seeks it ...
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Post by ARENA on Aug 2, 2014 9:41:25 GMT
Yes....... but which bit?
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Post by somebody on Aug 3, 2014 13:05:35 GMT
I really don't know arena .. you tell us ...
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Post by scorp on Aug 6, 2014 8:08:15 GMT
Scorp. After my recent upgrade - destructive interference I spoke to my PC guru. And I spoke to him again this morning. He ahs installed something called team viewer and after I had read the numbers to him as if by magic (keep your hands off everything JJ) my curser flashed round the screen, all kinds of boxes came up and went away and finally it was 'There you go, that seems to be OK now' It turned out that he had installed Windows 7 but had forgotten to put the registration numbers in. The screen background is one I put on, and is I assume the desktop theme. (what is a browser background?) Oh, right! Yes, when they replaced my motherboard, after the lightning strike, they remembered to leave me the registration code, fortunately. An hour after they had gone (I say 'they' - it was just one bloke really) everything came to a halt with an alert box requesting the code. Although Windows 8.1 was on the same disk as it had been all along, the damn thing knew the processor gubbins had changed! My browser (Opera 23) has themes just like the desktop.
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Post by scorp on Aug 6, 2014 8:19:08 GMT
Scorp. After my recent upgrade - destructive interference I spoke to my PC guru. And I spoke to him again this morning. He ahs installed something called team viewer and after I had read the numbers to him as if by magic (keep your hands off everything JJ) my curser flashed round the screen, all kinds of boxes came up and went away and finally it was 'There you go, that seems to be OK now' It turned out that he had installed Windows 7 but had forgotten to put the registration numbers in. The screen background is one I put on, and is I assume the desktop theme. (what is a browser background?) Oh, right! Yes, when they replaced my motherboard, after the lightning strike, they remembered to leave me the registration code, fortunately. An hour after they had gone (I say 'they' - it was just one bloke really) everything came to a halt with an alert box requesting the code. Although Windows 8.1 was on the same disk as it had been all along, the damn thing knew the processor gubbins had changed! My browser (Opera 23) has themes just like the desktop. My speed-dial screen with 1. Penguins, and 2. my shot of Toledo, as themes.
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Post by ARENA on Aug 9, 2014 8:18:25 GMT
Cold call phoning!!
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Post by scorp on Aug 9, 2014 14:33:09 GMT
I never answer the blighters... I remember hanging up on some cold caller years ago - she rang me back to tell me how rude I was! Bloody cheek...
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Post by scorp on Aug 10, 2014 7:40:35 GMT
I am unreasonable irked by the faux spelling of Fare or Fair as 'Fayre, which seems to happen a lot...
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Robin Andiss-Merrymen
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Post by Robin Andiss-Merrymen on Aug 12, 2014 9:33:18 GMT
Overseas call centres!
Probably more out of nostalgia - for the days when milk was delivered 7 days a week including Christmas Day - than practicality we still have (or should I now say had) milk delivered 3 times a week by a Dairycrest milkman. We had no delivery yesterday and an unexpected (and unwanted) one today but I was unable to contact my local depot - as I've done a few times in the past - to get it sorted and ended up using Dairycrest's main 'Customer Service' line - with all the extra button pushing and holding that entails - 2 days running.
The young ladies I spoke to on both days were very polite and apologetic but could not explain what had gone wrong nor could they arrange to get milk delivered on the first day or get the unwanted bottles picked up on the second. Having puzzled over their unusual accents on both days, I eventually asked where they were based. The Philippines came the answer!
After pondering for a while on the ludicrousness (is that a word?) of having to speak to someone thousands of miles away to sort out a problem just a couple of miles away at my local depot, I decided to get all my milk from the supermarket and local shops in future and save myself some money in the process.
Robin A-M
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