Mundane News

[randynewmanscat]

My computer is performing a Windows update and is only 5% complete.

Tell it to go away if you are busy, it will come and nag you later.

 

[mybike]

I like cheese on toast.

Your cooking is coming on.

I recently found a recipe for an egg inside a tomato. It's very simple. You get a very big tomato, cut off the top, scoop out the seeds etc. & place an egg (minus it's shell of course) inside. Add salt & pepper to taste and put in an oven at 140deg for as long as it takes the egg to cook.

 

[mybike]

My computer is performing a Windows update and is only 5% complete.

Linux updates seem far less of a bind, but they are more frequent.

 

[tyred]

My computer is alive and the update complete. Everything seems exactly the same as it was before!

 

[PeteXXX]

My computer is performing a Windows update and is only 5% complete.

Mine took several hours..

 

[tyred]

Linux updates seem far less of a bind, but they are more frequent.

I did use Linux for quite a few years and was and was a Windows hater but I bought this laptop quite a few years ago now and it came with Windows 8.1 and it worked fine and has continued to work fine and never given any problems so I seen no reason to bother installing Linux. It is the best windows computer I've ever had.

My computer usage is quite light really - a bit of general surfing and writing and maintaining my blog and other pieces of creative writing.

 

[Reynard]

Tasty supper of steamed trout and spaghetti with a sauce of creme fraiche, pesto, spinach and sun dried tomatoes.

Am listening to Chelsea v Arsenal.

 

[Reynard]

My post comes over rather more smug than intended.

Perhaps a better way to put it is that being without a car can be difficult and certainly includes sacrifices, currently involving where I live and what I can do, but it has advantages...

Nothing wrong with being smug.

I feel smug when I do stuff on the bike that nearly everyone else would use a car for.

 

[Reynard]

If you have cats they would appreciate your effort.

That would not be a good idea here - Madam Poppy is a compulsive water bowl paddler...

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Linux updates seem far less of a bind, but they are more frequent.

I'm on Xubuntu, the long term release version, its doing little updates in the background most days, I keep saying I'm going to have a dig round in the settings and see if I can restrict the frequency. My tablet is the one thats playing up a little bit, it keeps dropping out of the VPN set up by the firewall despite it being set up as always on, I'm going to have to have a look at that at sometime.

 

[Illaveago]

I've just been reading about that: it must have been chaos for a bit with the number of Hitachi units they had to withdraw for testing.

It still is .
The Flimflam managers are saying days of disruption . Some experts are saying it could be a year.

 

[Reynard]

Well, well, well...

I'll take those 3 points, thank you very much. Only one point behind the spuds now.

 

[raleighnut]

I've just been reading about that: it must have been chaos for a bit with the number of Hitachi units they had to withdraw for testing.

Serves em right for buying Japanese trains instead of British, they would be OK on the lines in Japan (modern and smooth) but on undermaintained British tracks (lumpy bumpy) it's no wonder they cracked.
Bit like when they had to ask a private owner of a vintage 'Deltic' to help out.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-13592652

 

[PeteXXX]

Back from work, now.
I was a bit peckish but a bowl of porage sorted that out 👍🏼

 

[Reynard]

Time for a and MOTD