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Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 2:28 pm
by Jeffers
Just getting used to a more relaxing lifestyle, as I've just taken early retirement after nearly 30 years in IT.
No more pagers! No more middle of the night call-outs.......
It still feels a bit strange, but I'm sure I'll get used to it.

BTW, referring to some earlier comments, I have an AMD 64 3400+ and it's running at 45C.

Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 3:33 pm
by UBT - Terry
Rockinfroggi wrote:Panic stricken, like an idiot I've agreed to be interviewed by the BBC regarding the cost of staying in hospital.
They are on their way to me as I type this and if the interview is usable will be on the 6pm news.

Better go put my make-up on and change my nappy.


This is BBC Frog signing off. :oops:

 Fame at last then Gary they say every frog has his day  :wink:

Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 6:34 pm
by UBT - bobuk
Rockinfroggi wrote:Panic stricken, like an idiot I've agreed to be interviewed by the BBC regarding the cost of staying in hospital.
They are on their way to me as I type this and if the interview is usable will be on the 6pm news.

Better go put my make-up on and change my nappy.


This is BBC Frog signing off. :oops:Image
garry....nice little interview.:) thought they could have done your makup a little better though :) and why was there no number crunching shown on your pc.? (slacker)


b. :D

Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:05 pm
by UBT - Halifax-lad
UBT - bobuk wrote:garry....nice little interview.:) thought they could have done your makup a little better though :) and why was there no number crunching shown on your pc.? (slacker)


b. :D
Best load up the recorded version of it and see you slacking with BOINC :lol:

Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:07 pm
by Rockinfroggi
UBT - bobuk wrote:[

garry....nice little interview.:) thought they could have done your makup a little better though :) and why was there no number crunching shown on your pc.? (slacker)


b. :D

I had our forum page up when they started filming but when they filmed me at the PC they said it was too busy and could I just pretend to be writing an e-mail, sorry  :dontknow:

Don't you just hate hearing your own voice? I'm off to find a deep hole to hide in  :oops:


Trevor McFroggi

Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:25 pm
by UBT - Halifax-lad
Should have made the graphics on BOINC come on :lol:

Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:29 pm
by Rockinfroggi
UBT - Halifax--lad wrote:Should have made the graphics on BOINC come on :lol:

Sorry, I've failed the team and I've failed myself, I shall beat myself severely with a soggy lilly pad   :shock:

Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 5:04 am
by UBT - PiezPiedPy
Rockinfroggi wrote:
UBT - Halifax--lad wrote:Should have made the graphics on BOINC come on :lol:

Sorry, I've failed the team and I've failed myself, I shall beat myself severely with a soggy lilly pad   :shock:
I propose you use a soggy well used sock

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 12:02 pm
by UBT - PiezPiedPy
Wheeeeeeeeeee - I have a feeling of well being after chearing the local skooleez up when they chewed my ear of for this :roll:
Click this bit (4Mb DivX Video) - Got told off by the constabulary aswell  :evil:

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 1:36 pm
by Timby
Looks like a Nissan 200SX Auto 1.8 to me ?

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 11:28 pm
by UBT - PiezPiedPy
Really ? I allways thought it was an XR2   8)

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 11:37 pm
by Timby
it would look great in Blue though

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 11:45 pm
by UBT - PiezPiedPy
Blue was my color of choice first but I'm thinking maybe green to match the grass  :lol:

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:06 am
by cris keys
dRUNK and cheerfuk!!

Get a REAL bikje :P

Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 6:38 pm
by UBT-mark3346
Mildly p**d off, must have been a power cut early this morning, almost nothing running when I got home lost 11 hours on 7 cores bummer. :evil:

Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 1:25 pm
by UBT - Chris Suddick
Just to resurrect this thread...

...depressed.

Just realised that today is the 30th anniversary of passing my driving test! It only feels like yesterday. Where'd it all go? I feel terribly old now  :cry:

Old Man of Warrington.

Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 1:49 pm
by UBT - bobuk
UBT - Chris Suddick wrote:Just to resurrect this thread...

...depressed.

Just realised that today is the 30th anniversary of passing my driving test! It only feels like yesterday. Where'd it all go? I feel terribly old now  :cry:

Old Man of Warrington.

you feel old !

when i past my driving test ..there was a man walking in front with a red flag  :lol:


b. :D

Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 2:55 pm
by Gary
UBT - bobuk wrote:
UBT - Chris Suddick wrote:Just to resurrect this thread...

...depressed.

Just realised that today is the 30th anniversary of passing my driving test! It only feels like yesterday. Where'd it all go? I feel terribly old now  :cry:

Old Man of Warrington.

you feel old !

when i past my driving test ..there was a man walking in front with a red flag  :lol:


b. :D
You think thats old ! when I did my test I had to shovel in the coal as well !:lol:
Old Man of Warrington.
Is that like one of them carvings in a chalk hillside  like our "Long man of Wilmington" :lol:

Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 6:16 pm
by UBT - Chris Suddick
Gary wrote:
You think thats old ! when I did my test I had to shovel in the coal as well !:lol:
And you try telling youngsters today, they'll never believe you!  :lol:

Chris

Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 6:20 pm
by Rockinfroggi
UBT - Chris Suddick wrote:
Gary wrote:
You think thats old ! when I did my test I had to shovel in the coal as well !:lol:
And you try telling youngsters today, they'll never believe you!  :lol:

Chris

:binky:

Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 6:25 pm
by Gary
Long man of wilmington in case anyones curious to what I was on about

http://www.sussexpast.co.uk/property/si ... site_id=13

Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:18 pm
by UBT-mark3346
UBT - Chris Suddick wrote:Just to resurrect this thread...

...depressed.

Just realised that today is the 30th anniversary of passing my driving test! It only feels like yesterday. Where'd it all go? I feel terribly old now  :cry:

Old Man of Warrington.
You are catching as well as depressed...hadn't given it any thought before but it's 30 years since I started work, riding m/bike. Looking at the rain outside yet again reminds me of the really hot/dry summer of 1976, not just life gone the weather as well  :cry:

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 12:46 am
by Rockinfroggi
30 years ago for me brings nothing but a big grin to my face, but that's another story and too X rated for this forum. :shock:

Life's way too short to be depressed about your age or anything for that matter, I'll send you all a consignment of my happy pills, then the whole forum can be awash with the Frog style of pointless waffle :roll:

Gawd, just though, too long ago for me to remember when I passed my test. :oops:


The smiling Frog. (scary ain't it)

Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 9:18 pm
by UBT - PiezPiedPy
Feel so much betta knowing I'm younger than you lot  :lol:   :lol:  8)

Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 11:15 pm
by Jeffers
Feeling immensely relieved at getting my Broadband back working. I've been off for over a month due to a c**k up with my phone line.......
It's made me realise how much I rely on being able to just pop onto the web any time I need too. I'll be a lot more careful in future about dabbling with alternate ISPs.

Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 12:16 pm
by UBT-mark3346
Really really pi**ed off :evil: , the office is closing and if I was 6 months older I could have taken a severance package equal to almost full pay for the next ten years, instead I will have to take another post in the firm...Bo**ocks, ****, etc etc :twisted: .   Could have got another job later just for getting quad cores and upwards...instead zilch :cry:  :cry:

Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 3:56 pm
by UBT - Knightlight
I'm in a tired buy happy mood, in Shannon airport at the moment, on my way home for the weekend. A few good achievments made this weekend, which had brought me happyness. Havn't felt relaxed like this in ages.

Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 5:37 pm
by UBT - The Prof....
One more shift to do then a week off.... Bliss :D

Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 8:33 pm
by UBT - mickyb69
Just spent the last 10 hours putting xmass decorations up in the school and then sitting on a stall getting 6 year olds to guess where the reindeer is ....
But now im happy as the chinkeys on its way and i got lots of beer for my birthday yipppppeeeeeeeeeeeeee Image

Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 10:40 pm
by melter65
Feeling both Merry and Jolly! Just finished putting Christmas Tree up, got most of Christmas shopping done today as well!Image

Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 11:57 pm
by UBT - mickyb69
Just been to the chistmass dooo and it was tat 3 course meal .. Some of it was cooked .so feeling happy now eating pringles and drinking beer  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 7:43 am
by UBT - PiezPiedPy
oooooo its xmas eve 8)

Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 9:07 am
by UBT - mickyb69
Feeling great ,All the running about done and having a lazy morning  :o

Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:40 pm
by UBT - The Prof....
Feeling smegged off  :(
Christmas eve tuble drier blows up, followed by car heater matrix next day  :cry:

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:33 pm
by cris keys
Bleh have a stinking head cold   :x  hot toddy coming tho   :)

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 10:22 pm
by UBT - mickyb69
Done a stupid minibus test today cuss the county doesn't think a PSV pass was good enough for the tat ldv vans they hire out to schools .
PMSL i passed with 1 minor lololololol
Instructor said "you did well because people have trouble judging corners in a  van as its longer than a car "   errr i passed me test in a coach  :wink:

Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 7:40 pm
by UBT - Mikee
Damn narked!

Wifey is on a 12 hour shift so I thought this would be the perfect time to upgrade the hard-drive and install windows on it. PC is running very slow on start up, the defrag doesn't work and I've got bad sectors.

Got a nice new 320GB SATA drive. I've never had a SATA drive before but I had all the leads and drivers so I thought there shouldn't be a problem.

Everything started bad! BIOS didn't recognise it at first, but a bit of tweaking sorted that - so I thought.

Windows... 'what drive'? poo

More tweaking of BIOS which then found the drive...
Windows... 'what drive'

More tweaking in windows...
Windows... G drive = removable drive

uh?

Click on G: windows says 'insert disc'! - it's a HARD DRIVE!

OK it's a new drive - needs to be formatted - right click on G: - format - won't have it!

A lot of faffing about, windows disc, safe mode, even tried formatting from a floppy, wandering round the net, microsoft, Hitachi, various others.

Eventually, 8 hours after I bought the drive  :(  I found a post saying exactly my problem! The reply was even better - done that, been there, done that... ah....

Control panel - admin tools - Computer management - disc management - go on....

YES!!

At last. It's now formatting (58% after 30 minutes but I'm happier).

Just hope it's there after the format and reboot!

So now I'm where I should have been 8 hours ago and preparing for a re-install on the new drive - but it's not going to happen today now!

Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:10 am
by UBT - Nogbo
Well I am in a fantastic mood this morning.

It's pay day, it's Friday, after today I have a 3 day week-end off from work and the sun is shining!!

Life feels good this morning  :D

Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 11:00 pm
by UBT - mickyb69
I'm having a drink and thinking about job interview on Monday.
Ohhhhhhhhhhh extra 8k a year and a house that costs £1285 a year to rent  :shock:

Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 10:56 am
by Jeffers
A little surprised to see this thread still going. I thought it had quietly slipped away.......

Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 9:07 pm
by vaio
Current mood..........peed off cos I am missing out on a pair of quads.  :evil:

Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 10:48 pm
by Ben
Current Mood:

Just been paid, and now having difficulty deciding what to get! 8800gt or 9600GT?? Oh choices, choices!  :lol:

Happy chappy!  :D

Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 12:40 am
by UBT-mark3346
UBT - mickyb69 wrote:I'm having a drink and thinking about job interview on Monday.
Ohhhhhhhhhhh extra 8k a year and a house that costs £1285 a year to rent  :shock:
Good Luck   (£1285/Year!Jammy dodger) :lol:

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:02 pm
by NaRyan
DAMN <CENSORED> OFF!!!
Some <CENSORED> ikkle <CENSORED> stole my & my friends bike today.
From inside the building.

Mine was a £500 Shogun Xc300 and hers was a £250 Diamond Back.
That's the 2nd Shogun XC300 that I have had stolen from this building.
So £1000 worth of bike gone.

Mr M32 is itching for some vengeance at the moment......

Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 7:43 am
by UBT - Mikee
Not happy 'cos I just spent over £400 when it could have been nothing...

Got up yesterday morning and the PC was off. Strange as it's on 24/7. Tried to switch it on and nothing. Took case off, switch on, CPU fan just moves then nothing. Unplugged the drives - same. Motherboard has been making strange noises recently so I thought that had gone, time for an upgrade anyway.

Got a new motherboard (only 1 IDE input which caused a bit of a problem with 2 DVDs and an IDE HD), Quad CPU, 600 watt PSU and a cheapish graphics card. Then found that the memory had a different number of pins so I had to go out and get some new memory as well.

Carefully rebuilt the system...

Switched on...

EXACTLY THE SAME RESULT!!! WHAT'S GOING ON??? THERE'S NOTHING LEFT TO CHANGE!

Case? Disconnected the case wires and shorted the 'switch on' pins - still the same! Disconnected the drives again - same.

Then I noticed a cable under the drives - the floppy drive.... No, it can't be? Yanked out the floppy power supply cable and up it came!

I swore - profusely!

Windows complained that the system was different since last activated. Do I want to reactivate yes/no? Bit of a problem as it stops just as the USB is switching over. I couldn't reply as the keyboard and mouse would not respond. Fixed that eventually, activation was a breeze surprisingly.

So at least I got a nice new, fast and quiet PC but don't tell Mrs. Mikee I spent over £400 when it could have been just £10 for a new floppy!

Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 9:33 am
by NaRyan
So at least I got a nice new, fast and quiet PC but don't tell Mrs. Mikee I spent over £400 when it could have been just £10 for a new floppy!
You know fine well as soon as Ben reads that he is going to blackmail ya!

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 8:54 pm
by melter65
Slightly Pissed-off.

Got back off holiday last night, restarted 'puter and BM started up at the sametime, "I like this new version!" methinks.

BM plays funny buggers all last night and all today with the few wu's I managed to d/load, then Bob tells me (on the chat) that the berks have withdrawn the new version and put the old version back up for d/load.

Think I might go back to Crunch3rs!! :lol:

UPDATE: the 'berks' now have v6.2.16 for download, which is now alongside v5.10.45 as 'recommended versions'

Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 5:44 pm
by Gary
cuckoo

Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 9:52 pm
by UBT - The Prof....
Totally P****d off :evil:
Finished work, got to the car, some kind person has smashed front passenger side window.  :twisted:

Get home after talking to Police to find I have been victim of identity theft and my current accounts been almost wiped out :twisted:  :twisted:  :twisted:
Had to cancel debit card as a matter of urgency, now going to have to go through banks fraud department to try and get my money refunded. I think I need an appointmentr with a bottle of something strong and alcoholic :shock:  which I don't usually partake off.
Not one of my better days :cry:

Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:21 pm
by UBT - Mikee
6 hours in casualty after having a "Micturition syncope" hasn't done wonders for my mood as I had a crack on the head and will probably have to replace the bathroom carpet due to the bloodstains!

I'll try not to do it again doc!

Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:29 pm
by UBT - Rick Horn
Had to look that one up on the internet Mikee.
It dosen`t sound much fun, hope you`re feeling better now. (Shame about the carpet.)

Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 1:37 pm
by UBT - Mikee
UBT - Rick Horn wrote:Had to look that one up on the internet Mikee.
It dosen`t sound much fun, hope you`re feeling better now. (Shame about the carpet.)
Thought people might, didn't want to make it too easy:-) Casualty Doc said DVLC might require me to stop driving for a week, which is a pain as that's what I do! Seeing GP this afternoon.

Feeling OK now though.

Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 2:30 pm
by Temujin
Blimey Mike :shock:
I had to look it up aswell, doesn't sound good

Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 5:40 pm
by UBT - Mikee
Thanks guys

http://www.patient.co.uk/showdoc/40000734/

AKA..

Fainting while having a pee, compounded with a bang on the head by the door handle! Feel a right dork now!

All OK now apart from a lump of glue instead of stitches. GP says just one of those things that happen for no reason. Probably won't happen again, but it might - great help! At least I can still drive, I don't have diabetes, hearts OK and normal blood pressure.

So mood is a lot happier now!

Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 6:38 am
by melter65
Hope the head's feeling better, Mikee! :D

Being a diabetic I can sometimes get wild blood pressure swings. Just standing up too quickly can lead to almost blacking out! It's not a constant problem, only occasional. Reading the webpage, it looks like you're peeing with the door open from now on! :wink:

Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 10:11 am
by UBT - Rick Horn
UBT - Mikee wrote: hearts OK
Hell mikee, how many have you got! or did you just miss out the apostrophe?  :shock:

Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 10:40 am
by UBT - Mikee
UBT - Rick Horn wrote:
UBT - Mikee wrote: hearts OK
Hell mikee, how many have you got! or did you just miss out the apostrophe?  :shock:
Usually so good with my apostrophesis's as well! Maybe I'm one of these? Image

(I'll let you into a little secret though - my alternative name here is "Great Wizard Qui Quae Quod" ) :D

Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 9:28 pm
by UBT - The Prof....
Rather p****d off atm.  :evil:
Just had Climate prediction wu crash with "computation Error" after it's been running for over 466 hours :twisted:  :twisted:
It's almost enough to make you turn to the demon booze :shock:
I give up.
"Time for bed," said Zeberdee :cry:

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 2:13 am
by simplespud
current mood >> great!
New Years Eve - a night Im normally not too keen on..
so tonight - no hopes or expectations...
just had such a good night - crap singer, mediocre beer...good company
baby sitter gone, wife fast asleep...
back to work soon, but I don't care!

Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 2:29 pm
by Gary
cuckoo

Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2015 6:21 pm
by UBT - Chris
Pretty good - got 9 cores running Enigma@Home, and should hit 100,000 (Gold Badge) within 4 or 5 days :D