Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
- Posts: 3,391
#1
Again I'm using my boys laptop, mine came back from the doctors only to find I had been sent the wrong one!!!
all these new user names told me summat up lol
the computer doc phoned me up and said have I had a comp delivered, yep I said, so he said, how come iv got yours here?
It appears the 2 computers got mixed up so now I have to wait till Tuesday!!
never mind
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
- Posts: 7,819
#2
Keef it may be time to cobble some coppers together ( no- not those kind of coppers!)and invest in a nice Dell or Hewlett Packard. These computers, even laptops are fairly cheap in relative terms these days, and may surely work out cheaper than always paying out to repair the current one.
Gadzooks and shock horror.. the modern ones are even reliable! Yes really
If it was a car you were talking about there, the insurance companies would consider it a write-off and have it crushed at the taxpayers expense. I have this sad vison of poor oul Keef on an ancient machine with elastoplast stuck all over it and white hot vapour steaming out of the sizzling keys.
Yes time to grasp the nettle of economic indulgence and take the plunge into the depressed marketplace. Just think, the Bank of England, even our glorious government will love you for it, as there are so few people spending anything in the high street UK at the mo.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
- Posts: 4,150
#3
Too right PaulB, and a year or two warranty thrown in. Much more economical in the long term if you`ve got a few hundred, rather than expensive repairs, with no guarantee that the problem`s been sorted.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#4
kieth,to suffer makes you angelic, charming.and it allso makes you put it out off boys reach.
#5
If this happened to me I would ensure heads rolled. A person's computer is the biggest and potentially most revealing window into their lives you can get. I'm not just talking about internet history here, I'm talking about all the contact info stored on computer address books, all the financial transactions from online purchasing, online banking, etc etc. The potential for identity theft is absolutely staggering! I think you have no idea just what a serious and potentially life-altering experience this could have been.
For one thing, I would NEVER, not in a million years, give my computer to a stranger to repair. And if I did, I would want to pay the extra for them to come and do the repair at my house. It is a small price to pay compared to the potential for ID theft and the cost of all that nonsense. I am not suggesting that all PC repair people are crooked but the fact is, unless you know the person well, you are essentially handing your PC to a stranger. May as well give them your credit card and PIN number while you're at it.
Getting someone else's PC back is a really serious thing. I'd have hit the roof, in fact I would have gone ballistic had this happened to me.
TIP: When you get rid of old PCs always - ALWAYS - take the hard drive out, particularly if you do any online banking, shopping, or store other people's contact info. Someone who knows what they are doing can recover untold amounts of data from an old hard drive. Whenever I buy a new PC or Mac the previous machine's hard drive always gets removed and utterly destroyed in a bonfire.
#6
Not wishng to feed a paranoia, but, fire doesn't always get rid of sensitive data on hard drives. There are specialists out there who earn a living working for the Police, and who have software and facilities to recover data from almost any state of disc.
Now, I can already hear you all saying "bejaysus, saints preserve us" or some other utterance, but it gets better(?)
Every website page we look at is recorded by Google and others so that the ads we see are profiled speciifcally to us. This is marketing driven technology and how Google and others make their huge profits.
So, if you don't want your data being held and shared, then don't use a computer.
#7
Sid, you haven't seen the way I burn the little buggers
#8
Guest 686- Registered: 5 May 2009
- Posts: 556
#9
The nice shiney platters (the actual disk themselves) make excellent coasters and you can have a great deal of destructive fun getting them out of the drives too.
The drive, without the platters, can be disposed of at the tip. It is the platters that need to be destroyed utterly and melting them down is probably the only sure method of achieving that.
Phil West
If at first you don't succeed, use a BIGGER hammer!!
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
- Posts: 2,119
#10
You can have mine kieth, a few days from now it could end up in a watery grave, I can't even receive E-mails now. All sorts of issues and not a clue how to fix them.
I'm surprised I can still get on the forum.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,463
#11
Keef
Should your thread not be titled..My computer and I..?
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
#12
At least there were no apostophes to trip up on............
#13
On which to trip up - - - - sorry!!!!!!!
#14
Up on which to trip....?????
#15
I give up........
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,463
#16
On which to "go a**e over t*t" there that's that sorted.
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#17
the language of shakespeare, cannot be beaten.
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
- Posts: 3,391
#18
MAREK
You may recall I popped a post on here with regard to a local forum, the secretary who wasn't great at spelling, but never the less gave up his time to volunteer to keep the forum going was ridiculed by one local paper.
I had to re assure that person how valued he was to the forum and all the work he, and all the other volunters did for the community.
I did convince him of this and how wrong it was of the paper.
Many decided at that point not to purchase that paper ever again, so angry by the article.
So I don't ever spend time being critical of anyone's spelling, at the end of the day the forum is about debate(or so I thought) and friendly banter, together with information gathering.
Once we start getting into the ball game of being critical of anyone's spelling there is not one person who posts who has notmade spelling mistakes, or bad grammar.
Since an attack on myself, I did study posters more closely, and whilst I would never go down that route people that do take this route should look at there own postings.
MAREK
I know this is a long reply, and I know you were having a "larf"
but it is a passion for me to encourage people to use the forum what ever there background.
just a few words for thought.
Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
- Posts: 1,388
#19
Blimey Keith, you must be running out of local papers not to buy. I take it this is not the same one as the one which you are always telling us you refuse to buy for some other reason.
I have refused to buy the "Sun" since their infamous "Gotcha" headline, although I don't think they have noticed. Maybe that is because I never used to buy it anyway.
Reminds me of a "Times" advertising campaign many years ago featuring the various top strata of society who were taking the "Times." Somebody mentioned seeing one of their adverts on a railway station platform in London which said "Top clergy take the Times." Underneath, some bowler-hatted gentleman had taken great delight in scribbling "the rest pay for it!"
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,463
#20
Keef
Hey up I was only joking.You should know me better than that..but apologies...it was all Berns idea...lol
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)