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Marcel said:
Windows!

My wife has Windows7. Now it suddenly lost all it's drivers and nothing works. While other OS's at least are transparent, Windows is kinda black box, so finding the cause of the problem is not easy and fixing is even worse.
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At least it's not Windows 8:shock:
 
I had an e-mail last week stating Microsoft are no longer supporting Windows XP etc, as of April, and that they recommend upgrading, which possibly involves a newer, 'more powerful' computer!!
Anyone else had anything similar?
 
Yeah, the headsup regarding XP's end of support has been set for 14 April for quite a while.

Just because they are no longer offering support, doesn't mean it'll quite working at 12:01 15 April. Support for XP has been limited for several years anyway.

I will keep my XP on my machine for as long as I can, I am not a fan of changing the OS every other year like the industry wants a PC user to do.

I ran Windows 3.1.11 for years after it was no longer supported. I eventually migrated over to Windows 98 second edition after the bugs were worked out, skipping over Windows 95.

As long as a user takes care of their machine, performs routine maintenance, the system should run fine for years.

I still have a Windows 98 machine that runs flawlessly, it has never "crashed", never tossed up the dreaded "blue screen of death" or been invaded by a virus. Same goes for my two other machines that run WinXP.

So I'll wait and see, before moving on to another OS for now.
 
I'm not in favor of keeping non-maintained OS'es unless you refrain from connecting to the Internet. My solution was moving to to Linux, which is free and easy to maintain and I can upgrade whenever I want. Also I can configure Linux the way I want, so I can adapt it to the hardware I'm having. For instance, my 7 year old desktop is running a lighter and simpler windowsmanager than my i5 laptop and they both work equally fine.
So my laptop, my son's laptop and my desktop all run a flavor of Debian/Ubuntu. Only my wife has windows. As she is an editor and most of the world uses MSOffice, she needs it. We also use it because my navigation and itunes are both not compatible with Linux. For the rest Linux serves fine for all day-to-day work. But this one windows laptop gives me more headaches than the other 3 linux machines together.
 
My neighbour. He is replacing the main door to his flat. Drilling, drilling and more of drilling making a noise that causes my headache.
 
Hadn't expected a parcels delivery on a Saturday afternoon, as the Royal Mail haven't done it before, so went out. Got back late afternoon, to find a note from the normal, letter post delivery man, stating that two packages had been left at the kitchen work shop next door, which closed at 4 pm!
B*gg*r !
That'll be my Hannant's order and Vol 4 of Luftwaffe Crash Archive, and I'll have to wait until Monday morning to get them!
Bl**dy Royal Mail delivery schedules are a mess at the moment!
 
They're closing a bl**dy good pub, only to be replaced with a effing Sainsbury, don't need a Sainsbury, I've got a COOP, two close Tescos, a 24 hour Spar and a huge 24 ASDA where I live....

Get a effing grip you twats....






Rant over, return to normal service should follow shortly....
 
OK, I asked before and I'm gonna ask again, which of you has the Voodoo doll and is torturing me?
After last weeks, back, neck, and hip issues I awoke nice and early this moring to throbbing pain in both big toes and all along the insides of both feet. Never had gout before, but that it what it seems to act like. Ibuprofen has helped a little. I hope this is not yet another ailement that is going to inflict pain for the rest of my days.
 
Welcome to my world Buck. If it is gout and they offer you a choice between diet and a life-time daily pill, take the pill as a person in the medical profession told me the diet doesn't work very well. I take Allopurinol daily and Indomethacin to knock the swelling and pain down during a flare-up.

Geo
 
Bucksnort101 said:
OK, I asked before and I'm gonna ask again, which of you has the Voodoo doll and is torturing me?
After last weeks, back, neck, and hip issues I awoke nice and early this moring to throbbing pain in both big toes and all along the insides of both feet. Never had gout before, but that it what it seems to act like. Ibuprofen has helped a little. I hope this is not yet another ailement that is going to inflict pain for the rest of my days.
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Get it checked and assessed asap Buck.
If it's gout, it can be treated, but will re-occur. If it's worse, it could be the beginning of Rheumatoid Arthritis, which makes gout look like a friendly cousin!
Despite claims of a cure for RA being close, and a number of very expensive 'wonder drugs' being developed in recent years, there is no known, full cure, for RA at the moment. It's effects are horrendous, painful to the extreme, mainly 24 hours per day, ten days per week (lack of sleep due to pain and discomfort extend things to a 10-day week!), it's on-going and progressive - the latter meaning it gets worse with time.
I used to be extremely fit and healthy, much more so than the average 46 year old, when first diagnosed with possible gout. It was then found that it was actually RA, which has spread over the years until now, at 62 years old, both knees are totally locked and swollen, giving a very bent legged stance, my ankles are totally shot, my left hand is like a stiff claw, and I have only about 60 to 70% use of some fingers on the right hand.
This means that day to day activities are extremely restricted, including walking and even standing, both of which are painful, and things like playing the guitar, skiing, parachuting or even working on the car, are just memories.
I now have to take painkillers regularly each day, and two different 'control' drugs, one weekly, as tablets, the other every two weeks as an injection, and have a monthly blood test to monitor the effects of these.
So, from an extremely fit individual, I have now gone to a virtual cripple, all due to a stupid immune system disease that is not yet fully understood.
Bottom line - get it checked out NOW!
The sooner it's caught, the sooner the right medication (for life) can be introduced. The disease will probably still win in the end, but at least you'll have a better quality of life, and less pain, before reaching your abbreviated dottage.
 
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Thanks for the input. Not sure it's gout or RA. I think I just strained both of them on Sunday, sat on the floor for an hour or so and then had to bet my beached whale self off the floor. I think I put too much weight on my big piggies and caused the problem. I've done this on numerous occasion with the left foot I busted up in a motorcycle accident. Same soreness for a couple days then all is well for a long time till I do it again.
Probably didn't help matters thsat I failed to take the Metformin for blood sugar control both in the morning and evening on Sunday.
 
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