Gripe of the day - What is yours? - Page 571 - SV650.org

timwilky · 26-04-18, 08:26 AM

Work have sent me my new laptop. nice and light, a dell precision 5520.

Then for some reason they bodged it.

windows 7?????????
Stuffed it full of engineering apps. so no space for what I want
partitioned the 500GB SSD as two drives.

Biggest gripe, Mcaffee disk encryption that requires a password to unlock, but before it has loaded the drivers for the keyboard/mouse. so I have to open it up type on the laptop keyboard and then close it.

slowly putting in place the apps I need, Catia has gone, all my desktop is transferred. but transferring registries for putty, winscp. then Oracle Developer connections etc are a right pain.

IT muppets...Grrh they did not want to send me the machine, they wanted me to drive to them for them to set up. In some ways I wish I had been able to. I would have told them to start again.

maviczap · 27-04-18, 12:05 PM

Back to the miserable grey and wet

SV650rules · 27-04-18, 01:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by maviczap

Back to the miserable grey and wet

Miserable, grey, wet and cold (6 deg C) by us.

We had a bloke from Spain stay with a friend in a house across the road from us (he is British but has lived there for a while) and he loves the cooler weather and how GREEN everything is.

Sir Trev · 27-04-18, 03:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SV650rules

... and how GREEN everything is.

There's green and then there's underwater. We seem to be heading for the latter!

maviczap · 27-04-18, 06:25 PM

Happily swap the warm for this grey muck

phi-dan · 27-04-18, 07:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by phi-dan

Having spent the winter waiting for dry days to replace the alternator (no indoor work space) it's finally nice enough to enjoy riding but no. Looks like the oil pump has failed now...

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Yep, I'd call that f***ed

Looks like a missing bit of alternator.

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shiftin_gear98 · 28-04-18, 12:35 PM

To the poor soul who died on the M11 yesterday.
Be safe people.

shiftin_gear98 · 01-05-18, 05:34 PM

Twinged my back taking an empty water bottle out of a low kitchen unit. Yeah I know WTF.
Currently pretty painful. I must be getting old.

maviczap · 01-05-18, 08:41 PM

Came home to find my cat had caught a pigeon, but not killed it. So I had to as, it couldn't fly

garynortheast · 01-05-18, 09:47 PM

Wood pigeon? If so, get it in the pot!

26-04-18, 08:26 AM	#5701
timwilky Member Mega Poster Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Not in Yorkshire. (Thank God) Posts: 4,116	Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours? Work have sent me my new laptop. nice and light, a dell precision 5520. Then for some reason they bodged it. windows 7????????? Stuffed it full of engineering apps. so no space for what I want partitioned the 500GB SSD as two drives. Biggest gripe, Mcaffee disk encryption that requires a password to unlock, but before it has loaded the drivers for the keyboard/mouse. so I have to open it up type on the laptop keyboard and then close it. slowly putting in place the apps I need, Catia has gone, all my desktop is transferred. but transferring registries for putty, winscp. then Oracle Developer connections etc are a right pain. IT muppets...Grrh they did not want to send me the machine, they wanted me to drive to them for them to set up. In some ways I wish I had been able to. I would have told them to start again. __________________ Not Grumpy, opinionated.

27-04-18, 12:05 PM	#5702
maviczap Member Mega Poster Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 9,097	Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours? Back to the miserable grey and wet __________________ We're riding out tonight to case the promised land Make everyday count RIP Reeder - Jolly Green Giant and comedy genius

27-04-18, 06:25 PM	#5705
maviczap Member Mega Poster Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 9,097	Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours? Happily swap the warm for this grey muck __________________ We're riding out tonight to case the promised land Make everyday count RIP Reeder - Jolly Green Giant and comedy genius

28-04-18, 12:35 PM	#5707
shiftin_gear98 Member Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: At home Posts: 756	Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours? To the poor soul who died on the M11 yesterday. Be safe people.

01-05-18, 05:34 PM	#5708
shiftin_gear98 Member Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: At home Posts: 756	Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours? Twinged my back taking an empty water bottle out of a low kitchen unit. Yeah I know WTF. Currently pretty painful. I must be getting old.

01-05-18, 08:41 PM	#5709
maviczap Member Mega Poster Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 9,097	Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours? Came home to find my cat had caught a pigeon, but not killed it. So I had to as, it couldn't fly __________________ We're riding out tonight to case the promised land Make everyday count RIP Reeder - Jolly Green Giant and comedy genius

01-05-18, 09:47 PM	#5710
garynortheast Member Mega Poster Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Mid Wales Posts: 2,587	Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours? Wood pigeon? If so, get it in the pot! __________________ http://www.teulu-cymru.org/cartref.html https://teulu.bandcamp.com/releases

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