Joan Archer wrote:
I haven't bought any coal for ages, my coal bunker is full anyway
just don't light one. The fire is in the living room and the
computers are down the other end of the bungalow so what's the point
I wouldn't feel the heat g

Yes, you don't feel the heat here unless you're virtually in it! And I've
become aware this winter, having always wondered what on earth possesses
people to brick their fireplaces up, that when you are next to it, you need
a fire going pretty much all the time! These days that's expensive!
Certainly since the logs I managed to salvage from a couple of trees felled
here three years back went.

It ought to be cheap for you, but I don't suppose burning anthracite is much
of an option. I see they're predicting the temperature to plummet again in
the next few days, so I expect I'll put my chopping block on!

And, while there is a rad the other side of the computer desk - about 6ft
away - and the living room, with a couple of rads and a fire 6ft the other
way, it gets chilly enough here! I sit around in wooly hat and scarf much of
the time and gloves too sometimes (really had to search to find a place
selling wooly gloves round here! Though I'd like to stress that I have no
intention of bringing sheep into this).

A bungalow helps, I daresay. I have to close my bedroom (having turned the
rads off) because basically the heat is going up there where nobody is, as
opposed to staying down here where the living goes on. It constitutes at
least a quarter of the capacity of the house and is very wasteful! Though
half the time I'll go up to close the door and herself is curled up on the
duvet and that's that, heating the house for the benefit of the cat!


John's computer is broke, son-in-law was using it yesterday to play
around getting something on his Pocket PC and now ours is screwed,
can't get into it takes forever to load up and then never finishes so
it's got to be backed up and a reinstall, John is not happy.


I bet he's not! Possibly a shame I didn't send you that 30GB HDD (ended up
ball-peening the PCB and binning it!) and he could have had what I have this
set up to do, i.e. image the main drive to the other, every night at
shutdown, automatically. The backup drive here has space for three images
and I finally worked it out so that there is always a copy from at least 2
weeks ago, one from a week ago and one from last night. Of course the more
data to be backed up, the fewer images one can fit!

He could still do it on a single drive, I guess, if the amount of data is
not that large - and when a reinstall is needed is the ideal time to
partition, of course! In fact, I used to do something like it when I was
only using one disk. No help if the disk itself fails, though I've never had
one do that - or not one of my own anyway!

It's grey and miserable to day and the wind is getting up.

Yes, here too. My sister is staying!


Shane



"Shane" wrote in message
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Yes, we seem to have that, now. Not even worth lighting a fire! Or
not given how much the coal's gone up this year.
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