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"Arturo" wrote in message
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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


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!

I wish, I just have an open fire that eats coal like there's no tomorrow,
doesn't even have a back boiler for hot water since they put the heating in,
so it only heats the living room.

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!

I suppose so but don't forget it means we're nearer to the roof haven't got
another floor in between the living area and the top of the house g

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!

I don't think he'll be letting son-in-law go near it in future, at the
moment the disc is in the drive copying back his My Documents folder. He
thinks in one way it's good though because a clean install means the only
things going back on are what he wants, it still had a few things of mine on
it because it was my computer before I got this Vista one g


Shane