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RogelioP / EX DE,HL wrote: A service that gets taken for granted, but without which...
... We might actually do something useful with our time, for a change.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I was having a look for some crockery on Flee Bay and came across this bargain[^]!
[Yes, it is cheap; for a given value of cheap]
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I don't see where you placed your auction.
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I am actually looking at either the Victoria or Rothchild for a coffee service. 6 cups, saucers, coffee pot, milk jug and sugar will be around £500.
Some friends of ours, went to the factory in Herend last year to buy a service. He is an art collector and she is an art historian. Neither could decide on the perfect set so they compromised, Herend will make a service to their own design. By comparisson, I think the full Victoria service in Windsor would be cheaper!
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It's not rare though: There's this as well[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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If you zoom in on the picture, you'll see the light green and [24ct] gold details around the edges. That is the top class version, as given to Vicky and Bert when they got hitched, and is two or three times more expensive then the plebeian version. After seeing it, the Baron Rothchild ordered a bigger more decorative set from Herendi just to outdo the Germans! 
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Does it go to the dishwasher ?
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Be serious, it's washed by one's staff!
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I can't trust my staff with mine you just can't get the staff these days.
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The worse thing is these dogooders all over the place saying you can't flog the staff! Had one the other so I flogger her instead!
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I have just achieved a new level of respect for Styrofoam.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Merca - The Land That Taste Forgot
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Oh bum. The senior citizens' puter has gone and GOTTEN sick. My best guestimate [wow, the spill chicken licks this] is that they've gone and got themselves one of them thar viruseses. It boots, even in safe mode, to ask for a password with a input dialog that is clearly NOT part of Windows XP.
I have persuaded them to scrap the mofu and get themselves a new box; so far so good. The only slight, tiny, itsy-bitsy problem is that they have a lot of un-backed up photos, etc, etc, etc that they would like to keep if possible.
What I am thinking of is an OS on a stick so I can go in, boot up off the stick, and copy out all their old documents to another stick. Do any of you have any suggestions of how to approach this?
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I did it also this way, at least twice, to restore data from a "lost" Win XP system. It makes it possible, of course, to scan for errors and to remove virusses.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: What I am thinking of is an OS on a stick so I can go in, boot up off the stick, and copy out all their old documents to another stick. Do any of you have any suggestions of how to approach this?
I would suggest using an OS on a stick[^], booting off the stick[^], and copying out all their documents[^].
It's actually a lot easier than it feels it will be if you've never done it before.
Remember to save the state of the OS-on-a-stick when you exit, if you've made changes or installed things you want to keep.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Sounds worryingly like a Cryptolocker-style trojan... which would mean it's all been encrypted so booting off something else won't help.
I hope not.
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Even that is recoverable[^]. I just want to get them off their old box [done] and hopefully get some of their stuff back. I have a puppy stick, so hopefully I can do /something/
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I help people with viruses and stuff, so I bookmarked that site for future reference. Have a 5!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Another thing you may want to look at is the Bitdefender Rescue CD[^]. I have a copy on a USB drive for helping people remove malware.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I think that site was a one off, from when researchers took down a bunch of cryptolocker CNC servers last summer. Current versions probably use different private keys and will still have their victims elephanted if they don't have a clean backup.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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We'll see and, hopefully, they'll learn
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Boot off a CD not a stick for recovery purposes. You don't want to get your stick infected if whatever the PC has includes something that's taken over the boot loader...
My, admittedly slightly paranoid, recovery process would start by booting a clean and diskless (this step is probably overkill) computer via a CD, and then accessing the infected disk over a USB adapter that's first connected after booting.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Let's learn MS-DOS 6.0[^]
Apologies to USians if she's famous over there, this is new to me.
OT: Can one of you tell me where the "Any" key is?
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