The Tea Room, Mk. IV

[The Ace]

Comes in with a kitty carrier which is telling the world, at great length, how rotten life is, "OK Freda, you can stop sulking, he's back."

[Overread]

*puts paws over ears*
hmm good luck with the acting Christy!
I see Tangle is back

[The Ace]

"He'll be fine once he's been fed and he's got Freda back." Puts some tuna nibbles on a saucer and releases the kitten who staggers over, eats two then crashes out. Freda carefully picks him up and puts him on her head.

[Overread]

its and interesting hat - its better than a wooly hat for being warm!
though the claws might be a problem

[The Ace]

She's bound to be used to it by now, he always perches there. He's usually awake, though. And how are you, OR ?

[Overread]

well back in cold uni (I think I insulted the god of central heating! both home and uni heaters are bust -- but only in my room!)
probable here for 2 days or so just to sort out some paperwork and then back home for the holls!
how about you?

[The Ace]

Stuck here on my own again, the boss, "In conference."

[Overread]

ahh could be worse though -- at least he is not there with some "motivational program" or "team bonding" (usually including a trip to some strange place and being put through arduous and embarrassing situations with the aim of pulling you all together (and confirming that you all hate the boss )

[The Ace]

There's only me, him and Mrs Boss, but when he's here he has a nasty habit of asking me to download drivers and then complain I haven't done it.

[Overread]

ahh one of those people who once they have given the order think it has already been done (or should have been done)
well drivers is a lesser problem - unless they are those that require hunting for!
out of interest you must be getting some new business from the vista service pack!!
I have not touched it yet, but it seems that your average user is having more problems with it that without (though 1 person I read found that after it had installed 50GB of his harddisk was free - this is on a 150GB drive and a chap who moniteres his harddrive usage!!)

[The Ace]

Not yet, most Vista computers are still under warranty, so they just take them back to where they bought them.

Nobody keeps driver discs, so a large part of the job is logging on to the manufacturers' websites (once we've identified the hardware) and downloading them. UK sites are OK, but US and Taiwanese sites take an age.

Half the time, Windows driver updates don't work.

[Overread]

I think that is because other companies have to pay windows to get that service they even have to pay for driver signing which further confuses new users - suddenly the official drivers from the site (or disk) are not windows official --- something must be wrong here!
Personally I think windows should really consider the consumer more - so much of the difficualty with computers is just their own quirks - [/rant]

[Ursa major]

Only 50GB free? I've only got 93.3GB free out of 136GB** now, and I've not even thought of loading SP1 yet.


Afternoon, all.


** - There's 10GB on a second partition, with 6GB free.

[The Ace]

I've never bothered about driver signing, and it's never been a problem once they're installed.

Afternoon, Ursa.

[Ursa major]

Recovered from the Ace-Wide Web?

(I always keep all my driver disks. It's just that on the single occasion I actually needed one of them, it had gone missing. Why it wasn't in the PC box with the others I'll never know.)