Re: [Hampshire] Old Dell dying

2011-09-02 Thread Roger Munford
Problem solved. Thanks for the offer. My friend bought a replacement battery for £1 and it is up and running again. I wonder how many usable PCs get abandoned when this happens Roger On 31/08/11 20:40, Ally Biggs wrote: What's the model? I work at Jamies Computers may be able to sort out a

Re: [Hampshire] Old Dell dying

2011-09-02 Thread Lisi
On Friday 02 September 2011 09:43:34 Roger Munford wrote: I wonder how many usable PCs get abandoned when this happens Not as many, I would think, as get abandoned because viruses have slowed them down. :-( Lisi -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface:

Re: [Hampshire] Old Dell dying

2011-09-02 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
On 02/09/2011 11:55, Lisi wrote: On Friday 02 September 2011 09:43:34 Roger Munford wrote: I wonder how many usable PCs get abandoned when this happens Not as many, I would think, as get abandoned because viruses have slowed them down. :-( ++ I had a friend over this week - her windows

Re: [Hampshire] Old Dell dying

2011-09-02 Thread Vic
Not as many, I would think, as get abandoned because viruses have slowed them down. :-( Got rid of some crap but a complete re-install was the only sensible solution. Will you lot put a sock in it? This list is fully archived; if the world at large finds out that replacing crap Windows

Re: [Hampshire] Old Dell dying

2011-09-02 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
On 02/09/2011 16:25, Vic wrote: This list is fully archived; if the world at large finds out that replacing crap Windows installations puts life back into old hardware, my source of cheap computing will entirely dry up... Given my friends intransigence in getting rid of some rather obvious to

[Hampshire] New Member

2011-09-02 Thread James Bensley
Hi Luggers, I'm new to HantsLUG and am thinking of showing my face tomorrow if I can, to say hello. Just wanted to introduce me self and see what goes on here. I'm a happy member of ALUG (Anglian-LUG) as Norwich is my home town, but I have 10 fingers and 10 toes (including thumbs etc) so don't

Re: [Hampshire] New Member

2011-09-02 Thread Benjie Gillam
Apologies for the OT response, but I wanted to point out the following two meets you may be interested in: If you're into Arduino or any form of hardware hacking/modding then you may enjoy SoutHACKton our local attempt to create a hackspace, next meeting is on Wednesday 7th, details: