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General musings
Apr. 8th, 2010 04:17 pmNot having posted for a while, I thought I should ramble on for a while.
The computer is fixed finally. Sony Vaios seem to have a screen brightness problem when booting up from sleep mode and default to the power-saving-too-dim-to-read mode. Having got itself into this state it then refuses to come out of it with anything this side of a full power up reboot from scratch. Searches on the Viao "help" forum have failed to find a fix for this. Emailing the Viao support troll didn't help either.
After going through a full reboot so that I could read the dratted thing, I noticed that it had lost the wireless network and denied that there was one around for it to play with. I reset the wireless router by switching it off and on again, no joy. That took a second full reboot. Having got past that I noticed that the internal cooling fan was running at full speed, something it does when the CPU is being utilised at or near maximum. A check on the processes running showed that winpm-32.exe had grabbed more than 80% of the resources. I wasn't sure what that was, so did a quick search and found that it was my email program. Full reboot 3 stopped that, although why it was doing whatever it was doing was beyond me. Pegasus Mail has never done that before and has always seemd to be pretty benign. Whilst searching I did find a wonderful conversation between a Pegasus Mail user and Symantec's support desk regarding the latest update of the anti-virus program deciding that winp32.exe was a virus and deleting the file so that all email function was lost. community.pmail.com/forums/thread/680.aspx About one third of the way down the page is the conversation between Cassiopeia and the help desk numbskull. It makes amusing reading because I didn't have to suffer the pain of going through it myself.
The TS accounts are available in draft form and I have to sit down and analyse them so that I can field and questions on them, including the official Mike Percival tough-question-for-treasurers (tm). Then there's the calculations for the annual subscription rate to be done.
The dry stone wall man has delayed starting for a week so that he can finish up the job he's doing in Surrey.
Does anyone know what DINNA URGET means, especially when applied to Australia?
And now a little quiz... How much would you pay for these bath taps with integral shower head?
( A few clues behind here. )
The computer is fixed finally. Sony Vaios seem to have a screen brightness problem when booting up from sleep mode and default to the power-saving-too-dim-to-read mode. Having got itself into this state it then refuses to come out of it with anything this side of a full power up reboot from scratch. Searches on the Viao "help" forum have failed to find a fix for this. Emailing the Viao support troll didn't help either.
After going through a full reboot so that I could read the dratted thing, I noticed that it had lost the wireless network and denied that there was one around for it to play with. I reset the wireless router by switching it off and on again, no joy. That took a second full reboot. Having got past that I noticed that the internal cooling fan was running at full speed, something it does when the CPU is being utilised at or near maximum. A check on the processes running showed that winpm-32.exe had grabbed more than 80% of the resources. I wasn't sure what that was, so did a quick search and found that it was my email program. Full reboot 3 stopped that, although why it was doing whatever it was doing was beyond me. Pegasus Mail has never done that before and has always seemd to be pretty benign. Whilst searching I did find a wonderful conversation between a Pegasus Mail user and Symantec's support desk regarding the latest update of the anti-virus program deciding that winp32.exe was a virus and deleting the file so that all email function was lost. community.pmail.com/forums/thread/680.aspx About one third of the way down the page is the conversation between Cassiopeia and the help desk numbskull. It makes amusing reading because I didn't have to suffer the pain of going through it myself.
The TS accounts are available in draft form and I have to sit down and analyse them so that I can field and questions on them, including the official Mike Percival tough-question-for-treasurers (tm). Then there's the calculations for the annual subscription rate to be done.
The dry stone wall man has delayed starting for a week so that he can finish up the job he's doing in Surrey.
Does anyone know what DINNA URGET means, especially when applied to Australia?
And now a little quiz... How much would you pay for these bath taps with integral shower head?
( A few clues behind here. )
