Preparedness for when

Perplexed_Pineapple

craigywv, ifyour laptop won't boot (start) from the hard drive you could try starting it from a bootable Cd or USB stick (not all systems will allow USB boot). I managed to retrieve some files from a misbehaving hard drive booting with something called Puppy Linux, downloaded it and burnt it onto a CD, took a bit of messing about but wasn't too techy for me. You can get data retrieved from hard drives (at vast expense) by professional companies but it's much better to have your data properly backed up, as most people learn eventually from experience (I'm not as good as I know I should be at this ).
Thermometer says temperature in the house is 13 degrees, I feel fine though in my sensible jumper, maybe I should put the heating on for the kids anyway? On the other hand we're definitely going to have run out of cheap oil and gas by the time they grow up so probably best to get them into training now :rotfl:

craigywv

thank-you for that PP.XXX

Cheapskate

My pc died a few weeks ago, my local computer chappie managed to get all the info from my hard drive onto my external HD. Have lost loads of really specific bookmarks, docs i can't reproduce cos this ipad has no wp, dtp, spreadsheet or other useful software. I have learned my lesson, too late, though, and I am so cross with myself cos I am the geek in this house, always used to back up stuff, etc., but got a bit lazy this last year or so, and now am paying for my stupidity! :mad:

A xo

GreyQueen

Sorry to hear that, cheapskate.

My Computer Wiz does a lot of stuff for small businesses, sometimes working on their pooters in the evening and overnight so that they don't lose any valuable trading time, and he tells me some horror stories (no names, no packdrill) and I pestered Kid Bruv the online bookseller to get his pooter backed up onto an external drive.

If he had to recreate that inventory from scratch----arrgh.

Am easing into the day which is clear and sunny and then will head allotmentwards to start sorting out the strawberry bed. Beggars have gone feral and been overrun by couch grass and need moving, plus I've promised a pal I'd pot some on for her.

craigyw, Mrs Craddock was extremely bonkers, haughty, and staggeringly rude. She made great television but was probably insufferable in RL. Sorry if the visual gave you nightmares.........:)

One thing which pleased me combing thru the handwritten lists of numbers from my previous phone was that I do have the number of the farmer I bought the last load of manure from, a number I thought lost when my elderly phone died about a year ago. I could have got it off A, a bloke on the allotments I'd passed it to, but this is more convenient.

Keep backing up and duplicating that info, people, it's all a part of modern preparedness.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

NOW this guy is the best chef in the world.:D

pineapple

GreyQueen wrote: »

pineapple, how did you get coffee inside the pooter? Is it one of those with a horizontal unit (mine is the old skool vertical one hidden in the bowels of the pooter desk). The Wiz once found a dead mouse inside a pooter tower.

I have one of those tower thingies - and a bad habit of standing mugs of coffee on it . Anyway it was a while before I noticed the spill. It had dripped down over the DVD drive :mad:. Just after I noticed (in the middle of a post on diynot), the whole thing died on me. No blue screen - just terminal shut down. I disconnected and turned it upside down and coffee dripped out of the drive :eek:.
Wasn't able to disassemble the thing owing to not having a special screwdriver, so left it a few days in various positions and with a dehumidifier going. No luck...

jk0

I found this today, and thought it might make you guys laugh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meiU6TxysCg

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jk0 wrote: »

I found this today, and thought it might make you guys laugh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meiU6TxysCg

Brilliant! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

has anyone thought of prepping like they do in the outer wilderness of Canada etc, where they are totally cut off for months on end??

maybe for 3 winter months of the year? where you do not buy any sort of food shopping, everything has to have been bought, prepped, frozen etc ??? might be a bit of a :eek::eek:, but I am thinking of trying it for one month, maybe in January.

Semi=skimmed milk can be frozen, make loads of batch cooking, and freeze etc...

As its all well and good having a good store cupboard etc, but I am still used to shopping most days.

It would be like the Emergency services doing practice drills etc... all practice for if something did happen, what do you think???

BitterAndTwisted

Eh, I suspect there are posters on this particular part of the forum who could go a whole lot longer than a mere three months without going food-shopping.......



I live within about 200 yards of my nearest food retailer but I suspect I have enough tins/dry goods/freezer contents in to last me at least a couple of months without going food-shopping. And I'm not a vigilant prepper or a hoarder either by any stretch of the imagination, I just snap up bargains when I see them. I might get bored to tears of the same things day-in and day-out but starve I would not.

A power-cut would have me on my knees in less than 24 hours though as the cooker is leccy.