The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

PasturesNew

I'm no further forward... and utterly confused... so walked away and left it ...

I went out, to get gaffer tape - and there, in the shop, theyve a new stack of 20m hoses with all the connectors, 1/2"... for £4.95.

Only when I saw it I thought "I'm sure that looks thinner than mine". So then I dithered... and I can't decide ... and then I thought "so what's actually in the pack and is it enough/all ... or will I come unstuck as it assumes you've already got other bits/pieces or something ..... or you'd need tools to join bits or something". It might be that it's a whole and entire hose/connectors/the lot and it just fits together without knowledge or tools ... but that's unlikely, nothing's that simple is it.

So I got gaffer tape and left.

Back home I gaffered where the split was .. and it still leaks, but so too does the connector that's part of the reel casing.

So, on the basis that this is all too hard and it'd be easy for me to spend money getting the wrong things, or failing in some other way to get a good end result... I've decided I'll stick with what I've got - the leaky thing..... it works, it's here.... it'll do.

The weather will turn soon and I'll never need a hose ever again, so there's no point trying to solve this problem now as "it's actually too darned hard to actually understand and make the right choices and come to a decision".

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

It ... kind of works...

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's dire.

Which?

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm no further forward... and utterly confused... so walked away and left it ...

I went out, to get gaffer tape - and there, in the shop, theyve a new stack of 20m hoses with all the connectors, 1/2"... for £4.95.

Only when I saw it I thought "I'm sure that looks thinner than mine". So then I dithered... and I can't decide ... and then I thought "so what's actually in the pack and is it enough/all ... or will I come unstuck as it assumes you've already got other bits/pieces or something ..... or you'd need tools to join bits or something". It might be that it's a whole and entire hose/connectors/the lot and it just fits together without knowledge or tools ... but that's unlikely, nothing's that simple is it.

So I got gaffer tape and left.

Back home I gaffered where the split was .. and it still leaks, but so too does the connector that's part of the reel casing.

So, on the basis that this is all too hard and it'd be easy for me to spend money getting the wrong things, or failing in some other way to get a good end result... I've decided I'll stick with what I've got - the leaky thing..... it works, it's here.... it'll do.

The weather will turn soon and I'll never need a hose ever again, so there's no point trying to solve this problem now as "it's actually too darned hard to actually understand and make the right choices and come to a decision".

It's hardly worth bothering. There'll be a hosepipe ban soon.

Might be a good idea to take the gaffer tape off the hose before showing the house. It would put me right off if I saw it.

PasturesNew

Right...

Bought that PC. Thanks GDB.

Had a bit of confusion over paying for it as I was trying to pay by my bank card, but it takes you through Paypal, then you can choose. So I had to get my password stick out and log into that to get my password to be able to log into Paypal.

Then, I chose my card - and then I realised "hang on, that one ran out 2 days ago", but managed to reverse up and add my new card

Free delivery, so it could come anytime....

Bought the PC, added the Wifi, used the code. £117.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Might be a good idea to take the gaffer tape off the hose before showing the house. It would put me right off if I saw it.

LOL. The plan is to toss it out of sight up the side of the shed

I think if seeing a bit of gaffer tape on an old hose in the garden would put you off buying it, that'd be far far down the list of other reasons you could've chosen

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Which?

The archiving/saving files/moving files kind of works in that I could eventually find anything I ever knew I had...

The PC speed is dire.

Just had to wait for the 2 page loads to reply to this:
mab.chartbeat.com loading is part of what loads after this refresh so I have to wait until after that's loaded before I can reply.

chris_m

I've had chartbeat blocked for years, since the BBC news site started using it and slowed things down.

michaels

I wonder if you can just put your current HDD in as a second and drive and copy across any personal files? Office you will probably have to reinstall, does the new PC have a DVD drive and do you have this disk and key?

To me xp, win. 7 and win 10 are similar enough that you can just carry on.

chris_m

michaels wrote: »

I wonder if you can just put your current HDD in as a second and drive and copy across any personal files?

It would be safer to put the existing drive in a USB housing and use it as an external drive for that purpose.
The PC may complain bitterly at being presented with 2 bootable drives at power up, especially as it is unlikely it's been configured to ask.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

I wonder if you can just put your current HDD in as a second and drive and copy across any personal files? Office you will probably have to reinstall, does the new PC have a DVD drive and do you have this disk and key?

To me xp, win. 7 and win 10 are similar enough that you can just carry on.

Well, I can't The new unit is pretty small, I doubt it'd fit - and so I've added to my mental list "investigate the swinging sign up the road that says he does PC stuff and see if the HDD from here can be shoved into a case with a USB"

No idea if new PC has a DVD drive, never needed/used one. As for disk/key ... maybe, packed though .. and they're not originals

XP = desktop, icons, I know what I'm after and can find it from Start.... usually stuff in Accessories, or Control Panel.

7 & 10 = a big fat blank screen with a couple of pointless images on it ... and a fight to find the engine inside.