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

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

Don't eat frozen vegetables .... before you check the list of newly recalled products. Mostly sweetcorn and veg mixes from all the supermarkets. Frozen mixed bags, some tins maybe, some steam pouches. In short: avoid veggies .... I can recommend chips. You don't see chips being recalled do you.

Listeria something or other... gives you the squits and worse

Do you know, I haven't bought frozen veg for years! (Other than chips). I always used to buy peas, beans and sweetcorn frozen.

Having said that, I did buy a pack of frozen peas a week ago, but that was because I'd bought some cheese and a couple of other perishable things on my way to having dinner with a friend, and wanted an 'ice pack' to keep it cool.
It's in the freezer, but only to be used as an emergency ice pack! :rotfl:




Edit....found a link
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/lidl-aldi-tesco-sainasburys-waitrose-14872467

michaels

The only frozen veg we do is peas and they have to be the brand ones which is unusual for us, we have tried the others but they taste to mushy. The frozen ones also taste better that freshly shelled ones imho. Veg are so expensive, we normally need 3 items - say a courgette, head of brocolli and some sugar snap peas for the 5 of us and this is often the most expensive part of the meal.

PN when you are not doing an install boot windows 10 from an ssd should take about 10s

michaels

Hearing seems to be about the only thing my decrepit body remains good at, I suspect dw may not be quite so good as she always shouts into the phone and turns the TV sky high. The rest of the family also are of the 'someone else is making a noise disrupting me so rather than asking them to quieten down or go somewhere else I will just increase the volume of what I am doing' in a sort of military escalation manner.

PasturesNew

I now need to do the job I've been putting off ... fire up the old PC and get the data dragged onto the ExtHDD...

With only one screen/kb/mouse I can't have both running at the same time and there's no point having them both running and switching between the two by switching just those leads over every few minutes ....

I could be gone .... hours

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

I now need to do the job I've been putting off ... fire up the old PC and get the data dragged onto the ExtHDD...

With only one screen/kb/mouse I can't have both running at the same time and there's no point having them both running and switching between the two by switching just those leads over every few minutes ....

I could be gone .... hours

At least we know the reason for any radio silence!

Might as well get it done, though.
(Says the arch-procrastinator! )

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

At least we know the reason for any radio silence!

Might as well get it done, though.
(Says the arch-procrastinator! )

All done. It was less painful than I expected.
As I'd been storing data files 99% in one spot it was just a case of going to that root directory and then dragging each over - and renaming it with a suffix -TxToExtHDDJuly2018 as there were a few I didn't bother with and at least if I go back to that HD I won't be in any doubts as to whether I copied it over or not.

Left the old PC plugged into the mains still as the bios battery's dead - and if I do suddenly remember something else in the coming week I don't want to go through all that faffery of having to reset the system clock before it'll reboot without error messages and beeps etc.

What I really need to do is to find the best way to COMPARE across the ExtHDD to see where I've got unnecessary duplicates of files as I've mostly backed up by dragging whole directories over in the past, thus creating 2-3 duplicates over time... or more.

It's always been on the "To Do" list... but isn't everything

Bl00dy power leads look a freakin' mess though. Although they're not tangled in themselves, there's:

A plug with a lead that goes into a 4-way gang
3-4 plugs plugged in
Power lead to the old PC
Power lead/adaptor to this one
Monitor power lead
All the wires for the keyboard and mouse
Monitor lead.

GDB2222

You use Ccleaner already? Apparently, that includes a duplicate file finder. Never used it myself, though.

Pyxis

That was quick, though, Pastures!


Good system for remembering which you've transferred and which not.
A bit of time spent now will save a heap of grief in the future! :T

vivatifosi

The whole duplicate file thing is something for the future. Give yourself a few days break to fall in love a bit more with your PC. Play on ancestry, watch some vids with sound, just enjoy your new toy.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

You use Ccleaner already? Apparently, that includes a duplicate file finder. Never used it myself, though.

I did do, on the old PC.
I'll download a copy to this PC.
Cheers