I went to switch on my desktop computer this morning and it didn't go to the Windows log in screen. Powering off and on was no help. Finally I disconnected all USB devices and the ethernet cable and was able to get to a diagnostic screen. It seemed to think that I had not enough space on the Windows drive, although when I finally got to the ( Read more... )

Today's Guardian has an obituary of Geoff Tootill, one of the creators of the "Baby" computer in Manchester in 1948. It claims that the computer took 52 minutes to calculate the highest factor of 2^18. I know computers were slow in those days, but ( Read more... )

I decided this week I needed a new notebook laptop.  So I looked around and found something I liked on Amazon and ordered it Wednesday morning.  When I placed the order, it said it would be delivered either Friday or Saturday, and yesterday evening I received an e-mail that it had been dispatched and was due tomorrow, Friday ( Read more... )

I was supposed to be going to a concert at the Barbican tonight but I received an e-mail this morning telling me the conductor has been hospitalised with pneumonia and they couldn't find a replacement at such short notice so the concert has been cancelled ( Read more... )

Well, I guessed wrong.  As I was coming back from Tesco this morning the postman recognised me in the street.  He had an envelope that was too big to get through my letterbox and he was just about to ask my neighbour to take it.  It was a Park Inn envelope and contained the missing charger ( Read more... )

So, I get home from Novacon yesterday afternoon and go to switch on my netbook computer and i can't find the power connector for it.  I looked in both of my bags.  I know I had it in my hotel room that morning so I guess I must have left it there when I finished packing.  The netbook was the last thing I put in my bag ( Read more... )

Hit a a key on my computer just now and the desk lamp came on.  Guess I hadn't switched it off properly and the rocker switch rocked back from the vibration - although it was a couple of days since I'd last switched it on.

At least it wasn't as bad as the computer I had at work once, where every time I used my stapler on my desk, the computer re-

I have a Canon printer in the room with my desktop computer.  It is connected via the house wi-fi.  I was sitting at the computer just now and suddenly the printer burst into life.  Which was surprising as I wasn't printing anything ( Read more... )

I went to see Dave Gorman at the G Live in Guildford last night.  (I'm not sure, but I think this is the first time I've ever gone to a comedy gig ( Read more... )

I've had this computer almost exactly a year.  Twice in the last week, I've gone to open the CD drive and pressed the power button instead, leading to a shutdown.  Don't think I'd done it at all in the past year.