Computing, and DIY. bah...
I was slightly premature in deciding my backup solution was fixed, after GTAK ran out of memory, did something to grab all of the non paged pool in XP which also made the hard disk driver unhappy. Have resorted to IBM's PSNS (Personally Safe 'N Sound), which appears to work fine after the esoteric interface is conquered. Still, at least now I'm actually backing my system up properly - it takes about 3 hours - which probably isn't too bad for backing up from XP to OS/2 via Peer Services running on a 300MHz Pentium 1 substitute, and a DDS-4 drive connected via UW SCSI.
Also, after having a regular whinge at the Microsoft Vista team for being consistently crap I've been granted access to Vista SP1 after taking the approach of 'be part of the solution, not just endlessly whinging'. Time to install it on a separate hard drive and have a go.. Ulp.
Also, the joys of DIY and fixing stuff to walls. I have been using these Nylon plasterboard fixings. Basically, they're crap unless the wall is straight plasterboard. If you put them near the edge of the wall, it runs into the baton. If you put them into a wall between the houses it runs into some mesh backing or similar, but just about works.
..and if you put it into the drywall leading to the outside it leaves a 1cm hole after banging into the brick. fuckers. I just *love* it when a description says 'plasterboard, medium weight fixing'. It doesn't say 'don't stick it on drywall'.
What it should say is use this instead, and chuck the ones you already have away. So, it's now time to polyfiller the gap, then drill into the wall and use a normal, big rawl plug and long screw to go into it. Joy.
Everything is just a pigging hassle. What with work and life and so on, it's taking well over a week to put up a set of speakers. I've not even thought about the wiring yet, which needs the out of stock Rapesco stapler from Scan, and then no doubt the wire painting so it blends into the wall..
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