Rat's blog

Hi folk,
Hope all is going as well as possible :-)

I havn`t, as you probally have noticed, posted recently,
Blame technology...thats what I am doing ;-)

It all started with my code crack for a well known disk burning company no longer being accepted......
I went in search of a new crack for it when my firewall went completely ape-sh1t.......
From what I could work out, it seems that as the page loaded so did a destructive virus type of thing....it created two tsk-mngr.exe's one of which was running at CPU usage 99.99% so nothing would run and when I tried to do something the box seized up and crashed ....upon reboot ...disaster.....Thanks Symantec Corp edition fully updated....it didn`t see a thing and it`s on "Paranoid Heuristics Mode"
To cut a long story short...the only thing that would work was running live disks or Dos...I tried new ram and hdd at the same time after leaving the CMOS battery out for a few hours but nothing would load or run properly, Floppys, Partion Magic, Linux everthing I could think of was thrown at the problem...it turns out my Bios is corrupted...A BIG THANK YOU ACER.... Barst*rds....it seems that they dont`t have any BIOS protection even on at least two new models that I have checked.......
So I have to reflash the Bios....Hah....Acer`s website is a nightmare to navigate and when you get to where you want to be it`s in pigeon english and you end up not sure which is the correct flash file, a mistake you can not afford to do.....So at the end of it...... eveything on that box fuqued.

I wasn`t to worried as my data "was" backed up....but.......Dear old Quantum Fireball lived up to it`s name again....all 40 gigs worth went up in smoke, fried chips with crispy bits and all......

While I`m in this mood....." LINUX" they try to tell you it`s a user friendly system on par with windows and that all the sheep out there can convert straight from Windoze with no problem at all....So why is so difficult to add any thing to your Os as an afterthought...unlike Windoze you click on the .exe and have a nice GUI interface to walk you through the install (which most of the time works) and jobs done......just what the workers want......
With Linux it is more remanicent of loading things through Dos, something that I havn`t needed to do for a long time, and then it still doesn`t work....I like to think that compared to your average Joe Blog out there that I might be a bit more savvy when it comes to computers and yet Linux still gives me loads more grief in some ways than Windoze (which ...ok it`s got problems as well)

More soon (Rant Over)
yours
The Reverend Rat +:-)