Mornin' all

[jadesfire]

How's everyone doing? It's been kind of quiet on the flist of late, so I hope that's just because everyone is super-busy, not because the ground's fallen out from under your feet, Ike or no Ike.

We're off to visit a vineyard today. In Oxfordshire. It's slightly surreal but cool too. Full report when we get back. Since I don't drink, I'm taking my little laptop and am going to bash out my artword fic (at last!). The battery should just about last long enough...

Speaking of the laptop, any Linux experts out there? Can anyone translate the help forum for me? . The Acer runs Linpuslite, which is easy for noobies like me, but after I installed the updates the first time I turned it on, it's had boot-up issues. It will turn on eventually, but it spends waaaaay too long on the blue Acer screen. I found this thread in the users forum, which describes my problem too, but since the phrase "BIOS re-flash" means absolutely nothing to me, I'm still kind of stuck... Could anyone put this in English for me? Please? *begs* I'm considering sending it back as faulty, which I really don't want to do, but if it's not going to turn on reliably, I think I'd rather have one that would!

I'm posting my Big Bang promo tomorrow, so any more questions from anyone? I know not many people have read it, but some of you have! Anything at all? I'll answer anything (within reason ;))

Do drop in to say hi. I've got another 3 days at home on my own after this, and I'm starting to think I'll either smother or murder major_jim if I don't talk to people a bit more ;)

Comments

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you got an answer on the Linux problem, because that stuff still confounds me. I have managed a few things, but I don't know how! And I'm running a different version on my machine, I think. :) Sorry to hear you might have to send it back. Better now than having it keep doing it for a long time, then losing stuff off your hard drive, I suppose.

Hope you enjoy the vinyard. :)

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Hopefully the guys at the computing centre can get me sorted out. As you say, better to find out now, but still, I want to keep it if I can!

The vineyard was fascinating, thanks, even for this near-teetotaller!