The computing stuff rant thread

[ian]

Your account has been locked out due to excessive authentication failures.

Oh just fuck off.

[Diver300]

Not really a rant, more a grumble.

The wireless adaptor in my laptop needed turning off and back on again. Hey, these things happen.

The grumble comes from what I needed to do to turn it off and back on.
Turning airplane mode on and off didn't do it.
Turning the whole computer off and on didn't do it.
It was fixed by disabling and enabling the adaptor in the control panel.

I really don't understand why the computer didn't do that itself when turned off or put into airplane mode.

[Tim Hall]

Crap websites (rubbish error messages division)

This booking has been cancelled. If you believe this is an error, please call customer services on

That's the entirity of the message.

[Mr Larrington]

So last night the BBC told us that BA have cancelled faahsands of flights over the coming months.  An anxious Mr Larrington heads over to ba.com, logs in and is told, in large unfriendly RED letters that they have no record of any booking whatsoever in his name.  Until I enter the reference code wossname, at which point my flights in September miraculously reappeared.  If you want to kill off prospective passengers, sorry, customers by giving them heart attacks, Mr Doyle, you’re going the right way about it.

[Diver300]

Avast virus protection just decided to block me from logging into my emails at https://email.ionos.co.uk

It was only on the 10th attempt that the Avast pop-up told me what was going on, and I was then able to whitelist ionos.

[Mr Larrington]

O hai Virgin Media!

That e-mail address is a perfectly good one so why does your stupid Premier Inn wifi not allow me to log in?  With it?  But without an error message or other explanation because that would be too complicated.  Enter! Yahoo! Address! And! It! Worked! Straight! Away!

Gits.

[Kim]

Thing about being logged into Premier Inn WiFi is that you can't really tell the difference if you aren't...

[Mr Larrington]

It does actually work now I've persuaded it to speak to my fondleslab and unlike the network at the Hessle LEL control, will allow you to view pr0n social media.  Which in my case I have not got.

[Jaded]

Thing about being logged into Premier Inn WiFi is that you can't really tell the difference if you aren't...

This is.

THE.

TRUE.

(PS, sorry for channelling Trust Liz)

[Tim Hall]

Dear Microsoft

Formatting dates in Mailmerge shouldn't be that difficult. Really, it shouldn't.

kthxbai

[Wombat]

Bought new Synology NAS because my Buffalo one is ancient and painfully slow, and objects to being asked to send 4K video to our telly.

Setup is fine, I create share, and folders, all OK.

Then I try to copy my media, starting with the music, from the old one to the new.

Windoze only allows me to copy it an album at a time, and there are bloody hundreds of them!

Why can't I drag an entire category such as "blues" across into "music"?  So I manually create each frigging folder in the new NAS, then drag each effing album across one at a time.  That's today and most of tomorrow spoken for, then...

I gave up on doing it from the old NAS anyway, as its so slow, and I'm doing it from the backup USB3 drive instead. 

Next challenge will be getting the Sonos to talk to the new NAS. Wish me luck, I may be gone some time...

[FifeingEejit]

Despite being a gui preferring luser, sometimes just sometimes digging out the power shell reference pets you get round Windows trying to protect you from your own stupidity, or from killing it.

There does seem to be limitations to what you can do on SMB shares in gui

Sent from my IV2201 using Tapatalk

[Mr Larrington]

For copying entire directory trees ROBOCOPY from the command line is your friend.

[lissotriton]

If you're copying from one NAS to another, probably best to use the file manager on the NAS. Then it is actually copying direct, not via your PC. So it should be quicker.
Or plug your USB drive into the new NAS, and copy off that.

[Wombat]

Old NAS doesn't have USB, but the new one does. I have found no reference (yet) to what functionality that USB port has, but I've been very busy dealing with a dead person, so have been doing it all in a bit of a rush.  Or to put it differently, "why didn't I think of that?"

All copied over the hard way now, and various SM related issues fought and partially won.  The Sonos copped a right strop, and gave me a silly windows related error message, which is daft as neither the Sonos, the NAS, or my Android phone uses Windows.  turned out that my oldish Sonos insists on using SMB1, which is frowned upon, but the Synology NAS can be told to do.

In a minute I'll try to see if the TV's android apps can access the photos on it yet, it wouldn't yesterday.

[Pingu]

...turned out that my oldish Sonos insists on using SMB1, which is frowned upon...

That was the problem with seeing a USB drive on our router and it's not even that old 

[Kim]

Ob @shituserstory:


As an...  Audax UK member

I want to... repeatedly log into the audax.uk website

So that... I stay logged in to the audax.uk website

[Tim Hall]

I needed to find out if there was a branch of NatWest bank in $TOWN. Went to the NatWest website and clicked the branch locator. Then got asked to fill in poxy CAPTCA. FFS. I'll find another way.

[Jurek]

I needed to find out if there was a branch of NatWest bank in $TOWN. Went to the NatWest website and clicked the branch locator. Then got asked to fill in poxy CAPTCA. FFS. I'll find another way.

Natwest = Welcome
ETA - Everybody should watch Terry Gilliam's  'Brazil' to see why everything has got as fucked up as it has.
Really.

[Mr Larrington]

Just had a over-in-the-blink-of-an-eye power cut.  Which seems to have killed my router utterly to DETH

[Jurek]

Just had a over-in-the-blink-of-an-eye power cut.  Which seems to have killed my router utterly to DETH

Merde.

[Mr Larrington]

Can't connect to it, can't access anything on TowersNet presumably because no IP addresses and bloody Currys decided  not to do business with either my credit or debit cards.  Had to use poxy Paypal

Edit: Most of the network disks have come back.  Time to investigate the Cupboard o'Stuffs.

Edit 2: The duration of the outage was such that the clock on the microwave is still showing as near as those things ever get to the right time

Edit 3: The network disks have disappeared overnight chiz.

[ScumOfTheRoad]

I guess Mr Larrington you are now accessing YACF(TM) via 5G?

[Mr Larrington]

Only 4G available on my phone.  I don’t want to be controlled remotely by the Beast of Redmond or turned into a Plague Vector anyway.  Connecting fondleslab to phone-as-hotspot Just Worked.  Apparently* you can do something similar for non-wifi PCs via Bluetooth, which Just Didn’t Work.

* or so the phone claims

Edit: Kind of made the Bluetooth thing work but Bluetooth DETH Rays seem insufficiently powerful to pass through the coffee table so I have to put the phone somewhere it can’t be used for anything else.

[Mr Larrington]

Just discovered I could’ve bought from Argos the same router as the one wot I ordered, for the same price, and collected it from their branch at Mr Sainsbury’s House of Toothy Comestibles.  Bollocksbollocksbollocks