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Posts Tagged “exhaustion”

24 12 2006

A change of scenery

Posted by ByTor in Blog, Photography, Places, tags: change_of_scenery, exhaustion, heavy_rain, salmon_leap, spout, torrent, waterfall, waterflow

Well, literally a change of scenery. I decided to show what else I can do, beyond photographs of beautiful women.

This is the Buchanty Spout, near Crieff in Perthshire. Its a salmon leap.

It does make me wonder if salmon are completely insane though. While I was there photographing, there were salmon trying to leap up this torrent of water to get back up stream to their spawning grounds. The river was full and wild after days of heavy rain and, as you can see it would definitely be called “rapid”, but there they were, the salmon, taking a run, or swim, at the waterfall, hoping to leap up and past the next section so they can get up river for a bit of reproducing before they drop dead from exhaustion.

Anyway, enjoy. There are a couple of other pictures of the river that feeds this, so have a look.

Microsoft, CA and alarms!!!

Posted by ByTor in Blog, Rants, tags: avg_free_anti_virus, exhaustion, going_mad, hell, microsoft, patches, Rants, repetitive, windows_xp

I’m on the verge of climbing the tower with a high-powered rifle!

I’ve just spent the last 24 hours (non-stop!) trying to update my Windows XP with all the “patches” because Microsoft programmers are useless and also updating my anti-virus program.

15 patches from Microsoft for Windows XP and Office XP. And when it reaches the last one, it just hangs there. The whole machine freezes and the only way out is to lean on the power button and kill the machine.

Then, I upgrade my anti-virus suite from Computer Associates - Internet Security Suite v3. If I install ANY of it, then none of the programs that run when the computer starts will work, explorer won’t run anything, I can’t uninstall anything via control panel either. All I can do is return to the last system restore point. Nothing I’ve tried works, even the stuff they suggest on their website!

Reassuring that its not just Microsoft programmers that are careless…isn’t it? In the end, I went for AVG Free Anti-Virus. A breeze to install and so far, not a problem in sight.

And to cap it all, on Friday afternoon, the alarm system for either the apartment across the hall or the cleaners’ supply cupboard starts to buzz - constant, high-tone buzzzzzzzz. It’s now 1am on Monday and it is STILL going and I expect it will be when I wake up…if I get any sleep!

So, who’s got the ladder and the ammo? I know a high tree to climb with a good view…