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| Thread ID: 21206 | 2002-06-20 10:38:00 | Wind and Rain | Jester (13) | Press F1 |
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| 55451 | 2002-06-21 04:18:00 | Up until 10 years or so ago we used to lose the power approximately fortnightly. Hurricane Bola it was off for over 24 hours. It's improved in recent years but surviving the storm last night was still fairly amazing. Pity it had to go true to form today. I should probably invest in a UPS. Will no doubt do so after a critical failure. | Heather P (163) | ||
| 55452 | 2002-06-21 05:42:00 | I bought a decent strikeguard after a lightning storm. Didn't want to be caught away from home, and unable to unplug everything when a storm hit. Ahhh, Cyclone Bola. Almost sent my parents broke (destroyed most of their kiwifruit orchard, coupled with the sudden drop in kiwifruit prices). Also placed a piece of steel the size of a car wheel in the branch of a tree 6m above the normal level of the river behind our place. It's still there if no-one believes me. Best part was no school as the bus couldn't get past for two days due to trees across the road. Nothing like it since, but we still get floods twice a year. BTW this is at my parents home in the North mind you, not in good ole Dunners - here I just have to negotiate the ice on two wheels each morning. G P |
Graham Petrie (449) | ||
| 55453 | 2002-06-21 06:39:00 | Hey, for all you anti-Aucklanders, check the Census. You're a minority! Auckland Rocks! B-) (And No Snow!! :^O ) |
cadifan (286) | ||
| 55454 | 2002-06-21 06:49:00 | i Didn't think this thread was about anti anywhere, just the weather and so forth... I was born in AK, moved away 15 years ago. I don't understand why you post that AK rocks, and then provide a very good argument why it doesn't. I aint moving back, it's too hot, too crowded, and mostly, it's too crowded! But whatever Squeals yer wheels! BTW, it's still miserable and rainy in CHCH |
Chris Wilson (431) | ||
| 55455 | 2002-06-21 07:16:00 | Correct me if I am wrong, but putting DOS command *.exe's in the system32 folder seems to let them be accessable from wherever you seem to be. eg I have a batchfile send.bat which contains the lines: @echo off net send dre %1 (where dre is a computername, and the command is executed by typing send "message) I placed the file in system32, and I can execute it from a command window with the prompt at any directory on the PC. Preivously the file was in the root directory of C:\. and could only be executed from a prompt at C:\. G P |
Graham Petrie (449) | ||
| 55456 | 2002-06-21 07:18:00 | Yeah it ain't too good in CHCH | -=JM=- (16) | ||
| 55457 | 2002-06-21 08:44:00 | Way back DOS allowed had the Path command. Place it in the autoexec.bat (as in "path c:\dos; c:\windows;...") and you didn't have to be in these directories to run their files. Looks like you've found the Windows version. And it's stopped raining. |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 55458 | 2002-06-21 08:49:00 | Graham P: lucky I read this thread because I think it's supposed to belong in my Ping one isn't it? Is that another bug or did you just reply to the wrong post? :-) |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 55459 | 2002-06-21 09:03:00 | I doubt it's a bug. I just need a break. That's Ok, going to the pub for a wild night in about an hour. G P |
Graham Petrie (449) | ||
| 55460 | 2002-06-22 02:46:00 | Ah what a beautiful day in sunny CHristchurch, snow on the hills, and sun in the sky! Life is good! PS: the spell check won't work, there goes literacy from me! |
Chris Wilson (431) | ||
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