Trouble of the Day
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linuxmint7 last edited by
Please can somebody advise me about what services I should consider to move to?
Maybe not those big names?
I thought Yandex was safe ?.
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A Former User last edited by
What's wrong with your punctuating skills?
Or are you maintaining some BIG NAILS?
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A Former User last edited by
Sorta my XP is kinda doomed.
Using my Google Chrome today, pages stopped loading, once crashed, had this system pop-up:
.Then some tabs' panes went blank - of a dark grey colour.
I closed the browser, but the main (content) frame of my currently running player appeared grey-blank as well.Tried using IE - Facebook didn't load...
Phoned Microsoft. They said I'd better replace my OS or at least reserve-recovery...
CHKDSKed drive C - rebooted...
Adobe Flash Player popped up with an update - looked o'k, but then some Java "resumed update" appeared, opened my Opera and said like "something went wrong"...Opera's working now... More or less - as usual...
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A Former User last edited by
I accessed my Chrome after the CHKDSK, cleared the cache at last...
Other browsers too seem working*
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A Former User last edited by
I guess CHKDSK really helped - appeared I've got some extra 1 GB space on drive C now*
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A Former User last edited by
Count it my 'lil' trouble of the week - I've caught a cold or something.
Do you need my symptoms described?
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A Former User last edited by
The houseblock has been infested by mice. Today I killed one - having sacrificed a brand-new tea/coffee mug*:(*, there's been another presumably agonising after the poison I put a while ago had been eaten.
It's first (ground) floor. :down:
The weathers are warm enough for them to roam various ways...(Good news I have 15 hundred posts.:faint:) -
A Former User last edited by
Headache. Out of nowhere as it seems. :faint:
Tried to cure it with pills and spicy coffee...
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A Former User last edited by
Pain in the liver area. Ate some pills...
No certain symptoms - you know - of certain problems.Maybe it's something else? Neuralogic? No colour symptoms or swelling..
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A Former User last edited by
My cooker broke the other day.
Today, I managed to heat up/boil some sausages with an immersion heater in a kettle I borrowed. (The electric kettle I have is brand new and - you know*;)*) -
A Former User last edited by
Still no money today. Right.
Well, news is YouTube has blocked a re-upload of mine - the documentary got claimed by its rights owner. Which is not good because such knowledge should be obtainable by people: how could they take to buy something when they've no idea there's a problem to resolve in the first place?
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A Former User last edited by
A minor one today, but this might be a generic question.
Still with Windows XP, checking my saved live stream files.
In a folder, checked and deleted all the files. Then went to delete the folder. The system wouldn't do it: says it's "busy with" something.
I closed the containing folder and reopened it - no avail. Deleted some playlists from a player - still the same.
Might it be some saved playlists referring to the deleted files there?
And how on earth could I find with WHAT it is "busy" there?
I guess it'll be let to remove if I reboot the system, but still...Yes, and it can't be renamed either - same prompt.
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A Former User last edited by
A health issue today.
Yesterday, I woke up early, decided to go out jogging - again. Long period of not doing that.
So, I jogged. Felt quite all right, I knew my calves were gonna ache later.
So they do now. It hurts when I walk.
It is now, does anybody know what should one apply to ease this condition?
Well, I have some "fastum gel" down here, but I'm not sure if it's an overkill for this matter. Maybe some oil? I have some mint one... -
A Former User last edited by
My left
Ctrlbroke. Nothing different palpates, it could get some water/moisture recently though.
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A Former User last edited by
Seen a mouse tonight.
Morning, but dark time, early morning.
We call it night here in Russia though.
Couldn't detect any new holes by now. Except that they could be coming other ways. Like vent, window, some holes not near the floor? Should investigate.The mouse was small and dark(dirty)-grey. Kinda ugly colour, but I guess the feature allows them to pass at night and in dark places undetected.
My primary concern is that such vermin can carry infection, let alone lice and such. :yuck:
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blackbird71 last edited byI've run into that as well over the years, as autumn arrives. I think they look for someplace warmer as cold weather starts to appear. One thing I've found is that they have an ability to slip in at the bottom of a doorway just as the door is being closed - I once saw one do exactly that.
Another thing to keep in mind is that they can climb almost anything vertical that isn't absolutely slippery. Consequently, any opening anywhere in an outside wall (including the overhanging soffits) can be fair game for their gaining entry into the attic area or into a crawl-space under a floor. Likewise, any opening in a vertical wall or ceiling near the walls in an attached garage are fair game for mice entry. Once inside the horizontal spaces of an attic or crawl-space, they can and do follow cables/wires/pipes down or up into the interior wall spaces and can then emerge anywhere there's a slight opening around any service cable or pipe entries and such into the living area.
I once found one in a toilet which had its cover lid down and hadn't been used for a week or so. It apparently came down the roof vent stack into the sewer line and up through the water trap into the stool, whereupon it perished since it couldn't get out of there. Because the house was on a septic tank system, there was no way it could have come up from a public sewer.
If nothing else, the critters are persistent. That's why you creatively, carefully seek out and plug every hole in sight, then keep a stock of mouse traps just in case.
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A Former User last edited by
It's a block here.
I'm on the first floor. The English speaking would say "ground", but I see it fair to call it first because it's elevated quite a while.We had rats at a time. It was rude. They gnawed quite a few holes along the floor large enoung to park a lorry. Then I had to sweep and use wood and other stuff to close it. Some might have not got closed enough to allow for mice to come though.
You say they can come through the window?
We have our central heating on: it's still above zero C, so we have to keep our windows open. I have it against mosquitoes, but one in the room is not fully attached at the edges.
There's a vent in the kitchen barred but rather widely put bars. Can it get there? I've some - what is English for metal spaghetti? -
blackbird71 last edited by
The smaller mice can get through a hole the typical size of a man's thumbnail. If it's close in size but too small, they'll gnaw around it to enlarge it - all they have to do is get their snout into the hole to chew at the edges. Since they can climb any vertical surface on which their little claws can get a grip (wood, brick, rope, wires, textured concrete, etc), they can probably reach a window.
The general rule I follow is that metal is my friend when it comes to blocking out mice. When I block off openings (especially ones they've used before), depending on where and what it is, I generally use either sheet-stock aluminum (a small roll of roof 'flashing' cut to size works nicely for this) or galvanized steel 'hardware' mesh cut from a roll (the kind here called 'half-inch' or smaller). My intention is to use something they can't or won't readily chew away. Because they can follow a scent trail, if they've gotten in by some path once, they or another one will eventually make a repeat try at the same place later.
I've also used expansion foam from a spray can to plug up certain openings that intrude deeply into a space between bricks or through concrete, tunnel-like, but it has to be a deep enough patch that they can't readily chew away - and it's best to then cover the outside face with something metallic. In places like wall holes or pipe/wire entries that are awkward to do any other way, I've found that a fair-sized wad of crumpled, shaped aluminum foil can be worked into the openings and made to block them up. Mice can chew soft metal, but they don't like the metallic taste effect, so they tend to leave it alone.
