MooN

Hello techno wizards, a word in your shell likes if I may... Now you all know I'm a complete arse when it comes to all things pooterish and N0 1 daughter rang me thismorning throwing a wobbler cos her computer doesn't work and she needs a new one... Now I only bought her that one a year ago and nearly had to sell one of her siblings to pay for that so she ain't getting another one, which means I have to find the means to do something about the one she has. The place I bought it from will are willing to have a look and repair it but they obviously don't do that on site so have to send it away and it usually takes about 3 weeks, add in some covid complications and plan on a month... as they don't propose a loan to replace it during that time and N0 1 is a uni student working 95% from "home" via microsoft "teams" that brings us back to having to buy another one as a temporary replacement... I thought I'd ask you geeks, nerds, whatever you use as a collective noun, what you think the problem might be. i do understand that it's unlikely anyone is able to solution a bugging pootah without access to the bloody thing but you never know, it might be a known problem and fixable with a judicious tap from a sledgehammer in just the right place. ( one lives in hope) as I don't have the machine in front of me either ( it's in Dijon) I have tried to prise out of N0 1 exactly what happens. ( turns out that it's not actually totally fucked, and that she was maybe overreacting just a little bit (!) on the phone earlier. However. it's annoying , so: the machine is A Lenovo Idea Pad S340. 1year old, with an intel i-core 8th gen processor 500GO ( I presume that's the RAM?) and it says she's got 413GO free of the 475 available. it's running windows 10 with a microsoft office package supplied by the university. What happens is; on a fairly regular basis, on start up it doesnt connect to the internet and when she opens the "properties" it says "no intel card detected" ( I'm translating thid from the french by the way) and she has to restart it which usually works and the restart is normal. That's got to be a problem with the computor itself right? 2nd bug: if she closes the screen, rather than physically shutting down, it regularly freezes and refuses to re awaken when she re opens the screen, it thinks about it, she gets a "not responding message, then a blue screen and it goes into auto restart and restarts normally. ( I told here that I think this is just part of living with laptops, deal with it) 3rd bug: for the uni lessons and lectures they use microsoft "teams". it regularly freezes the keyboard and has to be closed and restarted which is lesson time lost and complicated to catch up with. ( I assume this is a problem with the app rather than the machine itself and told her to uninstall and reinstall the app) Q. Is it possible to uninstall a single app when it's supplied as part of a package? uninstalling and re installing the whole package is a multi hour job over her crappy internet connection. Any help, ideas, pointers, thoughts ( constructive) most welcome. but please dont tell eme to use apple, change OS, don't use microsoft.. etc etc cos all that is fine if you have the means, financial or intellectual... of which I have neither. @Bruce @XTreme @Buckster... anybody else who knows what their doing with this stuff ? ( I know you wont agree on any of it anyway so the more the merier... ta muchly

Hello and welcome

Hello, welcome in.

they are mostly, it's not holiday season yet and, in theory at least, the departments to the north, west and northeast are in lockdown so only locals around, even at the weekends, and no body plays the tourist in their own back yard... c'ept thee 'n' me Rogny Les Sept Ecluses is usually heaving with Paris-ites and foreign camping cars but today was only locals as far as I could make out. I also spend the vast majority of my time seeking out the quieter backroads, which may falsify somewhat the general impression ?

does it film 360 all the time and then you edit it, or does it turn, randomly or otherwise? It's certainly interesting but some of the angles are a bit odd, at one point it looks like you're riding sideways somehow, which I can see would bother some people. always good to play with different stuff though ?

The far west of the Yonne department., and the last of the cardinal points. Lovely spring day so after lunch, I took the thermal liners out of jacket and trousers, togged up and headed west to the D14 between Rogny Les Sept Ecluses and Fleury at 47:43'24"N, 02:50'56"E Still no leaves on the trees yet, but the hawthorn is flowering in the hedgerows and some of the smaller flowers are starting to appear nice little country cottage Due to the nice weather there were more people about than normal and Rogny Les Sept Ecluses being a popular historical landmark there were plenty cyclists, walkers, dog walkers, horse riders and even Bikers ( there was even some froggy twat on a harley complete with cut off full of badges, some fictional mc logo and rockers on the back along with a confederate flag... I know some people in the UK who would not have hesitated to tear a strip off a knob like that... I decided I couldn't deal with people and decided to just ride on and out to the very western edge of the departement 5 kilometres further on here I wouldn't want to have to ride this road after dark at the moment, the curned up earth along the verge by the bike is wild boar damage and it looks like there was half a herd of them somebody told me that wild boars eyes dont reflect light like a deer's do and they being black, you don't see them 'till you hit them and they weigh like 80 to 110kilos so you'd know if you hit one! I managed to grab a pic of the seven lock flight ( les sept écluses) at Rogny on the way back but as I didn't have my camera ( todays shots on I-phone only) it came out shitcos I was trying to avoid people so had to zoom in and had the sun in my eyes. I wanted a pic just so's I could make a cap joke about "Lockdown" but the pic is too crappy to support further ridicule. 150km all round and ended up at the jet wash for a hose down.

nice! there wer some strange camera angles in the vid though, how do you pilot that camera whilst riding?

@XTreme you mean you got DIRT on those tyres Pete... ? Good job! ?

today, still no leaves on the trees...

Glad you're not hurt Michelle. One of the drawbacks of youtubing must be that when you do drop it, you can't play the " Nobody saw it so it doesn't count" card. Also good to see that your "significant other" or " partner" or whatever did the right thing and took pics befrore helping to pick the bike up?

I have never felt the need to drag my knees ( though I've been dragging knuckles for years) and can see no point in doing so (other than on a race track). given that I imagine only about 1 or 2 % of riders will ever ride on a circuit, and probably only about half of those competitively, I struggle to see how any of the above information could possibly be considered something " Every rider should know" or am I just being pedantic?

yeah, cos it's not made in england... actually it IS the best one to have because it is statistically the most effective and generates the least reactions and side effects. Wifey gets it cos she works in the health industry and I get it cos im under 55 and "at risk" due to various health factors.

3rd part of the Cardinal points of the Yonne department attainable by road. The Southen most road accessible point in the department was always going to be fun because it is obviously in the heart of the Morvan Natural Parc which is a riding nirvana at any time and though not particularly warm today, around 10 or 12 degreesm the sun was shining so I early lunched and headed out. Southern most point is on the D10 between Quarré Les Tombes and Dun Les Places, right in the heart of the Forét du Duc at 47: 18'41"N 04:0'13"E. I was more than a little surprised to discover an Island... finally got there, to within a few yards turned around, and rode home along here a little bit of dirt I nearly fell off when I saw this, anybody read ( or seen the film) "Into the Wild" ? I thin kit's actually being, or has been used as a hunting cabin, but I didn't hang around too long cos I could faintly hear Banjo's tuning up...? Thought I'd throw in a Chateau for those from the new world who like that sort of thing 205km all told, and it went something like this

Mrs MooN got her jab ( pfizer) this morning. I'm due mine ( also pfizer) 1st April... obviously ?

to be fair, I think we all are...

never yet seen a pretty topbox, not my fault. Even the old red and white ne I used for years on the tralp was not pretty... practical for sure, but never pretty. ( and yours is better now its all black)

135€. per person. so potentially 270€ + 40 odd € autoroute + 50€ petrol + 6 hrs driving for nothing if we get refused on arrival in Lyon.

had planned a lightning trip to Lyon to see bro in Law before we get locked down again but I've had the rug pulled out from under me by shutting down Lyon before us! As per usual, my case doesen't fit in any of the boxes that need to be ticked, there's plenty info on being allowed to visit old people in nursing homes for their mental health, that's fine but he's only 37 and its not a retirement or nursing home. There's provision made for visiting handicapped people who are vulnerable or isolated. he's not isolated or vulnerable cos he's in a home.... there is no mention made of being allowed, or not, to visit a handicapped adult in a medicalised care centre. If I can't do that I'll go riding again before they take that away too.

not tourism itself but the mighty dollar, for the vast majority of people today, money and profit are clearly and openly more important than anything else you'd care to mention. Making more money is paramount, almost any means is acceptable so long as you make more money, it is no longer a means to an end but has become an end in itself,

yeah cos our departement still isn't on the "lockdown that isn't a lockdown" list. I reckon it's only a matter of time though and then we'll be restricted to 10km from home. ( unless justifiably work related)

top boxes nearly always look shit on a bike, mine's fucking huge and looks horrendous, but it ain't halfp practical - - - yeah but it looks shit - - -yeah but it's practical - - and so on...

they've just shut down the Rhone, Nievre, and Aube departements, so we, the "Yonne" are now closed in on 3 sides ( plus a narrow corridoor into the saone et Loire. Travel between regions is banned except for professional purposes or family imperatives, which you must beable to justify. this for 4 weeks, so that's fucked the easter hols then.