Good morning everyone, a much nicer morning with some blue sky and a much fresher more comfortable feeling.
Enjoy your day everyone 
Morning all
It's a stinker. The country's upside down in more ways than one 
Have a good day everyone 
Good afternoon cooler but pleasant here today, I spent hours yesterday planting winter pansies in my garden 
itâs nice and colourful now
how are you all? Xx
Breaking news - UK mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe gets three days temporary release from prison in Iran.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45287583
At the time of me posting this, there's no explanation about this so it may or may not be good news,
El Loro posted:Breaking news - UK mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe gets three days temporary release from prison in Iran.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45287583
At the time of me posting this, there's no explanation about this so it may or may not be good news,
Seems a bit strange to release her for a few days.
Yogi19 posted:El Loro posted:Breaking news - UK mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe gets three days temporary release from prison in Iran.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45287583
At the time of me posting this, there's no explanation about this so it may or may not be good news,Seems a bit strange to release her for a few days.
Looking at the BBC article it may be that it's a precursor to letting her out for longer periods of time. When she's out she's not allowed to speak to the media or go to any embassy such as the UK's or attempt to leave the country.
Goodnight and sweet dreams, Ros
Come back soon hug for Moonie
Hug for any night owls
night yogi
summer if you pop in
Good morning everyone
At present it's quite sunny here but forecast to be showers/rain later. Cooler outside than recently. Should be a lot fresher for Squiggle
Still waiting for the huge job to arrive though I think it could be here today some time.
I hope everyone has a good day
Good morning all
Dry but cloudy atm
Good luck with the big job when it arrives, El
Doing my parentsâ grocery shopping today.
Have a good day, all.
Good morning everyone, we've had quite a bit of rain here and it actually feels a little chilly, the heating has come on for a while.
Enjoy your day everyone
Apparently IBM has patented a drone for delivering coffee by detecting when workers are tired and then lowering a cup of coffee on a string from the drone 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45289281
Hi Buddies
Back feeling what passes for normality these days 
Rain earlier and more looking likely. Really quite cold too 
El, good luck with the *biggie* when it arrives
Yogi, hope the visit too and the shopping for your parents goes well 
Leaving a âhiâ for squiggle, Sweet and Rosss
Have a great day everyone
Good afternoon
aw Moonie, hereâs a great big hug for you you do well, be proud of yourself.
Itâs cold here! I hate it. Iâm not ready for cold yet.
Weâve got a bank holiday rush on, a lot of people are going away for the weekend. I wonder if that will make us quieter tomorrow? ðĪ
you never can tell though, so we take it as it comes
what have you all got planned?
~Sweet Summer Holidays~ posted:Good afternoon
aw Moonie, hereâs a great big hug for you
Itâs cold here! I hate it. Iâm not ready for cold yet.
Weâve got a bank holiday rush on, a lot of people are going away for the weekend. I wonder if that will make us quieter tomorrow? ðĪ
you never can tell though, so we take it as it comes
what have you all got planned?
Awwww, fankoo Sweet
I hope it will be a little quieter tomorrow for you Sweet but I doubt it 
Well, I have shopped for the weekend
I have no doubt I will find something to occupy myself 
So with the huge job having arrived here at lunchtime, the first thing I did was to turn on my old computer which has the client accounting software on, transferred the data for the year from their memory stick on to the computer, start running the nominal ledger report and then
Bang
The old computer's dead. I've taken it to my local computer repair place to see if there's anything they can do. Sounds as if it's the power supply but it could be that the circuit boards are fried.
Although I may be able to do the work on my regular computer, that would mean logging on to the clients' server and the issue there is how secure is that server? Unless they can be certain, it could be that I can't do the huge job.
El Loro posted:So with the huge job having arrived here at lunchtime, the first thing I did was to turn on my old computer which has the client accounting software on, transferred the data for the year from their memory stick on to the computer, start running the nominal ledger report and then
Bang
The old computer's dead. I've taken it to my local computer repair place to see if there's anything they can do. Sounds as if it's the power supply but it could be that the circuit boards are fried.
Although I may be able to do the work on my regular computer, that would mean logging on to the clients' server and the issue there is how secure is that server? Unless they can be certain, it could be that I can't do the huge job.
Oh no El, thatâs the last thing you needed.
Fingers crossed your local computer place can repair it for you
Moonie posted:Yogi19 posted:Good morning all
Dry but cloudy atm
Good luck with the big job when it arrives, El
Doing my parentsâ grocery shopping today.
Have a good day, all.
*coffs...cakes...coffs*
Cakes Help yourselves, everyone.
Good to have you back
Summer, I hope you have a little post Bank Holiday lull before you get hit with the back to school rush
Yogi19 posted:Moonie posted:Yogi19 posted:Good morning all
Dry but cloudy atm
Good luck with the big job when it arrives, El
Doing my parentsâ grocery shopping today.
Have a good day, all.
*coffs...cakes...coffs*
Good to have you back
ðŪ a box cakes
*takes one and leaves the rest for other visitors but I may pop back later*
Fankoo
ðŪ heck El, thatâs really bad news about you computer
Let hope the computer shop is able to fix
Funnily enough my Dell laptop that is 10 years old is in for repair. Virtually everything has been tried so far with no success
I have a mate who has looked after my computer/laptop for at least 12 years. Good man knows his stuff
He reckons itâs probably the motherboard. No chance of getting a new one after 10 years. A second hand one would probably be a possibility off EBay or the likes but then you donât know what you will get and the cost would probably be prohibitive too.
Sad to say my Dell has probably reached the end of its life
My mate did get me a secondhand Asus laptop which I am more than satisfied with as I only use it to upload and download pictures and videos. I have to say it much quicker than my old Dell
I would have bought a new one but I dislike anything that runs Microsoft so I use the Linux OS and apparently new laptops are not able to be converted to Linux. They have become wise
Apologies to everyone for this essay
Moonie posted:ðŪ heck El, thatâs really bad news about you computer
Let hope the computer shop is able to fix
Funnily enough my Dell laptop that is 10 years old is in for repair. Virtually everything has been tried so far with no success
I have a mate who has looked after my computer/laptop for at least 12 years. Good man knows his stuff
He reckons itâs probably the motherboard. No chance of getting a new one after 10 years. A second hand one would probably be a possibility off EBay or the likes but then you donât know what you will get and the cost would probably be prohibitive too.
Sad to say my Dell has probably reached the end of its life
My mate did get me a secondhand Asus laptop which I am more than satisfied with as I only use it to upload and download pictures and videos. I have to say it much quicker than my old Dell
I would have bought a new one but I dislike anything that runs Microsoft so I use the Linux OS and apparently new laptops are not able to be converted to Linux. They have become wise
Apologies to everyone for this essay
Doesnât sound good for your Dell but at least you have your ASUS laptop to use
El Loro posted:Thanks Yogi
Iâll keep my fingers crossed for you
Thanks Moonie My old computer which has broken down is even older than your Dell, it's over 12 years old. It's an Evesham Micros one. In its day it was a top quality computer. The company ceased to exist quite a few years ago. Windows XP and I used the computer until Microsoft ended support for XP. If it is just the power supply, there's some chance it can be replaced. If it's more than the power supply, then rather like yours, it's probably reached the end of its life.
Goodnight and sweet dreams, Ros
Night owl hug
night yogi moons glad you are feeling bettersummer if you pop in
Good morning everyone
Quite sunny here but cooler than yesterday. Might get a shower later but less likely than yesterday.
For those of you who liked the film Born Free, BBC4 are repeating at 7 pm this evening a half-hour black and white documentary from 1961 "Elsa the lioness". David Attenborough interviewing the real George and Joy Adamson and featuring Elsa. It was originally shown as part of BBC's Zoo Quest series.
I hope everyone has a good day
Moonie posted:A gale has blown up. Trees bending in the gusts of wind
I missed this last night. Hope there was no damage, Moonie
Good morning everyone
Sunny but chilly atm
Thanks for the Born Free heads up, El.
Got one son visiting today - full English required.
Have a good day, all.
Good morning everyone, a lovely morning with a bit of a breeze. Oh no EL! That's a bit of a blow, is there any way around it if your old computer has died? Is it possible to run that software on your up to date computer? I can see the security issue might be a bit worrisome.
Enjoy your day everyone
Yogi, I hope you have a nice time with your son
Squiggle, the problem is that the client accounting software I have used on the old computer is now only available online from the software company which therefore requires my client to purchase an additional licence for me as a user. Totally unfair as I've never used the software for posting any transactions, purely for obtaining information. Many accounting packages you can get from places like PC World would have the ability for an external accountant to be able to use the data for information without the need for an additional licence.
I had warned the client years ago that my old computer would one day become unusable.
In the last few months the client has changed the accounting system, still from the same software company, but this new system is installed on the client's server rather than each of the computers used by the accounts staff. That is the case as from the day after the year end I would be working on. That's also the case with the old system now. So I could access it from the client's server but need confirmation that it's secure.
It's not the same as cloud accounting systems which are becoming more popular. Although the concept is similar, the findamental different is that the server is on the cloud accounting sofware server rather than the business' servers and one would hope secure.