After lots of swearing at people whose fault it probably wasn’t the Desktop PC epic fail was sent back.



The laptop came with a windows image pre-installed, which I didn’t want – but out of interest I thought I would check the computer anyway and see what was installed.  I turned it on and was rather swiftly greeted with a blue screen of death saying IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL which is the computers way of saying that some driver has written somewhere it shouldn’t and it has protected itself.  never mind, we don’t need this image anyway.



On to the laptop.  This one went easy, it would boot from CD and within 5 minutes my image was up and running.  So I logged in and all was well.  Except it wasn’t.  It greeted me with a driver error, which is odd because I hadn’t installed anything yet.  Reboot and all is well, there were 9 unknown devices, so I connected it to windows update and it installed most of them, rebooted about 4 times.  All is well.



Ran our software and it couldn’t...

 

I have spent the last 4 days trying to build an image suitable for our Approved Workstation.  I built an image, I resealed it and deployed the reseaaled image on a VMware machine and a real machine that was very old.  Both of which worked.  I was amazed that MSDN were actually correct and it was actually hardware independent.



Then the actual PC’s arrived at long last from our mother company.  Then the disasters ensued…



We ordered two types of machine, a desktop workstation and a notebook version, the idea being that each type would bring choice to the customer.  Having done this type of deployment before I carefully asked fro TWO examples of each, the 1st would be for building the custom image and the 2nd would be for testing the deployed image would actually work on a physically separate machine.  I asked for this because I have wasted many days in the past with error caused by machines that don’t exactly match.  We were told we could only have one, and I agreed to this...

 

Now, if you go to google.com  you can type in something you want to cook and use the recipes function.  You can then specify how long you have to cook and how many calories it can contain.  et voila.

 

Now if it could wash up that would be even better!

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Grey Floor and glass table. And a laptop and stuff.

 

Here is an example of the wood laminate. I think it looks too shiny, perhaps the real thing won’t be that shiny, I have tried to match the colour.

 

Also, I don’t like the table, I am going to change it for a glass one.

 

Wood laminate and stuff, lovin it!  Well there is bugger all on the telly might as well be creative…

Ok, so I painted the wall brown, put in a wood table, put in a wooden floor from floorstogo that you like, put in the spot lights and the fridge.  Do you like it?   PS- even in the virtual world some bugger hasn’t washed up!

 

Lovely way to test out interior design!  You can use it online and check the results with your partner. no need to be in the same place   Sweet I love it.

 



 

So I want to book a van, I noted that the calendar date could be set backwards (don’t ask me how I found this).  This resulted in a negative result.  It then multiplies the value and gets the result.  Simple!  Except they have cocked it up.  So I found the maximum dates that it will let you set and lo and behold, they now owe me £656,634.00

 

It gets worse – this is an automated website, so if you then proceed with the booking, it may well credit your account!

 

Stoopid idiots – but I guess...