June 2012: Candes-St.Martin, confluent of the Loire River and the Vienne.

Friday, 11 December 2009

Black Death

We're hardly back from our little trip to the Belgian Gaume region, and already disaster has struck. My desktop computer has caught the 'Black Death'. You may have heard about it! It's a 'leak' in a recent Windows update that installs itself automatically. All of a sudden, while you're typing or Photoshopping your monitor turns black and the PC switches itself off ... leaving you with a lot of unsaved material. Apparently, there isn't much you can do about it ... just turn your PC on again and hope it won't happen again before you've saved your work.

Unless YOU have found a solution you would like to share with the other victims!

Luckily I have my new laptop which is still functioning as it should. (Let's keep our fingers crossed!)



A photo that has strictly nothing to do with today's subject,
but brings back great memories. Champagne vineyards in 2007, or was it 2008?


By the way our little getaway was fun. We visited some more Belgian castles. The company and excellent food made up for the endless rain and dark clouds. NO snow though! Full report tomorrow ...

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7 comments:

Nadege said...

It is raining in Los Angeles too and it is cold (16 degres a midi). Mardi nous reviendrons dans les 20 degres. I like the rain because we need it, but not the cold. Sorry about he "black death".

Jean said...
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Jean said...

Twas me that deleted the post as I was talking gibberish about computer viruses (according to Nick). Just shows how much I know about computers - absolutely nothing. They should just work when you turn them on, like a TV.
Looking forward to your Belgian castle posts !!

Ken Broadhurst said...

Martine, I wonder what version of Windows you are using. I've never before heard of "the black death" in relation to computers and Windows.

chm said...

Sorry about the Back Death. Having a Mac, that kind of things doesn't happen to me. But I'm really not immune to other unpleasant things. But it's extremely rare when something deadly happens. Mac operating system seems to be more stable than Microsoft's.

Hope you can find out what caused this blackout so you can prevent it from occurring again.

On the bright side, I'm glad you had a pleasant mini-vacation even though a little wet. MDR

Can't wait for the pictures!

Carolyn said...

Looking forward to castle photos. I can't get enough of them.

ladybird said...

Nadege, The rain has finally stopped but now temperatures have dropped to a mere 5°C ... and colder weather is expected for next week.


Jean, I share your feelings about computers ... unfortunately they are full of surprises!


Ken, I'm on Windows XP on the desktop and Windows 7 on the laptop. From what I've read the 'black death' is due to a mistake in an automatic update of Window XP. Microsoft is trying to fix the error asap. In the meantime we just have to live with it :(.


Chm, The photos need a great deal of photoshopping as weather conditions were really lousy. And I don't want to scare away my readers, do I?


Carolyn, Even the rustic medieval ones...??? :)

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