This turned out to be a lot easier than most of this type of problem in my experience. Our new house had a built in Siemens dishwasher thrown in as part of the purchase – fortunately we didn’t pay anything for it but, with hindsight, I understand why the former owner didn’t ask for anything!… Continue reading Dead Siemens Dishwasher fault finding
France through Anglo-Australian Eyes & more
France through Anglo-Australian eyes moves here
My blog on blog.ca “France through Anglo-Australian eyes” has been transferred here complete (hopefully!) with all of the historical blogs and photos. All future blogging will now be from here so that when blog.ca eventually closes, there will be no loss…
Recovering from a Registry corruption
Another techie Blog… So Jo’s PC booted happily then 10 minutes later I get the usual “Dear, this doesn’t work….” requiring my IT support hat to be worn. And ‘it’ didn’t work – her PC was frozen completely in the middle of an IE session – nothing worked, even the mouse and Cntrl-Alt-Del. A… Continue reading Recovering from a Registry corruption
NB-6L Canon battery holder
My Canon SX270HS is a great little camera but it has one real fault in my mind which is battery life. Worse, it gives indication of a failing battery barely half a dozen shots before the battery dies. Once the problem is identified, the solution is simple – carry a second backup battery ready to… Continue reading NB-6L Canon battery holder
Connecting my PC from France into Dad’s PC in the UK via his TalkTalk ISP
This was (finally) a successful connection allowing me to use MS Remote Desktop from our Windows 7 machines to take full control of his PC. Our system setup: Windows 7 pro installed on both machines 2nd PC available at my end to allow for searches, testing of settings, etc TalkTalk router is a D-Link 3780… Continue reading Connecting my PC from France into Dad’s PC in the UK via his TalkTalk ISP
Recovering from a Seagate Central failure
So I currently manage a dozen or so PCs and iPads in this household – plus a couple more at my parents on ‘remote support’ when Dad has exhausted the first few levels of debug and problem analysis. This means that we have an ever increasing quantity of data to back up – both professional… Continue reading Recovering from a Seagate Central failure
Blog
Going to work
Since we moved from the 14th arrondissement in Paris my journey into work has changed significantly. No longer a 10 minute walk down past the nice boulangerie, the selection of cafes (including the one opposite the market where they do a nice cous-cous on Sunday), the market itself on Wednesday, the chemists, two supermarkets and… Continue reading Going to work
House moving from Holland and Paris
Well the moves have finally happened and the dust is slowly starting to settle back to the ground. We have moved out of our 5th floor apartment in the 14th arrondissement of Paris to a house in one of the nicer suburbs to the west of the city.We also moved the contents of my house… Continue reading House moving from Holland and Paris
A Day trip to Ecuador
Once again an interesting week. I went to Ecuador (yes, go and look it up on Google maps, it is the top left hand side of South America – I had to too) and spent longer in the planes than on the ground. Jo was more fortunate and stayed in Paris.As usual, it was a… Continue reading A Day trip to Ecuador