He asked her her name
She said 'call me Jane'
She was tall and slim
And never skipped gym
But sadly was terribly plain

A facelift for Jane
Would need a crane

I'm Bert went off to his local bar
He fancied a chat and a jar
The Barmaid was new
She poured him a few
He thought her a bit of a star ⭐ 

He asked her her name
She said 'call me Jane'

Another grey drizzly day - for a change.  It's forecast into next week too. 
If this carries on we might get a hosepipe ban. 

Off to my Friday exercise class for an hour shortly,  I am enjoying it.

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Is anyone here superstitious?  Well beware,  it is Friday 13th next Friday.   

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Quote from: klondike on Yesterday at 07:17:08 PMI read a bit about it - the problem was with the jury. They were acquitted on one charge and no verdicts on the others. Possibly a retrial.

Oh dear.
There has been talk about 'non jury trials', I'm now beginning to see a possible advantage of that.
However, I still think that we should have juries, certainly for the most serious offences, but if a judge believes that for whatever reason a jury is either incompetent or biased for some reason, it should be possible to call for a retrial.  After that, the members of the jury should also be examined for their possible underlying biases and, if found to be seriously biased, be listed as unsuitable for jury service.

Quote from: muddy on Today at 01:27:44 AMIt does seem that young people are violent .
It could be all these violent video games .
Or
Lack of consequences .

Even  judges and juries excuse violent behaviour .

If we cannot trust our judges, and juries (if present), to deal with such things, who can we trust?
Ourselves?
Our own gangs for our own protection?

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So the main machine died and the other machine doesn't recognise the external drive.

Was the external drive plugged in when the main machine failed? If so have you tried without it plugged in?

Does the other machine recognise a USB pen drive? Have you tried different USB ports?

What exactly do you mean by died? What happens?

The thing that sounds odd and could be the common point might be the external USB drive. Definitely so if you just leave it plugged in - if it has failed it could be stopping the main machine booting when plugged in. If the CMOS settings specify try external drive first then normally there is nothing to boot from and the BIOS switches to booting from the internal drive. If that external drive just didn't respond correctly it might  stop the main machine booting and wouldn't be visible on the backup machine.

That all fails if the main machine doesn't boot without it plugged in but it seems coincidental that the drive doesn't work in the old machine.

If the main machine isn't showing anything on the monitor try the other monitor on the main machine (obviously irrelevant if one or both are laptops)

Lastly - check all the cables are plugged in correctly. If the main machine is a laptop is there any indication that the PSU is actually working.

End result - you may need to get it looked at in a PC shop as remote debugging by me isn't likely to show much.

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Mine wasn't