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06/06/25 Fri. D-Day 6th June 1944. OK, I'm back online (temporarily). For those who have been following my problems with updating this site......here's the latest.
I have spent hours and hours trying to find and solve the problem, and it's all down to Microsoft! Firstly, I am writing this on Ana's laptop, which meant downloading FileZilla and getting it to talk to Heart Internet, along with installing Frontpage. Her computer is running Windows 11 version 23H2 whereas mine is running the later version of 24H2, and that is where the problem lies. Microsoft issued the upgraded version of Windows 11 on 9th April without much checking of its reliability. I obviously downloaded and installed it around that time. You have a 10 day period of grace to roll back to the previous version, but I didn't use the laptop after updating my site on the 2nd April and went away to Manila for two weeks. When I realised I had a problem with my laptop, the period of grace had expired and there is no way to roll back to the 23H2 version, and Microsoft have removed the ISO file from their website that would allow users to copy a boot file to a flashdrive and reinstall the older version. Trawling through the internet shows there are thousands of dissatisfied users that are having the exact same problems as myself with corrupted files, particularly gamers who have lost all their game programmes. It wiped some of my banking files as well but luckily I had back up files for those. So, there is not much I can do with my laptop now. The plan now is to go to KK in a week or so and look for a cheap laptop, which because it's in the shop, will not have been updated, go into the registry files and prevent it from ever updating!
If there are no further updates to my site for a while.........you know why!
11/06/25 Weds. Squalls for the last week have made the weather poor, the wind is cold, it rains frequently and nothing gets done onboard. According to the forecast.......things are supposed to improve tomorrow!
13/06/25 Fri. Everything is happening at once. I have a wiring problem with my sailing instruments, they sometimes come on when the switch is thrown, sometimes not. It isn't the switch and a quick look the other day showed the wiring to be the main suspect. It will not be an easy job to rewire! Secondly, the cooker is on it's last legs and I now consider it unsafe, so I have to get a replacement from somewhere. The current one is a Smev and I think they were taken over some years ago by Dometic. My problem is the boat is old and built in the UK and in those days the space allocated for cookers was small. Later boats have more room and consequently cookers are bigger and wider. OK, I can find a Dometic one, but not outside Europe and the chandleries in UK will only ship to UK addresses, which is a problem! Lastly, I found out today that a lifelong friend (since we were 4 years old) has passed away. We lost touch some years ago and I haven't spoken to him in years but always considered him my best friend and my eldest son is named after him. On a brighter note, the weather is back to blazing sunshine and temps of 38oC, I have booked a car and hotel for a couple of days next week and we will be driving down to KK on Weds.
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