Bob's Tales of Woo, Woe and W***

Strangest damn problem I need help with, been struggling with it for a few months.

I have two PCs, both WinXP.
They are networked together (with cables) using my BeBox (internet router).

One of them has Adobe Creative Suite 4 on it (PC1), it previously had CS3. The other has never had Creative Suite installed (PC2).

I have a problem with Photoshop. Only Photoshop. Photoshop will not load unless PC2 is fully booted up. It get's as far as loading preferences and then hangs. Rest of P1 continues to work quite happily.

I cannot see a reason for this. All scratch disks, plugins, etc are set to PC1, PC2 has nothing to do with it, I don't use it for design, it just happens to be on the same network. On occasion I will open files from it across the network but that's all.

If I turn on PC2 Photoshop starts fine, I can then shut down PC2 and it will continue to work fine as long as I don't close the app and open it again.

I've tried re-installing from scratch. Makes no difference.

I suspect a registry clean or some sort of network tools are what I require, but I not so good with such things.

Any suggestions?

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh nnngh nnngh nim nim nim aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh

Hello.

(work sucks cock).

How are you?

APRIL 1st 2009

XYKOGEN announce the release of MUSICA UNIVERSALIS - a live experimental recording - through MrsVee Records
.
FREE DOWNLOAD: www.mrsvee.co.uk/xykogen

While you're at it, check out Xykogen's previous album, TERMINOLOGY.

FREE DOWNLOAD: http://tinyurl.com/9c9ard

www.xykogen.com
www.mrsvee.co.uk

http://www.gigwise.com/win/48979/Remix%20Dan%20Le%20Sac%20vs%20Scroobius%20Pip,%20Win%20Tickets%20To%20Camp%20Bestival!

While it is obviously spawn of the retarded Web2.0 generation, I have a twitter account. Some of you have friended/followed/whatever me. I should make clear:

This is me:
http://www.twitter.com/anxious_silence

This is not:
http://twitter.com/bobbarker

Ok, the second one is actually me as well but I don't use it. It was set up by an errant colleage who desperately wanted me to come and play. I wasn't in the mood that year. If for some mental reason you wish to follow me, use the anxious_silence one. I am grotesquely offensive on there and tend to scare followers off in about ten minutes.

My New Years Resolution, for apparently it's law that I have one. Is:

I'M COMING TO YOUR GIGS AND DON'T TRY AND STOP ME.

Yeah, that's pretty much it really. Regaining life a bit and going to actually stop fretting and go and see people/bands and stuff. So do tell me if you have one!

x

XYKOGEN : TERMINOLOGY

Xykogen's second album TERMINOLOGY - produced by
Scott DeathBoy -
has been released by Line Out Records.


DOWNLOAD THE MP3 VERSION FOR *FREE* (INCLUDES FULL ARTWORK)

...or buy the full CD quality double-disc
Limited Edition from Line Out Records, which includes Xykogen's debut album "The Death
And Resurrection Show" and a
high-quality video for 'No Heaven'.

FREE ALBUM DOWNLOAD:
http://www.lineoutrecords.com/downloads/Xykogen_Terminology_Album/

DOUBLE-CD LIMITED EDITION:
http://www.onlineout.com/bands/Xykogen

CHECK OUT THE XYKOGEN CHANNEL & 'NO HEAVEN' VIDEO @ YOUTUBE...
http://www.youtube.com/user/xykogen

...OR THE XYKOGEN GROUP & 'NO HEAVEN' VIDEO @ VIMEO:
http://www.vimeo.com/groups/xykogen

WWW.XYKOGEN.COM
www.xykogen.com/terminology.html
www.xykogen.com/consume.html

Am alive.

Moving house is a pain in the arse.

Phone now works (at last). Internets doesn't. Internets from Friday/Saturday (hopefully).

No heating. Plumber is booked (not confirmed).

Am VERY POOR right now. Homebase owns all my cash.

Moved 17 sacks of very rotten apples/pears off the garden at 8am this morning. Unpleasant.

Think I have broken my FUCKING SPINE. It hurts.

Hopefully get mattress tomorrow. Might help FUCKING SPINE stop hurting.

Over (for now).

I urgently need to get a box of CDs to Scott DeathBoy by 2pm tomorrow afternoon.

Me = Maidenhead (not accurate location)
Scott = Enfield, London (not accurate location)

I'm about to start looking up couriers but I suspect they will be prohibitively expensive at such short notice. Also, I have assorted meetings tomorrow so cannot guarantee what time I will be available (alas main meeting in non-cancellable if I wish to eat next month).

So... if anyone can give helpful suggestions or assist in any way I would be amazingly grateful.

I may be able to drive halfway to Enfield OR to somewhere else if it will help.

OR if anyone is going to see DeathBoy and Tricky tomorrow night and can meet me anywhere else prior to going to take some CDs wtih them that would also be amazing.

Yes, yes, we know we suck and it's late notice.

Email me: bob@lineoutrecords.com

DeathBoy will be supporting Tricky this Friday in Bexhill On Sea. Click for more.

Prague is nice.

Here are some pictures.

We return.

Prague = Brilliant

Back in Maidenhead/Police State England = Steaming pile of shite

This afternoon = 3000 emails. 5 URGENT voicemails. 2 working days I've been off. That's all.

Most emails = SPAM (obviously), far too many are 'fuck, where are you, I need stuff' from clients I gave three (3) months notice to and a reminder two weeks then five days before I went.

How much can go wrong in my absence? Apparently, a fucktonne.

Still feeling like shit (hurrah), am working on it.

Still buying a house (oh fuck), scaring the shit out of me.

Still trying to sort my life out generally (failing).

Would tell everyone how great Prague was but it will bore you to death, and depress me that I'm not still there. So not going to bother, I refer you to the above: Prague = Brilliant. Made me aware of what a fucking stink-hole this country can be. The ONLY cunts we experienced all weekend were English, and all the English people we experienced were cunts.

Enough moaning. I have a mountain to get through. If you want/need anything from me right now, do me a favour and give me a few days to get back on track.

x

The last couple of months have been too intense. Too many life changing decisions have been made. I am now officially a grown up and not enjoying it.

Sometimes wish I could just run away from it all, but no idea where I could go.

Just want sleep now.

Can anyone recommend anywhere to get business cards printed?

Fuck. I appear to be buying a house.

This may be the most retarded decision I've made in years.

Bye bye spare cash.

Microsoft CRM 4. Anyone got an experience (as a developer). We need to integrate with a third party website.

No intention of learning it myself, will probably never have use of it again. So if you have good experience and want to do some paid consultancy: bob AT shinytastic DOT com

Anyone want a Diesel Ford Mondeo for very little cash? I need to get rid of mine. It has MOT and tax until January. Front tyres need replacing. Had about £1000 worth of work done to the engine earlier this year.

Failed MOT this year but had a full service and loads of stuff fixed and got through fine second time.

Probably more use as parts than anything else.

Will take £100 for it (negotiable). More information/test drive/etc if you are vaugly interested.

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For one week only from today you can download the new This Is Radio Silence single - The Heart Grows Fonder. Two tracks available as either mp3 or flac...

Go download The Heart Grows Fonder.

...also...

We've just released the recent History Of Guns single Empty Eyes / ...but I'll Be Waiting as a free download.

Fucking awesome (assuming you like low-fi electronic indie doing Phil Collins covers)

http://somethingchewie.co.uk/the-postal-service-against-all-odds/

Give it a minute or so to kick in.