[QUOTE=kladner;412870]Am I correct in thinking there is a shingles vaccine?[/QUOTE]

Zostavax. It is essentially the equivalent of fourteen doses of the chickenpox vaccination.

From the [URL="http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/shingles/vacc-need-know.htm"]US CDC[/URL]:
[QUOTE][B][SIZE=4]Shingles Vaccination: What Everyone Should Know[/SIZE][/B]

Your risk of shingles and [URL="http://www.cdc.gov/shingles/about/complications.html"]post-herpetic neuralgia[/URL] (PHN) increases as you get older. CDC recommends that people 60 years old and older get shingles vaccine to prevent shingles and PHN.
Shingles vaccine has been used since 2006. Zostavax® is the only shingles vaccine currently approved for use in the United States. This vaccine reduces the risk of developing shingles by 51% and PHN by 67%. It is given in one dose as a shot, and can be given in a doctor’s office or pharmacy.

[B][SIZE=4]Who Should Get Shingles Vaccine?[/SIZE][/B]

People 60 years of age or older should get shingles vaccine. They should get the vaccine whether or not they recall having had chickenpox, which is caused by the same virus as [URL="http://www.cdc.gov/shingles/about/overview.html"]shingles[/URL]. Studies show that more than 99% of Americans aged 40 and older have had chickenpox, even if they don't remember getting the disease. There is no maximum age for getting shingles vaccine.
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I wish you and I hope that you (both) get well soon!
(this is more like selfish, I don't want to argue with a Serge or a Paul which are already nervous from their illness :razz:)

Crappiness, crappiness, I curse the Lord that I posesss, more than my share of crappiness. (*)

This machine has become very flaky the last couple of days, locking or rebooting at no notice. I suspect overheating and the usual procedures will be applied. In the meantime, my router has been reprogrammed to point incoming ECMnet client requests to a back-up system.

Toothache is not helping my mood.

Paul

(*) A diddy amount of kudos for any non-UK reader who knows where that comes from.

Wishing you good luck with the repair. My check list in such a situation (not in order):
[LIST][*]thorough clean of the hardware[*]reseat all plugs including power, disks, memory, cards and CPU[*]run memtest and Prime95/mprime's torture test[*]check the PSU, at least in BIOS the voltages[*]check to board's battery[*]reinstall the operating system[*]strip down the system and gradually add and test components[/LIST]
:geek:

More mildly unhappy hardware
 

Got a message from msieve yesterday, four days before the predicted end of a month-long job, that the intermediate matrix in block Lanczos was not invertible.

Going back an hour and a half to msieve.dat.bak.chk seems to have fixed it, but I will be quite cross if Monday morning fails to bring me a kernel vector.

Maybe I should instead be delighted at having observed my first cosmic-ray :whistle:

Glorious success not in fact inevitable
 

[code]
Fri Oct 2 09:19:36 2015 commencing Lanczos iteration (6 threads)
Fri Oct 2 09:19:36 2015 memory use: 12743.4 MB
Fri Oct 2 09:21:48 2015 linear algebra at 0.0%, ETA 799h53m
...
Wed Nov 4 17:25:52 2015 lanczos error: submatrix is not invertible
Wed Nov 4 17:25:52 2015 lanczos halted after 476936 iterations (dim = 30158654)
Wed Nov 4 17:25:52 2015 linear algebra failed; retrying...
Wed Nov 4 17:25:52 2015 commencing Lanczos iteration (6 threads)
Wed Nov 4 17:25:52 2015 memory use: 12743.4 MB
Wed Nov 4 17:25:53 2015 restarting at iteration 476799 (dim = 30150056)
Wed Nov 4 17:27:44 2015 linear algebra at 87.6%, ETA 87h 3m
Wed Nov 4 17:28:17 2015 error: corrupt state, please restart from checkpoint
...
Wed Nov 4 22:39:12 2015 commencing Lanczos iteration (6 threads)
Wed Nov 4 22:39:12 2015 memory use: 12743.4 MB
Wed Nov 4 22:39:16 2015 restarting at iteration 476008 (dim = 30100040)
Wed Nov 4 22:41:18 2015 linear algebra at 87.5%, ETA 96h48m
Wed Nov 4 22:41:59 2015 checkpointing every 50000 dimensions
Sun Nov 8 15:13:43 2015 lanczos halted after 544333 iterations (dim = 34420477)
Sun Nov 8 15:14:23 2015 recovered 28 nontrivial dependencies
...
Sun Nov 8 19:42:12 2015 multiply complete, coefficients have about 3750.18 million bits
Sun Nov 8 19:42:19 2015 error: relation product is incorrect
Sun Nov 8 19:42:19 2015 algebraic square root failed
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As my company going to move its office location the money I was saving for a new computer has to be applied on another second hand car.:no::no: Until now I was 15 mins walk from work...

My grandfather from father side passed away today at 8:00 am GMT.
Got a phone call from my sister whilst I was walking to work. At least he died sleeping, old age without suffering.

This is the first time I get strike directly with a family death and I am not dealing quite well with it. My mind keeps processing past imagines of him....

Oh well, booked my flight to Portugal next Thursday, I'll miss the funeral but I hope to be with my grandmother to support her on this sad moment.

Carlos

[QUOTE=pinhodecarlos;425722]My grandfather from father side passed away today at 8:00 am GMT.
Got a phone call from my sister whilst I was walking to work. At least he died sleeping, old age without suffering.

This is the first time I get strike directly with a family death and I am not dealing quite well with it. My mind keeps processing past imagines of him....

Oh well, booked my flight to Portugal next Thursday, I'll miss the funeral but I hope to be with my grandmother to support her on this sad moment.

Carlos[/QUOTE]

I'm sorry for your loss losing loved ones sucks I've had four pass away in just over a year now boxing day 2014->jan 14 2016 if I remember correctly my mother, two aunts on my father's side, and my mother's father) a lot before those but not all were one's I got close to really.

[QUOTE=pinhodecarlos;425722]

Carlos[/QUOTE]

:sad: