Cool and clear, again. Hooray. I can use a few more cool and clear days. Like yesterday, and tomorrow. Nice weather lately, if a bit on the cool side in the morning and at night. Great for working outdoors or in an attic.
Which means I should be doing some of the attic work I’ve been putting off for the past year. I’ve got cleanup and organizing to do, insulation to install, and new pex to put in, in place of the rotten galvanized piping that is bound to fail at the least convenient time. Not to mention the bathroom reno that is now in its 13th year… or the outdoor work I’ve been putting off.
Instead, I’ll be kludging the tub back together. If I can get the fitting to work with the sewer connection, I’m going to epoxy the ‘pinhole’ and install the new drain parts. I don’t want to rip out the tub/shower until I have all the stuff ready to go for the rest of the reno. If I can get a functioning shower for a while longer, it’s worth the effort. Maybe we can even get a real contractor in to do the shower.
And because of the holiday, I’ve got one fewer day to do my pickups. Lots of stuff for the BOL and general living stuff too this week. Soap, cleaners, some stuff for the kids.
I’m looking at the pile, and thinking I might have to do a speed run to the BOL to take a load up, and empty my truck. I can bring back all my pex fittings and tools too, so that I can do some of the work here when I have the chance. I’m getting a really strong feeling I should have the plumbing stuff here… and I’ve learned that I ignore the little voice in my head at my peril.
Plans. I had ’em. Now I’ve got new ones. Flexibility is a virtue right?
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Out in the world things are getting more strained. If the trucker boycott of NYC turns into something real, expect the feds and .gov to get really ugly. Trucking is federally regulated and that will be the first avenue of attack- threats. Seizures and replacement will surely follow.
The news says “gangs have formed” among the illegals in NYFC, but of course the gangs were always there. To admit the “immigrants” are really cartel ‘bangers is impossible, so they must have formed spontaneously in NYFC… and they are doing the same things they did at home. Don’t think it will be confined to NYFC, it will be true in every city by the end of the summer. The cartels, the chinese, the balkan mobs, and islamic invaders will be fighting over the corpse of American prosperity, with some real mobsters and some good ole boys getting into it too. Oh, don’t forget the africans. They have a long history of brutality against each other and their enemies. They don’t need guns either. Eritrean migrant gangs are tearing things up in the Netherlands and elsewhere, even North Carolina.
What we are about to see is the real world version of the ‘lily pads in the pond’ doubling thought experiment. We’re on about day 46, when 1/4 of the pond is covered. People are noticing that there are a lot of changes recently, and there seem to be a lot of young hispanic men around. Tomorrow (metaphorically) the pond will be half covered, and people will start to get concerned and maybe even freak out. Too late, because the next day, the pond is covered and we are a third world sh!tehole, and the illegals are everywhere and doing everything.
Yeah, we have a lot of guns. So do they. And no compunction about using them. Or machetes. They fill pits with severed heads and run slavery rings for fun and profit. How many of our people are willing to shoot on sight? Or burn down their clubhouses and homes? Add the disruptions of another covid, a crooked election, failing currency, worsening political situation overseas, and you don’t have enough stacked. Not enough of anything. So we can hope and pray it doesn’t get that bad, but you have to ask yourself, “why won’t it?” Feel free to share your thoughts if you come up with anything plausible.
As for me, I’m stacking what I can.
nick
WTF Microsoft? I only use Windows in a VM for some demonstrations. I have Win10 installed, but hadn’t used it in a long time, so there were a lot of updates pending.
After lots of restarts, it came to the security update from January 2024. Failed, here’s an error code. Look at the error code, and it means that the Windows recovery partition is full. In a VM, the recovery agent is disabled, so that’s WTF number 1.
There’s a long and tedious explanation of how to use command-line tools to enlarge the partition. Any non-technical user would have no chance. WTF number 2.
Then…the update still fails with the same error code. WTF number 3.
Seeing as it’s a VM that gets restored to a snapshot, I don’t terribly care, but…that was pretty awful. Not least, because the recovery partition was created automatically by Windows, so…why should it be too small?
Grumble – that was an hour I won’t be getting back…
See also [Steve] Sailor’s Rule: If a mass shooting results in more wounded than killed, the shooter is most likely black. If there are more killed than wounded, the shooter is most likely White.
I thought JCB owned Discover.
I don’t keep up with that sector, but I know The Gecko bought into Capital One last year.
Another score for Buffett’s portfolio with the shareholder letter due this weekend.
One of my wife’s pinhead staff members in Florida got into serious trouble with Capital One to the point that the family had to file Bankruptcy.
Of course Buffett would be interested.
What’s in your wallet?
Discover / Capitol One – somehow, I’ve come across a couple of comment threads about that. Which is weird, given that I mostly read tech forums. Anyway, the general tone is: Capitol One has a reputation for terrible customer service, whereas Discover is quite well liked. So the worry is: which corporate culture will win?
Together, they are still smaller than the duopoly of Mastercard and Visa. Which is actually a monopoly, given that the two of them always seems to move in lockstep. They certainly don’t actually compete with each other.
Chilly and clear this am.
WRT win10, I tried to play solitaire on my dad’s old machine last night and it was so slow it couldn’t keep up with mouse clicks. Windows was updating and D/Ling stuff. I have a new choice – something about AI and search, which I don’t want and didn’t ask for.
This is one of those deck of cards sized machines with all solid state “disc” and memory, so there wasn’t much extra room for bloated windows anyway…
It finally caught up and I was able to play a few games before bed, but another instance of MS believing they own my machine and can do as they wish with it.
n
@Nick: I hear you. I honestly don’t understand why Windows remains so popular, given the way Microsoft tries to milk its customers. I am just using Edge for the demo, and it has a whole separate raft of privacy-violating settings on top of the ones in Win-10. Plus, during the whole update process, I kept getting notices of how the machine didn’t “yet” meet the requirements for Win-11. No way to turn that check off, of course.
Of course, all is not always good in Linux-land either. I’ve gone years without significant problems, but a recent kernel update disables most of my USB peripherals (headset, webcam, etc.). I had to roll back to the previous version, which was a pain, and it makes me uncertain about future updates. I posted a bug report, but the bug was promptly shoved into the wrong category (one for sound problems, presumably because I mentioned a headset), and has seen zero activity.
Today’s computers are complicated beasts – it’s actually amazing they work as well as they do…
The one backed by the Geico Gecko, especially if the deal is mentioned in the shareholder letter this weekend.
Buffett already had three major scores in his portfolio for the year. The Discover deal would be number four by my count, and February isn’t even done.
That is indeed true. I have had a Discover card since about 1986. Their customer service is really good and everyone speaks English as a native language. Not so much for Capital One where I had an account for a year, then abandoned because customer service was horrible and basically unintelligible because of language barriers.
I am on the fence about my Costco CITI card. Disputing a transaction that had not been posted immediately triggered the card being canceled and a new card issued. I had a problem with another transaction and had to use chat, a poor experience.
Here’s an example of how fast violence happens.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/video-heroic-police-officer-guns-down-knife-wielding/
<10 seconds, note too, shoots 9-10 rounds to put down ONE attacker. Who needs normal capacity magazines? You do.
n
E veryone is subject to forgetting, or being gaslighted . At dinner last night I mentioned that gas was less than $2/gal during Trump’s presidency. Wife scoffed and thought I was making it up.
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=EMM_EPM0U_PTE_NUS_DPG&f=M
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=emm_epmr_pte_nus_dpg&f=m
The charts show national averages, we are almost always less than that because – Cali, and HI.
Granted the dip is mainly wuflu related, but it stayed around $2 for months after that. I wasn’t locked down, I was still driving…
n
Careful. You’ll be “in trouble” for stating a fact she disagrees with and then in even more trouble because you took the time/effort to prove her wrong. 🙂
Oh, I’m not dumb enough to send her the link, I just wanted to be certain that I was remembering correctly.
n
–hmm, wonder what changed? I bet the teacher’s union opposes school choice…
and the pols say “nothing to see here, we’re doing fine”
I wonder how the demographics of the school look compared to the city…
Why am I not surprised to find this?
–based on our school district, I’m willing to bet the “white” category is mostly what most people would call “hispanic”.
The fight video doesn’t have many pale faces in it.
n
https://investor.capitalone.com/news-releases/news-release-details/capital-one-acquire-discover
It was my #1 card, I can’t imagine this will turn out well for anyone but the banksters.
Ok, I may be the last kid to the party but this is the coolest thing I’ve seen in a year.
Google Lens, real time translation of pictures…
On my phone, google search widget, select the “picture” icon, and the camera opens. Select “translate” at the bottom, default is “search”.
Point the camera at something with foreign text, in my case a jar of japanese instant coffee. The text changes to english, then blinks and is photo edited to look like the product is labeled IN english, and tracks to the camera movement. It’s like a magic looking glass that translates seamlessly and in real time.
Also, somewhat spooky because it won’t be long before the substitution is 100% real looking and lag free. NO WAY am I putting on apples googles and not knowing what is real and what isn’t.
n
this product image will work
https://www.amazon.com/UCC-Artisan-Coffee-Special-Blend/dp/B0BGC2X6V4?tag=ttgnet-20/
re: customer service and corporate takeovers
I had a friend who was a travel agent for years. She loved working with Ozark airlines, didn’t care for the others, but TWA was maybe ok. US Airways less so, and American even less so.
Then TWA bought Ozark. TWA culture took over.
Then American bought TWA. Customer service declined again.
Then US Airways bought American. Same result.
I also had a pilot friend. Senior with Ozark, didn’t lose his job in the TWA merger, but lost all his seniority.
Got some seniority back with TWA, and then they merged with American. Kept his job, but lost all his seniroity.
We lost touch after that, but he probably retired from American before they merged with US Airways.
–which means exactly what?
Wife and kids did their cookie booth stuff over the weekend in front of Kroger in a more affluent part of our area. At $6 per box it adds up pretty quickly. They were averaging one box per minute one day.
Historically the biggest risk is cookie mom embezzlement.
n
So, assuming Discover goes bad, what good 2nd Amendment friendly business cards are there?
Citi is out, Capitol One is out.
People bring up Wells Fargo but I’ve had business dealings with their steaming mixture of evil and incompetence before, never again.
re: Wells Fargo
I had a car loan with them, and when I had about a year left, I attempted to use their excrescence of a website to find out my payoff amount, and start planning to pay it off in a few months.
I hate bad websites, and theirs was one of the worst. It locked me out, and recovery options didn’t work, and their help was useless, and their “contact me” was inoperative, and I lost patience.
I went to a branch and asked a banker “What do I have to do so that I can pay off this loan and never deal with Wells Fargo for the rest of my life?”
He was perceptive enough to realize I was serious, and a half hour later he took my check and I was done with them.
Wells fargo is also involved in ongoing investigations into fraud and other shenanigans. They have been crooked for years.
n
FWIW, my B of A branch isn’t 3006 posted, only has one small non-compliant sign on one door, so I can legally and ethically enter thru the other and not see a single indication that they don’t want me and my firearm in their branch.
Morally, I’m going to enter regardless of signs, but it’s simpler if they don’t force the issue.
n
Be extra careful when blacks or hispanics are near. Groups of mohammedan men, too.
They can’t say that directly, of course.
Like the Iranian “refugee” who recently took a bunch of hostages here. He had an axe and some other non-firearm weapons. He was apparently upset that some woman refused him.
The police intervened, he attacked them, they shot him. Darwin award won.
Islamists aren’t very rational, when it comes to girls or women.
Or goats.
n
They‘ve been raised to believe that Western women are “whores“ and beneath contempt.
Kill. Convert. Extract tribute.
Of course, they will be tempted to sample the loose morality if readily accessible.
Good grief, that’s huge, given that I doubt you have a lot of video content. Time for some housecleaning?
I have every release and patch made for our software going back to 1995 on our website. Lots and lots of patches, each one in a single compressed EXE file that self expands. We will have an old user occasionally popup and say that they cannot find their last distribution. I give them a URL along with the current username and password, they download and we are both happy. Then we try to get them to update and pay for maintenance.
Gee, yathink? With every one of them starting their stay here as a criminal lawbreaker?
Wayne Allyn Root Warns About #1 Disaster in America: We Are About to Become “Mad Max” with 20 Million New Illegals and No New Cops
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/wayne-allyn-root-warns-about-1-disaster-america/
I know he’s some sort of conservative commentator, but FFS, we’ve been saying that this was a bad idea for years, and that it was bigger than most people seem to realize.
n
The Rainbow Alphabet miscreants love this:
High school basketball game is abandoned after trans player ‘injures three female opponents’ with shocking video showing the biological male hurling an athlete to the floor
Grrrl power! With balls! I guess it is true there is nothing a woman can do that a man can’t do better.
This is not going to end well for the Rainbow Alphabet groomers.
Sooner or later an injured female is going to have a dozen true male relatives in attendance that decide it’s time for an example to be made, perhaps including field surgery.
“Day by Day Armageddon” by J. L. Bourne
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1439176671?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number one of a four book zombie dark fantasy series. I read the well printed and and well bound trade paperback published by Pocket Books in 2009. I have bought the other three books in the series and will be reading them soon.
Awesome, a zombie book set in Texas. Starts in San Antonio and then meanders around the place looking for a safe place with zero undead, not happening.
At first, there were rumors of a new disease in China. Then it spread across the world with chaos following. An Air Force C-130 pilot is a prepper living in San Antonio, Texas and starts closing up the first story of his two story home. He is ordered to report to his base as things go really bad but he goes AWOL after talking to his fellow pilots on base. Then things go really bad and the acting President of the USA decides to nuke all the undead in the 20 major cities of the USA so he has to get out. This is the AF pilot’s daily journal.
I liked it ! Almost as good as John Ringo’s “Under A Graveyard Sky”.
The author has a website at:
http://www.JLBourne.com
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (2,028 reviews)
Lynn
Today’s computers are complicated beasts – it’s actually amazing they work as well as they do…
I can see that you never wrote software on a Univac 1108. Now that was a complicated beastie.
Real programmers can build their own partition maps any day.
Here’s an example of how fast violence happens.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/video-heroic-police-officer-guns-down-knife-wielding/
<10 seconds, note too, shoots 9-10 rounds to put down ONE attacker. Who needs normal capacity magazines? You do.
n
My son shot a turncoat Iraqi soldier inside camp with a Marine Corps M9 pistol after the Iraqi killed my son’s Marine buddy with his AK. My son put ten 9mm rounds in the guy and he did not go down. My son started reloading and the guy finished reloading his AK and started raising it up. Two other Marines came running up and started shooting the guy with their M-16s. He went down at that point and SURVIVED to be medevaced to a MASH unit via helicopter. The guy survived surgery there and the Iraqi Army showed up and escorted him out into the desert for a discussion about his future.
I’m missing a 1099. I put all of that stuff in one particular place on my bookshelf, have for years. I dug around in all of the medicare junk that I ought to at least skim but the 1099 isn’t here.
So I called this morning. The robot thing was rather circular. It was interesting that when it was repeating the menu options I’d been through three times that when I said “give me an operator dam it” that it went into a spiel about how they respect everyone regardless of the usual color and sexuality and whatever the caca del dia is this week.
I punched 0 a couple of times and ending up talking to a nice sounding guy named Noah.
It turns out they never sent the 1099 because the option to have it e-mailed or snail-mailed was not chosen. On their website which I’ve never visited as far as I can recall or had much of any reason to suspect existed. They have always mailed it but some Super Genius somewhere decided one needs to create an account and log-in to choose. I certainly do not remember getting a letter about this. Oh, maybe I should log-in to see what’s new. ◔_◔
Seven to ten days. Hopefully USPS doesn’t lose it.
So, assuming Discover goes bad, what good 2nd Amendment friendly business cards are there?
I would not buy any any guns or ammo with a credit card or a check. Cash is your friend here.
All of the details for any transaction are stored in mystery computers somewhere. At some point, somebody may come by your house looking for those guns and ammo.
The same with gold and silver coins. Cash is your friend.
It turns out they never sent the 1099 because the option to have it e-mailed or snail-mailed was not chosen. On their website which I’ve never visited as far as I can recall or had much of any reason to suspect existed. They have always mailed it but some Super Genius decided one needs to create an account and log-in to choose. I certainly do not remember getting a letter about this. Oh, maybe I should log-in to see what’s new. ◔_◔
Don’t worry, they did send a copy of your 1099 to the IRS.
I am disgusted by all of this new download stuff. It puts a lot of responsibility on you. Entities should be required to physically deliver these items to you by person or by mail.
“Walmart Buys TV Maker Vizio to Bolster Its Advertising Reach””
https://www.pcmag.com/news/walmart-buys-tv-maker-vizio-to-bolster-its-advertising-reach
“Vizio’s Smart TV advertising platform is apparently worth $2.3 billion.”
Wow.
“NASA Is Searching for Crew Members to Live in a Mars Simulation for a Year”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/nasa-is-searching-for-crew-members-to-live-in-a-mars-simulation-for-a-year
“During their stay crew members will be expected to perform maintenance on the habitat as well as grow crops and complete other tasks.”
I am guessing that they do not want any 63 year old broke down old men.
“Pentagon Confirms $32M Drone Downed Off Yemen, Same Day UK Tanker Destroyed”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/crew-abandons-cargo-ship-after-houthi-attack-us-mq-9-reaper-downed-rebels
Meanwhile in the Red Sea …
I’d go, if I could take my doxie with me.
My utilities say I am responsible if their bill does not get delivered. They also say I am responsible if my check does not get delivered. Somehow I am responsible for both directions and the utility is not. One time my water bill payment got posted to the wrong account. I did not know until workers showed up to disconnect my water. I was told it was my responsibility to verify the bill was paid even though it was their mistake. The same outfit posted my property tax to my water bill. I only found out when I did not get a bill for the month. Again, my problem according the city office, until I made a speech at the council meeting and got the problem on record.
Yep.
The US has now fired over 100 Standard Missiles at between 2 and 4 million each. Call it $3,000,000 each and we are now at $333,000,00 expended, plus all the Tomahawk’s and other ordance.
Call it a half Billion, probably on the low side.
You know, if unknown “loyalist elements” in Yemen started launching drones and ballistic missles at Iran they really couldn’t compain…
Would the crew members be out of contact with their wives for a year? Asking for a friend.
Maybe even a paper copy. Imagine.
More money for Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, etc.
It is only February and I’m already tired of this pinhead’s commercials airing nightly on the local Faux station.
https://colinallred.com/
So, to cast a ballot in the Dem primary against the pinhead, a voter only needs to stand in the correct line at the polls?
Asking for a friend.
Never mind. My friend is going to participate in the Republican primary to register a protest vote against Trump. DeSantis is still on the ballot.
A family court judge told me that I couldn’t prove that my letter to the county’s child support collection unit had been received even though I had the certified mail receipt. Three minutes later she told me that I was responsible for the letter the support collection unit had (allegedly) sent me even though it was sent regular first class and I didn’t receive it nor know that it was coming. When I pointed out the discrepancy she said she’d hold me in contempt if I said one more word.
I mentioned this to a family lawyer I worked with (he wasn’t my lawyer; I did computer support for him) and he swore and said that that judge was a piece of sh*t (Censoring per site standards, for the mythical children which read it.) and the worst judge he knew of who was currently on the bench.
Some years later, I mentioned the problems I had with that county’s SCU when I happened to be talking to some family court clerks from an adjacent county. They also swore and said that everyone around knows what garbage they are and no one does anything about it. I can attest to that, in part. I’d contacted the state judicial panel in charge of family courts, the county executive, my state assemblyman, and my US representative. Some others, I think; it’s been years and I don’t remember. Everyone said that there was nothing that they could do. Sounds like crap to me.
But it betokens the day when our alleged Law and Order breaks down even farther and people decide to settle scores.
Rafael Edward has two opponents in the Republican primary, “Rufus” and “Redd”.
I’m not kidding.
One of those might be a fun protest vote as well.
The fake Republican from the Subcontinent is trying again for Congress against the walking corpse who used to be our Congresscritter. However, we are no longer in the corpse’s district.
No paper. Even when I was doing payroll systems in the 1980’s, the IRS would only accept W-2s on magtapes with a specific well-documented format. I assume they had a similar setup for the 1099s.
I also assume they’ve graduated from magtape to other more modern delivery methods.
N.B.: If I recall correctly, it was one of the few times I had to do ASCII to EBCDIC conversions.
Got a bigger one in NYFC.
@lpdbw:
Which flavour of EBCDIC? According the the Jargon File, there were at least 6, mutually incompatible, versions.
G.
Give me a break, it was 35 years ago. Being what it was, it was likely letters, numbers, and a very few special characters, like TapeMark and EOF. I think there was a DECUS library I used to do the actual translation. If that was the case, it likely encapsulated the correct dialect for the IRS.
The last time I used EBCDIC was in about 2011 on a consulting gig for U of Miami. I used SSIS built-ins to do the conversion that time. Pointy-pointy clicky-clicky, don’t need to know programming, just data flows.
Yes, I know SSIS has more actual programming stuff. I had to use it, later. C#, baby.
Until I followed that jargon file link, I had forgotten the non-contiguous letter sequences. It came rushing back to me. So maybe I did roll my own. Maybe the IRS documentation included the actual EBCDIC spec in it.
Well, yes, but this was 20 years ago and I think that my lawyer acquaintance was talking about judges he himself dealt with.
No paper. Even when I was doing payroll systems in the 1980’s, the IRS would only accept W-2s on magtapes with a specific well-documented format. I assume they had a similar setup for the 1099s.
I also assume they’ve graduated from magtape to other more modern delivery methods.
N.B.: If I recall correctly, it was one of the few times I had to do ASCII to EBCDIC conversions.
Nope, we turned our W-2s and 1099s in on paper. Less than ten does not require using the IRS gateway. They are a bunch of sorry assholes. My accountant tried to use their gateway but they wanted her personal social security number and she said nope. The business has a very valid EID, the IRS should accept that for our login to the system.
I’ve never had a problem charging guns or ammo on my Navy Federal Credit Union card. https://www.navyfederal.org/
“Popping the Pill”
https://americanmind.org/salvo/popping-the-pill/
“The Sunday morning Plan B run was a staple of life and a running joke back in college. Girls would drive to CVS for the pill and stop by Starbucks on the way home for a treat. A sweet little adventure with the girls: what’s the big deal?”
“Of course, if you didn’t get to the pharmacy quick enough—particularly in university towns—panic might set in. Low shelf supply could send you on an anxious quest around the city for a fully-stocked pharmacy.”
“It tracks with my experience that women’s use of emergency contraception (EC) has increased dramatically over the past two decades. Perhaps it’s the result of commercial advertisements or the convenience of purchasing it directly off the shelf rather than over-the-counter or through prescription.”
It is a different world from the one I grew up in.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
“Scaling ChatGPT: Five Real-World Engineering Challenges”
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/scaling-chatgpt
“Just one year after its launch, ChatGPT had more than 100M weekly users. In order to meet this explosive demand, the team at OpenAI had to overcome several scaling challenges. An exclusive deepdive.”
“In November 2022, ChatGPT took the world by storm, in what it’s safe to say was the biggest “wow!” moment yet for applied Artificial Intelligence (AI,) and the catalyst for the continuing surge of investment in the technology, today. CEO Sam Altman announced the product hitting 100M weekly users in November 2023: which is unprecedented growth even in this field.”
“New Study Shows For First Time Men and Women’s Brains Work Differently”
https://modernity.news/2024/02/20/new-study-shows-for-first-time-men-and-womens-brains-work-differently/
“In what may prove a massive blow to the transgender lobby, scientists have officially proven for the first time that male and female brains are distinct and operate differently.”
Yeah, I have been running my own 42 year study and we are different species as far as I can tell.
you heard it here, some time ago…
n
I have a Capital One card. Customer service is so bad I told them I’ll never use it again. They called and begged be to use it -lol- its been cut into two pieces and one is in the trash. I did explain exactly why their customer service is horrible – after a thirty minute hold time they cut me off. When I finally reached a customer rep and told him that, he said that was their “policy”. I told the guy begging me to come back that my policy was to never deal with assholes.
RE my network problem. It is definitely in my computer.
I’ve tried different ports and cables and using Wi-Fi. After an hour or two on being online my desk top system starts slowing down and it doesn’t matter what browser I’m using. It doesn’t get a responce for the internet in six hours or so, but my laptop works fine for days at a time. A complete power off restart usally fixes it but not always. I’ve tried deleteing my network drivers but I’m not sure I got them. I know I didn’t get the i-Fi ones.
I think I’ll reinstall Windows (64 bit WIN 10 Pro). I need to back up everything and get all of my license keys printed out first.
Oh look, a troll. How droll.
We had a capital one business card years ago. The website said I wasn’t the account administrator, so I called and they said I was the admin, still couldn’t access the site. Then the rep said I must be doing something wrong. So we paid off the card and closed the account. A**holes.
I see we’ve got another genius. The last one said age isn’t an objective measure. Special.
interesting:
Coulter’s Law
David Strom 12:00 PM | February 20, 2024
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/02/20/coulters-law-n3783256
Mr. Strom evidently heard it the way I did.
more background here:
https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/coulters-law/
Caught me napping.
n
Turned into a beautiful day. Drove around with the windows down and dried out the truck, as well as freshening up the interior…
20yo and doesn’t smell of mold, that’s a pretty big accomplishment, especially considering how often it gets wet inside.
n
Lefties and toddlers, always making demands, always want me to spend part of my life to give them something…
n
Didn’t you read the book? “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”
… and the bad smell is from Uranus.
[rimshot]
Thank you, thank you, I’ll be here all week, don’t forget to tip your waitress….
n
When I left the Death Star in 2010, a mainframe still provided authentication and account management for the VPN service we provided major corporate customers. EBCDIC was involved.
I doubt things have changed. The big customer was IBM.
@alan, I replied to your mail.
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Somehow it figures that EBCDIC would be big for IBM.
@bob s, your problem is a strange one, that’s for sure. It’s been a long time since “re-install windows” was a common remedy. I remember those days, but don’t wish for a return to them…
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(and the Gateway lappy I was trying to keep running and updated. Oh my. OS/2 Warp wasn’t any better though. And SuSE linux was still a way off, so we did what we had to.)
Found a new rat trapping channel
https://www.youtube.com/@TwinHomeExperts
SO creepy.
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added– this one has the rats INSIDE the living area, and even inside a freezer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEY15Jdd99s
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And lest you think that the infestation is entirely caused by her hoarding and clutter, check out a couple of their other vids, which show perfectly kept beautiful homes, that still have rat issues. Granted, not as severe or in your face as the hoarder’s house, but still, it’s not all about your personal habits or environment, it’s about the rats.
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And there is this, which has been the topic of some discussion… the best and ‘greenest’ strategy is to build to last, and repairable.
It’s not just disney that can’t make a movie.
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Here in the desert it’s scorpions and rattlesnakes, no rats…
Got scorpions at the BOL. Find dead ones every time we go back. I always bang my shoes out before putting them on. I lived in Phoenix for a few years and you learn… scorps like moisture. Shoes are moist.
Freaks the wife right out, but the poison I bought for them looks crazy toxic from the label warnings, and I don’t want to use it with the dog running around. Or the people for that matter.
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Sharon Lee has reported the sudden death of author Steven Miller
https://www.facebook.com/rolanni/posts/pfbid04Ath4nZJr8usB2FMvu4uCtQSXGqnipHqLQeR5jvPHgeCs8z5ysbUR4XptMd1o3Rzl
Sad. He was only 73.
I have read over 20 of their Liaden books.
@bob s, your problem is a strange one, that’s for sure. It’s been a long time since “re-install windows” was a common remedy. I remember those days, but don’t wish for a return to them…
It has got to be a hardware issue. I assume that you have checked the ethernet socket for a bent wire or a dead varmint.
@lpdbw:
Sorry to have revived bad memories.
G.
RE network problem: Wi-Fi has the same issues. A cold start usually clears the problem – about 90% of the time. And the problem is only with my desktop system. Good response time in loading from the net, then a few hours later it starts slowing down and finally nothing connects. I usually have three or four tabs open but sometimes 20, spread across two or three browser windows. The number of open tabs doesn’t seem to matter. I’ve have the problem occurwiht just window/one tab open. Edge, Chrome and Brave all have the problem. I think/hope its a Windows driver issue.
I buil the system several years ago and have upgraded it several times: AMD K19 Ryzen 7 5700G, 32 GB RAM, ASRock X470 MASter SLI/ac (AM4), ATI AMD Radeon 570 Graphics wiht 8 GB of DD5 memory, Samsoug 500 GB SSD 970 EVO Plus for the boot drive with about 30% in use.