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I just renewed my driver's license which felt like work because of the trip to the DMV, the wait and the trip back. Poorly-designed infrastructure, more often than not it causes significant delays. As Brent LeRoy once said "It was harder than it should have been but not harder than I expected". |
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I worked overtime and missed my favorite show! I need to meet the deadline.
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I work from home...(semi-retired...or retarded). I worked on an early 50's Fender Super that I had rebuilt several years earlier.
It needed new output tubes and a 1N4007 diode that had replaced a selenium stink bomb.
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Another job site I visited today... This installation was done in 2014 with a Sony 85". This one is cool for way different reasons than the 1st. The cabinet was custom made for this TV (I'm sure the cabinet was twice as expensive as the TV). This thing really reminds me of an old school TV with the beautiful wooden cabinet.
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If I can eventually find the time, and if my home computer works correctly after last night's annoyance*, I plan to migrate all my bucket-photos to my flicker account and go through my old posts and replace the images with stuff from flicker. The bucket is dead to me....They were money grubbers that I was not going to pay before, but now that they've killed external hosting they can go outa business for all I care. *After slowing to a crawl yesterday, and then making me wait over 1.5 hours while it installed updates during a restart I finally gave up on my laptop and went to bed....I wanted to email some schematic docs to help a new member, but my rig was giving me too many problems to fire off an email. Darn thing kept me up late, since I normally look at stuff on the web to get to sleep, and I did not want it doing stuff unsupervised. Either windows 10 installed a service pack, the longest freaking update in history, or I've got a virus on my home rig.....I Think I'll run my anti-virus software once I get home.
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DOS 3.3, DOS 5.0, Win 3.1, Win 3.11, Win95, Win98, WinXP, WinVista, Win7, Win10...make them stop, please!!
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There are lots more versions than than those, i.e the first version of 95 which couldn't use the FAT32 file system and had a myriad of other problems, 95A which wasn't much different, then 95 OSR2, 2.1 and 2.5 which were only available to OEMs. The first release of 98 wasn't much more than 95 OSR2.5 made available in a retail package; USB support was still pretty dodgy. This was corrected for 98SE. I guess versions older than 3.1 were not very widely used. I used to have Windows 3.0 on 5.25" floppies, installed it just for kicks but never really used it. I just remembered there were several versions of NT as well, XP basically being one of them released a few years too late. Considering what just happened to 10, I'm glad I'm still on 7 Pro.
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A friend was a beta tester/got a production copy for free, and hated it.
I had to jump to Windows 10 from Vista, as IE9 became the most hated browser out there, with an increasing number of sites that either blocked it, or pop-upped you into oblivion. It's the reason I'll NEVER order again from All Electronics. Their website always popped up a dialog box one EVERY page with "update your browser for best viewing" when using IE9, yet the underlying code of their site never changed. Just attitude. When I complained, they told me where to go, so I did. Pure asinine, "we-know-better-than-you" umpti-ness. I proved them wrong with an order, and cancelled the order with a "see, folks with IE9 get along just fine with your website, so why the attitude?" Note to world: HTML5, XML, XHTML and TLS all work with IE9 - quit listening to W3, Kaspersky and Google. When Google, Reuters and CNET all started with the same BS, I jumped to Win10 from Win Vista - by way of a new Acer computer with Intel i5 processor, 1TB hard drive, 8GB memory, 9 USB ports and full Office 2013 Standard - 'twas being dumped by Walmart for 200 dollars because it shipped with Win7, which I promptly upgraded to Win10...so I missed the 8/8.1 fiasco altogether. With ClassicShell, she acts like a WINXP speed demon, and gives me a browser others can live with. I just wish some Office functionality still worked - it does let me use Office 2007 alongside, no problems.
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Funny, the thread hijack, but I did do some electronic work today - built a grid cap lead for my TV-7 tester, and tried to convert an Excel spreadsheet to an HTML table, but with distractions, I blew it.
I've got parts that I'm slowly trying to get inventoried. I don't like using Excel, but don't want to scrap the 1300 item listing, so I figured I'd put it on a website where I can access it from work and home, always knowing what I've got should the need arise 24/7. I tried all the tutorials on the web I could find, but can't get it to work with that many cells and rows. I can convert to PDF and then to an HTML table, but it doesn't like more than a few dozen characters per cell. I tried the CSV method, and even an Access table to HTML with less than desirable results. I probably should just get to typing in Frontpage or Bluefish and be done. I can always add more columns.... There is nothing more frustrating that to find I had a part that someone needed, but I was beaten to the task by someone else, simply because I had no way of checking while I was at work... Maybe get a portable copy of LibreOffice and run it from a USB drive..and keep the XLS file.
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hmm, define "at work"...
I'm kinda...self employed at the moment. Today I mowed 3 lawns... Does that count? Also laid some gravel for someone. Yesterday, I was working on tractors and pushmower's. Been doing some construction work for a small company, but I plan on quitting that job. I don't need it, or the bull-s**t that seems to be coming from/with it. |
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