"Lydia's Kitchen"

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The Five.

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"Where confusion abounds, there's money to be made."

Comedy of errors about the AG confirmation. Now that’s entertainment.
FSB

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Hello, big guitar. Meet my little fingers.

The Heat

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"Electric Lady"

An old Tim Allen stand up comedy routine on YT. Pretty funny.

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Marky

Remember the music is not in the guitar

I’m watching a blue screen with a dialogue box with System Recovery Options while the PC runs through a routine,

It all started with Fuse not logging on with an alert about [HTTPWebRequest_WebException_RemoteServer] Arguments: NotFound. Partial text in the Alert is cut off even when changing monotor resolution blah blah. My fault for not using Fuse for sometime. To make matters worse an update for Shockwave/Flash isn’t playing nice and is possibly an unrelated suspected villain. I may have to resort to an uninstall/reinstall of Silverlight and/or Fuse if it still works as before. One never knows with all the non-supported and supported plugins/browsers. Thanks, to Microsoft I have a couple of expensive full Office programs that are no longer doing the job. Even a typewriter lasts longer. Good thing as we luckily found one for a newscast after the computers crashed.

So here I am with another System Recovery keeping me up only days after Java was fixed. I’d wait until tomorrow, but I did delay a similar repair years ago only to wake up to a dead PC.

Not wanting to sound like a Newbie or old F*rt, I sometimes question whether Windows 3.1 or Win 95 was better or worse than all the tap dancing joy one has to do with all the time wasters of security, plugins, and browsers these days.

In the old days you rolled the dice and had time to do the things that counted. The downside was constant reformatting to fix a simple problem and the joy of having simple graphics. I used to be a geek and I buried my head in the registry while proclaiming to be a gamer with Pong, Asteroids, Captain Keene, PAC Man, and anything DOS or Windows that I could grab or handle. Doom was a move in the right direction. Then forward, backward, horizontal and vertical push movement became redundant with copies until twisting and flipping added something better. Change the bios? Check! Flip a dip switch? Check! Update the hardware? Check! Midi and 3D with Win 95? Check!

Nowadays I surrender and yearn for the simpler days where things just work. Self driven cars, huh? Iran just lost a satellite that couldn’t get into orbit. But, both have something in common. They both look cool. I have no doubt both will happen, and we’ll still be dickering around with home computers. IMHO. YMMV. (How’s that Martian?)

Yawn!
FSB

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Sorry to hear about your computer woes, FSB. I remember the simpler days of DOS very well too and writing simple programs in Basic. My first real computer was an IBM XT with an internal 10MB hard drive. Wow, I couldn't imagine how I would ever use up 10MB of space. Now, some of our phone apps are bigger.

Right now, my laptop is performing well but it's just a matter of time before something like you're going through happens. Good luck to you, my friend. I know you will conquer the beast!

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Marky

Remember the music is not in the guitar

Thanks, Marky. Sometimes, I think browsers are the biggest culprit for our trouble. Like the phone companies they leave it up to us to do the security and to do upgrades. It has been proven that it can be done at the source. Right now Java, Flash, PDF to a lesser extent, and Silverlight are troublesome mostly because of obsolescence. Were it not for those things (and similar), along with other anti-virus/malware changes, I wouldn’t have made such an early change to upgrades. It’s like the phone companies, profit before taking care of abuse thrown at the customer.

I think the tools for good operating systems and, as you said, hardware has been improved and tested. My storage goes back to big floppies (and my boxes of little ones), but also 80’s DDS digital tape backup. My first computer, although I had others at work and experienced Mattel’s Intellivision and Commodore 64, it was a mail order Gateway P5-120 with a similar small HD. I can’t tell you how long it was before I learned that help was available with a modem and BBS instead of making costly support phone calls to South Dakota from my Pacific Island. Boy! Would I have liked a CD recorder or thumb drive in those days? The first digital disc recorder I saw was a huge Ampex Slo-Mo HS-200 around 1971 (HS-100 began in 1967). If I recall correctly we
used it for the 1972 Canada USSR hockey Summit (Super) Series. The video disc alone weighed 5 pounds! Later, in the 80s I would experience a similar large machine used for Raiders of The Lost Ark and it was used for multi tracking soundtracks. The Raiders’ audio was the demo for learning purposes. Just for fun we cranked the isolated sound when that boulder came rolling in. That made for a lot of laughs in the station’s hallways.
Taking software out of the consumers’ hands has been a planned method of profit, control, and futility. Controlling it all at the source (such as Google is leaning to) can be a blessing or a curse.

What is an irritation is that folks and companies cram so much into the expectations today. Even if you dedicate a computer to doing one task such as writing, gaming. audio or video production for example, they is no relief from the “presto changeover” gremlins. (I’m guessing Brad can relate to this).

In the past if we didn’t like the programming we simply tossed it, and now they toss it. Good luck with that.
A sandy deserted island or log cabin in the hills with a guitar in hand is music to my ears.
Of course, I still want to keep in touch with friends here in the Forum.
Cheers!
FSB

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Hello, big guitar. Meet my little fingers.

Barret-Jackson
Cant afford anything but there's sure some nice ones on the block!

Sorry to hear about the comp issues FSB, I remember and appreciate those early computer days. I considered myself a DOS/Q-Basic master. I blame todays issues on the CLOUD! Hell, you cant even buy a computer that comes with loaded or support software on disk anymore.

"Globe Trekker"

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Spy

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"Electric Lady"

Thanks, for the kind words, sferic64. Yeah, times are achangin’. We used to know more about what we were paying for and now we’re told what a great deal it is without knowing if it’s a good buy or not. I’ve seen printer sales with no examples, sales staff that know more about software than hardware, and phones that play games, take pictures, and do social media just fine, but even at over $1K the phone can still sound lousy. As for the Cloud I found it on my new printer and most others too. Really? I wish they would’ve thought more about the build which seems to be a general compromise. Hey? Didn’t we start all this upgrade nonsense because people complained about too much bloattware? Where’s the argument now?

Side note: I fixed Shockwave and the Flash issues. Same with uninstall and reinstall with Silverlight. No small task because files are leftover, automatic removal was not available from lack of OS support, but I stumbled on manual removal done through the Command Prompt. Thar’s a lesson to be lurned for those who prefer hands free. Some fixes require Windows Upate to do the job. Not good when it’s retired. I sometimes have reservations about third party information with removal and scanning zip files. This Silverlight fix gave me a clean install. Phew! Unfortunately, Fuse still has an Alert dialogue box not allowing a logon, amongst everything that tests out fine. Seems to be a common problem that is a thorny issue:? I still have options. but they are running out, and I’ll check the relative Forum here.

That said, there’s a lot of nice computer displays and whatnot on new cars. It would be nice if the air bags and whatnot worked. Speaking of which VW and Ford are partnering for the future as we speak. Should be interesting.

As for Barret-Jackson I’ll bet there’s some great wheels, even more so these days considering a lot of stock is moving with aging Boomers. I wonder if the upcoming electrics will take to the Classics stage or will they end up where all electronics go?

FSB

Old computers had DOS. New ones have DAHs.

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Mine too, FSB. My life is filled with turmoil and stress from other people. All this old man wants is to play guitar, make music and live out his days in peace. Doesn't seem like too much to ask for, does it?

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Marky

Remember the music is not in the guitar

"Texas Country Reporter"

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The Orville

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"Electric Lady"