Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[Charlie Tango]

Alas, the birth of the expression "when in doubt, reboot". Something that has served me well over the years...

In the Macintosh world and the world of other UNIX or Linux OSes, rebooting is so seldom the answer that when it is called for it is often greeted with a "You're kidding" or similar response. When it comes back up and now works properly, it's a "Huh, how about that" or similar reaction.

In the PC world, though, it's often the first thing that should be tried, and one should really shut down completely, not just reboot, and wait at least 20 seconds before powering on again. That amount of time will let the computer release all the memory it was using before the shutdown. Sometimes just rebooting isn't enough. YMMV.

 

[SoulReflection]

In the Macintosh world and the world of other UNIX or Linux OSes, rebooting is so seldom the answer that when it is called for it is often greeted with a "You're kidding" or similar response. When it comes back up and now works properly, it's a "Huh, how about that" or similar reaction.

In the PC world, though, it's often the first thing that should be tried, and one should really shut down completely, not just reboot, and wait at least 20 seconds before powering on again. That amount of time will let the computer release all the memory it was using before the shutdown. Sometimes just rebooting isn't enough. YMMV.

I have found that I have to reboot my iPhone 6s quite often, usually after a voice mail...don't know why.

 

[GonePlaid]

COVID got "Mary Ann"(Dawn Wells)of Gilligan's Island.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Can't "like" that. I need to buy some coconut cream pie now.

 

[notJaco]

COVID got "Mary Ann"(Dawn Wells)of Gilligan's Island.

Yeah, no LIKES for you. That is sad.

 

[Deleted member 268085]

Well, you do need a clear view of the sky. Iridium is still popular these days. Even mobile robots that people build use it. The connection to the network cost’s around $15USD per month. Only pay when you use it.

RockBLOCK Mk2 - Iridium SatComm Module - WRL-13745 - SparkFun Electronics

Moto dumped it for something like 10 cents on the dollar. To an organization that had a marketing plan. I'm thrilled that it's still up and running and viable.

EDIT: Thanks for the link. That was fascinating!

 

[beans-on-toast]

COVID got "Mary Ann"(Dawn Wells)of Gilligan's Island.

Two years ago a GoFundMe campaign was launched to pay for her hospital bill related to an operation and tax money owed to the IRS. They raised $200K in two months.

Dawn Wells Needed a GoFundMe to Pay Medical Bills After Losing Her Money and Suffering a Fall

 

[StereoPlayer]

Two years ago a GoFundMe campaign was launched to pay for her hospital bill related to an operation and tax money owed to the IRS. They raised $200K in two months.

Dawn Wells Needed a GoFundMe to Pay Medical Bills After Losing Her Money and Suffering a Fall

I skimmed the article, It sounds as if she didn’t want it. FWIW, my favorite castaway.

 

[beans-on-toast]

I skimmed the article, I sounds as if she didn’t want it. FWIW, my favorite castaway.
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She accepted it. Her debt was disqualifying her from admittance into a retired actor’s old folks home. She had a run of unfortunate events troubling her later in life.

 

[GwenOnBass]

She accepted it. Her debt was disqualifying her from admittance into a retired actor’s old folks home. She had a run of unfortunate events troubling her later in life.

Not unheard of, yet typically happens below the threshold of our awareness.

 

[StereoPlayer]

Not unheard of, yet typically happens below the threshold of our awareness.

She could have stayed with me. We got an extra room...

 

[GwenOnBass]

I've no interest in any household who would turn away Mary Ann.
also no interest in any household a little too eager to ask her in

 

[Jeff Scott]

OMG, did he stick his bass in the pool?
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PM Nathan and ask him. It's a David Gage bass.

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Iridium is a hard brittle metal. I was expecting a trash metal band. One of it’s uses is a hardening alloy in platinum. They use it in fountain pen tips.

I didn’t connect it with THAT club.

Yep.. THAT club. I've posted videos of the Jane Getter Premonition (with Alex) here, somewhere around... sorry, can't recall what post.

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That was the second computer I ever used. My brother loaned it to me in 1987 to play around with and get my feet wet in the computer world. The first computer I ever had my hands on was a room full of DEC stuff at CWRU in the very early 1970s.

Yeah, no LIKES for you. That is sad.

I Liked the post in recognition of what it was regarding.

 

[Jeff Scott]

WARNING!!! There a little bit of banjo playing in this vid.

 

[Jeff Scott]

We all like Vic Wooten around here, right?

 

[biguglyman]

That was the second computer I ever used. My brother loaned it to me in 1987 to play around with and get my feet wet in the computer world. The first computer I ever had my hands on was a room full of DEC stuff at CWRU in the very early 1970s.

First computer I ever laid hands on was back in the early-mid 60's. My dad used to work for NASA at the Dudley Observatory in Albany, NY. To get me out of my moms hair, once in a while he would take me to work with him on a Saturday. I'd roll up and down the corridors on chairs that spun around. One day he took me into this (to me) big, hot, noisy, smelly room full of gray cabinets. He sat me down in front of what looked like a really big typewriter. After he and his pals fed a couple of reels of perforated paper into one cabinet, the "typewriter" woke up and hammered out a message that looked something like this: j-8 3-7. He then explained that these represented cards and the "j" stood for "jack". A brief lesson on how to play blackjack followed and I spent the day playing blackjack with what I believe was a Univac or maybe a Minivac computer. Fun times for a kid.

 

[Jeff Scott]

GOFs, the lot of them!

 

[Jeff Scott]

Hey, I'm in this band, and get this, I am the singer!!!

 

[Jeff Scott]

Let's make or buy pedal patch cables.

 

[GwenOnBass]

First computer I ever laid hands on was back in the early-mid 60's. My dad used to work for NASA at the Dudley Observatory in Albany, NY. To get me out of my moms hair, once in a while he would take me to work with him on a Saturday. I'd roll up and down the corridors on chairs that spun around. One day he took me into this (to me) big, hot, noisy, smelly room full of gray cabinets. He sat me down in front of what looked like a really big typewriter. After he and his pals fed a couple of reels of perforated paper into one cabinet, the "typewriter" woke up and hammered out a message that looked something like this: j-8 3-7. He then explained that these represented cards and the "j" stood for "jack". A brief lesson on how to play blackjack followed and I spent the day playing blackjack with what I believe was a Univac or maybe a Minivac computer. Fun times for a kid.

Blackjack is the first program I legitimately hacked 'twas a Digital PDP-8.