Subj : Re: What to do with a gia To : Daryl Stout From : Ky Moffet Date : Thu Oct 15 2020 21:14:00 DARYL STOUT wrote: > Ky, > > > Thinking the German 'achtung'! > > KM> Nah, obviously not paying attention. > > All I could think of was "A German Sneeze", or "Hogan's Heroes". > Werner Klemperer (Colonel Klink) lamented that his character would be > what he was remembered for. Yet, he and his father were excellent > orchestral conductors. I remember a radio commercial several years Huh, I didn't know that. I knew he did stuff outside of TV, tho what had never penetrated (or didn't stick). Wonder if there are any recordings? > ago for National Semiconductor, where this woman noted "My favorite > National Semiconductor is Leonard Bernstein". LOL! Good one. > > KM> Yeah, in the olden days Windows always had to be installed first, and > KM> oldest to newest. Now I'm not sure it makes any difference. > > It was also so much easier years ago, and didn't take as long. The > 2004 Update to Windows 10 took nearly 8 hours to download, install, > and do all the necessary reboots. Yeah, basically it downloads and installs a whole new monkey..... http://www.wholenewmonkey.com [Yes, I registered the domain just to house this silly joke.] Someday you'll wake up to discover it's downloaded a cloud OS, is demanding a subscription fee, and until you pay up, nothing works. > KM> 1995 (eventually RH lost its password, which was "password" and BTW this was apparently a known issue with RH6, as someone told me decades later. > KM> wouldn't boot at all, and was made to go away. However Win95 remained > KM> solid for all the years until Argo was finally retired, end of 2011.) > > I think of the meme where the guy says he's going to change is password to > "incorrect", as he keeps getting a message saying "Your Password is > incorrect".:P LOL, I may have to use that one! I make things even easier nowadays. What is your root password? "root" I hate typing passwords. One of these days I'll get around to turning it off entirely. Ain't no one else here to muck things up. > It happens to all of us. Three things fail as we get older. The first is > memory ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... darn!! I forgot the other > two!! There were two??! > KM> Some bloke on a BBS. > > Plenty of those around. Oh my. Where did YOU come from?? > > It is rather fun when something that doesn't work can be fixed easily! > > KM> Such as by turning it on! > > Or you plug the power strip into itself, and wonder why it doesn't work. :P Electrical circle jerk. I've never managed that one, but with a new PC build, when I first fire it up to test, I have invariably forgotten to plug in something vital. Often the power. þ RNET 2.10U: ILink: Techware BBS þ Hollywood, Ca þ www.techware2k.com --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .