Subj : Re: food, etc To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Sat Jun 15 2019 20:40:32 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 10-Jun-2019 08:53 <=- NB>>> Sometimes I bring the laptop, sometimes not... depends on whether NB>>> or not I think I'll have need or use for it.... :) BM>> Right. Staying overnight with friends, probably can do without it. BM>> Staying overnight in a hotel for a seminar or business function, BM>> probably bring the laptop to have something to do. For me now, it's mostly when I'll be gone for more than an overnight, and expect to have time to use it... possibly for games, possibly like this, to catch up, or at least not get any farther behind, on echo messages.... NB>> When I was secretary for our Women's Council, I'd need it to type NB>> up minutes the night right afterwards before I forgot what my NB>> henscratches meant.... ;) BM> I can relate! I used to go home to the apartment and type up my notes BM> -- before forgetting what the scribbling meant and also a lot easier BM> to study from typed notes than written ones. Also found out saved a BM> lot of room: a written page was about half a typed one: Did you say that backwards....? Wouldn't the typed one be the shorter one...? BM> notebooks weren't as thick nor heavy! And transcribing the notes BM> was like sitting through the lecture again, so learned twice. And possibly typing them out might clarify something that wasn't quite so clear the first time... :) NB>>> Ok... checked with the Wizard... No USB port on this machine... And NB>>> what I've been talking about are PCCards, and it has a slot for NB>>> that... The reason that it doesn't work for most wireless that most NB>>> people are set up for is that the DOS driver doesn't support the NB>>> modern security protocols... I can use wireless if the security is NB>>> turned off completely... but I'm not sure I'd want to.... ;) BM>> I'd be reluctant to! And yes, the old stuff didn't have the newer BM>> security protocols, mainly because they didn't exist back then (!). NB>> Yup. BM> Just had a thought, and may not be worth persuing: can the old BM> protocol of the PCCard be linked to a device using the current BM> protocol? Sort of a translater/repeater. Sloppy example would be BM> laptop has VGA output, connect to a DVI adapter, and that adapter to BM> HDMI. Possibly, but I'd guess probably not... or at least not easily... or he would have done something like that already.... BM>> The original AutumnCam which we used to monitor while she was sleeping BM>> as an infant had only WEP (think that was it): basic, by today's BM>> standards not all that secure. I'm not sure if most WiFi networks even BM>> have the option now -- seems like what you're running in to. NB>> WEP sounds familiar.... :) BM> Possibly what your PCCard is using. I think some WiFi base devices BM> don't have the option listed because of it being relatively insecure. Or, from what Richard has said, possibly being /considered/ relatively insecure.... BM>>> True: even with off-the-shelf (monitor?!) Google Maps there are ways BM>>> to tell it to avoid toll roads; OTTOMH not sure about 'use scenic BM>>> roads' but seems that to be an option in some areas. NB>>> I think that is an option... along with "fastest" and "no toll NB>>> roads"... but I'm still not likely to accept their first suggestion.. BM>> "The human factor"! NB>> Something like that.... I tend to pick less likely shortcuts... I was NB>> a bit surprised this week, though, when I got a TripTik for my trip NB>> up to Montreal this coming week to pick up my son at the airport... NB>> some of my shortcuts were automatically already part of the NB>> routing... :) BM> They're remembering your preferences! :) I doubt it... at least one of them I've never mentioned to AAA, as far as I can recall, and now don't use because I'm not using the route it goes to... :) I went back before leaving on the trip, and tweaked the route some... Got a different counselor... and the shortcut I do still use that was on the first routing wasn't on the second... so maybe it has to do more with who is putting in the routing... or how Google is feeling that day... NB>>> Nah... that takes one WAY out of the way... I'm all for efficiency... NB>>> which usually means avoid toll roads, look for the straightest back NB>>> roads... and don't attract the attention of any gung-ho troopers... ;) BM>> We like to watch _Cops_ and that type of show and a lot of BM>> the stops are for sliding through stop signs and tail lights/break BM>> lights and license plate lights being out. Nice to be told, but then BM>> seems like should be that (so been told now get going) but usually BM>> ends up with a rip-apart car search and the driver, several passengers BM>> and the dog being hauled off. Of course would be boring TV if "your BM>> license plate light is out" "Oh! I'll get it fixed" "OK, bye!". NB>> Obviously the license plate light out is a reason to stop a NB>> possibly suspicious car... probably do have guidelines as to what NB>> constitutes harassment vs legitimate.... BM> Apparently I don't drive 'suspiciously' as my turn signal was out for BM> over a month. (Thought was just the bulb, ended up being the socket BM> was corroded.) You at least didn't attract any attention... :) I was thinking more a certain make/model/color car being looked for, and somewhat meeting that description... NB>>> Was it at all near what might have become the construction at some NB>>> future date....? BM>> Maybe by a mile or three. I think it was selected because technically BM>> the shortest route (I-74 and the Google Maps selected were essentially BM>> side-by-side). NB>> Still sounds like they were just a little early on avoiding NB>> construction by their routing.... BM> So maybe I was a test to see how well the suggested detour would BM> work?! Now that's another possibility.... BM>>> It was almost blindingly sunny this morning! Off on errands - BM>>> clouding up. Lunch: overcast and a probability of rain/light BM>>> storminess around 3 and then some more overnight. The extended BM>>> forecast for two weeks out is indicating dryness! NB>>> And about time...! BM>> Uh-huh! Still a little wet out there -- LIS we had just under a BM>> half-inch of rain last night. ..Sort of shaking our heads as BM>> (finally) put out some plants -- two weekends ago? Was about three BM>> days later looking and where had planted some the dirt was cracked - so BM>> dry. We just had the a month with four or five feet of rain, the sump BM>> pump is pumping almost constantly, and we need to water?! NB>> Some things just make you scratch your head.... BM> LIS in another message in this packet, the very top layer where we BM> planted the flowers is dry and even cracking a little (not sure why BM> didn't also mulch); when dug the holes to plant the soil was moist. BM> Right now the roots of the new plants are still only as long as the BM> selling pots allowed - haven't had time to grow and extend into the BM> moist soil. Hopefully they'll reach the moist soil before they dry up... :) ttyl neb .... If I made myself clear, let me know and I'll start over. --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .