Subj : Miss.RvrDamBreach-Davenpt To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Wed Oct 16 2019 10:52:00 Hi Nancy! NB> Replying from the Pond 11 October, about 11:30am... Almost lunch time! BM>>> We'll be here! NB>>> Waiting patiently... ;) BM>> Well, I'l be doing something to occupy the time but won't post a BM>> WHERE ARE YOU?!! NB>> Good thing, as all the trips have made me quite erratic in NB>> posting... ;) I'm seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, I NB>> think... my son's return flight to Turkey is on the 22nd, so that NB>> will be one last trip for the year... getting him back to the NB>> Montreal Airport... We'll close the camp for the winter just NB>> before I take him to the airport... :) BM> Seems funny to take someone to Canadian airport but for your location BM> probably makes more sense. Playing with Google Maps -- takes about BM> an hour longer to drive to Boston than to Montreal. NB> The Montreal is the closest actual international airport to the NB> Pond... his flight from Istanbul was non-stop direct... and it's NB> about 2 1/2 hours from the Pond... So makes more sense to use Montreal. Just 'sounds funny' with my limited experience. And LIS in a message last week, I had assumed the Swiss (airline) flight to Chicago was the same as the one at Boston - nope. Guess a thousand miles isn't that much more for an international flight. BM>>> This system (the one I'm one currently) I have multiple windows open BM>>> concurrently and it is only using 5.9 GB. ...As long as everyone's BM>>> happy! NB>>> Only. 5.9GB sounds like an awful lot to me.... ;) NB>>> Especially as I have but a small fraction of that... :) BM>> True: everything is relative. Think I told you or you may have read BM>> where my first IBM-compatible computer had a 20 MB hard drive -- BM>> thought it would take forever to fill, especially as in the BM>> flipping-floppies mindset from my first computer. So nine months later BM>> running low on space, the sister computer becomes available (customer BM>> return because he or she totally screwed up the OS so the department BM>> manager sells to me for cheap) -- 40 MB hard drive. I eventually BM>> network together for a combined 60 MB -- I'll _never_ run out of room! BM>> ...Uh-huh! NB>> A very common story... BM> I think it's kind of 'funny' the amount of RAM in the video cards I BM> use is around six times what I had for storage in my original XTs. NB> Yup, it can be amusing... ;) Like comparing the early full-room NB> sized computers to today's Raspberry Pi machines... ;) Yup! And probably the cost of a RPi is less than one IC of RAM back then! NB>>>> So now you just have to figure out how to make that work... :) BM>>> And learn Python and other programming stuff..... NB>>> Keeps your brain limber and flexible (as long as it doesn't totally NB>>> overwhelm [g]).... BM>> Right now I'd have to have a need other than 'handy to know'. BM>> Admittedly a lot of my recent learning tends to be knee-jerk: this BM>> isn't working, error code is , find what that means, etc. BM>> And I really have no need to do programming -- well, in-depth, do do BM>> some 'lite' stuff with the occasional scripting, but that's more BM>> cookbook: patch in bits and pieces. Is more time consuming than if I BM>> knew how to do from properly learning but.... NB>> Maybe someday when you are caught up on all those projects, and NB>> no But Firsts get in the way.... Maybe even take a course at NB>> the community college, or online...? :) BM> Isn't Googling for the answer considered 'on-line'? Actually BM> taking a classroom or on-line class wouldn't be a bad idea. By the BM> time all the But Firsts have dwindled down to allow for time to take BM> the classes there won't be any crisis for me to use my new knowledge BM> on! NB> But it could be useful for the next crisis thereafter... ;) True; really more reasons for than against taking the classes. NB>>>> So understanding it might make reporting bugs better/easier.... :) BM>>> True - I'd probably know better what was expected so would be able to BM>>> narrow down the error information. NB>>> Or at least be able to use the right jargon correctly... ;) BM>> That would be helpful! NB>> A reason to consider the whole idea more strongly... :) BM> "So that's what the wachamacallit is called!!" NB> [snicker] There are times when I have and I have seen others describe what the device looks like, what the screen appearance is, etc., because don't know the term ==> "the display from the computer is larger than the TV's showing" "Oh, you mean 'overscan'." BM>>> I think the largest file I've played with was 5-point-something BM>>> gigabytes. No problems until got to a little over 4 GB and the BM>>> filesystem on the thumbdrive truncated. (reformmated the thumbdrive BM>>> to a different filesystem and was fine.) NB>>> Totally mind-boggling to me... I think I'll just avoid the huge NB>>> files and stay happily in my old small system... ;) BM>> Probably 95% of my files are the usual handful of megabytes; the BM>> over-4GB ones are recordings of TV shows and normally I don't have a BM>> thing to do with them other than select which one to play and the BM>> computers handle the rest. Manual copying is rare, with the exception BM>> of the Transfer Project. NB>> Still mind-boggling to me... ;) BM> Just the copying of the usual and customary small files on a grand BM> scale! ...Though sometimes get into the little details of a file system BM> will only handle so big a file and probably some other etc's. NB> True.... and EXACTLY... One way of learning is to get thrown into the pool! BM>> All depends on what one needs to/wants to know. I have little BM>> interest in working on cars as in changing oil or even swapping out the BM>> battery. Others like to and I'm glad do so I can have them do the stuff BM>> I don't care to. NB>> Well, I was talking more about computers and the like, but that's NB>> another area that applies... ;) In previous times, I've been known NB>> to change my own oil (only did it once and decided it wasn't a job NB>> I cared to do again)... and other simple changeouts... but I'm happy NB>> to take the car to our mechanics now... :) BM> You're up one on me: I've never changed my own oil. Combination of BM> not having the right equipment, comfort (temperature and crawling under BM> a car), and something else needed to be done anyway so just more BM> convenient to have a professional do it. NB> At the time, Richard was still changing his own oil, in the NB> driveway, and so the pan to drain into was available... along NB> with the tools... it was the crawling under the car and getting NB> dirt in my hair that decided me against doing it again... "Uh, hey Nancy - I think you got a little wild with the mascara!" BM>> As sort of a follow-up the external fan fixed the problem. Not BM>> elegantly. Hindsight may have been repairable: took the fan guard off BM>> and the blades almost fell out ==> seems like they had just glued the BM>> fan blade assembly to the motor shaft. Not sure if could have glued BM>> and reassembled but part of the frame inside was loose -- not sure if BM>> that was from unscrewing the fan guard or another problem. By the time BM>> I thought of maybe glueing I had snipped the positive lead to the BM>> original fan's motor. New 120mm fan over where the fan guard was -- do BM>> a test run -- seems fine! NB>> It works now... that's the important thing... ;) Sometimes NB>> figuring out what someone else was thinking when they put things NB>> together is more effort than just replacing things... ;) BM> I probably could have taken the PSU apart to swap the fan but sort of BM> a pain as would have to unplug the motherboard, etc., connectors. BM> Normally not a problem but the case is a little tight and the BM> motherboard socket is partially under a drive bay. Plenty of room BM> otherwise. And since I don't even look inside when buttoned up BM> doesn't matter what it looks like inside, though do keep things BM> reasonably neat. BM> And no more random shutdowns because of an overheating PSU -- imagine BM> that! NB> Very good... mission accomplished... ;) Yup! 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