Subj : Re: Proper Shutdown
To   : Barry Martin
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Jul 16 2020 12:02:00

Barry,

 BM> Time to turn down the oven!  As for the experiments on the computers,
 BM> no one way is going to please everyone.  Running Ubuntu (Linux) here
 BM> and the current and probbaly last major version or two there is no
 BM> visible button to shut down.  Click on a small downward point arrowhead
 BM> at the upper right of task bar, that opens a mostly visual menu window
 BM> and the lower right corner of that has an on-off icon -- the open
 BM> circle with the bar through it at the top.  Click that and get to the
 BM> cancel-reboot-shut down menu.  I usually just got to the command line
 BM> and type "sudo shutdown now" if I need to turn the system off.

  Two words...technology, phooey!!

 DS>   Or in the bulletin "Want To Be A Sysop??", it notes that "the
 DS> board will crash in the dead of night, so you have to be up to
 DS> watch what happens, and where it was when "it took a dump". :P

 BM> But even then it will only fail when not looking!

  This is true...I guess it needs its privacy when taking a dump. :P

 BM> I'd consider that as normal behaviour: gunfire, firecrackers, car
 BM> backfiring, are all sudden and unexpected.  Thunder usually telegraphs
 BM> itself with a lightening flash and maybe a 'pre-thunder'.  I don't
 BM> recall my collie getting all upset when it thundered; my Lhasa Apso --
 BM> oh yea!

  Well, if the lightning is basically right outside, and you hear the
static pop off the window, that's not much warning. I use the Radarscope
App on my phone, and that lets me know when it's time to shut things
down.

 BM> Hmm: I wonder how the traffic jams were during the height of the
 BM> COVID-19 stay-at-home?  We have traffic reports but they're mostly
 BM> "avoid <area> due to road construction" or an accident.  (Traffic was
 BM> noticeably reduced; slowly increasing but maybe ony about half what it
 BM> was prior.)

  Right after they started the "lockdowns", some days, it was like on
Christmas Day...the roads were like a ghost town.

 BM> Use the instruction manual like they did the Sears Roebuck catalog!

  That and so many others are gone.

  Every so often, I get amateur radio catalogs, but I take them to the
license exam sessions as "porn"...because the prices are so nasty. If
they note CALL/WEB, you know it's too expensive.

  Or like the angry wife standing by the door, that has a rack of 3
items to use on her husband when he arrives home late:

1) Wooden/Metal Spoon: Comes Home Late

2) Rolling Pin: Comes Home Drunk

3) Shotgun: He Bought Another Ham Radio Unit.

Daryl

.... When chemists die, they barium.
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