Subj : Proper Shutdown To : Daryl Stout From : Barry Martin Date : Fri Jul 17 2020 07:57:00 Hi Daryl! 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. DS> Two words...technology, phooey!! It seems the simpler they try to make it the more complicated it gets! 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! DS> This is true...I guess it needs its privacy when taking a dump. :P That's why the Blue Screen! 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! DS> Well, if the lightning is basically right outside, and you hear DS> the static pop off the window, that's not much warning. I use the DS> Radarscope App on my phone, and that lets me know when it's time DS> to shut things down. Ages ago we were watching TV in the Living Room -- a recorded programme via the computer system seveal generations before what I'm using here now. Just got done with a rain storm -- may have been some not-close lightening, I don't recall. All of a sudden a bright blue-white light outside the windows -- side and front picture window. ??!! Didn't notice anything other than the super-bright light; no change to the picture, no glitch in the stream, no buzzing. Pause - get a flashlight and go outside to check, half-expecting to see something out there smoldering. Nothing. Checked the next morning in the sunlight and nothing. 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 due to road construction" or an accident. (Traffic was BM> noticeably reduced; slowly increasing but maybe ony about half what it BM> was prior.) DS> Right after they started the "lockdowns", some days, it was DS> like on Christmas Day...the roads were like a ghost town. That would make sense: if no place to go/can't go any place the traffic would be minimal. LIS traffic here has been slowly increasing; stil not to the level it was prior. BM> Use the instruction manual like they did the Sears Roebuck catalog! DS> That and so many others are gone. Yup: not doing the necessary adaptations to business and more importantly customers, and for some barely hanging on the COVID-19 shutdown was pretty much the last nail in the coffin. DS> Every so often, I get amateur radio catalogs, but I take them DS> to the license exam sessions as "porn"...because the prices are DS> so nasty. If they note CALL/WEB, you know it's too expensive. Like the 'market price' on some hoighty-toity restaurant menus. DS> Or like the angry wife standing by the door, that has a rack of DS> 3 items to use on her husband when he arrives home late: DS> 1) Wooden/Metal Spoon: Comes Home Late DS> 2) Rolling Pin: Comes Home Drunk DS> 3) Shotgun: He Bought Another Ham Radio Unit. Good thing that's not done here with computer stuff! ¯ ® ¯ BarryMartin3@ ® ¯ @MyMetronet.NET ® ¯ ® ¯ (Humans know what ® ¯ to remove.) ® .... "Each storage case automatically becomes portable when carried." --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .