Subj : Re: Proper Shutdown To : Barry Martin From : Daryl Stout Date : Sun Jul 19 2020 14:20:00 Barry, DS> Two words...technology, phooey!! BM> It seems the simpler they try to make it the more complicated it gets! The 2004 build for Windows 10 in June took over 7 hours to download, install, and do several reboots. At least the Windows Update for July, 2020, finished in under an hour. DS> This is true...I guess it needs its privacy when taking a dump. :P BM> That's why the Blue Screen! It's blue because the system turned brown. :P BM> Ages ago we were watching TV in the Living Room -- a recorded programme BM> via the computer system seveal generations before what I'm using here BM> now. Just got done with a rain storm -- may have been some not-close BM> lightening, I don't recall. All of a sudden a bright blue-white light BM> outside the windows -- side and front picture window. ??!! Didn't BM> notice anything other than the super-bright light; no change to the BM> picture, no glitch in the stream, no buzzing. Pause - get a flashlight BM> and go outside to check, half-expecting to see something out there BM> smoldering. Nothing. Checked the next morning in the sunlight and BM> nothing. You were lucky...and blessed. With as much power as a lightning bolt has, it coudl've done some significant damage. DS> Right after they started the "lockdowns", some days, it was DS> like on Christmas Day...the roads were like a ghost town. BM> That would make sense: if no place to go/can't go any place the traffic BM> would be minimal. LIS traffic here has been slowly increasing; stil BM> not to the level it was prior. I doubt it ever will. But, I'm staying home more than I have been, as if I don't have to go out, why bother?? Never mind wasting all that gas in the car. BM> Yup: not doing the necessary adaptations to business and more BM> importantly customers, and for some barely hanging on the COVID-19 BM> shutdown was pretty much the last nail in the coffin. Yep. 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. BM> Like the 'market price' on some hoighty-toity restaurant menus. Many restaurants (not so much fast food, but that day may be coming) are automatically adding a 20% gratuity to the bill BEFORE you get your food, served to you, or buffet. I've known some folks, who when finding that's going to be the case, turn around, and walk out. One individual printed up business cards, noting on one side that "I disagree with your policy". Then, on the other side, "You want a tip?? I've give you 3. Plant your corn early...keep your powder dry...and always have clean underwear on"!! In the case of the latter, I saw a car pacing an ambulance on an emergency run. This woman is holding out a pair of clean underwear, and telling the paramedics to "put these on her son before they get to the hospital". In truth, clean or soiled, they've seen it all before...just like nudity. 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. BM> Good thing that's not done here with computer stuff! Living alone, I don't have to worry about any of that. But, the truth is, I can't afford to splurge on anything else. Daryl .... How do self addressed stamped envelopes do such?? === MultiMail/Win v0.52 --- SBBSecho 3.11-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - tbolt.synchro.net (454:1/33) .