Posts by macaroo

She probably was the individual who thought that she could make the computer run faster by stepping on the mouse under her desk. One of the classic tales of computer lore.

I had given up on Internet Explorer several years ago. It was unstable and unworkable. I went to Google's Chrome....it was like a breath of fresh air. Faster, cleaner and full of nice options that MS's abortion did not offer.

The space ship Enterpise with Jacque Picard at the helm recovered the Voyager space probe in an episode on TV. They wondered at the ancient technology employed by their ancestors on Earth.

We work for the government......the most money for the least amount of work.

SSN

Social Security Numbers worry me. That number is not easily change as it is assigned for life sometimes at birth.

Contemplating the number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin. Man's small mind can't fathom the secrets of the Universe. I would like to see him in discussion with the God he refused to believe in.

It took 13 minutes to devise a damage control plan to save their jobs. They also had to figure out who to blame.

The purpose of the US Government is to spend taxpayers money. Justification or not is not necessary.

Giving up on IE

I have used ms's ie for years. After the latest out of band update it became very slow and unstable running under windows 7. I decided to try Chrome, what a relief and improvement. it is faster and more stable. Enabling the pop up blocker extension has eliminated all the nasty ads and sidebar annoyances from the most popular websites.

View on the Hub.

I own a LogiTech 2nd generation hub so I should be safe for now. It was an uphill battle to get the damm thing to even recognize all my TV related hardware. It wasn't until an unspecified firm ware update that the device started to function. Even though, it is limited in it's functionality. Customer Service and I got to know each other fairly well. As I stated on their website: it is a work in process; good idea, piss poor implementation.

Playing Games

I object with these pointy headed individuals playing games with our most private information. I have conceited that most of my information has been leaked and resides on the Dark Web to be used and resold many times in the future. I have put security freezes on all of my accounts, but the existing CC account are still exposed.

Damage control takes time to organize. Also it gave management time to sell their stock.

A by product of this fiasco will be that half of the US will have security checks enabled on their credit accounts.

Problems with Ad Blockers

The problem I see using an Ad Blocker is sometimes, especially a new article, will hang up while trying to load. I keep a copy of Windows Task Manager in the bottom task bar and use that to end the hung process. IE will restart and I will disable the blocker to read the article. It is a awkward process but works OK.

Living in a high density area of my small city, several years ago I noticed an increasing number of WI-FI access points as everybody in the neighborhood acquired a basic bare bones wireless router. I also experienced an interference problem with my neighbor's wireless printer. I decided to convert to a dual band router and leave 2.4Ghz behind. Using a neat piece of software called ainSSIDer to monitor the bands, I was delighted to find I was the only person on the 5Ghz band. The only draw back is the shorter range of the upper band. All the problems solved.

Sounds like a lot of qobbily gook and thinly vale excuses for a more basic problem

I went thru TSA security checks last week on a US domestic flight. The inspector took a hard look at my wrist watch to make sure that the second hand was still turning. He also wanted to take a look at the clasp. I guess he was looking for wires. Are exploding watches the next threat device???

Please take my first ex wife. It will be a blessing for humanity left on mother Earth.

Where is the icon for sarcasm??

It would be an convenient way to move an over sized hydrogen bomb to North America. There is a lot to be said about the vast ocean separating competing Countries.

My Early Days

This takes me back to my early days as a young lad. Exploring the basic precepts of computer logic down to the register level and instruction flow thru the various transistor gates. Wonder and excitement in exploring a new world of technology.

The Fruit Company

Forrest Gump and Lieutenant Dan will be happy....maybe they can buy another shrimp boat.

This reminds me of my years in the field with a now defunk computer company. When a major malfunction would occur with an extended down time. The Sales force would get nervous and start talking about a mass swap of the machine. Us techs with cooler heads would have to explain to them that you would be replacing one problem with many problems causing more down time. We would tell them to take the customer out to dinner, and a movie and let us Techies analyze and define the problem. and then fix it. Mass swaps of complex networking systems usually do not work well. and just prolong the disaster.

Most laptops and desktops currently running XP were built to run XP only. The hardware requirements to upgrade to 7 or Vista will make the upgrade too costly for most users. There are still 200 million licensed users of XP. I don't see that changing much in the near future.

Please bring back the Start Button

Why would they be concerned with security with a 75% piratecy rate? These machines can't down load the Windows updates as they can't pass the muster with validation software.

Kodak's Future

After working at Kodak in Rochester NY for 25 years in IT, I can say that I had a insight into most of the departments of this once great company. Does anybody remember that they were the only one to grind a perfect mirror for the Hubble telescope? The only reason their's wasn't on the finished product was they insisted that a test jig be built to test the accuracy of the mirror while it was being ground. This put the cost of the mirror above their competitors. Also Kodak at one time had the leading technical and scientific employees in the black magic science of coating. This was all lost when film and paper production was shut down. It was a shame that this knowledge could not be applied to other forms of coatings; surface mount electronics, photo-voltaic cells, etc. I could go on for hours. The sad part of the situation was everybody heard the foot steps except upper management. They were too afraid of killing the cash cow. I rest my case.