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Lifer
- Apr 6, 2002
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I just don't care. The stock market is legalized gambling anyways. It makes our world worse, not better. Why they trade shorts and longs in the first place? It should be illegal. I suppose that makes me a commie. LOL. The whole crooked thing needs more regulation.
If you were local, this could all be yours!
I had a Yamaha RP-U200 for many years. It finally broke. Was glad to be rid of it.
The guy in the UPS thread doesn't understand about UPS. Some people can't be told anything. His UPS is not working after needing a new battery. So, bad UPS for not doing what he wanted it to do. Which was to keep on working. LOL
He is an idiot.
Been trying to convince my dad that I need to upgrade the OS on his machine. Though the hard drive in it is IDE which tells me the mobo does not have SATA so I may need to just upgrade the whole machine while I'm at it. Since if I'm going to put something newer than XP I really want to put it on a SSD so the speed is at least equivalent at the end. Probably going to be stuck going windows 10 since even 7 is not supported anymore. Not a fan of 10 at all but I don't know if he could handle Linux and I rather stick to something "mainstream" anyway in case he decides to buy a piece of hardware or something that requires Windows.
He keeps getting hit with weird malware stuff though, like I don't know if it's actually being loaded in the machine or not as to me it looks clean, but there's twice now that he tries to go to FB and it loads this scary looking warning that he has a virus. It's a web page and it's a fake alert, but the fact that he gets it still tells me he may have something on his machine. I built that machine when I still lived there so it's over 10 years now. It's from an era when PCI and PCIe were coexisting on same motherboards. I forgot to check if there are sata ports though. I opened it so I can get a wifi adpter since they are switching their internet to cable and there is no coax jack near the computer.
he needs a chromebook
Those are crap and are super proprietary, and then after like 5 years they stop updating them and you're back to square one. I want to give him a normal OS on commodity hardware. Either way he has to put up with learning a new environment. Heck even if I was to just clean install XP, it's near impossible to make everything exactly the same as before.
The issue is lot of stuff refuses to support XP now. Was trying to setup his Gmail in Thunderbird and it refuses to update far enough because of the OS being XP, and Gmail refuses to work because Thunderbird is too old. Running into more and more stuff like that so think it's time to upgrade him.
Been trying to convince my dad that I need to upgrade the OS on his machine. Though the hard drive in it is IDE which tells me the mobo does not have SATA so I may need to just upgrade the whole machine while I'm at it. Since if I'm going to put something newer than XP I really want to put it on a SSD so the speed is at least equivalent at the end. Probably going to be stuck going windows 10 since even 7 is not supported anymore. Not a fan of 10 at all but I don't know if he could handle Linux and I rather stick to something "mainstream" anyway in case he decides to buy a piece of hardware or something that requires Windows.
He keeps getting hit with weird malware stuff though, like I don't know if it's actually being loaded in the machine or not as to me it looks clean, but there's twice now that he tries to go to FB and it loads this scary looking warning that he has a virus. It's a web page and it's a fake alert, but the fact that he gets it still tells me he may have something on his machine. I built that machine when I still lived there so it's over 10 years now. It's from an era when PCI and PCIe were coexisting on same motherboards. I forgot to check if there are sata ports though. I opened it so I can get a wifi adpter since they are switching their internet to cable and there is no coax jack near the computer.
Why haven't you hooked up dad long before now? You're telling me you couldn't cobble some box from your parts bin and give him an upgrade?
I randomly decided to make a cake. Didn't realize it needed vegetable oil. Didn't have that on hand but according to Google I can substitute coconut oil. Took an hour to melt it down lmao. Accidentally melted my measuring cup in the process. I suck so much at cooking that even making a cake mix I manage to almost set something on fire.
I randomly decided to make a cake. Didn't realize it needed vegetable oil. Didn't have that on hand but according to Google I can substitute coconut oil. Took an hour to melt it down lmao. Accidentally melted my measuring cup in the process. I suck so much at cooking that even making a cake mix I manage to almost set something on fire.