What first world problem did you have today?

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

CitiBank jerked me around.

I've paid off what I owe and pulled the rest of my funds. Once things show zeroed out, all will be closed.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Said goodbye to the big banks years ago and never looked back. With a local credit union now and it's been great.

 

[sdifox]

It's Halloween and for the first time in ages it is not raining. This means I have to walk more.

 

[IronWing]

It's Halloween and for the first time in ages it is not raining. This means I have to walk more.

You could adopt hard boiled religion for the evening.

 

[sdifox]

You could adopt hard boiled religion for the evening.

I am back home now. Their bag got full.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Horrible, terrible, miserable, rotten, incompetent and really, really bad customer service.

 

[Cuular]

Horrible, terrible, miserable, rotten, incompetent and really, really bad customer service.

Yeah those cheap disgusting idiots that don't provide full sized candy bars need to be tied and quartered! /S

 

[snoopy7548]

Stupid kids. None of them are clever enough to come by twice, so now I have 33 full-size candy bars to get rid of.

 

[IronWing]

I requested info on another forum. Two people liked my post, no one answered.

 

[Captante]

Sadly with the exceptions of OT and the "bad place" there's just not a ton of activity round these parts anymore.

 

[Stiff Clamp]

My Windows 7 Pro machine managed to lose the *shutdown* button from its Start Menu. What the . . . ?

No WIndows updates in years. I don't even know what to do to reinstate it - other than sift through start menu properties. Maybe it's infected.

 

[Stiff Clamp]

Well it magically reappeared. Just now when I started hitting up the internets for solutions. I popped up the Start Menu - to Run gpedit - and voila, there was the Shutdown button. Never did a single thing to restore it. I just noticed it missing yesterday, as I went to shutdown for the night. Button has been missing today too, even after booting this morning.

What is going on? Is someone remotely triggering this? TIming is sus. Maybe it's Halloween haunting just that expired.

My Windows 7 Pro machine managed to lose the *shutdown* button from its Start Menu. What the . . . ?

No WIndows updates in years. I don't even know what to do to reinstate it - other than sift through start menu properties. Maybe it's infected.

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[Captante]

Well it magically reappeared. Just now when I started hitting up the internets for solutions. I popped up the Start Menu - to Run gpedit - and voila, there was the Shutdown button. Never did a single thing to restore it. I just noticed it missing yesterday, as I went to shutdown for the night. Button has been missing today too, even after booting this morning.

What is going on? Is someone remotely triggering this? TIming is sus. Maybe it's Halloween haunting just that expired.

Try entering your social-security number, banking and e-mail passwords repeatedly in a search-engine using IE.... if your identity gets stolen and your accounts emptied you'll know you've been hacked.



Seriously if that PC is connected to the internet at all and has been used to surf the web you 99% certainly HAVE been compromised.... HOWEVER you can still upgrade to 10 Pro for free using the 7 Pro key. (and not doing so is foolish with an "online" machine)

 

[lxskllr]

Probably just an explorer glitch. If it happens again(or any other graphics weirdness), kill explorer and restart it. That might fix it.

 

[QueBert]

Went to BK to get a Ghost Pepper Whopper, they ran out yesterday so I had to get a Bacon King.

 

[BoomerD]

Try entering your social-security number, banking and e-mail passwords repeatedly in a search-engine using IE.... if your identity gets stolen and your accounts emptied you'll know you've been hacked.



Seriously if that PC is connected to the internet at all and has been used to surf the web you 99% certainly HAVE been compromised.... HOWEVER you can still upgrade to 10 Pro for free using the 7 Pro key. (and not doing so is foolish with an "online" machine)

Link to free upgrade?

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

FedEx package shows out for delivery to me today ........ in a distant city 200 miles away.

 

[pmv]

I _dreamed_ about an on-line argument. Woke up annoyed that someone had implied I was promoting a conspiracy theory. Even, for a brief moment before I realised, considered going on-line to post an angry reply.

(Unless I have the same dream again I'll never be able to reply to the guy!)

 

[Stiff Clamp]

Went to BK to get a Ghost Pepper Whopper, they ran out yesterday so I had to get a Bacon King.

That's too bad. It was only supposed to be on sale until the end of October. Seasonal item.

 

[Captante]

Link to free upgrade?

I assumed this was sarcasm but if not there is no "free upgrade" link lol.

Just download the Win 10 ISO from Microsoft.

During installation when prompted for a key either enter one for Win 7 or select "install without a key" and activate it later. (still works as of approx 2 weeks ago)

 

[Red Squirrel]

Had to pay $65 to get a copy of my land deed, that I probably should have gotten in first place when I bought the land.

It's hard to read what anything says since it's from like 1907 and looks like it got photocopied on a photocopier from that era, but at least I have it!

Also found out I don't have pine tree rights, so I'm trying to figure that part out. I am hoping I can just buy those rights. I want to be able to cut/use any tree without having to worry. This is an old rule from the war since they needed the trees to build ship masts so the crown had all rights to them.

At least I have tree rights in general though, I was seeing lot of logging in the area and it occured to me that I had no document confirming that for me so that's what made me persue getting the deed.

 

[IronWing]

Had to pay $65 to get a copy of my land deed, that I probably should have gotten in first place when I bought the land.

It's hard to read what anything says since it's from like 1907 and looks like it got photocopied on a photocopier from that era, but at least I have it!

Also found out I don't have pine tree rights, so I'm trying to figure that part out. I am hoping I can just buy those rights. I want to be able to cut/use any tree without having to worry. This is an old rule from the war since they needed the trees to build ship masts so the crown had all rights to them.

At least I have tree rights in general though, I was seeing lot of logging in the area and it occured to me that I had no document confirming that for me so that's what made me persue getting the deed.

Today, I learned about pine tree rights!

Red: if your patent is from 1907, you may own the mineral rights even if the patent says otherwise. Look up the Public Lands Act of 1913. It appears that Ontario retroactively granted property owners the mineral rights to parcels patented before 1913. Might be worth investigating.

 

[MrSquished]

Last night watching the end of season 2 of For All Mankind on AppleTV, twice the show stopped and kicked me to the home page of Roku. Then I had to relaunch and start the show up again, and it started me like a minute back so I had to fast forward to where I actually was. Twice.

THIS IS BULLSHIT MAN!

 

[Red Squirrel]

Today, I learned about pine tree rights!

Red: if your patent is from 1907, you may own the mineral rights even if the patent says otherwise. Look up the Public Lands Act of 1913. It appears that Ontario retroactively granted property owners the mineral rights to parcels patented before 1913. Might be worth investigating.

Hmmm that is interesting. It would be awesome if I did because I'm pretty sure there is gold just based on all the big rock and quartz I see everywhere.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

I despise off-shore customer dis-service drones.