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by ct on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 02:59:23 PM PDT
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And as long as the code translates easily on my monitor, I'm happy.
Democrats promote the Common good. Republicans promote Corporate greed.
by murasaki on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 03:09:01 PM PDT
you didn't understand it either? whew! i was thinking that i was stoopit or sumthin.
I didn't get Jack from Abramoff...I'm not a Republican!
by nonnie9999 on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 03:24:33 PM PDT
The only thing that qualifies for a case of the 'stoopits' is if you refuse to learn.
Refusing to learn would put anyone down on Dumbya's level, and I KNOW you are not down there!
When I say my knowledge is hampered by my ignorance, I'm speaking true. The word ignorant only means 'unlearned or untaught.' It does not in any way imply a refusal to learn something new. The cure for ignorance is always knowledge. I'm ignorant about a whole lot of things, but I don't refuse to learn anything new, and I know how to do research....
What ct does is a mystery to me, and while I figure I could likely learn what computer gurus do if I had enough time, I'm also past the half-century mark and I still have years of research to do on my current genealogy projects and don't have time to learn anything about what he's doing. When my computers need tending to, I have the names and numbers of people to call to get things running right again.
As long as computer gurus can make things appear on screen with nothing but an on/off button or a mouse click from me, I'll bow at their feet with due obesiance. It's enough for me to know that if I really and truly had to, I'd go back to school again and learn about what they're doing.
[Anyway, most computer gurus haven't a clue about what I'm doing either on these lovely 'intertoobz' to find out all the info I have - the computer guru who built my PC didn't even know there are alternate keyboards that can be programmed in these things 'cuz he doesn't use computers; he builds computers but doesn't use them - but if they wanted to know and had the time, I'd explain it to them. Some knowledge is very much a two-way street....]
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by NonnyO on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 03:44:30 PM PDT
for a son. he lives and breathes computers. don't want to say that i am computer-ignorant, but there are files on my computer that are named mom, don't open this and keep your hands off this, mom. it's not like he doesn't trust me or anything.
by nonnie9999 on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 04:06:29 PM PDT
I'm available.
By the time I was on my second upgrade for my PC within the first year I had it (I'd overloaded it with images because I'd discovered how to restore antique photos and how to make photos from old negatives and slides, so I was very busy for a while), the computer guru said I know just enough to be dangerous. He may be right.
It still makes me giggle to think about when the second upgrade came around and I had noticed no icon for keyboards, so I proceeded to get into the keyboard settings and add them, and he was standing behind me watching in absolute horror, eyes as big as saucers, his voice aghast, and screeched "WHAT are you DOING?!?"
I calmly proceeded to click and save and said "Adding keyboards for Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish. I had them on the previous computer. See? There's the icon now to switch languages if I want."
He looked befuddled and said "Oh, I didn't even know they were on this thing."
Like I said, he only built computers, he didn't know how to use them. With the last HD upgrade I made him let me do the physical installation after the Ghost backup (amazingly simple; one screwdriver, two screws, took an amateur like me only 15 minutes to do). I need to do another HD upgrade in the next year or so, and I think I could do it without much assistance, but I'd certainly feel better with someone standing over my shoulder watching the process.
I didn't know the difference between a GB and MB when I got my first computer in the fall of '01 and now I have a working computerese vocabulary besides knowing how to use many of the programs and get all around the internet for the research I'm doing. Any technical questions, I still ask for help, of course, but I do have the basic essentials down now plus a few things that hardly anyone knows what I'm talking about 'cuz my Mac wireless hub is plugged into my PC's internet modem and I can work online from either computer or both at the same time, so unless someone knows how the LAN is wired with ethernet cords they don't know what I'm talking about. So far in town the PC people look at me like I've turned into an alien when I mention the Mac hub and how it's wired to my PC on a LAN. They think I don't know what I'm talking about, but I do and I even understand how it all works (my genealogy program is on my iBook and I do research from that computer, not my PC usually).
Anyway, I have funny adventures with my computers....! :-)
by NonnyO on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 04:33:01 PM PDT
Glad to hear you're doing great.
Reality Window | dwahzon's village
by vbdietz on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 04:59:33 PM PDT
... that surfaced last fall, I'm doing well. I go back to the nurse practitioner tomorrow.
And how are you doing? :-)
by NonnyO on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 05:03:19 PM PDT
Staying out of trouble. Getting ready for 2 kids to graduate from 2 different universities in 2 different states (CT and VA) on the same weekend.
by vbdietz on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 05:05:20 PM PDT
Two kids, same weekend?!?
OMG, aside from being so proud you could just burst (I don't think I'm wrong in that assumption), how are you going to split yourself in two to attend two graduation ceremonies?
Big hugs and a handshake to your two offspring, too! :-)
by NonnyO on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 05:08:46 PM PDT
One ceremony on Saturday in VA ... second one on Sunday in CT so we drive back Sat. night and arrange for all the relatives who want to come to meet us in CT and celebrate there.
by vbdietz on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 05:43:53 PM PDT
Safe and uneventful journeys....
And wear loose clothing so you don't spend all your time sewing those popped buttons back on when you are bursting with pride...!
;-)
Oh, and a box of tissues wouldn't be out of place. Happy tears come at the weirdest times....
by NonnyO on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 05:52:46 PM PDT
I'll have to remember the tissue. I suspect I may need some.
by vbdietz on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:12:29 PM PDT
from one nonnie to another (even if she spells it funny ;-) ).
by nonnie9999 on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 05:51:11 PM PDT
Whatever the spelling, I gotta say, I DO like your name! :-)
by NonnyO on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 05:54:38 PM PDT
Linux and simply giving you a user account.
File permissions that restrict access that a non-technical user can't do anything about ensure that your computer will hum along merrily.
Looking for intelligent energy policy alternatives? Try here.
by alizard on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 07:32:59 PM PDT
but then one has to teach one's mother how to use Linux. I've got a fairly technologically-adept, young, quick-learning husband and that's not even a project I want to take on with him.
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. - George Orwell
by kyril on Fri Mar 21, 2008 at 12:05:46 AM PDT
If you're doing the heavy setup lifting, a user-friendly distro (you might try Ubuntu + KDE) shouldn't look or work all that much different than a Windows desktop for basic web / e-mail / office productivity suite apps. Unless there's reason to go under the hood, it's all point and click and menus.
If he needs stuff outside that (e.g. MySpace IM - or certain kinds of CAD) or does power user things in Windows and expects to be able to do the same things in Linux, then it gets interesting.
If he needs the Eudora mail client... that he'll have to wait a few months for, Eudora for Linux has a few rough edges (like the lack of Eudora format mail and addressbook importers) left.
I'm recycling my old computer parts and a couple of computers that walked in the door into computers for the household I live in. One runs W98SE (I don't have any current XP licenses). I'm seriously considering converting it to Ubuntu to save me trouble... as in really flaky wireless in a setup with optimal signal. The RT2570 Linux driver is fairly solid.
by alizard on Fri Mar 21, 2008 at 01:23:16 AM PDT
...to pimp me out, err I mean outsource, to all her all her friends when they go and screw up their computers by letting their kids use them and install unprotected file sharing programs and visiting porn sites. I finally gave up and told her no. She was a bit pissed.
And I'm not all that good with Pc's
We Glory in war, in the shedding of human blood. What fools we are.
by delver rootnose on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 08:57:29 PM PDT
Charge money.
If you can clean the viruses successfully out of a system or run backups, you might think the $10-20 hour bracket assuming you're a moderately experienced high-school kid. However, if you do that, develop some resources who know Windoes you can call for help to.
Or switch to Linux, get up to speed on that, and by the time lots of people are buying Linux systems for the first time and realizing that Linux is not Windows, you'll be away at college.
by alizard on Fri Mar 21, 2008 at 01:29:50 AM PDT
...and I even though I don't have a job the strees of not killing my customers would give me a stroke.
by delver rootnose on Fri Mar 21, 2008 at 10:03:21 AM PDT
more efficient conduits for information to flow seamlessly. And that it cost a lot of money and time but you think that with this new capability we can get through election season without melting down, and maybe even without disabling comments.
Nice work!
I remember when this kind of capability would have taken a shuttle hanger to house. HA! Now it can all cram into a very large broom closet.
by kate mckinnon on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 03:27:51 PM PDT
that DailyKos runs on the kind of computer hardware that makes geeks like me drool. I wonder what RedState runs on.
Inca, 1995-2007
by mlharges on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 04:10:20 PM PDT
- What happens on DailyKos, stays on Google.
by Jon Meltzer on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 04:12:34 PM PDT
Sinclair 2000.
I have one somewhere. I'm hoping someday a museum will pay big money for it.
by mmacdDE on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 04:34:01 PM PDT
Here's a look.
Not exactly big money although $200 would buy you a railroad in Monopoly. You're gonna have to let your Sinclair become a bit more vintage I'm afraid.
We're in a culture that increasingly holds that science is just another belief. - Alan Alda
by sawgrass727 on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 08:59:23 PM PDT
Hey, you know, those were actually some hardcore computers. Once, I had a roommate named Derek who set his foldaway bed on fire by getting too high and falling asleep with a cigarette. I was really mad at him and emptied a whole BOTTLE OF HAIR GEL into his keyboard array. The thing was completely unfazed. Worked great.
by kate mckinnon on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 04:57:00 PM PDT
...hard drive cost $2500 and was about 5 inches high. And the video cable for a color monitor was about the diameter of a quarter and took three linear feet to make a 90 degree turn.
by delver rootnose on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 09:02:52 PM PDT
We paid $12,000 for our first AT&T desktop, 20 meg hard drive, big beige plastic box, CRT screen. Like 1987?
But I also remember my parents getting a Computer (capital C) for their business, very forward thinking in the 70s. It was a big IBM giant ass thing that took a whole room and needed a Programmer to come spend a month writing Programs to do the jobs of the business.
What a scene.
I was in Kinkos the other day at the counter and some guy walked in with a FLOPPY disc. I knew I'd seen those things somewhere but it actually took me a minute to place it in space and time. What the hell was it? How could this person still have a machine that took that THING?
It was funny. The Stinkos counterperson seemed unfazed, though, and stuck it into one of six slots in the front of his machine.
by kate mckinnon on Fri Mar 21, 2008 at 09:20:07 AM PDT
5 1/2 inch bendy floppy. the 12 inch floppy or the little 3 inch plastic floppy?
by delver rootnose on Fri Mar 21, 2008 at 10:01:41 AM PDT
It was unreal! I don't think even Kinkos could accomodate anything older than that. I felt personally as if I were viewing an artifact.
by kate mckinnon on Fri Mar 21, 2008 at 02:37:22 PM PDT
De fund + de bunk = de EXIT--->>>>>
by Neon Mama on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 04:23:32 PM PDT
Politics is highschool drama taken to a new level.| 08ama! | -5.50 -6.26
by vertexoflife on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 08:59:32 PM PDT
I know, I sold it to them :)
by kyril on Fri Mar 21, 2008 at 12:06:54 AM PDT
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all - JFK- 5/18/63-Vanderbilt Univ.
by oibme on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 04:10:47 PM PDT
it was good for you and even if we don't it, it was damned good for us too?
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by caliberal on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 03:54:30 PM PDT
Ray Charles. That crazy talk of yours in your diary is making you do impressions.
I want my epitaph to read: He did whatever the fuck he wanted.
by Deltones on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 04:24:09 PM PDT
Some of us truly appreciate reading this stuff.
The times, they are a-changin'
by Malacandra on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 04:27:34 PM PDT
he uses all these fancy-pants technical terms nobody gets. So answer me this, Mr. I-know-stuff-you-don't:
What key is the relative minor to the key of "C?"
and in the Dewey decimal classification, the number 822 refers to what subject?
No sneaking off and peeking at wikipedia, now, smarty britches.
Nyah.
Your most obedient humble servant, Reep.
"YOPP!" --Horton Hears a Who
by Reepicheep on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 04:59:29 PM PDT
and I didn't understand a word ct said either :-)
Remember: if it's close, they'll steal it.
by ChurchofBruce on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 05:49:24 PM PDT
... thank you. Altho I am a little worried about recommending something I don't quite comprehend at all.
John Doolittledump Doo Vote Brown
by AmericanRiverCanyon on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 10:50:55 PM PDT
And I'm looking forward to the post-election debriefing, as in 2004. What a great inside-what-counts diary that was - the contributions from you and your in- and outside-DK IT colleagues gave me a picture of the enormous accomplishment that keeps DailyKos on screen, virtually flawless, and unstoppable.
Long may you wave!
by Creosote on Fri Mar 21, 2008 at 01:36:54 AM PDT
wide narrow
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