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Re: Member Interesting, Hair Raising, Humorous or Otherwise Unus
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By: AGelbert Date: July 14, 2016, 1:48 pm
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[center]WATCH: Aircraft Nearly Crashes Into Sea During Landing
Aboard USS Eisenhower[/center]
July 11, 2016 by Mike Schuler
[center]
HTML https://youtu.be/r-EHwYOfY94[/center]
[quote]new video released by the U.S. Navy shows the moment an
E-2C Hawkeye aircraft nearly plunged into the water from the
deck of the USS Eisenhower after an arresting cable snapped
during a landing on March 18, 2016.
Details of the incident including video were released Friday by
the Virginia-Pilot following a Freedom of Information Act
request.
The video, which has since gone viral with more than 1.6 million
views, shows the terrifying moment the arresting cable snaps,
causing the aircraft to overshoot the runway and fall below the
Eisenhower’s landing deck, only to appear moments later as it
climbed back into view.
The Virginian-Pilot reports that eight sailors were injured in
the incident. The U.S. Navy has blamed the accident on human
error and an improperly programmed valve, the paper
says.[/quote]
HTML https://gcaptain.com/watch-aircraft-nearly-crashes-into-sea-during-landing-aboard-uss-eisenhower/
Agelbert NOTE: The E-2C is a pocket sized version of the AWACS
(B707 with a saucer on top). Back in the day when I worked
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The Navy plays war games about 200 miles from land in various
locations. They are called "Warning Areas" and have a number
(e.g. W368").
When the Warning area goes "hot", we ATCs had to vector civilian
aircraft around the area. Inside, there would be fighters,
aircraft carriers, submarines and E-2C aircraft fighting a mock
war engagement.
When the exercise ended, all the birds that are not carrier
based head for the nearest land base. Most of them are fighters
with BINGO fuel status (Minimum fuel for a comfortable and safe
return to base. Aircraft can fly and fight past bingo fuel in
combat situations, but at considerable peril.)
This creates what is known as a "situation" for an Air Traffic
Controller.
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WHY? Because I am faced with about 10 to 20 aircraft in a
scattered group exiting the Warning area that all want to get to
the Navy land base, most of which are BINGO fuel. I am supposed
to give the BINGO fuel aircraft priority in sequencing but his
makes no sense if a non-BINGO fighter is much closer to the
base. :P
In addition, it is well known among the fighter jocks that
civilian ATC types cannot check their fuel gages to see if that
pilot is trying to beat his pals to the base. ;) ;D
Yes, fighter jocks are a sneaky lot. They are usually rather
young, cocky and not very informative. YET, I still had to
identify each one. THEN I had to give each and every one a
clearance to the base (via radar vectors) and sequence them
towards the base in enough order to avoid them getting too close
to each other and the non-military aircraft out there.
The problem was complicated by some BINGO fuel fighter(s)
calling several miles behind somebody CLOSER to the base who
called a couple of minutes later.
So, faced with this huge pain in the arse situation, I would
call on the E2-C that tracked everybody in the exercise, and
knew where they all were, to ensure that the birds closest to
the base called me first. This made my job quite a bit easier.
Alas, due to the nature of fighter jocks, this did not always
work. :(
If the flight conditions are visual, there is no requirement for
a military aircraft exiting a Warning Area to call for a
clearance. They can switch directly to the base tower/approach
control frequency.
A flight of four that didn't want to "waste time" for a
clearance by me went straight for the base. One of them
mid-aired with another fighter I had just handed off to the base
on approach. They were both killed. The Base tower controller
went into a panic and closed down the base.
I then had to vector about 7 remaining aircraft with BINGO fuel
to a civilian international airport about 20 miles away. It was
a bag of worms but it all worked out. I received an at-a-boy
from a squadron of F-14s at the base but that didn't bring back
the people killed in the mid-air collision due to impatience and
lack of respect for civilian ATC authority by fighter jocks.
Every time the Navy would have one of those war games on my
watch, it was worry time. Unliike the fighter jocks, the E-2C
crew were always professional and willing to help smooth the
exit process from the Warning Area to the land base.
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E2-C pilots and crew
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everywhere.
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Re: Member Interesting, Hair Raising, Humorous or Otherwise Unus
ual Experiences
By: AGelbert Date: July 21, 2016, 8:23 pm
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[quote author=RE link=topic=7619.msg109105#msg109105
date=1469147951]
[quote author=monsta666 link=topic=7619.msg109101#msg109101
date=1469146176]
Getting ahead in life depends on three components: hard work,
talent and luck. The first two are self-explanatory but the
final one of luck is something most people are unwilling to
acknowledge and if they do consider it tend to downplay how big
a role it plays. To me luck means being born in the right place
and at the right time. For example you can work hard as Eddie
has done but if you were born in a small African village the
chances of being as rich (materially at least) are far slimmer.
Similarly if Eddie was born in the US but 500 years in the past
he isn't going to be a well off dentist.
Not sure you can call that winning the lotto but where and when
you are born, as well as what family you live does play a big
part on how your future will turn out. In regards to family they
say the best barometer of future success is to take the
occupation of your father. Therefore it is safe to say that the
things you have no control over can play a big part over your
future. Off course the first two factors can contradict the
latter especially the bit about family but if you are too far
from the right place and/or time hard work/talent will not be
enough.
[/quote]
When and where you were born is a HUGE portion of the DL
Variable. Also Race a big portion of the DL Variable. For
instance, lets say a Black Affirmative Action candidate was
enrolled in Dental School the same year Eddie was. Is it likely
he would be as successful as Eddie? Probably not, because first
off he probably was not as well educated going in to dental
school as Eddie. Second, he would have faced more difficulty
getting a practice up and running, because White people with
money for expensive Dentistry would go to a White Dentist rather
than a Black one. Even Black people probably would go to a
White dentist before a black one in the 80s.
In terms of the When DL, back in the 70s-80s when Eddie went to
school, it was relatively CHEAP. You could work your way
through school accumulating relatively low debt. Today's Dental
student? Fuhgeddaboudit. You're in the hole $200K when they
issue you the sheepskin and open the Gate for you to practice
Dentistry.
In the Where DL sub-variable, Bill Gates has been quoted as
saying if he had his skill set but was born in Africa, he never
would have got anywhere with it. He had a geek mind suitable
for where he was born and when he was born.
Other DL involved here as well. Over on TBP there used to be a
Doctor A-hole a Proctologist. LOL. He died a couple of years
ago rather unexpectedly. He was an ass hole and I sure did not
mourn his death. A-hole however set up his practice in the
WRONG location and his practice failed. This ma have had
something to do with the fact he was an ass hole though as well.
lol.
Then there are all the Aerospace Engineers who got screwed when
the bottom fell out of that market in the 90s. Smart guys, hard
workers, well educated, but NO Aerospace Jobs!
Then all the hard working Air Traffic Controllers who got s h i
t-canned by Rayguns. A more stressful job does not exist than
ATC, ask Agelbert. It also takes a lot of smarts. It was THEIR
fault they were in the wrong f u c k i n g profession at the
wrong time? They didn't "Endeavor to Persevere" enough?
In my upcoming article, I focus on the problems of recent Law
Skule graduates. You will need to wait a couple of weeks for
that publication though.
Meanwhile, Eddie's Horatio Alger arguments have been beaten to
death, and he needs to find a new and better argument. :P
RE
[/quote]
Agreed.
I looked into what an African American Dentist is faced with in
the USA. It is not, in any way, shape or stretch of the
imagination, a level playing field compared to a white
privileged Dentist like Eddie.
They have trouble getting a loan for the chair and the stuff.
Back around 1970, John Adair, my deceased brother-in-law dentist
(part Cherokee but looked white with red hair), took a Coast
Guard Commission in exchange for them having paid a lot of his
studies. He was able to set up after he did his years of service
in private practice in Fort Lauderdale with a $25,000 loan from
my old man. John was from a poor family in Kansas. He became a
"winner" with help from my old man.
African American dentists go the ROTC route too in order to get
their studies paid. BUT, after that, most of them don't have a
father-in-law with the money to set up an office AND the PLACES
they can set up, when it isn't a poor minority neighborhood, are
MUCH FEWER than the options open to someone like John BECAUSE of
WHITE PRIVILEGE.
So, African American Dentists have to work for a group (and get
paid much less) OR go do prison dentistry until they accumulate
enough money to set up a private practice. And YEAH, when they
DO get a loan, they invariably pay higher interest AND are
allowed a LOWER principal.
ALL THE ABOVE, when NOT PRESENT means MORE PROFITS the white
privileged dentist gets for EXACTLY the same amount of hard
work, lengthy studies and perseverance.
Everything I just said about Dr. John Adair and Dr. Palm
(African American dentist in Burlington with a private practice)
is true.
Yes, they are just two people. BUT, the SHAFTING that African
American dentists get in the USA, despite their exemplary work
ethic and above average intelligence (to make it through white
dental schools being black, you HAVE to be VERY intelligent), is
WELL DOCUMENTED in EVERY profession in the health care field.
Meritocracy, MY ARSE!
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Re: Member Interesting, Hair Raising, Humorous or Otherwise Unus
ual Experiences
By: AGelbert Date: August 9, 2016, 12:49 am
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[quote author=RE link=topic=7617.msg108958#msg108958
date=1469045924]
I just woke up from my mid-morning nap after waking up early
this morning to do usual Diner tasks. I had the most vivid
dream in quite some time with a heavy doom theme.
I was visiting cousins at their house for Thanksgiving. In
reality their house was a very plain Levittown style tract house
on Long Island, and the one in the dream looked a lot like it
from the front. However, on the back side wasn't their yard, it
was right on the ocean with a cliff-like arrangement and two
steel pins painted red holding the house to the cliff.
I was watching TV in the living room and made a comment to my
cousin that she was the only person I knew who still had CRT
tube televisions. They always had old stuff and were very cheap
about buying anything new. I also had my laptop open on the
desk.
There were other relatives in the kitchen getting the food
ready, and a few more out on the back porch, when one came in
and reported that one of the steel pins holding the house up had
rusted through and the house was now only being held up by one
pin. He wasn't sure how long it had been like that though.
Nobody except me got too nervous about this and kept going about
the task of getting Thanksgiving dinner ready. I however
decided I needed to at least get my laptop to safety so I
unplugged it from the charger and then took it outside in the
front of the house going through the garage. There I noticed
that at the front edge of the garage, there was a gap forming
with the driveway. I SCREAMED at all my relatives, "THE HOUSE
IS GOING DOWN, GET OUT NOW!"
They began moving toward the front exit, but then the second pin
snapped and the house quickly tilted and slid about halfway in
the water. This left a much larger gap and a kind of mini-cliff
that the remaining relatives had to climb to get to safety.
There were some little kids who couldn't climb it and relatives
went back down to get them. I didn't go because with my bad arm
and bad legs, I didn't think I could help the kids get out and I
wouldn't be able to climb back out either. Then the house broke
off and slid completely into the water and all the relatives who
had not made it out were lost. There were a few of us standing
on the cliff edge, with one of the guys crying, the owner of the
house.
Then another relative asked what we were going to do about
Thanksgiving dinner since the Turkey and all the fixin's had
been washed out to sea? I suggested that we could go to a Diner
for Thankgiving Dinner.
Then I woke up.
Now, unfortunately unless you are truly amazing at dream
interpretation, it's impossible to figure out what the event
really is that is coming here or precisely how far off it is
either, but this is the most powerful premonition style dream I
have ever had, so something big may be very near on the horizon.
RE
[/quote]
Thank you for sharing. I agree that it is a valid source of
information, not to be discarded because of some moronic
skeptical comments about food and obviously dead biblical
characters.
Since it is about a calamity, it may be a warning in the form of
a metaphor about a "house". Dreams often portray our God given
premonitions in a symbolic manner. For example, a dream I had
many years ago showed a person that was betraying me hugging a
dark three dimensional shadow shaped like a human but without
any identifying characteristics (torso, legs arms and a head but
no individual fingers or viewable eyes, nose mouth, hair, etc.).
Within a month I learned the problem was not the shadow, but the
person hugging it BECAUSE the dream triggered an investigation
by yours truly on the matter.
Years earlier I had a dream about my home filling with a giant
wave of water. It wasn't water; it was something else. But the
dream made me pay more attention to personal matters. It saved
me a lot of grief within a year when the "water" was identified.
Sometimes, dreams are not symbolic, but quite accurate
representations of the proximate future. During a particularly
stressful time in my Air Traffic Control Career (lots of
overtime during strike recovery), I dreamed that my right front
tire had a blow out on my way to work. I parked the car and was
befuddled when I went to change the tire by the way it was
sliced clean across the tire outer side.
When I woke up, the dream was still vivid. I told my wife about
this weird dream. My wife was going to use the car so she would
ride with me to work that day. The tires looked fine. Well, I
ate breakfast and off we went.
About a mile from the Enroute Air Traffic control Center, I
swerved to avoid something on the road that a car had just
passed directly over without hitting. It was a brake shoe (a
half moon shaped part that some idiot had dropped on the road).
The tire hit one end and the other knifed into my tire and
caused a blow out. I pulled over and relived my dream in every
detail seeing the slice in the tire.
Anybody here that is so stupid and ignorant as to discard dreams
because they never got past pseudo scientific Freudian bullshit
claims that dreams are simply psycho-somatic reactions to food
is not worthy of respect.
Dreams CAN be about food, but to claim they are of no importance
beyond that is bullshit.
NO, I don't expect certain well off people or sophistic
hairsplitters to believe in the accuracy of my anecdotes. That
would force them to question their tidy "modern" view of reality
measured exclusively by the size of their bank account. ;)
But everything I said is true.
RE, I once did not take particularly vivid dreams seriously.
Experience taught me that is a mistake. There is quite a bit I
will not go into here because there are too many mocking ass
holes around that prefer sniping and jeering to taking the
subject of dream interpretation seriously.
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Re: Member Interesting, Hair Raising, Humorous or Otherwise Unus
ual Experiences
By: AGelbert Date: August 17, 2016, 9:33 pm
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[quote author=jdwheeler42 link=topic=559.msg111061#msg111061
date=1471473019]
[quote author=agelbert link=topic=559.msg111055#msg111055
date=1471465271]
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Since I am a bit of a 'no spiritual gain without pain' fanatic,
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[/quote]
Don't worry, my body provides copious amounts of pain, and since
I can't take ANY ingested analgesic for more than 2 days without
becoming addicted, I get plenty of practice with Stoic
endurance, too.
[/quote]
Yikes. :( I never knew someone could become addicted to
non-opiate and/or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (e.g.
aspirin).
Tale care.
Back when I used to work airplanes, about six times a year I
used to get such severe migraines at work that I could actually
feel the spiking, throbbing pain tracking across the top of my
scalp. :(
You just couldn't get up and leave. You had to finish your shift
WITHOUT any aspirin.
So, I was about three hours into heavy duty pain by the time I
made it home. I used to call them Excedrin Headache number
unlimited :P. I had to get in a dark room after taking two
extra strength Excedrins and press a pillow over my eyes. After
about an hour, I would fall asleep and it would be okay. In all
my years of working the boards, I had to be driven home on only
one occasion.
Now I have psoriasis tracks exactly where the "pain tracks"
traveled across my scalp. But I rarely get headaches and have
never had a migraine since my time on the boards.
After 19.5 years of working for the FAA (the last third of which
was as an automation analyst baby sitting an ATC mainframe and
providing programming, troubleshooting and routine patches), I
had a nervous breakdown. That is why I was retired with only 26%
of my high three instead of 51%. That is why I am poor.
All those years of study, from two years pre-engineering to two
years in becoming a commercial pilot and fight instructor to
three and have years of concentrated study and OJT hell to
become a journeyman radar air traffic controller, a year an a
half of accounting and business administration, 3 and half years
of pre-med and the equivalent of two years of computer science
packed into 4 months of 8 hours days did not save me from
economic disaster. :emthdown:
So, according to certain 'survival of fittest' folks here, I am
a failure and therefore deserve what I got for being a 'weak
sister'. These 'people' will toss those who stumble, despite a
lifetime of hard work and study, in the garbage and laugh at
their misery and pain. They are fools. They eschew empathy and
mock the downtrodden. I know. I was on the receiving end of
their bankrupt world view.
Se la vie.
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Re: Member Interesting, Hair Raising, Humorous or Otherwise Unus
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By: AGelbert Date: September 11, 2016, 4:48 pm
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[quote author=azozeo link=topic=7955.msg112383#msg112383
date=1473618129]
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[/quote]
Interesting. As a veteran of some serious syncope episodes prior
to my pacemaker implantation, I wish to inform readers that they
way Hillary collapsed is precisely the way you pass out from
syncope. It could also be a stroke but strokes usually take
minutes, not seconds, to knock you out.
In syncope, your heart just stops in its tracks. About 10
seconds later, you are unconscious. The heart starts up on its
own about 15 seconds later. Syncope is NOT a heart attack.
I just wanted to add that, minutes prior to a syncope, you feel
fatigued and you get paresthesia (tingling in arms and head).
This is because the heart is already stopping and starting for a
second or two, not enough to knock you out, but enough to reduce
the oxygenation in your extremities (tingling and pin pricks).
Hillary could have started to feel woozy, taken out, and then
had the main (15 seconds or more) syncope at the SUV.
UPDATE:
I just found this. This doctor seems to agree with my diagnosis.
8)
[quote]
Hillary Clinton almost fainted. I’m a doctor. It’s really o.k. |
Dr. Jen Gunter
10 hours ago - Hillary Clinton left early from the 9/11
commemoration in New York as ... With near syncope it is pretty
easy to intervene, as Mrs. Clinton's team did, and prevent the
faint. ... breath as I am pretty confident that if Mrs. Clinton
did have shortness ... with symptoms consistent with vasovagal
or orthostatic syncope, ...[/quote]
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Agelbert NOTE: The vasovagal syncope is the one where the heart
stops. The Orthostatic syncope is caused by low blood pressure
(hypotension) from rising up quickly from a sitting or squatting
position. Also, soldiers at attention in a formation sometimes
lock their leg muscles inadvertently causing loss of blood
pressure. They keel over and wake up embarrassed. I DOUBT
whether Hillary's syncope was orthostatic.
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Re: Member Interesting, Hair Raising, Humorous or Otherwise Unus
ual Experiences
By: AGelbert Date: September 11, 2016, 10:47 pm
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[quote author=Surly1 link=topic=559.msg112397#msg112397
date=1473637420]
By the way, AG, welcome back. Your voice has been missed.
[/quote][quote author=azozeo link=topic=559.msg112401#msg112401
date=1473639369]
[quote author=Surly1 link=topic=559.msg112397#msg112397
date=1473637420]
By the way, AG, welcome back. Your voice has been missed.
[/quote]
Yes,
Glad your participating AG...
[/quote]
Thank you. I'm feeling better. I hope to be fully normal soon.
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Re: Member Interesting, Hair Raising, Humorous or Otherwise Unus
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By: AGelbert Date: September 22, 2016, 4:31 pm
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[quote]Agelbert: I was thinking the other day about my deceased
dentist brother in law. He did his own lab work to increase his
profit on crowns and such. I understand that dentists, like
jewelers, could purchase gold when it was technically illegal to
purchase it back before 1977 (approximate year).
I know jewelers do not pay the retail price. Do dentists get a
similar discount? I know you folks don't use gold and silver as
much as you used to, but I don't know whether you stopped using
it altogether.
Can you enlighten me? [/quote]
[quote author=Eddie link=topic=261.msg113021#msg113021
date=1474570128]
You are correct that dentists were allowed to legally possess
gold after Roosevelt confiscated the gold of American citizens.
At that time, it was necessary to confiscate gold to keep people
from using it as a substitute for currency, so that the USD
could be devalued. By raising the price of gold from $20.67 to
$35, the USD lost 40% of its buying power in one day.
Dental gold is not sold to dentists at a discount. It actually
costs more, because it passes through an extra middle man, the
dental gold refiners. There are four basic kinds of dental gold,
and now (because gold is ultra expensive) many substitutes. Pure
gold is too soft for dental work, and the different dental golds
differ mainly by hardness. They are alloys, containing mostly
gold and silver, and some platinum and/or palladium.
Many so-called "gold" crowns and bridges contain zero gold. That
has been one way unscrupulous dentists have bilked patients and
insurance companies over the last generation, although now it's
getting harder to do, since some insurance companies demand to
see lab receipts proving that the gold charge is legitimate.
Gold is still a fine material to use where esthetics aren't
important, and when base metals are substituted, some sensitive
patients have allergic symptoms.
Gold will be around for a while in dentistry, but zirconium is
rapidly becoming a cheaper, and still very acceptable
substitute. And zirconium, although technically a metal, does
not look like metal. It looks like porcelain.
As for me, I did stop doing silver fillings some years back and
no longer keep silver on hand. I never actually kept silver
metal (or mercury) anyway, since I bought pre-capped amalgam
(more convenient and safer for staff). I still do a fair number
of gold crowns, but I don't have an in-house lab.
The amount of gold in a crown might be 3-5 pennyweights (a
pennyweight or dwt is 1/20 of a Troy oz.) so a typical gold cost
for a crown is roughly $150 to $250. To that add typical lab
labor and you get the doctor's lab bill for the crown, $300 to
$500. So a crown you pay $1200 for amounts to $700 to $900 for
the dentist's time and skill.
A zirconium crown total fee is still $1200, but the lab bill
might be $200 total. You can see why zirconium is getting more
popular with dentists. Patients do like the esthetics, as the
crowns are now quite life-like in appearance.
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you for
filling in all the blanks I had on gold and dentistry. I had no
idea they were using zirconium.
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Re: Member Interesting, Hair Raising, Humorous or Otherwise Unus
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By: AGelbert Date: October 23, 2016, 5:35 pm
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My computer had a massive failure a week ago. :( I tried to
put a new hard disk in but that didn't work.
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The hard disk MIGHT still be good and just the mother board is
fried but I will have to find that out at a future date.
So, the HP Pavillion and about a year's worth of data are kaput.
:P I did have some backup for tax stuff and legal but lost a
bunch of pictures and doc that weren't essential. I also lost
the "Favorites" list so I have to build that up slowly again.
:P I am not real thorough at backing my stuff up. Mea culpa.
:-[ :'(
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I have a 3.70 GHZ new Desktop Dell Inspiron i3-6100 cpu and 6GB
of memory (expandable to more, of course). It's the cheapest
thing around so that's what I got. ;D
I'm still rebuilding things so it will be a while before I do my
thing here again. 8)
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Re: Member Interesting, Hair Raising, Humorous or Otherwise Unus
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By: AGelbert Date: October 25, 2016, 12:49 pm
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date=1477263408]
[quote author=agelbert link=topic=559.msg114408#msg114408
date=1477261754]
My computer had a massive failure a week ago. :( I tried to
put a new hard disk in but that didn't work. :emthdown: The
hard disk MIGHT still be good and just the mother board is fried
but I will have to find that out at a future date.
So, the HP Pavillion and about a year's worth of data are kaput.
:P I did have some backup for tax stuff and legal but lost a
bunch of pictures and doc that weren't essential. I also lost
the "Favorites" list so I have to build that up slowly again.
:P I am not real thorough at backing my stuff up. Mea culpa.
:-[ :'( :emthdown:
I have a 3.70 GHZ new Desktop Dell Inspiron i3-6100 cpu and 6GB
of memory (expandable to more, of course). It's the cheapest
thing around so that's what I got. ;D
I'm still rebuilding things so it will be a while before I do my
thing here again. 8)
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Hi AG, You won't feel compromised with that i3 chip. It's one of
the best values out there. 6GB of memory is adequate as well.
Computers have gotten way ahead of what most of us use them for,
and I have little doubt your new rig will prove more than
adequate.
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Agreed.
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[quote author=agelbert link=topic=559.msg114408#msg114408
date=1477261754]
My computer had a massive failure a week ago. :( I tried to
put a new hard disk in but that didn't work. :emthdown: The
hard disk MIGHT still be good and just the mother board is fried
but I will have to find that out at a future date.
So, the HP Pavillion and about a year's worth of data are kaput.
:P I did have some backup for tax stuff and legal but lost a
bunch of pictures and doc that weren't essential. I also lost
the "Favorites" list so I have to build that up slowly again.
:P I am not real thorough at backing my stuff up. Mea culpa.
:-[ :'( :emthdown:
I have a 3.70 GHZ new Desktop Dell Inspiron i3-6100 cpu and 6GB
of memory (expandable to more, of course). It's the cheapest
thing around so that's what I got. ;D
I'm still rebuilding things so it will be a while before I do my
thing here again. 8)
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Pencil, paper, filebox....
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Yep. 8)
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Re: Member Interesting, Hair Raising, Humorous or Otherwise Unus
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[quote author=azozeo link=topic=559.msg114505#msg114505
date=1477418069]
Hey Hey AG.....
Glad your vertical & among the living.
Find a 4 year old Aquarian child to help with your computer
being stuck on stupid.
I think I'm going to buy a new laptop after Christmas. Mine's
starting to sloooowwww waaaayyy down as well.
Gotta' love that Chinese planned obsolescence. [img
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Sidenote: Where the heck has Surly been. On assignment or just
pissed about the shellacking Killary is taking around here ?
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I don't know where surly is.
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/>RE probably knows. 8)
For avoiding computer woes, I recommend a utility I just found
that can save you a LOT of trouble. Heat is a computer's worse
enemy. If I had used this in my old system, I could have
anticipated imminent failure and backed everything up
adequately. The utility is called Core Temp and sits in the
taskbar (when minimized). It monitors core temps continually.
;D
I LOVE IT! Check it out.
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How to Monitor Your Computer’s CPU Temperature
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CoreTemp DOWNLOAD page
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