I Am So Tired But There's So Much To Do Complaint Thread
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shopping for a new christmas tree and lights.
i can't find flutterby christmas lights.
seeing pink flamingo strand lights. doesn't say for christmas tree, but it should be safe?
Back in the early '80s I worked for a big company (Harris Intertype) that made newspaper printing equipment and also made word editing computers (early word processors) We used very simple computers with very limited memory (8K). We'd read a news article from the teletype lines and feed it into the memory of the computer (not disk..., memory) and the stories had to be relatively short. Whatever space was left over in the memory was what we had to work with to move sections of text around as the operator edited the article. When we had lots of space it was easy to move entire paragraphs and squeeze out the vacant areas. However, to avoid computer crash it was mandated that we had to be able to edit the article when there was only one byte of free memory left. I succeeded.
The algorithm needed very little tweaking and worked quite efficiently under normal situations by moving big blocks of characters. But when there was only one byte of free memory left it took a verrrrrrrry looooong time to pick up one character, scroll to the target area, drop the character, scroll back to the source area and repeatedly shift each character one space to squeeze out the space then scroll back to the source area pick up the next character to be moved, scroll to the target area, deposit the character, then scroll back to the source area and and ripple squeeze out the space,... over and over and over. This was all visible on the screen as it happened and it was fascinating to watch the process scroll and ripple through the text as a large section of text was moved. But it worked! Which actually amazed us! 
Note: after the article was edited it was fed directly to a phototypesetting machine to be made ready for making press plates for the newspaper printing machines. Cool technology at the time.
Back in the day , we called computers abaci! And we liked it!
I would absolutely be surprised!!!!!
Complaint: OMG ICE RINK cold cold cold brrrrrr!!!
Complaints!!
- Slow cooking takes a long time
- It's damp outside
- It's damp inside too
= I'm low on fresh veggies
- My legs are sore from walking
- I;ve turned into a marshmallow
- I'm sick of doctor appointments
- DIM is dim, it's so low contrast I can barely read it
- I feel a bit dim myself
- A pair of good heels are over a hundred bucks
- I;m crabby
There is another one that I think is free...KeePass. It might be lighter on resources. And I think there may be one for free at bitsdujour.com today. Already deleted the email, so I can't be sure without going to the site.
http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/abylon-keysafe/in=todays-deals-home
https://keepass.info/
Dana
Dana
...chilly here with water from the sky and only going to get worse in coming days. Will be down to freezing Sunday night/Monday morning. Need to get the big container of rolled oats for brekkie, as well as milk for hot cocoa, soups, and some more dead bird to make another pot of curry with to make it through.
...yeah, and to think I used to use it to work in Daz and render scenes with. Fortunately we only had 3DL back then but with only 2 GB anything with the "Uber" moniker was off limits for me as it required way too much in system resoruces to render with. Back then, Daz didn't make use of virtual memory (only Carrara did) so if physical memory was exceeded....*Crash*. I could render much "bigger" scenes in Carrara though it took ages with only 2 CPU cores at 1.6 GHz.
...no good, skating isn't the same without hot cocoa or cider.
I use KeePass and can reccomend it. It's free and very light on resources.
...well if you have a decent hard drive and a good sized block of it reserved for Virtual Memory, yeah it will work. However as I mentioned back in the day, Daz only made use of physical memory so when it ran out, that was it, the render job and programme simply crashed.to the desktop.
...be careful, I've read news stories where cities made kids stop selling lemonaide or mowing lawns because they didn't have a business licence.
Ironically, that was my point.
Back in the dark ages of the '80s when those chemical light sticks were still new, somebody started making necklaces and other glowey things using the same principle. It's common now but it was new and still facinating back then. We had been to Disney World and seen them sold at night. So, when we got back to Washington DC, we did some research and found a company in Baltimore that sold them wholesale. We drove up and bought a few hundred dollars worth just before the 4th of July. We loaded up a backpack full and went down to the National Mall (Washington Monument, Capitol Building, museums, grass, you know...) for the fireworks display and started selling them to the crowd at about 100% profit. They went like hotcakes. 
But before we got them all sold we were warned that the police were looking for the vendor. 
Knowing that we should have had a vendor's license we beat a hasty retreat back home (just a few blocks away) and ended up giving away most of the rest of them to neighborhood kids. Vendor's License? Who needs a Vendor's License? 
Complaint: my high-contrast keyboard arrived but my 24in. monitor is still out for delivery. WTF?
i havent done my goal for today yet, gotta get the trinitron crt atleast to the outside doorstep.
Non-complaint: 24in monitor arrived omgomg it's huge, videos look great so do my Hulu cooking shows
Complaaint: Almost out of Worst Cooks in America episodes wahhhhh
The chemicals are non-toxic. Used to break them open and massage them into the dog's fur.
Adults hate me, kids love me. I win.
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Back to winter here, we must be in the bit that stayed cloudy, the sky has been a ghastly off white all day :)
thought they played abacus cod they didn't have slotcars :0
...mum bought us a 1/32nd scale Strombecker™ slot car set on year for christmas. Had a Porsche Carrara and a Lotus 19.
This is what the track looked like.
Cost was a whopping 50$ which was lot of money in the 60s.
Within a couple days after we opened it up and put it togther our uncles ended up burning out the motor in the Porsche which we had to get replaced.
Waiting for a new ipad, should be here next week sometime :)
Ipad, schweet!
i have a Kindle Fire HD, use it to read in bed. I have about 400 books on it!
Complaint: installed DS and all bundled stuff, can't find jack. Or Vicky.
Mmmmm pizza and wings.
New complaint: hot pizza got cold, cold salad got warm. Physics sucks!!!!
Oh darn it, my break is over. Took most of my break trying to get my tablet to see my hotspot. Had to restart both the tablet and the phone. Now break is over.
First law of Pizza Dynamics: Eat Pizza when hot to enjoy the full flavour of the toppings and gooeyness of the cheese
Second Law of Pizza Dynamics: Leftover Pizza is perfectly fine to eat cold for breakfast the next morning
Third Law of Pizza Dynamics: Never reheat leftover Pizza in a microwave as it makes the crust rubbery and difficult to hold in the hand.
...picked up Stonemason's Fern Lake Bundle with an extra 20% discount from a new release PC+ item (some Iray shaders that will come in handy). This is why I love this sale more than the PA sale or MM as I don't have to spend 15 - 20$ or a bunch of products to earn points to trigger extra discounts.
These, friends, are words to live by!!!!
I've found a tolerable work-around for the 3rd law. Reheat in microwave very slowly. I buy a whole Dominoes pizza (3 toppings for $7 deal), wrap each slice in plastic wrap and immediately freeze. When hungry for pizza I unwrap and put one FROZEN slice on paper plate in microwave, set the timer for 6 or 6 and a half minutes, set the power to 1/5th power (2 of 10). This should heat the topings without making the crust rubbery. If still cool in center, apply up to 30 seconds at high power.
WARNING: Do not cook one slice of frozen pizza on high for 6 minutes, it bursts into flames and fills your apartment with black smoke, turns the inside of your microwave brown, and coats the lightbulb with brown sludge which then gets baked onto the hot incandescent bulb and everything you put in your microwave now looks yellowish. -- Voice of Wisdom --
(This is probably the same effect you'd get by roasting whale blubber in the microwave! )