The They Stuck Gears on my Convoy Whinging Complaint Thread
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sycamores the late bloomers of the tree world?
finally seeing leaves.
the silver birch trees are pretty
luv their lil whiskies
some o those old refurbs will say windows7 installed, not the same thing as installed and activated.
if it doesn't come with valid serial number, laptop will only work for 30 days, or less.
i haz a reservation lol
Hmmm..., I don't blame you, I too would have a reservation about starting a journey for which I would not arrive.
the pearly gates, ride reservations like at disney
And just like how I do Disney or Universal Studios, I'd arrive at the attraction on a tiny golf-cart thingie. (i.e. PTV: "Personal Transport Vehicle")
Old age and infirmities have some benefits! 
I was told it has XP on it.
Why would you want that? No support. Hacker's playground. Unless you clean it and put another OS on it. Actually, I have the laptop that I gave to my dad (I got it back when he passed) that still has XP on it. It couldn't handle anything newer. I'm using it to play music videos that I can play along with on the bass. It's not connected to the network and the Wi-Fi is turned off.
Dana
Yes, I have himself's little desk top sitting over in what was his corner, that has XP on it as quite a few of the games he liked to play wouldn't work on Win 7. It even has an A drive, as some of the games are on a floppy disc.
WindowsXP was replaced by VISTA 10 years ago. The hardware is three OS's old. Not a good choice for modern needs. Most WinXPs came on single processor computers (Sloooooow...) A WinXP era machine with a single processor, on the modern Internet is laughable. DAZzing on a single processor machine is painful.
However, a WinXP era machine isn't a bad machine in theory but in computer lifetimes it's like buying a 20 year old car, do you really trust it? What's going to need replacement first? Fans, hard drive? I have two WinXP desktop machines that I keep for playing old games but that's it! And I know the status of those machines and what's been replaced and when. And even I only trust them to do nothing important.
I thought Win XP was directly before Win 7, and then I remembered that VIsta was one of the ones you ignored (if you had any sense)
It is free and I am going to see if I can use something other than XP on it. First I have to have in in my hands to see what it can or cannot do. It is something better than nothing.
Free is easy to afford, until it gets expensive.
Hey, I just watched a video two days ago of a guy who set up his Commodore 64 to get on the web! Not a BBS, the Web! Slow, and only text (like Lynx but a special browser made for the C64). It was cool. But I wouldn't want it. But, at least, no worries about popup ads or viruses!
Dana
...I have a duo core XP (Media Edition) notebook that I used to do all my 3D work on (going on 11 years old and still running). The downside was most XP systems (particularly notebooks) were only 32 bit and that means limited memory resources for rendering. Wasn't too bad in the Daz 1.7 - 2.3 days but 3.1 with UberEnvironment really choked it and 4.0 was almost unusable.
...you can still get a 32 bit OEM of W7 Home Edition.
Or just go to Linux.
...well day 11 has come and gone. Still hanging in here.
Apparently that "move out by" date of the 10th I was given by the former owners was in error as that was just the final date for bids on the property. The house is in someone else's hand (some realty company in California) . Still have power water and heat (the latter useful as we keep slipping back into winter here every few days). Been nice and quiet without the dogs and drama.
Learned that as I was a renter and wasn't informed about the foreclosure until just a couple weeks ago, I cannot be forced or locked out for 90 days from when an official notice to vacate is handed me (which hasn't happened yet). The new owners also cannot turn off utilities on me during that time (but not saying that's a given though I have legal precedence to get them turned back on if it happens). This buys me a bit of time to do a more "sane" rather than "panic mode" search, and not have to end up somewhere I may regret out of desperation, as well as possibly have the low income apartment I'm on the list for to open up.
Still not the most "comforting" situation, but better than it was.
At least i don't have to wait for the loo or deal with a kitchen that is a disaster of a mess.
Good news, KK
Hoping things keep working out in your favor like this, KK!
Dana
..thanks all. Need to collect all the good vibes I can get.
TGIF!! no beer at home
twin tub washing machine like playing with a toy. washed a few towerls and pillow cases last night. the spinner leaves everything damp, is all hanging from shower curtain rod
running the dehumidifier. dehumiditer is ancient. i moved in 96 so is over 21 years old.
i don't think it's energy efficient.
next lotto ticket win i'll get a mini portable tumble dryer and a portable dehumidifier.
witcher 3 is distracting me from playing carrara.
all that work to get the facial rigging into carrara and i haven't done any animation work for toward my full feature movie.
trying to imagine a space station harbor.
do they take chuncks of asteroid and bring it inside to be like a terrain?
do they fabricate every thing like lakes and rivers?
my phobias of elevators and giantigigganticus ferris wheels are kicking in.
trying to imagine a non-claustro-fying elevator/lift/sliding sidewalk thing.
they travel by spinning tea cup?
i have been to jfk airport. lirr train to a train to the airport, there was a moving walk thing to go to the other side of the termimal. was a couple decades, they may have updated.
imagine no one watches the arrival/departure boards, it's all on their phones naos, imagining.
prolly lots a people bumping into each other, cuz they all watching their phones.
it's the administrative assistants that are really behind the running of the realm. secret dodgey deals on literal paper, too sensitive for email
Friday is turning into chinese food day. drank a qt of chinese hot tea. ready to float away.
meanwhile, Geralt needs a shave and a soak in a hot tub
been thru the dessert on a horse with no reins
good to get out o the rain,laa laaa la la laa
The space station I'm writing now . . . geostationary orbit (~36000 kilometres up), 2km across (6.2 km circumference), 10 decks in the wheel, 4 zero-g decks in the hub, spins at 1 revolution per 1 minute 12 seconds - that's 88 metres per second on the rim - for 0.8g of centrepetal gravity. And the only way to get there is up the "beanpole" space elevator, at an average vertical speed of 1500 kilometres per hour (932mph), and it takes 24 hours to get there!
Not too hot if you don't like elevators or ferris wheels!
Easy. Just eliminate the windows.
Trip Advisor review: "I spent half a million bucks on the ride of a lifetime up to the space station, and there wasn't even a window. Reckon it was a big con - hashtag FAKE!
Got the computer finally. It is an Eee PC what ever that means.
...that's a model of ASUS notebook.
If it is a 1005HA series, it might have 2 GB of memory (1 GB standard), a single core 1.6 GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU, and an 160 GB HDD. Definitely not a rendering machine.
thanks. At least I know I cannot do massive rendering on it