[NSRCA-discussion] Experimenting with new forum software

[J N Hiller]

I thought you guys would see the humor in that. I never thought of the
switch being an on switch with a mind of it's own when the reset don't work
either. These windows things truly have a mind of their own when they come
to life several times a day to do god only knows what. The power save will
disable and the monitor will light up, the hard drive rattles like crazy and
the cooling fan will start to blow a lot of hot air like the processor is
really working hard, all while I am sitting in the recliner watching late
night network news or reading model magazines. I guess it is looking for
downloads that won't load because I don't have service pack #3 which
wouldn't load because it isn't compatible with my keyboard. "What a pain."
I expect you all can relate to this. I hate to think about the next upgrade.
I should also mention that I was totally spoiled at work where the IT guy
handled it with only an occasional break while he rebooted the server during
working hours. Sometimes it took him all night to fix problems. The last few
years I worked the fully functional PC's were replaced with a terminal /
server structure but I couldn't talk him into just adding me as another
user.
Off to the shop now.
Jim

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org]On Behalf Of John Pavlick
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 9:02 AM
To: General pattern discussion
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Experimenting with new forum software

Ah now see we never had that problem with DOS. No lockups as far as I can
remember other than the times I wrote some bad code in BASIC!

Now remember, Windows wants you to press the "Start" button (?) in order to
shut the computer off. So why does it shock you that sometimes it doesn't
shut down? LOL

John Pavlick

--- On Tue, 1/27/09, J N Hiller <jnhiller at earthlink.net> wrote:
From: J N Hiller <jnhiller at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Experimenting with new forum software
To: "General pattern discussion" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 4:48 PM
DOS, that's that black screen stuff isn't it? I'm a point and click
guy that
came with windows and have had to resort to pulling the plug on XP more than
once to regain at least partial control.
Jim Hiller

-----Original Message-----
From: nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org
[mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org]On Behalf Of Martin X.
Moleski, SJ
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 7:06 AM
To: General pattern discussion
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Experimenting with new forum software

Jay Marshall wrote:

> What's wrong with DOS?

DOS is cool.

Back in the DOS 2 days, I knew every file on my computer
and what it did.  I was the master of a very small
universe.  I wrote a treelist function for my own
shell that would let me catalog every file on my
system.

> I have a virgin shrink wrapped copy of 2.0 on my
> bookshelf that I tempted to install on my laptop...

I know the feeling.  I often imagine what DOS would
be like on any of my obsolete computers--they are
WAAAAAAAAAAAY beyond my old 8088 for horsepower!

I've put DOS on a couple of thumb drives for various
nefarious schemes.  It works.  It's useful.  It brings
back lots of happy memories.  Then I unplug it and
go back to GUI-world.  No more whole-system catalogues.
I'm not even sure of the order of magnitude of system
and program files on my computer.  40,000?  More?
Beats me.  As long as they stay quiet and play together
nice, I don't look at them.

                                Marty
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