Oh, Misty, I forgot my Complaint Thread

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  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,670

    i should upload a photo of my computer after I buy a usb DVD drive.  :D

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,202

    I have a Lian Le case.  I've had it for a decade at least, probably longer.  You wouldn't be able to tell that anything has changed, except for maybe the fact that there's a Blue Ray drive mounted.  But, it's been upgraded inside a few times since I bought it.

    Dana

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,498
    edited April 2022

    All done with MommaBear, for now.  Photo below.  I love the memory card reader and USB3 ports on the front panel.  Yeah, I lost the two USB ports on the top, but they were always a pain because when in her place of honor, the top of MommaBear is above my head when seated at my desk.  So trying to stick a USB into a slot you can't see is most irritating.angry  Also I do quite a bit of various SD card operations so having one on a modern computer is handy.  Also, I like the idea of an eSATA port on the front.  Not that I currently have anything that needs it, but give me time.devil

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,031

    hacsart said:

    woke up to -12C (10f) and snow .. and its sticking..

    kyoto kid said:

    ...the weather outside is cold.  Only 39° (officially) and it's about 13:40 here. . Woke up to about an inch or so of white stuff covering streets and sidewalks,.  "Fortunately" that has all been washed away by icy cold drizzle. 

    Going to need to pull the winter coat and scarves out of the closet again a I need to be somewhere today.

    ...however, you are in west central Canada where like Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota, that can be expected  (I remember snow in late April and even early May). Here In Portland the normal temperature for this time of year is about 12° higher than Edmonton AB, or Steven's Point WI. Normally we are in the low to mid 60s but have been about 12° - 15° below normal since the weekend.  I confirmed with life long residents (a few even older than me) here that Monday's snowfall was the latest they have ever seen in the city.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,031

    NylonGirl said:

    McGyver said:

    Clearly the Bowl Shaped Rack cannot exist in Euclidean space above a Plate Shaped Rack without throwing into disarray all perceptions of thermodynamics and linear time flow.

    It just can't be... the math says so or "triangular over banana", a fundamental pillar of super science and bleeding edge physics is wrong.

    I believe such a phenomenon could occur if a portion of the finite space were replaced with an infinite space... or perhaps a void... basically anywhere you can dump a whole lot of dishes.

    ...or left socks 

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,498
    edited April 2022

    I've been looking at Lian Li computer cases, very niceyes, but budget won out.indecision

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,031
    edited April 2022

    hacsart said:

    And that's why we don't have a dishwasher - we do them the old fashioned way.. it avoids a temporal and quantum disruption of earth shattering proportions..

    ...my flat does have one, but I never use it, except save for storing clean dishes to give me more cabinet space, as I live alone and therefore don't have stacks of dirty plates, bowls, and such after dinner.  Ridiculous to use all that water and soap for the few things I can wash by hand in a couple minutes.  A number of items I use also need to be hand-washed (like my cast iron cookware and delicate glassware). 

    A sharp contrast to where I used to live there was a dishwasher but the others who lived there not only produced the most dirty stuff, but were lazy, letting everything stack up in the sink and on the counters for a day (often several) making the kitchen pretty useless for preparing anything. Hence, I'd often end up going down to the foodie cart pod a couple blocks away, or,a little Thai restaurant down the street (which made super good curry), or to the nearby Hawai'ian BBQ place instead of cooking dinner.

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  • NylonGirlNylonGirl Posts: 1,795

    kyoto kid said:

    NylonGirl said:

    McGyver said:

    Clearly the Bowl Shaped Rack cannot exist in Euclidean space above a Plate Shaped Rack without throwing into disarray all perceptions of thermodynamics and linear time flow.

    It just can't be... the math says so or "triangular over banana", a fundamental pillar of super science and bleeding edge physics is wrong.

    I believe such a phenomenon could occur if a portion of the finite space were replaced with an infinite space... or perhaps a void... basically anywhere you can dump a whole lot of dishes.

    ...or left socks 

    And you can imagine my surprise when I opened the dishwasher and found all of the missing socks. 

  • hacsarthacsart Posts: 2,025

    Lose a sock in the dryer and it comes back as a Tupperware lid that doesn't fit any of your containers.. It was once thought that socks were the larval form of coat hangers.

  • NylonGirlNylonGirl Posts: 1,795

    And not just my missing socks but, like, every missing sock in the world...

  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    Amongst other things that I don't understand, I have been wondering, what is the motivation behind working out, eating healthy food and in general refrain from having socially unacceptable bad habits...

    I have heard all the explanations about living 'right' helping one to live longer and healthier life, but when making observations about the people around, the ones that are supposed to be the healthiest, are also ones that are spending the most time on sick leave...

    As for myself... I do everything 'wrong' and the last time I was sick, was almost 40 years ago and to be honest, I'm not sure if I was actually sick even then or if I had 'other interests' in mind cheeky

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,498
    edited April 2022

    Non-complaint:  Wheee... NewEgg has a decent sale on WesternDigital 2TB hard drives.  $85 intead of $160.coolenlightened

    https://www.newegg.com/black-wd2003fzex-2tb/p/N82E16822236624?item=N82E16822236624&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=Automation041322&cm_mmc=EMC-Automation041322-_-EMC-041322-Index-_-DesktopInternalHardDrives-_-22236624-S1A11A&ignorebbr=1

    Recently I've been buying 1TB "WD Black" drives on sale for $75 so I'm quite interested in 2TB drives for just $10 more.yes

    Yeah, yeah, I know!  Hard disk drives are passe', but they're not useless.cheeky  HDDs are excellent drives for backups of medium sized systems.  Or active storage for large frequently written files that would eat up the write cycles of a small SSD.

    And yeah, yeah, I know, it's WesternDigital and not Seagate, or <name your favorite brand>, but unlike Seagate, I have had no bad experiences with WesternDigital, maybe because I mostly buy the "Black" series.  So, I'm thinking of getting one or two for future computer adventures, but...

    Complaint:  Hmmm... so, why marked down so much?  I wonder what's wrong with them.frown   Fungus in the bearings?  Salvaged from a fire?  Removed from an alligators tummy?   Arghhhh....indecision

    Non-complaint:  Or possibly, there is nothing wrong with them and the store is just dumping stock of passe' items.​  If so, then that's OK, because there are a few of us old timers out here who still like writing on cave walls.smiley

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  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  Hmmm... so, why marked down so much?  I wonder what's wrong with them.frown   Fungus in the bearings?  Salvaged from a fire?  Removed from an alligators tummy?   Arghhhh....indecision

    The last time I had any WD's at home or at work (some 15+ years ago), one didn't have to open the case to see the brand of the drive. One just started the computer and if it sounded like a circular saw taking off while being banged into a concrete wall, one knew it was a WD drive waiting to fail within the first two years of operation. 

  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 12,714

    The regular price for 2 tb WD Black HDDs is $85 on Amazon. So, not really a special sale.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,498
    edited April 2022

    Yeah, I finally got to Amazon and found the same price there too.  Last time I looked at 2TB HDDs they were still in the $120 range.  I also checked at CamelCamelCamel.com and found the price history at Amazon. 

    https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B00FJRS628?context=search

    Yeah, apparently it's been down below $100 since last Fall.  I need to check the catalogs more often.indecision  But still thinking of getting at least one, I'm all out of spare, modern, HDD drives at the moment.  There's a Murphy's Law waiting to attack me somewhere.surprise

    I love spinning hard drives.  I've watched them evolve from clunky things the size of double door refrigerators, through tiny ones made to replace CompactFlash cards (about 3.5cm by 4.5cm).  Boy, those tiny ones were a flash in the pan!frown.  The "modern" size of 3.5 inches is just about right, although I do like the convenience of the 2.5 inch drives but for externals and desktop internals I prefer the 3.5 inch ones for their perceived greater longevity.  (Ooh, ooh, mass!yes)  And the dead ones make great tablecloth holders for outdoor picnics on a breezy day.enlightened

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  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,670

    I noticed that I am still logged into the Daz Website..  i thought that I logged out of the forums yesterday?  Maybe not.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,031
    edited April 2022

    ...I remember the one I had in my 386 was about hte size of the box my RTX 360 came in. 

    The 660 MB drive my old development company had, which held a full CD-Rom worth of data ad was used for assembly of our CD based products was massive in size.  This was a removable drive which we would pack up and send via courier to a local company that burned the initial "write once" disc which we would test, and it was fine, then submit to the duplication plant. 

    CD write systems were extremely expensive back then and incredibly sensitive to vibration. When we finally were able to get one of our own people in the company actually had to tiptoe past it while it was operating.

    Now CD R/W drives can be pruchased for under 15$ and pretty much on their way out.

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  • hacsarthacsart Posts: 2,025

    One of the systems I was first allowed to operat had IBM 3330 disk drives available.. expandable from 2 to 16 drive bays, max system capacity was 1.6GB

     

    On one of my eerlier dual Pentium III Dell systems I had this external SCSI array attached.. 6 x 4 GB drives..

     

     

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,498

    kyoto kid said:

    ...I remember the one I had in my 386 was about hte size of the box my RTX 360 came in. 

    The 660 MB drive my old development company had, which held a full CD-Rom worth of data ad was used for assembly of our CD based products was massive in size.  This was a removable drive which we would pack up and send via courier to a local company that burned the initial "write once" disc which we would test, and it was fine, then submit to the duplication plant. 

    CD write systems were extremely expensive back then and incredibly sensitive to vibration. When we finally were able to get one of our own people in the company actually had to tiptoe past it while it was operating.

    Now CD R/W drives can be pruchased for under 15$ and pretty much on their way out.

    And you can get a terrabyte of storage on a device the size of a stick of gum for the price of a meal out, with your family.  Depending on where you like to eat.  Arby's or RedLobster.  ADATA or Samsung.devil

  • hacsarthacsart Posts: 2,025

     I can't remember the vendor, but we had a SCSI attached box that had a 660MB drive and burner all in one.. The idea was to master your CD,then xfer the image to the box and it (supposedly) would do the actual burn, The die was to minimize buffer underruns.. It worked (most of the time), but as you say it could easily be upset by vibration ...

    kyoto kid said:

    ...I remember the one I had in my 386 was about hte size of the box my RTX 360 came in. 

    The 660 MB drive my old development company had, which held a full CD-Rom worth of data ad was used for assembly of our CD based products was massive in size.  This was a removable drive which we would pack up and send via courier to a local company that burned the initial "write once" disc which we would test, and it was fine, then submit to the duplication plant. 

  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    LeatherGryphon said:

    kyoto kid said:

    ...I remember the one I had in my 386 was about hte size of the box my RTX 360 came in. 

    The 660 MB drive my old development company had, which held a full CD-Rom worth of data ad was used for assembly of our CD based products was massive in size.  This was a removable drive which we would pack up and send via courier to a local company that burned the initial "write once" disc which we would test, and it was fine, then submit to the duplication plant. 

    CD write systems were extremely expensive back then and incredibly sensitive to vibration. When we finally were able to get one of our own people in the company actually had to tiptoe past it while it was operating.

    Now CD R/W drives can be pruchased for under 15$ and pretty much on their way out.

    And you can get a terrabyte of storage on a device the size of a stick of gum for the price of a meal out, with your family.  Depending on where you like to eat.  Arby's or RedLobster.  ADATA or Samsung.devil

    But have we really gained anything?

    My first computer (AT clone) had 1MB of RAM and a 40MB hardrive partitionned into two and I had a ton of programs installed, as the hardware has improved, the software has eaten the gains - One of the reasons I tend to hold on to old OS and programs and just update the hardware => The benefits of hardware updates can actually be utilized (as long as the software still does what I want/need it to do, nevermind the useless eyecandy that's not even pretty) 

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,498

    Non-complaint:  MommaBear is all setup in her new case.  And now, "George" is now back home again in his original case that MommaBear had stolen when she got kicked out of her house by new motherboard "Titan".  My game of 'puter musical chairs is over.  Titan is in the big case that he chased Momma out of, Momma is in a new but smaller case, George is off the shelf and back into his original HP case.  The power switch LED was burned out so I ordered a new one on ebay.  Now I can tell when the computer turns on or goes to sleep again.  Yay!

    Complaint:  Rain!  Non-complaint: Not snow.

    Complaint:  I stripped three motherboard screws on the top edge of the board when putting George back into his old HP case.frown  He's OK for now but I wouldn't shake him hard.  I hate cases where the motherboard screws are right under the lip of the case and you can't get a screwdriver in there properly vertical, the screws tend to get skejawed.no  I'll have to figure a way to get slightly bigger screws into a retapped hole.  However, George IS 14 years old, that's 98 in people years, and he isn't and won't be invited to join the Win11 bandwagon.

    Non-complaint:  Yay, more shopping, but not right now.  I am truly out of spendable cash and swimming in functioning computers.  Don't really need no more.smiley  Keep reminding me of that.

     

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050
    edited April 2022

    Check it out...

    This is the first part I've collected for my Ferrari F40 convertible...

     

    I don't actually have a whole one yet, but this is just the first step... 

     

    Some guy with the aforementioned vehicle who lives in the area just drove by and snagged something on the manhole cover in the street in front of my house...
    I was trimming some shrubs and I heard a godawful crunching sound as he drove over the rim of the cover... followed by an even more awful dragging sound... 

    I've seen the car around here a bunch of times near the water where all the mansions are, and my street is a route between the highway and there... My hope is that he keeps driving by losing parts, until I can collect enough pieces to complete my own F40.

    Now the waiting game begins.

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  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050
    edited April 2022

    Where the is everyone?

    I hope everyone is out enjoying a nice spring day.

    Or at least looting and pillaging something interesting...

    Well, till latter.. remember the words of the old ones...

    "Karja tietää milloin mennä kotiin,
    ja sitten laiduntaminen loppuu;
    mutta tyhmä mies
    ei koskaan tiedä
    milloin lopettaa karjan syömisen."

     

    Edit... Oops... Wrong thread...
    I didn't realize this was the Complaint Thread...I thought this was the Finnish Viking Forum...
    My bad.

    Bad translation...
    "Cattle know
    when to go home,
    and then the grazing stops;
    but the stupid man
    never knows
    when to stop eating cattle."

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  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    LOL..., where did you find something like that?.

  • hacsarthacsart Posts: 2,025
    edited April 2022

    The Hávamál - stanza 21

    ᚺᛃᚨᚱᚦᛁᚱ ᚦᚨᛏ ᚹᛁᛏᚢ, ᚾᛇᚱ ᚦᛇᚱ ᚺᛖᛁᛗ ᛊᚲᚢᛚᚢ, ᛟᚲ ᚷᚨᛜᚨ ᚦÁ ᚨᚠ ᚷᚱᚨᛊᛁ; ᛖᚾ Óᛊᚹᛁᚦᚱ ᛗᚨᚦᚱ ᚲᚨᚾᚾ ᛇᚹᚨᚷᛁ ᛊÍᚾᛊ ᛟᚠ ᛗÁᛚ ᛗᚨᚷᚨ.

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  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050

    PerttiA said:

    LOL..., where did you find something like that?.

    I learned that on the mean streets of my old neighborhood... Vikingtown.

    Actually, the neighborhood I grew up in may have well been Vikingtown, but I came across that in some of my notes a little while before... I often write down stuff for some bizarre thing I'm writing and then get interrupted and forget about it.

    That or I was channeling the ghost of Ukko again... Ukko was run over by a caribou several centuries ago and his spirit haunts an old footstool I got at a thrift store... He's pretty annoying, but not nearly as bad as the stabby gnome that lives under my sofa. 

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050

    hacsart said:

    The Hávamál - stanza 21

    ᚺᛃᚨᚱᚦᛁᚱ ᚦᚨᛏ ᚹᛁᛏᚢ, ᚾᛇᚱ ᚦᛇᚱ ᚺᛖᛁᛗ ᛊᚲᚢᛚᚢ, ᛟᚲ ᚷᚨᛜᚨ ᚦÁ ᚨᚠ ᚷᚱᚨᛊᛁ; ᛖᚾ Óᛊᚹᛁᚦᚱ ᛗᚨᚦᚱ ᚲᚨᚾᚾ ᛇᚹᚨᚷᛁ ᛊÍᚾᛊ ᛟᚠ ᛗÁᛚ ᛗᚨᚷᚨ.

    I guess that's it... I'm really disappointed that I didn't change it that much... I love butchering old sayings, poems and sonnets.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,031

    McGyver said:

    Check it out...

    This is the first part I've collected for my Ferrari F40 convertible...

     

    I don't actually have a whole one yet, but this is just the first step... 

     

    Some guy with the aforementioned vehicle who lives in the area just drove by and snagged something on the manhole cover in the street in front of my house...
    I was trimming some shrubs and I heard a godawful crunching sound as he drove over the rim of the cover... followed by an even more awful dragging sound... 

    I've seen the car around here a bunch of times near the water where all the mansions are, and my street is a route between the highway and there... My hope is that he keeps driving by losing parts, until I can collect enough pieces to complete my own F40.

    Now the waiting game begins.

    ...

     

  • hacsarthacsart Posts: 2,025
    edited April 2022

    for me its started years ago got hooked on Beowulf.. Led to Anglo Saxon studies, including the language. Whcoh led to studying the history of the Vikings in England,

    McGyver said:

    hacsart said:

    The Hávamál - stanza 21

    ᚺᛃᚨᚱᚦᛁᚱ ᚦᚨᛏ ᚹᛁᛏᚢ, ᚾᛇᚱ ᚦᛇᚱ ᚺᛖᛁᛗ ᛊᚲᚢᛚᚢ, ᛟᚲ ᚷᚨᛜᚨ ᚦÁ ᚨᚠ ᚷᚱᚨᛊᛁ; ᛖᚾ Óᛊᚹᛁᚦᚱ ᛗᚨᚦᚱ ᚲᚨᚾᚾ ᛇᚹᚨᚷᛁ ᛊÍᚾᛊ ᛟᚠ ᛗÁᛚ ᛗᚨᚷᚨ.

    I guess that's it... I'm really disappointed that I didn't change it that much... I love butchering old sayings, poems and sonnets.

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