ShadowsDad
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Post by ShadowsDad on Nov 30, 2018 15:50:36 GMT -6
I just realized that this might make for a good thread when my software decided to update itself and allow me use of the computer in between it's more important use. I bought it for me to use. Can't programmers have their updates check the computer clock and update in the early morning hours!?
I'll come up with more no doubt since I appear to be turning into a curmudgeon. Still fighting for control of the mouse BTW.
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Post by wchnu on Nov 30, 2018 16:48:40 GMT -6
I am not sure the forum had enough space to store a list of my pet peeves. Just saying. I will add that you can usually schedule updates for down time. But you will need to find someone smarter then me to tell you how.
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Post by ordinaryshaver on Nov 30, 2018 18:54:47 GMT -6
I just realized that this might make for a good thread when my software decided to update itself and allow me use of the computer in between it's more important use. I bought it for me to use. Can't programmers have their updates check the computer clock and update in the early morning hours!? I'll come up with more no doubt since I appear to be turning into a curmudgeon. Still fighting for control of the mouse BTW. Mac or p.c.?
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Post by ordinaryshaver on Nov 30, 2018 23:18:13 GMT -6
If it is a Mac, I can't help. A P.C. should depend on what version of Windows you have. However, as a general rule it is in settings and then update. That should get you close until I know more information.
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Post by ShadowsDad on Nov 30, 2018 23:58:51 GMT -6
PC
I suspect that it's 3rd party software. I would never allow MS to have full access to my computer, but maybe I did in a weak moment.
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Post by ordinaryshaver on Dec 1, 2018 21:39:42 GMT -6
I would recommend checking your settings and see if you have updates scheduled to run. Also, I never allow updates until I want them, and then, only do them when the computer has trouble loading pages and saying I need new codecs. I have had nothing but issues when it comes to updates.
Now on to a pet peeve of mine, these stupid new cars that have the white looking headlights that even on low beams blind you when they are in the opposite side of the road, and also behind you. I cant tell you how many times I have to adjust my mirror so I dont have a white light bouncing off my mirror and then reflecting off my glasses and almost making it worse than if the brights were on.
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Post by wchnu on Dec 1, 2018 22:59:02 GMT -6
I would recommend checking your settings and see if you have updates scheduled to run. Also, I never allow updates until I want them, and then, only do them when the computer has trouble loading pages and saying I need new codecs. I have had nothing but issues when it comes to updates. Now on to a pet peeve of mine, these stupid new cars that have the white looking headlights that even on low beams blind you when they are in the opposite side of the road, and also behind you. I cant tell you how many times I have to adjust my mirror so I dont have a white light bouncing off my mirror and then reflecting off my glasses and almost making it worse than if the brights were on. NOW NOW NOW..... Those are for safety. The lights that we have been using for 40 years ( I started driving at about 9) are not safe you know.
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Post by ordinaryshaver on Dec 1, 2018 23:13:47 GMT -6
When I moved to Texas 3 years ago, I went to change my Driver Liscense over. It was easy and simple. Come to find out, I had a cheffours Liscense, a class B CDL, and a motorcycle endorsement. Never took the class for the CDL or the cheffours liscense, but since the lady that gave me my test knew I had been driving on the farm since I was 10, she knew I could drive anything with wheels Funny story, I actually would drive the tractor into town at about 4 or 5 am and fill up the diesel tank. Well I would drive right past the police station, and actually Dove hunted with the chief of police. He figured if I did something stupid he would have to cuff me and take me to jail to keep daddy from killing me.
It was great growing up on a farm,taught me work ethic, and but my butt. It also served me well in how "Jerry rig" and make it work I can weld, I can do plumbing, I can do electrical, I can mechanic and more. A jack of all trades and a master of none. I also learned to drive a manual transmission on the farm, as well as how to change out the clutch, and the pressure plate on said truck after I ground the gears.
Heck, I learned how to drive on a 1988 Dodge ram pickup with a 12 foot trailer. Even at work, when I drive the box truck, I still open the drivers door and look instead of using a parabolic mirror. Most folks laugh when I do it, until you get a true "good ole boy" that has done farm work, and they will tell you that's the best way to do it.
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Post by wchnu on Dec 1, 2018 23:18:51 GMT -6
When I moved to Texas 3 years ago, I went to change my Driver Liscense over. It was easy and simple. Come to find out, I had a cheffours Liscense, a class B CDL, and a motorcycle endorsement. Never took the class for the CDL or the cheffours liscense, but since the lady that gave me my test knew I had been driving on the farm since I was 10, she knew I could drive anything with wheels Funny story, I actually would drive the tractor into town at about 4 or 5 am and fill up the diesel tank. Well I would drive right past the police station, and actually Dove hunted with the chief of police. He figured if I did something stupid he would have to cuff me and take me to jail to keep daddy from killing me. It was great growing up on a farm,taught me work ethic, and but my butt. It also served me well in how "Jerry rig" and make it work I can weld, I can do plumbing, I can do electrical, I can mechanic and more. A jack of all trades and a master of none. I also learned to drive a manual transmission on the farm, as well as how to change out the clutch, and the pressure plate on said truck after I ground the gears. Heck, I learned how to drive on a 1988 Dodge ram pickup with a 12 foot trailer. Even at work, when I drive the box truck, I still open the drivers door and look instead of using a parabolic mirror. Most folks laugh when I do it, until you get a true "good ole boy" that has done farm work, and they will tell you that's the best way to do it. YUP.....
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Post by ordinaryshaver on Dec 11, 2018 20:46:14 GMT -6
Another pet peeves of mine is language. More specifically calling things what they are. Example it is a water heater, not a hot water heater. Why anyone would want to heat hot water is beyond me. Another example, is sometimes I will say, a phrase that is completely normal to me, but abnormal to folks not from around the deep South. Two examples A. Pull that door to, please. Simply means "to close the door" but I grew up hearing it said the other way for so long, I developed it as my vernacular. Another example, calling a road that goes over land on a higher level than the ground, most folks call it "overpass" growing up in the deep South it was always called a viaduct pronounced "ViDock". Just little things like common jargon from different areas.
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Post by ShadowsDad on Dec 12, 2018 10:15:57 GMT -6
Then there is a kerosene heater. Instead of kerosene space (or area) heater, or even better, kerosene fired space heater. But you mention language... lately on the local idiot tube news programs they've started to put up logos that remove the vowels. "Next" becomes nxt and "later" becomes ltr. How lazy can they be? It's not a text message, it's frigging communication which the news programs used to try to do. Communicating correctly is their job, or was.
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Post by poppi on Dec 12, 2018 10:32:03 GMT -6
Pet peeve for me = bad table manners. It's appalling to see how badly some people behave in in public
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Post by ShadowsDad on Dec 12, 2018 11:53:12 GMT -6
Yet another...
In the USA we have a political party called the democrats. Yet representatives from that party are continually called "democratic" representative so and so. They are NOT democratics but democrats. Democratic refers to a system of government which doesn't exist in the USA. (we're a constitutional republic)
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Post by herm2502 on Dec 13, 2018 9:18:19 GMT -6
Another pet peeves of mine is language. More specifically calling things what they are. Example it is a water heater, not a hot water heater. Why anyone would want to heat hot water is beyond me. Another example, is sometimes I will say, a phrase that is completely normal to me, but abnormal to folks not from around the deep South. Two examples A. Pull that door to, please. Simply means "to close the door" but I grew up hearing it said the other way for so long, I developed it as my vernacular. Another example, calling a road that goes over land on a higher level than the ground, most folks call it "overpass" growing up in the deep South it was always called a viaduct pronounced "ViDock". Just little things like common jargon from different areas. I've always been fascinated by the different names the same things might be called. I grew up calling the strip of grass between a sidewalk and the street a "devil strip". But in Cleveland they call it a "tree lawn"?
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