Annb
Expert
I don't have the voice either. I've spent my life learning to be gentle and caring. Just a no-hoper when it comes to dominating the men in my life.
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What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)
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gennepher
Oracle
Hugs for all your bother with the operating systems @Annb8.9 at 0300 today. Up to 10.4 now - that's after breakfast and insulin. Probably not enough insulin.
Neil did manage to get a new operating system loaded onto this laptop and I did manage to access the Find My Paste website, but the new one wouldn't recognise my backups and wouldn't let me get into my e-mail. So he has put my original operating system back on. Now I can access backups, files and e-mail, but not the family history websites. Until he can work something out he is going to put the new operating system onto a 2nd hand laptop that I bought a couple of years ago as a standby when I thought this one was failing. So I'll have 2 laptops on the go, one for e-mail etc and the other solely for family history stuff.
Wish I was as technologically savvy as Gennepher but of Neil can't fix it, what chance do iI have?
Hope everything has settled down a bit now Gennepher. Once there has been an upheaval like that, it can take ages to sort out and clean up - the cleaning part being the worst. I hope you have other buddleia that you can replace the broken one with. Clearing up your garden will take some doing as well.
I don't have a basilisk stare. The best I can do is peer thoughtfully over the top of my glasses, and that only works if I'm reading or on the laptop because they are reading glasses.
I have never tried working with different operating systems, I have an old windows xp laptop, it's never been connected to the internet...
Thank you.
The cleaning part is too much for me, but I need it done.
The budlieia unfortunately was given to me by a previous head gardener of Chirk Castle which he had rooted. It was a very old variety, very slow growing, and very hard to root. So, I am sad about that...
But I will try to root it...
If Neil can get both laptops working, at least you be able to do some things on one, and the rest of your things on the other.
ianpspurs
Oracle
Does one partner/gender need to dominate? Marriage/relationships aren't a competition/zero sum game. Each completes the other. Mark 10 6-9 - you know all that as well as me and a shrewd guess is you lived that way. You are fine just the way you are - very Billy Joel.
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Annb
Expert
Of course, the idea of domination was very tongue in cheek. Never attempted to dominate anyone in my life! Unlike my dear brother. It comes naturally to him; not that he tries it in his marriage or with his children, but he did in his working life. He would use his deep knowledge of his subjects and patience, allowing others to wear themselves down with argument and then presenting his solution which would be submitted to. He described to me once, how he was at a management training course and one of the exercises was physical. Two people were sat back to back and had to force each other to give ground. M, of course, was disabled but still "won", as usual. He simply sat, relaxed, but unmovable until he felt his opponent tired of pushing and he sensed a weakness. At that point he gave a hard shove and pushed his opponent over. That was the way he worked. Never, however, with people junior to himself - always with people senior to him. For me, consultation is the way to go.
Lamont D
Oracle
Compromise its called!
And with Valentine's on the way. Love!
All you need is love!
Another song title!!!!!
Annb
Expert
Perhaps compromise, but not the kind that leaves a level of dissatisfaction. When two or more people engage in good natured consultation, often a better solution comes about which is no compromise. Ideal world, of course and not something that happens much in the world today, or ever, probably.
You're right, of course. All you need IS love. Not just in families but in that very neglected sense of loving your neighbour, whoever, and wherever they may be.
ianpspurs
Oracle
Ah, the camel. A horse designed by committee.
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Annb
Expert
Does better in a desert than a horse. Clever piece of design on someone's part.
Lamont D
Oracle
one of the more useless facts about camels!
Before and after the U.S.civil war, there was a regiment of camel in the army.
My one hump, was bigger than the one or two a camel needs!
JohnEGreen
Master
And according to my cousins grandfather they are not particularly good eating either.
lindisfel
Expert
lindisfel
Expert
Wasnt there one of buffalow soldiers in the north fighting the Confederate side?
lindisfel
Expert
Reminds me 25 years ago when I was in medical physice I had my records on Grandfather, father and son discs, that way I never lost how we could maintain linacs with practical helpers not in the books.
I had to maintain the linac couch for treatment and it was essential for precise cancer treatment and I found I could get a guy from WD Strings who did pro tennis rackets to come up whilst I stayed with him and give a weekend and he restrung our couch for us to original quality and we saved a few thousands for the hospital and got a minute precise lack of variabilty of treatment centre with each patient whatever their weight.
That went into the records for others to know about.
Simple but often not done by maintenance seniors.
This was the way we were trained as BBC engineers and I kept that at 50 when I retired.
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lindisfel
Expert
My wind warnings come imminent and pressing!
gennepher
Oracle
I have been thinking @Annb about if you ended up with 2 laptops to access everything you needed to.8.9 at 0300 today. Up to 10.4 now - that's after breakfast and insulin. Probably not enough insulin.
Neil did manage to get a new operating system loaded onto this laptop and I did manage to access the Find My Paste website, but the new one wouldn't recognise my backups and wouldn't let me get into my e-mail. So he has put my original operating system back on. Now I can access backups, files and e-mail, but not the family history websites. Until he can work something out he is going to put the new operating system onto a 2nd hand laptop that I bought a couple of years ago as a standby when I thought this one was failing. So I'll have 2 laptops on the go, one for e-mail etc and the other solely for family history stuff.
Wish I was as technologically savvy as Gennepher but of Neil can't fix it, what chance do iI have?
Hope everything has settled down a bit now Gennepher. Once there has been an upheaval like that, it can take ages to sort out and clean up - the cleaning part being the worst. I hope you have other buddleia that you can replace the broken one with. Clearing up your garden will take some doing as well.
I don't have a basilisk stare. The best I can do is peer thoughtfully over the top of my glasses, and that only works if I'm reading or on the laptop because they are reading glasses.
Apologies if you know this this.
Like @dunelm I use the cloud BUT I live in an internet dead-spot despite being in a populated town.. .And quite a bit of the time I want to work and I am unable to transfer from iPad mini to my old iPad Pro if my signal is down. I use a mobile wifi, I do not have a phone line. This is the video editing because not enough memory on one device. And so I use a usb memory stick to transfer what I need to, to another device. This is then independent of any wi fi signal.
When I had a laptop many years ago, I have several old laptops which were given me (the oldest being the xp, never connected to the internet which I watch DVD's on, very cheap they are in the charity shops now), the newest being a couple of netbooks (small in screen size and memory, just 16GB on one) with window 8's from many years ago. I had one of those external clumsy back up units, and using that I backed up stuff from the 16GB red netbook (it was a lovely responsive laptop who's only failing was its memory size), whereas the other netbook, a white one with more memory hated connecting up to the internet and was always arguing with me and the internet. So, I would use the external back up unit to move photos (I did a lot of photo editing then) from one device to the other.
I am assuming you have an external clumsy bulky back up unit for your back ups? This was how I worked on Ancestry. The red almost no memory netbook was great on being responsive in downloading Ancestry stuff, but the white, more memory netbook often refused to download from the Ancestry site.
I have never understood how to back up to a CD. I am clueless on that. I have these blank cd's and years later they are still blank....
I have never had anyone to help me with computers, so many a time I was days and despairing how to work out something simple...
I don't know if any of this helps.
PS It's the bungalow that is the internet dead-spot. Sometimes the mobile wi fi works, sometimes it doesn't. But I have recently changed internet provider which is now much much better in my bungalow. However, in the potting shed the mobile wi fi internet connection works amazingly, is very responsive, very quick...I have an electric lead from the garage across the garden to the potting shed when I have days I need to camp out in there for internetty stuff....for leccy blanket and kettle....
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lindisfel
Expert
You never forget if you teach yourself gen.that's how I got educated after I went to a secondary modern school and wasted four years and was able get a profession and educate my two daughters with extra help to get to university and achieve their potential.
D.
gennepher
Oracle
I agree @lindisfel
It can be a hard slog, but the knowledge and how to tackle it become ingrained, even though they may not be the conventional ways to do it
Thank you
dunelm
Master
Good morning everyone on a lovely quiet start to pre bin day here in the dark and dangerous north. Girl In The Bubble each day this week as parents back at work and other grandmother is not well. I have of course complained to the Local Education Authority (LEA) about schools not being in synch with real life workers who still cling to that old fashioned practice of going to an actual place of work and not skiving in the corner of the dining room like a civil servant, watching Netflix and updating their profiles on LinkedIn. Art bit - where is this going? Hope you all have a lovely day, will there be good news on the Octavia front @lindisfel? Must make koffy and think about which bin to put out tonight.
