Way to go, Microsquish. Way to go.
Posted on 06/09/2015 5:58:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The cause of an early morning fire north of San Diego was an electrocuted bird falling from an active power line
A bird carrying a snake in its talons struck power lines north of San Diego, sparking a hillside fire just west of The Merge.
San Diego Police arrived to the location on Dunhill Street near the intersection of Interstates 5 and 805 just before 6 a.m.
Flames were burning very close to businesses including the General Atomics building, officials said.
Officers called in San Diego Fire-Rescue crews who contained the fire within an hour.
Fire officials initially told NBC 7 a bird with a snake in its mouth was electrocuted on a power line and fell to the ground, sparking the fire. A photo released by officials later shows the snake in the hawk's grasp.
"A hawk that hit the high voltage power line, caught fire, and fell to the ground," SD Fire-Rescue spokesperson Lee Swanson said in a written release.
There were no structures damaged and no evacuations ordered.
This area of San Diego is home to many companies in the region's biochemical industry.
I talked with Dead Corpse yesterday who just installed Win10 and yes, it’s free. He also said it was surprisingly easy to navigate.
Also, some friends on Facebook (one owns a computer store) say it is free and you have to have and “appointment” for the download. If you do it while they offer it free, it is, FREE. Otherwise, if you wait, you will have to pay for it. It sounds like in six months, if you haven’t installed it, you will have to pay for the privilege.
And IE is no longer in existence. It is now called Edge, but is only available when you download Win 10.
Hope this helps!
Something interesting to note: I signed up for the upgrade a couple months ago, but apparently not everyone is getting upgraded at the same time. The little icon by the clock now says when clicked: “Thank you for signing up for the upgrade. We are upgrading people in waves. We will notify you when the update is ready for installation. It may be in a few days or weeks”.
So if you (the reader of this post) haven’t gotten your update yet this is probably the reason. (Note, I had to restart my computer to see the Windows 10 icon again. After Wednesday it disappeared.).
Just another reminder why I hate Windows!! I only use this machine for gaming (because the graphics cards in Macs all suck for gaming). Otherwise I do all my real computing on a Mac.
I will have to have WinX because I do gaming as well. Since MS no longer has IE, I can’t access them, and will have to wait for the upgrade and their new replacement, Edge. It’s going to be a long summer.
Thanks! My stomach hurt so bad yesterday that I ate everything I could find, just to stop the pain. (If you have ulcers, eating will stop the pain until the food is mostly digested, then you will need to eat more.)
I’m going to comb my hair, then go to Walmart. My stomach is killing me and I don’t want to eat pizza for breakfast. Normally, it would be fun, because I love it, but all it will do is start the cycle, and I’m still trying to concentrate on losing weight.
What I’m doing is just waiting for the morphine to work. The weather is ugly. 89, 33%, SW @ 5 — at 0500. Welcome to the desert.
You’re welcome. I’m off to the gym with the byos and Kathleen. We’ll stop at Petsmart for crickets and at the ATM to deposit the check for Bill’s tuition. He has just enough left in his state account to cover this year.
NEVER let it update itself.
NEVER.
Uninstall it first.
Well, that takes it off my list. I’ll go to Mac next.
The last time I wasn’t careful about updates I couldn’t connect to my tablet until I re-downgraded.
The only reason I MIGHT rush is I got my F-I-L a computer with Win Hate and he would probably like 10 better. But it would be a change for him and I wouldn’t recommend it without trying it first.
I will say that the stupid YouTube I watched with the guy showing each feature and saying, “Which is great!” drove me bananas. None of it was great. Most of it was barely useful. And that personal assitant, Cablooma or whatever her name is, is the LAST thing I want on a PC.
Just more proof that they’re more focused on mobile than the desktop.
Back from Walmart. The night crew call me by name! LOL! Wally’s is putting up a brand new lighted sign on the store front, like the old days, with individual light bulbs. It looks pretty darn spiffy, so I guess the prices are going up.
One ulcer cocktail down and three to go. All those spices have a numbing effect on my mouth...but I guess the stomach needs to be calm for it to work properly. I believe the pineapple and banana are to stop the acid production for a while.
UNGHHH!
WHY, I ask, do we HAVE to be forced into having something we don’t really want? Why do we have to be lumped in with the lumpy sheeple and do as we are told? GAAAHHH!
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Wow.
I looked at the Web and the first article I looked at made it look even worse than what was posted here. Some of the updates make the computer unusable.
Microsquish and I are done.
If they change it to allow the user to decide which updates to apply, it might be worth it.
Otherwise, if they did that with 7, I’d have a bunch of language packs I don’t need getting crammed into the machine.
Hold off until DC has had a chance to beat win10 into submission and provided his report on how he did it.
All the more reason for me to learn how to use Linux. There is a guy on FB who will help me in real time, so that’s encouraging. All I need to do is set aside some time and take some notes as I read the destruction book for Dummies.
This particular book has “eight books in one,” so hopefully, I can mosey through it. Now I have a question that I’m not sure you can answer, but that’s OK. I need to ask it.
Should I install Linux and then use it to learn by the book? Or should I read the “getting started” book and THEN install the OS?
Oops. I lied. That was two questions. My bad.
Keep in mind that Linux is the generic name for an open source operating system based on Unix, which was a real operating system back when Bill Gates was still trying to figure out what one was. Gates tried to make a general purpose PC something that any idiot could use, which is why Windows does so many things for you and hides so many things under the covers so you can’t take out the trash without help.
Linux, on the other hand, was never meant to be used by people who didn’t know what they were doing. However, as more and more people came to hate Windows but like the user interface, several groups attempted to make distributions of Linux that could be run by someone less than a total geek and have the user interface. The geeks often just call these “distros” because we shorten everything (remember the Y2K problem?).
So, you need to figure out which distro you’re interested in. I think I’ve heard good things about Ubuntu but it’s by no means the only good one.
I suggest you find a distro that will give you a dual-boot system. It leaves Windows in place and puts Linux on so you can pick which OS to boot to when you re-boot your computer. Then I’d install so I could play while I read. But that’s the only way I can learn. Just reading doesn’t do a thing for me.
At my place of employment The Boss made it crystal clear in no uncertain terms that we were NOT to upgrade to Win10.
I learn better with a book and a computer, as that’s how I learned WordPerfect and Lotus 123. LOOOONNNG ago!
Igor was talking about Y2K long before it even had a name. He used to complain that unless the world ended, the final dates on the computers would have to be changed.
I need something I can use long after MS gets done tweaking another OS. I was happy with Win7, and still resent that I can’t get it any more, that I HAVE to have WinX.
I sure hope MS doesn’t tweak the system your Boss wants to protect. If I’m not mistaken, some things will be harder and harder to do.
Way to go, Microsquish. Way to go.
3600?
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