Posted on 09/09/2023 7:24:15 AM PDT by Lazamataz
Everybody becomes a backup fanatic eventually. It always takes a crash and data loss to realize the importance of backups.
That lesson will be a cakewalk when the grid crashes. There won’t be the luxury of just replacing a hard drive or laptop. I have been the pain in the ass to my friends and family about preparing. Some have actually done a little. Most just roll there eyes. Human nature is what it is.
I realized I don't know anybody's numbers. Although I can still remember my best friend's number from childhood.
Anyway I started wondering what I'd do if I was a ways from home with a brokedown car and dead cell phone. So I printed out my address book and keep a copy in each car and motorcycle. Don't know why it didn't occur to me before.
The Apple silicon has made that a little harder but still possible. I have a few Old Power Macs that I bought used 8 or 9 years ago, never turn them off and they still run fine. But I always have a duplicate of my start up drive on an external disk. I am down to about 5 computers now because at my age I really only need one computer and an iPad with a sim card for on the road or doctors office, don't even own a phone anymore, don't leave one unless wife takes me and she has one. You can make phone calls with the iPad anyway if you want to.
I remember my days with PCs hated them then don't want them now. Put in a hard drive and you have to get your machine's windows re-certified, same with adding ram, what a hassle. Of course with the new Apple stuff nothing is upgradable, external add ons only. Well unless you are a real techie, saw a guy upgrade ssd on motherboard of a Mini last week.
I like the 20 round, 30’s just too damn hard to reload for me unless you get that little special machine. And sometimes you know you just can’t be hauling a whole bunch of little extra special tools around just to load up a mag.
I used to know how to use a Abacus somewhat we had to learn how when I was in middle in Bangkok, it was part of the curriculum as a general interest... but when one of the classmates complained to the teacher, who was Thai, the teacher explained that the reason she was showing us was to help us from getting ripped off at the market.
It was interesting. That Korean finger method of doing math is also fascinating I’m sure it’s on YouTube someplace.
I get it. i have a speed loader and u are right. takes up too much space which could be used for additional magazines.
“Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords
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Article ID : 276304
Last Review : January 29, 2007
Revision : 3.3
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SYMPTOMS
loadTOCNode(1, ‘symptoms’); If you log on to an MIT realm, press CTRL+ALT+DELETE, click Change Password, type your existing MIT password, and then type a new, simple password that does not pass the dictionary check in Kadmind, you may receive the following error message:
Your password must be at least 18770 characters and cannot repeat any of your previous 30689 passwords. Please type a different password. Type a password that meets these requirements in both text boxes.
Note that the number of required characters changes from 17,145 to 18,770 with the installation of SP1.NOTE: This is not a common case; it occurs only when you configure Windows 2000 to authenticate against an MIT Kerberos domain.”
“The number of required characters changes from 17,145 to 18,770 with the installation of SP1”
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