my laptop has failed

JimBlue · Mar 8th 2016, 3:17pm

so I'll be back when I get it fixed. My phone is not easy to use for this. Sigh.

Oh. Unable to reach email currently.

JimBlue · Mar 9th 2016, 1:47pm

borrowed a computer, but it is very slow. So, not posting for a while.

Trebor · Mar 9th 2016, 3:59pm

Thx for the update....

chief · Mar 9th 2016, 5:36pm

Is this the "posting about not posting" thread?

JimBlue · Mar 9th 2016, 8:35pm

Well, I've cleanedup the borrowed laptop, its a bit better. Still a bit slow though.

Trebor · Mar 9th 2016, 8:49pm

Whew, sounds like it was touch and go for a while.

JimBlue · Mar 9th 2016, 8:51pm

I've probably fried my laptop and will have to buy a new one.

Socks · Mar 9th 2016, 9:35pm

Who'd ya piss off

OzJacko · Mar 10th 2016, 7:38am

I'm still using the $300 little Aspire One I bought from Radioshack at the start of my 2013 AT hike when I'm not on the SAP.

Astro · Mar 10th 2016, 9:16am

OzJacko wrote:

I'm still using the $300 little Aspire One I bought from Radioshack at the start of my 2013 AT hike when I'm not on the SAP.

That laptop has fared better than Radioshack has.

Socks · Mar 10th 2016, 9:46am

OzJacko wrote:

I'm still using the $300 little Aspire One I bought from Radioshack at the start of my 2013 AT hike when I'm not on the SAP.

same one, mine runs like a champ!

max.patch · Mar 10th 2016, 10:16am

JimBlue wrote:

I've probably fried my laptop and will have to buy a new one.

ya get viruses when ya go to sketchy, seedy, porno websites. stay away from whiteblaze.

JimBlue · Mar 10th 2016, 12:05pm

I can handle viruses... this was a bios upgrade I should have skipped.

max.patch · Mar 10th 2016, 12:18pm

to get back on track, fwiw clark howard recommends dealnews as an online site when shopping for computers. i'm in the market myself, so i signed up for the (multi) daily email of bargains. it's have to be a heckuva bargain for me not to buy at costco, though. i have, however, bought a few things i didn't know i needed

until i got the email. led lite bulbs for $2, and a steam mop at 50% off.

dealnews.com/

rafe · Mar 10th 2016, 6:40pm

Get a white box refurb from Micro Center. I've bought two Intel i5 HP laptops with Win 7 Pro installed -- about $200 each (one for me, one for my wife.) No problems with either one.

JimBlue · Mar 10th 2016, 7:02pm

I called BestBuy, they might be able to fix it. The hard drive on a refurb would have to be 800 gigs, and 4 gigs of memory, along with 64-bit OS.

Wise Old Owl · Mar 10th 2016, 7:17pm

Sorry to hear Jim,
you can run this site on your phone... when you pull up the keyboard - hit the microphone and let it use the talk and type feature, works very well provided you enunciate, and are not Scottish.

By the way new Laptops are very cheap due to lack of demand. Just don't do this.

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JimBlue · Mar 10th 2016, 7:23pm

Never saw a dog getting on a laptop. But I have seen a cat do it. Type, meow, type, meow.

I suppose the cat is trying to send a message. That puppy just wants to leave its mark so it knows where its territory is located at.

Drybones · Mar 10th 2016, 10:16pm

JimBlue wrote:

Never saw a dog getting on a laptop. But I have seen a cat do it. Type, meow, type, meow.

I suppose the cat is trying to send a message. That puppy just wants to leave its mark so it knows where its territory is located at.

This is our refugee Buddy...he likes to play with the mouse.

JimBlue · Mar 10th 2016, 10:40pm

Okay. And I'm using my tablet running android to post. Still need a working Windows computer though.

WanderingStovie · Mar 11th 2016, 1:25pm

I helped someone with a blank screen. There was a function key that turns the laptop display off.

I can't help you with a bad BIOS upgrade.

JimBlue · Mar 11th 2016, 2:30pm

In the past when my computer failed, I always for got some files, some important.

So I found this yuck 'mini-desktop' computer It bhas a brick adaptert... so I guess its really a laptop with a large case.

Anyway, back online. I just have to configure everything again.

max.patch · Mar 11th 2016, 5:17pm

ya never forget your first time.

[IMG:http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/compaq/DSC06451.JPG]

JimBlue · Mar 11th 2016, 6:13pm

my first computyer didn't have a screen. It was a Sinclair ZX-81, I had to hook it up to a B&W television. 1 kilobyte of memory.

Astro · Mar 11th 2016, 10:40pm

max.patch wrote:

ya never forget your first time.

[IMG:http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/compaq/DSC06451.JPG]

I worked there 18 years. We used to make great products.

Dan76 · Mar 11th 2016, 11:17pm

Astro wrote:

max.patch wrote:

ya never forget your first time.

[IMG:http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/compaq/DSC06451.JPG]

I worked there 18 years. We used to make great products.

My elderly acquaintances say much the same.

Astro · Mar 12th 2016, 2:19pm

Dan76 wrote:

Astro wrote:

max.patch wrote:

ya never forget your first time.

[IMG:http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/compaq/DSC06451.JPG]

I worked there 18 years. We used to make great products.

My elderly acquaintances say much the same.

As I tell my children and college students, it is better to be a "has been" than a "never was".

WanderingStovie · Mar 14th 2016, 1:04pm

Commodore VIC20 for me.

JimBlue · Mar 14th 2016, 2:44pm

The sad thing about all ofthis... I forgot I have a working Vista Desktop computer in my strage shed/ham shack that works just fine. Could have saved myself the money.

Ah well.

max.patch · Mar 14th 2016, 2:59pm

i have a 10 year old dell xp desktop that my son wanted to have; i told him it didn't make financial sense to upgrade the operating system, add wireless capability, add memory, etc and that it would make more sense to get a refurb or on sale laptop. the xp is gonna go to the recycling shop when i move some old pictures off of it and clean the hard drive.

i suspect you would have to make the same type of decisions with your vista box.

JimBlue · Mar 14th 2016, 6:08pm

But not any time soon. It works fine. I should have remember it was out there. Its protected from the weather, except cold and heat. But rain canot get in.

rafe · Mar 14th 2016, 6:41pm

WanderingStovie wrote:

Commodore VIC20 for me.

Same here. Had a floppy drive accessory for it as well. Traded both bits for an off-brand Sunfish sailboat (with trailer,) which I used maybe two times and then gave to my Dad. That would be, oh, 1982 or so.

JimBlue · Mar 14th 2016, 11:56pm

Well, my widows 10 computer updatd o improve my computing experiene by lchanging firefox to use a different search engine, and blocked the insall of any software... argh.

Typing this on a tablet.

OzJacko · Mar 15th 2016, 12:02am

google can i use Firefox on Windows 10.

Astro · Mar 15th 2016, 10:56am

rafe wrote:

WanderingStovie wrote:

Commodore VIC20 for me.

Same here. Had a floppy drive accessory for it as well. Traded both bits for an off-brand Sunfish sailboat (with trailer,) which I used maybe two times and then gave to my Dad. That would be, oh, 1982 or so.

You must be a good son. I hope my son's give me something neat like that someday.

Wise Old Owl · Mar 15th 2016, 11:40am

Before Hewlett Packard there were Nixi tube calculators - some weigh 30 pounds

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Wise Old Owl · Mar 15th 2016, 11:41am

JimBlue wrote:

so I'll be back when I get it fixed. My phone is not easy to use for this. Sigh.

Oh. Unable to reach email currently.

So how is it going? have you been practicing on your phone?

Mountain-Mike · Mar 15th 2016, 4:23pm

I bought my first laptop in 96. I was renting a room from a friend who had a Mac & internet. I looked up "Pacific Crest Trail". I decided I needed one to reserch hiking!

rafe · Mar 15th 2016, 4:52pm

Wise Old Owl wrote:

Before Hewlett Packard there were Nixi tube calculators - some weigh 30 pounds

[IMG:http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTA2MlgxNjAw/z/YegAAOSwrmdTrY3l/$_35.JPG]

We had one of these bolted to a table in the Engineering library when I was a student working on my BSEE. Anyone remember Wang?

Mountain-Mike · Mar 15th 2016, 5:11pm

rafe wrote:

Wise Old Owl wrote:

Before Hewlett Packard there were Nixi tube calculators - some weigh 30 pounds

[IMG:http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTA2MlgxNjAw/z/YegAAOSwrmdTrY3l/$_35.JPG]

We had one of these bolted to a table in the Engineering library when I was a student working on my BSEE. Anyone remember Wang?

Yeah. I had John Cunningham when he was CEO hold my flashlight while fixing the oilburner in his house on ACK. He wanted to watch & said he found it interesting & asked what he could do to help. I told him to hold this & point it here. I found it ironic that a person in charge of one of biggest comp company of the time found fixing 20 year old furnace interesting. He did gve me a nice bottle of wine off the table already set for a dinner party that night!

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