Posts by Gary Charpentier

1) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 112636) Posted 21 days ago by Gary Charpentier Post: Grumble: Whether I download it via the app store or download the .deb file from the zoom site, on opening up Zoom, I see a message telling me an update is available. If I click on the link to download the update it takes me to the same .deb file. Does the hash match?
2) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 112632) Posted 21 days ago by Gary Charpentier Post: grumble, provider A points finger at provider B after three hours level 2 support with screen share too. Provider B's equipment at B's office passes all tests as 100% operational, still do a full software reload. Provider B points finger at Provider A and notes it is common and A won't admit it, however it is so common B had to revise support policy and B's tech personally had the same issue! Apparently provider A's equipment is not behaving correctly on initialization for B's equipment. Grumble how the heck to get A to fix the issue (for me)? Oh, A is a $104B company and B is a $3T company. There I named them.
3) Message boards : The Lounge : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 112619) Posted 24 days ago by Gary Charpentier Post: I'm beginning to believe that the war in Ukraine has given politicians & their business cronies a feeble excuse to continue to rip us off. Just One. MBS. He who controls OPEC.
4) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 112504) Posted 7 Aug 2023 by Gary Charpentier Post: It costs Amazon less to send out another than pay to get it where it should have gone.
5) Message boards : The Lounge : Massive questions about Einstein@home I was a member there for 12 years now I am a target (Message 112496) Posted 7 Aug 2023 by Gary Charpentier Post: May I state the obvious. Each project is owned by someone. They work for an institution. That institution has policies. The forums can not violate that policy or the project owner may lose their job. Don't forget each project may be in a different country. It may have a liberal political government or a very repressive one. Never assume that a topic, except perhaps the weather, that is acceptable on one forum will be acceptable on any other. I'll suggest to anyone that they shoot an email to the moderator list and ask if a topic is allowed and what section of the forum is best suited for that topic. You may get told no, or might get pointed to a place with or without suggestions to keep it from getting explosive. What you won't get is mad because you don't understand the rules and customs in place for many years.
6) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 112494) Posted 7 Aug 2023 by Gary Charpentier Post: Amazon now own its own logistics company and they are starting to make noise of competing with the other package delivery companies. My beef is I can't track as I can with UPS or Fedex, heck even USPS has better tracking.
7) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 112443) Posted 3 Aug 2023 by Gary Charpentier Post: Grrrrrr dueling lab reports Second set all negative (which is good) No answer
8) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 112387) Posted 27 Jul 2023 by Gary Charpentier Post: The big C
9) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 112270) Posted 8 Jul 2023 by Gary Charpentier Post: organized crime
10) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 112266) Posted 8 Jul 2023 by Gary Charpentier Post: A grumble and a glory all in one (Los Angeles, CA) – Today, the Recall DA George Gascon Committee filed a lawsuit asking the Court to certify the recall petition for Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon. The lawsuit is the product of a more than 10-month review of rejected signatures, which resulted in the discovery of tens of thousands of valid signatures that were incorrectly or unlawfully rejected, negligent and flawed counting processes utilized by the Los Angeles Registrar of Voters, and an inflated signature requirement due to bloated voter rolls. https://venturestrategic.app.box.com/s/tg48w2kmpqmf6gbty74l1ra5df34bl5w Now maybe we can get this DA who has never seen a criminal or met a victim out of office so his ongoing harm can be stopped.
11) Message boards : The Lounge : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 112219) Posted 1 Jul 2023 by Gary Charpentier Post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AShGmWyFamY What do you think? Virtual? Real? Look at what happens to the raindrops after they hit. They just evaporate. Otherwise it is pretty good.
12) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 112180) Posted 28 Jun 2023 by Gary Charpentier Post: Imagine, arriving at the surgery center for a cataract operation to the fire alarm going off in the car park and the lobby. Is this a portent? Gets better, a couple days before they are to do the other eye, get a call the place has flooded. Something tells me that building is possessed. BTW operation(s) went 100% As to gasses molecular weights N2 = 28, O2 = 32, CO2 = 44, CO = 30, ignoring isotope ratios. They all mix quite well. However in a fire, combustion products will be hot and hence rise. Hence why you crawl on the floor to get air.
13) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 112135) Posted 26 Jun 2023 by Gary Charpentier Post: The rush to eliminate "copper" landline phone service has been going on in the US for at least 15 years now... In many parts of the US the telco's have "decommissioned" the old copper infrastructure and laid next to it all fiber optics from the central office to the sub division / greater neighborhood area aka "Fiber to the node." A 2010 order from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that mandated all POTS lines in the US be replaced with an alternative service by August 2, 2022. But that date has passed and some legacy telco's still offer copper landline but it's not cheap. My subdivision which was built about 18 years ago is fiber to the neighborhood and the new subdivision going in down the road from here will be all fiber to the premise / home for both the Telco and "local" cable TV provider. Until about 4 months ago where I live was POTS only. The cable TV provider was and still is coax only. Now I have a fiber to inside. I appreciate POTS for what it is. Many years ago when I was a wee lad - the rotary dial days - the local telco installed a new switch plant and had an open house. The battery bank was ginormous and it only would power the plant for 45 minutes. Diesel generators held two days of fuel. What people don't understand is their local cell site may not have more that a handful of minutes of standby power.
14) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe (Message 112048) Posted 10 Jun 2023 by Gary Charpentier Post: Well, it hasn't auto locked in a while.
15) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 111957) Posted 1 Jun 2023 by Gary Charpentier Post: why do think Trump wanted to get his hands on it. always figured that was so he could do what the antivax are claiming.
16) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 111941) Posted 31 May 2023 by Gary Charpentier Post: Grumble: The font size on the forums and this site in general got bigger. I was perfectly happy with the old one. Webmaster clearly getting older and needs the bigger font in order to read the pages. Certainly noticeable. I can read it easily without changing to my computer glasses. Why do I feel this portends some additional malevolent change soon to be implemented?
17) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 111878) Posted 26 May 2023 by Gary Charpentier Post: See where I'm heading with this? GIGO In garbage is the programming that says send reminder, but don't check to see if the reminder applies first. Human error. <ed>To err is human, to really f things up requires a computer.
18) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 111874) Posted 25 May 2023 by Gary Charpentier Post: guess over there embarrassing someone is criminal?
19) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 111869) Posted 24 May 2023 by Gary Charpentier Post: One shop refused my card because the card wasn't signed. Friend got that, they offered a pen to him to sign it right there so they could take it. And the security of your bank account depends on people like this.
20) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 111866) Posted 23 May 2023 by Gary Charpentier Post: Embossing? knuckle busters are long dead. Youngsters will have no idea what taking an imprint of a credit card was. Did they remove the mag stripe too?

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