In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Managed to put up the Xmas lights ... no roof-work for me, tho! It's all ground-level!
While I was out there I too saw a couple of termites fluttering around. I think of their wing arrangement as "X" wing; its very unique. Anyway, where there are two there are more. I'm going to need to figure out where they're coming from.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh btw SIX I talked to hubby. His problem was a little different- he was trying to install linux AND Windows OSs on different partitions on an all-in-one originally loaded with Windows, so you could have a multi-OS bootup. Long story short Windows would not allow a multi OS bootup, so he had to clobber Windows and load linux with a bootable CD drive and create the system that way.
There actually is a way to do it, even if you have Windows already installed. It's probably even easier to do today than when I would have done it which was probably 4 or 5 years ago (don't ask me to remember the details of anything then).
I know that Windows didn't allow you to do it, but Linux is cool like that. I can't remember if I was able to do it using a bootable USB of Linux, or if I had to take out the hard drive and re-partition it on another computer with Linux to get the GRUB boot to work.
Actually, now that I've learned so much about command line partitioning in Windows, I would be able to shrink the main partition and create one that would be ready for the Linux multi boot. But that's where my knowledge ends. I'd have to do my research to figure out the rest. What I do know is that the Windows 10 system is leaps and bounds above its predecessors in regards to partitioning. I was able to do things with 10 that I always had to use 3rd party software to accomplish, if it was even possible to begin with.
I kind of hate starting from scratch these days. It's been a long time since the last time I did it for myself, since Windows 10 is much more stable than any OS I've used before.
I'm not going to say that I'm regretting reinstalling it tonight, but I'm using the absolute most up-to-date version of it now since I made the bootable media off of their site, and let me tell you it's bloated as shit compared to the release I was using before. Everything is slow as hell, which shouldn't happen after a clean install. I dunno... maybe it's downloading and installing a ton of updates behind the scenes and that's what is taking up all of the resources now.
But I've tried installing both Firefox and the NVIDIA drivers twice and they failed very late in the process saying that the installer can't finish because another installer is open. I might have to let it just sit overnight and try in the morning.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
CHKDSK - all the way to win95 ??
They still use it today.
If you use the command line you can run a CHKDSK C: /F command, but that's the same as right clicking on the drive in explorer, going to Properties/Tools and doing the disk checking there. If it's your main drive, it requires a reboot and it will fix it Pre-OS boot.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Managed to put up the Xmas lights ... no roof-work for me, tho! It's all ground-level!
While I was out there I too saw a couple of termites fluttering around. I think of their wing arrangement as "X" wing; its very unique. Anyway, where there are two there are more. I'm going to need to figure out where they're coming from.
It occurs to me that maybe my difficulty identifying termites comes from the fact that I've never actually seen termites out in the wild. Thankfully.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Sweeeeeeet.
Yeah. I was right. Windows was doing a shit ton of updating behind the scenes. That's why everything was running so slow. They're so inconspicuous and unobtrusive about it these days that I wasn't even sure until I just recently saw an alert pop up saying that the system needed to reboot for a specific change (changes?) to take effect.
In the mean time, I still haven't been able to install the NVIDIA drivers, but I've installed about 20 other programs that I would regularly use. I'm still in the process of doing a few more.
Tip to the wise... do a little research about trimming bloatware, altering some settings to make your performance better and ESPECIALLY how to disable everything from accessing your camera or your mic. Not only are these things set on to default in Win10 extremely invasive, but they're somewhat resource intensive as well. Even though Windows 10 is completely usable as a desktop OS, it behaves very much like a tablet/smartphone and is just itching to give any app/program you install access to your camera or mic whenever they want it. Better yet, put a piece of tape over the camera and completely disable the camera and mic altogether. I might actually find out where the mic is now that everything is still exposed in the back and just remove it altogether. This has never been a problem on a system that I build since I don't put mics or cameras in them, but in the prebuilt systems like this they all have 'em.
Before I install anything that I wouldn't regularly use but I'd still like back on the machine as well as anything that came from "dubious" sources, I'm going to make sure the updates are all finished and I've got everything that I know I want on there.
Then I'm going to make two clones of the profile in case one gets jacked up, and after that I'm going to make a backup disk image of this disk so I can easily migrate it to another hard drive in the future if this one ever breaks or if I decide to upgrade to a 7200RPM drive and eek out a little more performance out of it.
It seems to be flying right now. Best performance I've seen out of this thing since I've owned it.
Now if I can install that program for my project and get everything to work right like it did before, I'll be a happy camper.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Soooooooo much to install lol.
It's a real good opportunity to cut the crap out though.
Before doing this I went through my add and remove programs, my start menu and installed applications lists and pared down the list. Now that I'm re-installing everything I'm choosing to leave a few more out that I don't think I'll ever really use and about 3 times as many that I'm just sticking a pin in for now. No reason to bog down the machine with anything that's not going to get any use in the next year or two just to put some ticks on a checklist.
It's late. Or it's early. I'm up way past my bedtime doing this stuff.
Still trying to get it to the point that I can clone it while I sleep, but I think that might have to wait until tomorrow. Not sure if I can stay awake long enough to get it all done.
At least I finally got the NVIDIA driver installed.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I remember you don't like snow, Brenda. But I don't remember, or I never knew, if you always get at least some snow accumulation every year, or if it takes an exceptionally bad year for that.
Anyway - I hope the snow holds off for a long time after that dusting! And no accumulation!
Snow can be a maybe on the Lower Mainland. That is why when people want snow they head up to the ski hills for it. Places like Grouse Mountain which is just about an hour's drive from Vancouver, or further up the coast to places like Squamish or the Valley and from there just keep going North.
Worst winter was 2years ago when all that snow was where I am and I fell twice.
I hope it holds off and with all the rain forecasted for this week might just be a green Christmas. On the flipside though it is early December.
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Yeah Brenda, now I remember you saying you fell.
Personally, when it comes to winter, I can take the cold, but the snow makes everything 10x more miserable, difficult, and hazardous. My last few years up in the NE, for whatever reason, I developed a phobia about falling. I'd be creeping along wherever - through the parking lot, on the sidewalk ... while other people were just striding along. I just had such a fear of stepping through the snow onto a hidden patch of slick ice and going down.
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I'm surprised it's green up there now, Brenda.
I think we set a record for how much of the US was covered in show around Thanksgiving. Luckily, that seemed to miss us.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Yeah Brenda, now I remember you saying you fell.
Personally, when it comes to winter, I can take the cold, but the snow makes everything 10x more miserable, difficult, and hazardous. My last few years up in the NE, for whatever reason, I developed a phobia about falling. I'd be creeping along wherever - through the parking lot, on the sidewalk ... while other people were just striding along. I just had such a fear of stepping through the snow onto a hidden patch of slick ice and going down.
I hear you Kiki. I not much on the cold now that I am older. I've certain spots on my body that were injured at some point that the cold hits them and I am stiff and sore. Also having a thyroid condition doesn't help either. With that being slow I feel the cold more.
Black ice is dangerous which is why I kept the cane that I bought. I have to do a bit of walking to get to my workplace and though it might be fine where I am living now, getting there won't be. People don't want to clear off their sidewalks and seem to fail to realize that if someone falls around their property they can be sued. That is an issue I am constantly in the winter bringing up with my boss and her husband.
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