In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Quiet, quiet, quiet. Malls I can see are going to be getting to me for the next month. Too many people.
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I can edit the url down to https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+impeachment+progress&oq=trum
p+impeachment+progress and still get the same result. I think the letter/number salad reflects the computer (source) of the query. I once had a search url that I posted here show my real name buried in the salad; I wouldn't have known it except someone PMd me and alerted me to the problem, so I removed it right quick.
Mobile Heirloom Computing ... there is an Heirloom Computing that has created cloud storage, and since I was connected to the inet via wifi that might explain the "Mobile Heirloom Computing". HP? Hewlett-Packard? The rest of it might be my MAC address or a URL of the server I'm going thru, or both. I don't know enuf about computing and internet but if I get a chance I'll try to look it up.
BTW, my account here is tagged to an email addy and password that no longer exists as I have changed computers, ISPs, and email providers several times since, so PMing me won't work.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
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Yeah... weird. I try not to think about it too much. I don't even really bother with anything beyond ad blocker. If you're on the internet, people know exactly what you're doing. If it isn't Google, which it usually is, it's going to be somebody else.
Anyhow... highly agitating day here.
Nothing but problems with that new SSD. I might have just thrown 30 bucks in the trash on that purchase.
I cloned the old drive a 2nd time last night, this time doing the entire drive at once (which I accidentally didn't do the first time). This time it booted (although rather slowly because of the old USB technology it was running through).
Swapped it out for the old drive and get BIOS errors saying that there's no disk... or something about an error with the master disk. It's the strangest thing. The drive shows up on the main BIOS page, but you cant choose it as a drive to boot from. The BIOS on this old computer is extremely limited, so there were a few various things to try, but nothing I do gets it to recognize the drive.
So I tried to directly install a fresh version of Windows 10 on it from the disk. The Windows install recognizes the disk and will even show all of the partitions on it, but it will not allow you to install Windows on it and gives a generic error saying that the BIOS will not be able to load from this drive and to check the settings or contact the manufacturer.
I then downloaded the migration software from the company the drive is manufactured by. It won't recognize the drive with the USB connector I'm using and says that no drive by that company is attached. It is attached, and Disk Manager and Explorer can see it. I can copy files to it. The troublshooting for the program from the manufacturer says to try a different USB connector because some don't work with their drives. I'm not going to spend 10 bucks on one and wait 3 days only to find out I've just thrown more money away.
So... Back to the BIOS. There was an upgrade released around 2010 for it that my brother never installed. It actually makes several vague references to improving bootability, yada yada yada. Great. After searching for a few hours for it since the PC manufacturer doesn't even support the model anymore, I ran it.
But it won't work on my PC now because I'm using Windows 10 and it requires Windows Vista to run. Running the program in the various compatibility modes for Vista comes up with the same failure.
So.... What am I doing now?
I'm downloading a pirated DVD of Vista.
I'm going to flash it to a USB drive so I can install it from there because my spindle of DVDs is packed away from when I got rid of the hoard and apparently I didn't write which box it's in and I'm not going to dig through 6 possible boxes to find it.
Then I'm going to use another crappy old loose laptop hard drive to install vista to and burn another 90 minutes to 2 hours doing that... all so I can spend 2 minutes running a BIOS update that probably won't fix my problem.
What a pain in the ass. This drive is pretty much useless to me if I can't get it to work on this computer. It's too small for any legitimate storage, and really only is good for putting an OS on it and speeding up an aging computer. I suppose I could find an old computer online to buy that has good specs and doesn't come with a hard drive, but the Amazon deals on laptops right now are so good that I could just buy one that is way faster than this computer for about $150 that already comes with a small SSD inside of it, thus still rendering this drive useless to me.
I really like this computer. It's got a 20+" touchscreen monitor on it, and instead of needing a box for a desktop computer it's got all the innards right behind the screen. It's perfect for my coffee table right by the couch I sleep on. Even if I were to get a laptop that was 10 times the speed of this thing it would hav
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Just to note - the first time I did the search I looked for anything in the salad that looked like my IP, and found nothing. The SECOND time I did the search (for my experiment) I DID find 3 numbers in a sequence that were part of my IP.
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Quote:My sentiments exactly. FWIW I have NEVER liked malls. There is just too much visual and auditory noise, and too many people. I never understood people who went to malls for fun.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Quiet, quiet, quiet. Malls I can see are going to be getting to me for the next month. Too many people.
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"it's got all the innards right behind the screen" ... what they call an 'all in one'?
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I guess.
'bout to break something. The Vista download stalled at 99.9% and won't finish.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Eh - I don't 'do' computers! Many decades ago I had a bona fide paid job where I programmed a LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) in assembly. I realized I'd either disappear into it, or reject it as a thing to do. I rejected it. Ever since then, I leave computers to people with the interest.
So all I can say is - good luck !!
I wish your efforts well !!!
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Atmospheric river could bring a travel nightmare after Thanksgiving holiday
More Coverage
What is an atmospheric river and why should Southern Californians keep their umbrellas handy?
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-11-29/what-is-an-atmosph
eric-river-and-why-should-southern-californians-keep-their-umbrellas-handy
I guess the good news is that this will mainly affect central and NoCal, and will hit the Sierras, where most of SoCal piped water originates. We'll just get a sprinkle. The bad news is it's warm and it'll melt whatever snow pack is there, which means a decreased water reservoir.
And ... I keep waiting for this website to post for this year's rain season (starts midsummer). This is last year's. 
C'mon Climate Stations! I'm curious how much rain got officially dumped in the last 2 storms!
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If I can remember the website I went to back when we had that massive flooding around here, I'll give you the link. It had up-to-date precipitation nationwide, and you could click around different areas to get the actual rainfall for at least the previous 72 hours.
I'm finally installing Windows Vista.
What a nightmare. I had three old laptop hard drives. Two of them were formatted with GPT which this computer can't use, but to be able to find that out I had to go through a near 15 minute process of loading the Vista install to the point where I can select a disk for install. Then I had to connect those two to another computer and re-initialize them properly win Disk Management. I did both because it looks like the larger one probably has some massive failures on it. (I think I got both of them in a huge bag full of various computer cables and other crap my brother gave me years ago. Turned out the 3rd drive was MBR so I could have installed on there, but there looks to be a good Windows 10 install on there with some files I don't want to delete on it. I think that was the one that was in the laptop I got from my grandma after she passed, but it broke about a year later.
So... virtually a whole day of nothing going on around here. It will all have been worth it if a BIOS update makes the computer read the drive, but I'm not hopeful of that at all. Really, at this point, all I'm hoping is that something doesn't go terribly wrong during the update and brick the computer altogether. With zero support from the manufacturer these days, that will probably be the end of that.
It's been a long time since I ran into issues like this. Using severely outdated technology with new stuff... Never a good time.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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