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Post by Ish Kabbible on Oct 13, 2016 9:37:31 GMT -5
Biting my tongue -- Question from the corner office -- "How do you spell 'moron'?" Oh, the answers I had to suppress ... They pay your salary to bite your tongue. Do they throw in free tongue insurance at work?
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Oct 13, 2016 11:46:07 GMT -5
The eye exam went off without a hitch. My eyes are healthy with no signs of glaucoma or cataracts. I do need revised prescription lenses since its been many years since my last eye doctor visit.
With the new laptop setup, it certainly makes you feel like an idiot tackling all the issues. I mentioned before I was forced to use an Ethernet connection because I couldn't get the pc's Wi-Fi to work. Then after doing other things and restarting, I disconnected the Ethernet and lo and behold the Wi-Fi was enabled.
Then I noticed I had no sound. Sound wound work thru the headphones but not on the pc's speakers. Again I go through all the troubleshooting and driver updates and nothing seemed to work. But restarting the computer later on solved that issue as well.
Dell Windows 10 wants you to use Bing/Explorer/Edge or whatever they call it nowadays . I prefer Google Chrome and downloaded it. It was fine in the beginning, then stopped working for some technical gobbledygook reason I couldn't decipher. Deleting and reinstalling didn't solve it. But this morning . it seems to be fine
I got to teach this pc who the master is in the house and stop being so persnickety
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 13, 2016 12:21:22 GMT -5
Hum...
Technical problem...
Yesterday, absolutely fed up with multiple ads popping up all over the place on Photobucket, I tried another image hosting site which worked like a charm.
However today none of my Photobucket images are loading on the boards.
Coincidence???
Cause for panic???
The Photobucket account is still there and the images are all accounted for... They just dont seem to load anymore, independently of the browser used. Looks like I'll have to waste time trying to undo what the Invisible Hand has wrought!!!
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Post by hondobrode on Oct 13, 2016 23:03:17 GMT -5
I used to help people over the phone with the Apple products.
The first, and usually best step, is to reboot.
That takes care of 90 % of all issues; at least for an Apple product (he types on his PC).
As far as PhotoBucket, I had used too for years up until this spring. Tons of problems, slow uploads, I finally went back to Flickr and have had no problems.
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 14, 2016 1:47:56 GMT -5
I used to help people over the phone with the Apple products. The first, and usually best step, is to reboot. That takes care of 90 % of all issues; at least for an Apple product (he types on his PC). As far as PhotoBucket, I had used to for years up until this spring. Tons of problems, slow uploads, I finally went back to Flickr and have had no problems. I've had Photobucket since the beginning without any problems. When you mean reboot, do you mean wipe everything off the computer or just shut down and restart?
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Post by Spike-X on Oct 14, 2016 4:34:03 GMT -5
Reboot = turn it off and turn it back on again.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 14, 2016 5:10:12 GMT -5
After wasting a considerable amount of time reading the many troubleshooting articles at Photobucket, I finally used the option "don't find the answer you seek? Send us a detailed description of the problem and we'll get back to you as soon as possible".
What I got is a message from a robot giving me links to the troubleshooting articles.
I just know this will be a long and infuriating process. And I really should have made back-ups of those posts.
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 14, 2016 5:56:11 GMT -5
Reboot = turn it off and turn it back on again. That's what I thought. It wouldn't work if it's problem with the site, though.
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 14, 2016 5:58:22 GMT -5
After wasting a considerable amount of time reading the many troubleshooting articles at Photobucket, I finally used the option "don't find the answer you seek? Send us a detailed description of the problem and we'll get back to you as soon as possible". What I got is a message from a robot giving me links to the troubleshooting articles. I just know this will be a long and infuriating process. And I really should have made back-ups of those posts. Sorry RR. After my computer died a few months ago, I'm in the habit of copying and emailing some files to myself in order to keep a "backup" copy.
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Post by Spike-X on Oct 14, 2016 6:21:21 GMT -5
Reboot = turn it off and turn it back on again. That's what I thought. It wouldn't work if it's problem with the site, though. I think that was just in reference to the hardware issues (wifi, sound).
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Post by Spike-X on Oct 14, 2016 6:24:09 GMT -5
After wasting a considerable amount of time reading the many troubleshooting articles at Photobucket, I finally used the option "don't find the answer you seek? Send us a detailed description of the problem and we'll get back to you as soon as possible". What I got is a message from a robot giving me links to the troubleshooting articles. I just know this will be a long and infuriating process. And I really should have made back-ups of those posts. Sorry RR. After my computer died a few months ago, I'm in the habit of copying and emailing some files to myself in order to keep a "backup" copy. It's a lot easier to back them up with Dropbox.
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Post by The Captain on Oct 14, 2016 6:33:25 GMT -5
I started out this fine Friday with a wonderful piece of annoyance, as I had gotten an e-mail overnight from my credit card company alerting me to a possible fradulant charge. It was at an auto parts store in California for almost $1,000, and as I live in Pennnsylvania, it most certainly wasn't me.
When I called the CC company to straighten it out, they told me two disturbing pieces of info. The first is that it had been tried on consecutive days at the same place, which I get, but the more bothersome is the second, which is that the number was manually punched into the system rather than being swiped.
In this day and age of chips on cards, every place should be requiring "chip and pin", which would be far more secure. Instead, however, we get a hodge-podge of chip and pin, chip and sign, swipe and pin, swipe and sign, chip and auto approve...the list goes on. There is no reason that any eatablishment should manually type a number in, especially if the person trying to use it doesn't actually have the card! I get there are situations where the magnetic bar is damaged and manual entry is needed, but at least the person has the card with them.
So, now my card is cancelled (again, as this is the third time this has happened) and new ones are being sent, which means I have to spend time next week updating all of my automatic payments to make sure they still go through come November. So sick of this.
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Post by hondobrode on Oct 14, 2016 9:18:04 GMT -5
Sorry to hear about the credit card fiasco.
It's very, very annoying but it's not as annoying as getting stung for $ 1,000.
* sigh *
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Post by The Captain on Oct 14, 2016 10:13:30 GMT -5
Sorry to hear about the credit card fiasco. It's very, very annoying but it's not as annoying as getting stung for $ 1,000. * sigh * Agree completely. The previous two times this happened, it was for small amounts that could very easily have passed notice. The only reason I caught them was because I review my credit card transactions online every week and noticed there were things there that shouldn't have been.
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Post by hondobrode on Oct 14, 2016 10:24:13 GMT -5
Susan goes over ours with a fine toothed comb.
One of the favorite things of the crooks is to do a very low amount, and odd ball amount less than $ 1, to see if you're awake.
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