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So, we got home from my friend's house (obviously) and discovered that my son had turned on the heat in the bedroom... at about 1 pm. We didn't notice it before we left because it was a warm day, but now--when we should be enjoying the nice cool down of the evening, it's close to 90 degrees because he turned it all the way up.
Good night, Treefam. And, Blue, I can now fully empathize with you...
My SquapeR still works fine... although it's now pretty much gathering dust since I picked up my Subtank Minis. Still, I received the new tank section, it has worked fine.I really wanted the Squape R, but all of the clones seem to have issues, and I ain't spending that kind of money on an authentic.
One doesn't even need to have a computer to be tracked. Databases are correlated all the time--and by using data-mining techniques, your life can pretty much be assembled without you even knowing it.@Uncle I do not worry about legit keyloggers such as those from MS and Google. At this stage of the game, I truly believe that if you think you can hide AND use a computer, you are deluding yourself...
I remember VAX systems--which I played around on but never actually used. I coded my first game on a Wang minicomputer and attempted to do the same thing on an Sinclair, but the 16k expander kept detaching from the unit, causing it to crash. I loved the TRS-80 in its day and then moved on to an IBM PC XT. My dad had a Mac SE that I played around with, but I hated how slow it felt. Unix in college, then DOS, and just about every version of Windows (including NT 3 and 4 and every flavor of 2000) except Vista. Along the way, there were also flirtations with OS/2, BeOS, and a couple early versions of Linux. I agree, Fuzzy: Win7 messed up mail and digital sound processing from the way things had run before; but overall, I like the interface.I am feeling pretty old after reading these. I started on a dumb terminal connected to a Cyber mainframe, then a dumb terminal connected to a Vax PDP/11-70. My first desktop was a Lisa (Apple) in which I later installed a Mac brain (a little software an Apple guy gave me at a convention) but the Lisa screen ratio was 2:3 and the Mac was 1:1 so the graphics were hosed (circles came out oval). The company started using Windoze 3.0 and 3.1, so I learned that, then got a real Mac (OS3 at only 33MHz - I still have it and it still works fine - slower than molasses, but it does work). Using the Mac, I missed Windoze 3.11 and 85 and 98 standard edition. When I came back to Windoze (at home), it was 98 special edition (98SE). I never did ME or Vista. I am running XP Pro now and Lannie has Windoze 7 Home (which I hate). One of the things Windoze did that ticked me off most was dumping my favorite mail program (Outlook Express) and that Live mail crap on 7 is something I don't even want to fuss with. So Shawn, keep us all updated on Windoze 10. Especially ways to defeat their "improvements" that take control out of the hands of the user. What Uncle says about "everything Ya' do goes to MS via a keystroker program" is, to me, a concrete wall stopper. I'll go to Linux before I let Microsoft have access to all my stuff.
So, we got home from my friend's house (obviously) and discovered that my son had turned on the heat in the bedroom... at about 1 pm. We didn't notice it before we left because it was a warm day, but now--when we should be enjoying the nice cool down of the evening, it's close to 90 degrees because he turned it all the way up.
Good night, Treefam. And, Blue, I can now fully empathize with you...