What's under your lip/in your nose right now? - Part 2

[rothenbj]

Happy birthday Axl! Darn you're parents were planners. How do you plan getting the maximum value of deductions at the minimum cost on your 1099? Hasppy New Year everyone! It only took me 9 hours to realize it was a new year, but I got a good night's sleep, no hang over and no regrets.

So Skry, you just got a smartphone? They're addicting after a while. I never fool with mine until there's less than a year left on the contract, then I root it and put on ROMs that are developed to open up all that the phones are capable of doing. Much like the PV world, the Android geek world has really matured over the years. Rooting and ROM changes are pretty safe with little chance of screwing up and killing the phone up. You just have to read the how to info available on the net. Safestrap enables you to load your existing stock ROM into what they call an "unsafe" area (unsafe because you don't want to fool with it after you root) and 4 or 5 safe compartments where you can install different ROM builds, if you have enough memory. I'd like to have more knowledge of Android/Linux because I'm at a roadblock right now. There's a way to make the phone use SD card memory internal memory so you have massive areas to store apps.

I've partitioned my SD card, but am unable to get the phone to recognize the added memory as internal memory. I haven't found a ROM to accept it and am too nontechnical to go mucking around in the code to try some of what I've read. I think a Linux for dummies from the thrift store is in my future,

Mint
nada

 

[hittman]

Happy Birthday Axl!

Skrymr I'm glad things are going well for your mom. I've had the same android phone for two or three years now. I don't worry about having the latest and greatest and honestly hardly ever use it for phone calls. I use tapatalk app for posting on the forum. The old joke used to be that the hardest thing to do on a smart phone was to make or receive a call.

Roth you're way ahead of me on the tech stuff. I just don't stay up on it as much as I used to and wouldn't even consider trying to hack my phone.

Thunder berry
Coffee

 

[firechick]

Happy New Year, folks!


Aroma GI Joe
Coffee

 

[hittman]

Today was rather uneventful and that's just fine. It's back to work tomorrow and I'm expecting at least one confrontation with one of my coworkers.

General mint
Tonic menthol

 

[hittman]

Good morning. I got a like this morning on a post that I made a year and a half ago and it triggered me into reading another old thread. Anyway, I saw this article and thought I'd share it.

Professor: Nicotine does not cause cigarette addiction | The State Press - An independent daily serving Arizona State University


thunder berry
coffee

 

[rothenbj]

Interesting article Hitt. Someone got on the right trail at some point, but nobody seems to have listened. I think the true tobacco addicts either return to smoking or end up with WTA or another smokeless product that provides the MAOI that self medicates us. E cigs are great for the hand to mouth habit and nicotine does have some medical benefit so just getting that is enough for many, but the calm is undeniable for those that need it.

What I still find hard to believe is how little I need to be keep level. Around 5 grams a day replaced 40-50 taken the bad way for me.

 

[hittman]

I actually did quit for a couple months with vaping alone. It took me two or three months to ween off the smokes but it was new and exciting and I managed to stop smoking for those couple months. Then the depression started setting in and I knew that there was something I wasn't getting. I struggled for a long time and beat myself up pretty bad the first two years or so after I first started this journey. I finally came to terms with myself and decided that if I have one then I'm not going to kill myself over it. I'm glad you don't struggle with it any more.

thunder berry
coffee

 

[firechick]

Even though this has been a short week, I'm glad tomorrow is Friday.

Coffee
FUBAR SNAFU Medicated (hitt, ya gotta try it)

 

[hittman]

Me too FC. I'm having a tough time getting back into my work after being off Xmas week.

 

[rothenbj]

Oh Hitt, I still have my moments, don't let me fool you. In fact just this morning I had a twinge, just a bit before I read your post. I took a couple puffs of WTA and I forgot about what I was thinking. I can say I haven't had one of those two or three day periods that I posted about months??? ago. That one required WTA, snus and snuff to work through.

 

[hittman]

I haven't touched my snuff stash in months. I guess I lost interest in it.

General mint
Tonic menthol

 

[firechick]

I had a bit of a stuffy nose, so I grabbed the menthol. It did the trick and it reminded me how nice a little snuff is. I've been going so fast lately that enjoying the little things hasn't been in the plan.

ECBlends Dirty Ashtray (and it really is appropriately named)
Jules Blue -found in the freezer while pulling out some venison

 

[hittman]

FC, is that liquid one of those NET ones? I've been thinking about trying some.

 

[firechick]

If NET means extracted tobacco, I don't think it is. It's growing on me the longer I use it.

Water
O/R mini

 

[hittman]

Yeah, it means Naturally Extracted Tobacco. It's basically a soak that gives the flavor of the tobacco but no wta. So does yours taste a lot like a cigarette?

General mint
Tobacco road

 

[firechick]

More that burned flavor that stays with you. Quite disgusting, but fairly accurate. I find I don't vape as long using it, even at 18mg.

Coffee
Tbomb

 

[hittman]

It definitely sounds interesting. Is ECblends the name of the site?

Thunder berry
Coffee

 

[firechick]

Yep.
Can't believe the weekend is almost over. I need a vacation.

Coffee
Thunder orange

 

[hittman]

I just had time off over Xmas and feel like I could use more. Time off spoils me for work the first week or so.

 

[rothenbj]

Dead around here much? I must be the doldrums of returning to the grind.

Went to PC hell, AGAIN. The gf's PC decided it didn't like the internet anymore, wired or wireless. I went through every troubleshooting technique I knew (and anyone else that I knew with professional background). Finally I went with the only hope I had and that was to replace the Ethernet card. Surprise! They didn't carry cards at Staples anymore and I wasn't running to Best Buy with the hope they did. I picked up a USB wireless gadget figuring that would solve the problem. Wrong again.

That left me with the last and most difficult task, restoring to factory install of Win7 that involved formatting the hard drive. Microsoft sure had a lot of updates over the last two or three years and I had to keep doing saves along the way figuring one of the updates may have zapped the connectivity. Fortunately that wasn't the problem and the machine was running like new, except for the printer.

When Win7 came out, HP didn't bother to update it's drivers to run under it. After hours of searching, I got a link to an HP page that gave instructions on running under Vista emulation. Now if they could write out instructions that they expected all levels of knowledge to follow, they could have made the changes, packaged it into a single autorun and made it a Win& solution but no. They had you donload from a Vista page, make changes, manually to four files the autorun. Unfortunately the instructions were incomplete that a bunch of HP customers were not very happy with. I found a long thread on the subject where nobody figured out what was happening that ended with a smartazz saying HP gave you instructions, he followed the instructions and it worked so there was everyone elses failure that couldn't figure it out. Kind of reminded me of the "just quit. I did" mentality.

That fried me so bad this morning that I spent about 6 hours working on a solution. I even called mom and skipped seeing her. The printer wasn't printing color which wasn't a bad thing because the three color cartridges are expensive and they always run out about the same time as the black even though the colors are never used nearly as much as the black, but that's an entirely different subject. However, the scanner didn't work at all which was a bad thing for her purposes.

There were 6 application files in the folder that extracted when I unzipped the download, but HP had you only changing 4 of those files. I decided to change all 6 and see if that would resolve the issue. I ran the autorun and the printer was now, unfortunately, printing color which I could have lived without, but the scanner was still not working. I remembered seeing a new release of the firmware from October, but since the that wasn't needed before the PC failure and it was so recent, I left that as my last possibility.

That was the magic bullet. I installed that and everything finally worked. I quickly posted on a half dozen threads the additional steps I took so that anyone else left out on a limb would know there was a solution. My guess is that HP realized there was a problem (the threads dated back to 2010) and finally make a change to the firmware a few months ago but never updated their documentation. At least it's over this time around.

Tomorrow is fix poker table day, well actually today.

My last can of Thunder test
nada