Posts by chivo243 6665 publicly visible posts • joined 10 May 2010
We recently had some LARGE interactive displays start going crazy. But only between 9 and 10 in the morning. Turned out there are cameras along the bezel of the screen to aid in the touchiness, and the sun would shine into this room just right for an hour or so to make it act possessed. Once the seasons changed it was no longer an issue. Plus there are now some foil screens on the window now as well
Long ago, when wireless networking was best effort (and on 2.4ghz), we had one problem area in the school, call it one problem room. When ever the students started all writing a test on the laptops, the wireless would drop out of this room. We busted our heads and asses trying to get our minds around this problem. After a few observations of the issue, the coin dropped. Every time there was test on the laptops, the instructor would position themselves squarely in the doorway(to observe for cheating etc). This instructor didn't miss any meals, and didn't know when to push away from the dinner table. The AP was directly across the hall from their door and their large carriage was blocking the signal. We asked them to move away from the door, and presto, connection to the network was restored! We couldn't bring ourselves to tell them it was their own fault...
I was on vacation in the States 3 years ago, and had to buy a burner phone, it had so much google crap installed. I had to login with a google account, and I made the mistake of using my primary gmail account, instead of on of my throw-away accounts. To this day I am seeing weird behavior in my calendar.
Never again!
I feel your pain, but Home Edition was a silly experiment that we still feel to day... How many flavors of Vanilla do we need? How many builds of Vanilla?
I'll only say that networking for Home Edition was fscked... to dredge up any other bad memories would cost me at the pub or the shrink.
I've been 'trying' new browsers for about a year now. I dislike how much Google has their fingers in my pie. When I got my gmail invite back in the day, search and now email! Wow, that was cool. Google just got creepy after that. I avoided Chrome, util my employer drank the kool-aid and embraced gmail, and docs and sheets, etc.
What I find at work these days, is that I need browza 1 for these sites, browza 2 for those devices, and browza 3 for my personal stuff, browza 4 just because something doesn't work well or at all in browza 1,2, or 3.
I have given FF a try in the last few weeks, so far no show stopping issues.
It's a work phone, and the employer is a world government. Exactly why do they have use rights to install anything on it at all? Let alone a garden variety app. One would think the militaries of the modern world would have come up with a secure chat app?
I added a bit or two... sorry, you got me started...
I didn't make any extra dosh off W2K. The biggest benefit was an extra week off work just in case, we had to work to fix things. The knock on effect of this is we still get an extra week paid at Christmas vacation! Someone at the top realized it was a good idea! So far 20 weeks paid vacation due to Y2K bugs!
It would seem that some new shiny surveillance gear should\would be under the tree for Simon and Stephen. These cold war antics of putting radioactive material in the printer toner, then tracing it with a geiger counter could have been done from the comfort of mission control. Besides, as much as it's a danger to the 'Boss' it is also a danger to our heroes, and that is just not acceptable, now is it!
Here's one for the New Year! Thanks!!
Back around the turn of the century, I had the Asst. to some D-level call up and complain that when she opened a certain document Word would lose its mind and type crap. English wasn't her first language, probably 4th or 5th, and back in my greenhorn days, I was always as polite a possible. I showed up to see this "only in this document" phenomenon. Turns out this Ass. to a D had to transcribe written minutes stored in a binder. She would dutifully open the document in Word, type a few things date of meeting, minute taker (her), no problem! She would slide the binder into place, and open it right onto the control key!!! and proceed to transcribe the document, all the time producing utter crap! I moved the binder off of the key, repositioned they keyboard slightly and asked her to try again. No problem! I advised her to keep the keyboard clear, in a pleasant, calm tone, it could have happened to anyone. I was later asked about the incident, behind closed doors...
I once tripped and launched a pizza off of the tray, it will forever be a slo-mo moment in my mind. Whooof whoooof whoooof glop! and the pizza skids across the floor!
That flingin' food thing didn't fly while grandpa was at the head of the table. I saw aunts and uncles marched off to their rooms after one volley. I believe the projectiles were peas, and no two rail cannons.
Happy Holidays Dabbsy! Take the rest of the year off!
Many years ago, they got our power line, or most of it, and we felt it for months afterwards. In the following months, we lost over 50% of our switches. After the third one in a month, someone at the vendor asked if we had seen a power cut...
Really? Another phone with a decent camera will get around that. What about mobile screen recording? Is that a thing? Let me look...
for the fruit users Go to the Photos app and select your screen recording. Some apps may not allow you to record audio.
and for our droid users
https://www.wondershare.com/screen-recorder/free-android-screen-recording-app.html
The missus has never asked for a winstall to check her work. She tests on phones, tablets and her mac(s). She's found over time that fewer and fewer people use a computer to access her company's website. I don't remember the figures, but tablets and mobiles are at the top for her customer base. Yes, her company is at the opposite end of the spectrum from corporate entities that rely on M$ technology.
"..a more efficient and effective way of cleaning PCs than running about with USB drives and sticking green stickers."
There has to be, but some educational institutes don't have the tools or techs to use the tools. Back in the early 2000s we chased NIMDA and KLEEZ with the sneaker net attack. Even after disconnecting every computer from the network(phase 1) and running to each computer to stick in a floppy to remove both offenders (phase 2) it didn't work. WE still had to do it like 3 more times.
I would hope each staffer and student who had to run the clean on their computers would get a discount on tuition or staff could ask for overtime?
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