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P.S. Hard drive is no good.
Hard drives are dirt cheap and easy to replace. Windows 7 installation DVDs are available for download. You should have your systems key printed on a tag somewhere. (On mine, the tag is under the battery -- safe and secure, but who'd guess to look for it there?)
Cheers, PW.
P.S. Burn a Windows 7 DVD, boot from it, and test your system. There's no point in buying a new drive until you know that the other hardware is OK.
Repelling bears in Canada. . .
. . .Campos is now threatening to sue United unless they change their policy and apologize to every woman on that plane they humiliated on behalf of intolerant Muslim savages. . .
Whenever United Airlines encounters a cow-pie, they can't seem to keep themselves from stepping into it.
A few years ago, United Airlines baggage handlers broke a passenger's guitar and the company refused to take responsibility.
The performer created a music video about it. His video has over 15 million views.
United Airlines stock price imploded, wiping out over $300 million in shareholder equity. (All over a $1,200 repair!)
Story
. . .She loves Antiques Roadshow. . .
Perhaps she'd like to appear on that show and get the stuff she bagged from the White House appraised.
Cheers, PW.
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How do I turn it OFF? (It being Auto Maximize)
You need to go the Ease of Access Center feature found in Control Panel.
Click on Make the mouse easier to use
Put a check in the box for Prevent windows from being automatically arranged when moved to the edge of the screen found under Make it easier to manage windows
Cheers, PW.
P.S. When you disable this feature, a couple of related features disappear too, like the "Full Vertical" sizing in Windows 10 and the ability to quickly snap a couple of windows to share the screen equally.
P.P.S. It may be a good idea to scan through the other Ease of Access options in case there's something else there that can make your life easier. For example, I love the feature that displays an animated "Bull's Eye" to locate the mouse pointer whenever I press the Ctrl key.
P.P.P.S. Windows permits users to substitute different sounds to alert them to various situations their systems encounter. I wanted something distinctive to make me aware when a new E-Mail arrives. I found a sound file from a champion duck caller's website that suited my needs perfectly. One thing's for sure, I now know when I get mail!
Long story short: In most cases, Windows can be configured to suit your taste. (Or lack of taste!)
A "Journalist" goes among the public and solicits opinions about Donald Trump's son going hunting, bagging a dinosaur, and sharing his success through social media.
A restaurant was added to the school and courses were designed so that a four year course produced a student ready to manage a restaurant. It is open to the public for lunch, prepared by the chef's cooking class. Several local chefs invite top students to work in their restaurants.
When I lived in the city, we'd visit the local College Restaurant regularly. We'd get a superb meal at an excellent price. The students were well polished in dealing with "customers" and the overall experience would frequently beat what we'd find in our area's best establishments.
Cheers, PW.
P.S. It's amusing to see what happened to the kids who chose the "Technical" stream in my High School. Many became tradespeople, and a few even managed to start their own business. As teens, they were viewed as "losers" but as adults, they became "The Boss."
From the "Your Cat is Trying to Kill You" article you shared. . .
. . .Toxoplasmosis, which the authors call an “epidemic” and a “looming public health crisis,” is aggressively spread by cats through a parasite in their poop. Toxoplasma infection, which presents as cysts, can lead to fever, fatigue and headaches or even death for people with immune system deficiencies.
. . .
Worse, recent scientific findings suggest that people in the latent phase of toxoplasmosis, which was once considered asymptomatic, actually begin to exhibit signs of mental disorders like severe depression, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and, yes, schizophrenia. . .
If my memory serves me correctly, the Clintons had a cat when they lived in the White House.
Cheers, PW.
P.S.
From the "Kittens Telling Harsh Truths" website Website
Intel is altering the way they name some of their processors.
Some people feel the new naming conventions are confusing. Others feel that creating the confusion is deliberate.
Anyway, people who are buying hardware have yet another pitfall to avoid.
Rebranding Core Processors
Cheers, PW.
Several decades ago, while camping, a toddler "fell through the hole" in an Outhouse. His mother reached in, and taking him by the hands, lifted him out. They headed directly to the lake!
Whenever I see a small building with a crescent moon on the door, I think of this kid. He's probably a parent now, and maybe even a grand-parent.
When I came across this story, I thought about the kid. But this guy's been on this Earth for a couple of decades. What's his excuse?
Man gets stuck
Cheers, PW.
**Lighten up..It's Friday, you can use a good laugh!!
Can I take hard drives from XP computers and put them in my computer?
The quick answer is YES, but maybe not.
Around the time XP was enjoying it’s peak in popularity, computers were transitioning from using Parallel to Serial ATA drives. Some systems featured both types of connections, but many older systems used only Parallel and newer systems used only Serial. If your system’s connections and drives match, they’ll work.
Compare your drive and system connections to those in this photo to determine which you have. (Data connections shown. Power connections differ too.)
Note: Parallel, PATA, and IDE are terms often used interchangeably to refer to the same type of connection. Parallel connections can use one of three operating modes, Master, Slave, and Cable Select. As well, with Parallel, one controller can connect with two disks. Parallel disks are configured using jumpers.
With SATA disks, plug them in and you're done!
But beyond the mechanical and electrical installation, there’s integrating your new drives into Windows.
When Windows detects new hardware, it takes its best guess on how to proceed. Let’s review the steps.
The system’s firmware will determine which disk to use for booting. Usually, it will be the same disk it has always used, but this isn’t guaranteed. Users can select which disk is used for booting by altering BIOS settings. Making these changes are relatively easy.
When the system boots from a hard drive, it examines the available partitions on the disk looking for the one marked as Active. The Active partition must contain the code necessary for the system to start. Of course, your original disk will not only contain your original Windows system, this original Windows system will be located in the proper partition and the necessary Active flags set appropriately.
Where this may become ugly is when you install a disk from another Windows system and your computer gets confused and tries to use it. In this case, the additional disk will have an Active partition and a Windows system as well -- BUT IT WON”T RUN!! It may try, but because the hardware is different, it’ll display an error message.
So -- if you install extra disks, be certain that your system continues to boot from the original.
When Windows starts, it takes an inventory of the available disks and assigns Drive Letters following an established routine. Beginning with C assigned to the Windows volume, it assigns subsequent letters to Primary partitions on the same drive. Next, letters are assigned to Primary partitions on the other drives. Continuing on, Letters are assigned to Extended partitions on the first drive, and then Letters to Extended partitions on other drives. Drives with removable media get letters last.
On early systems, these Volume letter assignments were fixed. Windows XP supports users changing Volume Letter assignments. An easy way of doing this is to use DiskMgmt.MSC
Drive Letter assignments are maintained by Windows, not stored on the disk. Multi-Boot systems can use different lettering schemes for the same disks. Swapping disks among computers will scramble drive letter assignments. Utilities (like recovery environments) will have their own independent letter assignments. This is why I always recommend users NAME their volumes as well as assign letters. (The names are stored on the disk and do NOT change.)
Note: One cannot change the letter assignments of volumes that are being used. On a typical Windows system, the volume(s) containing the Boot code, the Swap File, and Windows cannot be given a new drive letter.
As well, partitions do not need to have a letter assigned to them. If they don’t have a letter, they become invisible to most Windows programs such as Explorer. An example of where this can be appropriate is to hide other Windows volumes on Multi-Boot systems.
Back to your original question: Can disks from other systems be installed as secondary drives?
If you do this, consider re-formatting the extra drives. Removing the now redundant Windows installations can simplify things tremendously. For example, recovery utilities that look for Windows system data will not become confused. (Believe me, you DON’T want to deal with the mess this can make!)
Hope this helps.
Cheers, PW.
Dictionary stuff. . .
Whenever I need to use the dictionary, I put the word into my Daily reminder list so that it appears once per month. If, in a month's time, I've forgotten the word, I use it to rename one of the Desktop shortcuts on my computer. This forces me to think about it quite often and really helps me remember it.
Fortunately, until now, my "Word Count" has always been less than my "Shortcut Count."
As a bonus, this practice makes using my computer profoundly confusing for anyone else.
Cheers, PW.
Let's not forget another likely outcome of a universal $15 per hour minimum wage: debasing the currency. Under ideal circumstances, the "new" $15 will have the same purchasing power as the "old" minimum wage. But it may very well have even less as those in a position to manipulate the dollar's value will find the temptation to "fool" so many people overwhelming.
The $15 minimum wage is an excellent idea if the goal is to make people feel happy while they slide into poverty.
Cheers, PW.
Fred Reed outlines yet another reason why voters should choose Trump over Clinton. . .
Reed
Cheers, PW.
. . .If you looked in Webster's dictionary under the work "asshole," those photos should probably be found. . .
. . .I suspect that if Donald Trump helped an old person across a street, the liberal media types would find a way to make that seem evil. . .
If Donald Trump ever walked on water, the next day's headlines would read:
Trump Can't Swim!
Cheers, PW.
Do you want white policemen excluded from black neighborhoods?
One of a few questions Fred Reed has for BLM. Here's a link to the entire article. . .
Reed
Cheers, PW.
Anyone know good cloning software?
If you have a Seagate drive in your system, Disk Wizard is an Acronis True Image clone that will get the job done.
Disk Wizard
If you have a Western Digital drive in your system, WD True Image from Acronis is available.
True Image
Some other imaging software. . .
Disk Image
Drive Image
Paragon
Aomei
For managing partitions. . .
Eassos
EaseUS
MiniTool
Aomei
An interesting tool that may prove useful. . .
One Key
Cheers, PW.
P.S. Let's not forget the utility that comes built-in with Windows, DISM. It will create, and restore from, system images too. (Deployment Imaage Servicing and Management)
Yesterday, it seemed like I was in Heaven. Everything went well. The weather was wonderful. When I drove, the traffic was light and moving quickly. The lights turned green before I had a chance to slow down. The Commander didn’t need to go to the hospital. Our Mailman left no bills. And the telephone never rang.
At lunch time, I discovered the refrigerator was full of left-overs, cooked, and sitting on an easy-to-reach shelf, just waiting for a quick visit to the microwave. The dishwasher was empty and my water bottle was well chilled. The Commander had cleaned and washed strawberries as well as blueberries. And he didn’t bury the ice-cream carton in some impossible-to-reach cave in the freezer deep enough to discourage a professional Spelunkian.
And as the day unfolded, things got better.
This morning began similarly. I had great hope for another wonderful day. Not quite. Fate had other plans.
I enjoy an early morning walk. It’s a quiet time of day. If I can finish before dawn, I’m spared the unpleasantness of too much sun. It’s my time to collect my thoughts and plan my day.
We usually eat a salad as our evening meal, but I don’t like making them then because it seem like too big of an interruption when I’m busy with other things. So I make salads immediately after I return from walking. This is also the time I like to cook because the house is still cool. I listen to my .MP3 player as I work. The time passes quickly and pleasantly.
I tend to nibble as I work in the kitchen. I’ve convinced myself that it’s OK as long as I stick to low calorie salad ingredients. After all, a few leaves of spinach or a cucumber slice won’t hurt. But sometimes my cheating gets a little more serious.
I like sun dried tomatoes. I keep them in a glass jar and pour a few on each salad. Sometimes, a few more spill out than what I needed. When this happens, I have a simple remedy -- I eat the extra. I must confess that I’m not the most careful person when it comes to sun dried tomatoes, because it seems like I shake loose a few too many EVERY day.
Sometimes sun dried tomatoes are a bit firmer than what I expect. I suspect seeds are to blame. I don’t mind the extra chewiness because it’s often accompanied with some extra flavour too. But today, one piece seemed extra challenging, so I bit down on it with extra force.
Saying I bit with extra force is an understatement. I chomped on that thing with enough pressure to make crocodiles envious. I shouldn’t have, because I wasn’t prepared for the repercussions. First, the taste was awful. Not just bad, or surprising, it was really awful.
But the worst thing, I suddenly became deaf in my right ear.
This isn’t funny. It’s worrisome.
When the initial shock abated a bit, I was able to assess the situation. Damn -- I bit into the cord on my music player!
I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the rest of today.
Cheers, PW.
The Declaration of Independence did more than talk about the rights of the people. It placed the people at the center of the nation and its government, not as an undifferentiated mass to be harnessed for whatever propaganda purposes they might be good for, but as individuals with hopes and dreams.
Taken from an article about Happiness and Tyranny. . .
Happiness
The whole article is worth reading -- and especially on July 4th, worth consideration and reflection too.
Cheers, PW.
In Japan, the Supreme Court ruled that it's "Necessary and Inevitable" that police continue their profiling and surveillance of muslims in their country. Currently, locations being watched include places of worship, halal restaurants, and islam-related organizations.
UK Independent
Al Jazeera
Cheers, PW.
. . .(Sorry the picture is so big. I don't know the sizing trick.)
I don't know how to alter the size of images when I put their URL into a message, but would love to learn how.
If the image is on my computer, there are several options available.
If one prefers to install a Re-Size utility that becomes part of the Context Menu, I recommend an image Resizer from Brice Lambson. I've been using his software for well over a decade.
Brice
Many people prefer to avoid installing ANYTHING on their system. (I can't blame them!) For those who would rather use a portable program, I like FastStone
FastStone
Cheers, PW.
I feel I appreciate great workmanship and the careful craftsmanship needed in order to produce fine products, but sometimes, people go a bit too far. . .
I love the way this guy splits wood using an axe. . .
Maybe the drive is dead. But maybe the drive is OK and the enclosure is dead -- or a connection inside it is loose.
If I were facing your situation, I'd open the case, remove the disk, and try it in a computer. If it's OK, you'll know you have an enclosure issue. Enclosures are cheap, maybe $10.
Cheers, PW.
Lets be honest....3 ropes and a sturdy tree is the only reply to this kind of crap!
I disagree.
Only one rope is needed. Select one, the "Lucky" fellow, and let him be served first. The other two can watch, reflect, and ponder their fate. In the spirit of today's culture of Social Media, don't forget to make a video. We wouldn't want to waste a good "Teaching Moment."
The tree shouldn't be sturdy. It would be better if it had some flexibility. We don't want to break necks.
Cheers, PW.
P.S. Although it wasn't mentioned, don't tie hands or feet. We want the "Dance Video" to send the strongest message.
Something I gotta try. . .
With thanks to Patriot
Cheers, PW.
Some interesting information for those who are about to retire. Unfortunately, it contains some unnecessary inappropriate language, but if one can disregard this shortcoming, the advice is valid.
I NEVER visit Gawker. But they're the parent company of a site I check regularly, Gizmodo.
Gizmodo
Since Gawker has filed for Chapter 11, they'll probably be shielded from creditors while they restructure financially. I don't know how this will impact their business practices.
Although I have no use for the bottom feeders among so-called "journalists" and cannot care less about their difficulties, I don't want to see a useful site like Gizmodo suffer because of awful behaviour on the part of their parent company.
Perhaps the best outcome would be the "good bits" and "bad bits" of the company get separated. I'm not holding my breath.
Cheers, PW.
I came across this page.
Story
What they're dealing with is a site that has your system search Google for a few items that may be embarrassing if they were discovered in your browser's History.
The article warns against visiting the site Ruin My History.
Of course, I had to try it out.
Here's the search terms that were added to my browser's History:
age of consent {State}
am i lack toast and tolerant
ashley madison hack
ashley madison list {City}
attracted to mother why
average penis size {Country}
best budget penis pumps
bing
cheap syria flights {State}
common STIs
country low age of consent
do penis pumps work
does liking men mean im gay
donald trump
engagement rings
flights philippines
homemade lube?
how to appear funny
how to come out as gay to dad
how to delete search history in chrome
how to get back with ex
how to join isis
how to tell if partner cheating
how to tell partner they fat
i hate my boss
is incest illegal in {Country}
is it normal to still love my ex
isis application form
latest laws incest
mail order paternity test
midget google images
paternity test
penis remove dog how to
rohypnol safe dosage
romantic ways to propose
seduction guide
sex shop in {City}
signs of being gay
smelly penis cure urgent
STI test in {City}
syria hotels with pool
tall midgets??
undetectable poisons
view ashley madison list
ways to kill someone hypothetically
what counts as fat
why are my thumbs uneven
why doesnt my poo float
why is age of consent so old {State}
your youre difference
Note: The site "Personalizes" by substituting your State, City, and Country.
The one that gave me the biggest chuckle was "am i lack toast and tolerant?"
Cheers, PW.
P.S. Seriously, this should be a reminder for everyone to clear out their browser's history occasionally. (For performance improvement, of course.)
By now, people are probably saturated with the gender/bathroom issue. I can understand this. But this video puts the controversy in a different light. . .
This is old news by now, but in case anyone hasn't heard, Team Viewer seems to have become a popular vector for thieves.
More Details
Cheers, PW.
P.S. Apparently, only those who have Team Viewer accounts and have Team Viewer set to execute when their system starts have been attacked. (I doubt the complete story is known at the moment.)
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I came across an graphic which makes the claim that the policy of allowing skilled people to work in the U.S. temporarily under the H-1B Visa Program benefits U.S. workers. As I understand it, the program is designed to alleviate skilled worker shortages, but to many it's seen as a policy that depresses wages for U.S. citizens.
It seems that both sides make valid points. I'm sure the truth falls somewhere between these two extreme points of view.
The Graphic: H-1B Visa Program
For those who do not wish to invest the time to examine the graphic in detail, here's a shortcut: Quotes from Mark Zuckerberg and Eric Schmidt are used to support its claims. Flags can't get much redder than this!
Cheers, PW.
P.S. Those against the H-1B program seem to favour the "Lowers Wages" argument. If true, it's unfortunate, but there's something worse: the extra competition makes it difficult for recent graduates to grasp the first rung of their career ladder. These people are often caught in the trap of not being hired without experience and being unable to get experience without being hired.
Fred Reed has some interesting questions about policing and neighbourhood demographics. . .
For example: "do you want white cops pulled from black neighborhoods, or not?
Questions
Cheers, PW.
The Commander and I were sitting around the table after lunch speculating about why people on both sides oppose Trump. From our perspective, stopping Hillary is "Job Number One!" One would think that all actions and responses would be examined under this lens. Why would anyone on "Our Side" turn their back on a likely winner in favour of a sure loser?
Perhaps, we're seeing things from the wrong perspective. If someone's business depends on their ability to buy and sell politicians, a candidate that's not for sale makes a terrible alternative and must be avoided at all costs. In this light, Hillary's corruption is seen as an asset instead of a liability. "Our Masters" understand this deal -- the only thing left to negotiate is the price. (And it's a price we, the public, will certainly be required to pay.)
Cheers, PW.
For young mothers, the "Diary of a New Mother"
Diary of Mother
And for "older" mothers, a video: Bruce Springsteen dances with his mother. . .