TOAK, The Thread of All Knowledge Part XIII
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Hey Terri! Beautiful out!
Hey Mark!
Bright & sunny, just like yesturday, fresh mud, everything outside that will hold water is full of it. Seems like getting soaked at night is the current weather pattern, don't know when I'll be able to plant the veggies still in plastic cups (about 95% of them ). This fairly powerful but hobbled by win10 puter I borrowed from daughter & sil is up & running in the puter room. Win10 seems downright clumsy to me to use with the default settings.
Clumsy puters reminds me of an incident when still employed. In the 90's, shop had a stand alone puter for a few programs but mostly database for record keeping, using win 3.1 and DOS Paradox database. At that time, few of the guys knew how to use a windows puter, and pulling up a file in Paradox was beyond many of them. Manager asked me to simplify the process, so I removed all the desktop icons they wouldn't use and set up icons that would open whatever database file or program they wanted. I also set up a data backup icon to run a backup batch file, all anyone had to do was put the appropriate floppy disk in. Then IT put the puter on the company internet. Guy came in, thought windows was bad 'cause he didn't see the desktop he expected, so he formated the drive to start over and just put a new install of win 3.1 on it. Manager was the angriest I ever saw him. IT guy spent a whole day feeding it floppy disks to put all the programs back, and then I spent a few hours installing the backed up data and back to the simple desktop screen. I tried to explain to him what had been done to the puter, but he didn't understand. Probably working for microsoft now...
Clumsy puters reminds me of an incident when still employed. In the 90's, shop had a stand alone puter for a few programs but mostly database for record keeping, using win 3.1 and DOS Paradox database. At that time, few of the guys knew how to use a windows puter, and pulling up a file in Paradox was beyond many of them. Manager asked me to simplify the process, so I removed all the desktop icons they wouldn't use and set up icons that would open whatever database file or program they wanted. I also set up a data backup icon to run a backup batch file, all anyone had to do was put the appropriate floppy disk in. Then IT put the puter on the company internet. Guy came in, thought windows was bad 'cause he didn't see the desktop he expected, so he formated the drive to start over and just put a new install of win 3.1 on it. Manager was the angriest I ever saw him. IT guy spent a whole day feeding it floppy disks to put all the programs back, and then I spent a few hours installing the backed up data and back to the simple desktop screen. I tried to explain to him what had been done to the puter, but he didn't understand. Probably working for microsoft now...
Afternoon Dan, hope all is well in your world!
It's about time it started straightening out weather wise!
It's about time it started straightening out weather wise!