Pete_C

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  2. Win7 with IE10 - some sites (Twitter, Google forums) do not load completely

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted

    Any chance java was blocked , disabled, or uninstalled when they had the big scare that it was insecure?

    I know folks who experienced similar in firefox when something there blocked java or when they uninstalled it entirely.

    Go to the test java page and see if it is installed and working

    http://www.java.com/en/download/testjava.jsp

    Install the latest version if it is not already installed.

  3. just stopped by

    in Open Chat

    Posted

    Just popped in to say hello and wish all who know me and those who dont as all the best

    Its been too dam long

    best regards

    G.

    Right you are, it has been a long time, too long.

    As Old Ben Kenobi said "Now that is a name I have not heard in a long time."

    To many of the old timers have passed on.

    G4 has been sold to Esquire Magazine, and while the forums are still up they are probably not going to be for much longer.

    Besttechie is slow these days, G4 is too.

    Life goes on and times change as technology continues to evolve.

    Nice hearing from you, good to know you are still with us.

  4. Happy New Year!

    in Open Chat

    Posted

    Happy new year y'all.

    Going to have to remake my gateway home page. I was just checking through forums I hadn't visited in a bit and am disappointed in how many TV shows, channels, and networks have abandoned forums and now rely exclusively on social media such as facebook and twitter (at least some are adding google +) for interaction with fans and the audience. Not that they ever actually interacted, but they at least provided a forum for fans to interact.

  10. G4TV to be sold to Esquire

    in Open Chat

    Posted

    Given that Esquire has registered such domains as EsquireTV.com and EsquireChannel.com it is likely that the existing G4TV.com will cease to exist.

    It is highly unlikely that they will keep the domain up or pay for the servers to keep running. It iis not like the merger with TechTV where they are preserving some of what was there and trying to keep the viewers; they are buying the channel space and bringing in a "fresh new concept" They notified the staff that the remaining G4TV shows (AOTS, XPLAY...) are canceled and they are terminated at the end of the year. Some (Kevin P, Brian Sessler) left before the public announcement, the remaining cast makes it clear that they know their jobs are over and that no one is likely to fire them early (two incidents of guests getting naked while being interviewed on AOTS last week and the camera guy just blurring it a bit rather than cutting or bleeping).

    So my bet is that by Jan 01 we will go to click on forums.g4tv.com and find "server unavailable" and that will be that.

    It is unlikely that they will bother preserving any of the archived stuff or old videos of The Screen Savers and Call For Help or any other content.

    It is just not what they are all about.

    Likewise, I doubt they will have forums, from their site it appears to be more social media (facebook and twitter) that they use to interact and that forums are a thing of the past.

  12. Captain, she can't take warp 8!

    in Open Chat

    Posted

    Warp speed?! Really? :matrix:

    My link

    My problem here is that there is no reason to believe that you can do this in such a manner as to achieve FTL movement.

    Consider, that basically you are doing what a gravity wave does naturally, and it is constrained to move at the speed of light.

    My guess would be that any such wave (and that is basically what they are creating) can travel through space faster than C.

    Yes, you would get the jump to light speed; but you would not have the benefit of lorentz time contraction, nor would you be traveling faster than light.

    Now I do see another possibility.

    There is no constraint as to how fast space can inflate or deflate; Thus you could "inflate" the space around you and see all of the universe shrink into the distance. (question her eis which direction are you moving?) Now comes along "quantum Entanglement" or as Einstein called it "spooky action at a distance). Your pit in space would be matched by a corresponding entangled pit which would bend to meet yours in whatever dimension you are expanding. Then when they meet, you would transfer and collapse space and be at your destination. It would essentially be an instantaneous transfer (well very little time elapsed) from point A to point B.

    Of course the only way I can see you having any real control of where point B is is if the Universe is a giant quantum computer; that like in "HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy" we are a subroutine of a greater program that our actions and decisions are part of a great computation. Then you would go where you are supposed to go because that is how it is.

    That leeds me to ponder something I read recently that at the quantum level, gravity becomes inflationary.

    Okay, if that is so, what happens when a black hole collapses? Externally, gravity is an attractive force collapsing the black hole, but internally it is inflationary expanding the space inside the black hole. So the black hole is bigger on the inside than the outside. If you were inside the black hole in this inflated space; you would see the event horizon as we see the cosmic background radiation of the big bang. From inside the event horizon, there would be no before or beyond even though there actually is. Anything falling into the event horizon would result in a further inflation of the "inner space" as the event horizon expands, and it would result in "splotchiness" of the radiation from the event horizon.

    Much to ponder here.. Would we see an external mass as a deformation of inflation ? Would stuff inside the event horizon be affected by an external mass? What of a merger with another event horizon?

  14. USB Floppy Drive Reboots Computer

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted

    I'm working on rebuilding a machine for a friend's business and they need the floppy drive to work as it is still used in some of their industry machines. Well the floppy drive in the machine doesn't work and in trying to see if a USB floppy drive would be an optional solution for them, I borrowed my brother's USB Floppy drive. I can get it to load the driver's fine on my newer Win7 laptop, but not on the computer I've been rebuilding. It's an old HP Pavilion 700 running Windows XP (fresh install with SP3). When I plug the USB Floppy Drive into the machine, it starts loading the drivers, then reboots the computer and continues in that cycle until I unplug it.

    I have tried booting in safe mode with the same problem, disabling the AV, used a different USB port (all ports in good working order). The Floppy Drive I'm testing with is an HP EA763AA.

    Any thoughts/suggestions?

    Does the floppy drive access light stay on? If so then probably the positive an negative to the USB port are reversed.

    If that does not solve it, just get a cheap regular floppy and install it.

  15. Avavtar

    in Open Chat

    Posted

    Yeah, the girls are eight onow. My Jindo is 16. My labs died last year but I got a new Alaskan husky. Big girl, 125 Lbs and a 40 inch chest. Loves to run, made me run a half marathon before she let me catch her when she got loose one day.

    Got a little rottweiler sharpei too.

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  16. Ghost Town?

    in Open Chat

    Posted

    Glad to see you!

    I think that part of it is that Windows and PCs are finally becoming reliable. There are far fewer mainstream requests for technical help and support with the new computers and operating systems than there were in the days of win95 and 98 (and even XP).

    Secondly computers are now mainstream, with smart phones being endemic. People finally get it that most of the time, restarting solves the problem. They know how to google to see if others have had the same problem and what they did for it.

    Spyware , adware, and even malware are becomming less of a problem as more and more antivirus programs deal with them all rather than users needing separate programs for each. Built in features to warn of unsafe links in search results, warnings about dangerous links, sand box features etc and microsofts efforts to force out automatic updates and monthly running of the malicious software removal tool have all helped to decrease the problems.

    Then there is the change of where people go.

    Back in the day you dialed in to a bulletin board, read others threads and posted replies,, occaisionally posting one of your own.

    You logged in to a mail server to get and send mail.

    Then came the early internet and the focus moved to news groups which behaved very similarly and an email client which often did news groups too.

    Then google started making it so you could access these news groups through HTTP.

    Finally web sites began hosting forums. People could get together and socialize on a site of shared interest.

    Now we have smart phones, facebook, google plus and twitter.

    People effectively have their own forum where they can control who is a member (friend, member of a circle, follower...) . No more searching for forums full of like minded individuals or posting on boards belonging to TV networks to discuss your favorite show. You can like it on facebook, you can post your thoughts and have your "friends" reply and unfriend anyone who gets nasty.

    Just as newsgroups spelled the demise of BBS ( remember when CFH or TSS set one up for nostalgia?), then forums, P2P and Torrents, pretty much put the whole news group (alt) community in decline. Yes the usenet community still exists, and so do forums. But I have noticed a slow and steady decline in numbers and content. Many tv networks or companies which used to maintain forums, now have a facebook page and leave it at that.

    I think that increasingly forums will close and be replaced by becomming part of one or more social networks.

  17. GOP TEARS

    in World and Politics

    Posted

    I think something needs to be done about super pacs. They should be classified as corporations not non profit organizations. Their income should be taxed and there should be a fee on each advertisement they sponsor which goes to support voter registration, additonal polling locations, new voting machines, etc.

    Maybe they could include that into the tax reform bill and make it retro active so that Rove, the Koch Brothers, and Trump owe a couple hundred million each in back taxes.

  18. Geeks in the Kitchen

    in Open Chat

    Posted

    First real cold front of the season coming tonight and tomorrow.

    So preparing by making a good hearty soup today.

    Meatball and tortellini soup.

    Ground beef and pork

    Spices, herbs, egg, cracker meal, unflavored gelatin...

    Take a small sample and microwave it to test seasoning and flavor and adjust.

    Brown the meatballs in ceramic non stick skillet and then into the oven to finish cooking.

    Dump the finished meatballs into beef stock with diced onions, diced garlic, dice mushrooms, chopped tomatoes , herbs (cilantro, parsley) unflovored gelatin etc.

    Taste and adjust

    Cook some dry spinach and cheese and tomato and cheese tortellini in salted water . Drain when done.

    Plate a serving or tortellini in a soup bowl, spoon in some meatballs and ladle the soup over it all.

    Top with a bit of grated parm or asiago cheese.

  21. Geeks in the Kitchen

    in Open Chat

    Posted

    Sounds like a bummer.

    Yeah this year has been tough (Still shopping for a good deal on a new roof after the June hailstorem. It was like being in an artillery barrage for a half hour. My truck looked like someone had thrown baseballs at it for a half hour then taken the bat at it to finish the job. I had several large holes punched clear through the roofing and the shingles are all basically worn out now.. The wifes stepfather died in a tractor roll over accident on the farm.......)

    Life goes on (hopefully) and hopefully next year will be better than this one.

    Caught Turkey breast on for 99 cents a pound so roasing a breast, making stuffing and rice (with shiitake mushrooms and shallots almost a risotto).

    Thought the two of us would be eating on it all week, but the wife already called the kids and told them to come buy and pick some up to take home. My bet is it will all be gone by dark.

  22. Geeks in the Kitchen

    in Open Chat

    Posted

    Members: 0

    Reading the forums, members are labeled: Ex Members.

    Yeah, I was so excited to find it that it took a while to realize it was a dead forum.

    Too bad. I would have enjoyed it.

    I just finished making a pot of gumbo.

    One leek (leftover from making potato leek soup) diced and cleaned.

    Equal amount diced celery ( about four stalks I think)

    Two medium bell peppers

    One head of garlic peeled and chopped.

    Half pound andouille (smoked sausage) diced

    Saute with a little oil

    Add 24 oz frozen sliced okra

    one 28 ounce can crushed tomatoes

    24 ounces shrimp

    three bay leaves

    Thyme

    worcestershire sauce

    two dry chipotle , shoulders and seeds removed chopped in with scissors

    chicken bouillon for salt

    fresh cracked pepper.

    Served with extra long grain basmati rice.