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Skriven 2016-10-08 10:52:00 av Holger Granholm (2:20/228)
     Kommentar till en text av Paul Quinn
Ärende: Re: Old mail and new!
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In a message on Saturday 10-07-16 Paul Quinn said to Holger Granholm:

Good evening Paul,

PQ> Spot on, Holger!  Good evening to you too.

Thanks.

 HG> Knowing that Jean recently had a blockage in the arteries from/to the
 HG> heart, and that he is only one year younger than I, makes me worry about
 HG> how he's recovering.

PQ> If he'd reading (and I do know he is), then he is fine and doing
PQ> well.

I can only hope that he's doing as well as I, since I had the same
trouble in 2008, and still doing the daily (except rainy) 10 km nordic
walks, or 40 km bike tours, and snow permitting 10 km ski tours.

 PQ>> Ahmm... the "Great Race" is on this weekend, Holger.

 HG> I do however expect a new weekly listing today, .......

Only a listing for next week, but no Bathurst there, but however when I
checked MotorsTV.com at home the next day, there were lstings for three
weeks. With a looking glass, I could see that the first instance of the
HiLights will be broadcast on oct. 16th.

No Live broadcasts as earlier years, of the (V8)Supercars races :o(

PQ> Cool.  Apparently this year's trophy will be celebrating Peter
PQ> Brock's memory.

May he RIP.

 HG> On the Windows front, I'm progressing, and hoping it wouldn't do its
 HG> old-time-tricks of suddently removing programs.

PQ> I gave up on Windows 8.1 after I got a pop-up from Hewlett-Packard
PQ> advising that the warranty had expired, and, also being bugged by
PQ> Avast warnings about renewing my registration.

The other day, Windows 10 decided to upgrade, by itself on the
stationary machine. I still don't know if that was the anniversary
upgrade that I have read about, but ZoneAlarm, nor AVG did inform me,
about an incoming connection,

I know that on the laptop, I have set the configuration to not allow
updates without my consent, but I'll have to check the configuration of
the stationary machine.

On an old laptop with XP, ZA always asked me to allow or disallow any in
or outgoing connections, but neither the laptop nor stationary machines,
with Win10, have so far given such warnings.

PQ> Windows used to take some sort of perverted pleasure from
PQ> alternately killing running programs.  .........

This was not the first time it did allow upgrades, but when AVG did it,
I didn't have any objections.

PQ> But the crunch for Windows was when it started to kill off running
PQ> VirtualBox PCs just for kicks.  That I couldn't stand.  I knew then
PQ> that Windows didn't have a future for me on that machine.

This only shows, why I will never allow Windows to run my BBS.

PQ> Watch for splinters!  :)

As you see above, I do <BG>.

 HG> A couple of days ago, it had made the VLC progran unusable, .....

PQ> I've had mixed results with VLC just in the last week, with my new
PQ> Linux configuration.  But with regard to Windows, I think there's
PQ> dialogue via a right-click & properties to show Windows where that
PQ> shortcut can find the .exe file.

I still have to learn much about all those tricks, Windows does in store

 HG> On the speaker front, I bought a similar set that I have bought a couple
 HG> of years ago for my 23" LED TV, that does have a built-in DVD reader.

PQ> Mmm...

 HG> Then, I connected the new set to the TV, instead of the earlier ones.
 HG> Nice and clean audio from the same DVD as b4.

PQ> Ah-ha!  It was probably the act of multiple unplug & plug-in actions
PQ> that helped.  Or, the elevation of the moon.  .........

I don't think that was the case. The power was disconnected between the
moves.

Me thinks that maybe the computer generated sound is digital, but I have
yet to find out the cause.


Have a good night,

Holger

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