The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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A new Classic Shell version came out as we were talking, it does work for Win 8.1. May have before, like I said, I dunno. Also works for other versions of Windows, like I also said, stood the test of time.

Hello Postpaleo!

I used to do web and application development in a corporate Windows environment, so that one was a no-brainer in terms of which OS to use.

Now I mainly to audio, video, and photography work. The industry standards there are fairly well placed in the Mac OS camp, so that is where I reasonably should be headed. My primary machine since the Compaq croaked has been a MacBook Pro 17" that I originally got for location audio recording work.

I started with Unix System V when it was first released in 1984 (system admin, application dev, etc) so I have some familiarity with that environment, though I've not touched Linux.

I just reread the first page of the "new Cafe". Yikes!! Been a while and all the old stuff that's now gone? Yiukes!!

I guess I went to school for this stuff, one time in my past, some kind of blurr there. Didn't get far really and kind of late (school of the formal type is a no starter for me, just took me a long time to learn it, lol) They were taking out some kind of reel to reel IBM thingy that took up a lot of space and putting in a DEC20, as I recall. But I learned to type on a VIC20 and why I still can't type, it all looked good going in, till you try to read it ;p

Got me a little nostalgic... Dad and I were doing it together. He got a printer so we could "proof" our typed stuff better and then they came out with a program to "proof, your code while you did it (typed it), I think some kind of checksum. And then, we saw our first floppy, my god, the speed. My kid, who was a little s**t at the time, learned how to "bounce" it, in other words he hacked it, in short order.

I'll get speel check back up on my bar, good luck reading this, but thanks for the memorys.

And "the kid", the hacker? he just graduated from a (another) school, I guess it's a good one, so I'm told, and he's a Chef. Actually, I think you had to be one before they let you in, but not sure.... Anyway, I remember one of the first assignments in flow charting, cook an egg. I'll bet he can hack it. He used to see me do it enough around a kitchen ;p You never know what will take and won't, you just never know. Just enjoy what you do, as best you can and let the dog out once in a while.

I have another kid (grand) that writes for the IBM magezine from time to time and is into security, the computer kind, but he can't cook. (He's too politcal., but damn proud of every false conception he might hold. But what isn't political?) I think I failed him, but he's still young and yet to find his way. ;p

Postpaleo, you prompted me to remember my first computer experience. It was a college assignment to do a linear regression using a DEC PDP-8. I had to create punch cards for the data and load the program from a paper tape. Today when I install a 2 terabyte disk drive I chuckle at how amazed we all were when the first 10 megabyte drives came out!

Gosh, now I know I'm getting old when I sit around reminiscing about things like that. Fortunately, I am also now to old to care about getting old.

lol, well said

I am somewhat new to posting, I have watched the forums for a very long time. I think it is time for me to reach out to others like me. I am 44 with a birthday April 17th. I was diagnosed with Aspergers at three when I started to read books and words off the TV. I am very dyscalculic and I have had the meltdowns and everything growing up. I have been very isolated and I wish to remedy that. I hope I am welcome here?

Robert

but of course...like a muffin?

Breezing by again...

I just committed myself to a brand new machine.

This one is having BIOS problems. It took me all of Smatterday to persuade it back into Linux (Puppy, off the wrong drive, then my normal Xubuntu). Something had zapped the persistent memory in the BIOS and wrecked the MBR, and so on. Booting off an old UBCD got me back into a working Linux system that I could check/repair all my partitions from. All through the night to Shunday was spent backing up my main home directory to my 2TB external drive. (Yes - your machine invariably self-destructs just BEFORE you do your regular biennial backup.) Moonday I visited a local computer shop and got them to quote for a stripped down high performance machine. Twerpsday I handed over the cash.

Now, for no real apparent reason, this machine is behaving beautifully again. Still... from this AMD Athlon(tm) 64 3500+ 1.8GHz 2GiB DDR2 with 180GB and 200GB drives, at a cost of £608 I'll be wandering off to...

An Intel Core i7 Quad Core 3.4GHz Processor, 16GB DDR3, ASRock H61-DG3 Motherboard with a 240GB SSD. I might just notice a difference.

It should arrive tomorrow - ish.

Ooops... and a "Hi and welcome" to Marky9, Spruce6212007 and anyone else I've not noticed walking through the imaginary door, near the hat-stand with the flower pot on top and the small pterodactyls circling near the floor.

New machine?!? Sweet jeebus Lau. I best check my cache of peanuts, the world must surely be coming to an end ;p

I got one very similar to the one you describe, a little ago, and just got another one for "the girl friend". Less the ASRock (went ASUS). I've had ASRock before and loved it. I do think the power supply went on hers or the switch to turn on the machine two days ago. Upsetting, for sure, but they come so small (power supply), wattage wise, it is frustrating so, other then the pain in the ass, hope to boost the power. One never knows when one might feel the need to add something or 10.


This part not pertaining to you as much as it might to others. I'm having a really bad time trying to get 8 to 8.1 and not sure where the problem lies, not only on my machine, but on the neighbors. A couple of options, perhaps, not sure yet. Might be my lack of patience, naaaw, couldn't be that, could it?

Well, the new machine arrived yesterday, and it now has my nice fresh install of Debian 64 xfce on it. Plus (nearly) all my files from the the old machine.

Zooming around the Mandelbrot set with xaos at ridiculous speed got one of the four real processors to 100%. The other three just got to 40% each.

Not that I really know all you said, but.... ain't it amazing?


This guy, this Lau guy showed me around what google earth (maps), could really do, one day. I was hesitent, he was gentle and over a little time we even talked about other things, like books and he is so free thinking as to go other places, other thoughts. I love my shiney things, my traces of things, I would like to go to, in the moment, and so does he.

I'm happy you got a "new one", but you're always a one in a million chance, to meet. There is nothing anything newer, then you.

Finally got to win 8.1, some of it was called, no patience on my part. I will say classic shell updated on its own and very nicely. I have still to update to Explorer 11, Getting to 8.1 was not fun and I freaked to the point I tried to find a real Microsoft tech line...good luck with that one.

If you try this at home and until the problem in Ex 10 is fixed and it might be (March 11th, maybe)...here is what I learned... Start it, the update for 8.1, let it go. It is sorta major in some time frame........ It does start slow and seems like it isn't moving, it is and towards the end of the download, it finally moved, I guess, very fast, depending. All exp vary, I do dsl, on good days I get a meg a second or 2..

Be sort of honest with the bull s**t after your computer finally update, it asks you to fill in stuff, like really stuff), or during, depends on how you look at things, I didn't like what they were asking so I may have screwed up, in some ways. again, personal. I ran into a real blue screen at this point and didn't like it much, especially when I couldn't call Bill Gates personal like. Part of that is confusing, because I have no idea what I said when this computer came on line, not that you can really hide, unless you want to. This has been exasperating, but I didn't have to find some stupid ass cache ( which has been suggested in spots and figure out how to get rid of it) I had no idea where the hell they hide it. turned out easier than I thought it would be, but, beyond the norm, so shame on them. Wait till the update announcement appears on you turn on screen, so do it from there, answer sorta smart, at least write it down, (maybe, still not sure)and have patience. Best advice I can say.


Something you might want to watch, even though it looks like the BLUE SCREEN of death, you can light up some of those lines underneath ,and make them work, like ignore and next (really key to getting me through all this crap even though they might not have before). Cute I call it and still needless.

You don't need to wish me luck finally upgrading to EX 11. I still haven't done it, just nice to have the machine working again, because of an OS that really misses a mark. (it was hard to pry me from XP,, I didn't go into it very fast either) I'll be doing EX 11, what if I don't like it? Lol, I wouldn't be surprised but for hidden reasons and basic reason I'm not real fond of Windows to begin with and getting worse, they hide things.
My spell check is failing me, spry (sorry). Sometimes spell check can't chaek it, isn't always its fault, mine.

(I never liked DOS) (I hated lack of memory the worse and instructions on how to make boot disks) (now I'm just old and don't remember well) (but My games work.)

If you have tried and stopped it and it won't start again. The update, wait for it to do the "flash", the one that we all got when it came out, do it, so far the only real link that works correctly, I think, is the one that may flash forever till you do it.

IE 11 comes with the 8.1 update, maybe, if you have updates checked on 10? No clue, but I had it, just didn't know it.

I sometimes think of switching to linux, but I am computer unhandy, and the computer guy we have come in every few weeks to get rid of what I have accidentally let on my computer says I should wait til this computer breaks. I've heard so much bad about Windows 8, that I don't want to leave my now support-abandoned Windows XP. Well, that's what I think I have. As I said, not handy. I just want to write and hang in various communities. I have microsoft office word 2007. I still miss my crash-free apple.
I try to rid the computer of volunteer programs from time to time, and then I delete something that didn't look important, but it was, and we have to call Dave the computer guy again.