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Re: Time to trash a jump drive? - 8 days ago

Quotecbelt3 I will note that doing a file share on a network involves permission setting on both machines, unless you are using the same AppleID/Userid for both of them. Honestly a new jump drive is your easiest solution. Get a couple of them and rotate them. Just stay away from the cheap, off-name brands you find on Amazon - there's mostly junk. And if you want something larger than about

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Re: Can anyone offer psoriasis advice? - 6 weeks ago

May be totally off base here, but is your Mother taking drugs for blood pressure? I was on BP meds and had very itchy rashes break out that my Doctor at the time said was psoriasis. My insurance changed and I ended up having to find a new Doctor. She saw the rash, immediately switched my BP meds and sent me to a skin specialist whose first question was "are you on BP meds?" Anyway,

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Re: MacOS can't fix disk. And Apple won't give Developers info - 2 months ago

Quotehal bit by bit copying will not work on the damaged part of the drive CCC should work for copying to another drive after it's mounted I do not trust those software sites. Neither lists a contact address. "Partition Magic" is a well-known windows software - 'Parted' Magic is clearly trying to attract windows Homers. Agreed. I've used or tried both to recover and reallocate

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Re: does anyone have experience with these unlimited Verizon hot spots? - 2 months ago

If you use Spectrum/Charter for Internet at home you can get an unlimited plan for your cell that costs $45/mo. They run on the Verizon network and these plans include both voice and data with no restrictions on using the device as a hotspot. They include access to all their nationwide WiFI spots and 5G.

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Re: Woz: Reminding Apple of its founding DNA - 2 months ago

Years ago I worked for a computer company that had multiple lines of computers. One in particular was popular but had a closed architecture. We had very few service issues or customer complaints except for the one about not being able to use a lot of 3rd party HW on the systems. A follow on computer line took a different approach using an open architecture design. Although it was also wildly s

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Re: Any windows users here - 2 months ago

Depends on what OS you're running on that PC. But assuming you're on Windows-10: Also try this - it may work on other versions of Windows (like XP, 7 or 8) without requiring you to download anything: And if you're running Linux or BSD you can fiddle with the keyboard keymaps.

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Re: How long to wait on “possibly lost” Amazon order? - 2 months ago

If you're communicating with Amazon via e-mail on this lost shipment you may not be getting the full story. If you call and talk to a knowledgeable person, you should get some results. This is based on my experience with a similar trail of events. In my case when I talked to a person on the phone she looked up the real history on what had happened and told me that my order had bounced between

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Re: Is there any app or tool to repair this drive? - 2 months ago

If it were me, I'd try cloning the disk to another disk and then attempt a repair on the cloned disk. That way all your accesses to the failed disk are just reads, not read/writes so you're not running the risk of doing further damage to the failed disk while attempting to recover the contents. And for the cloning I'd try something that does a block-by-block copy rather than one that attempts

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Re: Chuck Horner said it was time for the A-10 to go in 1991 - 2 months ago

I attended a classified presentation put on by Gen Horner after Desert Storm. Lots of funny stories and lots of excellent information for those of us building the weapons that were used. An intelligent man and I'd trust his assessment in the matter even though I have a feeling there is or must be a place for the A-10 even now.

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Re: Go green? Refurbished Ego tool sale at Acme - 3 months ago

Quotesekker Quotegraylocks Meh. blower i bought new for $145 a few months ago is $139. Ego products have a 5 year warranty when you buy new from an authorized dealer. it doesn't count for refurbished. I bought a mower in 2017. Mower died in 2019 though the battery was fine. Customer service sent me a new mower section without hesitation. A few weeks ago the self propelling function quit. They

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Re: Getting A/C and spray foam insulation for the house! Any tips/pointers? - 3 months ago

I've done closed cell in my RV barn and open cell in my home. While closed cell has a higher R value it's generally not a good idea to use it in places where there could be water leaks, such as in the roof if the roofing might fail. The reason is the water can't drain thru it so it will pool and rot out the wood rafters and such.

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Re: Amazon order 5/5, ETA on 5/7. Now not yet shipped - 4 months ago

Had this happen on a recent Amazon order that bounced around between 7 different fulfillment centers. Finally got someone on the phone at Amazon and they discovered the order had been lost, so they entered a new one and the item arrived the next day. Oh, I'm not a Prime subscriber and never have been. Most things on Amazon now ship pretty close to Prime delivery promises anyway and many arrive

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Re: Oh no! The Gates calling it quits - 4 months ago

Quoted4 QuotePaul F. Ooof... that's gonna cost him! Oof! That's gonna cost her as well! Wouldn't be surprised if it's being done as a plain business decision over taxes. With the new taxes probably coming down from DC they can probably save enough with a divorce to fund a half dozen small countries.

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Re: HVAC help needed - 4 months ago

Most common failures in A/C (at least here in Texas) are: Fan on the outside condenser unit stuck, not coming on, worn out bearings, etc. Easy to replace and pretty cheap to do. Start capacitors going bad in the outside unit. Cheap and simple to replace if you can find the replacement parts. Ants getting into the relays in the outside unit electronics. Pretty simple to clean out but t

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Re: Returning a 5lb bag of rocks by mail. Amazon says, "NO THANKS." - 5 months ago

Quotevision63 Quotecbelt3 QuotergG Should be ok to use around a plant, but yeah, not putting unknown "oily substance" in the fish tank. I would honestly send them to a landfill. No idea what toxins the Chinese are sending back to us in crappy consumer products. Landfills are monitored and equipped to handle that. The Chinese makes the good products too. Yeah, people forget, or are t

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Re: My social security number is going to get canceled - 5 months ago

Quotemikebw The house phone I will pickup and wait 2-3 seconds to allow the robocall to start, then hang up. The problem with this (I think) is that by answering you've validated that your phone number is real and active. That info can, and probably will be, sold on the Dark Web to other robocaller outfits and it brings a higher dollar value for them since it's validated as a real number. M

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Re: go ahead, make my day?!....wow, this major action show on major network canceled...... - 5 months ago

I'm old enough to remember and appreciate the original movies and TV shows. Never could get on board with a remake of either. To me it shows just how much Hollywierd today is totally lacking in creativity and spends far to much of their time trying to influence people with their hair brained social ideas and agendas.

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Re: Apparently, I Can't Run H&R Tax Software This Year? - 6 months ago

Last year H&R Block's Tax SW said it needed an upgraded Mac but it ran fine on my Mac that runs Mavericks (10.9). This year they apparently got a bit more adamant about their requirements and I couldn't run on my 10.9 system. Had to go to a newer Mac running a newer version of OS X. Bummer.

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Re: Win 7 to Win 10 upgrade not completing - 6 months ago

Just tried applying all the latest Win10 updates to my Lenovo and it failed as well. I'd re-imaged the laptop back to the original virgin image of Win10 that came on it before trying to apply the updates. The process got hung up and failed and was then unable to diagnose and repair itself - one of those "great" features in Win10 I guess. Manual analysis of the problem appears to sh

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Re: Let's talk air (AC/heat) filters ... - 7 months ago

If you lived close enough to swing by my place I have a brand new one that I never used that you could have for the taking. Also includes a bottle of cleaner. Replaced my HVAC before getting it installed and my new AC has a fancy one built in.

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Re: What's going on with the power failures in Texas? - 7 months ago

There are a couple of things going on that have contributed to the problem in Texas. One is that a lot of natural gas is being diverted from power plants to supply home heating. (We need more pipelines to deliver a reliable gas supply to power plants.) The other big one though is the problem with the West Texas windmill farm. Originally it wasn't tied into the Texas power grid so a deal was st

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Re: Best way to see credit score? - 7 months ago

Credit Karma does a pretty good job and it seems to match up with what credit card companies provide. Signup and use is free.

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Re: I know Dental Implants are expensive - 7 months ago

QuoteSteve G. dentists should not be allowed to own real estate of play the stock market. - Dental school students are by definition people who don't know what they are doing. Sounds great until you're on the receiving end and someone decides you're over-educated, over-paid and shouldn't be allowed to own a house, a car or have a savings account. Then it doesn't sound like such a good idea.

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Re: Is short selling necessary for operating stock market? - 7 months ago

Quotefreeradical Yes, it has important market functions: Quote Iosco (the international college of securities regulators) says: “Short selling plays an important role in capital markets for a variety of reasons, including more efficient price discovery, mitigating price bubbles, increasing market liquidity, facilitating hedging and other risk management activities.” Futures also have im

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Re: It is not possible to unsubscribe from this communication. - 8 months ago

Can you log into your account on that site and update your preferences for your e-mail address? Setting it to a bogus address usually works.

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Re: let, the RIVer run?!.....electric vehicle startup, Rivian, gets $2.65 billion from T.Rowe Price..... - 8 months ago

QuoteCarnos Jax Electric vehicles are the future. You gotta ask yourself will Rivian be a part of that future. Hard to believe it won’t, though I haven’t looked into them much. Yeah, electric cars were "the next big thing" 100 years ago too and look what happened.

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Re: House Air Purifiers - any suggestions? - 8 months ago

When I renovated my home I installed a heat exchange unit that are typically installed in houses in high-humidity areas like Florida. It exchanges the inside air about 4 times a day preserving most of the interior heated or cooled air in the process. I also have a portable New Comfort 6 Stage UV HEPA Ozone Generator Air Purifier that I turn on usually when I'm out of the house for an hour or mor

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Re: What do you think long-term effects of so many people glued to their screens will be? - 8 months ago

A significant drop in the collective IQ of society, although it didn't seem to be all that high starting out.

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Re: ebay buyer claims never recieved, UPS tracking shows delivered - 8 months ago

Since the COVID hysteria UPS has been dropping packages on the customer's doorstep and then checking the "hand delivered to resident" box on their APP. Sometimes they take a photo, many times they don't. Now it's possible someone came along and picked up the package, or it was delivered to the wrong address, but as far as UPS is concerned it was "hand delivered to the resident&qu

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Re: So my MacBook bongs now? - 9 months ago

QuoteGGD QuoteC(-)ris All the M1s do. I think it's actually Big Sur that's responsible. I'm getting the feeling that slowly some bad decisions that occurred while Jonny Ives was around are being reversed. Almost to the point where one might look at a new product or software release and see things that it does "for the customer" instead of "to the customer". Sure hope

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