Nick Brohman
August 29th, 2009, 10:55 AM
... Or Dingos 1st swim in the (Aus.) IP lagoon.The next hit after this first line will be the start of this experiment yet you will have to read the ps for more...#154 I thank. From this moment- 10.13pm AEST - this experiment/learning exercise is up & running. There will just be a post date placed here and there will be.....(you will just have to come back).
8 Sept., 2009 --8 .45pm AEST Post #13
G'day to all in Ubuntu, this is my first visit to The Cafe. I want to thank Linus for starting Linux. I also want to thank the creators of projectM for the wonderful work that they have done with that program.
I haven't explored all of the environment yet mainly because trying to learn (by myself) about what I can or can't do daunts me at times. I am going to start doing the tutorials.
I have had a PC for 4 yrs. now but only really started using it in the last twelve mths.. I've loaded about 2/3s of my music coll. on to the HDD ( I won't tell you how many times I've done that ) & after problems, first with XP Pro and then other things that I did wrong, I finally 'signed' with bigpond for the net. By this time, I had Linux on the system ( not sure which one, poss. 7.04 ) and did what I'd been told to do to get connected. No such luck!
Could not connect to the net - kept getting broken pipes. I then loaded Sabyon and was connected immediately. The problem now is that. on a supposedly 1/2 price scheme for the first twelve mths., my 3rd and 4th bills were huge so I upgraded my scheme to 12Gb per mth. & since then,despite several calls to bigpond, I am paying full price.
On more than one occasion I had no connection for days at a time. I reckoned that I should not turn off the modem once I got a connection but still had problems.
Boxing Day last, I was so frustrated with this (and VERY angry with bigpond) that I rang to sort it. Mistake!!! A computer was chastising me for making noises of exasperation because I couldn't get it to understand me.
It started with the 1st question - 'Do you have a light?'. My reply was 'yes' but the question should been "What colour light did I have?'.
My light was red and I had answered the question as asked. After 3/4s of an hour I finally got a human and the problem was found in no time - modem was kaput. I Hardy Heron on the system by this time & I'd loaded Wine and a couple of Sony programs for my minidisc stereo - I did know that these could cause probs. & they did.
I now have 8.04 & look forward to the upgrade. All this was on my orig. Celeron, which I still have but now use an AMD dual core thanks to Kevin & Wayne giving us poor pensioners a Xmas bonus.
I find that since my stroke three years ago, that I don't have the stamina to do a lot of things that were once a walk in the park so I'll be spending more time at the AMD.
By the way, having survived a heart attack that would kill a mere mortal, I want you all to know that the indigestion you think you have could be a heart attack. My 1st was diagnosed as such and when I went through my 2nd, I thought to myself that the Chili Con Carne I'd made that evening was a bit too hot and I love hot chili.
If you get an ache in tge chest and start feeling funny in the arms & legs, get an Amulance or get someone to drive you to Emergency.
What I have learnt about my attacks is this :- Sit Down, Relax, Close your eyes and take slow deep breaths and empty your mind. Now, I'm not saying that this will work for everyone, but it could help one of you.
I believe that one of the medications I'd been taking caused my attacks in '01/'02 - Ihad another within three weeks but had asked an experienced sufferer what happens during an attack. He told me how I had felt 2 days prior, so with the onset of the next one, I knew what to do.
I was skipping a (Lawn Bowls) Pennants rink for the 1st time & my mob were doing better than expected and, after about 30 mins. of play, I started to feel strange in the arms & legs with an idigestion like pain just to the right of my sternum. I played my two bowls & told the other skip that I would be leaving the rink & going to the local Clinic. Within an hour I was in The Prince Charles Hospital. Therein lies another story for a rainy day. I would like to thank all at PCH for what they've done for me, except for one Cardio Spec. who told me that my life was not worth the effort of bypass surgery. Apparently my body is creating another artery for my heart. After my angiogram 4 weeks later, this bloke said to me - "We nearly went in but.....'. I have now 100% blockage in one artery when, 7 yrs. ago it was 80%. One artery is reasonably clear (20%), the other about 50%.
I'm still breathing, still play Bowls, can't dance like a Dervish any more but can wriggle & shuffle like most seem to do. I miss being able to surf or run but I still have a brain that won't turn off. I miss working as a cook, I took a lot of pleasure when my brigade and I would get a compliment or when an apprentice grew in confidence and gained more skills.
I once worked the takeaway counter for the best seafood complex in Brisbane (at the time). One Tuesday night, 2 customers walked in just before closing and sussed the menu. I think at the time that we had about 20 varieties of fish available (can't get selections like that anymore), one of which was Barramundi.
We had to buy Barra frozen but it was always thawed in the proper manner before service. This bloke saw the Barra and his mate must have been a southerner because this bloke wanted to air his knowledge of seafood. He asked the lass at the till if the ' Barramundi is frozen.' Of course, I said that it was not (at that moment). Had that bloke asked if if 'had been frozen', I would also have answered yes.
The question asked is the question that is answered. Ask the right question to get the right answer, a lesson I am now learning with PCs & the net.
Enough of this frivolity, I am just about to cook a very hot chili with lots of garlic & lemon.
Remember that it's better to be a human bean than to be a baked bean.
I've enjoyed my Turkish and will visit this cafe again.
Music lovers of the rock/blues variety look out for Ryan Brohman (he's no relation that I know of yet, more of the tree to explore but I would say we share DNA because our families would have emigrated from the same part of Denmark/Germany because the name was lacal to an area near Hamburg)
SUITS (see you in the sunshine) Nick:tongue:
PS Please my verbosity N
pps At the start of this week, this thread went from embarrassment to experiment Hit #154 will be a world 1st for you & I.
This is only ever going to be the thread I'll use in The Cafe, hence the experiment...everything in the thread so far will be expanded - I've just survived another heart attack & wish to thank all who have posted here so far for giving me the determination to see this through.
I've had Net connection for 1 yr. but it is only 9 days now that I have started doing what some of you have done for a long time. I'm just starting out ....to find out more, you'll just have to visit with this thread & myself again & I hope that you do.
#154 will mean that I've managed to write an opening paragraph that got you reading & that you were the first to do so & I thank you
See ya! Nicko
8 Sept., 2009 --8 .45pm AEST Post #13
G'day to all in Ubuntu, this is my first visit to The Cafe. I want to thank Linus for starting Linux. I also want to thank the creators of projectM for the wonderful work that they have done with that program.
I haven't explored all of the environment yet mainly because trying to learn (by myself) about what I can or can't do daunts me at times. I am going to start doing the tutorials.
I have had a PC for 4 yrs. now but only really started using it in the last twelve mths.. I've loaded about 2/3s of my music coll. on to the HDD ( I won't tell you how many times I've done that ) & after problems, first with XP Pro and then other things that I did wrong, I finally 'signed' with bigpond for the net. By this time, I had Linux on the system ( not sure which one, poss. 7.04 ) and did what I'd been told to do to get connected. No such luck!
Could not connect to the net - kept getting broken pipes. I then loaded Sabyon and was connected immediately. The problem now is that. on a supposedly 1/2 price scheme for the first twelve mths., my 3rd and 4th bills were huge so I upgraded my scheme to 12Gb per mth. & since then,despite several calls to bigpond, I am paying full price.
On more than one occasion I had no connection for days at a time. I reckoned that I should not turn off the modem once I got a connection but still had problems.
Boxing Day last, I was so frustrated with this (and VERY angry with bigpond) that I rang to sort it. Mistake!!! A computer was chastising me for making noises of exasperation because I couldn't get it to understand me.
It started with the 1st question - 'Do you have a light?'. My reply was 'yes' but the question should been "What colour light did I have?'.
My light was red and I had answered the question as asked. After 3/4s of an hour I finally got a human and the problem was found in no time - modem was kaput. I Hardy Heron on the system by this time & I'd loaded Wine and a couple of Sony programs for my minidisc stereo - I did know that these could cause probs. & they did.
I now have 8.04 & look forward to the upgrade. All this was on my orig. Celeron, which I still have but now use an AMD dual core thanks to Kevin & Wayne giving us poor pensioners a Xmas bonus.
I find that since my stroke three years ago, that I don't have the stamina to do a lot of things that were once a walk in the park so I'll be spending more time at the AMD.
By the way, having survived a heart attack that would kill a mere mortal, I want you all to know that the indigestion you think you have could be a heart attack. My 1st was diagnosed as such and when I went through my 2nd, I thought to myself that the Chili Con Carne I'd made that evening was a bit too hot and I love hot chili.
If you get an ache in tge chest and start feeling funny in the arms & legs, get an Amulance or get someone to drive you to Emergency.
What I have learnt about my attacks is this :- Sit Down, Relax, Close your eyes and take slow deep breaths and empty your mind. Now, I'm not saying that this will work for everyone, but it could help one of you.
I believe that one of the medications I'd been taking caused my attacks in '01/'02 - Ihad another within three weeks but had asked an experienced sufferer what happens during an attack. He told me how I had felt 2 days prior, so with the onset of the next one, I knew what to do.
I was skipping a (Lawn Bowls) Pennants rink for the 1st time & my mob were doing better than expected and, after about 30 mins. of play, I started to feel strange in the arms & legs with an idigestion like pain just to the right of my sternum. I played my two bowls & told the other skip that I would be leaving the rink & going to the local Clinic. Within an hour I was in The Prince Charles Hospital. Therein lies another story for a rainy day. I would like to thank all at PCH for what they've done for me, except for one Cardio Spec. who told me that my life was not worth the effort of bypass surgery. Apparently my body is creating another artery for my heart. After my angiogram 4 weeks later, this bloke said to me - "We nearly went in but.....'. I have now 100% blockage in one artery when, 7 yrs. ago it was 80%. One artery is reasonably clear (20%), the other about 50%.
I'm still breathing, still play Bowls, can't dance like a Dervish any more but can wriggle & shuffle like most seem to do. I miss being able to surf or run but I still have a brain that won't turn off. I miss working as a cook, I took a lot of pleasure when my brigade and I would get a compliment or when an apprentice grew in confidence and gained more skills.
I once worked the takeaway counter for the best seafood complex in Brisbane (at the time). One Tuesday night, 2 customers walked in just before closing and sussed the menu. I think at the time that we had about 20 varieties of fish available (can't get selections like that anymore), one of which was Barramundi.
We had to buy Barra frozen but it was always thawed in the proper manner before service. This bloke saw the Barra and his mate must have been a southerner because this bloke wanted to air his knowledge of seafood. He asked the lass at the till if the ' Barramundi is frozen.' Of course, I said that it was not (at that moment). Had that bloke asked if if 'had been frozen', I would also have answered yes.
The question asked is the question that is answered. Ask the right question to get the right answer, a lesson I am now learning with PCs & the net.
Enough of this frivolity, I am just about to cook a very hot chili with lots of garlic & lemon.
Remember that it's better to be a human bean than to be a baked bean.
I've enjoyed my Turkish and will visit this cafe again.
Music lovers of the rock/blues variety look out for Ryan Brohman (he's no relation that I know of yet, more of the tree to explore but I would say we share DNA because our families would have emigrated from the same part of Denmark/Germany because the name was lacal to an area near Hamburg)
SUITS (see you in the sunshine) Nick:tongue:
PS Please my verbosity N
pps At the start of this week, this thread went from embarrassment to experiment Hit #154 will be a world 1st for you & I.
This is only ever going to be the thread I'll use in The Cafe, hence the experiment...everything in the thread so far will be expanded - I've just survived another heart attack & wish to thank all who have posted here so far for giving me the determination to see this through.
I've had Net connection for 1 yr. but it is only 9 days now that I have started doing what some of you have done for a long time. I'm just starting out ....to find out more, you'll just have to visit with this thread & myself again & I hope that you do.
#154 will mean that I've managed to write an opening paragraph that got you reading & that you were the first to do so & I thank you
See ya! Nicko