The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

Pyxis

All this PC talk is Greek to me!


I only speak Apple!

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

All this PC talk is Greek to me!

The "trouble with me" is that I first went on PCs in ~1986 and worked in IT doing all sorts of helpdesk, installations, helpdesk management, network and server tech support .... so a wide/massive experience of "the way we did it when PCs were powered by horses and arrived in carts".... then, ~1997 or so I'd reached the heights of Project Management, so was mostly part of the processes of getting changes made, so another layer of distance from the front end.

Back in the day I was a qualified LAN person ... with bits of paper for Novell Networks and even MCSE and then Prince 2. I did lots of level 2/3 OU stuff too in computer programming and databases etc.... but never completed "an actual degree" as I was on the move at the time and it was tricky with big PCs, needing a phone line for dial up, needing disks and books and a printer and TV/video etc - so not possible/practical.

I learnt my little shortcuts and keyboard shortcuts along the way - and was well used to "using what I already knew" without really investigating "new stuff they've bunged on" with each new Operating System. When Win95 appeared and (HORROR) was mostly mouse-orientated, I stuck to my keyboard guns and continued in my luddite ways as that's been fastest for me.

So now, my leap from c2000 computing to c2018 computing means there's a whole load of new stuff I've never encountered, so have never bothered to look into etc etc... and then the whole raft of "so where's that ancient stone I used to scribe on when I took down Adam and Eve's notes"?



On the whole... it all does look "pretty much the same" - and there was no "blank screen with a couple of large images on it" like my sibling's had (which looked more like a phone/tablet interface than a traditional PC desktop).

PasturesNew

To GDB:

The 28 Hour Report

28 hours since the package arrived..... and I'd like to say thank you very much for solving a huge problem in my life... and one I'd have struggled for months to "choose/decide" upon if left to my own devices...

I am EXCEEDINGLY happy with my new purchase - my life feels transformed and my burdens eased

So .... thank you very much for remembering I was looking for a small PC .... and thank you for spotting it and mentioning it.



Signed: Not easily pleased, often disappointed.

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

my life feels transformed and my burdens eased

You may not realise it, but that sentiment seems to have come out in all your posts since the great switch-on. You come across as much more cheerful and upbeat than you have for some time, it's great to see - and to see confirmation that it wasn't just the impression I got. Long may it continue.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

To GDB:

The 28 Hour Report

28 hours since the package arrived..... and I'd like to say thank you very much for solving a huge problem in my life... and one I'd have struggled for months to "choose/decide" upon if left to my own devices...

I am EXCEEDINGLY happy with my new purchase - my life feels transformed and my burdens eased

So .... thank you very much for remembering I was looking for a small PC .... and thank you for spotting it and mentioning it.



Signed: Not easily pleased, often disappointed.

That just leaves your television problem!

Perhaps The Great Transformer can help you with that, too?

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

That just leaves your television problem!

Perhaps The Great Transformer can help you with that, too?

I'm thinking ... that's always steam powered though

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm thinking ... that's always steam powered though

Oh, TGT can probably get you one of the new lifesize, 3D, holographic, submersive, interactive TVs that have just come out, for the price of an old black and white 6" screen one.

PasturesNew

chris_m wrote: »

.... cheerful and upbeat....

There are several factors as to up or down.

Down: I've been ill for 5-6 days, getting better now.
Up: I've not really had a Where's Wally session for some days now, which is bl00dy glorious.

Talking of Where's Wally ... there's been a sighting, but then out of sight (still somewhere, but not near me) .... and there's still 1½ hours to go on today's "shift"... shifts last about 3.50pm to about 7pm.

Another "up" is ... it's a free Ancestry weekend this weekend ... and I have an empty HD on a PC that could be used

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

There are several factors as to up or down.

Down: I've been ill for 5-6 days, getting better now.
Up: I've not really had a Where's Wally session for some days now, which is bl00dy glorious.

Talking of Where's Wally ... there's been a sighting, but then out of sight (still somewhere, but not near me) .... and there's still 1½ hours to go on today's "shift"... shifts last about 3.50pm to about 7pm.

Another "up" is ... it's a free Ancestry weekend this weekend ... and I have an empty HD on a PC that could be used

What has happened to all the stuff on your old hard disc? :eek:

PasturesNew

LibreOffice said it wanted an update... I thought "how hard can that be?" and clicked.

262MB of download hard ... was the answer.

26 minutes to download it

EDIT: and now I'm running that install.... it stops and tells me it's going to want/need a reboot .... the bar steward

Blimey - after I posted the above it finished, said it wanted to reboot so I let it - and I was logged back in in under 2 minutes!!! I used to have to expect 10-15 minutes for the old PC to shut down.... and 20-25 minutes from start of shutting down to getting logged on again!