One year ago today: July 25, 2020, Google fails again,
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Five years ago today: July 25, 2016, composed of ordinary people.
Nine years ago today: July 25, 2012, I bought the sidecar.
Random years ago today: July 25, 2006, I never liked her.
I have yet to ever set up a Netgear wireless router where things went smoothly. Hour after hour of screwing with the thing as the instructions tell you to click on options that don’t appear. What I usually do is go to 198.162.1.1 and login as admin, first job is to change the SSID so you know which device you are dealing with. But now, it needs to access the Internet to get off the splash page, which just sits there because it won’t log on. I dropped every menu, tried every option, even hard-wired the router, but it will never bring up the admin page. I’ll get it, but wouldn’t it be nice if somebody over at Netgear just built a router that worked first time?
Shown here is the equipment, on the right is a purpose built access point, often called a range extender. This is old technology, but it is secure and easy to configure technology. Plus if anything funny goes on, you know where to look. Again, if anyone thinks Windows Vista and beyond are “new”, nothing will dispel that fairy tale faster than going into control panel and using old Windows 98 commands that still work. Anything Vista and beyond is nothing but the old XP kernel with countless gigabytes of spyware layered on top.
Thirsting for knowledge, I watched the videos anyway. Sure enough, there is now an entire step that was never mentioned or described in the original manuals. Nor would I have guess or figured out the setting. You disable the “Use router as DNCP server” setting. I’ll look for it. Back when, there was, if I recall, a single command that said change the router to an access point. No matter how we tried, it would never do that. Watch for differences, for example, we not wiring up access points, but trying to bounce signals. That is, to use wireless routers themselves to extend the range. Yet this extra step may be what was missing so long ago.
It’s hard to believe the guy used click-bait to get 3 million hits. What people what is two wireless routers to talk and none of these videos gets into that. I know it has something to do with the “bridge” setting. Other fake-out videos only show how to hook up two wireless routers to the same computer and related rubbish like that. Ah well, it was worth a shot. I may encounter all this again as the router in the back bedroom is not picking up.
Another fun read is the people who are complaining that Trump is acting like an “old ward boss”, rewarding people for loyalty instead of competence and seeking to remake the Republican party in his own image. Just exactly where Trump learned such behavior is not explained by the accusers who appoint people based on race, color, lack of gender, and as far as can be determined, total inconsideration for those whose ballots they faked. The radical Democrat faction is also pushing some narrative that voter turnout for midterms is traditionally lower, so the wrong people might be elected by Trump zealots. Joe, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Something I don’t understand about this George Soros troublemaker is why somebody doesn’t put him out of his misery. As for the riots in South Africa, keep in mind those are the areas turned over to non-white majority rule. There’s one news report that says it all. It shows the broken windows and looted stores, except for one store next door that remained absolutely untouched. A bookstore.
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And there is a view of the back bedroom as the office takes shape. There is no need for high-speed video, since there is no need for pornography, Brandon & Tyler. What? Well pardon me, I meant for you keeping up with the leading edge of science, technology, and current events, what, up to five times a day. The security computer is visible, the message is just due to a dead internal battery. You can see the “old” stereo equipment as well, a 1986 Kenwood receiver and the Pioneer dual tape deck. I record radio programs sometimes, so I have something to listen to driving through Georgia. Just I have not used it much as I’ve not run an FM antenna into the attic yet.
While I could probably rent some old trailer these days to some reputable people who can’t find anything else, there is the supreme danger of another market collapse. I repeat—there are no jobs in the area that pay enough to buy local houses. They say you need a $25 per hour job to rent in Kissimmee. All told, a lot of people now find themselves where I was at 19 years of age. Making just enough to pay the rent, buy food, and party on Friday night. Getting ahead was out of the question. Unlike me, some of these people are getting married and having kids. A sure path to poverty nowadays. (By the time I was ready to get married, there were few proper women left and/or I was smart enough to know the difference, so don’t think I had it all my own way.)
Here’s a repair tip. That’s the Pioneer deck I originally got for my audiobooks. It has an excellent high-speed dub and some setting to coordinate CD recordings which I’ve never used. I found why it was donated. On the stereo output jack, an RCA pin had been broken off inside the jack. Some try to fix it by pushing it out from the inside, which is the wrong move because it wrecks the contacts. Here is the correct method. It works because the core of the pin is plastic and it normally fits quite loose. On RCA jacks, the outer ring is what holds the assembly in place.
Before I let you go, there is another dead giveaway that Window 7 thru 10 are really XP. The longer you use them, the more they slow down your computer. The most common complaint I still get is laptops or tablets that grind to a crawl, so I’ll tell you about the usual cause. It is called Windows Defender. Over time, it takes over all your resources. Go on-line and find out how to schedule it for once a week. That’s all you should need unless your name is Brandon or Tyler, where you will need every conceivable form of anti-virus protection you can possibly get your hands on. Or off, as the case may be. Also, turn off your superfetch, if you are using your computer for productive tasks, you don’t need it. I said productive there, Damon.
Isn’t that something, the French preatorian guard walked off the job, en masse. This was in protest to their President using COVID to extend federal power. He threatened health passports and to cut off food stores to those who did not comply. He’s dumb, the French know exactly how to deal with dictators. It’s called the guillotine. The ubiquitous reason given for quitting? Excuse my French but it was translates along the lines of, “That bastard ain’t worth dying for.”
Why all the links to some early TV show called “Bewitched”. Three or four a day for a week now, did somebody important die? I clicked a few before figuring out it is some drivel I don’t care about. She was not anywhere near that good-looking, not enough for me to have watched the show. But I did watch it a few times because I recall it was made in Coco Beach, Florida which a figured as a kid that was such a neat name. Probably because I lived in Smokey River, which was such a trickle nobody called it by that name, just "town".
ADDENDUM
It surprised me how many people still don’t know these fractional share on-line investment services are controlled by Wall Street. Like RobinHood, they are fronts for the big boys who will make sure you never make as much money as they do. So I thought to sift through what is being offered, which means Stash, Acorn, and Wealthfront. Amazing how nobody questions that these places will not open an account unless you have a mobile phone in your own name. That phone is plainly means more to them than your name and ID.
I was seeking a firm that was not obviously beholden to the system. No dice, all these outfits are the same, fronts for the big firms who want you to think they personalize and care. None accept cash, you must give them control of your bank account. All have outrageous fees for small balances. Rounding up is a fairly recent American thing, where whenever you buy something on a credit card, they round the price up to the next dollar, and invest the change. Neat, but anybody with a change bucket, such as myself, is aware that most people would raid the bucket.
All have fee structures that favor the already wealthy, so you know who’s pulling the strings. I would like to see a startup firm that does not have all these sub-issues. One who actually talkes your money and invests in the shares the way Templeton originally did with mutual funds. Something in line with my hopes that somebody opens a “real” bank where you put your money and they lend it out to young couples as mortgages. Nothing else, no rip-off fees, no crap, and your money is really in the vault. It might not be the safest and best thing, but I guarantee you people would flock to it by the millions. Americans are so fed up with conventional banking it is not funny but they really have no choice because all banks are the same today.
The concept of pooling money was a natural for computerized systems. I examined the idea back in the 1980s but had no idea how to set things up. (The system was also very resistance to this type of startup in those days.) I ran small investment clubs at the job along with lottery pools which in the end made more. I had around sixty regular investors and we dabbled in all kinds of things. You get ahead but so slowly it’s barely worth the paperwork. I was about to launch a house buying venture when I quit the company. There’s really nothing new about investment clubs, which is what these operations boil down to.
