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February 4, 2017
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In revisiting a recent post I think I may have offended some forum members and moderators with inadvertent name calling by referring to many here as techno dinosaurs.
I am a techno dinosaur...and I am reminded of it every time I have to deal with some electronic advancement I don't understand. Hell, I never had a cell phone until 2013...and I have this "smart" phone that I use as a mobile phone and sometime text message device. I do know there are advantages to knowing how to do all the stuff it can do...but I'm tired and stubborn and frankly don't give a hoot.
Every few days I see someone post on this forum that they don't understand how to do this or that...just like me, and I figured we're all techno dinosaurs and we know it. No offense was ever intended.
I bought my first computer and laser printer in 1993...around $4000 if memory serves. I set it up and within the first 15 minutes of use it had crashed and I was convinced I had flushed my money away. I frantically called everyone I thought might have some idea how to deal with my crisis...needless to say, I heard lots of laughter and the simple suggestion to restart it!
Regards to you all...
"LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO SPEND IT WITH AN UGLY GUN!" - John Taffin
February 20, 2008
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In 1993, we purchased our first scanner. It took three days to get it working. No joke. PC SCUZZY.
Dang I hated stuff like that. Went to Mac plug & play.
I had to get a new phone too. Smart phone. Kept looking for someone with a 7 year old grandson to teach me how to use it. A year later, I found out some other features by accident. Still happens.
People ask me about this or that on my techno stuff. I reply, "I don't want to know what's under the hood, I just want to drive it!".
I hear ya brother.
If you're going to drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.
February 16, 2016
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photohause said
In 1993, we purchased our first scanner. It took three days to get it working. No joke. PC SCUZZY.
Ah, the good ole' Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) ... I remember working on those parallel ports and making 50-pin ribbon cables very well.
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In school we had punch cards and the computer took up one wall. We wrote our own programs. I should have stuck with it. I get vertigo working at a computer monitor. I can't even turn one on. Since 2012 and the start of my firearms hobby and my first Dan Wesson, I have learned how to marginally use a smart phone, send texts and emails, shop on eBay and Gunbroker, and join the gang on the forum. I can use the calendar, look at the weather etc. I use about 10 % or less of the phones capacity. It didn't much improve my photographic skills though. Google and Wikipedia let me learn anything I want. I have even given up left wing newspapers and almost done with TV. I get most news from my phone. Stinger is going to show me how to post photos one day.
Fortunately I have a tremendous wife who is my IT department, best buddy, cook, housekeeper, homemaker, and police academy trained bodyguard and firearms instructor. My only beef is she is trained to shoot center mass and I keep trying to hit the bullseye. Anyway, I am a total technosaurus. And don't do social media. The forum is the extent of it. If it wasn't for Dan Wesson revolvers I would still be back in the old days.
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January 24, 2009
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Ole Dog said
Fortunately I have a tremendous wife who is my IT department, best buddy, cook, housekeeper, homemaker, and police academy trained bodyguard and firearms instructor. My only beef is she is trained to shoot center mass and I keep trying to hit the bullseye. Anyway...
Geez Ole Dog, you sir, have hit the mother lode!
If you also say she looks like Bo Derek (even today), I am really going to come through this thing & slap you. 
Rimfire, I haven't yet seen your other post, that may have been misconstrued (I'm working my way back from the most recent), but I get where you're coming from. I am an "old school guy" too at heart, I truly dislike how fast the confuzer & general IT technology is advancing around us. I'm more of the mindset of "hey, this works..."
...and go with it! Sorry for the blurry pic, damn camera. This is my cell phone (honest),wearing it's imitation leather vest. This pic was taken 3 years ago...I had already had it maybe 5 years...still have it today. I'm on battery #3. So you get the idea of where I'm at in the general scheme of things. One plus for me, is I've pretty much mastered the whole attaching photos to posts thing...like 15 years ago. Luckily for me, that part hasn't changed too much & I can keep up.
September 28, 2008
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I don't have a flip phone, but I'm long past the point where I will pay the bucks for the latest ridiculously priced smartphone. My current phone is a $150 HTC, a budget plastic cased version of the "big" phone that came out six months earlier. I bought it when my previous phone became so slow to respond to a finger tap that it wasn't worth keeping. Like 20 minutes to dial a call. I work with a lot of 20-35 year olds that shell out big bucks for the latest phone every couple of years, but most will admit that they never use the stuff that makes them cost so much. They talk, they text, they take pics, and watch video when they are bored and not able to get to a PC. The other stuff is just a bunch of toys, and the phone is a status symbol. The other side of that is a friend of mine who uses an old flip phone, never checks his mail or messages, and that annoys the crap out of me. I have to call him sometimes a half dozen times to get a quick answer from him about having lunch, etc. He's a great guy, but a recent trip with him to Cleveland shows he's rapidly moving into the old lady category. Some of the things he worried about going from Toledo to Cleveland, and back:
1. Constantly worried about missing the I80 (Turnpike) I90 split. There are so many signs, I don't think it's possible.
2. Worried that the neighborhood we were going to was "bad". It was daytime, and it was an industrial area. It made me laugh. He was carrying, of course. I wasn't. I'm crippled physically, he seems to be mentally.
3. Worried that he would miss the exit to the street (140th). Again, signs signs signs. Made me call to confirm that the exit the guy told him was correct! The guy who lives there his whole life should know. Of course, the exit was correct.
4. Didn't want to stop for lunch at Jolly Roger's in Port Clinton for walleye/perch because the fish might have bones in it, and he can't handle greasy food too well, or spicy, or "acidy" Oh heavens! And those bones! I told him I was going anyway, and he could eat somewhere else if he wanted to, but I wanted walleye. He got a chicken sandwich, and complained about it. Oh, no bones in my walleye, and it was awesome. On the way to Port Clinton, he worried again about missing the exit, even though there ARE SIGNS, and all you have to do if you miss the first one, is to get off on the second one. I had to fight the urge to make comments I would regret.
5. When we left Port Clinton, we stopped off to pick something up at the FFL I use. It's not on the way, exactly, but it's not far out of the way, it's like 5 minutes. After we left, I wanted him to go past a new store that is about to open. It's on the way back to my place anyway, and took about a minute, but he was all upset that the trip out to my FFL and the new store which was a day from opening took extra time. I asked him what he had to do that time was such a big deal, and his answer was "Nothing really!", so I had to ask, "Then why the hell are you worrying about it?". He didn't have any answer. I'm 3 years older than he is, but I don't think I'll ever be as old as he is now.
We were planning a trip to Bud's but I don't think I could take riding to KY with him. Too much worrying for me. And if he would buy a gun down there, he would worry about it being shipped to his local FFL. I don't know why, but when he bought his .357 lever last year, there was a ton of hand wringing madness before he picked it up.
I assemble my own desktop PCs, and am about to do my sixth one, as my present one is over 7 years old and beginning to show signs of impending doom with "Fatal Error" messages about once a week on bootup. It's going to be like my other ones, a slightly higher than midrange processor, with a mid priced motherboard, etc. The only real advancements over the old one will be the slightly faster CPU, the SSD drives and the much faster video card. As soon as paypal credit is paid off from the stuff I bought over Xmas, I will start looking for parts.
February 20, 2008
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Okay, here is a PSA...
Surge protectors don't work! We had a freak thunderstorm when a cold front came through three weeks ago and ZAP. All really season here in FL we unplug our computers. This storm was in December. Motherboard is toast. Good thing, two external back up drives.
FYI if your buddy is a veteran, he is entitled to a free phone that will work throughout the U.S.
I currently use Republic, and have not desire to use it for the inter webs, so it is only $15 a month for phone use. I can get emails if I am in a WIFI enriched environment. Should I decide I want full access for a trip, I can have it activated, then turned off.
Good story Hemiram.
If you're going to drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.
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