What's on your mind today?

[Recusant]

Most recently, I became an admirer of a religious spokesperson.  The Bishop at the Episcopal church in Washinton D.C. is Maryann Budde. During recent service in which the Trump was present, she offended him politely. Her remarks were intended to urge common decency and care for the less advantaged, a characteristic missing from the Trump madman.  Trump later demanded an apology. She has not done so and said that she will not do so.

It's risible (if not darkly hilarious) that a direct plea for decency is considered offensive. How dare she suggest that the infinite mercy of Jesus serve as a guide. God saved the president's life; clearly he has a mission and mere clerics shouldn't presume to speak on the matter. 

[Icarus]

Ms Budde comes across as a class act. She has been featured on some of the political network shows since that small episode that Trump sought to make a bigger episode.

[Recusant]

Ms Budde comes across as a class act. She has been featured on some of the political network shows since that small episode that Trump sought to make a bigger episode.

That can also be considered an insult to the MAGA world, and specifically the once and current president. His boorish weaponized ignorance and mendacious bloviation are hallmarks, setting a standard. The gaggle of malignant ninnies he's putting in charge of things exemplifies this. They're a reflection of him and therefore good. Those who pursue a denunciatory or even merely contradictory approach are "nasty."

[Recusant]

On my mind for a while now--hoping that our wandered butterfly and bookscats (I think D may live in that area as well) and their families are safe and their habitations still standing.

[Asmodean]

What be going on where now?

[Tom62]

Ms Budde comes across as a class act. She has been featured on some of the political network shows since that small episode that Trump sought to make a bigger episode.

You should have seen Trump and Vance faces during the sermon. Pure comedy gold.

[Icarus]

I miss the butterfly Mags, and also miss Books&cats. I also miss some of the other long gone people that hung out here.   

I can remember Pasta Chick, and the odd gothic woman from NYC...., No one....where is he? and of course our dear Pakistani Christian lady that I respected so much. We had a few inputs from a Russian guy who lives in Saint Petersburg, and the young Frenchman who has been long gone. Damn, I have been here a long time it would seem.

Here is a salute to all of the past participants whether I agreed with you or not. I mostly did agree with you, most of the time.

[Icarus]

What's on my mind?   Grrrrrrrrr!!!!  Right in the middle of a correspondence with a friend in Europe, my damned computer threw up the dreaded blue screen. I know less about computers than I know about nuclear fission.   I suppose that my faithful Dell smoked off its hard drive. In fact that computer has two hard drives, one is a grinder and the other is an SSD.  I have no idea how to tell the machine to use the SSD instead of the suspect one.

Alas I had a preowned computer from one of those lease companies. I hooked that one up and had to go through all sorts of frustrating mental contortions to make the thing hook up to my wi-fi.  That done, I have to try to recapture my E mail account which google does not make easy.  My attitude at the moment is not good.

I suspect that Jesus is pissed off with me and he has attacked my computer and my mental comfort as punishment for my heathen ways. He knows which of us is computer illiterate, it is me, so he may not mess with the rest of you.

[Dark Lightning]

Went to the doctor (not my regular one) last Friday to get more actinic keratoses checked out, as one was inflamed. Got a bunch more cryogenically removed. He asked what else was going on, and I mentioned fatigue. Ended up with a referral for a nuclear stress test, without treadmill, since I'm using a cane to navigate because of the arthritic knee(s). Went to the oncologist for my quarterly visit this morning. It appears that my marrow issues are holding even, but he's made a lab appointment for me to check my thyroid. I sit in the house with lots of clothes on, and my family walks around barefoot. I'll have that blood drawn in a couple days when I pick up some prescriptions.

[Asmodean]

What's on my mind?   Grrrrrrrrr!!!!  Right in the middle of a correspondence with a friend in Europe, my damned computer threw up the dreaded blue screen. I know less about computers than I know about nuclear fission.   I suppose that my faithful Dell smoked off its hard drive. In fact that computer has two hard drives, one is a grinder and the other is an SSD.  I have no idea how to tell the machine to use the SSD instead of the suspect one.

A failing magnetic hard drive carrying your operating system or a program you are using (as opposed to, say, just a media file) can indeed throw bluescreens. But then, a lot of things can. Some memory (RAM) error, certain programmatic loops, race conditions...

If it is your HDD and Windows is installed on it, the easiest way of telling the PC to use the SSd in stead is, unfortunately, re-installing Windows to that disk. It's perfectly doable, but a little involved.

Alas I had a preowned computer from one of those lease companies. I hooked that one up and had to go through all sorts of frustrating mental contortions to make the thing hook up to my wi-fi.  That done, I have to try to recapture my E mail account which google does not make easy.  My attitude at the moment is not good.

Ask if you need assistance. I can't promise speediness, but can do some good old-fashioned IT consulting.

I suspect that Jesus is pissed off with me and he has attacked my computer and my mental comfort as punishment for my heathen ways. He knows which of us is computer illiterate, it is me, so he may not mess with the rest of you.

Well... Between christmas and Easter is the time of year when he's allegedly alive and spends his time hating upon The Asmo and, apparently, you. Such is life.

[Icarus]

Thanks for the offer, Gray One. This poor old fool is not as schooled about computer stuff as a normal seventh grade student might be. So much to learn, so little time.......

Your advice about the SSD may be useful if I get up the courage to try to make it work. Once up and running, I would still have to go through the recovery process of finding and activating the sites that I use frequently, HAF for instance.

Cheers !

 

[Asmodean]

You could back up your favourites. The passwords too, technically, though that would require some cloud business to do easily.

[The Magic Pudding..]

If it is your HDD and Windows is installed on it, the easiest way of telling the PC to use the SSd in stead is, unfortunately, re-installing Windows to that disk. It's perfectly doable, but a little involved.

It would be odd if the SSD wasn't the boot drive.
What does the computer do when the power on button is pushed?
Is it a laptop or a desktop PC?

It used to be that a dead hard drive didn't stop a computer attempting to start, I think a bad NVMe SSD can prevent posting.

[Asmodean]

It would be odd if the SSD wasn't the boot drive.

Not at all. It's not uncommon to upgrade the storage capacity of an older PC by adding newer generation storage. Thus, you may have your windows happily installed on a spinner, while your SSD array carries your priated movies, telephotoed stalker pics and cat video collections.

It used to be that a dead hard drive didn't stop a computer attempting to start, I think a bad NVMe SSD can prevent posting.

Nono, it will start, and maybe even run, but may throw bluescreens at an ever-increasing frequency if, for example, your reader heads are getting wonky. It will even start when the disk fails completely - it will just complain about no disk detected and/or no OS installed.

The problem is described below;

Right in the middle of a correspondence with a friend in Europe, my damned computer threw up the dreaded blue screen. I know less about computers than I know about nuclear fission.   I suppose that my faithful Dell smoked off its hard drive. In fact that computer has two hard drives, one is a grinder and the other is an SSD.  I have no idea how to tell the machine to use the SSD instead of the suspect one.

If it is a rare occurrence, then it may even do good to just service the operating system. A good round of upgrading, preferably re-installing. If the PC is getting bluescreen-happy, however, having a look at what is written to where may indeed be prudent. As could a look at the memory and CPU health, for huwhich one could run tests.

[The Magic Pudding..]

It would be odd if the SSD wasn't the boot drive.

Not at all. It's not uncommon to upgrade the storage capacity of an older PC by adding newer generation storage. Thus, you may have your windows happily installed on a spinner, while your SSD array carries your priated movies, telephotoed stalker pics and cat video collections.

That's ridiculous, what sort of upside down potato would do that?