tester (Forum Supporter) said:
In reply to Ashyukun (Robert) :
I have rebooted and logged onto the servers N^N times today. It crashes every time I try to do actual work. Ugh. 
I was able to get into our webmail earlier, and the company finally sent out an email about the outage- which said mostly, "Rebooting the computer multiple times can usually fix the issue." Um.... no. I've rebooted like 2 dozen times at this point, and still the same fault in csagent.sys. How, exactly, is rebooting without changing anything going to fix this? The computer (especially ours, since they require a VPM to our work servers) isn't going to magically download a non-berked-up csagent.sys file from thin air (though yes, I realize that WiFi does seem to work that way).
I tried to paint the underside of my car, but it was too humid (it was curing in the bowl before i could paint it on). It is currently too humid to try again, and i'm about to go out of town for almost a week. I'm pretty certain that the rest of the can will be cured in the can by then and I won't be able to use it. So I have to order another can, and i've wasted this $45 can. Annoying
In reply to budget_bandit :
Maybe you can save it by sealing the can as best you can and storing it in your refrigerator while you're gone.
I forgot how miserable the 4AGE vacuum line situation is.
In reply to GIRTHQUAKE :
Email/PM me if you need a pic for reference. Mine is mostly intact.
Apple can really be a pain.
It used to be that you could manage your entire iphone stuff via iTunes. Now that's only good for a couple of things. To manage music, you need apple music on your computer, and to sync it, you also need apple devices. I'm sure I need to add some other things for videos. But I don't watch anything.
To make it worse, it's now even more complicated to import new music than it was before, and apple's support page is totally wrong. If you search how to add music, the first support page tells you there's an "import" function in the action tab. None of that actually exists in apple music. Had to copy the file from windows explorer directly into the program.
I'm sure it's a major push to using the cloud and whatnot, but I really hate that and don't trust anything but my own computer. And I still download music and CDs to this computer.
When we bought the iphone many years ago, it was simple and intuitive. Now it's complicated and not simple- changing over to this new software took ALL of my music library off my phone. Seriously?
Come on, apple, you used to be SO very much better. KISS is still the best way to do it, and removing support from one program so that you can spread it out to god knows how many is the opposite of that.
ShawnG
MegaDork
7/20/24 1:54 a.m.
Can everyone stop pretending to like water chestnuts?
My stir fry was full of those awful little chunks of Styrofoam.
Seriously, who had to choke one of those things down and went "more of that please!".
Duke
MegaDork
7/20/24 6:14 a.m.
In reply to GIRTHQUAKE :
I had a '79 Supra with a 6ME (I think), which had a penchant for blowing head gaskets.
At the time, it was actually easier and faster to source a whole engine and replace the entire thing, rather than tearing down all the crap you had to remove to get the head off.
In reply to alfadriver :
And they're going to lose my business because of it. I loved my iMacs because the windows stuff was so bad, and the Apple stuff was so good and so easy for non computer people like me. That's no longer the case. It took way longer than it should have to performa simple task recently, and the reason was, every tutorial on how to do it was wrong, none of the tabs existed. It should have been intuitive, and a matter of seconds like it used to be.
In reply to alfadriver :
Unfortunately, even Apple doesn't seem to be immune from enE36 M3ification. I need a new phone soon, and it'll probably be an iPhone again, because Apple tends to support them way longer than other brands(my current iPhone is almost 6 years old, and works fine, except the battery is getting weak). I don't use music on my phone, so I've been able to dodge the Apple Music app for now.
Nothing says having a fun weekend adulting like getting woken up at 4am by the a/c power cycling due to what looks like a condensate drain issue, and having to mop up the mechanical room floor at 4 berkeleying am.
I'm getting really tired of the plumbing issues in that part of the house.
ShawnG said:
Can everyone stop pretending to like water chestnuts?
My stir fry was full of those awful little chunks of Styrofoam.
Seriously, who had to choke one of those things down and went "more of that please!".
Oh man! I love that crunch in stir-fry.
wae
UltimaDork
7/21/24 2:22 p.m.
Water chestnuts are fabulous. Real rumaki is nasty because of the chicken liver, but we make bacon-wrapped water chestnuts marinated in soy sauce for all the patties around Christmas and New Years. I recently tried them on skewers with shishkabob on the grill and that isn't so good, though.
I found the perfect house, it is a single level 1br home in a semi rural area and it's well wooded and there is a 2 car garage (facing east!) and a small barn and a stable and I can afford it and I am completely unprepared for this situation
"tHeY dO GrEaT wOrK!!!!!!" -what I was told about the contractors/remodeling company that we bought our house from.
"It's got a new roof!"
Somehow they do good work but couldn't figure out how to install the roof vent boots correctly?
The installed a new roof but couldn't repair the decking?
The open junction box nestled in with the blown in insulation is a nice touch.
*Not pictured:
- Both bathroom exhaust fans dump into the attic
- The 8 outlets that weren't grounded
- The water line to the fridge ice maker that improperly installed and leaked GALLONS of water onto the kitchen floor the day before we closed.
Needless to say, I'm not impressed by their work. Sure the house looks nice but they did E36 M3 work. The pre-purchase inspection caught a lot of the issues, which I had them fix. But why didn't they do it right the first time?
Im so burned out on working on other people's E36 M3, foing stuff for others, and everything else. No time for me, stressed by folks asking when stuff will be done, work is stressful, losong sleep, and feeling completely overwhelmed. Its got my guts tore up, my mind racing, amd my sleep schedule berkeleyed. I need to find some relief, but every time i feel im getting close i get kicked in the face by something unexpected.
Need a berkeleying break man......
Because I'm not miserable enough with summer and chemo winding down, the root canal and crowns I got last berkeleying October have decided that they need to be doing a jackhammer impression.
I can't get any kind of dental work done until I'm done with chemo. In 7 weeks, give or take whatever it takes for my bloodwork to say it's ok, so more likely 10-12 weeks.
Tylenol, Advil, Aleve, Motrin, baclofen, and vicoden do NOTHING.
The Japanese need to hurry the berkeley up with that pill they've been working on to regrow teeth. Human trials started not to long ago, but not here in the US.
Duke said:
In reply to GIRTHQUAKE :
I had a '79 Supra with a 6ME (I think), which had a penchant for blowing head gaskets.
At the time, it was actually easier and faster to source a whole engine and replace the entire thing, rather than tearing down all the crap you had to remove to get the head off.
Should be 5M, the 6M was not sold in the US, IIRC. Maybe.
I might be able to find the video from the 1984 Manx Rally (maybe 1985?) where they swapped a Supra cylinder head during a 20 minute service. Obvs they do things to the car to make it a little easier but still... 20 minutes to swap a head on a car you just drove up to the service crew.
All I remember is that they swapped the whole head/intake/exhaust manifolds as an assembly, and it was due to a valve sticking in a guide causing a misfire.
Step 1: Dump a bucket of water on the exhaust while the car is being jacked up...
RevRico said:
The Japanese need to hurry the berkeley up with that pill they've been working on to regrow teeth. Human trials started not to long ago, but not here in the US.
Have they never watched a zombie apocalypse movie? Because I am pretty sure that's how half of them start.
I am 99% sure that people working on drones and/or AI have never seen a Terminator movie.
Pete. (l33t FS) said:
I am 99% sure that people working on drones and/or AI have never seen a Terminator movie.
Or confused them with an instructional video, much like a bunch of people interpreting 1984 as an instruction manual.
