Creepy ads

[Enzo]

By god, I hooked up the switch unit, and it WORKS.

Not perfect, I have a wireless USB mouse, so I plugged the little receiver plug into the switch. COmputer 1 worked. Then switched over to computer 2. At first it didn;t see the mouse, I think something about it wasn;t present at power up. I don't know. But after a moment it started reading it and the system worked. I started file maintenance,and computer 1 went to sleep. I pressed the button for #1, and moved the mouse to wake it up. No response. A tap on the computer power button woke it up and it reads the mouse, but somehow it can't read the mouse from a sleeping state through the switch. I will come up with a low tech solution.

Gonz, first thing I did was burn a set of recovery discs. I try to keep my schematic files and such backed up off the computer.

The new computer has MahJong. How about that?

[J M Fahey]

A sign of who rules the World now.
Just in case, I'm learning Chinese.
I'm not joking.

[Enzo]

Geez, I thought MahJong was mainly something Jewish ladies play in New York.

[km6xz]

Speaking of creepy ads.....I notice few ads, I am immune to them, and have not seen TV for years, except for an odd football(Soccer for US readers) game on while visiting a pub for a pint or two. But tonight, I searched for a cheap hotel around Heathrow because I have a 18 hour layover in London. I found several early in the day which were cheap but did not bother booking until tonight. When I did, all the deals earlier in the day were gone, so I ended up with a nice Ramada Inn for not too much over $100 plus taxes. An hour later, I am viewing posts on this forum and all I see at the top are ads deals for London Hotels, even posted cheaper come-on prices by the same booking site. Now, it is possible to track a persons every move, purchase, location minute by minute. The only way to get some privacy is get rid of the cell phone, computer, internet and stay away from windows or outdoors so Google's cameras can't spot you.
I'll be back in the US Tuesday for 25 days than on to England and Scotland before getting "home" to St Petersburg where the fun is.

[J M Fahey]

It makes you remind lovingly the good old Cheka and KGB days, doesn't it?
At least, way back then, they only had the manpower to spy on a few thousand choice political enemies or whatever.
Now even your pet is controlled in the Matrix, either directly with its own little chip (which you ordered as a "safety" measure"), or indirectly through you, by monitoring your activities related to it (pet food/accessories purchases, pet health questions / even its own picture posted by you in Facebook).
John Connor, please save us!!!

[tedmich]

It makes you remind lovingly the good old Cheka and KGB days, doesn't it?
At least, way back then, they only had the manpower to spy on a few thousand choice political enemies or whatever.
Now even your pet is controlled in the Matrix, either directly with its own little chip (which you ordered as a "safety" measure"), or indirectly through you, by monitoring your activities related to it (pet food/accessories purchases, pet health questions / even its own picture posted by you in Facebook).
John Connor, please save us!!!

[Enzo]

Oh, John CONNOR.

WHen I first read that, I saw in my mind John Carter - they have been advertising that movie on TV a lot. I was trying to figure out how it related.

[R.G.]

It is truly scary to contemplate, but governments, organized crime, and computers mutually reinforce the worst parts of each other. I suspect that there are some unknown natural laws hiding behind that.

[Mark Hammer]

You probably want to listen to the podcast from this delightful little CBC Radio show on marketing and advertising: Hyper-Targeting | Under The Influence with Terry O'Reilly | CBC Radio

Not exactly the most encouraging bit of information.

[Mars Amp Repair]

Yeah me too!
BTW, were you able to find Adobe Ver9 for free anywhere...where? thanx, glen

[J M Fahey]

Adobe *what* 9?

[oc disorder]

Yeah me too!
BTW, were you able to find Adobe Ver9 for free anywhere...where? thanx, glen

Try this
Download Acrobat Reader for Windows | Old Version.com

Acrobat Reader 9.0 Windows 7 / Windows Vista / Windows xp / Windows 2000 33.5 MB

if thats what you meant

This may be useful
10 Websites To Download Older Versions Of Software
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-webs...ions-software/

Had to laugh.. in my search got this add....Customised Aluminium Windows &*Doors. Free Quotes. Melbourne.

[Mars Amp Repair]

Thanx, that's very helpful...most of the updates for things like microsoft office just take up more room because they can & give you a bunch of junk you just will never use besides the fact that you have to relearn where everything is every time they change it...

The newest not always the bestest ;-] thanx, glen

[J M Fahey]

I've just downgraded from Firefox 12 to 9.