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Carol H Tucker
Passionate about knowledge management and organizational development, expert in loan servicing, virtual world denizen and community facilitator, and a DISNEY fan
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Today is the 3rd day of the 6th week, the 6th day of the 2nd month, the 37th day of 2018 [with 321 shopping days until Christmas], and:
- African American Coaches Day
- Canadian Maple Syrup Day
- International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation -- United Nations-sponsored annual awareness day first introduced in 2003
- Lame Duck Day
- National Frozen Yogurt Day
- Pay-a-compliment Day
- Ronald Reagan Day -- Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, was born in Tampico IL in 1911
- Safer Internet Day
- Waitangi Day - celebrates the founding of New Zealand in 1840 under British sovereignty.
On this day in ...
60 – The earliest date for which the day of the week is known. A graffito in Pompeii identifies this day as a dies Solis (Sunday). In modern reckoning, this date would have been a Wednesday.
1722 - The Council of New France makes abandoning children a death penalty offence; parish priests are asked to publicize the law every few months.
1815 – New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens.
1819 – Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
1820 – The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society depart New York to start a settlement in present-day Liberia.
1843 – The first minstrel show in the United States, The Virginia Minstrels, opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City)
1895 - Baseball Hall of Famer George Herman "Babe" Ruth was born in Baltimore.
1919 – The American Legion is founded ? ((some googling shows this US wartime veterans organization formed in Paris, on March 15, 1919, by three officers of the American Expeditionary Forces and was chartered by the Congress on September 16, 1919, so I’m not sure about that date!))
1952 – Elizabeth II becomes queen regnant of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
1959 – Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.
1959 – At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
1971 - Alan Shepard becomes the first man to hit a golf ball on the Moon during a two-day Moon walk from Apollo 14.
1988 – Michael Jordan makes his signature slam dunk from the free throw line inspiring Air Jordan and the Jumpman logo.
2003 - Rapper 50 Cent's debut CD, "Get Rich or Die Tryin'," was released.
So, I bought a new computer after my five year old Alienware X51’s fourth graphics card died. Determined to make sure there was enough wattage to run everything, I went with an Acer Predator that I bought from the Micro Center in Rockville. It is a monster of a machine! I had some issues getting set up because my monitor was an older VGA model and I had to order the connector cable that would enable me to attach it to this CPU. And then the issues started – constant crashing with the BSOD telling me I had a BAD_POOL_CALLER error. I was angry and frustrated, especially when told by @AcerAmerica that I should take the machine for servicing. I snapped that with a brand spanking new machine just out of the box, if I had to take the machine back to the store it would be for a full refund or replacement, not servicing! But on the advice of Micro Center tech support, I reset the computer – which isn’t quite the same as reloading WIN10 as @AcerAmerica had suggested – and ran into the same issue. Downloaded WhoCrashed and found out it was the Killer Ethernet Connection manager and disabled it. End of problem….
But no. Now every time I reboot the computer, the application starts running again and causing the BSOD. I shrug – I can make turning the application off part of my start up routine. Then it turns out that Microsoft OneDrive cannot load because there is suddenly a missing component. I shrug, I don’t actually use MS OneDrive so who cares? And then last night I noticed when I right click on the start menu, I can no longer pull up the menu that enables me to do diagnostics. Now wait a minute! That’s three strikes on a brand new computer that costs more than I have ever spent before -- but it is all software, not hardware. Could it be the old monitor? Could it be the cable I am using? Could it somehow be the router? But cable and router are both less than a year old. Do I know if I plugged everything into the right generation of USB port? ! See, I don’t have the expertise to be able to tell if these issues are being caused by the hardware or not and I have 30 days to take it back and get my money back. Have I bought a lemon and am going to have to deal with the kind of constant problems I had over the past five years? So do I just bail out now? Or keep trying to getting the issues addressed one by one?
*ponders*
Why, ‘o why, can’t it just WORK !?!
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