USMB Coffee Shop IV

[Ernie S.]

My Kindle appears to be dying. It started resetting itself yesterday (which has happened before), but did not want to finish loading after the reset. It was caught in a loop of restarting, beginning to load, and freezing. I eventually got it to work by plugging it into my PC. We took the little one to karate, and it started resetting itself again. This time it went to a completely black screen, which I've never seen before. Then, when it did eventually go back to normal, it moved on to a completely white screen. At this point, it seems as though I need to plug the Kindle into my PC almost every time I want to turn it on. Once I have it on, it works fine, but after I turn it off, turning it back on is an issue.

I went on ebay and bought a Kobo reader. Apparently they are made by Barnes & Nobles. The one I got is new, but an older version. It will require me to convert all of my mobi files into epub files, so I'm doing that on the second PC right now. It comes with 100 "classics," such as Pride & Prejudice, loaded on it; I'm curious what those books will be. It has less memory than my Kindle keyboard, but 1GB should be plenty of space, and it can take an SD card to expand the memory.

Mostly I'm just hoping that it will not cause issues when I load my books onto it, that the screen is as easy to read as the Kindle, that it is relatively comfortable to use, and that the battery doesn't drain super fast. I don't need extra features in an ereader. It only cost $27, so if it works well and I can use it for as long as I have my Kindle (just over 6 years), it will be great.

Luckily I still have a bunch of paper books if I continue to have ereader problems.

I think my laptop may be dying. A few times now when I've turned it on, it has lines going across the screen, as if my monitor is ready to kick the bucket, then it clears up and will be fine, but when I go to turn it on again, same thing happens. Could be time to invest in a new laptop.

I bought a new HP 17" about a month ago. I just couldn't get past the EFCI garbage that Microsoft forces manufacturers to put on their machines in order to install Linux. I tried several distributions and finally got the thing to boot up Linux Mint in what they call "compatibility mode" OK it WILL boot Linux, now I needed to figure out what "compatibility mode" was and pass those options to Kubuntu that I've been using for 5 years or so.
I'm happy to report that I am currently running a fresh install of Kubuntu 17.04. Now I just have to move a couple hundred Gigs of data from the old laptop HD to this one.

You couldn't just format the HD? Or were you setting up a dual boot?

I do need Windows for one site that's written in Silverlight which is a proprietary Windows Java-like system for vector graphics. My County Assessor's site uses it. It's obsolete and Linus and the boys stopped working on a fix a few years ago.
So, yes, the machine is dual boot, but irrelevant. The EFCI garbage is in BIOS and was loading a graphics system that Linux couldn't cope with. The work around was to let the install use native graphics at boot. and once I was into the installer, everything worked.
Haven't moved the data yet. My schedule is kicking hell out of me the last few days. My partners are on vacation and I have a lot on my plate until the 22nd.
Great night at Doc's last night! The Jason Abel project played 2 sets and rocked a full house. They closed about quarter to 11 and Heavy Funk was up and running in about 15 minutes. They are loud and Metal, not exactly what we usually have on stage. What was amazing was that about 1/3 of the folks that were there for J A P left and were replaced by an equal number of people wanting to see Heavy Funk.
The night was actually pretty calm except for the guy who told me to get off HIS bar stool. I assured him he could take his seat when he was through dancing (by himself) but he insisted I get up right then and there. I politely informed him that is was not HIS bar stool, it was MY bar stool, just like every other stool in the house.
Confused him for a while, but the bulb did eventually light up and a while later when he was starting some crap with 2 bad ass biker dudes, he informed security that he knew the owner.
Yeah, well, not all that well. When I told him that he would NOT be buying any more alcohol, he left, quite angry. My bouncer walked out behind him and saw him take a swig from a bottle in his truck, put it in reverse and run backwards into an SUV.
He then pulled forward hitting another car a bit more gently. I grabbed him up through the driver side window and unlocked the doors. My bouncer hopped in, shut off the F 150 and grabbed the keys.
Since there was damage to a customer's vehicle, I had to call the law. The idiot left in cuffs and the pick-up, belonging to his father's company, left on a hook.
No loss of business due to police in the lot and everyone but the idiot and his dad left the bar happy.
I will have to check my records, but if memory serves, the night was in the top 5 highest gross nights since we opened.

At first I thought you said the Jason Abel Project was metal, and I looked them up....and found a video of them playing at Doc's. So I was confused, because they sure aren't a metal band!


Then I looked again and saw it was the other band, Heavy Funk, you said are a metal band. I couldn't find anything by them on youtube, the best I got was a Netherlands duo. I did find a facebook page, and I suppose they are a metal band in the vein of a Rage Against the Machine.


I was wondering just how heavy you meant.

The main con to owning a bar, having to deal with drunks.

JAP is pretty much Southern Rock with a strong country influence. Heavy Funk... Yup Rage Against the Machine on Jagermeister pretty much sums them up. They did 3 songs about Jager and were pushing it (and drinking it) all night to the tune of $448 in Jagermeister sales alone.

I've been dealing with drunks for close to 50 years. Mostly from the other side of the bar, granted, but I do like bar people. tossing drunks and mopping up spilled drinks and broken glass is part of the business. When I opened Doc's, puke bothered me, but that no longer gets to me. I still have my limits. I can't handle projectile diarrhea or a man hitting a woman both make me sick to my stomach. The latter will get you barred and maybe beaten.
Yes, you read that right. If you thought you've seen everything, buy a bar.

 

[Ernie S.]

My Kindle appears to be dying. It started resetting itself yesterday (which has happened before), but did not want to finish loading after the reset. It was caught in a loop of restarting, beginning to load, and freezing. I eventually got it to work by plugging it into my PC. We took the little one to karate, and it started resetting itself again. This time it went to a completely black screen, which I've never seen before. Then, when it did eventually go back to normal, it moved on to a completely white screen. At this point, it seems as though I need to plug the Kindle into my PC almost every time I want to turn it on. Once I have it on, it works fine, but after I turn it off, turning it back on is an issue.

I went on ebay and bought a Kobo reader. Apparently they are made by Barnes & Nobles. The one I got is new, but an older version. It will require me to convert all of my mobi files into epub files, so I'm doing that on the second PC right now. It comes with 100 "classics," such as Pride & Prejudice, loaded on it; I'm curious what those books will be. It has less memory than my Kindle keyboard, but 1GB should be plenty of space, and it can take an SD card to expand the memory.

Mostly I'm just hoping that it will not cause issues when I load my books onto it, that the screen is as easy to read as the Kindle, that it is relatively comfortable to use, and that the battery doesn't drain super fast. I don't need extra features in an ereader. It only cost $27, so if it works well and I can use it for as long as I have my Kindle (just over 6 years), it will be great.

Luckily I still have a bunch of paper books if I continue to have ereader problems.

I think my laptop may be dying. A few times now when I've turned it on, it has lines going across the screen, as if my monitor is ready to kick the bucket, then it clears up and will be fine, but when I go to turn it on again, same thing happens. Could be time to invest in a new laptop.

I bought a new HP 17" about a month ago. I just couldn't get past the EFCI garbage that Microsoft forces manufacturers to put on their machines in order to install Linux. I tried several distributions and finally got the thing to boot up Linux Mint in what they call "compatibility mode" OK it WILL boot Linux, now I needed to figure out what "compatibility mode" was and pass those options to Kubuntu that I've been using for 5 years or so.
I'm happy to report that I am currently running a fresh install of Kubuntu 17.04. Now I just have to move a couple hundred Gigs of data from the old laptop HD to this one.

I am sure not that computer literate. I just use Windows. Lol. I would not attempt to install a complicated program on my computer because I would probably screw it all up.

Screwing it up is easy. I've screwed up dozens of times, but I've always enjoyed the challenge of fixing the problems I've created

My Kindle appears to be dying. It started resetting itself yesterday (which has happened before), but did not want to finish loading after the reset. It was caught in a loop of restarting, beginning to load, and freezing. I eventually got it to work by plugging it into my PC. We took the little one to karate, and it started resetting itself again. This time it went to a completely black screen, which I've never seen before. Then, when it did eventually go back to normal, it moved on to a completely white screen. At this point, it seems as though I need to plug the Kindle into my PC almost every time I want to turn it on. Once I have it on, it works fine, but after I turn it off, turning it back on is an issue.

I went on ebay and bought a Kobo reader. Apparently they are made by Barnes & Nobles. The one I got is new, but an older version. It will require me to convert all of my mobi files into epub files, so I'm doing that on the second PC right now. It comes with 100 "classics," such as Pride & Prejudice, loaded on it; I'm curious what those books will be. It has less memory than my Kindle keyboard, but 1GB should be plenty of space, and it can take an SD card to expand the memory.

Mostly I'm just hoping that it will not cause issues when I load my books onto it, that the screen is as easy to read as the Kindle, that it is relatively comfortable to use, and that the battery doesn't drain super fast. I don't need extra features in an ereader. It only cost $27, so if it works well and I can use it for as long as I have my Kindle (just over 6 years), it will be great.

Luckily I still have a bunch of paper books if I continue to have ereader problems.

I think my laptop may be dying. A few times now when I've turned it on, it has lines going across the screen, as if my monitor is ready to kick the bucket, then it clears up and will be fine, but when I go to turn it on again, same thing happens. Could be time to invest in a new laptop.

I bought a new HP 17" about a month ago. I just couldn't get past the EFCI garbage that Microsoft forces manufacturers to put on their machines in order to install Linux. I tried several distributions and finally got the thing to boot up Linux Mint in what they call "compatibility mode" OK it WILL boot Linux, now I needed to figure out what "compatibility mode" was and pass those options to Kubuntu that I've been using for 5 years or so.
I'm happy to report that I am currently running a fresh install of Kubuntu 17.04. Now I just have to move a couple hundred Gigs of data from the old laptop HD to this one.

You couldn't just format the HD? Or were you setting up a dual boot?

I do need Windows for one site that's written in Silverlight which is a proprietary Windows Java-like system for vector graphics. My County Assessor's site uses it. It's obsolete and Linus and the boys stopped working on a fix a few years ago.
So, yes, the machine is dual boot, but irrelevant. The EFCI garbage is in BIOS and was loading a graphics system that Linux couldn't cope with. The work around was to let the install use native graphics at boot. and once I was into the installer, everything worked.
Haven't moved the data yet. My schedule is kicking hell out of me the last few days. My partners are on vacation and I have a lot on my plate until the 22nd.
Great night at Doc's last night! The Jason Abel project played 2 sets and rocked a full house. They closed about quarter to 11 and Heavy Funk was up and running in about 15 minutes. They are loud and Metal, not exactly what we usually have on stage. What was amazing was that about 1/3 of the folks that were there for J A P left and were replaced by an equal number of people wanting to see Heavy Funk.
The night was actually pretty calm except for the guy who told me to get off HIS bar stool. I assured him he could take his seat when he was through dancing (by himself) but he insisted I get up right then and there. I politely informed him that is was not HIS bar stool, it was MY bar stool, just like every other stool in the house.
Confused him for a while, but the bulb did eventually light up and a while later when he was starting some crap with 2 bad ass biker dudes, he informed security that he knew the owner.
Yeah, well, not all that well. When I told him that he would NOT be buying any more alcohol, he left, quite angry. My bouncer walked out behind him and saw him take a swig from a bottle in his truck, put it in reverse and run backwards into an SUV.
He then pulled forward hitting another car a bit more gently. I grabbed him up through the driver side window and unlocked the doors. My bouncer hopped in, shut off the F 150 and grabbed the keys.
Since there was damage to a customer's vehicle, I had to call the law. The idiot left in cuffs and the pick-up, belonging to his father's company, left on a hook.
No loss of business due to police in the lot and everyone but the idiot and his dad left the bar happy.
I will have to check my records, but if memory serves, the night was in the top 5 highest gross nights since we opened.

With EFCI you have to boot into BIOs and change the boot options to allow it to boot from the optical drive, unlike Dells HPs make it rather easy to do that.

I had adjusted all the BIOS settings and by hitting F9 at post, I could chose to boot to the CD drive and choose the boot options on the DVD .iso image, but after the first crude low resolution graphic, I would see a few red and green lines and the screen went dark.
That told me it was a graphics driver problem.
A nomodprobe option allowed a text post boot and the right drivers got loaded later.
I still have to hit F9 to bypass EFCI then choose the "notebook hard drive" option to get to grub. This is the same process I had to go through to boot the old HP.

 

[Ernie S.]

I think my laptop may be dying. A few times now when I've turned it on, it has lines going across the screen, as if my monitor is ready to kick the bucket, then it clears up and will be fine, but when I go to turn it on again, same thing happens. Could be time to invest in a new laptop.

I bought a new HP 17" about a month ago. I just couldn't get past the EFCI garbage that Microsoft forces manufacturers to put on their machines in order to install Linux. I tried several distributions and finally got the thing to boot up Linux Mint in what they call "compatibility mode" OK it WILL boot Linux, now I needed to figure out what "compatibility mode" was and pass those options to Kubuntu that I've been using for 5 years or so.
I'm happy to report that I am currently running a fresh install of Kubuntu 17.04. Now I just have to move a couple hundred Gigs of data from the old laptop HD to this one.

You couldn't just format the HD? Or were you setting up a dual boot?

I do need Windows for one site that's written in Silverlight which is a proprietary Windows Java-like system for vector graphics. My County Assessor's site uses it. It's obsolete and Linus and the boys stopped working on a fix a few years ago.
So, yes, the machine is dual boot, but irrelevant. The EFCI garbage is in BIOS and was loading a graphics system that Linux couldn't cope with. The work around was to let the install use native graphics at boot. and once I was into the installer, everything worked.
Haven't moved the data yet. My schedule is kicking hell out of me the last few days. My partners are on vacation and I have a lot on my plate until the 22nd.
Great night at Doc's last night! The Jason Abel project played 2 sets and rocked a full house. They closed about quarter to 11 and Heavy Funk was up and running in about 15 minutes. They are loud and Metal, not exactly what we usually have on stage. What was amazing was that about 1/3 of the folks that were there for J A P left and were replaced by an equal number of people wanting to see Heavy Funk.
The night was actually pretty calm except for the guy who told me to get off HIS bar stool. I assured him he could take his seat when he was through dancing (by himself) but he insisted I get up right then and there. I politely informed him that is was not HIS bar stool, it was MY bar stool, just like every other stool in the house.
Confused him for a while, but the bulb did eventually light up and a while later when he was starting some crap with 2 bad ass biker dudes, he informed security that he knew the owner.
Yeah, well, not all that well. When I told him that he would NOT be buying any more alcohol, he left, quite angry. My bouncer walked out behind him and saw him take a swig from a bottle in his truck, put it in reverse and run backwards into an SUV.
He then pulled forward hitting another car a bit more gently. I grabbed him up through the driver side window and unlocked the doors. My bouncer hopped in, shut off the F 150 and grabbed the keys.
Since there was damage to a customer's vehicle, I had to call the law. The idiot left in cuffs and the pick-up, belonging to his father's company, left on a hook.
No loss of business due to police in the lot and everyone but the idiot and his dad left the bar happy.
I will have to check my records, but if memory serves, the night was in the top 5 highest gross nights since we opened.

With EFCI you have to boot into BIOs and change the boot options to allow it to boot from the optical drive, unlike Dells HPs make it rather easy to do that.

Now see, there you guys go talking in that foreign language again. And you wonder why Chris and I just stay with Windows.

I was just thinking that Ringle, Montrovant and I would be the only ones that knew what I was talking about.

 

[Ringel05]

My Kindle appears to be dying. It started resetting itself yesterday (which has happened before), but did not want to finish loading after the reset. It was caught in a loop of restarting, beginning to load, and freezing. I eventually got it to work by plugging it into my PC. We took the little one to karate, and it started resetting itself again. This time it went to a completely black screen, which I've never seen before. Then, when it did eventually go back to normal, it moved on to a completely white screen. At this point, it seems as though I need to plug the Kindle into my PC almost every time I want to turn it on. Once I have it on, it works fine, but after I turn it off, turning it back on is an issue.

I went on ebay and bought a Kobo reader. Apparently they are made by Barnes & Nobles. The one I got is new, but an older version. It will require me to convert all of my mobi files into epub files, so I'm doing that on the second PC right now. It comes with 100 "classics," such as Pride & Prejudice, loaded on it; I'm curious what those books will be. It has less memory than my Kindle keyboard, but 1GB should be plenty of space, and it can take an SD card to expand the memory.

Mostly I'm just hoping that it will not cause issues when I load my books onto it, that the screen is as easy to read as the Kindle, that it is relatively comfortable to use, and that the battery doesn't drain super fast. I don't need extra features in an ereader. It only cost $27, so if it works well and I can use it for as long as I have my Kindle (just over 6 years), it will be great.

Luckily I still have a bunch of paper books if I continue to have ereader problems.

I think my laptop may be dying. A few times now when I've turned it on, it has lines going across the screen, as if my monitor is ready to kick the bucket, then it clears up and will be fine, but when I go to turn it on again, same thing happens. Could be time to invest in a new laptop.

I bought a new HP 17" about a month ago. I just couldn't get past the EFCI garbage that Microsoft forces manufacturers to put on their machines in order to install Linux. I tried several distributions and finally got the thing to boot up Linux Mint in what they call "compatibility mode" OK it WILL boot Linux, now I needed to figure out what "compatibility mode" was and pass those options to Kubuntu that I've been using for 5 years or so.
I'm happy to report that I am currently running a fresh install of Kubuntu 17.04. Now I just have to move a couple hundred Gigs of data from the old laptop HD to this one.

I am sure not that computer literate. I just use Windows. Lol. I would not attempt to install a complicated program on my computer because I would probably screw it all up.

Screwing it up is easy. I've screwed up dozens of times, but I've always enjoyed the challenge of fixing the problems I've created

I think my laptop may be dying. A few times now when I've turned it on, it has lines going across the screen, as if my monitor is ready to kick the bucket, then it clears up and will be fine, but when I go to turn it on again, same thing happens. Could be time to invest in a new laptop.

I bought a new HP 17" about a month ago. I just couldn't get past the EFCI garbage that Microsoft forces manufacturers to put on their machines in order to install Linux. I tried several distributions and finally got the thing to boot up Linux Mint in what they call "compatibility mode" OK it WILL boot Linux, now I needed to figure out what "compatibility mode" was and pass those options to Kubuntu that I've been using for 5 years or so.
I'm happy to report that I am currently running a fresh install of Kubuntu 17.04. Now I just have to move a couple hundred Gigs of data from the old laptop HD to this one.

You couldn't just format the HD? Or were you setting up a dual boot?

I do need Windows for one site that's written in Silverlight which is a proprietary Windows Java-like system for vector graphics. My County Assessor's site uses it. It's obsolete and Linus and the boys stopped working on a fix a few years ago.
So, yes, the machine is dual boot, but irrelevant. The EFCI garbage is in BIOS and was loading a graphics system that Linux couldn't cope with. The work around was to let the install use native graphics at boot. and once I was into the installer, everything worked.
Haven't moved the data yet. My schedule is kicking hell out of me the last few days. My partners are on vacation and I have a lot on my plate until the 22nd.
Great night at Doc's last night! The Jason Abel project played 2 sets and rocked a full house. They closed about quarter to 11 and Heavy Funk was up and running in about 15 minutes. They are loud and Metal, not exactly what we usually have on stage. What was amazing was that about 1/3 of the folks that were there for J A P left and were replaced by an equal number of people wanting to see Heavy Funk.
The night was actually pretty calm except for the guy who told me to get off HIS bar stool. I assured him he could take his seat when he was through dancing (by himself) but he insisted I get up right then and there. I politely informed him that is was not HIS bar stool, it was MY bar stool, just like every other stool in the house.
Confused him for a while, but the bulb did eventually light up and a while later when he was starting some crap with 2 bad ass biker dudes, he informed security that he knew the owner.
Yeah, well, not all that well. When I told him that he would NOT be buying any more alcohol, he left, quite angry. My bouncer walked out behind him and saw him take a swig from a bottle in his truck, put it in reverse and run backwards into an SUV.
He then pulled forward hitting another car a bit more gently. I grabbed him up through the driver side window and unlocked the doors. My bouncer hopped in, shut off the F 150 and grabbed the keys.
Since there was damage to a customer's vehicle, I had to call the law. The idiot left in cuffs and the pick-up, belonging to his father's company, left on a hook.
No loss of business due to police in the lot and everyone but the idiot and his dad left the bar happy.
I will have to check my records, but if memory serves, the night was in the top 5 highest gross nights since we opened.

With EFCI you have to boot into BIOs and change the boot options to allow it to boot from the optical drive, unlike Dells HPs make it rather easy to do that.

I had adjusted all the BIOS settings and by hitting F9 at post, I could chose to boot to the CD drive and choose the boot options on the DVD .iso image, but after the first crude low resolution graphic, I would see a few red and green lines and the screen went dark.
That told me it was a graphics driver problem.
A nomodprobe option allowed a text post boot and the right drivers got loaded later.
I still have to hit F9 to bypass EFCI then choose the "notebook hard drive" option to get to grub. This is the same process I had to go through to boot the old HP.

Then for some reason your boot from CD/DVD setting is not being saved. Is it a dual boot?

 

[Gracie]

 

[Gracie]

I can't even figure out my phone, fercrissakes.

 

[Kat]

Your phone is just a mini computer.

 

[Gracie]

Your phone is just a mini computer.

I know. But I want it to be a second mini pc and not talk to my house pc.

 

[Kat]

And you said you did a good search?

 

[Gracie]

Yep. But...its too gadgety for me. So..I plan to drive to Chico in a couple of days and have them UNsync it so its a PHONE instead of a siamese twin to my computer. I want two separate entities and there is no UnSync function that I can find. But...its ok. No hurry.

 

[ChrisL]

Morning!

 

[Foxfyre]

I bought a new HP 17" about a month ago. I just couldn't get past the EFCI garbage that Microsoft forces manufacturers to put on their machines in order to install Linux. I tried several distributions and finally got the thing to boot up Linux Mint in what they call "compatibility mode" OK it WILL boot Linux, now I needed to figure out what "compatibility mode" was and pass those options to Kubuntu that I've been using for 5 years or so.
I'm happy to report that I am currently running a fresh install of Kubuntu 17.04. Now I just have to move a couple hundred Gigs of data from the old laptop HD to this one.

You couldn't just format the HD? Or were you setting up a dual boot?

I do need Windows for one site that's written in Silverlight which is a proprietary Windows Java-like system for vector graphics. My County Assessor's site uses it. It's obsolete and Linus and the boys stopped working on a fix a few years ago.
So, yes, the machine is dual boot, but irrelevant. The EFCI garbage is in BIOS and was loading a graphics system that Linux couldn't cope with. The work around was to let the install use native graphics at boot. and once I was into the installer, everything worked.
Haven't moved the data yet. My schedule is kicking hell out of me the last few days. My partners are on vacation and I have a lot on my plate until the 22nd.
Great night at Doc's last night! The Jason Abel project played 2 sets and rocked a full house. They closed about quarter to 11 and Heavy Funk was up and running in about 15 minutes. They are loud and Metal, not exactly what we usually have on stage. What was amazing was that about 1/3 of the folks that were there for J A P left and were replaced by an equal number of people wanting to see Heavy Funk.
The night was actually pretty calm except for the guy who told me to get off HIS bar stool. I assured him he could take his seat when he was through dancing (by himself) but he insisted I get up right then and there. I politely informed him that is was not HIS bar stool, it was MY bar stool, just like every other stool in the house.
Confused him for a while, but the bulb did eventually light up and a while later when he was starting some crap with 2 bad ass biker dudes, he informed security that he knew the owner.
Yeah, well, not all that well. When I told him that he would NOT be buying any more alcohol, he left, quite angry. My bouncer walked out behind him and saw him take a swig from a bottle in his truck, put it in reverse and run backwards into an SUV.
He then pulled forward hitting another car a bit more gently. I grabbed him up through the driver side window and unlocked the doors. My bouncer hopped in, shut off the F 150 and grabbed the keys.
Since there was damage to a customer's vehicle, I had to call the law. The idiot left in cuffs and the pick-up, belonging to his father's company, left on a hook.
No loss of business due to police in the lot and everyone but the idiot and his dad left the bar happy.
I will have to check my records, but if memory serves, the night was in the top 5 highest gross nights since we opened.

With EFCI you have to boot into BIOs and change the boot options to allow it to boot from the optical drive, unlike Dells HPs make it rather easy to do that.

Now see, there you guys go talking in that foreign language again. And you wonder why Chris and I just stay with Windows.

I was just thinking that Ringle, Montrovant and I would be the only ones that knew what I was talking about.

There are probably a few others. I'm just not one of them.

 

[Foxfyre]

I don't have a sound machine, but I have oodles of soothing sounds (white noise) saved in my collection at youtube. I also have this website to go to and its a loop....so turn off the monitor but keep the pc on, and listen to it all night..which is what I do often.

SimplyNoise -- The Best Free White Noise Generator on the Internet.

And this is my youtube collection:

My alarm clock is the sound of waves crashing on the beach.

I don't usually use an alarm clock but when I did, it would be music. Nothing is worse (to me) than waking up to an annoying buzzing sound. What a terrible way to be woken up!

Unfortunately, when you use the TV as white noise while you sleep, music tends to be incorporated into your dreams. I have to put my annoying sound out of reach, too, so I have to get my feet on the ground to make it go away. By then, well, hell, I'm up anyways...

Yes, I don't trust leaving the TV on as it can too easily go into stuff, not necessarily music, that isn't white noise to me and it does get incorporated into my dreams or it wakes me up. The movies I choose to be white noise don't do that.

 

[Foxfyre]

Yep. But...its too gadgety for me. So..I plan to drive to Chico in a couple of days and have them UNsync it so its a PHONE instead of a siamese twin to my computer. I want two separate entities and there is no UnSync function that I can find. But...its ok. No hurry.

My phone lets me make and receive calls, keep a few utility functions like lists, notes, calendar, and I have unlimited text. But I don't pay for data so I can use it to get on the internet, but it would cost me extra on my bill every month so I don't use it for that.

 

[Montrovant]

Morning!

Today is the first day of my Fall semester, I'm definitely not shining!

 

[ChrisL]

Morning!

Today is the first day of my Fall semester, I'm definitely not shining!

Go get em!

 

[ChrisL]

I don't have a sound machine, but I have oodles of soothing sounds (white noise) saved in my collection at youtube. I also have this website to go to and its a loop....so turn off the monitor but keep the pc on, and listen to it all night..which is what I do often.

SimplyNoise -- The Best Free White Noise Generator on the Internet.

And this is my youtube collection:

My alarm clock is the sound of waves crashing on the beach.

I don't usually use an alarm clock but when I did, it would be music. Nothing is worse (to me) than waking up to an annoying buzzing sound. What a terrible way to be woken up!

Unfortunately, when you use the TV as white noise while you sleep, music tends to be incorporated into your dreams. I have to put my annoying sound out of reach, too, so I have to get my feet on the ground to make it go away. By then, well, hell, I'm up anyways...

Yes, I don't trust leaving the TV on as it can too easily go into stuff, not necessarily music, that isn't white noise to me and it does get incorporated into my dreams or it wakes me up. The movies I choose to be white noise don't do that.

I never could sleep with talking or music going on. I find it too distracting. I can sleep with other types of noise just not talking or music. I usually sleep with my fan on because the noise drowns out other noises and actually helps me sleep. If you knew how much electricity your TV eats up, you would hardly ever leave it on. Lol.

I was outside a couple of weeks ago near my electric boxes, and I noticed that mine was spinning SO fast, so I went inside and turned off some things so I could see what it was. Well, when I shut off the TV, it was only spinning 1/4 as fast, even running my dishwasher or my washer or dryer doesn't make it spin that much. I used to leave my TV on during the day sometimes, for background noise or just in case something interesting came on,whatever. Now, I hardly ever have my TV on.

 

[Montrovant]

It's the first day of Fall classes......and I can't access my Fall classes.

I checked and confirmed that I am registered and that the classes are of the proper type, but when I go to the login page for online classes, it only shows the ones from last semester. I've got an email out to my distance learning support person, but it's pretty frustrating that I can't begin. I also haven't bought my books yet because I want to be able to log into the classes first and see if the instructors care if I get used books from somewhere other than the school bookstore.

I worry a bit that it could have to do with my not having paid for my classes yet, with today being the supposed due date for payment. However, in my previous two semesters, I didn't pay for the semester by the due date, since I was waiting for financial aid to process things, and it was not an issue. I even went into the area to make a payment today, and it shows me with a negative balance when my estimated financial aid payment is added, so I hope that isn't the problem.

It's the first week of a full term semester, so there probably isn't that much work I need to do, but I don't like that I have to start late.

 

[SixFoot]

It's the first day of Fall classes......and I can't access my Fall classes.

I checked and confirmed that I am registered and that the classes are of the proper type, but when I go to the login page for online classes, it only shows the ones from last semester. I've got an email out to my distance learning support person, but it's pretty frustrating that I can't begin. I also haven't bought my books yet because I want to be able to log into the classes first and see if the instructors care if I get used books from somewhere other than the school bookstore.

I worry a bit that it could have to do with my not having paid for my classes yet, with today being the supposed due date for payment. However, in my previous two semesters, I didn't pay for the semester by the due date, since I was waiting for financial aid to process things, and it was not an issue. I even went into the area to make a payment today, and it shows me with a negative balance when my estimated financial aid payment is added, so I hope that isn't the problem.

It's the first week of a full term semester, so there probably isn't that much work I need to do, but I don't like that I have to start late.

The new federal guidelines completely screwed up our registration process as well. 75% of all students received one error or another when being required to set up their own payment plan. lol

 

[Foxfyre]

Morning!

That was me this morning. I didn't want to get up but our resident mini doxie sort of insisted. But after fortification of a bit of breakfast and several cups of coffee I'm coming around.