Very OT - Page 3

Posted by Emily Bengston on October 3, 2009, 3:06 pm

We both have laptops, DS doesn't have a desktop anymore since he travels a
lot, and enjoys using his personal computer when he's out of town.
He keeps the battery charged most of the time.

I still have the old laptop I received as a gift in 2001, when I lived for
those months in SC; it is only used now for my embroidery and the battery
died years ago. The same for the cell phone, I also got in 2001; it has few
features on it.

Emily

Posted by Jenn Ridley on October 3, 2009, 3:28 pm

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It's a way to check on power at home from work and vice versa. Not so
useful if you're at home, true, but a lot of people *aren't* home
during the day. (A friend of mine really likes it -- the week that the
power was out at home, he could check from work to see how much milk
he should get on the way home, and whether he needed to get gas for
the generator.)

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Most of the people on my street have generators.

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So have we, and that's why people here *have* generators.

jenn

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Posted by Kate XXXXXX on October 3, 2009, 3:05 am

Olwyn.Mary wrote:
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But you still cannot connect to the net if your wireless modem has no
power... Unless you have a dongle and the local network is still
working. I work on a laptop, and when the power is down here, even
though I can use the pooter, ther connection to the net is still powerless.

Phone connections to the net may still work, but there are still far
fewer of us with those... I tend to want my phone to make calls and
store numbers, and that's all! :)

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Posted by Sharon Hays on October 3, 2009, 10:23 pm

Kate XXXXXX wrote:

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Yep, and here most of the folks (in our neighborhood) who have wifi at home
have it through the cable company. Well, in January when we were w/o power
for 5 days because of the ice storm, the feeder line for cable was laying
in the street up the block before where it goes underground. So.....that
was a big no go. The phone was the only thing that still worked during the
ice storm. Which was really surprising since it tends to go out for no
reason, frequently. Could be a clear, sunny day and the phone won't work
for a little while. I don't even try to figure out why any more.

I guess we should all get hamsters. Then we could get hamster wheels and
hook those to little generators. Then we could power our computers with
those if the electricity is out. And we could log on to the site to see if
we have power or not........ LOL Hey!! That would be a green solution
too!!! (I'll just save the honda generator for running my gas furnace like
I did in January, thank you ever so.)

And while we're at it, we won't pop into a newsgroup we've rarely (if
ever??) posted to and chew out one of the well loved, long time regular
posters. Especially not if that NG is populated by a group of folks with
really sharp implements close at hand.

Sharon
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Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of time and just annoys the
pig.

Posted by BEI Design on October 3, 2009, 10:33 pm

Sharon Hays wrote:
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I imagine your subtlety is lost on "Pamela" aka
bicycleguy123@gmail.com. A google search found exactly two
posts to alt.sewing using that nym, both within the last 72
hours.

Beverly

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