On Mon Oct-19-2015 09:32, Holger Granholm (2:20/228) wrote to Roger Nelson:   
      
    HG> In a message on Monday 10-17-15 Roger Nelson said to Holger   
    HG> Granholm:    
      
    HG> Looking at the time your message was posted:   
      
    HG> Good morning Roger,   
      
    HG> but unlike me you probably use UTC as date stamp or else you get up   
    HG> very early in the morning.   
      
   I get up very early in the morning.  My mailer uses UTC as a time reference   
   and converts it to local time, depending on whether we are in Daylight Savings   
   Time (YUCK!) or Standard Time.  We are about Latitude: 30-04'08" N, Longitude:   
   89-55'51" W, which puts us in Central Time.   
      
   HG> shut down by the Windows installation but can be re-instated by   
   HG> running the FDisk of OS/2.   
      
   RN> "We have seen the enemy and he is us."   
      
    HG> That is if you get OS/2 installed. I'm fighting an uneven fight   
    HG> with my ThinkPad T61. So far it's winning the fight but I have not   
    HG> yet used all my tricks.   
      
   Hardheaded like me, huh?   
      
   RN> I know.  You may not remember I ran OS/2 since the December 1992   
      
    HG> No I don't recall that.   
      
   Now you know.  I really liked it right up till the time IBM dropped support   
   for it in order to write software for the space program.  I think they could   
   have done both.  They're certainly large enough.   
      
   RN> I really liked about it is that if a power failure occurred, any and   
   RN> all programs that were running at the time were restarted when power   
   RN> was restored.   
      
    HG> Yes, that's the way it works. It only makes an extra tour of CHKDSK   
    HG> if it was not shut down properly. OTOH, I have this machine running   
    HG> from an APC 500 UPS.   
      
   Windows does not.  When a power failure occurs, the only programs that will   
   run when power is restored are the Windows stuff and whatever I have in the   
   Startup folder.  I am using the same UPS as you.  Good for surges, but not   
   enough for the number of lightning strikes we have at certain times of the   
   year.   
      
    HG> the XP/pro I have to the ThinkPad I'm presently trying to install   
    HG> OS/2 on.    
      
   RN> It's worse than Usenet.  (-8  Do you realize that XP is no longer   
   RN> supported?   
      
    HG> Yes I know, but it still works .   
      
   That it does.  One of my backup systems on the closet floor has XP on it, but   
   I don't let it connect to the Internet when I haul it out of the closet and   
   plug it in.   
      
   RN> I figured that, but I can't install Warp on this machine.  I've   
   RN> tried.   
      
    HG> I know, or I'm learning that at the moment. So far all the OS/2   
    HG> installs and updates (FixPaks) I have done have worked without a   
    HG> hitch but this stubborn laptop is using too much of my time.   
      
    HG> There's a saying: "When I retire, I will do all the things I've not   
    HG> had time to do before", the problem is that everything takes so   
    HG> much longer.    
      
   Retirement is the number one killer of old people.  (-:   
      
   RN> I'm too old to learn Linux and the one time I did install it, I   
   RN> found the serial rputines were too buggy for me, ......   
      
    HG> I've done that too. It's like an artist replied to a question why   
    HG> he had'nt aquired a new female to his household after his wife   
    HG> deceased, he replied "I'm too old to teach up a new maid". This is   
    HG> a true story that I overheard in the barbershop while waiting for   
    HG> my time.    
      
   That is both funny and true.  I never heard anything like that in a   
   barbershop, because all the clientele wanted to talk about was sports.   
      
    HG> Windows 10 feels tempting and I've been promised the laptop of my   
    HG> grandson as a XMas gift. That will be complete with Win10.   
      
   RN> It does have some "goodies" in it, is somewhat intuitive, but you   
   RN> have to be careful upon installing that too much of your personal   
   RN> information is not made available to M$ or anyone else.  This can be   
   RN> accomplished by going through the setup in the Control Panel and   
   RN> turning off some of its defaults.   
      
    HG> Yes, I know. If something goes awry in XP it always asks if should   
    HG> contact M$. Other possible personal traps also appear in various   
    HG> programs.   
      
   When they supported it, I let it send the data.  Now, however, they get   
   nothing and that includes any feedback I might feel tempted to write them   
   about.   
      
   RN> Merry Christmas!   
      
    HG> Thanks!   
      
   I hope you and yours have one.   
      
    HG> Have a nice day,   
      
   You too.   
      
      
   Regards,   
      
   Roger    
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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