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csziggy's JournalBack from trip and now my computer won't boot -UPDATE
I just got home from a trip to visit my Mom. As usual I shut off my computer and everything but the UPS before I left. Come back and the computer will not boot. When I turn on the power supply there is a light at the network cable connection on the motherboard so power is getting that far. But when I try to power the computer on with the power button on the front nothing happens. No flicker, nothing. Other devices connected to the UPS are fine and power up.
Would this be my power supply or the motherboard?
Sorry about any typos - posting this with my tablet - which has a cute little chicklet keyboard but is still not great.
UPDATE - I carried it into the shop and my friend tried another power supply - nothing. He tried another video card - nothing. He was getting ready to take the mobo out to see if there was a short when he realized the power connector was not hooked up - this case has a setup to connect to the power supply to a central line that then connects to the devices.
Apparently the last time my husband took the case outside to blow out the dust and cat hair the power connection was loosened. Over time with warming and cooling it must have worked almost all the way off and with the cooling over my vacation it came completely loose.
Whatever - it's working fine now! But good thing I carried it in first thing this morning - the computer shop will be closed from now until January 12th. My computer friend is taking a vacation for a while.
Anyone ever heard of a "tilet"?
I'm transcribing a will by a woman whose husband died twenty years before she did in 1838. Apparently the only things she could leave were personal possessions. She leaves things like "counterpins" - probably counterpains or bed covers, watey or watery, a culglap, and a bred basket.
The thing that shows up most often is a tilet. She leaves one cousin a "pine table painted tilet" and a number of women one tilet each.
Does anyone here have any clue what any of the mystery items might be?
George Takei on MSNBC at 2 PM to talk about Trump's "plan"
I wish they would stop calling it his plan. It's not a plan - it is a bigoted throwback to the fascism that should be left in the past.
Looking forward to what George Takei has to say. It can't help but to be a note of sanity in these crazy political days.
Workplace killings - the origin of the phrase "going postal"
People here seem surprised that someone would kill so many of their fellow workers as if that had never been done before yesterday. The phrase "going postal" comes from a series of workplace killings by postal workers during the 1980s and 1990s:
On August 20, 1986, 14 employees were shot and killed and six wounded at the Edmond, Oklahoma, post office by Patrick Sherrill, a postman who then committed suicide with a shot to the forehead.
Ridgewood, New Jersey in 1991
A former United States postal worker, Joseph M. Harris, killed his former supervisor, Carol Ott, and killed her boyfriend, Cornelius Kasten Jr., at their home. The following morning, on October 10, 1991, Harris shot and killed two mail handlers, Joseph M. VanderPaauw, 59, of Prospect Park, N.J., and Donald McNaught, 63, of Pompton Lakes,
N.J. at the Ridgewood, New Jersey Post Office.
Royal Oak, Michigan in 1991
On November 14, 1991 in Royal Oak, Michigan, Thomas McIlvane killed five people, including himself, with a Ruger 10/22 rifle in Royal Oak's post office, after being fired from the Postal Service for "insubordination." He had been previously suspended for getting into altercations with postal customers on his route.
Double event in 1993
Two shootings took place on the same day, May 6, 1993, a few hours apart. At a post office in Dearborn, Michigan, Lawrence Jasion wounded three and killed one, and subsequently killed himself. In Dana Point, California, Mark Richard Hilbun killed his mother, then shot two postal workers dead.
Goleta, California, in 2006
Jennifer San Marco, a former postal employee, killed six postal employees before committing suicide with a handgun, on the evening of January 30, 2006, at a large postal processing facility in Goleta, California.
Police later also identified a seventh victim dead in a condominium complex in Goleta where San Marco once lived.
Baker City, Oregon, in 2006
Grant Gallaher, a letter carrier in Baker City, Oregon, pleaded guilty to the April 4, 2006 murder of his supervisor.[13] He reportedly brought his .357 Magnum revolver to the city post office with the intention of killing his postmaster. Arriving at the parking lot, he reportedly ran over his supervisor several times. Subsequently he went into the post office looking for his postmaster. Not finding the postmaster, he went back out to the parking lot and shot his supervisor several times at close range, ostensibly to make sure she was dead. He then reportedly fired several more bullets into the supervisor's car.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_postal#Notable_postal_shootings
Although "going postal" became the term for workplace killing: "Researchers have found that the homicide rates at postal facilities were lower than at other workplaces. In major industries, the highest rate of 2.1 homicides per 100,000 workers per year was in retail. The next highest rate of 1.66 was in public administration, which includes police officers. The homicide rate for postal workers was 1.48 per 100,000." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_postal#Analysis
This latest incident of American gun violence could NOT be terrorism. Farook and his wife could have been indulging in a family version of "going postal." The accouterments they selected - their outfits and the weapons - could just have been today's variation on a theme.
Wow - guest on CNN just labeled Trump's views as fascism!
On Ashleigh Banfield's show just now, guest Sally Kohn just detailed Trump's bigoted views and called them fascism. Then the discussion segued over into how what Trump says are lies. Banfield challenged Trump to put up a bounty for the first person to find the video of the "Muslims cheering in the streets of New Jersey."
Banfield was a news editor with MSNBC on 9/11/2001. She was on the streets reporting when the towers came down. She would have seen and would remember if there had been video of "Muslims cheering in the streets of New Jersey." She KNOWS there is not video and is calling Trump out on it.
As I typed this in the segment ended and Banfield again challenged Trump to put up a reward for anyone who could come up with the video Trump claims he saw.
No link - just now live on air.
Ion Sancho retiring as Leon County Supervisor of Elections
Ion Sancho, the historic Supervisor of Elections for Leon County, has held the office since 1988. Sancho has been a national advocate for fair and verifiable elections for his entire tenure and has often been in the news for his efforts.
Ion Sancho announced in June that he would not be running for re-election.
Tallahassee, FL - The Leon County Supervisor of Elections is retiring. Mark Early has filed to run for the Leon County Supervisor of Elections in 2016.
Early works in the elections office. He is currently the manager of voting systems of Leon County. He's the programmer for ballots and voting machines.
Supervisor of Elections Ion Sancho is endorsing {Mark} Early. He says Early is the one who ensures that everybody's vote has counted properly over the last 20 years.
Sancho says, "The technology required to manage a modern-day elections office is incredible. Quite frankly, Somebody with an engineering degree, somebody with experience and understanding to know when a vendor is filling them with hot air and when a vendor is telling the truth is necessary."http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/Leon-Co-Supervisor-of-Elections-Endorses-Candidate-to-Take-His-Place-307692931.html
After he endorsed one of his staff members, Mark Earley, as a candidate for supervisor of elections in the 2016 election, his position on the Canvassing Board was questioned - http://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/2015/06/16/sancho-endorsement-make-step-board/28827189/
Now a Democratic candidate, Alan Williams, has declared for the office - http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/Alan-Williams-to-Run-for-Leon-Co-Supervisor-of-Elections-330338421.html
While I have met Alan Williams and like him, I think I will go with Ion Sancho's endorsement for the office. Sancho's priority has always been to ensure verifiable elections and I doubt that he would endorse a candidate who would not have the same priority.
Kentucky - Hundreds turn out to rid mosque of graffiti
There are a lot of good people in Kentucky that want to get rid of the bad! Some good news to offset the Kim Davis types.
Allison Ross and Alton Strupp, astrupp@courier-journal.com 4 p.m. EDT September 18, 2015
Hundreds of people turned out Friday afternoon to clean up anti-Muslim graffiti left on the Louisville Islamic Center.
The center, 4007 River Road, was defaced this week by vandals who left slurs in red paint on the white walls. The graffiti included "Stop terrorism" and "Moslems — leave the Jews alone."
Instead of expressing anger, members of the mosque asked on Friday that the vandals come forward and help clean up the graffiti. They said they would welcome them and invite them to learn more about their religion and their mission.
Mayor Greg Fischer, speaking at the event, said, "There is a lot of extremism in the world today. But today I'm seeing a lot of extreme love and support and I love it."
More: http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2015/09/18/hundreds-turn-out-rid-mosque-graffiti/72388502/
Inspired by art, lightweight solar cells track the sun
Contact Katherine McAlpine, 734-763-4386, kmca@umich.edu
ANN ARBOR—Solar cells capture up to 40 percent more energy when they can track the sun across the sky, but conventional, motorized trackers are too heavy and bulky for pitched rooftops and vehicle surfaces.
Now, by borrowing from kirigami, the ancient Japanese art of paper cutting, researchers at the University of Michigan have developed solar cells that can have it both ways.
"The design takes what a large tracking solar panel does and condenses it into something that is essentially flat," said Aaron Lamoureux, a doctoral student in materials science and engineering and first author on the paper in Nature Communications.
Residential rooftops make up about 85 percent of solar panel installations in the U.S., according to a report from the Department of Energy, but these roofs would need significant reinforcing to support the weight of conventional sun-tracking systems.
More: http://ns.umich.edu/new/multimedia/videos/23109-inspired-by-art-lightweight-solar-cells-track-the-sun
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