November 25, 2012

Saten Lives

Although my brother's laptop works, it's big and clunky. The next plan was to get a netbook, but going through the newegg lists, I suddenly  realized that I didn't want to spend several hours removing cruft. The new plan is to use my HP Slate, and that's what I'm typing this on.

IE can magically lose everything you type, so I'm posting in pieces. Since the Slate is full Win7  with IE, I don't have any compatibility problems.

TV is just as bad as I remember it. There have been ads for something called XFINITY which seems to be about putting cameras in your house and makingg it so you can remotely control the heat and lights, through a web browser. A million boy hackers are rubbing their hands with glee.

I'm doing laps. Every hour or so I go out for a walk, or roll on my wheel chair. The chair is good exercise for my left arm and hand.

That's all for now. This was mainly to prove that I can post with Saten.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Daily Life at 10:22 AM | Comments (9) | Add Comment
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1 And I can post comments, too.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at November 25, 2012 10:42 AM (RXm0k)

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And then I wedged it. I turned it on, then off again before it finished booting. Next time I turned it on, "The last boot didn't succeed. Do you want me to delete and boot cold? please use arrow keys and enter to choose. "

This on a tablet. It needs a USB keyboard for about 10 seconds. There's one in my apartment, and I'll have to get my brother to fix it. Sheesh. I guess I'll keep his laptop, just for this.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at November 25, 2012 11:20 AM (RXm0k)

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And fixed. There is a tower in one of the offices which has a USB keyboard.

I see on ANN news that there's going to be a third season of Dog Days. Not too surprising, but welcome news nonetheless.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at November 25, 2012 01:19 PM (RXm0k)

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Betcha they call it: Dog Days"

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at November 25, 2012 01:20 PM (RXm0k)

5 Would that make it a second derivative?

Good news regarding the new DD season, though.

Posted by: Avatar_exADV at November 25, 2012 01:35 PM (GJQTS)

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I've been visiting here a lot to see what picture I'll get. I guess that works.

The Fire is not a totally satisfactory web browser. It's keyboard doesn't have an underscore, and if there's a comma, I cant find it. Saten's keyboard is complete, and it has a larger screen.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at November 25, 2012 01:58 PM (RXm0k)

7 Another problem with the Fire browser is that some sites won't scroll. You have to stop them before they're fully loaded. Which sites? Pixy's home page, and Ace of Spades. I have no idea why.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at November 25, 2012 02:16 PM (RXm0k)

8 If the Fire's keyboard is anything like the stock Android keyboard, you long-press to get additional keys.  Long-pressing the period should get you the comma.
There should be a "shift" key as well to put you into numeric mode; from there, most of the common symbols are available.  You may also be able to long-press regular keys to get alternate keys/symbols.

Posted by: RickC at November 25, 2012 02:19 PM (WQ6Vb)

9 I looked more closely, and there's analmost imperceptible additional row of keys.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at November 25, 2012 05:40 PM (RXm0k)

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