Re: Microsoft warns of blue screen crashes caused by April updates

On 19/04/2025 11:15 pm, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Daniel70 wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

On 19/04/2025 4:07 am, rbowman wrote:

On Fri, 18 Apr 2025 09:36:23 +0100, wasbit wrote:
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Much like car ownership. As long as it works there is no need to know
how. If/when it goes wrong take it to someone who does know to fix.

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That 'someone' has been me. Since I was a little kid taking stuff apart
I've wanted to know how stuff works.
>

I can recall (mid-60's, 10 years old or so) pulling apart Mum's Steam
Iron which had stopped working. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get it
functioning.
>
About six years later, I joined The Army, and did an Electronics
Apprenticeship!!

 When I was a teen I got some Social Security money from my father's SS.
Not sure why. It was about $230.
 In spite of my parents' dismay, I blew it all on a PAIA synthesizer kit
and the tools needed to assemble it. Clipping leads, soldering, learning
resistor color coding, testing without an oscilloscope... I had years of
fun with that thing.
 

"resistor color coding"!! Now there's a flash from the past .....
Black, Black
Boys, Brown
Rape, Red
Our, Orange
Young, Yellow
Girls, Green
Blessed, Blue
Virginity, Violet
Gone, Grey
West. White
The Mnemonic we used back then might not be P.C. today but it worked then!!
--
Daniel70