The Vent and Rant Thread

[Rumpelteazer]

It looks like my Nexus 7 (2013) has decided to die.

Earlier tonight it spontaneously rebooted, I've had that happen before, usually when an update doesn't agree with the OS. However, after booting it refused to log into Google. A reboot sorted this.

Just now I wanted to watch a last YouTube video before going to sleep and half way through the video it rebooted again. Only this time it freezes on the Google logo.

I can switch it off by holding the power button long. I can also get into the start menu by holding the power button and the volume down button at the same time. By choosing either "recovery mode" or "start" the tablet freezes again on the Google logo and I don't want to mess with the "bootloader" option.

I bought it almost a year ago, on the 25th of March. So it should still be under warranty. I already emailed the seller to see what they suggest (they have better customer service than Asus). Hopefully it can be repaired, since they don't sell the Nexus 7 anymore.

For now I'll just put it on the charger and see what happens in the morning.

[covingtoncat73]

Stitch and PD! Thanks for the great suggestions. Check it out. Earl Grey. Hot.

Yeah, CR and KK, I am do disappointed in myself for getting back on the evil diet coke. I've been an addict of the stuff since the age of 13. I had gone off it but, when I got back on Weight Watchers, that went out the window. When I started creeping up from 1 20oz to 2 20oz a day, I knew I had to put the breaks on. Tea for me, now. I'm willing to take a tiny WW points hit for the real sugar in my tea to keep off the diet coke.

[kindlekitten]

I can't tolerate the taste of diet coke. I don't understand how you folks tolerate it. I was participating in a rodeo that was supposed to have beverages available behind the stock gates. One of the few times I didn't carry my own water. There was some sort of mix up and the ONLY thing available was diet coke. I figured I was thirsty enough to drink it. Wrong answer ranger. Took a big gulp and did a combo vomit/spit. I ended up taking the hose out of one of the stock tanks and drinking the supposed non potable water

[covingtoncat73]

I forced myself at first, KK. I was a slightly pudgy 13-yr-old who was spending the summer playing card games and such with my brother and the secretary's daughter in the kitchen of my mom's office. She and Grammy bought coke and diet coke for the agents to drink. Well, I started drinking the diet coke. They wondered where all the diet coke was going, lol.

[kindlekitten]

Diet sodas really became prevalent (I think) the second time I was in Germany. That tour started with me having a relative newborn, 1 month when we landed and an kindergarten student. It also marked my first interaction with a wives group which was a huge culture shock for me. For the first time I was in an environment where I had to fill a role, not only as a soldier but as the wife of a soldier. It became awkward often.

Anyway. ... I was going to the commissary, parties and barbecues with these women. I watched them hand over cans of diet soda more often than not because; " they won't get fat". I even watched mothers putting diet soda in baby bottles. I can't begin to convey how appalled I was.

At some point and I really can't remember when or how, whether it was a class or my own private reading, I learned fairly simultaneously that margarine aND diet sodas. Were so toxic

Anyway, off of soapbox

[WT Sharpe]

After two months in Richmond, I came home yesterday to take care of taxes and other business and discovered that after sitting idle all that time my PC wouldn't boot up. Oh well. Back to the shop we go. So much for my plans of getting everything done and getting back to Richmond in a week.

[kindlekitten]

How's your daughter?

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

Diet sodas really became prevalent (I think) the second time I was in Germany. That tour started with me having a relative newborn, 1 month when we landed and an kindergarten student. It also marked my first interaction with a wives group which was a huge culture shock for me. For the first time I was in an environment where I had to fill a role, not only as a soldier but as the wife of a soldier. It became awkward often.

Anyway. ... I was going to the commissary, parties and barbecues with these women. I watched them hand over cans of diet soda more often than not because; " they won't get fat". I even watched mothers putting diet soda in baby bottles. I can't begin to convey how appalled I was.

At some point and I really can't remember when or how, whether it was a class or my own private reading, I learned fairly simultaneously that margarine aND diet sodas. Were so toxic

Anyway, off of soapbox

I never developed a taste for any soda, although I still occasionally would like a root beer, or a cream soda. I can't remember, literally, the last time I had a soda. This isn't because of any particular reason, although, here's my story:

When I was about 5, we'd gone to Miami or thereabouts. I may have been younger, and it's even possible we were in Cuba at the time, as I was with my grandparents, who dragged me around the world as they traveled. (No, I don't really remember why; I seem to have been foisted upon them often.) Anyway, I have a clear recollection of this: a worker had been painting the pier (with waterproof paint, obviously). His hands and face were covered with paint. He had been bent over a bucket of water, and the paint wasn't coming off. His working companion returned, carrying several bottles (back then, bottles) of Coke.

Whereupon the friend opened the sodas...and washed their hands with it. The paint came off like it was wet chalk. I remember being pretty astonished by it--I was a kid--and my grandfather watched it intently. I never saw another bottle of soda, of any kind, in their houses after that. Club Soda, Tonic, and as I said, the (very) occasional root beer or cream soda, that was it. If they were throwing a party, he'd get regular sodas in for the guests, but...I never developed a taste for them. (Plus, I don't care for carbonation, so I guess I was very lucky). My sister and brother both drink the crap like it's water.

Hitch

[cromag]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

After two months in Richmond, I came home yesterday to take care of taxes and other business and discovered that after sitting idle all that time my PC wouldn't boot up. Oh well. Back to the shop we go. So much for my plans of getting everything done and getting back to Richmond in a week.

Did you try giving it a smack on the side? That works for my 12 year old Lenovo (I already have a replacement standing by, just haven't gotten around to officially decommissioning the old one, yet.)

[eschwartz]

I don't drink coke either. I figure it is like cigarettes -- there is very little reason to get started, save peer pressure; it's bad for your body; and once you start it's difficult to stop.

[Hitch]

My customer service system, Desk (owned by Salesforce) has gone bats**t today. They've been open about it; but the short gist is that hundreds of emails have been duplicated. Not new ones, mind you, which would be easy to spot; but old, replied-to or handled emails have come up in the system, with today's date, as if they are new. HUNDREDS of them.

I get reminders, notifications, daily and individually (by the project, one per), from my production management system, about books that are in production. Things like "production materials due (from client)," or "client review of ePUB and MOBI due today." I already get ~50-100 of these every day, all of which have to be gone through, one-by-one, to be sure that we've already handled these in the project/production management system. Yes, it's duplicate work, to resolve something in one system and then do it again (double-check it, IOW) in a second, but you'd be amazed at how many little things that go sliding by, we catch that way. While I hate the tedium of it, the double-checking, with this many moving parts, is requisite.

But now...I have HUNDREDS of dupes, of the projects' various notifications, that were solved weeks ago. I'm going to be here past midnight trying to work my way through this. Desk said that "someone" would come help clean up dupes--it's their cock-up, after all--but apparently, they don't realize that we run on very tight schedules around here. I can't just ignore what are possibly 50 *real* updates that are currently lost admidst 200 dupes. OISH!!!



Hitch

[wodin]

Originally Posted by cromag

Did you try giving it a smack on the side? That works for my 12 year old Lenovo (I already have a replacement standing by, just haven't gotten around to officially decommissioning the old one, yet.)

In my former life as a PC tech, one of my most useful tools was a screwdriver handle (with shank and blade attached). The actual name of that tool was a thumper, you grab it by the handle (pointy end) and use the thumper part (round end) to thump on the PC in just the right spot with just the right force to get da buggah running.

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

Diet sodas really became prevalent (I think) the second time I was in Germany. That tour started with me having a relative newborn, 1 month when we landed and an kindergarten student. It also marked my first interaction with a wives group which was a huge culture shock for me. For the first time I was in an environment where I had to fill a role, not only as a soldier but as the wife of a soldier. It became awkward often.

Anyway. ... I was going to the commissary, parties and barbecues with these women. I watched them hand over cans of diet soda more often than not because; " they won't get fat". I even watched mothers putting diet soda in baby bottles. I can't begin to convey how appalled I was.

At some point and I really can't remember when or how, whether it was a class or my own private reading, I learned fairly simultaneously that margarine aND diet sodas. Were so toxic

Anyway, off of soapbox

In 1978 I did a tour as head of security for a strike location. A newspaper went on strike, and the company's insurance required them to have an inside security detail. US law forbids armed security inside a strike location, so we were only issued batons. It was a VERY tense situation... I'd start out with a bottle of Coke at breakfast to wire me up, then 20 minutes later when my blood sugar started to drop, I'd drink another bottle. After the 4th or 5th one, I'd have to drink two bottles just to get back up. By the end of my 12-hour shift, I'd have consumed 30-40 bottles of Coke. My hair was standing on end and lightning bolts were shooting out of my eyes.

The strike lasted 13 months.

That was about 35 years ago. I don't think I've drunk 5 bottles of Coca Cola since then.


Stitchawl

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by cromag

Did you try giving it a smack on the side? That works for my 12 year old Lenovo (I already have a replacement standing by, just haven't gotten around to officially decommissioning the old one, yet.)

Ha! I just may give that a try, if the Best Buy geeks can't do anything with it.

[cromag]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Ha! I just may give that a try, if the Best Buy geeks can't do anything with it.

I suspect that my hard drive heads occasionally get stuck in the "park" position. Basically the computer equivalent of "I've fallen and I can't get up." Just a good thump right after I push the power button does it for me. YMMV

Good luck!