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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

bjacks12 said:
For sure. Although there is something to be said for working with a Trial Balance in Excel. For those clients who don't use QB, and for whom we don't bookkeeping, Excel is arguably the quickest and easiest solution. I just take their tallies and plug it all in to the template I made and it works real good. Quicker and easier to make an adjustment than QB.
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Anything template-based makes perfect sense. I'm just not a Microsoft fan. LW
 
Libre Office does Excel formats. It's also open source and free if that's the problem.

It doesn't seem to do QuattroPro but does do Lotus.
 
mikedt said:
We use a ledger and abacus.
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We knew an elderly Chinese man named Mr. Kee. I attended grade school with his great-grandson. He still used an abacus.

He would ask my father and my grandfather what the day's 'hot tip' was out of 'Suffering Downs' - or, the dogs at Wonderland - he was quite a character, and that abacus was always around :) LW
 
Couples who talk almost as if they're the same person sometimes, with the same likes & dislikes. While out today with my friends, one of my friends said "oh, we don't like <blah blah blah>" - as if she & her husband have the exact same tastes. My parents do this too & it drives me crazy - my mom talks about shows they watch on TV "oh, we like <something like "Once Upon A Time"> and I think to myself... yeah, sure, I bet Dad really loves that show. :p
 
Most of the stuff we watch is by mutual consent. We both like a lot of PBS, and MLB.
Those can use the generic statement. I've got him reading science fiction, and he's read a lot of my books on the geology of Moab, UT.

Anything else, it's separate. I dislike movies, sitcoms and general TV. If the Vulcan wants to watch any of those, I leave the room. I have DVD players in my areas of the house and a collection of World Series DVDs or stuff I recorded just for background noise.

Comes to the computer - he's got his own. He has a FB account on his own, I have mine. Neither one of us uses our real names. I only post to kid's account, he does what he pleases. He has his own phone, I have mine. I don't care who he talks to or why.
I'm the account holder so I could check, but I don't.
 
The worst is hanging out with those couples who argue constantly. You can't have a good time because it always gets ruined by some stupid fight. Just do yourselves and everyone else a favor and break up already! Though I do think that some people are only happy with constant drama and conflict. I try to avoid those people.
 
Gmash said:
The worst is hanging out with those couples who argue constantly. You can't have a good time because it always gets ruined by some stupid fight. Just do yourselves and everyone else a favor and break up already! Though I do think that some people are only happy with constant drama and conflict. I try to avoid those people.
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Those people are easily identifiable by the number of inspirational quote pictures that they share on Facebook, taking extra care of course, to let you know that they have risen above the drama that others bring into their lives.
 
My best friend while growing up explained to me why his parents constantly bickered. He said he mother bitched all of the time because his father drank and his father drank all of the time because he mother bitched. :)
 
My lady and I have complete trust in our relationship. She has a list of every username I use for email, as well as passwords - in case I get an email notification when she's carrying the smartphone - she actually emails the senders back for me - like when I'm seeing my shrink, et cetera. I do the same for her.

The only account I avoid that she has is Facebook, because I like Facebook as much as I equate pleasure with pain.

When my musical popularity grows, then, I will be all ears and eyes to get the help of smart social networking - meanwhile, there's my YouTube link - LW
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCkl6GYDXaLa2DIXlN5Reo5w
 
LOveWerks said:
zuben, I think you may be referring to those Burroughs devices called "adding machines"...

Ka-clang ka-clang (twelve times or more, depending upon how many figures were entered) - then, the total finally prints out in red... my parents had one when I was a kid back in the '60s - LW
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No, a bookkeeping machine actually could post to accounts, maintain all debits and credits, and produce a statement for mailing.
http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Burroughs/Burroughs.E1400.1966.102646238.pdf
 
My mom had a machine that did that; my father had an Addressograph machine that made metal stamps that resided on a huge roller that printed invoices, and from a UniVac - style computing system, it would keep track of inventory (in this case, treated mops, rugs, and Drackett-packaged janitorial supplies), schedule pickup and delivery from clients, and it was one of my summer jobs - basically being a keypunch operator, organizing
the first-printed documents (a paper
database) that had the customers ID number and addresses, et cetera.

Our Norton just ran out - anyone out there have any recommendations, since there's no money until the third of April, and this PC laptop running 8.1 needs an antivirus desperately...


Thanks in advance - LW
 
My laptop is already back from ASUS. Haven't had a chance to fire it up, but the repair sheet says all they did was reload the OS.

So let's get this straight. I have an $800 laptop that has an apparent hard drive failure causing constant BSOD errors(every 10-15 minutes).....I reinstall windows 4 times, the problem is not solved. I contact Asus and get an RMA and have to pay $45 to ship it to their facility in Silicon Valley. They took it in, looked at it, reinstalled windows, and sent it back. I have very little faith that this fixed the problem(they shipped it back out the same day they received it) because I don't think they had time to even observe it.
 
Trial NOD32 or ESET. (Goes by both names)

Usually one of the top performers in AV. Has a website that deals with security - Wilders.

I have a local reseller. Can call and get help with a lot of problems. They can even deal with the Vulcan.

AVAST and AVIRA have free versions. Avast toots its own horn.
 
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