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Assorted Clash-es
Apr. 22nd, 2021 09:25 pm♫I fought the tech, and the, tech.... lost?!?♫
A couple of such moments today. I had to reboot this old beast sometime yesterday, which led to a browser crash, which led to various sites logging me out. Most of them just needed a re-login, a few with the old two-factor bit, but the local fishwrap refused to do it last night. Like many these days, it went from a single login-password screen to one with login on the first and password on a separate one. Password managers do not play nice with these, which I get, but even attempts to tell it "I forgot" or "I want a new one" got me nowhere- and their paywall was keeping me out.
I wrote an email. It was not a happy one.\
I had a browser crash and your site is asking me to subscribe. When I click login, instead of it being the previous screen with my login and password saved, it has switched to only asking for a login. The next screen does not prompt for a password but asks me to set up an account. I have an account. It does not accept the existing password. It does not accept a browser-generated secure password. It does not accept any variation on the above.
I also seriously resent getting "flash sale" promos for less money for a year than I pay you each month.
Fix this.
I never got an answer, but when I tried another article this morning, the single-screen login page was back, and I got back in. At least until the next damn crash:P
The rest of the day was at my desk, an improvement over the original plan for a day on the road. There just wasn't enough to do to justify wasting 2-3 hours of my time staring at mile markers. Among the things I determined to fix in that time was a tech problem that's been plaguing me for months. Which brings us to today's episode of
After going on a year and a half, I have FINALLY succeeded in getting a stupidass Xerox all-in-one unit to scan documents directly to this computer. I've been sneakernetting using a USB stick since Day One. The Big Red X was utterly unhelpful in this process, which requires keying in IP and port values in a remote entry screen as opposed to O LOOK A SCANNER U WANT I ACCEPT INPUT FROM IT like every other fucking printer in our home and my offices does. Their manual was gobbledygook, there were no online videos, and when I called for actual support about it a few weeks ago, I was told since it had just gone out of warranty, it would be billable for someone to tell me how to set up my own printer.
Finally today, I found step-by-step in a deep dive to a Toner Tower support forum. The solution to the mystery was that when I configured this laptop with the office wifi, I didn't make it shareable on the wifi network. Now it is. Soon as I did THAT, the scans magically flew through the air into the scans folder.
Bite me, Chester Carlson.
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The other significance to The Only Band That Matters was in rewatching the pilot of The Nevers tonight, Joss Whedon's latest kickass-woman creation. We got more than halfway through it earlier in the week, with me missing a ton of what was going on. An AVClub review suggested I'd just not seen a bunch of things, which Eleanor confirmed she hadn't seen, either. Well- turns out there's a reason for that. All's I'm saying is, stay with the episode. Much gets cleared up as you go, and watching twice isn't a bad idea, either.
The HBO Max installment ends, as Mare of Easttown did earlier in the week, with a preview of upcoming episodes and a brief making-of about the initial one. It's the former of them that brings the Clash into the picture- in a very well done way.
Watch. Listen. Be Touched.
A couple of such moments today. I had to reboot this old beast sometime yesterday, which led to a browser crash, which led to various sites logging me out. Most of them just needed a re-login, a few with the old two-factor bit, but the local fishwrap refused to do it last night. Like many these days, it went from a single login-password screen to one with login on the first and password on a separate one. Password managers do not play nice with these, which I get, but even attempts to tell it "I forgot" or "I want a new one" got me nowhere- and their paywall was keeping me out.
I wrote an email. It was not a happy one.\
I had a browser crash and your site is asking me to subscribe. When I click login, instead of it being the previous screen with my login and password saved, it has switched to only asking for a login. The next screen does not prompt for a password but asks me to set up an account. I have an account. It does not accept the existing password. It does not accept a browser-generated secure password. It does not accept any variation on the above.
I also seriously resent getting "flash sale" promos for less money for a year than I pay you each month.
Fix this.
I never got an answer, but when I tried another article this morning, the single-screen login page was back, and I got back in. At least until the next damn crash:P
The rest of the day was at my desk, an improvement over the original plan for a day on the road. There just wasn't enough to do to justify wasting 2-3 hours of my time staring at mile markers. Among the things I determined to fix in that time was a tech problem that's been plaguing me for months. Which brings us to today's episode of
After going on a year and a half, I have FINALLY succeeded in getting a stupidass Xerox all-in-one unit to scan documents directly to this computer. I've been sneakernetting using a USB stick since Day One. The Big Red X was utterly unhelpful in this process, which requires keying in IP and port values in a remote entry screen as opposed to O LOOK A SCANNER U WANT I ACCEPT INPUT FROM IT like every other fucking printer in our home and my offices does. Their manual was gobbledygook, there were no online videos, and when I called for actual support about it a few weeks ago, I was told since it had just gone out of warranty, it would be billable for someone to tell me how to set up my own printer.
Finally today, I found step-by-step in a deep dive to a Toner Tower support forum. The solution to the mystery was that when I configured this laptop with the office wifi, I didn't make it shareable on the wifi network. Now it is. Soon as I did THAT, the scans magically flew through the air into the scans folder.
Bite me, Chester Carlson.
----
The other significance to The Only Band That Matters was in rewatching the pilot of The Nevers tonight, Joss Whedon's latest kickass-woman creation. We got more than halfway through it earlier in the week, with me missing a ton of what was going on. An AVClub review suggested I'd just not seen a bunch of things, which Eleanor confirmed she hadn't seen, either. Well- turns out there's a reason for that. All's I'm saying is, stay with the episode. Much gets cleared up as you go, and watching twice isn't a bad idea, either.
The HBO Max installment ends, as Mare of Easttown did earlier in the week, with a preview of upcoming episodes and a brief making-of about the initial one. It's the former of them that brings the Clash into the picture- in a very well done way.
Watch. Listen. Be Touched.