Welcome to the Lounge

Rage22-Jul-21 4:03

22-Jul-21 4:03

Chapter 1. Write a book called "Quick money for dummies and sell it to the mass"

pkfox22-Jul-21 4:21

pkfox

22-Jul-21 4:21

Do you mean reading or is ready a form of currency ? Big Grin | :-D

"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

Richard Andrew x6422-Jul-21 6:20

Richard Andrew x64

22-Jul-21 6:20

How about "Cliff Diving" by Hugo First? Have you read that one?

And then there's "Falling off the Ladder" by Eileen Dover.

The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.

Slow Eddie23-Jul-21 2:42

Slow Eddie

23-Jul-21 2:42

I just picked ou a copy of "Inside Outer Space" by Myles Long

I Should Listen Better

W∴ Balboos, GHB22-Jul-21 2:11

W∴ Balboos, GHB

22-Jul-21 2:11

When I talk to myself (or post).[^]

So I needed a new wireless mouse and bought a Lenovo from NewEgg. I figured they're a big company (Lenovo) with a reputation to uphold.

So, it arrives and I didn't put it to immediate use - but when I did I found two annoying things. One was how long it took to get a driver* (needed to download by Win7). OK - after quite a few minutes the driver was found and loaded. Turn on mouse: red led flickers on, then off. Motion sensitive? No, the damn piece of junk had, as usual, had not the least bit of QC. The on/off switch is the problem.

Even before opening it (a single screw) I observed the poor solder joint to one of the battery contacts (+). Considering what it costs, return shipping to replace with even more junk, I will eat this burn and have a very long memory of it (and will not, as with this email, hesitate to share my experience as a warning to others.

* This is my "dirty" PC - so if the driver's Chinese spyware they get nothing as I log into nothing on it.

Ravings en masse^
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

Ron Anders22-Jul-21 2:37

Ron Anders

22-Jul-21 2:37

Everything is Chinese junk today. Everything.

No company has a reputation to uphold they are all just trying not to perish first in the face of a dying market and wildly stiff competition to stay afloat. This problem extends beyond the lowly mouse all the way up to the automobile and household appliances.

Coders alone will not prop up the pc marketplace and make obsolete notion of quality come back. It's gone.

Mobile devices (more Chinese junk) have the day.

Daniel Pfeffer22-Jul-21 3:02

22-Jul-21 3:02

Unfortunately true. Sigh | :sigh:

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.

Gerry Schmitz22-Jul-21 5:07

Gerry Schmitz

22-Jul-21 5:07

"A big company with a reputation to uphold" and China ... Meaningful thought breaks down at this point.

It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food

Ron Anders22-Jul-21 6:32

Ron Anders

22-Jul-21 6:32

Just go buy a Logitech wireless mouse. that'll work (usually) Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

jmaida22-Jul-21 18:33

jmaida

22-Jul-21 18:33

Highly recommend the Logitech wireless keyboard K360 and mouse M215 pair.
Top quality.

Slow Eddie23-Jul-21 6:01

Slow Eddie

23-Jul-21 6:01

Everyone, including me, should listen better.

I second the guys that recommend Logitech. I have been using several on my different machines for years now. The only problem I have had was when I forget to change the batteries. OMG | :OMG:

As far as "Chinese Junk" I thought that was a kind of boat. Blush | :O

Look at all the great things China produces and have given the world, Like Covid!
I still believe it is a biological warfare tool that escaped the Lab. Mad | :mad:

Hats off to everyone that produce quality products. Cranky old men need to vent sometimes!

MS Money

Rage22-Jul-21 1:40

22-Jul-21 1:40

I have been using MS Money for personal accounting for longer than I can remember, and I was quite sad when MS stopped it as a product.
What would have been really, really great, is that they would put the legacy code in open source so that old farts like me could go on with the updates. I wonder whether it is worth asking for it.

yacCarsten22-Jul-21 1:51

yacCarsten

22-Jul-21 1:51

Was the same.

Check out KMyMoney[^].

Very similar and will easily port MS Money database.

~~// TODO: Insert something here~~
Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
1.

SeeSharp222-Jul-21 2:58

SeeSharp2

22-Jul-21 2:58

I second that. I also moved to it from MS Money.

obermd23-Jul-21 3:34

obermd

23-Jul-21 3:34

Which export format from MS Money? I have QIF and QIF Strict as my options?

SeeSharp226-Jul-21 1:24

SeeSharp2

26-Jul-21 1:24

I'm not sure. I'd try both or google what's different about them.

charlieg23-Jul-21 7:35

charlieg

23-Jul-21 7:35

Can KMyMoney download from banks?

Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...

"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759

yacCarsten23-Jul-21 14:53

yacCarsten

23-Jul-21 14:53

You can import transactions. It allows QIF, GnuCash, OFX and CSV formats. And something called "AqBanking importer" and "Account template" which I've never used and don't know what they are.

I'm pretty sure that I converted the MS Money database, but I don't remember how I did this (it was years ago).

~~// TODO: Insert something here~~
Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
1.

Daniel Pfeffer22-Jul-21 1:54

22-Jul-21 1:54

Not only have they stopped supporting it, the MS Money Sunset Edition appears to have been removed from their servers. Mad | :mad:

It's a good thing that I'm a packrat - I salted away a copy of the installation program many moons ago...

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.

Rage22-Jul-21 1:58

22-Jul-21 1:58

Indeed. I could not install this edition anyway because it only supports US language and money, so had to stop in 2015. Sigh | :sigh:

Daniel Pfeffer22-Jul-21 2:46

22-Jul-21 2:46

Well, you could have exported everything to QIC format and then re-imported it to the newer version. A bit late, now... $Shucks | :-\$

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.

Rage22-Jul-21 2:53

22-Jul-21 2:53

What I meant is that the latest version apparently does not support other currency than $$ and is only available in English.

Daniel Pfeffer22-Jul-21 3:05

22-Jul-21 3:05

Well, I use it with US Dollars and Israeli Shekels. I have to manually set the conversion rates, but everything appears to work OK for me.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.

obermd22-Jul-21 6:42

obermd

22-Jul-21 6:42

That and the patch that made it work on Windows 10 v1607.