Toy not with the Master—#2
Constant-readers of this blog, and apparently there are a few, know a couple months ago I upgraded the operating-system on this Apple (Gasp!) MacBook-Pro.
I upgraded from OS-X Snow-Leopard (10.06), the original operating-system on this machine as purchased, to OS-X El Capitan (10.11), a recent OS-X iteration.
My rig had been infected with adware, apparently from the Internet. That was under Snow-Leopard. Plus more recent versions of my Firefox browser wouldn’t run under Snow-Leopard. Firefox could not be upgraded.
I was told more recent OS-Xs were better at fending off malware. The adware made this machine bog-slow.
So “El-Cappy,” which allowed Firefox upgrades. (A more recent Firefox might better screen out malware.)
Things are slightly different under El-Cappy. Ways of doing things under Snow-Leopard crash under El-Cappy.
El-Cappy also does much faster on a quad-core ‘pyooter. This eight-year-old rig is only dual-core. That’s slowed things some, but I don’t need rocket-speed.
I use Quicken-Essentials to do my checks, and I don’t do many. I pay bills online through a bank bill-pay.
I guess Quicken-Essentials wasn’t very successful. But it was what was available when my ancient Quicken-2003 quit printing checks. Apple did an OS-X rewrite that secret ly killed my 2003 check-printing.
I have Quicken 2015 or 2016, but I don’t use it yet. I’d hafta set up check-printing — that’s an entire afternoon.
So now I’m getting hairballs with Quicken-Essentials. Apparently printing checks was a last-minute add-on to QE. Quicken’s motive was that checks were dead. Everything would be online.
Plus printing under El Cappy is spastic. So far no catastrophic failures, but I often hafta retry, then dump my first printer-send. “Wake up,” I say to my printer. Fire up “system preferences.” Dump and resend.
With Quicken-Essentials you only get one attempt — although there is a reprint, but amidst the madness I never got that far.
Plus printing checks is different under El Cappy. Under Snow-Leopard I had the option of multiple checks, like three checks on a single check-page.
I no longer have that. Only one check at a time. I lost the multiple-check option. And of course I had to observe that. In other words, “guile-and-cunning” was engaged.
Second hairball: What if communication from El Cappy to my printer fails? Occasionally it does.
I’d rather print a check than do it manually. Manual is always messy with a stroke-survivor.
Engage more guile-and-cunning. What if I do another check identical to the one that didn’t print. Maybe that will print. Then I can delete the one that didn’t print.
Never mess with guile-and-cunning. Toy not with the Master! Getting a successful print may take two or three tries; and that’s only one check at a time.
Better printed than manual with tons of mistakes.
• RE: “Apple (Gasp!)......” —I been told Apple is Of-the-Devil. Jesus uses a Windoze PC.
• I had a stroke October 26th, 1993 from an undiagnosed heart-defect since repaired. I pretty much recovered. Just tiny detriments; I can pass for never having had a stroke.
I upgraded from OS-X Snow-Leopard (10.06), the original operating-system on this machine as purchased, to OS-X El Capitan (10.11), a recent OS-X iteration.
My rig had been infected with adware, apparently from the Internet. That was under Snow-Leopard. Plus more recent versions of my Firefox browser wouldn’t run under Snow-Leopard. Firefox could not be upgraded.
I was told more recent OS-Xs were better at fending off malware. The adware made this machine bog-slow.
So “El-Cappy,” which allowed Firefox upgrades. (A more recent Firefox might better screen out malware.)
Things are slightly different under El-Cappy. Ways of doing things under Snow-Leopard crash under El-Cappy.
El-Cappy also does much faster on a quad-core ‘pyooter. This eight-year-old rig is only dual-core. That’s slowed things some, but I don’t need rocket-speed.
I use Quicken-Essentials to do my checks, and I don’t do many. I pay bills online through a bank bill-pay.
I guess Quicken-Essentials wasn’t very successful. But it was what was available when my ancient Quicken-2003 quit printing checks. Apple did an OS-X rewrite that secret ly killed my 2003 check-printing.
I have Quicken 2015 or 2016, but I don’t use it yet. I’d hafta set up check-printing — that’s an entire afternoon.
So now I’m getting hairballs with Quicken-Essentials. Apparently printing checks was a last-minute add-on to QE. Quicken’s motive was that checks were dead. Everything would be online.
Plus printing under El Cappy is spastic. So far no catastrophic failures, but I often hafta retry, then dump my first printer-send. “Wake up,” I say to my printer. Fire up “system preferences.” Dump and resend.
With Quicken-Essentials you only get one attempt — although there is a reprint, but amidst the madness I never got that far.
Plus printing checks is different under El Cappy. Under Snow-Leopard I had the option of multiple checks, like three checks on a single check-page.
I no longer have that. Only one check at a time. I lost the multiple-check option. And of course I had to observe that. In other words, “guile-and-cunning” was engaged.
Second hairball: What if communication from El Cappy to my printer fails? Occasionally it does.
I’d rather print a check than do it manually. Manual is always messy with a stroke-survivor.
Engage more guile-and-cunning. What if I do another check identical to the one that didn’t print. Maybe that will print. Then I can delete the one that didn’t print.
Never mess with guile-and-cunning. Toy not with the Master! Getting a successful print may take two or three tries; and that’s only one check at a time.
Better printed than manual with tons of mistakes.
• RE: “Apple (Gasp!)......” —I been told Apple is Of-the-Devil. Jesus uses a Windoze PC.
• I had a stroke October 26th, 1993 from an undiagnosed heart-defect since repaired. I pretty much recovered. Just tiny detriments; I can pass for never having had a stroke.
Labels: 'pyooter ruminations, Guile and cunning
posted by BobbaLew at 3:15 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home