50K Dead - Damn!

The death toll in both Turkey & Syria has reached 50 thousand. According to an article at Reuters, there were over 160 thousand buildings that were destroyed and 520,000 apartments. Some arrests, less than 200, have been made to date of people suspected in some way of being responsible for the structural collapses. (More at the source.) I think it will be a miracle if the death toll does not at least double with that many apartments involved.

 

If folks had heard trumpets before the quake, many would be preparing for the Apocalypse or swearing it was here already. As it is, the Apocalypse commencing or purely a destructive force of Nature, of course, it is terrible nonetheless. 

 

I do not do this often but as I did in my previous post on this quake, I urge folks to be charitable toward earthquake relief for this one.

All the best,

Glenn B

Just Made The Switch...

 ...to Windows 11. I hope that was not a mistake. There were a few minor things different that I noticed right away once I signed onto it, such as the Task Bar being centered at the bottom of the screen and there were some icons on it that I felt absolutely, positively, definitely had to be removed that MS added to it. That all took me a few minutes to figure out how to adjust or remove and now at least the Desktop is to my liking more or less.

I was not going to change over but yesterday my Norton VPN stopped working on Windows 10 for some reason. I tried a lot of things to get it to work again such as removing & reloading it, removing & reloading the entire Norton installation, restoring the system files & settings (actually trying that three time because it never took, and then finally installing Windows 11. Now that it's done, the upgrade to Windows 11 seems to have fixed what issue was at play with my Norton VPN. 

 

What I guess was nice, as opposed to an old Windows upgrade I got on another laptop years ago, this one upgraded from Windows 10 Pro to Windows 11 Pro. That other time, it went from Windows Pro to the regular version of the model of Windows. I guess Microsoft just decided to screw people made an unintended error back then. Now at least, I have the Pro version (for whatever difference I wanted it for in the first place - which I cannot think of right now but I recall I wanted the Pro version when I bought this machine).

 

I hope they have all of the glitches out or at least all the known ones to date. The download and info I saw on it did not say if it was a beta version so I guess it is the finished product, that is until they change it.

 

All the best,

Glenn B