Running Bear's June 2023 Coffee Shop

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bnsf971 said:
Good afternoon. I knew today wouldn't be complete without some major frustration.
I've been dealing with my previous state wanting $$$ for not having insurance on a car I no longer own, unless I can prove to them I no longer own it. Last month I sent the required documents certified mail, and they disappeared. So this time, I was told to fax the documents. My HP combo printer refused to fax, so I went to the closest UPS Store, and tried faxing everything using the fax number supplied to me by the DMV. The number has been disconnected.
So, after sitting in my car on hold for almost an hour, the person I finally spoke to told me to scan the documents and email them to an email address she provided. I then came home, and turned on the HP Print/Scan/Fax machine, and-- well, it refused to scan.First, it insisted on sending my documents to their cloud server, which would process them, and send them back to my computer as scanned documents. My documents would remain on their server. Against my better judgement, I agreed to this, as I really need those documents. So, I scanned everything, it was received by HP's server (probably in China), and--nothing. Sorry, we can't transmit those documents back to you because your connection isn't secure. After much cursing and gnashing of teeth, I gave up.
My new Canon printer will be here tomorrow, and I'll never buy another HP printing device again. And HP has all my identifying information on those documents, my name, address, date of birth, driver's license number, license plate number, and a copy of my signature. I would advise as strongly as possible for anybody to never use HP's scan service, for obvious reasons.
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Terry, I use Microsoft's cloud for everything, and I mean everything! It's easy and convenient for me. I figure I'm small potatoes, they got bigger fish to fry.

I know you see it differently.

They had your back against the wall. You did what most anyone would have done. I doubt anyone will read your documents. They are likely lost in space. Try not to worry about it. I know, easier said than done.

I wish you well.
 
bnsf971 said:
Good afternoon. I knew today wouldn't be complete without some major frustration.
I've been dealing with my previous state wanting $$$ for not having insurance on a car I no longer own, unless I can prove to them I no longer own it. Last month I sent the required documents certified mail, and they disappeared. So this time, I was told to fax the documents. My HP combo printer refused to fax, so I went to the closest UPS Store, and tried faxing everything using the fax number supplied to me by the DMV. The number has been disconnected.
So, after sitting in my car on hold for almost an hour, the person I finally spoke to told me to scan the documents and email them to an email address she provided. I then came home, and turned on the HP Print/Scan/Fax machine, and-- well, it refused to scan.First, it insisted on sending my documents to their cloud server, which would process them, and send them back to my computer as scanned documents. My documents would remain on their server. Against my better judgement, I agreed to this, as I really need those documents. So, I scanned everything, it was received by HP's server (probably in China), and--nothing. Sorry, we can't transmit those documents back to you because your connection isn't secure. After much cursing and gnashing of teeth, I gave up.
My new Canon printer will be here tomorrow, and I'll never buy another HP printing device again. And HP has all my identifying information on those documents, my name, address, date of birth, driver's license number, license plate number, and a copy of my signature. I would advise as strongly as possible for anybody to never use HP's scan service, for obvious reasons.
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Terry: I went through about the same as above with Maria's new HP thingie a year or so ago. No way any my stuff gets on anybodies cloud. You just can't trust them. Anyway, I went through the device menu's and did not find a way to turn 'cloud' stuff off. Maria *had* to create an account with HP for their widget on the PC, although I am not so sure that needed to be done. The end result was I pointed the cloud server's domain name to 127.0.0.1 ( localhost ) with my local DNS server. I think that because there was not a login/password transmitted, it would make it fail. Then it would 'scan to pdf' like it should have in the first place. Month or so later I stumbled on how to disable the cloud function; don't remember exactly how I did it just now. Every thing is working just great as far as I can tell.

Note that a couple of years ago I had this problem with IP camera's. They would call home and who knows what they were reporting/copying. I just blocked the China IP address at the firewall which took care of that. Also note that the IP's the camera's were sending to were 'hard coded' with no DNS lookups.

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I have an All-In-One HP Office Jet Pro 8300 series. I never noticed a cloud. I only use it to print color brochures, reports, and photos.
It could be connected to HP's cloud; I like the fact that they automatically send me ink. It must be connected to something.

I use my old reliable Brother DCP-7065DN All-In-One laser printer for everything else. It must be well over 10 years old. In all those years I've bought three toner refills. The ones with extra capacitary. It has printed tens of thousands of pages! Buying that was money well spent. It is probably too old to be connected to the cloud or not.

Clouds... I don't know. I really don't care.

If you can't trust Microsoft, HP, and Brother. Who can you trust? ;)

Not to mention my Samsung devices, oven, phones, and TVs. Or my Sony Play Stations, Blu-ray player and DVRs. Multiple Xbox and Nintendo devices.

God only knows what else. My internet tells me I have over two dozen devices connected!

I haven't the time to worry about it.
 
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Bruette said:
I have an All-In-One HP Office Jet Pro 8300 series. I never noticed a cloud. I only use it to print color brochures, reports, and photos.
It could be connected to HP's cloud; I like the fact that they automatically send me ink. It must be connected to something.

I use my old reliable Brother DCP-7065DN All-In-One laser printer for everything else. It must be well over 10 years old. In all those years I've bought three toner refills. The ones with extra capacitary. It has printed tens of thousands of pages! Buying that was money well spent. It is probably too old to be connected to the cloud or not.

Clouds... I don't know. I really don't care.

If you can't trust Microsoft, HP, and Brother. Who can you trust? ;)

Not to mention my Samsung devices, oven, phones, and TVs. Or my Sony Play Stations, Blu-ray player and DVRs. Multiple Xbox and Nintendo devices.

God only knows what else. My internet tells me I have over two dozen devices connected!

I haven't the time to worry about it.
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Ya, devices ... when the gkids stayed with us a couple of years ago, we had 40 devices connected to the wifi - that is besides 3 desktops and 2 buffalo's in the house via cat5. We won't even talk about what is in the Train Cave!

Now wifi has come down to 3 TV's ( Amazon dongles ), 3 printers, 3 cell's, Siri and Alexa and another I don't remember just now. Well, my laptop and tablet every once in awhile and Maria's Kindle.

My old reliable is a HP 2430dn which has gone through 2 fusers and on 2nd set of paper pick up rollers in over ten years. The color brother is almost 10 years old now and it pretty cheap with the toner.

It is not about trusting Micro$oft, HP or Brother, it is about trusting the worker bee's in the data centers. Thinking that you are small fish in a huge pond might not the right thing to do as if there is a breach, some computer grabs ALL of the stuff it can get and don't care about size.

And I forgot almost - New refer is wifi as is the new gas cook stove. When is it gonna end???

Later
 
troyphoto said:
Well, howdy there internet peeps

One thought on Terry's conundrum and feud with the Jersey thugs... er govt...

I remember several years (decades????) ago, here in Indiana, the Tweedles (Dumms and Dees) in the statehouse decided they weren't getting enough money from license/registration for autos... Seems too many people were "moving to Florida" for three or four months (guess which), but still spending most of their time in Indiana.

Seems the old farts were registering their cars in FLORIDA, and driving most of the year in Indiana, avoiding a tax.

Well, by gosh, the poly-tic-ans told the people that registration money went to fix the roads. (Mostly a lie, it ended up in the general budget, like the sales tax on gasoline does too)

So they enacted a law, as soooooo many other states did at the time, that if you live in the snowy state for X% of the year, your auto must be registered there, not in Florida.

I suspect that Terry's case is a residual of the push back then for the states to claw back their lost revenue. The base assumption is that if you leave, you really didn't. Especially if you show a Florida address.

this isn't an excuse, just the explanation of where the dumb-arsed legal situation probably arose.

To offset that, here's a funny from the book of faces:

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I do not drink beer, I cannot stand the overly yeasty smell, but I saw the picture and saw a beer…..so what problem
 
Good night, Everybody!
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Evening all,

Heavy rains with pea sized hail just moved through. I figure we got nearly an inch. I did get a chance to mow this morning and even got my new crown installed.
Just getting tired of not being able to take a day and not get a call.
I also am getting a bit tired of the IoT (Internet of Things) that's becoming more and more prevalent. Do we need to connect a toaster to the internet? We're looking at a new fridge and they seem to be a lot higher with wifi connection. I don't know where that "feature" keeps milk, eggs and ice cream any colder.
Part of the reason I stay with DC, too many years in IT.
 


kbkchooch said:
Don't forget when the trains aren't running, there is railfanning (of sorts) right up the street at Haven Place, Sherries Show bar and one other place IIRC at Haven & Lombard Streets! ( . )( . )
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I think the other place was the Spectrum. Wasn't there one called Tony's place or something like that?

I did not like those clubs. Too expensive for my cheap way of thinking. I was more of a $1/$2-dollar beer guy. Although I must admit in-between marriages, I spent many days/nights with some of those ladies who worked at those clubs on their days off. They were genuinely nice young ladies. Not what most would expect. No matter where you go, people are just people. I dated a few of them long enough to get to know them.

One of those beautiful young ladies, Kimberly, liked to come over to my place and play board games. She would bring Goldschläger. It was a schnapps with little gold flakes in it. I didn't much like it. She was always thoughtful enough to bring a six pack of beer for me. Her favorite game was battleship.

I did like the old Seagull Inn especially thirsty Thursday, quarter beer night! For those who are not familiar with the Seagull Inn it was a Heavy Metal Club on the East Coast circuit for bands trying to make a name for themselves. I saw Metalica, Twisted Sister, Kix and many more at the Seagull.

Willie, on Thursday you could get fifty cent Heineken on draft at the Seagull Inn. I would always pick the twenty-five cent Budweiser.

To be honest I never was much of a "bar guy" carry out is much cheaper! Now I have a fully stocked liquor cabinet, beer in the fridge and I seldom if ever drink. So far this year not even one shot or beer. I won't have a drink until I get my A1C below 7.
 
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Bruette said:
Good morning, Everybody!
We made it through another month, thank God!


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Now that woke me up;) a pair of "Virginians" on former Pennsy always corresponds to warm summer days for me. My first bicycle trip from Long Island to New Jersey was in early Summer and there was almost new Conrail C40-8 with SD40-2 parked on one of middle tracks with a long train on the Corridor. Train was waiting at Elizabeth to enter one of Newark yards and it was the middle of the day.
 
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