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Monday, May 30, 2016

Memorial Day...

To All the Fallen, We Salute You...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB_QmSWVY7o

In Memory of Harambe...
Harambe 1999-2016

An Example of Bad Parenting...

If you'll hear in the video "Mommy" keeps saying that "Mommy's Right Here"...

The Question is, where were you when your child crawled into the exhibit? Now due to your inability to watch your child an Endangered Species just became extinct...

This is why Zoos are horrible for animals today...
 
"CLOSE DOWN ALL ZOOS AND LET THE ANIMALS BE FREE"

In Memory of Harambe and all the Species that were killed senselessly...
Harambe 1999-2016
RIP Big Guy...you're now free...and that's a fact!
 
 
Backlash over gorilla killing at US zoo...
 
You might not be able to fix stupid, but you could help in preventing it...
The best time to discuss this is before you have sex...not during the heat of the moment!
 
**UPDATE**
 
Michelle Gregg has come out on Social Media letting everyone know that her child is okay...
 
However, she failed to mention one little word...SORRY, sorry I caused this, sorry Harambe is no longer with us, sorry I took on too much responsibility and let this horrific episode happen in the first place...
 
There is a petition online that has over 80k signatures on it already coming to the defense of Harambe...
 
Michelle Gregg called this an accident as did a few others, but an accident is something you don't have control over, this could have been avoided and should not be confused with the 'noun' Accident...
 
We have found blame which is difficult enough to do in situations like this, but the hardest thing to do is to find forgiveness...
 
Deuteronomy 32:35
It is mine to avenge; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; their day of disaster is near and their doom rushes upon them...

Confucius:
"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves"
 
It is GOD's will now to decide and it is the Gregg's Choice on how they will honor Harambe and apologize to all people that were/are and will be affected by this horrific tragedy...
 
Michelle Gregg: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Saturday, May 28, 2016

Adblock Plus 1.1 for Internet Explorer...

Ad Block Plus for Internet Explorer 11 and Chrome for Windows 7, not recommended for Windows 8 and if you're still using Windows 8 or 8.1 we just have one question...WHY? Upgrade to 10, 8/8.1 w/ever is horrible...
https://adblockplus.org/

For IE just click on the Green Install for Internet Explorer button and run from it's location and follow prompts...

For Chrome just click on the Green Install for Chrome button and choose add extension...

**INSTALL TODAY, NOW, HURRY UP, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR...DONE YET**
 
Ad Block Plus works in Windows 10 Internet Explorer and Google Chrome...
 
Ad Block Plus for Microsoft Edge is only in Beta Form, so best not to use it if you're not a developer/tech, however, if you don't care try it out...
https://insider.windows.com/

Ad Block Plus is a Great Program because if we had to endure one more Taylor Swift ad we were going to puke :-O=

Fitbit Stock Update...

We're taking a special interest in this product for some reason, something that we see in its usefulness potential...

There has been a lot of talk about adding a bunch of apps to this product to improve it's earnings, but we think that would be the worst thing that can happen...

You have a phone or tablet to play your candy crush app on without destroying the integrity that this product brings to a World of chaos...

Snapchat is a company built upon chaos and built with the chaotic characters that care nothing about the product and it's ability to perform correctly...

Snapchat had two simple functions, take a picture and delete it, and to this day still does not have the ability to do so :-D yet the special interest groups don't care...

Which tells us that this program is destined to become the privacy violator app to compete with Russia's VK product...is a theory...

Chaos works and in a way it's good they have a place they can go and keep their chaotic minds working rather than on the streets with nothing to do but prowl...

"Idled Hands are the Devil's Workshop"
 
The one thing that you can learn from chaotic thinkers is that they keep their products simple, KIS, Keep it Simple...
 
This is exactly what Fitbit needs to focus on, keeping it simple, but simple can be complex...
 
We see this product being used in the Medical field that people can upload to their doctor to keep a running graph on their activities and monitor their status like an EKG chart...
 
This product needs to be able to be uploaded to any social media site to share their statistics with their friends...
 
We also see the product becoming "WaterProof" and being able to monitor a swimmers laps...
 
Their is currently a problem as one user points out:
 
"I bought my wife a Fitbit for Valentine’s Day and it has had several problems from the get-go — the time is often wrong, the tracker won’t update, etc. So, I’ve never given Fitbit stock much of a chance personally."
 
So you see you can't cater to the mindless souls of the app world that need something to do and sell, what you need to do is focus on what you currently have and improve upon it...
 
If Snapchat can do as well as it can with two functions of absolute nothing, think of what you can do with something of absolute...
 
Time to focus, time to hold a thought longer than 10 seconds and improve upon the infrastructure that grounds your product, or else your high rise will fall into a sinkhole and take you and everyone with it...and that's a fact!

sidenote: Facebook IPO came out at 38.00 a share and dropped to 18 and that's when we told everyone to buy, and what is it today...119.38...focus...

Quote for the Millennium...

''I know our city deserves it, our fans deserve it,'' James said. ''But that gives us no sense of entitlement. We've still got to go out and get it. We've still got to go out and prove ourselves.'' Lebron James

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

In The News...

Put a Fork in it, you're done...

The combined spinoff and merger, which will focus HP Enterprise more tightly on hardware sales, represents a doubling down by Chief Executive Meg Whitman on a breakup approach to the shifting landscape in contrast to the merger strategy taken by Dell Inc. and  EMC Corp...
http://www.wsj.com/articles/hp-enterprise-to-spin-off-merge-services-business-1464121433

The Rich get Richer and the Poor get Poorer...

Meg Whitman: HP will offshore 60% of the jobs in its 'essential' business unit

"Three or four years ago, I never would have thought we'd need to get to a 60% offshore mix," Whitman explained.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/meg-whitman-hp-offshore-60-224554906.html

Yet, she denied the rumors running rampant inside the company: that HP is hoping to sell the unit. She repeatedly called ES "essential" to the new HP Enterprise company she'll be running after November 1. She wants consulting to help HPE sell its software, cloud and hardware products.

"The new company is expected to generate $26 billion in revenue, and realize roughly $1 billion in cost synergies, within the first year. Many of those cost savings, however, will likely come from job cuts, said Trip Chowdhry, an analyst with Global Equities Research."

“Two bad assets does not make one good asset,” said Chowdhry.

"I have run large organizations. I know how to create jobs. I know how to focus. I know how to balance a budget. And, I think, a business perspective is a bit of what California needs right now." Meg Whitman
 
 Meg "Hatchet" Whitman has cut over 30,000 American Jobs to help increase "HER" profit earnings. The prospect is to cut another 20,000 jobs by end of year to improve her increases...

HP is going to be getting into more of a services model or in simpler terms a Phone Center...

How does this story go...oh yeah, have the shareholders buy as much stock as they can even if the price goes down, just keep telling them it will be a great buy you'll see, while the Top Execs sell of their shares and design an exit strategy for Meg Whitman to prepare her for her run at Governor of California...

7 years ago we saw that California would be in a lot of peril and that is obvious today and mother nature was a big factor that we saw in the demise of one of the most beautiful states in America.

There is another factor that destroyed California and only the "Native" residents and California advocates can tell you what the other factor was that has destroyed California and is very sad...

However, that's the type of economy that people like Meg Whitman look for to make money and that is exactly what she is coming to do...and that's a fact!

Sunday, May 22, 2016

Gateway Freezes when Installing Windows 7...

Gateway is a perfect company to make an example of to show what Bad Management looks like...

Gateway was out as fast as they were in and they had everything going for them...

Great Marketing, Great Techs, Response Ready and Friendly Tech Support, so how does such a good thing fail...

Companies stay small for three reasons:

1. They provide a service that no one else can do and the secret is never let out...
2. They refuse to grow and insist on keeping the one on one with their customers...
3. They make bad choices...

Gateway made bad choices by not entering into the Enterprise and Portable Market which took a multi billion dollar company and reduced it to mere pennies when they finally sold out to Acer...

One of the best purchases Acer probably ever made and still today you can download drivers for Gateway systems which is a God Send, when you have a system like the one we were working on...

sidenote: If Carly Fiorina could of taken a page out of that playbook, her Compaq purchase wouldn't have been such a failure ;-)

We are working on a Gateway DX4870 Tower and came across an interesting problem that we haven't dealt with in awhile which is the inability to boot from any device other than the original hard drive that it came with...

We wanted to restore to factory settings, but we needed to preserve the original drive for data reasons, so we tried to boot from our cloning software and it gave us the error: "Reboot and Select proper Boot Device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key"...

Then we decided to just load Windows 7 on the new drive and just upgrade to Windows 10, but it just kept freezing when trying to load the install...

We're glad it didn't work because it would have meant sacrificing a license for just an install problem which we weren't too motivated to do, but sometimes you gotta do whacha' gotta do...

We changed DVD drives, with no prevail, changed media, no luck and were about to just clone the drive on a Clone PC and call it a day, but this would require more labor, so we thought...

The problem had to be in BIOS, but we knew upgrading the BIOS wasn't the solution and that it had to be something else and finally we found it and it was so simple...

sidenote: Of course after a few hours of troubleshooting :-D

Like we've said before, some of the easiest solutions are staring at you right in the face, you just gotta look in the right places...

Solution: At boot up press the Delete Key to enter into BIOS and go to Authentication and Disable Secure Boot, now go to Boot Options and Enable "Launch CSM" (Compatibility Support Module), basically means Launch Legacy Software...

"Secure boot defines how platform firmware manages security certificates, validation of firmware, and a definition of the interface (protocol) between firmware and the operating system. Secure boot prevents “unauthorized” operating systems and software from loading during the startup process"

By Default the BIOS is set to UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) See Images below:

From what we read Secure Boot and UEFI was implemented with Windows 8...


Before:



After: 

 

...and that's all folks, Happy Computing and remember to Love the Process 'cause if you don't, you're in the wrong line of work...and that's a fact!

5hVnz Artist of the Month...

Jason Mraz - Song for a friend...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsC7nq7wIvk

Saturday, May 21, 2016

Hide Your Login Screen on Windows 10...

If you’re running an Insider Preview build (14328 onwards) you can actually remove these details via Settings...Actually? Literally? :-D
http://betanews.com/2016/05/20/how-to-hide-your-name-and-email-address-on-the-windows-10-lock-screen/

A Message to President Obama...

Mr. President, you've just recently asked to borrow 1.9 billion dollars to combat the Zika Virus and were turned down...

sidenote: Did you know that the bulk of viruses that are coming to the US are from immigrants? It's because the only health care system they know of consists of a saw blade and a bottle of booze and the booze is only for the lucky ones...

You then used the approach that all politicians use and that is the, what about the children campaign and/or the women campaign and a combination of the two, the women and their children campaign...

What about the Men Mr. President, politicians never seem to mention the men in any of their speeches, you know the men Mr. President, the people that built this country...

Now we know that the Women and Children have helped in shaping this World and deserve just as much credit as the men do, but that's not the point...

The point is Mr. President is that you promised to change the way our Country has been ran and that you wouldn't fail in doing so, but you didn't...

As a matter of fact you have created more problems for our country, lowered our credit rating status and have increased our national debt by almost 10 Trillion Dollars...

You have doubled the debt that Two Presidents before you created all on your own, doubled the debt by yourself Mr. President, and now you want to borrow 1.9 billion dollars...more...

You're what they call in the banking industry a "High Risk" because you have no collateral, a poor credit rating, and a poor history of paying back loans...

See Mr. President, the Citizens of America know how to put back in what they take out even if all they got is what they have on their backs...

The housing bubble is going to burst, they're giving loans on houses that are valued over three times what they're worth, Seattle is a perfect example of this...

The proposed health care plan you implemented has been a complete failure, high deductibles, high premiums, low returns for Private Insurance providers, a poor roll out, and worse yet, you implemented a taxation without representation...

We believed in you that you could change the way Government treated its citizens, but you didn't and have failed miserably...

Sure, you might be a nice guy to sit down with and talk with or play a round of golf with, but that's it...

You have nothing to be proud of and should be ashamed of what you have done to this country and should be discharged from office dishonorably...and that's a fact!
 
**UPDATE**
 
The lies continue with the Obama Administration about "Affordable Healthcare" and now United Health Group is pulling out of 36 states
 
UNH UnitedHealth 137.29 -1.90 -1.37% 4,475,066 +16.70%
 
"We'll have a better idea of what sort of premium inflation to expect later this summer, but it's sure looking as if we're on the precipice of the biggest jump in individual healthcare premiums in more than a decade"

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Stock Watch...

Fitbit Inc. (NYSE: FIT)

May 18, 6:27 PM EDT

14.13
▼ 0.04 (0.28%)
After Hours 14.15▲ 0.02 (0.14%)

What Was That...

Looks like someone else was paying attention in class, so what's your excuse McDonald's...

That classic architectural design redefined the fast food experience for generations to come. Today, Taco Bell announced a new line of restaurant designs that will do the same: with a nod to the future and a wink to the past...
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160517005704/en/Taco-Bell%E2%80%99s-Expansion-Anchored-Community-Feel

It's simple...McDonalds needs to change their Image by Redesigning Nostalgia to keep familiarity, but 'year' it up some...
http://5hvnzon.blogspot.com/2015/06/mcdonalds-blues.html

**UPDATE**

Just for S/G's we ate some of the Burger King Hot Dogs...They are kind of weird looking the way they form to the Bun itself, it's almost as if they were fused to the bun...

They tasted alright, but something happened, we bloated like a pig and come to find out, we're not the only person that bloated like a pig after eating the Hot Dogs from Burger King...

So you've got a little time to make things right Mcd's before BK figures out what went wrong with their Dogs...

Saturday, May 14, 2016

Spontaneity...

Recently we told you to go out and have some fun with phones and not to wait for Microsoft to figure out what they are doing with the Surface phone...

We however have been reluctant to because we truly do not like Android, and are not impressed with a company that uses a paint by number application to lay over the top of a Masterpiece...

Incidents of Android lockscreen malware...
https://threatpost.com/malware-laced-porn-apps-behind-wave-of-android-lockscreen-attacks/118099/

sidenote: #1 way to get malware on your system...PORNO...and that's a fact!

If Debian were to come out with a Phone we would instantly buy it, regardless if it came with features or not, because in our eyes Debian reflects what's truly inside...

Even though Microsoft is struggling with their niche right now, we applaud them for possessing ingenuity and trying something that no one else has...

If Intel doesn't have a solution for ARM architecture that means the solutions that are out there are placebos...

AMD bought 64bit technology from Intel in the early 90's because Intel wasn't producing any, but in the end AMD failed and Intel succeeded and now again we are at an impasse...

As much as we LOVE the Samsung Galaxy Edge phone it can't deliver a total solution with next generation software and next generation technology...

That is where Qualcomm and Google fail in our opinion and there is enough failure in the World w/out joining a business that promotes failure...

We would rather go with someone that exudes confidence, but lacks following due to not being the popular choice...

..."CAN YOU SMELL WHAT THE ROCK IS COOKIN" DDJ aka The Rock...

We don't see champion like character in these types of companies, but with Microsoft and Intel we do, because they have proven themselves time and time again...

Apple is popular because they did something that no one did and were told over and over they couldn't do it, but they did and proved the "Popular" crowd wrong...

Microsoft has more than two phones, they have 15 phones to choose from, with many price ranges to fit your budget....

The Galaxy Edge phone is 750.00 dollars and we were willing to pay that, but when they came out with a Buy one get one Free offer, we stopped, because that told us they were overpriced...

We were willing to sacrifice our values for the shiny object, and we're better than that...

If Microsoft/Samsung and Intel got together the World would be a better place...and that's a fact!

**UPDATE**

Thank you Samsung, you've proved us right again in our choice ;-)

The numbers speak for themselves. Apple says that 84 percent of its users are on iOS 9, its latest software release. By contrast, Android Marshmallow, which has been out since October, is only on 8 percent of Android devices...
http://gizmodo.com/can-google-fix-androids-biggest-problem-1778898877

Thanks Obama...

Well Obama did it again, and from behind closed doors and in a secret session has helped promote "HOME SCHOOLING" THANKS OBAMA!!!

Public Schools SUCK! Charter Schools SUCK! and have been on the decline since the 80's...

The last of the good teachers were from the 80's era, but even then they were becoming burned out and tired of the system...

Most of the teachers at the high school level were former college professors, so at least you had some real world experiences being taught in the classroom, but now all teachers care about is money money money and how much can I make...

Our high school was a new high school that was concerned more about ratings than education and pushed students through with the best GPA their conscious would allow just to get federal funding and accreditation...

Kids today don't even know how to pick their nose correctly let alone learning anything practical for the "Real World"...

Home Schooling isn't done with a Stay at home Mom, it's done with interactive software that challenges the child more at an earlier age when they are willing to learn...

This prepares their mind to be study ready when they reach the age of 12 and allows them the abilities needed to compete with the struggles that life throws at them...

It's dangerous for kids to be on the street anymore, the food in the cafeteria is disgusting, diseases run rampant from other children from poor living conditions...

The school yard playground equipment is old and not applicable to today's standards, just like the curriculum they teach there...

They keep raising taxes on people, but not their salaries, and the medium household income is 45,000 dollars a year...did you hear that defectors 45,000 thousand dollars a year!!

That may sound like a lot to a person that makes a dollar a week, but you have to take in consideration the cost of living or rather the inflated prices of cheap plastic crap...

Teachers can't reach every child in a classroom, regardless if they were paid a million dollars a year, it just won't happen...

Don't believe us? Take a look at Seattle Teachers, they are the highest paid teachers in Washington State, but have one of the lowest testing scores (Average Testing Scores 2015 55 out of 100)

Plus people that don't have kids don't want to pay for your kids, they're getting tired of people having kids they can't afford in the first place...

What kind of life can you provide a child if you can't even diaper the child...

...don't get us started...

Look, children are safer at home, they can have home monitoring systems to watch the children, the interactive software will be a One on One lesson that doesn't move forward or doesn't fall back in the learning potential of a child...

People learn at different paces, doesn't mean that one person is smarter than another, it's just the approach that is used in order to connect properly to their learning capabilities...

With an interactive software you can provide facial familiarity, and even for children we thought that it would be fun to have caricature teachers to keep them entertained...

Think about the time people can save by not having to schedule around school, the amount of work you can now get out of the employee by keeping them on a work schedule instead of a babysitting schedule...

People's productivity will increase, the child's education will be more in tune with today's standards, the reach a software can provide to more children in places that are impoverished and can't afford buildings and teachers salaries these days...

Is it a perfect solution that we see, of course not, will there be exceptions that the software can't provide that a facility can, or course, but even with that, the current model couldn't even hold a candle to the potential this solution has over them...

Affordable, safer, less taxing, less travel, less traffic gridlock, healthier, interactive, familiar, on and on and on...
http://5hvnzon.blogspot.com/search?q=here%27s+a+idea+education

Thanks Obama for pointing out to people that the education system of today Sucks...and that's a fact!

Windows 7 Updates are Slowwww...

We have noticed that updating windows 7 machines has become quite a chore lately...

We thought at first that our internet provider was throttling our downloads, but that didn't make sense because we could download and stream w/out issue...

We thought something was wrong with the router, we thought something was wrong with DNS, we thought we were imagining the whole thing :-D but we weren't...

We took to the net to see if anyone else was experiencing the same issue and found out that people are:
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3056789/windows-updates-slower.html

Is Microsoft "Forcing the Hand" are they trying to make people's lives so miserable with Windows 7 that they are "Forced" to update to Windows 10...

Look Everybody the Grass is so much greener over here with Windows 10, come and join us, it's freeeeeeeee...

It would make sense to us if they are using force tactics considering that they were updating computers to Windows 10 without the consent of the owner...

There's a word for that, hmmm, oh yeah A**HOLES!!!

Even the Surface Pro 4 is built on Intel which isn't ARM capable, just a 6th generation processor that are used in PC's, no technological marvel, so what's the hurry MS...

Computers are already running on 6th Gen processors, and running fine we might add, plus Windows 10 has a retro feel and emulates Windows 7, so what's the hurry MS...

MS is starting to act really weird, desperate in fact, which is an uneasy feeling that makes people feel uncomfortable...

MS you gotta chill, you gotta stop acting the like the freak in the van handing out free candy to kids, it's really weird behavior that your exhibiting...

Don't you know, haven't you heard, the best way to move a product is the softsell and the takeaway close...and that's a fact!

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

What was that...

Minivans Are the Future...The news that Google’s next self-driving car will be a modified Chrysler Pacifica hybrid has quickly elevated “minivan” from the punchlines of dad jokes to a totally serious solution for our transportation troubles...We know Google, we already know/knew...
http://5hvnzon.blogspot.com/2014/12/what-was-that.html

Sunday, May 1, 2016

Waterproof Phones Trade-off...

Samsung is marketing their Galaxy S7 and S7 edge as water resistant, but if you can dunk the phone into a pool of water we would say it's more waterproof than resistant...

If you noticed the Galaxy S5 it also mentions that it's water resistant, but we wouldn't recommend dunking that phone in a pool of water...

The trade-off with making a phone "Waterproof" means that it has to be completely sealed which means you can't access the battery easily...

The S5 back panel comes off very simply and the battery comes right out, so you can have two batteries, one charging and one in use at all time...

The S7 doesn't give you this advantage which make the phone unappealing...or does it...

We have a phone that the battery is not accessible, but our phone is going on almost 4 years and still charges and works, not as good as it did the day we bought it, but it still works...

However, this doesn't matter because think about how many phones have came out in 4 years and the improvements and features that have attracted users to upgrade...

It's the "YOU CAN'T" syndrome that makes people anxious to get to the battery, but by the time you'll need to get to your battery it'll be time to upgrade your phone...

Phone contracts are typically 2 years and we can attest to the fact that our battery worked perfect for 2 years, the only thing that hasn't worked perfect is Microsoft keeping up with the demand, even with having their own phone development team in their back pocket...

This is the exception to the rule of changing your phone for a better one with a software that you are familiar with, but if you remember, nobody cared before...

Nokia was just a phone with some games on it, Motorola Razr phone was just a phone with some games on it, but these phones weren't bought for the games or the OS, they were bought simply for aesthetics only...

If you think about it the battery is the least of your worries at this stage of the game, because batteries are lasting much longer nowadays and if you go any bigger with the battery for the phone you risk explosion or fire from your phone...

The batteries have evolved and more than likely with the SoC or SOC (System on Chip) technology and 5ghz modems being integrated into the phone you'll see portable external batteries...

This is just a theory of ours, but what isn't a theory is the chargers that are needed to charge your phone batteries...

The Apple charger is over 70.00 dollars WOW FOR A CHARGER?! Yep, this is the money on phones for the future...

The problem you're going to have in the future is that your battery is going to outlast your phone and charger...

The other problem is that if you do upgrade your phone in two years will the charger be adaptable to the replacement phone...more than likely not...

More than likely they'll be an exchange program for your phone and chargers to help you with the purchase of your new phone and new home/car/solar chargers...

If you don't have the money you'll need an 800 credit score rating in order to finance your new purchase because it will be well over 1,000 dollars just for one phone and two chargers...

Plus with Windows restructuring of it's Operating System, people will now have more choices in the market and it's currently already happening...

http://www.mediatek.com/ - http://nexdock.com/future/ - http://www.jide.com/remixos - http://getsuperbook.com/ - http://www.ubuntu.com/phone and the list goes on...

As usual, Microsoft has paved the way for companies to enter the market and have given them a bunch of disconnected users just looking for something to plug into...

The only difference this time is they have taught Google to do the same thing considering that the reason Remix OS-based products came about is because Google failed with it's Pixel C 2-in-1 product...

So you see, there is so much more going on than just being able to replace your battery, so if you were on the fence already, F*#K it, Jump off and have some fun, because you're not getting any younger...and that's a fact!