Ten Cats by Graham Harrop for November 11, 2015

To all my birthday wishers:Thank you so very much for your birthday greetings and birthday wishes yesterday – what a wonderful day you made for me! I’m happy to got to know you here at GoComics!Thank you, GoComics.com, for all the great people I have met here, and also thank you to Mr. Graham Harrop for your comic strip “Ten Cats” without you and your comic strip I would not have found such wonderful people!

Lily must be charging extra shrimp tails for Chesney.

Please note that at the end of yesterday’s TC posts, Alexikakos posted a link to extensive “how to post” instructions.

Eldo,Sometimes it’s hard to see thru the muck.

Do I look wise enough? Should I squeeze my eyes tighter?

Oh I got warm all right. I’m good at warm!

Witty? I’m kinda out of practice on that one, but I think it goes like this……..

Hey Lily, read this…

Paul and I are heading out to Remembrance Day ceremonies in a little over an hour. It is a saddening sign of the times that there will be rifle-toting police on rooftops monitoring the people there and patrolling the crowd.

@Rikki TaviLike Beth, I am a real person. Real friends – not so many, I have lost too many to cancer and one to congenital heart failure. Family – close members are Facebook friends. Facebook friends, like Ten Cats people, are most welcome. They are like pen pals. If anyone wants to be my facebook friend, post it here and I will put my facebook name up. Just be sure, when you send your request, to let me know your Ten Cats name. I promise I will not call and bug you if I post something on Facebook and you don’t respond right away, I know you all have lives too.

Chesney really put one over on Lily! Does he secretly want to be a nice kitty????

God Bless Our Veterans. God Bless the United States.

Here’s my experience with Windows 10 and what I found out after I bought my brand new HP Pavilion desktop. It came with windows 8.1, which I abhor, so I spent a day updating it and upgrading to Windows 10. Within a week it had crashed and had to be reset to Windows 8.1. I lost another day upgrading to Windows 10 (the crash was due to Kaspersky antivirus). I bought AVG antivirus. It took the AVG experts two days to get it to install! They found out that when you use the FREE upgrade from Windows 7 or 8 to Windows 10, your computer will NEVER update automatically again (you can look this glitch upon google) (you can run qwindows update manually if you remember to do so) and installing software of any kind will be a problem in the future. Windows 10 is OK, but buy a computer with it already installed!

My brother is a car mechanic. Another mechanic at his dealership had a car in for an oil change. When he lifted the hood, he found a long hair tabby kitten meowing. The customer had driven the car 10 miles to the dealership. He did not know the cat so the mechanic took the friendly kitten home with him to join his other cat.

How many veterans do we have on Ten Cats? I was Navy.

Brad is retired Navy.

Thanks to some help, I’m going to post the link to the video I a minute.

I don’t know if this is going to work. Usually a link is blue.

WATER WALL

Wow – I clicked on WATER and there it was. YAY.

New one (Windows 10 already in) has been great. A little learning curve from XP (which I dearly love), but now everything is smooth as glass. Just glad I have one that works. Been keeping it smokin’ looking up places to live. Nothing so far. Assessor was here yesterday. Didn’t say much about my area. If he has half a brain, he will realize that it isn’t habitable. We’ll have to see.

Chesney, I don’t care what the other nine cats say about you, you are wise and witty……..warm and a prince, I’m not sure about. Nice patriotic kitty pics. My husband was in the Navy.

Thanks, I just enjoy being active. Lol, I know. I’m 100% southern and down here it’s bean bag toss. However, my in-laws are northern and they were the ones who introduced me to cornhole so guess it just kind of stuck.

BIG palm.

I’ll add my twopenneth worth to the MS-DOS/Windows3.1/95/98/NT/2000/Me/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10 saga.

I’ve been messing about with computers since the days of the Sinclair ZX81 (1981), and there has always been an issue with upgrading to the latest Operating System (on PC’s) if the Hardware is over 12 months old. Apple Mac’s have slightly different issues regarding upgrading the iOS.

I have used (and messed about with) all the Windows OS’s except 8.1 and 10. I currently use Win7 having built a new PC to run it last year just before Win10 was released. This PC replaces an existing Win7 machine that was built when Win7 first came out. I made sure that the Hardware was Win10 compatible when I bought it and I will probably do a fresh install of Win10 at some point in the next 12 months. I will make sure that I can get the required Drivers for the installed Hardware before I do.

I wouldn’t upgrade to a newer version of Windows if the Hardware is over 12 months old (Win8 to Win8.1 is normally OK) and you have a limited amount of experience with fiddling with settings and playing with Drivers and the Registry, the sheer diversity of Hardware/Software out there is such that there is no way any Operating System will have all the permutations covered. Don’t forget there were major problems going from Dos6/Win3.1 to Win95, and also from Win98 to XP and XP to Win7.

My advice is to only move to a new OS, with new Hardware, and then not within the first six months of the OS’s release. A good rule of thumb is to wait until the first Service Pack has been issued, this will normally contain most of the known major issues fixes.

I liked XP, but I also really liked Win2000. Win2000 was built on the Windows NT engine, which was designed for business, so it HAD to work. XP was built on the Win2000 engine, and it was possible to strip away the ‘Bells & Whistles’ of XP and turn it back into Win2000. I built a lot of PC’s for friends with Win2000 on them :-) The stability of the core of XP is one of the reasons it lasted so long as a consumer product.

Microsoft and Apple want people to buy new machines when they bring out a new Operating System. I can see their point as they want to use software that runs on an improved architecture, and having to design it to also work with older Hardware/Software hamstrings the OS and causes ‘Bloat’. The trouble is most of us don’t want (or can afford) to spend a couple of thousand (£/$/€) every time Microsoft/Apple decide to bring out a new OS.

I’ll wade into the Win8 waters here. I have used Win8 on two types of devices, a conventional Laptop, and a Tablet. On the Laptop I hate it, but on the Tablet, I like it. Win8 was developed in the days when the Computing World was going ‘Touchscreen’ crazy. The guys and girls in the ‘Silicon Valley Bubble’ thought that it was the future and we would all dump our Desktops and go to Tablets, so Win8 was designed to work on Tablets with Touchscreens. So a bit like the way Websites get ‘Improved’ to work with Mobile Devices, things are ruined for conventional widescreen Desktops/Laptops. Sometimes a developer’s vision or ‘Improvements’, are either wide of the mark, or ignore a whole section of the market/users.

Apologies to all for the long post, I’ll post some cat pictures shortly!

Happy Remembrance Day to all. After last night’s storm it has turned into a beautiful day for the services.

My DH…Navy pilot (Pacific)

I’m trying to find the post by Alexikakos that some of you are talking about but have been unable to find it. Unless it was deleted, do any of you know for sure where it is? Thanks!

With apologies to all Veterans…….

Someone doesn’t look amused….

Oliver being artsy and photogenic

Even tho my computer guy isn’t really a cat person, he gets a kick out of the computer pics I send him. And he WILL be getting the ones just posted.

Eldo, that’s fantastic, can’t wait to try it.

Goat komix, ha ha.

That’s great, haha, my mind’s like that as well : )They are in the Cleveland area.

Aunt Bertha comes to visit earlier and earlier every year…..

Wow….I read some of the comments to Mark just now and we have made up our minds NOT to upgrade to 10!!!!). Thank all of you very much.

And…QOA….I’m still waiting (for the pictures of the new foster kittens.) Maybe they haven’t arrived yet?

@A_Tech: RE: ‘Hey Lily, read this’. Good golly, miss Molly but could that paw have a larger than life extra toe? My Oliver has 6 toes on his front paws but nothing like what I believe I am seeing. If that cat swatted you you’d STAY swatted! LOL

I meant @X-Tech. Sorry.

http://www.howtogeek.com/226100/the-windows-10-faq-everything-you-need-to-know/I hope this helps. There’s even a link on the page to get Solitaire back.

Really great pics today—-you guys make me smile ;-))))I probably won’t switch to Win 10 until MS stops supporting Win 7. I NEVER touched Win 8 in any of its variations.I was hoping that my picture (put up yesterday) would hold true and that Win 10 would be GOOD It may be as a clean install, but as an upgrade—-it’s very iffy.

All gave some, some gave all. Thank you veterans, here on TC and everywhere.

Actually, doing the download and upgrade on ice helps. There’s a heating problem on laptops, and I had to elevate my laptop and put some frozen blue ice packs under it with the fan blowing to circulate the cold air. With that setup it downloaded just fine and updates with annoying frequency (annoying because I’m shutting down for the night and I have to wait ‘cause it’s downloading and installing the updates). I like Win 10 a heck of a lot better than 8.1

Got another donation today.Woo Hoo!

On the subject of laptops does anyone have experience with chrome books? I’m considering getting a laptop but don’t know anyone with one to compare all options out there

Awesome pics today, I’ll be forwarding on a bunch of them to my friends :-)