If you really care about your blood pressure, then buy a decent modern computer
and get proper connectivity at home.
Cheers,
Nathan
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> On 04 Mar 2017, at 03:08, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> A really good friend of mine was driving home Thursday with her husband
> and felt funny. Sort of disoriented, slightly dizzy, etc. They got home and
> measured her blood pressure (BP) at 180/100. I thought it was dehydration.
> Then she said she had trouble touching her nose with her left arm. That
> sounded like a stroke. They were going to just monitor her BP, but the next
> text message came from an urgent care clinic that he hurried her off to when
> the BP approached 200/120. She should have exploded, and was terribly
> frightened, more than I've ever known her to be.
>
> She saw her regular doctor the next morning, and he gave her some BP
> medication while the lab work is being done, which takes a couple of weeks.
> So, we won't know what this is for a while.
>
> That's scary, and the high potential for stress-induced coronary problems
> was the overlying reason why I retired early. I'm constantly keeping aware
> of things that get my BP up, and computers has been a serious one of late.
>
> This Linux stuff is driving me up the wall. I was trying all day to take
> care of some Paypal stuff all day but could not get connected to evilBay with
> Linux on the coffee shop wifi, but I could connect with WinXP at home.
> Trouble is that they are so slow with their new payment pages (mostly waiting
> for third party graphics) that their server times out. I first thought it
> was the usual evilBay dysfunction, then possibly a server/router problem in
> Loas Angeles. But then I happened to notice that the URL window on the Linux
> machine just said blank, whereas it should have shown the URL it was trying
> to reach. So, I brought the WinXP laptop to the coffee shop, and everything
> worked fine.
>
> Seems my wonderful virus-free Linux machine has a code in it's node. And
> it appears that my two preferred antivirus vendors, AVG and Avast, no longer
> have a Linux .deb version, nor does anyone else seem to have a free version.
> Yet another Linux promise broken. So it's true: You do in fact get what you
> pay for.
>
> So, much to my disappointment I will go on a determined hunt for a Win7
> installation package. The Linux DVDs are destined for the box with all the
> stuff that needs to be incinerated. Three weeks wasted. To paraphrase Chief
> Joseph: "I will fight Linux no more forever."
>
> Chris
>
> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
> - Hunter S. Thompson
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