On Wednesday 14 November 2018 07:57:50 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > "escalate" the call. Paypal I think, runs on linux. > > You mean Android/Linux or GNU/Linux? > > In any case, this is like saying that Toyota uses diesel-powered > vehicules to ship its cars (and parts), so of course its vehicules > will also accept diesel. > > > Stefan Chuckle. But now here's practicality, and offtopic:
In 1978 I was the CE at a tv station Now long gone because the market wasn't big enough. But since I started out in broadcast engineering at KOTA, I worked for and with the engineer at TEPCO, who made the microwave gear that intercepted 1/4 of a watt from the cross-country network backbone at a site called waterdog someplace north of the Umcompaugraphy(sp?) plateau in CO, and sent it on south thru two more hops to get to KIVA-tv just south of Farmington NM. Needing to go fix something, I took the station owners '77 Bronco to our gas tradeout and filled the empty front tank up from the regular pump. Unknown to the station at the time, the tank truck driver had just filled the regular tank with super-diesel. I made it to about the corner west of town and had just turned north when I found the 303 was pinging like crazy on anything that resembled an upgrade, so I switched tanks, curing the ping in about a quarter mile. My trip was important, so I continued switching tanks, but stopped in Cortez and filled that tank up from the ethyl pump. After 30 more miles I was able to use a bit more throttle on the hills before switching tanks. I got to our site on North Mountain and found it dead, so had to go on north to the our first site, where I had to replace the transmitter klystron. By then I was looking at the gas gauge but took a chance and backed south, stopping at the Phillips Store at the bottom of north mountain where I again filled that tank with ethyl, and the other with regular, and I was able to use from the bigger tank all the way up north mountain with only an occasional ping. The rest of that trip was uneventful, but it proved that within reason, a year old ford bronco could be run on super-diesel. Back to regular it ran like a scalded cat because all the carbon deposits had been blasted away, leaving its innards quite clean till it got carboned up again. Now back to the regularly scheduled the argument about passwds, with some of the arguments for short ones blowing my mind, probably posted by windows users at home who have not yet been hacked. Your time is coming. My only encounter with paypal on the phone was rather nicely handled by the support person answering the phone. Several years ago now. Historically, I've had more problems with ebay when I'm playing visiting fireman 2k miles from my home machine and trying to buy a card for a $12,000 commercial player whose scsi card had died. Took 3 days of yelling at them before they would give me the sellers address to complete the sale, their software was not able to authenticate/pass me as the buyer because at that site, I was forced to use an xp machine locked down by a firewall they need in Northern CA right now. They weren't able to handle a familiar buyer useing a differrent machine 2000 miles away from his home machine. That call wound up being escalated 4 times before I got to someone who understood the problem, and gave me the sellers ebay address. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
