Computer Madness
Remember those psychological thriller movies where the devious husband would contrive to drive his wife crazy? He would create all kinds of situations and illusions to make sure his wife went mad and, therefore, would eventually be committed. With her out of the way, he would then be free to spend her fortune.
Now, diabolical spouses are no longer needed. The diabolical husband or wife has been replaced with the computer! In my case, I am definitely married to it.
You may remember I wrote a previous entry about the ways Microsoft was killing me with kindness. More recently, the Heaven Community Forum program has been out to get me.
Let me give you an idea of the extent of my computer’s wiles. In order for me and others to have one (1) posting appear, we have to submit our posting up to four (4) times! And sometimes, when I try again to post the message that did not appear, the computer gives me this message: “You cannot make another post so soon after your last; please try again in a short while."
Do you see what I mean?
And the computer provokes me further, for even its errors are not certain. Every once in a while, it will behave properly and act as though it has never done otherwise. Nothing is certain. Uncertainty is one of the tricks that my computer uses to throw me off-balance.
But this is not all.
A dear subscriber, user name Shy, posted a beautiful message on the forum recently. http://heavenletters.org/angelsplace/viewtopic.php?t=3708 She was shocked to see her same message going up not once, not twice, but thrice! Shy wondered what she had done wrong and wrote another posting entitled HELP, in which she asked me to please remove the two extra postings. I assured her that SHE had done nothing wrong, and I would take care of it.
I followed the deleting process carefully and cautiously, the way you’d go through a mine field.
As soon as I pressed an action key, came the message: “You can only delete your own postings." (That was a lie.)
I pressed the back arrow to get back and try again.
Immediately came the message: “The message you are looking for does not exist."
The computer won't delete and, in the same breath, it says the message isn't there when the messsage IS there. As if that isn't maddening enough, the computer stays calm and stoic through it all. Even when I finally succeed, I am twitchy.
I want you to know I have been nice to my computer. I gave it a good name. I gave it Adrachin for a first name because Adrachin is a computer whiz, and his computer never gives him a hard time. I gave my computer a friendly last name, Schatzi. Schatzi means sweetheart and should know to create harmony. After all, it should respect that I am a Godwriter.
What’s the name of your computer, and does it ever give you a hard time? And what do you do about it?
While I'm waiting for your answer, I think had better go read a Heavenletter.
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Dear Gloria,
I've had exactly the same problems as you, but I've learned to take it easy, because I know it will be fixed in the end. I've learned to ask help from the angels. You know there are angels for every single thing. They even fixed our water taps: In the bathroom there was hardly any water coming from the cold water tap, so I asked the angels for help, and the water is running smoothly now. In the kitchen the tap kept dripping, so I asked the angels again, but nothing happened. Then one day when my son closed the tap, and it just stopped dripping.
Now, before posting on the forum, if I'm in a hurry, I ask the angels to help me, and usually I just have to post it twice!
My computer (which is not only mine) doesn't have a name, but I do talk to it and thank it every time I've finished for the good job done. Maybe, one day, if I'll have a computer of my own, I'll call it my informatics angel or whatever it will want to be called.
Love,
Paula
:) Living and working much of my life in cyberspace, I have experienced the kinds of frustrations you have mentioned here and I know I'm just not ready to name my computer yet. I think it likely that in naming your computer you opened a relationship (read Pandora's Box) that is just finishing you -- finishing in the sense that it's a finishing school. At some point human relationships become fairly simple when we consciously live in God, so we have computers to finish the lessons of patience, tenacity, forgiveness, appreciation, unconditional love, gratitude and all that stuff we thought we had pretty much sorted out. Computers are here to let us know that we will never arrive but that given the above traits we can certainly enjoy the journey.
I must add that my computer has saved me from submitting some really disastrous postings and adding a bunch of crap to my site. When there are problems getting something posted I just let it be after the second or third try. I have learned that no matter how fervently I feel about my input, sometimes -- lots of times actually -- computer knows best. Perhaps Shy's posting was so good it deserved to be read three times so the computer just made that adjustment. Perhaps it is best not to rush in to delete what is :).
wonderful answers
dear Gloria...
hihi
sometimes even schatzis are able to make us a bit crazy
and sometimes even an Adrachin is laughing with his computer because of the crazy things it does with him...
it was kind of this yesterday
his computer made us laugh more and more hours
from our deepest heart....
very personal lesson....
may be you laugh with him...
so stay all in living laughing love
veroniKA
ahh Trish
yes I believe so, too
sometimes our dear one is wiser than we...
lovelaugh
veroniKA
OOOOOOHHHHH! On some days the name I give my computer would not be suitable to post on the Godwriting blog!!!
As A computer Dummy as soon as P.C. plays up I ask my grandson to fix it. And when due to school, being away,or inconvenient time I just shut P.C. down and give Mieke a hug and forget what I was doing on the P,C. Some of the comments I make do not go through, so what? I still breath and the world stil goes around I think Love you all Jack
I know EXACTELY what you mean dear !!!!!
I can only tell you that I do the same as mentioned by
Paula, I ask a specific angel to support me. do this for many other things like, i.e. an angel expert in meccanics when my car behaves strange and I just want to reach the meccanic savely.
I leave postings on the forum to them, if it's ok somehow the posting will go through, if not may be it
was not meant or it is better not.
just .... BE HAPPY, VERY HAPPY !!!!
Berit
There is One who is a 15.4inch HP notebook and serves like a supercomputer. No problems. Everything smooth. One has been around for 2 years. Then recently I bought Khanyi which is a 14inch HP thats got 2 processors (hearts) and a giganormous memory. Khanyi is much lighter to carry around and is going to be used for video editing among other things. I still have to get used to Khanyi cos the keyboard is all different. I love them both, and I also love being without them.
Well well, that is somehow funny to read all of this. And tell you what:
"I ask a specific angel to support me."
I never ask angels in regard to computer problems. I better ask google..... :)
But I want to give you some inside view what is happening in this mysterious things.
Just imagin you sitting before the switched off computer. It's just some piece of hardware stealing the place on your table. Unless you switch it on.
The first thing is that the main parts get some electricity. Some blood so to say. The first parts waking up are the CPU (Central Processing Unit. The brain so to say) and the BIOS (Basic Input Output System. The Brainstem brain so to say. Responsible for the basic things as the name says.)
They do some little conversation.
BIOS to CPU:
shall we start?
CPU to BIOS:
Yes. Are the Input Output Systems online?
BIOS to CPU:
Wait a minute....... (BIOS looks, if the keyboard and mouse, the input sytems, are connected and if the computer monitor, the output system is there)
BIOS to CPU:
Yes, they are online!
CPU to BIOS:
is the RAM (Random access memory. The short time memory area so to say) ready?
BIOS to CPU:
Yes. Ready to go!
CPU to BIOS:
any storage system found?
BIOS to CPU:
Yes. There is a hard drive and a CDrom drive.
CPU to BIOS:
Thanks! I take over now......
The CPU now checks, if it can find a OS (Operating System. Most of the people known as Windows XP) on the CDrom or hard drive. Most of the time it finds it on the hard drive.
When found is awakes the kernel of the OS. Can be seen as someone waking up in the morning. Now this kernel takes over and uses the CPU to do all the neccessary operations to bring the thing up to live.
Now all this things happen, you normally see when switching on. Better to see, you see something. Sitting in front of the screen twirling tumbs. Watching this window flag flutter and the green bar turning round and round. But belive me, in the background a lot is going on. Anyhow, finally it's up and running and you hopfully see, what you have seen before you switched it of.
Now we are in some complete other area of the computer universe. A very complex one. So to say the result of millions of software engineers. Yes, millions.
Only to do a simple mathematical operations needs some hundred lines of code. But as this was alredy done by someone this does not need to be done again and again. All this basic stuff is collected in libraries which the following generation of software engineers can us again.
So the knowledge of how to program computers was little in the beginning but then went up at a certain point in history expotential.
So just Win XP has about 45 Millionen lines of code.
Together with the programs you use to start when working with the computer my rough guess is that about 150 million lines of code needs to interact with each other. Amacing, isn't it?
Anyhow, if you start your email client or your browser an other computer universe is added to the system. The Internet. Enabling you to communicate worldwide in just seconds. I wont go into details here but just give you a living example.
When you open the forum http://heavenletters.org/angelsplace/index.php in your browser this is what happens:
Browser to CPU:
there is a request to open a website. Are we ready?
CPU to browser:
yes, the gateway to the Internet is open. Give me the address and I will handle it over.
Browser to CPU:
here it is: http://heavenletters.org/angelsplace/index.php
CPU to browser:
thanks. I will route it to the gateway.
CPU to gateway:
here is a Internet address. Take it and push it into the Internet.
The gateway takes the address and is pushing it into the Internet. The request is rushing to the next DNS server (Domain name server.
The Internet does not speak human language. Only numbers. So heavenletters.org needs to be translated into numbers. That is what the DNS server is doing.)
If the DNS server knows heavenletters.org he translates it into numbers (named IP) and leads the request to the next gateway available on the journey to the target server. So it passes some more gateways until it finally reaches the hevenletters.org server.
The request knocks on the door.
Request to server:
I have some http (Hyper transfere protocol. The HTML protocol thing which is showing the web pages) request. Are you running a http programm?
Server to request:
yes. Just come on in.
The server takes over the request and handles it to the http program. The http program looks, if it can find a page http://heavenletters.org/angelsplace/index.php.
Yes, there we are! But wait. It has a php extension. So it is a php program. Next is.....
HTTP program to php interpreter:
I have some php program for you. Please take over and process it.
php interpreter to HTTP program:
ok. I take over and see, what I can do.
the php interpreter runs the program and sees, ups, some more data needed! So......
php interpreter to mysql database:
I need some data from you. It's xyz. Please have a look and send back if you find it.
the mysql database looks up xyz.
mysql database to php interpreter:
found! here it is.
the php interpreter continues to process and when finished contacts the HTTP program again.
php interpreter to HTTP program:
everything processed! Here is your http data.
HTTP program to php interpreter:
thanks! I will push it back to Glorias computer.
But wait a minute. Where is Glorias computer?
Ah, know I remeber. Glorias computer got one of this magic IP numbers from her host when she connected to the internet
(IP=Internet Protocol address a unique address that certain electronic devices use in order to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network.)
And the request took it all the way with him until he reached the target server heavenletters.org and gave it over.
The reqests job was done then. He told what is asked for which is http://heavenletters.org/angelsplace/index.php together with Glorias IP so the server knows where to deliver it back. The request the went into nowhere as his job was done. Anyhow......
Server to gateway:
I have some HTTP data here for Glorias computer. Please take it over and route it to it's destination.
The gateway take over the HTTP data and pumps it into the lines together with the IP and wuuushhhh finally it ends up at the gateway of Glorias computer.
The gateway studies the data and finally.....
Gateway to itself:
ah. There we are. The reqest found it's destination. Yes. That's for me!
Gateway to CPU:
I just received the requested HTTP data. Please take over!
The CPU takes it over and......
CPU to Browser:
here is your data. Please take over!
The Browser takes over the data, processes it and gives it back to the CPU which routes it to the graphic card which processes it and finally, yes finally it appears on Glorias screen!
Wuuuu......
Long way.
Anyhow, hope this has given you a idea how complex this computer systems are. And they are based on the interaction of a lot of different software programs. Build and constructed by humans.
In case of this blank page issue, there is some miss communication between the HTTP program, the php interpreter and the mysql database on the target server. So this has nothing to do with Glorias, Paulas or anyone else computer.
But can be solved. Might be difficult be I never have seen any problem, which can not be solved.
A little patience and I am certain, it will be!
Hope you enjoyed the journey into hyperspace......
Much Love and Light
Adrachin
Wow, this is great what you wrote, Adrachin. This really ought to be published somewhere in addition to here. How many computer users are there in the world who need this.
As you have gathered, I fly blind. I have had no comprehension at all of how things work. You make it possible that I could comprehend.
There are three things in your response that stand out for me.
One is: "I never ask angels in regard to computer problems. I better ask google….." Now, that made me smile.
Two is when you say there is no problem that cannot be solved.
Three is the overall theme of what you wrote. Your response points to communication and miscommunication which seem to be the essence of all difficulties we humans have, the need to listen, to understand, and our need to be heard and understood.
This is brilliant what you wrote.
lol
Dear Computer, I'm so glad you are lol because otherwise I would have missed this delightful post this morning by Adrachin. My dear spouse has been so impatient about how long it takes our computer to get started. I think he may be more understanding after he reads this. I am always in amazement that all this is possible at all for us, and in deep gratitude to the millions of people who have contributed to make this amazing world-wide communication possible, and to God for the love that is communicated to us through Heavenletters. Thank You, Love, and Blessings to Gloria, Santhan, and the whole wonderful HL team.
Thank you for bringing me back to this entry, mw! What fun! And you have added some now!