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No Steve he works for The Other Guy, you know, the one with the red suit, pitchfork and horns. :negative: :whistle:
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I'm out.A black battery starter cable walks into a bar. The barman says “Don’t be so negative, this is a Fun Bar!”
A red starter cable follows him in. Barman says “Now don’t you two start anything!”
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A driver notices a traffic Warden as he pulls up to park. “If I park on these double yellow lines for just a couple of minutes, will you give me a ticket?”
“Of course I will” says the warden.
“But that’s not fair,” says the driver “There are three other cars parked on the lines and they don’t have a ticket!”
“I know,” says the Warden “But they didn’t ask me to give them a ticket.”
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A juggler is on his way to perform when he is pulled over by the police and his car searched. “Why do you have petrol, torches and matches in the boot?” asks the officer.
“I’m a juggler, I juggle flaming torches.”
“Oh yeah,” says the officer “I’ll believe that when I see it.”
The juggler proceeds to give a master class in flaming-torch juggling. A car driving by slows down to watch.
“Am I glad I gave up drinking and driving!” says the driver to his wife, “Look at the test they make you perform now!”
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I'm out.I understand what you say Richard, and the link Kaspersky demonstrates may be tenuous and unproven yet, but did you read the whole thing?
” Similitude between #Wannacry and #Contopee from Lazarus Group – is DPRK behind Lazarus Group? ”
Kaspersky appears to believe it.
This beats any Conspiracy Theory that even Steve or I could imagine though:
” Perhaps it was all down to Fox trying to test the plot of a new film blockbuster with Murdock as …? ” – Love it! :yahoo:
JayCeeDee, the Acronis Ad may be the first of many attempting to scare people into buying a ‘solution’ that is really a one-time, one-cure effort. I predict the usual scramble by similar companies trying to sell snake-oil, plus a generous sprinkling of other ‘solutions’ from unknowns, disguising the propogation of more malware.
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I'm out.But it’s got Korean code in it Bob so it has to be them. Lol. It seems you have a suspicious mind too. For me it’s always in the timing, I don’t believe in coincidences. Not when it comes to events like this. It screams ‘fails flag event’. The US love them.
Looks like the NKorea connection is correct Steve, Kaspersky has found the link:
I look at Kaspersky’s World Virus Activity Review every day now, always something interesting and/or informative. Kaspersky is much more than just an AV programme.
What made me suspect NSA & UK Health Ministry involvement in ‘proving‘ NK guilt, was the fact that Kim’s lunatic regime is such an easy, believable target. Reason for believing it is NK, is that I trust Kaspersky, but who can trust any politician? They are all prepared to shift blame and escape criticism, it’s in their DNA.
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I'm out.North Korea is a handy catch-all target to excuse the stupidity of the NSA and our own Health Ministry.
His Dictatorial Tubbiness will probably accept blame, whether guilty or not. Makes his insane regime appear even more terrifying.
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I'm out.The Hackers are attacking the wrong targets. Own Innisfree and others like it, there are bound to be bigger rewards. Find all their dirty secrets, threaten to make them public if they don’t get £Zillion or $Squintillion. Then expose the dirty washing anyway.
Life in the 21st Century is nothing like HG Wells and George Orwell foretold. Or maybe it is…
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I'm out.Ed your last has confirmed something that I long suspected about the 15 years of innapropriate, ineffective and actually harmful treatment that I received from the NHS in Nottinghamshire. I was subjected to several different scans: CT, MRI and Ultrasound, plus X-rays, even Nerve Conductance tests. Incidentally, it took a request from me to see my Notes, before I could find results of that last Test – no one would let me see waht the result was. I discovered that my left side limbs were subject to anomalies in the nerve paths.
The diagnosis of my oldphart Notts consultant was that old chestnut “slipped disc.” When I moved here to Lincs and a much smaller hospital, I reached a consultant in his last year before retirement who decided to go further than the last, which was “Sorry there is nothing we can do.” and inflict harmful Traction upon my spine. Sending me to another consultant, got me the latest scanner: a mobile affair, operated by an Australian company. This found something that was correctly interpreted by the new consultant as a shattered vertebra, the reason for paralysis and numbness in my left limbs. He performed an operation and I am still walking (sort of) 8 years later, whereas I was expected to be a quadriplegic by the start of 2006. The Aussie scanner was then state of the art. I have no idea which O/S ran the scanner, although in early 2005 it might have been XP, which was released in October 2001 I believe, so would have been well into its stride as an O/S.
It appears from what a local NHS admin employee tells me, that XP is till in great use amongst United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust, which explains why ULHT hospitals and some GP surgeries are still suffering from delays. Not my surgery, I hasten to add: their systems are all Win 7.
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I'm out.Pull up a chair, have some caffeine and welcome.
Throw another banker on the fire, someone.
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I'm out.Hmmm: 2,000 KM is 6,561,680 feet. Or 1,243 miles in real money. Low Earth Orbit and almost unrecoverable, a comforting thought but doubtful.
The government headed by Premier Xi Jinping appears to be headed in the direction of expanding world trade with China. I believe that China and Xi, is growing more and more frustrated with the increasing obstacles that the maniac dictator of the DPRK erects in the face of those trade prospects. However, I still feel some caution is necessary in expecting cooperation with Western objectives, from the old friendships that still exist between Russia and China.
If someone can teach proper diplomacy to the Trumper in time, he might be able to walk a middle path and solve the problem by the “Roman method”, i.e. use a potential enemy against a real enemy. This cannot happen whilst Trump himself listens only to the voices in his own head of course.
Failing that, a suitably-sized meteorite striking the massive Hall of the People, whilst a DPRK Communist Party meeting is in session.
Let us pray….. :good:
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I'm out.Dave, problems within the systems and organisations you describe sound familiar to me, having served 12 years in HMF. (Probably not surprising to you, with your MOD contract experience). Introducing new ways of working, and/or new weapons and weapon systems, was often carried out against the resistance of miltary dinosaurs. My service was in the Army Air Corps when it was relatively new, and many of our Wodneys and Wuperts (Officers) came from non-tecnical backgounds at first. The result was that intelligent technicians became frustrated at the inability of their superiors, to understand technical problems and the reasons for specific solutions.
I believe that things became much easier after technical officers began to permeate up through the commisioned officer ranks. Certainly the best CO I ever served under, was a REME tech officer who became a full Colonel, eventually a Brigadier in the UK. The Corporate accounts you mention, probably benefit from a similar promotion process.
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I'm out.Your responses made me think, Steve & Tippon. Having not seen or spoken to The Guilty One since I left Notts in 2003, I phoned the mate who told me about the muck-spreading: apparently the Guilty One’s wife has left him and he was then busy bad-mouthing his ex in the local, when her brother walked in, decked him and walked out. The guy is now steadily boozing away his sad life, he is in his fifties, quite a bit younger than me. Never understood why he chose me as a target, but he has no friends at all now. It also reminded me of my old village and the way everyone solved certain problems, by the swift application of a right hook.
Karma.
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I'm out.Have a bitter giggle at Amber Rudd, the Home Secretary: https://tinyurl.com/n3ptm2n
The sound of The Buck flying around, is accompanied by the usual “lessons must be learned”. The Minister who is supposedly responsible, along with the Health Minister, is basically broadcasting her lack of knowledge, whilst attempting to cover that with ‘facts’ that she has misinterpreted. She appears to believe that ‘Cyber’ is a thing: at least, that’s how she uses the word.
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I'm out.I have not read all preceding posts on this thread, but Kaspersky Labs Secure List informs me that Microsoft released a patch on March 14 for the WannaCry ransomeware attack. It seems that millions of organisations were busy being Ostriches when this was released. https://tinyurl.com/m56vwgf
The Kaspersky Total Security dashboard has “World Virus Activity Review” at lower LH side of the ‘Database Update’ feature, which is where I discovered this: I visit this section at least once a week. As I am not a business and do not use Ms Server, I don’t of course need KB4013389.
But it does demonstrate the complete inability of so many worldwide organisations, to follow the steps and take the precautions which might prevent this activity. I forecast great activity in the worldwide IT recruitment field….
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I'm out.I delete one person regularly. I could block the guy, but then he might guess, I just delete every message after reading it. This wazzak decided to bad-mouth me to a mate a couple of years ago, without realising that he was talking to someone I served with for many years. Now he sends creepy messages asking if I am ill. When I get bored, I will block him, hoping one of his two faces realises that I don’t want to know. Petty, I know, but what he said was untrue, obscene, slanderous and said in the knowledge that I now live miles from him.
I wish I owed him money…. :whistle: :unsure:
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I'm out.Stirred my memories Richard, I remember Lightscribe, used it with the associated discs, turning them over as you describe. This is an old link from 2013 but gives good info:
This is a better link, which gives directions and specifications: https://tinyurl.com/lcaopq9
The first link states that Win 8 & 8.1 would not work with the software, but now even Win 10 and Blu ray are fine with it, providing your burner has the Lightscribe logo. I still have some CD’s and two DVD’s that were burned with Ls labels, just played them each and they are fine. Probably had many more once upon a time, but a lot of my discs have gone to charity. Time and Tech wait for no man! :yahoo:
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I'm out.TNS have come on a lot since those days Steve:
The only fully-Pro club in the Welsh League, win their League almost every year. Might be time to allow them into the English National Legue, see if they make it into the EFL. Cardiff City and Swansea should watch their backs! They also have a thriving academy. Check out their season: https://tinyurl.com/k9w4x6o
Won their league by 27 points, they will be in the initial rounds of the CL again, then Europa League. They are actually based in Oswestry, Shropshire, and take players and fans from England and Wales.
It’s a funny old game… :scratch: 🙂
I think some scouse mate once told me that Liverpool had won a few Euro games, once upon a time…. :yahoo: :yes:
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I'm out.I have had a Hotmail, then Outlook account for so long I don’t remember when I first had it. Last year a couple of MS scares made me use my Google account for email. I began using that more, until then I linked them. It’s easier to pick up gmail on the mobile than it is to pick up Outlook, so I check emails on the phone and delete what I don’t want, then check on the desktop for a read.
Since we had the phones, SWMBO’s laptop and my Tablet, Google is a must and helps us sync everything. It’s much more than just emails, it lets us switch and read stuff between devices, besides backing up two Google accounts and working with photos and music in several devices.
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I'm out.Whenever nationalisation of any large infrastructure body has ocurred in GB, the result has been a slow but steady deterioration in quality of service.
This has many causes: after some years, governments eventually realising that they can get away with whittling away at investment, or investing in the wrong features which bring either no advantages, often great disadvantages. Rogue Union leaders who lead their members to believe that they can have unfeasably large pay increases, stupidly short working hours, or other benefits. Strikes and industrial chaos follow. There are organisations which have become so large, that even when privatised, they are regarded as untouchable, until public and other business pressure causes the government to bite the bullet, split them up and make them really work for a living. Witness the painful separation of Openreach from BT, which is now shedding jobs worldwide and looking to recruit more engineers, in part to replace the ones lost to Openreach.
It is a fact that, by and large, Private Enterprise invests and innovates, it has to in order to please shareholders and make a profit. Nationalisation may start with hope and expectation for the future, but in time it all sinks into lower efficiency and mismanagement.
If Corbyn was to form a government and attempt the nationalisation of all the bodies in the Labour manifesto, this country would sink into a pile of debt worse than any ever known. There are lessons from 1947 to be learned: this comes from the “Horse’s Mouth” otherwise known as the Socialist Party of Great Britain – https://tinyurl.com/kerqvx9 – from 1947/48.
Reading those 3 pages (download the PDF, it is worth a read at leisure) will demonstrate what nationalisation cost a war-weary UK, having already ben forced to mortgage the country’s future by paying off the massive expenses of the worst of all wars, the Labour government borrowed even more in order to compensate shareholders and owners. In some cases, even employees. The sums are astronomical for the time: translated by 70 years of inflation and the infrastructure costs of 2017, they would run into the £trillions. Just as in 1947, one must ak, ‘Where will this money come from?’
Taxation, says Corbyn. Soak The Rich, the old Labour chestnut. And The Rich will respond by taking out their wealth and going to be The Rich somewhere else. And the old familiar see-saw of left-right politics goes on and on, with no one able to look at the long game or contemplate any form of thoughtful middle ground.
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I'm out.I tried to find a manual for that printer JB, all I could find was a 2-page PDF which told me nothing. Neither is there anything in the Epson website about printing CD’s, nothing in the tech spec’s either. Is there a dedicated drawer for printing CD’s, which slides out and lets you install a CD with label? My 8 yo HP Photosmart C5380 has that, I can pull down the section marked “CD/DVD” and print directly onto a disc surface, or follow some more instructions and stick on a label, using a cutout.
Printing onto a disc surface means buying discs that will acept the proper option for this, using the HP software that came with the printer. I have not done this for about 3 years, as I don’t use CD’s and discs now, except for transferring to discs. Know it’s no help to you, but the HP has been fantastic for me, I don’t know what I will replace it with. HP don’t make anything else like it now.
I suggest you contact the Epson website and ask help. Don’t mention the source of the labels you have though: ask if Epson make them.
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I'm out.Richard my Sikh mate Vijay would physically shudder and squirm when talking about stuff his grandparents ate and drank. He used to have a meal at home before going there, so he could say he had eaten!
However, last time I spoke with him, his granddad was alive and well into his 90’s. Grandma was gone 20+ years ago though, probably from preparing the stuff….
As a 3rd.Gen immigrant, he seems more British than me sometimes. Loves fish & chips, roast dinners, football. First surprise I had when I first knew him, was that most Sikhs can eat all meats, including pork, although some sects are apparently vegetarian. Mainstream, most will only refuse Halal-prepared meat, when prepared according to Muslim practice. Vijay and his family opened my eyes to a great deal.
He also uses a lot of Anglo-Saxon Basic, mostly to annoy his dad. Seeing Vijay’s massive 6’4″ dad frowning, is a fearsome sight. With the Dastaar (turban) he probably tops 6’8″. Seeing and hearing him laugh, which he does a lot, is another experience.
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