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So it seems I can’t edit my original post.
Vodafone looks reasonable – £31 for 76Mbps and only £1 setup fee. Better than the £32.50 and £107 setup fee that Plus Net are looking at!
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Welcome to my (daily) world! Let’s just say the advice thing isn’t limited to IT support.
My day job, we’ve undertaken some modelling work for a client and it hasn’t worked, something we’ve told them all along, yet they still paid us to undertake it…
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
I don’t recall having an issue with it on Netflix, but I can’t recall and I don’t have a Linux install to hand currently.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
I’ve been using Vivaldi a lot recently. Uses Chrome as a basis (Chromium I guess as it’s open source) and install all the addons from the Chrome webstore. Only issue is bookmark syncing but it runs Xmarks so that takes care of it.
Removes the potential Google issue but still performs quite well, though only issues I’ve run into are having to disable some keyboard shortcuts (such as Ctrl-B as these interfere with webmail, iCloud or Google Docs where normally it would make something bold) and on Linux it doesn’t follow Xubuntu option to reverse the scroll direction.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
As always the superb Calibre pogram and ApprenticeAlf plugin make all the ebooks and ereaders platform independent.
I was told that the new version of Kindle for PC (1.19) doesn’t use the AZW ebook format that Calibre knows how to read. Instead, it uses the new KFX ebook format—which AFAIK nothing else can yet read or convert ?
I downloaded two books last weekend and had no issues converting – is it for new releases only? I purchased Sourcery, so not really a new release!
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Thankfully, everything should be able to get in a single van. However, I will ensure that the camp bed and sleeping gear gets added to the car, rather than the van so we’ll leave before the van and get up to Manchester before them I imagine.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Good luck – make sure you label each box with its contents, and first on the van is the last off. i.e. kettle & tea/coffee should be last on!
That’s going in the car with us :good:
Yeah I looked at Enterprise for that – hiring here and going up there but I’d still have to come back and drive my car back up to Manchester as the other half wouldn’t want to drive it up.
Couple more quotes to come but it looks like she’ll want us to for the professional removers. I suppose the new firm is giving me a relocation allowance for moving up which would cover it, but I’d earmarked that for a new bike to commute to work on daily :whistle:
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
I avoid giving advice if possible, if only because it’s often wasted time and effort.
Unless paid for it by a (now defunct) weekly computer magazine? 😉
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
The cost was for a one way trip but I’d have to come back down to collect the car – I can’t drive both at once! The hire would be through Enterprise who I hired with almost three years ago to move into the flat and they’ve always been decent with ones I’ve had from there.
Yeah I got the impression with the quote high for work you don’t want etc – it’s a tactic we’ve used at work (and still occasionally won the work we didn’t want!) Also, because it’s a small flat, I’m not sure some of them want to do it.
Not taking insurance with any of the firms because my contents insurance covers it so no point paying another £200+ on top of their quotes for them to insurer it when I’ve already paid £40 for the year!! I note that the clause in the contract for the insurers states that it only covers professional movers, so wouldn’t cover damage by us doing it ourselves!
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Bob – the really useful boxes are fantastic. The larger ones are all designed to stack with each other and have the same footprint, just a lower box. I bought a load of the 50L boxes for moving and storing stuff under the bed.
Our cadet unit relies on them for everything!
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
You need the business version http://tinyurl.com/jcdovyb
Ah OK – that’ll be why I haven’t seen it.
Looks cheaper to buy an Office license via your link and continue with Fastmail then – that’s $40 a year for my current (now unavailable) plan.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Does Onedrive support custom domains then? I wasn’t aware of that. I’m looking at perhaps needing to purchase Office as I’m about to leave my firm where I’ve been able to use one of my installs of my Office 365 work install on my home machine but that will obviously come to pass soon and if it supports custom domains, I may look into moving away from Fastmail where I currently host.
The Onedrive storage could come in handy for Synology Cloud backup as well.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Just leave it a bit, <15 but usually <5 minutes, and it will sort itself out with the pukka Intel driver and utilities. You won’t get any drivers from Lenovo for Windows Anniversary (although they did do W10 ver 1) but go to Intel and download the driver update utility. If there’s a fingerprint reader (and some other hardware) it generally won’t work until you do this. It will then work just fine with Windows Hello.
This requires that I create an account though?
Can I then “reset it to factory” to have the new buyer start from scratch to set up the user etc as they want? I assume I can use the Windows Reset function?
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
The Amazon gift cards are the ones to look out for. 10%of 50 or 20 off a £100. If your about to buy somthing, buy the gift card, they instantly send you the voucher code, then input it to your account and buy the goods. It takes seconds but save a great deal. I’ll usually buy the Amazon ones as they come up, knowing I’ll spend them. I spend alot via Amazon.
I get Amazon vouchers from my credit card :good:
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
There’s a fair few of these through the Defence Discount Store that I occasionally make use of 😉
Not done the Sainsburys/Morrisons ones yet though, but probably should to knock off 5% off the monthly shopping bill.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
The GBA was the last Gameboy that I could use without gettting hand cramps – the DS onwards I found had extremely poor ergonomics for my hands and I would have crippling pain after using one for 10 minutes! I do love Advance Wars so I might have to give that a go, especially as I don’t want to open up the cartridges to change the batteries!
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
My X220 is an i5, is yours the i7?
Yeah it is. Faster than my desktop probably :whistle:
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Cant argue with that. The Lenovo manages a fair amount of the games I have reasonably well (surprisingly well actually when it had Windows on it – a bit less now it’s on Linux but hey ho).
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
You just have to look at the example of the Mac App Store to see that it wont work nicely – if Microsoft don’t allow for upgrade pricing. There are a few big name Mac developers that have pulled out of the Mac App Store completely, because they can’t offer upgrade pricing and are restricted in other ways and therefore are either losing revenue or can’t offer a product that will be the full extent of what they want to offer.
I’m not a huge fan of Windows, but I’ll give it it’s due – it works and works with the vast majority of the software. Yes, for years I was a Mac fan (and I’m now looking back wondering why I get out of the Mac ecosystem – something about pricey hardware I think!) and the fact that Windows could manage to achieve what I was after most of the time.
However, an ad in the file explorer isn’t ideal. I’d be looking at third party explorer replacements…or how to get everything working on Linux.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
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