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Thanks Bob,
please add my good wishes for a speedy recovery. I’m glad Bob has a private ward – hospitals are dangerous bug factories otherwise.
If you are going to help then I think you need to take Dave’s advice and set up their camera on a separate domain, but I think this is actually impossible on BT’s Homehub. Maybe you can add a second (cheap) router in series to a BT Homehub? (question for Dave). This would also get past BT’s stupid nanny system that stops OpenDNS being used on the Homehub.
Funnily enough I just read an article saying that all free/cheap VPNs are fronts for Chinese Intelligence . Good luck to them imho most are used either to watch illegal TV or p0rn. I think Duke’s use to improve security on public wifi is a lot less common.
What sort Ed ? Military coup or glorious revolution ?
All I know came from just two sources. My (at that time) ‘well-connected’ American boss who said that he had been told by a spook at the Embassy that a coup was being planned in the UK during the following week and not to come to London during the following week. The second source was some months later when (iirc) The Sunday Times ran a multi-page article on the failed coup. It was supposedly instigated by a bunch of Generals and some right-wing Surrey pharts. Their idea was to set up a ‘Government’ led by Mountbatton. The coup failed as Harold Wilson stepped down and I guess the coup leaders thought they had achieved their objective.
[edit] I suspect such a coup would have a lower chance of success today. I think due to the advent of social media serving military are more likely to take the side of the populace and wave two fingers at any officer trying to impose a politically biased martial law. However if Brexit causes a breakdown in society then all bets are off.
You missed the third one John – coup. Apparently there was nearly one before Harold Wilson resigned.
I agree we need another three choice referendum: A Hard Brexit , The EU/May fudge, or No Brexit.
When the short and medium term economic impacts on jobs and living standards are detailed for each, we will have an opportunity to see if turkeys vote for Christmas.
Interesting times – I know from bitter experience that if I keep frustrating the desires of my wife she throws a ‘hissy-fit’ and goes off at a random tangent. I wonder if May will do the same!
Iirc when there was a huge furore about the difficulties in applying GDPR the Information Commissioner stated that there was no requirement to do anything where there was an existing customer relationship.
The only one I really object to is SurveyMonkey (a US company widely used by UK Government bodies). The company appears to be acting as an intermediary for surveys. I have tried a couple of times to exercise my GDPR rights to stop them amalgamating my data across sites but just get lost in web-page redirections.
Ed P – thanks but I am still using W7 Ultimate – never bothered with W8 and can’t really say that I like W10.
Correction – I think it was Vista that started Microsoft’s nasty green bar of death search.
The file-deleting Build 1809 is now being re-released after hopefully fixing all its many bugs. I think I’ll wait for Boris!
November 14, 2018 at 8:49 am in reply to: Read First if flying on a Boeing 737 Max–or maybe not! #28270According to press reports the Lion Air crash was caused directly by Boeing’s automated anti-stall actions that they failed to detail to pilots!
The potential fault in the system is that it can push the plane’s nose down “unexpectedly and so strongly” that pilots can’t pull it back up even when flying manually, the report said.
Unfortunately the crash occurred in Indonesia so unless the relatives of the passengers manage to mount a US class action they will not get the US style penalties on top of penalties that would otherwise total over a billion dollars.
The totally unforgivable communications failure by Boeing has caused an outcry in the ranks of US pilots. I hope Boeing gets badly hurt with multi-million dollar penalty awards in order to teach them not to be so cavalier with passenger lives.
I know that tired feeling – we get it when asked to have the grandchildren for a sleep-over!
The Green Bar of Death came in with Windows 8 and got even worse when Cortana started. After de-indexing all my drives I now disable Windows Search in Services on every fresh install. I have noticed no impacts as I use a rational filing system.
Windows Photo is now my big hate but I have found no way to reliably eradicate this i/o cpu hog.
Apparently a rolling roll-out since 2016, but really a 2017 kickoff IF you have Homehub 5.
+1 from me as well!
Tippon,
as promised if you followed the instructions to load chromedriver or installed chromium and chromium-chromedriver using Synaptic then the following script allows you to set up an instance of chrome that can be either persistent or non-persistent. Enjoy:
##### Python script follows
#!/usr/bin/python2.7
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# the starting ‘hash-bang’ #! tells the interpreter it must be Python 2.7
# the second tells it that utf-8 encoding is being use. Does not matter here, but sometimes usefulfrom selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
# remove next two lines if debugging finished
import logging
from tkMessageBox import showinfofrom time import localtime
from time import time
from time import sleep# selenium will complain if it cannot find the chromedriver.
#The easy fix is to copy chromedriver to /usr/bin# set up logging, remove when debugged
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG,
format='(%(threadName)-9s) %(message)s’,)# remove irritating ‘controlled by automation’ bar
# sets up selenium browser, using default path for webdriver
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument(“–disable-infobars”)
# if you remove the following option you get a ‘clean’ browser each time
# If just copying code first make a ‘Data’ folder in the same place as script
chrome_options.add_argument(“user-data-dir=./Data/”)
# sets browser size and position
# not all browser sizes work – depend on site being visited
chrome_options.add_argument(“–window-position=0,0”)
chrome_options.add_argument(“window-size=519,520”)# put the options in browser
browser = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options)# give it a second then move browser
sleep(1)
browser.set_window_position(x=500, y=0)
sleep(0.5)logging.debug(“Loading BBC Home Page”)
browser.get(‘http://bbc.co.uk’😉
browser.titlelogging.debug(“Using old cookies loaded”)
browser.title
logging.debug(“Waiting 200 ticks”)
sleep(100)# close current web page
browser.close()
# quit
browser.quit()Just to flesh out the topic of using an SSD with the Raspberry Pi3B, there is one critical problem area. The on-board Wi-Fi.
The problems between the on-board Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are well documented with the only solution to using both being to disable the on-board Bluetooth and use a hub version
There is however an additional issue between the Wifi and the SSD which causes frequent Wifi drop-outs. The Pi3B Wifi is bad at the best of times but SSD+Wi-Fi are just about unworkable. By observation the Wi-Fi drops out as soon as the SSD starts to file manage so it is either i/o or power. I have not found a solution, and in my current construction cannot use a powered hub to test if SSD power drain is the issue. Instead I’m going to use a Homeplug+Ethernet solution.
Full disclosure, these days I spend most of my time in a Linux environment, but I am equally comfortable using Windows or Apple. Each has its place though Apple’s advantages are rapidly disappearing.
Responding to Dave’s post: any FOSS application is only as good as its documentation, and boy oh boy some of the FOSS documentation is a Lulu. Windows is not perfect either, but the Help system is marginally better. However it is when you seek support in software development that the differences really show up. Unfortunately FOSS moderators such as those at Stackoverflow seem stuck in the world of RTFM and are quick to dismiss questions with few positive responses. Compare that with Window’s Codegear to see a huge difference.
I was re-reading the posts, and my post reminded me of the six degrees of Kevin Bacon.
This may well account for why the UK insists that it has to spy on the whole UK population without any meaningful warrants (via as Steve says US spying).
As an example, if you wanted to go phishing on Terrorist A, even though he and his immediate acquaintances may well be ‘secure’, their friends and friends of friends to six degrees could well be able to give an access all the way back up the chain.
Using the full six degrees or maybe less, even I could probably give ingress to both May and Trump. Funnily enough, it is much harder to construct similar hypothetical chains for lower ranked folk.
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