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It takes a while for the installer to catch up. What I do on a fresh install is install whatever version the media creator is at (usually quite quick on an SSD) and then run the Update Assistant straight away. If you’re having problems with the Update Assistant crashing out that indicates some fundamental issues in your Windows installation. I’ve had this a few times and you can either go down the clean install & update or try a reset & update. I’ve found reset & update does do the same job, probably because that’s what it’s meant to ? The good thing about reset is no need to download the media creator ISO first.
Drivers are a prime suspect, especially network and graphics cards. Sometimes though more rarely it is a cpu that needs updating. Intel equipment is often the most in need of an update which is ‘odd’ given the strategic relationship between the two. For Intel kit updating via the device driver for a NUC does not always work for me I find going to the Intel site and getting it to scan my pc is better.
The other suspects are the ‘hidden’ usb drivers, you sometimes get an obsolete driver in there causing problems (rare). Use the show hidden devices option and decide if any need to be removed. (unused ones are in grey). You obviously will not have this problem with a fresh install, but I have included it as sometimes updating drivers will avoid a fresh install.
No, Firefox did not play ball,although I have Fiirefox UBlock this is a ‘trusted’ site. Ditto add-ons etc.but it still does not cache the page
It is only a very minor irritant. Don’t bust a gut trying to fix it. I’m sure you have better things to do.Ta – thanks for the effort!
Your No2 Grandson is obviously experienced in making up Cat 6, as Dave notes it is nowhere near as simple as running Cat 5e. Glad it works well for you, but do note the caveats in the links i attached earlier – never sharply bend or stress the RJ45 ends as they are far less forgiving than Cat 5e.
I’d make a guess that the Cat6 mil-spec has something to do with the extra shielding and crude EMP and interception protection. (probably did not know that Cat7 is around!
Off topic but I read a recent article that declared that EMP is an over-rated problem. According to the article the only tangible outcome of a full-blown nuclear EMP test by the US was to turn the sky Aurora-green.
OK I’ll give it a bit then cancel my current donation!
I don’t know if it is obvious but I was referring to ‘making-up’ cat6 cable versus making up cat5e. If you are buying a length of commercially terminated cable then it does not matter except cat6 is typically twice as expensive as cat5e.
Bob, I’m not saying that it cannot be used but Cat5e gives as near as damn-it the same performance in the average home. The cable is however much less flexible and it is far more difficult to make good terminations. This link better explains the issues which I just glossed over but the main point is extracted below:
” The need for more controlled terminations hasn’t existed for Cat 5 or Cat 5e installation standards. Often work practice variation would amount to some degree of variation within the tested result, but sufficient headroom ensured adequate buffer for such anomalies.”
If you are experienced in wiring Ethernet cables and don’t mind the much ‘stiffer’ cat 6 and its higher price then by all means use it. Really the only time you must use cat6 is if you know fibre to the door is coming to your house and you want very high speed broadband throughout your home. Spec comparison. If this does not apply and you are new to terminating and installing Ethernet cable then for the sake of sanity use cat5e. (does not apply if you are buying finished cable if the prices are roughly the same.
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The town where I was raised *’benefited’ by having a contingent of US troops in a nearby camp. Although there were strict rules against ‘fraternization’ by the black troops men will be men and girls will be girls. and as a result there were a few Afro-British kids running around when I grew up. This was hard for the kids but really only due to the way their mothers were treated. Most people totally ignored the colour thing for the children, but having a child out of wed-lock really brought the cold shoulder by the other mothers in the town and I can still remember the over-loud comments about sluts well into the 50s. So while I accept that looking different can be a problem, social and religious mores are even more of an issue.
*The benefits to the town were due to all the carp driving of trucks and armoured vehicles and the brand-new replacement stuff that was quickly nicked from somewhere and re-erected by the US troops.
As someone brought up on a diet of Assembler and C and latterly C++. I find the world of Python a cross between very interesting and b-awful.. While trying to resolve the somewhat buggy and inconsistent world of Tkinter (a gui wrapper for Python) I have come across a piece of jargon that I have grown to detest – it is the smug word Pythonic which I now mentally translate into the old punchline ‘Standing up in a hammock’. If there is a difficult and convoluted way of doing something then the smug Pythonic way will be even worse.
You have a little bit extra this month Lee, as useless Paypal does not allow a regular payment to be changed. Buy yourself a beer!
It is cancel a regular payment or nothing. So if you want to increase a payment you need to cancel it first. If Forumites want to increase their donation but not ‘double-up’ they should do this cancelling and setting up of a new payment just before the normal donation date.
Thanks Lee – I just wanted an idea of what you need to keep going as I really appreciate this site.
Cat6 is a more difficult option for the DIYer. It offers little over the much easier Cat5e for the average home user. It is quite easy to make poor Cat6 connections – avoid if you can.
What monthly donation/forumite would you think a fair amount?
Please give an idea of what you think ‘fair’.
I arbitrarily set my PayPal sub to be roughly the same/month as forking out for an MM sub. If that is off by miles I’ll look at it.
By no means proven, but it looks like WannaCry has a South-East Asia origin. A linguistic analysis of all the various Wannacry ransom notes indicates that the original note was written in Chinese. link, and a first translation was done from this document into English by someone who did not have English as their first language. All the other translations apparently were done using Google Translate. They must have used ‘phrasing’ to identify a Southern China dialect (Spoken South China dialect certainly has a different rhythm and phrasing to Mandarin) This analysis probably rules out all locations north of Shanghai as well as Singapore.. I’d personally rule out Singapore too, as all Singaporeans younger than thirty are brainwashed into only using Mandarin – dialect would get a wrap over the knuckles. Dialect can however be found in Vietnam (Cantonese in the main), Malaysia (Hokkien/Fujian mainly) and Thailand (Teochew). Indonesia is less likely but would be similar to Malaysia. It really is quite amazing what can be done using cluster analysis and word frequency counts.
This is not a ‘proof’ that the DRPK were not the authors but it makes a North Korean origin a little less likely. From my limited knowledge of Korea I’d have expected them to detect Mandarin as a first/fluent language rather than a South China dialect.
I agree with the comment about distracting animated ads but I have the biggest issue with those that use Audio. Sends me scrabbling for the mute button and vowing never to buy/use the poxy product on offer. I know that I can block pop-ups, or use Ad-Blocjk plus but I normally do not block Ads as sites have to make money some-how.
Nice, but a lot of wasted space in the RHS frame that you should be using for Ads! :yahoo:
One problem is that drug side effects can be subtle but lead to death. One fairly common hypertension pill I was taking had a known impact on blood potassium levels. I had no symptoms but I received an urgent call-in from my GP that my blood sample showed that I was very close to the point where people get heart failure! Treatment was simple, an immediate change of pills and a day or two gorging on banana fritters and drinking cider!
There are obvious morals to my experience: self-treatment using imported drugs from the web carries dangers when associated blood tests are not done. The second moral may be harder to put into effect – sign up with a GP who has all the drug check-lists on a database with automatic test call-ups.Judging from some of the negative experiences reported in this Forum I may be extremely lucky with the medical practice I use. (certainly no Wannacry incidents in the area.
It also looks as though the Didsbury Mosque and its Imam has a role judging by the leaflet they hand out to the public. The Imam cannot duck under the ‘unofficial’ leaflet carp raised by a ‘Mosque attendee’ – his Mosque, and therefore his responsibility to authorise what is disseminated. It would not surprise me if the Imam is not one of those my Sunni friend complains about.
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