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Richard – I did not miss your point about commercial data collection and I thought I answered it – when I use a credit card or store card I do so knowing that the information goes into the great data crunching engines of commerce. I also know that my purchase will be subject to cluster analysis as another data point in the customer profile. I also know that if my name appears on certain Government (bureaucratic) agencies then it too may be used for raising flags etc. Do I care, hell no, if I wanted to hide something then I’d pay cash or trade something. I have the luxury of being able to make a knowing choice.
I don’t actually really care about the Government’s surreptitious collection of meta data. However what I do care about is the control and access to any retrieval algorithms that spit out full profiles on individuals is subject to full independent judicial oversight. When someone asks for a full profile on Nigel Faragh (say), then they better have a damned good reason that will stand up to Judge scrutiny before that access is authorised.
There have already been published breaches where Police Officers have used such access to stalk celebrities – these were caught AFTER the event. I’d like to see controls (warrants) that stopped them before they reach that stage.
Delve into the Win10 Advanced Power Savings section, even if you have it set on balanced power savings there are often malign greenie bits turning off wifi etc. Skim down about 50% through the link for the advanced bit.
Even more valuable if it is ECC ram
It was just a ‘joke’ John, albeit a very poor one!
For Rig Specs click on my ape. Best view if your logged in.
That was a pretty filthy suggestion John!
Thanks – that is what I meant!
SEARCH – works well and quickly, but I could not figure out how to go to a topic header (i.e. so the whole thread can be navigated). Probably me, but I could not find a way to jump to the topic ‘SSL’ to look for something on AV certificates. I guess it depends on the weird way my brain is organised, I could only remember the context (SSL) but not the exact terminology of my search, and it would have been useful just to hit the topic root rather than everything with SSL in it.
The search itself does not help as once you jump to a search result you cannot get back up to the root from there either. Otherwise a very nice search bar.
Not very long for a monitor, my lcd monitors typically last 12+years. Does it feel ‘hot’ during use? Try puutting a pc fan on the top – stick with blutack just to try it. A man of your calibre should be able to gu outt the wires on a usb lead and use the red/black wires appropriately. for a quick/dirty trial.
You still have one common graphics area – the driver. Nouveau has never cut the mustard for me, perhaps you should install the proprietary nVidia driver instead.
I’d look at the second post in the thread from minomic. You may still need a bit of Google-foo as drivers are not Linux’s most easy thing to play with.
[edit] I assume that you have totally disabled the on-board graphics in the bios.
Steve, the main problem is one of security. A smart meter provides an ‘always on’ connection between you and your energy provider. If a hacker gets into that link then you have potential problems ranging from burglars monitoring when you are away, to malware deauthorising your connection on the pretense you have not paid your bills. I’ll take a small bet that insufficient thought has gone into encrypting the connection between your smart meter’s sim and the energy company.
I would also worry about the reliability of my phone/broadband connection. I get enough problems with the ‘copper’ bit of my broadband to worry about what automated actions are set in train when my smart meter stops transmitting!
I have come to the conclusion that I do not want to take one unless I am offered a large cash incentive. i.e. time of day pricing over and above my day/night rate tariffs. I’m not even sure I want one then as I get all the stats I need from my solar pv management system.
On your symptoms it sounds like the GPU fan(s) need investigation.
Or IF you allow the system to do System Restore to a point before it went scatty that will often work in such cases of corruption.
Failing all else, set up a new user and transfer everything across. Never tried it with Desktop but I don’t see why not!
Richard what i said to you was in a public forum. I have no problem with anyone accessing that. no Government has ever needed a warrant for that, however it used to be the case for telephone calls. I can really see no difference in principle between a telephone call and a private TV call to the Samsung computer system.
I too have lived in the Middle East countries you allude to, did I trust them — hell no! From the data now in the public domain, I would say that the UK intercepts far more of the average citizens communications than was ever the situation in the Middle East of 20 years ago. I would like protections in place for the possibility one day that the UK ‘goes bad’. in the same way as these Middle East states where their citizens fear a 2am knock on the door. If not for me then for my grand-children. This country has taken too many steps on the slippery path towards state control of the population for my liking.
[edit] With respect to commercial actors it is a knowing choice that I have made. Much of the revelations are of the sub-rosa type where no-one made a knowing choice, and need judicial protection to prevent abuses. I do not want or need details of how the interception is to be made I just want the assurance of full independent judicial oversight.
Tighten everything that is built to be tightened would be a good first step. Perversely anything going through a thermal cycle of cold->hot->cold always seems to loosen any screws and fittings!
Noisy fans could be that the bearings are going, replace fans if required. Unbalanced fans with some crud stuck to a blade is another cause.
The problem is not the means Richard, but the way it is controlled. The lack of any meaningful controls or oversight means that we have to have complete and utter faith that the Government or its agents will not abuse that power, either now or in the future. Do I have such faith — I’m afraid that the answer is NO, there have been too many documented cases of minor officials and police officers abusing such powers. Do I have more faith in the higher echelons of power, my answer would be a cautious maybe. but TBLiar and the Man of Straw took away a lot of the blind trust that I previously had.
For me the answer is the rule of LAW, not the rule of gray individuals lacking any track record of challenging Government abuses. By ignoring the recommendations of the oversight committee (without a published reason), Theresa May took away yet another smidgen of trust.
You found the one aspect of Python I HATE, it makes debugging a factor of 10 more difficult than using curly brackets or begin/end pairs.
If you are going to dabble on the hardware side there are two different and incompatible supporting libraries:
gpiozero with its documentation here.
and
RPi.GPIO with its docs here.
there are pros and cons to both packages, but gpiozero may be more user friendly.
No doubt you have already located the generic Python resources here.
and the Raspberry Pi MagPi resources.
Did it include stopping Windows Explorer. I found this for Win10 (the other was for Win7)
ie4uinit.exe -show
taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F
DEL /A /Q “%localappdata%\IconCache.db”
DEL /A /F /Q “%localappdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\iconcache*”
shutdown /r /f /t 00
Probably best to do this in the bat file shown below:
@echo off
set iconcache=%localappdata%\IconCache.db
echo.
echo Attempting to delete IconCache.db files…
echo.
ie4uinit.exe -show
taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F
del /A /Q “%iconcache%”
del /A /F /Q “%localappdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\iconcache*”
start explorer.exe
echo.
echo IconCache.db files have been successfully deleted.
goto restartI remember there was concern raised about the voice control on Samsung TVs – one of mine has it and doesn’t seem like you can turn it off. I suspect the worst of it is no worse than the permissions we all accept each time we install an app, or use Google free services for example. Its right to question things and not blindly accept, but in this day and age I think you just have to run with a certain amount of it or miss out all together.
You must be prescient, Wikileaks today revealed that GCHQ are using Samsung sets to spy on you! I just wish we had Judge-backed court orders to control all this Government intrusion. We otherwise have to rely on the fact that no Government has the bandwidth or computer petaflops to listen continuously to the domestic drone from every smart TV in the country.
Dave we had the meter running backwards issue, but chickened out as it approached a zero reading! Just did not fancy a bill for 999999 units!
I should have added you need to reboot after deleting the cache as it only rebuilds during the boot process.
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