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A red port either means it is a power only port, or it is a port set aside for bios updates. Sometimes a different colour is used for this latter, mine is white, while usb2 ports are grey. Blue for usb3 seems to be the only consistent colour scheme I’ve seen.
Maybe and it is certainly true that a Scottish court, when talking about Alastair Campbell, once said that all politicians lie. However it is rare to find any politician who lies as much as Johnson. Johnson has been exposed as a liar in nearly every job he has ever done, and it cost him his job in at least three cases going way back to his days at Eton. An incomplete list is given here.
However it is his duplicity which is hurting him at the moment. Other politicians know that his word can never be trusted and there is now a common purpose in finding a mutually acceptable way of bring Brexit to a close.
John Bercow is taking the flak on not allowing a ‘so-called’ meaningful vote. There also seems to be a growing coalition between all opposition parties including the DUP on a Customs Union, rumours also that the Tory rebels will come on board as well in order to avoid a Hard Brexit.
Who knows what will happen, but one thing is certain Duplicitous Boris is going to be tortured in a manner similar to that suffered by the inept Theresa May, and Trump in the US 😂
Switching just for the moment to Trump, my Republican friends in the US are normally cock-a-hoop in their support for Trump, but the tone of their comments has recently become far more down-beat and sombre.
” What we are today witnessing is a modern day assassination of a leader hated by a substantial number of our countrymen. But for the rule of law and our country’s “current” ability to enforce it, Trump would most likely be dead by now.”
House of Lords Tweet:
The #Brexit Minister Stephen Barclay just confirmed in his evidence to The Lords that, under the Govt’s proposals, Northern Irish businesses sending goods to Great Britain will have to complete export declaration forms.
The converse will almost certainly apply as well (not in the Tweet)
i.e The border between Ulster and mainland UK will be a real border as far as industry is concerned. Goods moving in either direction between the two will face higher costs, which no doubt will be passed on.
When this news hits the Commons, the Government will be revealed to be just as duplicious as Boris – methinks his bill will be lucky to escape without major amendments, as no one likes higher prices.
Maybe some ERG MPs would jibe at the full customs union but I bet most MPs would not jibe at membership of the European Economic Area, this gives many of the benefits of a Customs Union with the possible downside of showing that goods are UK origin. (gets complex as many components such as electronics will have originated elsewhere).
The huge problem with the Duplicitous One’s deal is that Brexit will continue to be a running sore for years while we sort out a relationship with the EU. Better to fix it now in terms of travel.
As I said before it ain’t over till the fat lady sings. Although the House of Commons is split in many directions, the one area they are pretty much united is in their opposition to a Hard Brexit.
If things go as you postulate, don’t be too surprised if the Commons seize the order paper and go in a very different direction to the ones you postulate. One fairly common approach seems to be to take the Duplicitous One’s bill and include a mandatory Customs Union for the other three nations and dump the stupid US centric ‘do our own trade deals’.
Many MPs and the general public are too thick to see beyond a statement that it will build on the new Agreement with the EU and just tack on something to ensure that the UK does not fracture.
There is no TECHNICAL reason to use CMOS for things that you change , they could equally well be in a text file read in by the boot routine. Most IoT devices work in that way. Obviously PRAM and PROM could also be used in a similar way.
CMOS is currently used because it is off the shelf, cheap and a battery costs just a few pennies. It is currently much less costly than setting up PROM or PRAM. It is also a bit more secure than a text file!
As a matter of interest the only essential function on a motherboard that requires a battery is the CMOS clock. Today all the other bits and pieces are capable of being self configurable and have their settings in either read only memory (NVRAM) or programmable read only memory (PRAM). Even the clock battery isn’t really required. The Pi and most IoT devices do not have one, but if they can connect to the Internet on booting that hardly matters.
Actually a contempt of Parliament as well. The Cabinet all deserve the penalty of being locked in the Palace of Westminster Clock Tower while they test Big Ben for a couple of days!
The evil foreign Boris clown once more spurns the law in order to frustrate British democracy. In doing so he has managed to turn the UK Parliament into something from a Ruritanian farce.
I’m now waiting for a beautiful Princess to come along and change the wizened Corbyn toad into a different ‘Andy Burnham’-like heroic figure who will come to our rescue. I just hope that this all happens before the UK pantomime season starts, and before the foreign audience has collapsed into uncontrollable laughter!
We jail Boris in the Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster for his contempt!
John I thought you meant something like this. This holds for most PCs though there seems to be a move to eliminate the cmos battery bit. Apples are different and use something called nvram.
+1 for PM’s comment on wifi – that brings my data usage down to negligible except when I’m in the boondocks.
Use nano instead of vim. Follow the instructions then use CTRL+o (i.e Oh not zero) to save then CTRL +x to quit.
[edit] I probably should have said that both vi/vim and nano are just command line editors. If these freak you out then you can use the frowned on gui editor for ubuntu use “sudo gedit /etc/fstab” to launch the gui text editor and open fstab. Ubuntu will probably issue a bunch of warnings as they really try to discourage this for some silly idea that you are more liable to make mistakes in a gui than in a command line!
IF Boris can convince MPs that his deal+amendments is sound it is still theoretically possible to have it passed by 31October (assuming a compliant House of Lords). If it survives that process then it deserves to pass because I think the EU are thoroughly fed up with the UK.
I do however continue to think that any deal that carves off the island of Ireland from the rest of the UK sets a very dangerous precedent for both the Welsh and Scots. In that situation you can expect nationalism to rear its ugly head and without care it could erupt into violence as that idiot Johnson basically said in the House today that ‘we are only pandering to Ulster because of its violent past’.
Supposedly a large part of the delay is to sort out enabling legislation such as the clause VFM highlighted, but it also demonstrated that the majority quite correctly do not trust Boris an inch.
If anyone listened to the commentary around the debate, part of that picked on a quote made by a Hard Brexiteer that irrespective of Boris’s deal they would just waste two years and come out with their desired Hard Brexit at the end of that time. It seems to me that such people are just CIA or Russian paid terrorists hell bent on destroying the UK’s manufacturing and financial industries. Is it any wonder that people do not trust them?
Tbh John unless you want to be a willy-waver over your PC ‘s speed, most three year old PCs will run anything you throw at them. In today’s environment the GPU is still probably the most important thing to upgrade when you hit a limitation. You will rarely run into a CPU limit as even today many games only multithread the stuff the GPU handles. I/O is something else and an SSD is an essential.
However as said elsewhere steer clear of Dell and laptops if you want the flexibility of occasionally doing some willy waving.
On my three years old PC the only thing that makes me think about upgrades are i/o bus limitations hitting multi-vm performance, and I would guess that very few others hit that particular issue. (Main cause is a Windows 10 VM hogging the bus to talk to mother M$ and failing to recognise the presence of other vms equally wanting bandwidth)
It depends if you are a heavy or light user. I think the analysis always shows that light users are better off with a payg phone and sim from Giffgaff or similar. It is more complex for heavier users and the most recent analysis I could find is still a couple of years out of date. However maybe this 2017 MoneySupermarket analysis will help you. link
Ditto Dave’s comment but I’d add that I think that the negotiating team have found out that far from caving in over Ulster the EU have stuck to their guns. Instead it is the Mendacious One who has once again demonstrated his duplicity and carved a border in the Irish Sea. This could come home to haunt us all during the next two+ years.
As everyone should know, even if Boris gets his deal Brexit continues on for at least two years while we sort out our relationships with the EU. Put differently, the different parts of the UK do not leave the EU for at least two years. I honestly believe that during this period you are going to get both Scotland and Wales demanding the same deal as Ulster and during these two+ years it would still be quite practicable to implement.
As I said before Brexit ain’t over until the fat lady sings.
Hate to disillusion you but we have already paid £6Bn since Theresa May agreed pretty much the same divorce settlement.
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