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Borris dosn’t need an election to get this done with now Ed. The Remoners need  to WIN an election to stand a chance of stopping it.

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Well that’s remain finally off the table then, its deal or no deal. Just a matter of when.

MP’s voted to delay again (They may have a point this time) so debate on the deal has been put on hold until the EU decides what it is going to do, if they decide on no extension (unlikely) then MP’s will be given another chance to approve the deal or its no deal on the 31st.

If the EU grants an extension then MP’s have a chance to propose all sorts of amendments but it looks like Borris now has the numbers to defeat the purely remoaner ones.

 

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I hear your plea Les but I don’t know what’s going on there. If I was sitting in front of your PC I might have a chance of working things out but I am only average with Linux.

Hopefully a real expert will reply, good luck 😁

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+1

https://www.geeksinphoenix.com/blog/post/2014/01/12/How-to-tell-what-type-of-USB-connector-you-have-by-color.aspx

I also have yellow ports that are for power off or sleep charging, on my PC they are USB 2 and also high power. Have a look at the above link for some more options (you have to scroll down a bit)

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We aint staying in the EU or a customs union. I will bet you a health secretary on it 😂

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No one has yet been brave enough to stand up and say that if you buy this PC it WILL NOT boot into DOS 😁

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You COULD use a config file on disk but you would finally break the backwards  compatible PC standard. Even newest PC can be setup to boot from a DOS floppy if you try hard enough.

You could also design a setup program that read all the config data from a flash ram chip into a ram buffer, let you change it and then erased the flash before writing the data back again as a block.

You could, but it is much more of a faff and you would again break the PC standard because DOS changes config settings just by writing to memory addresses.

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The stuff that is held in CMOS are mostly things that YOU configure Ed. I like my base clock to be 160 instead of 133, my disk interface to be AHCI not IDE, etc, etc.

PCI devices do not need to store their configuration data in NVRAM, although most will have a default in EEPROM, because they are reprogrammed at every boot. The ACPM component of the BIOS/UEFI will have first crack at it in case you want to load an OS like DOS but if you load a more modern OS then its plug and play manager will do it all again to its liking 😁

Happens every boot so setting on the card are only stored in RAM and vanish when the power goes off.

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The judges are actually becoming concerned about being dragged into parliamentry buisness. A bunch of remoaners went to the Scottish high court (they have had success there before) yesterday to try and get Borris’s deal declared illegal but were basically told to bugger off.

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Until recently I would have said that a PS/2 keyboard will always work but that is now not true with W10.

If you instal W10 without a PS/2 keyboard connected then it does not instal the PS/2 driver and it is a devil of a job to instal it later. Because PS/2 keyboards are not plug and play devices refreshing your device list will not detect them.

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I suppose you have enabled legacy keyboard support in the BIOS? The setting is to make a USB keyboards work with a legacy OS like DOS and also self boot utilities based on DOS. It has nothing to do with PS/2 keyboards.

The setting is enabled automatically during system boot and in BIOS setup but it is then disabled once an OS loads unless the legacy setting is set to ON.

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That would be interesting at least. I wonder how many cabinet ministers you could fit in there and could they squeeze in a table as well 😂

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https://kb.iu.edu/d/acfn

I did wonder about the Mac though so the answer is above. Battery as usual 😁

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At the moment the remainers don’t support leaving with no deal and they don’t support a vote on the deal that is on the table, they also don’t support an election because they get the feeling they would lose. At the moment they support a rerun of the referendum but with a third option of leave with a deal on the paper so they can split the leave vote. With todays polls showing that 63% of people support leaving with Borris’s new deal that could win outright so im not sure how long they will support that option either.

What next ?

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It did not apply to most of the ERG or the MP’s who lost the whip over the Benn act, they voted for a vote on a deal but we got Remoaned again anyway

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I don’t think the CMOS battery is going anywhere just yet. The trouble with NVRAM is that it can only be written in large blocks and it must be erased before it can be rewritten, that is why it is accessed as a disk with a disk controller in an SSD. That sort of setup is not really suited to the kind of data held in CMOS which needs to be accessed like normal ram.

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Anyway it won’t do Borris’s popularity any harm.

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All it proved to me was that the people who don’t wan’t to leave under any circumstance still think the same. They are pinning there hopes on a new referendum with a 3 way question to split the leave vote. They think if they can win that they can pretend the first vote never happened.

I think they can think again.

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What sort of virtual machines are you running Ed ? My guess is that they are not Windows Hyper V. Or am I wrong 🤔

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The i5 3470 is an LGA 1155 Ivy bridge chip Borris. Not that that changes anything 😁

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