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And who knows, once they have established a federal European state with a common army under German control, what’s to stop them reviving their expansionist tendency’s ?

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The whole of the EU project is just an exercise in ideology. It is a mess because it can not work properly without a common tax and a common spending policy to go along with its common currency.

Of course the EU’s response to their problems is to propose more Europe which will end up with a federal system anyway. Why dont they just come out and say that that is the intention ?

As for wars in Europe, you simply can’t have one like WWII because of nuclear weapons. If Germany tried to take control of France against its will (they are actually sleepwalking into it with the EU) it would not go well.

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https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25602/Intel-Serial-IO-Driver-for-Windows-8-1-

Above is a link to the old 2015 driver that people seem to have had more luck with. Uninstall any existing drivers before trying this one.

Good luck ?

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Of course if you really have managed to mangle your Windows installation to the point of unuseabillity (hard to do these days) you could always reinstall it for free ?

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In even more tedious detail, once a bus controller has enumerated all its attached devices it passes the list on to the Windows plug and play manager which cofigures them to use available system resourses  and loads their drivers.

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If the Intel serial I/O device isnt working then anything attached to it will not be recognised, it will just show up as being attached to the serial I/O device with its identity a mystery.

Once the serial I/O device is working then Windows may find drivers for all the devices connected to it.

In technical terms the serial I/O device is a bus controller and it is responsible for enumerating all the plug and play devices attatched to it.

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https://www.dell.com/community/Laptops-General-Read-Only/Windows-Update-Issue-Serial-IO-I2C-ES-Controller/td-p/4599881

The above link may be of interest too.

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https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/27717/Intel-Serial-IO-Driver-for-Windows-10-64-bit-for-Intel-NUC

Did you get your driver from the above site ?

 

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If anyone is interested (it could be just me ?) the device ID splits down into Bus type, Vendor, Device type and model number with a possible subtype after that.

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If there is more than 1 ID then Google the top one first.

The IDs are long alpha numeric strings and as an example here is the ID for the Realtek network chip in my Mum’s PC.

PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_8168&SUBSYS_368D17AA.

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You may get somewhere by searching for your unknown devices by their device ID.

To find the ID open device manager and right click on an unknown device and choose properties. Open the details tab and then select hardware IDs from the properties drop down list.

Every plug and play device (all of them these days) must have an ID and Googling should find the manufacturer and device type at least ?

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Its the same force they all use, I think its called physics ?

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How about something like the above ?

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Those cigarette lighter adapters often only contain a silicon voltage regulator, these work by increasing their resistance as the voltage rises and that means they get HOT. That sort of setup is only suitable for very low currents so battery charging will be slow or non existent with the device switched on.

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We are going to need some good negotiators. I would not have trusted Mrs Mays Brexit team to tie their own shoe laces ( with her at the head of the team). Lets hope Boris picks some better people.

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It really should be far simpler for the UK to do trade deals with the rest of the world than it is for the EU. We are only negotiating for ourselves and compromises can be reached much more quickly.

A trade deal with the EU is of course much more difficult because they are negotiating on behalf of 27 nation states who have different ideas on what they want and the EU commission is determined to cut off its own nose to spite us anyway.

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Actually Dr Beeching knew exactly what he was doing when he took the job. The government wanted a hatchet man and he agreed to play the villan for a large fee. It was his last big payday before retirement so he just followed his brief and closed every line that was making a loss.

He did not close the loss making line out of Marylebone because the BR board was based there and its members used the line to get to their homes in the home counties.

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<p style=”text-align: justify;”>Both the temperature gauges we have  have hanging on the shed registered 104F at 5.00 pm today. The gauges had been in the shade for a couple of hours but the rest of the shed was not.</p>
Still, 104F if you were standing next to the shed !

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The friendly router thing is called a gateway and they can be located anywhere in the world. How you can use them depends on the agreements your service provider has.

There is going to be a lot more of it about though ?

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Richard, synchronisation is still a problem with TDM based systems.

The UK has a full Plesiochronous hierachy with BT maintaining an atomic master clock. When Mercury came along they setup their own clock but it was in sync with the BT clock because they both run on Universal Standard Time. All was right with the world.

Our PABX’s ran off an internal clock if they were only connected to analogue lines but once you connected a digital trunk they could be set to use that as the master clock instead. All was still right with the world.

When the market was opened up to other carriers we hit a problem. Sprint for instance maintained its own master clock that was synced to Universal time but it was in the USA. By the time their clock signal reached the UK it was out of sync with ours.

If one of our PABX’s were connected to UK and Sprint trunks it was impossible to send faxes over one or the other depending on which you set as master.

 

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