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Not in my back yard. Stick it in their home counties where they have the space.

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Except they dont go out of their way to publish anything. We have Sudbury town residents association keeping an eye out and Brent council have put it in their 5 year plan that they are going to put up a social housing estate at our local park.

They published almost nothing and gave us until 3rd jan to raise a petition against it.

A 5 year plan ! Bunch of bloody commies.

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I should perhaps also mention that Windows only takes bios settings as a hint. The Windows plug and play manager enumerates all devices at every Boot and assigns resourses for what it finds. All PCI devices have configuration memory and they work with what they are given.

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Even installing the i8 something keyboard driver on its own wont work because it dosnt come with an installer that would add it to the Boot start driver list.

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It do seem like a lot but pro sound cards often ask for exactly 4 PCIe lanes. Some of them will fall back to as low as one but some wont budge and in that case they get nothing !

Trust me on this. If the OS cant assign enough lanes for a link then the device gets nothing and it may as well not exist.

Legacy devices are odd. They do not respond to enumeration requests. They only appear if you install a plug and play driver manually. The IBM AT standard requires that the OS assumes that there is a PS/2 keyboard but MS has been trying to ignore that for a number of years and if you dont have a PS/2 keyboard plugged in when you install W10 then you have to jump through a few hoops to get it to recognise one.

 

 

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Long live X58. More PCIe lane’s than you can shake a sh***y stick at ?

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For a bit more information your PCIe device’s declare the number PCIe lanes they need to establish a link during device enumeration that happens at system boot time. Not enough lanes no link no go ?

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As Mr Rice says you have a budget board there. If your high end sound card really needs 4 or more PCIe lanes to make a link then it wont work. Sorry.

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My sister and her then husband brought a terraced farmworkers cottage that was built in the 1840’s. The foundations were nothing more than a few sacks of lime poured directly onto the clay that it stands on.

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Back in the 1920’s they treated breeze block in much the same way as we treat a stud partition now so it was not unusual to lay the floor boards and then build the partition on top. Sometimes they followed the line of a joist, sometimes they didn’t !

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When I found the right department there was an orderly waiting for me because THE receptionist was off sick. The orderly gave me a gown to change into and showed me to a waiting room, then left to go about his duties. They were an hour and a half late seeing me during which time I didnt see another soul. I was beginning to think I was in a scene from that old TV show Survivors !

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I kid you not. The last time I was there I had to ask a board looking cleaner (there is no one to make a mess) for directions because I just couldnt find anybody else.

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You may well have a point there PM.

The BRAND NEW Central Middlesex Hospital building is fantastic. They spent who knows what knocking down the crumbling 19th century hospital and putting up a new one. The thing is though its still in the middle of the park royal industrial estate and a year after it opened they decided to shut the A&E. The whole place is a ghost town where the best game to play is spot the staff.

 

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My closest hospital is a sore point. The nearest one is Northwick Park at less than 2 miles, a 15 min bus ride. Northwick Park is a massive teaching and research hospital purpose build in the 1970’s with everything you could want. They have 3 MRI machines, 4 CAT scanners, umpteen X Ray machines and more ultrascan units than they could use. They have the NW London main maternity unit and even a tropical desiese unit. There is a satalite of Moorfields eye hospital and St Marks gastroenterinal hospital is on the same site. Millions were just spent upgrading and expanding the A&E so that every patient undergoing assessment now  gets a seperate room instead of a ward.

Why oh why then do they keep sending me appointments for  crappy Central Middlesex Hospital that is a 3 bus 1 and a half hour journey away ?

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Atari BASIC provides the POP command for just that purpose. If you exit a loop before its completion using a goto then you should also use POP to clear the iterator off the stack.

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How about.

int main()

{ label:;

cout << “Hello “;

goto label;

}

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Well fancy that.

I just found out that even the most recent versions of C++ still support the “goto” keyword.

Now I can make my programs even more spaghetti like than usual ?

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MS are a lot less strict with their activation than they used to be. If a motherboard and CPU combination has been registered for a version of W10 then it will probably stay registered forever.

It was not always so. I had a full retail version of XP on my Pentium 3 PC and decided to add a Blue Tooth dongle. After installing the driver Windows informed me that I was now using a totally different computer and that I would have to phone up for activation !

The lady at Microsoft told me that installing the Blue Tooth protocol stack for the dongle was considered a hardware change but seeing as I had the retail version of XP she would reactivate me just this once ?

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If you would like a pair of trainers with a name that you will at least recognise, at a reasonable price, you can do a lot worse than Lonsdale. I am on my second pair of Camden’s, they have a full leather upper and dam near indestructable synthetic sole. About £24 from Sports Direct and others.

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Come to think of it, I noticed the problem had gone just after I got a new TV. Still none the wiser though ?

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