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Ed – I don’t think there’s any “maybe” about it – or any doubt – you will already have been informed of any and all misdemeanors, (un)intentional or otherwise!!?
I thought you might have been playing with a new one.:)
PM – I looked at the plus – it felt like it was less of a comfortable fit than the G5, I also prefer the removeable battery in the G5 to the permanently fitted one in the Plus. There’s not a lot in it with respect to the cameras except the video is 2160 – 1080 is fine for me.?
There’s a different answer depending on whether your query is in regard to friends/family/partner.
In the case of friends, if you think you’re doing the right thing – so long as you’re not deluding yourself – the problem is theirs.
With respect to family, the above applies, but extreme caution needed.
With respect to a partner – that’s quicksand!! ie don’t go there!!
@admin – Lee, what phone are you using now?
I’m looking to get the MotoG5 – I’ve been keeping an eye on it for a while now, since before it was released. Despite having big hands, it’s more my head that thinks the G5 Plus is too big. I’m getting there ( in stages:) ) though. The Nokia N8 was 3.5, the Z3 Compact is 4.6 and the G5 is 5.0. I’m comfortable with that. I’m looking to get the Dual Sim from Amazon, not because I need 2 sims, but because it has 3Gig memory as opposed to the 2Gig in the single sim version. :good:
I expect nothing! However that was the way the old MM forum acted. As I posted – this is not a big issue, there are work arounds. I’m still searching for the key combo that causes my fat finger problem (not Alt back arrow as I’m a one hand typist and even my fingers/hands are not that big!). As I use Linux on a M$ keyboard I suspect that it is a Winkey combo that is the problem.
Backspace sometimes has that effect, but only in some browsers, not all – Firefox is one – I remember I used to use it before I got a mouse with forward and back buttons..
Wouldn’t a 12v laptop power unit provide enough power to the CB?? What sort of current are you looking at??
Google tells me between 2 and 5 amps at the outside. 5A is for the very powerful 50w TX. Also thinking about it, you could go up to 14/15v without too much fuss.
My lad just said something to me Interesting. “do you think it went wrong, as 22 is a low number, for such a packed place “.
I heard on one of the reports that Ariana Grande came back for an extra song, so only the early leavers and waiting parents/family were near the foyer, otherwise it would have been packed with all the people leaving after she’d finished.
What is it you are hoping to achieve, Lee? What are you looking to power on the bench? Drop a few details and maybe someone like OldLes could give you some advice. He’s designed and built a power box to drive some heavy duty lathes. There could well be a better option than butchering/modifying a PSU.
The system is completely shot. The biggest problem is that the “Care” industry has too many owners/managers all taking their cut, and the NHS, which has too many middle managers, all taking wages and contributing little to the actual care of patients or clients.
Company’s pockets are being lined while the public ( and the government ) is saying money is short. The whole nightmare is exemplified by Agency Nurses. They work for the NHS while they are training, go off to work for an agency when they finish training and very often come back to do the jobs they were performing previously under the NHS. The problem is, the cost charged by the Agency outweighs what the NHS would have paid to cover that job. Dead money going to line private pockets while depriving the NHS of much needed finance. I’m sure that for the money you pay 4 agency nurses, you could create another nursing post ( job ) with the added benefit of taking someone out of unemployment.
The cost of care homes is a similar situation. The money paid to Private Nursing Homes – lining the pockets of the owners – would be better utilised in providing more staff or more homes to cope with the growing demand. Selling things off into private ownership doesn’t save money, it just costs the system more to pay for the service, than it did to provide it.
The actual organisation of care is just as bad. In the late 90’s my father had cancer of the bowel which meant my ( blind ) mother couldn’t care for him at home. He spent more time in a critical care ward @ £1000 per week, than he did in a Nursing Home @ £350 per week. Mum had to chase the system to get him out of the hospital and into a home. Had she not been on the Community Health Council for years and knew who and where to put pressure on, Dad’s care would probably have wasted £1000’s through inefficiency.
When Mum couldn’t look after herself at home after a bad fall and needed to go into a care home we sold her bungalow and paid for the care. That racked up £100k – £500 per week over about 4 years.
I don’t know about a real democracy or a benevolent dictator Ed, I just think we need a real leader for our government and our parliament, not just a succession of front-(wo)men. Our Nations’ only hope is for a Winston Churchill type character, or God forbid, another war.This election, I think, will be remembered for an extremely low turnout, rather than the result, even though the low turnout will have more influence on the result than anything else. People are fed up with the sort of confrontational politics displayed at PMQ’s when Corbyn was asking about the leaked text on Council Tax. The last time I saw behaviour like that ( from both sides ) was in a schoolyard at playtime when two cliques had a near physical disagreement while the Head wasn’t looking.
I’ve gone through the options and I don’t see a party that merits my support.
Conservative – TM has done more to ruin any uptake than anything else – and that was before this latest shambolic nonsense. She called the election to show Europe that Britain was united behind her and strong and steady in their intent. It looks like she might have made the same mistake as Cameron – underestimating the British public.
Labour – JC lost all credibility when he was at the microphone at the meeting on Anti-Semitism where his own Labout MP got heckled and abused and he stood there with his mouth open, listening to the abuse spouted and did nothing. If you can’t support and protect your staff, you don’t deserve to be a boss, be that a company of 5, 50, 500 or 5000. Or a parliament or a country. He had the temerity to issue a whip on the Brexit vote when just a few years ago, he was proudly proclaiming that he’d not followed a whip vote for most of his life. See HERE.
John Major was described as the “Grey Man” – JC is positively ashen!!
LibDems – were the protest option until their caving in u-turn on student loans. With a weak ineffectual leader that sounds more like he’s prevaricating when he’s trying to be decisive.
UKIP – were the protest vote for anybody that couldn’t stomach the LibDems, and didn’t like Europe. They have succeded in achieving what they wanted and seem stuck in No-Man’s Land with nowhere to turn. This was exemplified in the recent local elections that decimated their numbers.
Greens – nice goals and principles, but don’t make me laugh.
I’ve deliberately missed out the Scottish Nazionalists and Plaid Cymru because my vote is in England.
I really worry, because my only option seems to be the Monster Raving Loony Party.
To put all this in context, I’ve been a lifelong Labour supporter – but not lifelong voter – they get my support and my vote most of the time, but there have been times when I just couldn’t, and this is one of those times.My brother worked in Saudi for a good few years, doing data wiring at Riyadh and Jeddah airports. He recounted tales of vehicles, abandoned at the side of the road, supposedly just broken down, or run out of fuel. I could never understand how they stayed there, often becoming mini dunes by the roadside, until he explained how difficult it would be to drive with nothing past your wrists!!
Previously, you kept the Sky Box as you needed somewhere to plug the viewing card into…… Sky deemed you to have bought it by the time your contract ran out :good: – presumably the same will apply to the Q box.
Edit:- On the channel front, apart from BBC/ITV/C4/C5, most of what I watch is on Sky 1, Sky Living, Sky Atlantic, Fox, Universal, Alibi hardly any of which are on the Freeview/Freesat package.
Cheers Dave.?
Caution is a wonderful thing, but reality trumps it every time!! The problem is, all you get is the scare/buy me/do this that in actuality is glorified marketing, and very little – understandable – information regarding what to do and how to do it.
If/when your ankle/legs get to the stage they impact your ability to do what you’re doing now, you would have a good option as a blogger/writer. Your clear, lucid, easy-to-get-your head round style make things easy to get the gist of and act accordingly – sort of “IT News for Dummies” style!!
What does SMB 1 actually do? Considering most of us upgrade our OS, and probably have legacy programs etc., is disabling it likely to affect anything?
From my ZDNet link:-
Your PCs that run Windows 10 were protected from that exploit, but that doesn’t mean you’ll be so lucky the next time.
In the interests of implementing a comprehensive, multi-layer security policy, Microsoft recommends that you disable the SMBv1 protocol completely. The world has already moved on to SMBv3, and there’s no excuse for continuing to let that old and horribly insecure protocol run on your network.
I get a lot of dross from my ( historic ) AOL account, but there are loads of sites that have it as the log on ID. I just have my Gmail account set to check all mail from AOL, and use either Thunderbird or a browser tab to view it. In the browser tab, in Gmail, I can monitor any junk or spam and either delete it manually or let Gmail do it after 30 days. Once a month I log in to AOL and check for anything wrongly sent to Junk/Spam ( very rare ) and delete it all from that folder.
A bit more time-consuming than it needs to be, but no real biggie!! It works. :good: As the Duke says though, send all new o/g mail from a new service.
Do they want to just watch or record as well? – makes a difference of £100+ – by all accounts and reviews Humax give the closest “Sky experience”.
They are for sale in Currys/PCworld so get them to go see if they like the box and how it works ( they should have one connected for a demo) but maybe call first. Other than that a quick google should show them a local Home Cinema retailer/installer that almost definitely will.
The NowTV box is great, I’ve had one of the old ones for about three years now and recently got one of their new Smart boxes. They are almost free when you buy 3 or 4 month passes for Movies or Entertainment off Ebay. The codes work fine, just look for very good feedback. The interface/EPG is clunky and a bit slow, after being used to Sky it drives me nuts – it’s a bit like when you ask a very lowly CPU to do some intensive work – it thinks about it for a few seconds then starts it.
EDIT – Just buy a new quad LNB off Ebay again and some cable. Unless the dish is very old it’ll still work. My dish is almost 10 years old now, I just bought a new Quad LNB and ran the cable in along the old route. It works fine. The hardest part if he buys a new one is getting it aligned, but an installer might well do it reasonably cheap if the mount is already there.
It reads as though it is a Sandbox (like Sandboxie) . If so use the options that let as little as possible out into your normal user space, but most definitely go into your Windows control panel before hand and disable smb1 link
That link – despite being from Microsoft – got me bogged down in server/client, registry talk, that I couldn’t easily get the little bit info I needed from the multiplicity that I didn’t. :negative:
A little searching gave me THIS one from ZDNet ( anything to do with the publisher Ziff Davis?? ) which was a lot more down to earth and straightforward. :good: A quick restart sorted it out.
+1 to Dave’s advice. I use that programme to back up everything on T’Bird – I also used it for Firefox when that was my default browser ( now on Chrome ). I seem to remember some cautions/warnings expressed about no longer supported or up to date, but I used it successfully when I moved to a new W10 PC last year.
Well, the cynic in me thinks that Acronis have used the attack as a marketing tool, or ( what they say ) Acronis is the only backup that stops ransomware attacks like WannaCry.
From an email I got from them this morning:-
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What do you guys think?? From what I’ve read here and elsewhere, the only way to cover your ar*e is a regime not a product.
“An almost unknown City company, Innisfree, with only 14 staff, is the largest single player in the PFI market, owning or co-owning 269 PFI schools and 28 hospitals.
On the Companies House page for Innisfree, – HERE – out of the 88 entries under that name, there are 55 variations at the one address – 1st Floor, Boundary House 91/93 Charterhouse Street, London, England, EC1M 6HR. Under the people tab, it shows a lot of names that re-occur across all those companies. They seem to resign as a Director or Secretary of one company and re-appear as a Director or Secretary of one of the others!! Interesting……
We are talking BIG numbers with this crowd. THIS document shows their Group structure on page 3 and 19. Complex or what!!?? Mind boggling numbers on pages 9 and 10, along with p*ss poor tax ( £841k on £14,682,000 profit before tax – page 17 ). Three shareholders – see page 5, – share £8m in dividends ( page 17 ). Previous year that sum was £20m!!
Good business this PFI what??!!
I realise that one document can hardly fully reflect the whole picture, but if that money was invested on the NHS’s behalf, how much good could the profits do for the NHS.
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