[Dave Rice]

Lee, what I meant by admin was the boring stuff that happens in the background. Not the technical stuff, although I’ve spent most of my working life doing that sort of thing, I meant the “paperwork” things like reconciling who’s paid to membership lists.

[Dave Rice]

I don’t think there are any bad vibes Lee. We gave our honest opinions and suggestions, not demands or threats.

It is of course entirely up to you how you wish to run your Forum. I can’t see why you couldn’t leave the donate button there for those that choose to stay on the free offering.

I for one will choose a subscription if that is what you feel will be the best way to keep things going. Another suggestion that may avoid some costs and complications. Unless you’re going direct debit for the business go standing orders for the Forum. We ran the wireless ISP business on standing orders. Whichever way you go you’ll still have to check off members vs payers.

If you need any help on the admin (of anything) I have more time on my hands now I’m not 9-5.

[Dave Rice]

I think it will be the death of it. The thing is I can imagine people stumping up £40 in an annual donation drive but not £3.50 a month.

I think you need to be upfront with the annual costs you are facing and see what pledges you get before deciding.

[Dave Rice]

My old X4 rig is now in the local open prison running a 4 CCTV camera system and SIP server to give them VOIP between three buildings without digging a trench. The X3 is a standby machine for the charity but I know it’s only got a 760G mobo.

[Dave Rice]

TBH John, all I would do is get an SSD for the Lenovo. The difference will be amazing.

[Dave Rice]

The Tories are wondering why their lead is narrowing. It’s the personal attacks on Corbyn and general negative campaigning IMO.

Theresa May has nowhere to hide on this one, being Home Secretary and then PM for so long. It’s happening on her watch.

Cheap shot by Boris.

[Dave Rice]

I have to agree with Ed. That’s why the 4 year old dual core J1800 – with an SSD – runs W10 and Office 2016 quite acceptably for under £200. You absolutely do not need bang up to date kit.

There is a new socket on a chip CPU (like the J1800), the Celeron J3160 Quad Core. Like the J1800 it need low voltage DDR3L, but this time it’s the full size desktop memory. It’s also MATX rather than MITX. But you can still build a system for under £200 with W10 and O2016.

If you want a socketed CPU you can save some money by not using the very latest technology.

TBH that’s is going to do all you want and more. If you want a better case and PSU I have used this combo many times and would add £45 to the total.

[Dave Rice]

If it did find lots of bad sectors it’s slippery slope time.

[Dave Rice]

I’m building perfectly acceptable office type machines for less than £200.

They are however not designed to be upgradable. If you need to add wireless I’m using these £11  600Mbps Dual Band 2.4G/5G AC600 Wireless Usb Network Adapters.

EDIT – the cheapest Ryzen on EB is £156 and the cheapest AM4 mobo is £64. The Kabylake 3.6Ghz Pentium G4600 can handle 4 threads for £87 and the cheapest mobo is also £64.

John, worrying about future proofing is a waste of time. When you are ready to upgrade the CPU they’ll not be made any more. Not a problem, it’s called EBay or Amazon ? I upgraded one of the charities old Sandybridge machines to a 3.1Ghz i5 for £65.

[Dave Rice]

Click on the link in my post JCD ?

The long fix will be looking for bad sectors, that’s why it takes so long.

JB may have the answer.

[Dave Rice]

AFAIK all external drives are now custom jobs rather than a disk-in-a-caddy like they used to be.

My own portable external drives are ex laptop drives in a USB 3 caddy. The workshop PC has a StarTech USB3 docking station for testing / configuring drives.

[Dave Rice]

I wouldn’t think Brexit would make any difference. What tax they pay from their EMEA region is in Ireland so we’ll not see any dosh anyway. It’ll be as Ed says, access to lobbying and a pool of talent.

My son graduates this year from his Computing & Networking course and all the jobs are in the South East. He was on the shortlist for a graduate position at Meraki but they have decided not to have a graduate scheme until things settle down Brexit wise (customers aren’t spending because they’re waiting to see what happens too). I suspect he’ll end up abroad as will my other two kids.

[Dave Rice]

Sounds like borked electronics.

I suspect if you dismantle it you’ll find a customised SATA interface that you cannot access.

[Dave Rice]

JCD – my point is that it’s already been done better! This was a bunch of amateurs. They couldn’t learn the lessons from those that went before them.

But the NRA and UK Gov would have you believe it was a nation state. Would you rather only they were allowed to comment?

[Dave Rice]

Pen island make a big deal of “Specialzing in Wood” https://www.penisland.net/

I think that url was probably an inspired marketing move on their behalf.

However there’s nothing wrong with a good double entrendre fnarr fnarr

[Dave Rice]

Sorry JCD I don’t understand where you’re coming from on this. Part of the AV scene is that all the good guys collaborate and share information as the bad guys are doing that too. The black hats will have done their own research.

I attended a global webinar run buy BitDefender on the very subject of Wannacry where they were doing just that. Informing people like me how to make their customers safer. I will be attending a Synology hands on seminar in July where the very first session is “System and Data Protection: Advance Configuration”. The first thing you need to understand is what the threats are.

In the case of Wannacry there is speculation over all aspects of it and much misdirection from the institutions that got caught. The Governments involved in having the ultimate oversight, and in this case having written the code that allowed it to spread, will do anything to point the finger elsewhere. Do we want to just be fed information from them?

This had amateur written all over it from day one as it has been done very much better before. That’s why if you had patched and run AV then you would have been protected because of the lessons learned, and shared, before. It’s those that ignored the freely available information that got caught with their pants down.

[Dave Rice]

Well it’s taken a while, but here are the pictures.

Underneath the camera approx 5 metres away.

Wide angle view.

Half zoom – 10x. The chimney in the middle is on the BRI 12 miles away.

Full zoom. The horizon is Failand 16 miles away.

[Dave Rice]

Well you learn something every day. I must have had the Enterprise version in mind from my old job.

If activated I would expect the Pro to overwrite the Home other wise you would be really pissed off if a reset took you back from Pro to Home.

[Dave Rice]

You can’t upgrade to Pro, it’s a complete reinstallation.

[Dave Rice]

You are jumping far too quickly on the theory sounding the latest bones.

What about the DNA evidence for Out of Africa?

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