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Does he explain how it blocks a trade deal? I can’t see that anywhere.
If it’s going to be impossible with the USA because of “something” then surely it’ll be the same with other nations?
Why do we want a trade deal with the USA over the EU anyway? I just don’t get it, it makes no sense. It’s like me saying I’m turning my back on all my Bristol customers and concentrating on Glasgow.
Both sides manifestos will be unpalatable I expect, so I will probably be voting tactically on Brexit. Probably not much point in our constituency but they got a huge fright in the Euros. We’re a long way away yet, who knows what will come up but it’s going to be a dirty fight.
Boris needs a majority as no-one will work with him and it had better be a good one as parts of his own side won’t work with him on certain issues. Labour and the rest just need enough to work together but I don’t think there will be coalitions this time, too toxic.
It’s just impossible to write down a series of instructions, there’s just too many steps and variables involved. It’s not a tick box affair and that’s why apps like One Drive and DropBox were created because they are. You need to read up on the basics of windows networking and try things. First of all you must be on a private network and both devices must have network sharing turned on. If they’re not anything you attempt will fail. Bluetooth is a world of pain all on it’s own.
If it’s for sharing photos then Google Photos is what you want. Your new photos downloaded from a camera to a PC can be set to automatically upload in the background and Android phones do this by default. I believe One Drive can do this now too, but Google Photos can be viewed from anywhere by just logging in to a browser.
This is exactly what I do on holiday. My tablet has an app from my camera manufacturer that lets me download what photos I want, manipulate the size for FB etc., and then when Google Photos sees it’s on the hotel WiFi up they go.
Think I may have one of these hanging around from sons previous house rental.
Just read this on the OpenWRT page:
In some cases, it may be the case that USB port does not provide enough power to run a portable HDD or even a USB stick.
Thank God I’m out of the country for the penultimate week of campaigning. 30 days of soundbite of the day before we go away.
Today so far we’ve learned from the Tories that Corbyn will head a Government with socialist policies and the Lib Dems will cancel Brexit. Labour have told us that they almost won last time. I can’t wait for more of the bleeding obvious.
I wonder how the Brexit party will play it? Do they join the me too crowd of it’s a terrible deal? Do they just hammer the “clean break” slogan and copy the do or die approach? Unless they get imaginative I think they’re a busted flush now.
Check out “Nearby Sharing” (in the Notification Area), it’s how MS now do simple sharing and it’s via Bluetooth. It’s just for a file or two.
If it’s for moving files rather than permanently sharing them then there’s nothing wrong with the copy to USB drive then plug in and copy to other PC. I do this all the time with customers PCs and always have a decent sized USB drive in the workshop.
Sometimes easiest is best. As Steve says you could probably have it done by the time you’ve figured out all the twists and turns of Windows. I do it so I don’t have a chain of things to undo on the customers PCs. Also I prefer working with a copy of customers data rather than with it directly. Been there, deleted that 😵
Things were moving that way with Homegroups etc. but they just weren’t used enough to keep supporting due to the rise of free online storage. It was also seen as daunting by your average home user compared to letting Windows setup One Drive for you at no effort.
If you regularly need to shovel gigabytes of data around your own network, usually multimedia if at home, then proper solutions are also now relatively cheap. The Synology DS119j DiskStation 1-Bay Enclosure is £96 and a 1TB drive at £35 (2TB £50). Setting one up is a damn sight easier than wrestling with Windows ever changing fie sharing protocols, plus it will be done securely.
I agree, use One Drive, Google Drive or DropBox.
I miss my independence by not being able to ride a bike any more, car driving is just impossible. I would feel a lot less stressed if I could just jump into a vehicle and take myself off like the bro-in-law does (usually up here for a cup of tea shouting “sanctuary” as he come in the door).
You may scoff at this research but I can well believe it. Back in the day I would have gone for an hours ride in a random direction. Using public transport in the UK (outside London) just raises your stress levels. I sent 90 minutes on the bus stop on Tuesday waiting for the once an hour bus that didn’t turn up. Missed an appointment with a customer. What do I do, leave an hour earlier just in case and kick my heels at the other end?
You know why the once an hour fails? They take a bus off to cover any holes in the 6 or more an hour services as they make more money. Even when the council has sponsored the service. So you may get annoyed at traffic jams etc. but at least you are on your way, not standing in the rain hoping the next bus turns up.
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.
I’ve just found out this isn’t true. I built a new PC for a customer and no PS2 keyboard in sight. Got to site, they have an old Dell mechanical keyboard that’s PS2, thought about this post and thought sh1t.
Plugged it in, it just worked. Instantly.
Nice find.
For the latest 840 G2 I bought I went to HP websites and let it sort out any missing drivers etc. Go here https://support.hp.com/gb-en/drivers/laptops
You seem to have totally forgotten the past Troubles which makes Catalonia look like a picnic. We were EU members then. How are we treating them now? Have we imposed any contentious laws on them in the past week? Have they been used as the bargaining chip to promote the PMs personal ambitions? I can’t see anyone in NI is happy and it could well lead to extreme violence. I don’t see any guns in Barcelona, we’ve had far worse riots in London over far less.
Tusk is not a dictator, it’s not an edict. It’s a recommendation which needs to be approved. As you keep reminding us when it suits, it can be scuppered by a single country.
They may only have to wait a year.
Listening to the DUP this afternoon they have been run over by a bus which has then reversed back and forth. Customs documents between NI and the mainland? Almost all the businesses affected are small ones. The Chancellor is refusing to do an impact study. I wonder why?
I don’t much like the DUP and anything they stand for but they have been royally shafted along with the rest of NI. I fear Ed may be right and the Union will split under the strain, now both sides hate us.
Expect more devils in the detail they don’t want us to see. It’s not over yet by a long way.
MicroDream come pretty clean. There’s an ESET 400 day licence, which if you don’t have an AV is more than acceptable, a trial of Office and Adobe PDF reader. All easy to get rid of without nuking the HDD.
As far as the SSD is concerned you really want the SATA set to AHCI, they may well be IDE if the laptop is quite old.
Yes I dipped in and out of that but it made a real change.
A Tory card carrying Brexiteer mate of mine is impossible to talk to as all you get is the sound bite of the day. He has no grasp of even any basic facts arguing that no way was the EU the largest trading block in the world. No way would Airbus move out of the UK as the shareholders wouldn’t accept it. When asked who he thought owned Airbus he said it was BAE and a lot of small British investors. In fact it’s wholly owned by EADS, a French / German / Spanish company and the manufacturing is outsourced in the UK to GKN. Now owned by American asset strippers.
Amazon are also doing a “renewed program” of which MicroDream are part. I forget who the last one came from but it’s all backed by Amazon.
MicroDream currently have a T430 Core i5-3210M 8GB 120GB SSD for £220.
or the next generation on T440 i5-4300U 8GB 240GB SSD with 1600 x 900 screen for £280.
£300 gets you the current Forum Favourite HP EliteBook 840 G1 14-inch Ultrabook Laptop PC (Intel Core i5 4th Gen, 8GB Memory, 180GB SSD
The EU simply don’t need to get involved in an extension date until they see what transpires over the next few days. Nothing to do with helping or hindering Boris, they will be granting an extension it’s just for how long. Either it’s a short time to get the current deal legally over the line if it passes, or it’s another long one for a GE for referendum. They will not want to be seen to be the cause of a crash out and that includes Macron for all the hard talk (for internal consumption).
Boris has no cunning plan, he never has done, he just reacts. The only tactic has been to keep people away from the detail as long as possible and that gets thwarted every time. The only time he’s done any real work is when there was no alternative and even then in need of friends he just makes more enemies. All he can do is bluff and bluster and the EU not granting an extension is just the latest.
Did anyone see Hancock on Peston try and explain how Saturday makes No Deal more likely? Obviously he couldn’t because it doesn’t. They seem to have given up on that one today, it’s back to Boris man of the people.
He’s got this week and a bit then it’s No Confidence time. I seriously doubt there will be any late night or weekend working. This is a high stakes gamble with us as the chips. Not a single one of them is going to let up on the political tricks but they will all complain about the others doing so.
They had a weak case and rightfully failed. That it concerned Parliamentary business wasn’t the issue, that has already been thrashed out. MPs, Prime Ministers and Government are bound by the laws Parliament creates, how could it be else? A PM that doesn’t bow to the Courts is a Dictator, simple as that. That we have a PM prepared to go down that road is chilling.
In this case Boris told the Court he would do something and then did something different. That is potentially contempt of court which is very serious. It’s no surprise that someone will probably ask for the Court’s opinion on that, but they will have to be asked, they won’t just come out with it.
If it was Corbyn up to these tricks I expect you would be incandescent with rage. Well if Boris gets away with it, it opens the door to just that. Be careful what you wish for, it may come back to bite you.
I really, really wish that DNS was that simple! It was the hardest part of setting up AD on my network and keeping the PiHole doing it’s job.
It seems to me that Mozilla are pointing us to a single point of failure (or trust) – Cloudflare. But you have to start somewhere.
Governments are just going to have to live with encryption for the masses.
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