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I still have many PCs like that out there John, HDDs are replaced with SSD when they die out. I have no intentions of replacing them. Indeed for a new office PC I will go for a new CPU of about the same performance.
The “i5” has always been the workhorse, if you could afford it, which is increasingly the case as technology improves. The Ryzen 3 G series are now the go to.
There are a few motherboards like that, I believe it’s down to the BIOS. Not had the issue with more recent motherboards though.
You’d have thought it would have been sorted years ago but you still see PS2 ports on new mobos. I struggle to understand what legacy kit keeps it going. Keyboards it isn’t.
You won’t use as much as you think you do, unless like Steve you use it as a TV. It’s always media that eats it up.
With the kids (well adults now) we decided to go for the Three 12GB deals and be done with it as the Go Binge and family Netflix go well together, especially as 2 of them have no BB at home. No-one has come anywhere near running out and the Go Roam Around the World is a real plus for their travels.
Remember there was no vote on the deal yesterday. It wasn’t chucked out neither was the leave date amended in any way.
This is still to stop No Deal. The deal could have been passed yesterday but we wouldn’t be out until all the legislation is passes. Oh dear! I don’t like that bit any more. Or keep talking, oh no! the 31st of October just went past. That’s what the Letwin amendment was about because nobody trusts Boris.
Letwin has said he will vote for it, but he won’t be railroaded into it nor watch the clock tick away. If they get their fingers out it can be done, if the maths is right, which would always have been the case Letwin or not.
If it’s all Remainers how do you account for the DUP then? Clearly they’re aren’t and I suspect after some inspection of the detail a few more Leavers will spot they’ve been thrown under the bus too. Workers rights may well be one area the Labour Leavers look at carefully especially given the current makeup of senior ministers previous thoughts on the matter.
How many times has Boris said the letter wouldn’t be sent? Probably never if you inspect his weasel words carefully but we all know the intent was to intimate he had a way out which he didn’t. Not signing it is the attitude of a 4 year old. Technically he’s probably broken the law sending the second letter and the judges will probably be dragged back into this. And that will be the fault of Boris, not the judiciary. You don’t blame the magistrate when someone is caught speeding.
I cannot understand how you can trust this man. Is it the belief is we know he’s a liar but he won’t be throwing us under a bus, right up until he does to suit his own ambitions?
Brexiteers could have had Brexit years ago had it been done sensibly and with consensus but it wasn’t. Nearly half of the country were just told to shut up like some losing football crowd. Unsurprisingly that didn’t go down well and the more idiots like Franscois were paraded as the poster boys of Leave the worse it got. Bribing the DUP when we were told they was no money left for more worthy causes was the last straw.
As much as I don’t want another Referendum, and believe me I don’t, it may be the only way to solve this. The maths of Parliament mean that relatively small groups can hold the process hostage and I don’t see a GE solving that. At least then if it is Leave we can have a GE and the parties decide what flavour of Leave they will stand on.
Half of the country may well be pissed off but half are anyway. It takes away all the arguments over people didn’t know what they were voting for. Given the Brexit fatigue, win or lose the public as a body will say that’s it, now just get on with it and the extremists of either side can just shut up.
John, you won’t be able to tell the difference between an i5 and an i7 as you aren’t really pushing the i5. An i7 will just spend more time idling. As you have 8GB ram there’s no need to up that, the bottleneck in your system will be the disk drive. If you’ve replaced that with an SSD you’ve done all you practically can.
A new PC with an NVMe SSD (the ones that plug into the motherboard) make a PC seem even snappier but writing an email still takes just as long 😀
The BIOS messages are just that, they are not an “operating system” as such. Your interaction is limited to confirmatory key presses or selecting menu options.
After that it’s still Windows but it’s from the command line not the graphical user interface.
DOS is a totally different operating system, even though some commands still have the same name.
I think his goal was to get rid of the word backstop and change the future declaration to a harder Brexit. The question was what was required to do that? I think that may have been the topic of conversation with Veradker, just give me that what is the cost? Unless it’s outrageous I’ll pay it.
So back to the plan originally put to TM as that had been thought out already, it was nothing new just reheat it. The DUP had to go under the bus but apart from them NI would be reasonably happy. Another bribe wouldn’t have gone down well with the Tories never mind the public or the Good Friday agreement.
The future declaration? Who cares, there’s a lot can happen just change it to suit. Cost to Boris is the paying of bills we’d have to anyway and an empty promise on alignment.
I’m sure there’s plenty more devils in the detail but this is all about getting past Oct 31st with as much face as possible to bolster Boris’s GE chances. All the Brexit party can do is complain the WA is a bad deal which makes them look like the other opposition, just trying to stop Brexit to get their own way. I see they’re keeping Farage away from the cameras, it’s all Tice. But he’s tainted with Aaron Banks associations. I don’t think they dare let Ann Widdicombe lose on the media and the rest have little experience.
God knows what today will bring.
EDIT – well that’s it. More delay to scrutinise the deal and the DUP are clearly going to throw spanners in the works. I see he’s still sticking with the bravado of legally ignoring the Benn Act. I think he used the word “I” though. If someone else sent it would anyone really care as long as it was still valid?
Perhaps the MPs would like to do what people with real jobs and a tight deadline have to do, work all hours until it’s done.
I would have thought the Razer phone was well OTT for your needs. It’s also showing as unavailable ATM.
As a family we’ve all moved over to sim only. I’ve always got on with the good old boring Moto G range, several family members and friends have Huawei products at various price brackets and all are pleased with what they have for the money. The Xaomi POCOPHONE F1 seems to be a very good buy but you can’t get it from Three.
I didn’t think you thought it was any good. He’s clearly banking on giving MPs as little time to scrutinise things as possible. I’m not actually sure he’s that bothered if he wins or loses, for Project Boris getting the deal is good enough to fight a GE on especially against Corbyn.
But like laying in front of the bulldozers, his words at the DUP conference about never putting a border in the Irish Sea have proved to be yet another lie jus to get him a bit further down the road. Why does anyone trust him? I just can’t fathom it.
I’m afraid the public are going to wake up to the detail when it’s far too late because Boris will do what’s good for Boris and that’s it.
Only with an SSD, everything else is fast enough to be sat not doing much most of the time.
Brexiteers never blame themselves, it’s just not possible. Any potential problems are Project Fear and any actual ones are the work of Remainers sabotaging things.
I see all talk of sunny uplands has gone though, or £gaziilions a week for the NHS. The divorce bill will be paid in full too, I thought that was another red line but was clearly just another dog whistle. As was NI and the Union in general.
In the current happy climate I’ve bought some Euros for a trip in December because I feel come Sunday it’ll not be so good.
It just seems easier with the TV remote / phone apps. “Hey Google, turn off the living room TV”. By the time I’ve got to Hey the red button has been pressed and the TV is off.
Who knows. It looks like it’s going to fail anyway.
It’s not up to Juncker, he’s just helping Boris by putting the scares on. Let’s see what happens on Saturday.
I can’t see Boris revoking no matter what the circumstances. The DUP are screwed either way. I think they will both throw the country to the dogs rather than be seen to capitulate. Put their hopes in winning an election to get a mandate.
The only way revoke would happen is if everyone else ganged up on Boris. Corbyn won’t do that for his own selfish reasons.
I just want to see the lot pf them gone now, our constitution formalised and proper election procedures put in place. We can never let this sort of mess happen again. And I don’t mean Brexit, I mean the process should we wish to do such a thing in the future.
Started 2 days ago. Back now but internet speeds are pants.
Les, it looks like the connection method is causing the issue.
I think we’ve mentioned before (when you decided on Firewire)? that not all connections are equal. It’s probably the Firewire “driver” causing the problem, we know it’s not the drive itself.
I have no idea what the resolution is apart from changing the caddy to a USB one, preferably USB 3.
BTW the 1MB padding isn’t an issue, indeed it’s necessary as the MBR table needs to go on first, then the partition needs to start (and end)? on a MB boundary.
Mine have turned up, direct from China!
Not had a chance to test them yet.
My maths is barely up to day to day needs but I’ve always thought dark matter was a convenient fudge.
Use GParted. It should let you do anything you want – but you may have to wipe out what’s there first.
I like the idea of the display emulator, will save me mucking about with my headless VM server. Just ordered a 3 pack as I have a couple of headless PC projects coming up.
The Pi 3B I have do fire up a GUI, but at some silly low resolution. It’s rare I use the GUI these days though, but I do still use the full fat Raspian just in case.
I forgot about the SSH file method.
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