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Use the search facilities, they are very good. There is absolutely no need to wander through menus looking for things.
Being of a certain age, my FB has been full of the news. It’s sparked some nostalgia – anyone remember the Water Margin?
It’s always something daft John.
Glad you noticed the warranty, knew I forgot to mention something!
For the others, basically after registration the HP app, which is worth keeping, offers you a very good extended warranty deal. Everyone I know has gone for it, I did the same with a similar offer from Lenovo. IIRC it’s <£90 for onsite and replacement if repair not possible.
MicroDream do an extended warranty for the G1 too, 3 years RTB for £30.
I’ve bought half a dozen of those HP Ryzens this year, but the 256GB SSD version. Very nice machines and cheaper with FullHD screens too! Link
Refurbished I’ve bought nothing but the HP EliteBook 840 G1 14-inch Ultrabook Laptop PC (Intel Core i5 4th Gen, 8GB Memory, 180GB SSD Now £300 at MicroDream.
Take your pick, they cost the same.
The G1 is a fantastic machine for those that want a small laptop or travel. The 256GB SSD Ryzen has a Full HD screen which is much better if you work with larger spreadsheets or documents. Note the 1TB one you linked to only has 1366 x 768
Both are very nippy and that is of course down to the SSD and helped by 8GB of ram and decent CPU. Customers of both, which includes my Mrs (a G1), are happy with their purchases and recommending them to others.
Check if it’s seen in the BIOS. If it isn’t suspect a cable problem.
So we just ignore it and let them say anything they want anytime they want without fear or favour?
This isn’t about the speculation on the future or policies etc. it’s about specific provable lies being told, exactly the same thing we hold others to account. If a car manufacturer claims they will be making a car that will do 1,000 miles per gallon that’s fine. If they say this car does 1,000 miles a gallon and it doesn’t, or they took deposits on that basis that’s the sort of thing we’re on about. Deliberately misleading people, not your normal Question Time back and forth.
Case in point our Metro Mayor campaigned saying he would stop a specific contentious housing development and gained a lot of votes from people in that area on the back of it. Because “housing” came into his remit it seemed plausible and he was taken at his word. Once in office it turns out he didn’t have the powers to do so nor any influence in that area.
If that had been someone selling a product or attracting investment they would be in trouble sharpish. We don’t put up with that so why do we put up with politicians? As I said that I thought the judiciary was not the right place for it but in the absence of anything else you have to start somewhere.
But they are mostly all as bad as each other and they come back in the end. Even Hamilton managed it although the more popular in their parties will be parachuted back to a safe seat asap.
Perhaps they need to be barred from office like company directors can be banned.
So we do nothing and legitimise the telling of deliberate and ever bigger lies by our politicians? How can that be acceptable when we don’t allow it in all other parts of society? There must be a way of holding them to account in the same way we do others.
Surely that is the way you “drain the swamp”, not just throw more alligators in there?
It has to start somewhere, we don’t put up with this behaviour anywhere else. If it’s just ignored it’s going to get worse and worse. It’s a massive trust issue.
Some sort of official standards authority, like that applied to advertising etc. but that doesn’t yet exist. If it had been a published article they’d have to print a retraction, not ramp the same lie up and up.
Saying that the courts would get jammed so ignore it wouldn’t be applied to an increase in other misdemeanours, the cry would be for more resources to deal with the problem. If the politicians can’t keep themselves honest then maybe there must be a mechanism to do so.
It’s the same as PiHole really. Can you have your own whitelist?
That’s a real shame. As I mentioned I think some others will start moving into the unlimited data market this year as the Three offering is going down very well.
Over the coming months I’m going to do some more research into antenna with some specialist suppliers. May cost quite a few bob more but the savings to be made are also high.
Went onsite today but they’ve changed the locks and forgot to tell me Doh! But remote access to the CCTV system has been spot on and 100% reliable, which is the main purpose of the project. There’s a PC and printer going in next week as they are now confident enough it can be used as a satellite office.
Permanent VPN connectivity to HQ’s Draytek via the Huawei router client slows things to a crawl, it’s just not up to it, but using Windows built in VPN client on a PC works a treat. In the reverse direction I have a Pi set up with an OpenVPN server which was great, but it’s inaccessible lately. Whether it’s crashing or not recovering from power off I won’t know until I get there. If the routers pass through (modem) mode works I’ll get a Draytek for that end too.
So far so good. I intend to also set up Raspberry Pi Internet Speed Monitor to see if there are any changes over time of day etc.
Ah OK. Must have been a mis rumour at the time. The 800 was the best PC around at the time but much ignored. People totally missed the fact that a cartridge didn’t have to contain a game, it could be assembler. I still remember some of the commands.
I wouldn’t touch 5G for at least a year. TBH I think 4G is going to do all I need with little compromise.
I’ve converted all the customers Synology backups to my server to a C2 Cloud service. 1 TB in Frankfurt with all the bells and whistles for 85 Euros a year, a tenner each. No brainer for many reasons.
Might be a solution for your Eire server @Drezha. Basic 100GB is only a tenner a year Plans.
There will be no weight to it. Ubiquiti do a rubber cup windows mount and they work well so it may be OK.
I believe you can get adaptors between SMA and TS9 etc. One thing I learned from the WISP days was the cable is as important as the antenna which is why you see moans on Amazon about using them with extension leads.
In my case I have Ethernet from the attic to the workshop and a good WiFi backbone too. I’ve deliberately not put all my eggs in one basket so changing the way the internet is presented should be pretty painless and I don’t care about the WiFi on any ISP provided kit.
It looks like the B311 has a pass through (modem) mode, I’m on site tomorrow and will have a proper look. That means you could just plug it into the Ethernet WAN port of any decent router. My Dect base station is on the ground floor and the phones work just fine upstairs so reversing the location shouldn’t be an issue. I have until 1st September 2020 to plan, not that I’m counting the days or anything ?
A lot could happen between now and then including 5G. My guess is that Three’s offering will do well and the others will start to offer the same services, especially Vodaphone. It’s a game changer that’s for sure.
We are going off topic (as usual) but I loved Atari Basic (written by MS BTW). The things you could do with it, including adding your own commands.
“Pac Man” in 5 lines is stretching it a bit but there dots, a pac man and a ghost. I used to like changing the colour of the “paint pots” on a horizontal blank to appear to have many more colours than there where. Of course no one line could have more than the mazimum.
The vertical blank delay was enough to get tons of things done and of course Page 6 was where you put all your code. I seem to remember using strings to hold code too. It was a long time ago, I was off work for 2 years after my accident, so I had time to teach myself. That’s what lead to my later career in IT. Can’t program for toffee now.
Back to school kit, I don’t think at this age anyone need get hung up on MS. Chromebooks are massive in education globally for a good reason. Now you can run Android apps on them there is a crossover to home tablets. The office tools are more than adequate, some very large businesses depend on them now. But I agree at high school and getting ready for the outside world Microsoft skills are a must.
I don’t think this is a “Brexit” issue, it’s just come to a head at this time because of the huge lies told. I agree, let’s get some others “in the dock” too but it has to start somewhere.
There are strict standards protecting the public and businesses from being lied to. Apparently politicians don’t need to come under this type of scrutiny as the public aren’t totally daft and we decide at the ballot box. That’s like saying we don’t need an advertising standards authority because people will see through blatant lies and not buy a product.
The courts may not be the proper place for this, but again it has to start somewhere and the courts are where we sort out disputes. I’m 99% sure that the legal arguments that will take place will result in no-one being in any dock anywhere, but I think it is important it’s discussed.
I’m afraid that justice is usually bought by the one that can afford it.
Sainsburys signed a contract to buy Bristol Rovers ground. Plans were made for a new on the edge of town stadium in conjunction with the University of the West of England. In the meantime the arse fell out of the supermarket business and at the High Court Sainsburys got out of it by saying that Bristol Coumcil had put “onerus” conditions on the planning.
The onerus conditions were that they wouldn’t have deliveries at unreasonable hours as the site is literally in the middle of housing that’s been there 100 years. Who wouldn’t see that coming? Tesco had the same conditions imposed a few years before on a nearby site. They went ahead and slowly dripped in the delivery schedules they wanted until it became “normal” in the eyes of the court, much to the chagrin of the locals who thought a condition is a condition.
The High Court decided that Sainburys didn’t have to appeal the conditions nor lend their name to one Bristol Rovers might put in and therefore the contract was void. I’m sure Rovers paid a fortune for a “watertight” contract. They were too far beggared by legal fees to do any more legal fighting so we still have an inadequate stadium in a city location and no resources for UWE and it’s local community. Winner Sainsbury’s ditched a site they no longer wanted, losers tens of thousands of Bristolians. Big winners – the legal teams on both sides.
Well the Ryzens I’ve got out there aren’t disappointing. The i5 hex core gamer is going great guns too, but it’s the only Intel I’ve done this year. However there’s a bespoke built i7 9750H RTX 2060 laptop coming in from the CAD boys for configuration next week.
Another 200GE Office PC on the bench for delivery on Friday. Pretty much bread and butter now with 256 SSD and 8GB ram. Even if Intel get the Pentiums going again I can’t see me using them.
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