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The problem is there is never any come back. The same lie was repeated many times by other politicians too. The people who’s newsfeed contain nothing but these sorts of sources start repeating it as fact.
But I see we are invited to view Bojo as “clearly comically polemical”. May be there needs to be a strap line on all of his future columns, “Boris’s hilarious take on this weeks Brexit news” would clearly indicate that what follows should not be treated seriously.
They should be made to publicly correct their errors themselves, that would stop a lot of it. If the CEO of a business did this sort of thing they’d find themselves in real trouble.
I’ve got a gaming PC / media creation PC to build tomorrow. It’s going to have a GTX1660Ti so that may be useful.
It’s going to have a Ryzen 1700X as CCL are selling them for only £170. There’s an AIO liquid cooler, 3000Mhz ram and a GIGABYTE B450 AORUS ELITE going in so may have to try a bit of overclocking. Not done that for years.
Loads of LED bling going in (it’s for an 18yo), if it looks OK I’ll take some photos.
If you’ve got an M2 NVMe slot get an Adata XPG SX8200 Pro 256GB M.2-2280, ridiculously quick only £47 for 256GB. Up to 3500MB/s Read, 1200MB/s Write, 4K IOPS Read: 220000, 4K IOPS Write: 290000. Boots a 9400F based PC in under 10 seconds.
We’ve all been there Tippon. A few weeks ago I installed Kaspersky Free on a mates PC totally forgetting I’d put Avast Free on there years ago ?
I think your plan will work as only his devices would then be on the VPN. But you could achieve the same thing with a client on each of his devices. Same horse, different jockey ?
It’s a closed list variation of party list proportional representation but looking here it seems to allow for independents.
This means that political parties put forward names of candidates in rank order, the number of candidates being no more than the number of seats allowed for each region.
The ballot paper lists the parties’ names (and their candidates under the party name), and any independent candidates. Put a cross next to the party or independent candidate that you wish to vote for.
Watching Neil Oliver on BBC 4 tonight, all about the Mesolithic and the move to farming which brought about long barrows and other such monuments. The big one next week, Stonehenge. I used to go to the Free Festival every year until the authorities stopped it. That was a different sort of field trip ?
As I mentioned my Dad was right into stone circles etc. so I spent a lot of Sundays in Wiltshire as a kid. He used to go to Carnac every couple of years with his mate to do a bit more work on alignments. I must get there myself one day.
Bummer.
UKIP had a single MP (a defector at that) yet the country voted to leave. They had 14% (?) of the popular vote too. I’m not sure I can come up with a more impressive scenario than that!
I really think you’re getting over enthusiastic about things. There just doesn’t seem to be that groundswell you could feel when Major had his chops bust by Blair. Hardline Brexiteers are getting all excited, the rest of the country just seems fed up. I think they’re more likely to just not vote, especially those that never did before and voted for leave at the referendum.
The casual conversations I have revolve around people wanting Parliament to just get on with it and decide something, anything. These days people rarely say which way they voted and blame the incompetence of the whole place and don’t seem to single out any party or faction apart from TM. She should have had a consensus plan from day one, they all assumed she had as that seemed the obvious thing to do. Having voted they ignored all the boring crap coming out of Westminster and bundled it in the bloody politicians arguing box. They only noticed when it all went TU and crashing out became a possibility.
So now they’ve gone on holiday, the poor loves. So we can look forward to a pointless and expensive Euro election and a summer of scheming. TM can fall on her sword but the numbers won’t change. A hard line leader still won’t be able to force anything through a hung Parliament.
There are stock piles everywhere! In the local press yesterday the Olive supplier to the UK has 6 months worth. Manufacturers on BBC this morning talking about theirs. The recent better than expected final results – wow look at how much people are buying! – was put down to stock piling and not an economic miracle. Warehousing is in short supply. “LEIGHTON BUZZARD, England (Reuters) – In a vast warehouse complex 40 miles north of London, staff are wrestling with ways to cram in more goods after a surge in demand from companies building stockpiles ahead of Brexit. “Almost every day we receive another inquiry regarding Brexit,” Sales Director Jayne Masters told Reuters. “We have customers queuing up to move goods in.””
There are queues of container ships waiting to get in to Rotterdam etc. We were warned about this by Hikvision with regards ordering cameras, especially anything unusual.
There will not be a No Deal but a No Brexit is starting to look possible. If the hard line Brexiteers really want out of the EU they are going to have to accept a much softer deal, which they were all for not so long ago.
If that’s done quickly I can’t see much problem selling it to the country, both sides will be relieved I think and have got a bit of what they wanted (out for the leavers and not too far out for remainers). But if it gets more hard line all it’s going to do is polarise the country even more.
But who knows, this could be the moment the Conservatives press the self destruct button and shrink to the blue rinse brigade party. They’re already half way there. I wish I knew which way Labour were heading. The only parties we can be sure of are those are all in or all out and they don’t stand a scooby of getting meaningful numbers of MPs.
As is the attitude to No Deal softening. Apparently the whole cabinet were told in no uncertain terms exactly what would be the situation, especially with regards security matters, and it put the wind up them big time. It is quite clear that Parliament will not allow No Deal. If there is no extension I expect Revoke over No Deal to be the result.
All anyone bangs on and on about is Trade and especially tariffs. I have always said this is probably the least of our worries but it’s the lowest common denominator the ERG can play on and brush aside the really important things.
If there was a techno border solution the German / French / Swiss customs would be using it, so the question is why aren’t they? If there won’t be issue why have millions been spent on preparations for a non-existent problem? What are all the stock piles for? Why have £900bn of financial assets been moved?
Common bloody sense tells anyone that throwing away 40 years of integration overnight can bring nothing but problems in every aspect of our society that will go on for years.
This doesn’t feel like a New Labour ousting the Tories moment, Yvette Cooper will be quite safe. It’s certainly not going to swing towards the UKIP types as far as seats go, we know that from past elections. There is only 1 standing in our area in the council elections so I’m not sure they’ll figure there either.
You cannot predict anything from the Newport By Election and there are many more twists and turns to come before we get to a GE. We may still be in limbo, we may be out, we may have revoked, there could be a TM / Corbyn agreement, there will be a new Tory leader. All will move things in one way or another.
That sounds fine to me as you have to “opt-in” as it were. But how does a PC assigned to a router VPN temporarily disable it? I guess it can’t. May not be an issue. It still doesn’t solve the public WiFi scenario.
Whatever the technical solution you still need a VPN service provider. It looks like Nord allow router connections (via OpenVPN or IKEv2) so you can have a mixture of router (or proxy) and app under the same account i.e.the best of both worlds.
I’m not sure I’d buy a device preflashed with Nord, what happens if you need a security update? But one of the Asus Merlin routers looks good, or one of the proxy devices for more plug and play. There’s the usual potential WiFi issues with any box.
I suspect it’s a VPN to get around geographical issues with Netflix etc. I wouldn’t go down the router route as everyone will be affected all the time which will have unintended consequences for anything that wants you to be in the UK. I would be looking at Nord VPN as you get 6 devices for £2.29 a month.
VPN for “security” is over hyped, it’s hard to make a case for anyone needing it at home. If you use public internet, fair enough. What follows is for security, not geographical redirection.
I set up my own OpenVPN server in DigitalOcean for $5 a month, there’s a script that does it all for you. Mine is in London, but I could have a server in the US or any other country DO have a data centre in. How well that works with Netflix I have no idea but all they have to do is block DO’s IP range and that’s that (the same applies to any VPN exit point). There are OpenVPN clients for all the major devices.
Or get Kaspersky Total Security or Security Cloud , it comes with Secure Connect @ 300MB per day (random nearest country). More than enough for most peoples use for when they really need a VPN – and Kaspersky advises you on that **. If that’s not enough unlimited and choice of country for 5 devices is £50 a year, comparable with Nord. I have it installed on Windows, Android and iOS. Kaspersky licences are cheap enough on Amazon, Security Cloud – Family | 20 Devices | 1 Year £25. Even Kaspersky’s prices only work out at £7.50 a device.
I would never impose a VPN on my whole network, there really is no need and it won’t protect you where you really need it which is outside of the home. Just put a dedicated VPN client, like Nord, on each device that needs it or use Kaspersky to get the best of both worlds and sort out the other aspects of internet security at the same time.
I have both Kaspersky and my own VPN server. Why? Because it was a learning exercise and at $5 a month I can offer it to customers as a freebie plus all my family and friends share my Kaspersky Cloud so I need to know how that works when they get over enthusiastic. **
If you need geographical obfuscation then you really need the likes of Nord who will try and keep one step ahead of Netflix and allow you to change back to UK if you need to. But never, ever on the router.
If you need a VPN for secure site connections, ignore everything I’ve said ? Plus it’s a lot easier!
** one friend is a freelance draughtsman who does work for the business I built the mega-cad machine for. I also do the rest of their IT from the (Draytek) router onward so I know everything is secure. Kaspersky decided the office SSID had too common a name so must be insecure and prompted him to invoke Secure Connection, which he did. He then phoned me as his laptops’s WiFi was dropping connection to their server after a few hours every time he was there. Given the size of the cad files they chuck about I’m amazed it wasn’t a few minutes. When he connects to the office from home via the Draytek VPN, Kaspersky is quite happy – which it should be. So the caveat is, as always, nanny doesn’t know best.
But how can we be trusted by anyone after this little lot? Not only is the border an issue but also the Good Friday agreement. All we seem to be showing is contempt for everyone inflamed by the crass comments of Francois and Lord Snooty et al. They are becoming the face of Brexit.
Nobody can take us at our word. We will agree to something today and say we can cancel it the day after because we don’t have stability. We are going to be easy meat for Trump because we’ll be so desperate.
I’m not sure the country can take much more of this crap. How much longer can businesses afford the warehousing for everything they’ve stockpiled for an event that hasn’t happened and seems unlikely to any time soon? How will they sell it at anything but a knock down price (probably having paid extra for it) because the demand won’t be there only to probably have to do it all again in 9 months time?
So please no-one say there have been no economic affects because of Brexit because there clearly have been. Everyone I know has had their worst year ever. Holiday bookings are down in both directions and so are staycations. The High Street is going bust, industry is not investing, financial assets are leaving the country. Nobody can plan anything substantial beyond next month because we have no idea what awaits us any further than that or even next week.
At this rate we’ll soon be back to the 70’s. I may have some flairs and a tank top somewhere… actually bondage trousers and safety pin piercings may be more appropriate. It’ll have to be a horizontal Mohican though, nothing left for a vertical one.
The ERG have finally gone totally Tonto, warning that EU that we are Perfidious Albion. They also want to break the WTO rules on Day One with regards most favoured nation. Also there’s the idea of zero tariffs on everything.
I thought they wanted to do Free Trade Deals with all and sundry? This all argues against anyone ever wanting to go anywhere near us. Mind you, why would they need to if we gave them free access anyway? They warn that TMs replacement won’t be bound by anything she agrees anyway.
And they wonder why the EU insist on an insurance backstop? I can’t wait until the media put this lot back in the loonies box to only be wheeled out when you want an extreme quote everyone will laugh at.
I agree in principle Ed, but a Linux session works OK. Worth a try though.
You can find examples like this for any MP. The thing is if they’re being whipped they will say one thing under collective responsibility. When they can say what they want they are free to say what they believe.
What about all those, including BoJo and Rees-Mogg who flip flop on the House of Lords (depending on what the HoL have decided) and trash TMs proposals only to vote for them a day later. There are very few conviction politicians about (BoJo is not one of them) and the two party and whip system discourages them.
My MP – ERG member – used to be quite the rebel until he got a ministerial job. Since then he’s strictly followed the whip. A keen runner, in Parliament he backed the local council charging a £1 a head for park run. The council head is I believe a big cheese in the local Conservative Association, but I’m sure that had nothing to do with it. He is a councillor in my ward, 3 Tories standing for 3 seats. They’ll all get back in again.
There are so many questions I need to ask.
Do you want to VPN in to your site from a PC etc. or connect your site to another via VPN?
Most of the “VPN” routers you’ll find are the latter not the former i.e. they are a VPN client and not a VPN server. This may of course be what you need, in which case my next question is why do you need a VPN?
If it’s the former, i.e. you need to VPN in to your site you need something like a Draytek.
To confuse matter you’ll find article in places like How To Geek referring to setting up VPN servers when they are in fact setting up a site wide VPN client.
Whatever, I can point you in the right direction but I may disagree a router is the best way to go about it.
A reset should totally uninstall any desktop apps so if you say some are partially uninstalled it’s forked up, so you’ve nothing to lose by doing a fresh install (back up the data). That will be a lot quicker than trying to sort it out, which I don’t think is possible any way. It sounds like the IP stack is totally knackered at a fundamental level.
Don’t install two antiviruses and I wouldn’t install either of those in any case. Kaspersky Free will probably do everything they need. Install O&O Syspectr so you can monitor and remotely access the PC in the future.
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