[Dave Rice]

This is still management of the Tory party first and the country second. Unfortunately the only untouchable person out of all this is TM and she’s the problem. She will put clinging onto power before anything else.

One thing is the ERG are now a spent force, they proven to have the tactical skills of David Cameron and the planning ability of Boris Johnson. Never mind, Lord Snooty still has his Somerset manor, 5 storey mansion in London and £100 million to console himself with.

[Dave Rice]

No she’s just incompetent. Anyone who managed to lose a 20+ lead in the last election to Corbyn couldn’t conspire their way out of a paper bag. Andrew Neil had Lord Snooty backed into corners of his own making on BBC2 this evening. They are pressing them hard now on WTO matters and it’s clear that’s a bunch of half truths too.

I have absolutely no idea where this is going to end up, but wherever it is it’ll be a mess and the country still divided. There will be no winners, only losers. I can’t see anyone on any side who is capable of bringing the country together.

[Dave Rice]

People just don’t seem to understand WTO is another rules based organisation, you can’t just do what you want with no implications. If the EU dropped say the 40% lamb tariff it would have to be for all countries and not just the UK. That isn’t going to happen.

Only a single country (Mauritania) trades under just WTO rules, you create trade agreements as WTO is a bit crap. Is Mauritania the country we wish to emulate? Seriously?

[Dave Rice]

I was very careful not to say Brexit was to blame for JLR’s woes, my point was that the WTO tariffs would hardly help. Another example of being told we think X when we don’t.

Some may say Dearlove (head of intelligence at the time of Iraq) is indulging in his own Project Fear. What happens to the EU Arrest Warrant with No Deal?

The car and Aerospace industry won’t disappear overnight but they will slip away. Common sense tells you that the foreign manufacturers will put new money into the place that does the most good for their business and if we have barriers up it won’t be here. I don’t think you need an Economics degree to work that out.

We don’t even buy the cars we make, “The UK exports just under 80 per cent of the cars produced here; some 56 per cent of which go to the rest of the EU. Around 86 per cent of vehicles that are sold in the UK are imported; around 70 per cent of these from the rest of the EU”. How is WTO going to do anything other than bugger that up for everyone?

[Dave Rice]

They’re probably going to concentrate on the loss of jobs at Jaguar, a 10% tariff on their cars and 4.5% on components will really add to their woes. And no the automotive industry doesn’t think the inevitable drop in sterling will actually help them.

And what the Japanese PM has had to say: “Japanese PM tells May ‘whole world’ wants her to avoid no deal”.

[Dave Rice]

They are primarily salesmen not techies, that’s the problem. BJM once got banned from PCW for stepping in and telling a customer they were being misled.

[Dave Rice]

I’d go for the gas assisted arm as it’s not much more.

[Dave Rice]

Like the Autosave but I have an easier idea than Google Drive. With W10 and W7 you can use the “File History” backup option to a USB stick. In File Explorer in the Properties of the file there’s a tab called Previous Versions that will be populated with just that.

I believe only incremental changes to the files are saved so it should be quite reasonable on space requirements, but USB sticks are dirt cheap these days. My Memory always have a deal on.

[Dave Rice]

I love AOC monitors. Looks like a good one.

[Dave Rice]

Could well be if it’s an M2 pci-e card and not a SATA one as it will be using some of the lanes, may be all of them.

[Dave Rice]

Good luck.

[Dave Rice]

It’s not showing in the BIOS that’s what makes me think it’s hardware rather than Windows. Same horse, different jockey, whatever it’s still a non runner ?

[Dave Rice]

Synology’s Disk Station o/s (it’s Linux underneath) and free apps are fantastic at drawing everything from everywhere into one place. You can then share it all back out again very securely. Photo Station has the same sort of album function as Google Photos and the associated Moments app adds face and place recognition.

Cloud Sync knows about 19 different Cloud providers and it’s not an all or nothing affair. You can synchronise specific folders in the Cloud with specific folders on the NAS. In the case of Google it’ll even convert online documents to their Microsoft equivalents automatically.

Hyper Backup can use Google Drive, Amazon Drive, Azure, rsync and S3 compatible services as targets for encrypted backups as well as attached USB drives and other Synology servers. 256 level versioning , data deduplication and integrity checking is built in.

Even the cheapest chassis has this capability. I keep on finding new uses for them, the latest is a secure 2 way file portal for businesses.

[Dave Rice]

>4 lanes does seem a lot for a sound card but you also wonder why a sound card would be different from any other BIOS (UEFI) wise.

Just had a thought about “legacy” devices, but that can open a whole other can of worms. See if there’s a setting to put just pci-e into legacy mode, worth a try.

[Dave Rice]

The A320 is the budget end so has limited pci-e lanes compared to the B and X motherboards.

So the standards have been met but the resources aren’t sufficient. It’s like trying to carry a 30 ton load in a Transit.

[Dave Rice]

Google help here

See your Google Photos folder
On your computer, go to drive.google.com.
Click Settings Settings and then Settings.
Next to “Create a Google Photos folder,” turn on Automatically put your Google Photos into a folder in My Drive.

On the Synology – Cloud Sync, Create a new Cloud Provider, Google.

Do the sign in to Google bit then choose the local path (folder on the NaS) and remote path (Google Photos folder) Download Remote Changes Only (so Google Photos remains unchanged by anything you do on the NAS).

Then set a schedule and a polling period. I set mine to daily as that gives me time to delete anything unwanted as I tend to take multiple shots of things like licence numbers.

 

 

[Dave Rice]

I agree Glacier’s pricing is complicated, Backblaze looks easier. As I only need this sort of service for Synology backup I’m using Synology’s C2 at a tenner a year and a doddle to use with Hyperbackup.

You can use Cyberduck or Filezilla Pro to manage the transfers to S3 buckets as well as those Drez mentioned.

Personally I have an automatic sync set up between my Google photos and my Synology server. Every now and again I’ll go in and move them into Synology’s Photo Station and share them from there. Or you can install DS Photo on your phone and have them automatically sent to Photo Station in the same way Google Photos work. Unlike Google more than one person can upload to Photo Station so you can have all the families photos in one place.

A single bay DS119j is £99 and a 1TB Toshiba P300 is £37 (3TB £66) then that’s it. No more expense and a lot more things you can do.

[Dave Rice]

When your W10 boxes upgrade to 1809 (you can force it with Update Assistant) they’ll be back again.

[Dave Rice]

Well I’m sure the Chinese will have no issues selling to people the US would rather they didn’t.

[Dave Rice]

It’s the Windows update before the big 1809. I’ll try and find the KB number.

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