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I wonder if any other provider would be any better. Before I got her a 3 sim my daughter got very good at finding free WiFi and I suspect people are getting more savvy along with businesses feeling they have to provide it.
Even the British Legion in a back water of Bristol came under such pressure to provide it I got the job to implement it (an old colleague is the office manager). Ubiquiti to the rescue.
Bristol has had an urban 5G trial running for a while now with the University and the major players providing the infrastructure. But it’s for developers of urban solutions only, we’re talking running a city solutions. But at some stage it’s going to be opened up, should be fabulous.
1.74 was actually released in Feb 18 and it fixes Samba ver 3+ vulnerabilities, so I don’t think it’s an SM1 issue. The previous update was July 17, again Samba vulnerabilities. You have to go back to 2013 for any o/s bug fixes.
There is a Windows update that’s been knackering network access, it’s fixed by upgrading to the latest version of W10 – 1809.
You can probably still access it via it’s IP address \\ipaddress\sharename
Drez, tesco is O2, surprised that’s lacking in a big city. I get trouble in rural areas like North Cornwall, that’s why I put wireless into the family farm so they could all use WiFi calling.
Nolan, I suspect that like BT / Plusnet Smarty is their vehicle for cheapest deals so people can be sure they’re not getting the extras, like Wi-Fi calling. I see you get tethering though. Might be an alternative to my 3 mobile hot-spot sim.
I’ve been with 3 almost since day one, the rest of the family is on Tesco so I went to move.
Usual special deal crap which I pointed out were actually on their website, finally got put through to the PAC people. Unlimited mins and text, 4GB data for £9 a month for life. That was a few years ago and the real world has caught up, that’s now a standard deal but I can’t find anything better, including Smarty.
It seems loyalty does count as back in May I got caught out by the marine internet scam when crossing the channel. I phoned 3 and pointed out all I had been guilty of was leaving my phone turned on, which I thought not unreasonable as I wasn’t leaving the EU. It was their SIM that had connected me to the marine service, I was asleep. They offered to halve the charges (£17 by the time I noticed, what a rip off) but a bit of “assertion” (my daughter calls it scary Dad mode) and she let slip there was some sort of flag on my account and the charges disappeared.
I guess almost 15 years with the same provider gives them some sort of kudos somewhere.
Things are a lot more relaxed since Ballmer went, can you imagine Office for Android in his day?
They’ve realised that they don’t hold all the cards any more. Look at the phone disaster and the inroads Chromebooks have made in the academic world. A whole new generation being brought up without a bit of Microsoft software in sight.
Yes, Season Greetings to everyone.
The beef is in the oven leaving room for the girlies rose and white wine to go in, the red is out waiting. My beer fridge is stuffed to the gunwales and there’s a nice bottle of port, prosecco and Mediterranean gin from the Christmas wine box too.
Veg is all prepared, turkey goes in first thing then about noon all hell gets let loose ?
Boxing Day is the best day, just us and the best meal of all; bubble and squeak, cold meat and every pickle known to man. And more booze of course!
I’ve seen some amazing CCTV panoramic + PTZ camera shots but they aren’t as detailed as that.
Still if you have £5k spare you could do this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfuQAqt-CgM skip to 45 seconds in.
Talking about sherberts. The Mouse Christmas Pub Quiz.
My eldest asked me if we’re a family of pyromaniacs. We are son.
It really is amazing what modern CPUs can do.
The very bottom end is still dodgy but move up a bit out of soc territory and things fly.
Me too.
If you only have a C: drive to worry about EaseUS ToDo’s system backup works very well, but it’s a 2 stage process.
- Make a System Backup of the old drive to an external or network drive.
- Make an EaseUs Emergency DVD / USB (the Linux one never works, chose the Windows PE one).
- Remove old drive, put new one in and boot from the Emergency USB.
- Restore the System Backup to the new drive.
It means you don’t bring over any OEM recovery partitions, which I find are mostly useless these days. It also means that the new drive can be a smaller capacity, all it needs is sufficient room to hold the “live” system.
If you have multiple data partitions you can now create them on the new disk and just do a file copy from the old drive.
If you have a paid for Home edition the System Transfer option basically does the above but with a bit more hand holding.
It can be quicker than cloning due to the fact it’s 100% successful whereas cloning can be a PITA. Also you have created a full system backup for the future, which was going to be your first job on the new drive wasn’t it? ?
Keep on dreaming of unicorns and sunny uplands.
They are different, but I’ve used the ToDo method where other partition based ones failed.
As a PC backup product, it’s the one I use on this laptop.
The Forbes article’s author: “I cover sports business with rare dips into b-schools, local economies”.
Nevertheless. “Zandi is less optimistic. He thinks it could take multiple generations for the $2.6 billion economy to recover from Brexit. “Under the Theresa May proposal, which is most likely, the U.K.’s global orientation is diminished. It makes investment and trade more challenging,” says Zandi. “The British economic sun is definitely going to shine less bright.”
And that’s with a deal.
As BL says, although I usually do it the other way around and use Ease-US Partition Manager. Do not give the SSD a drive letter, indeed wipe it of any partitions.
When the clone is complete it’s out with the old and in with the new. Once it’s all working put the old drive in the caddy and wipe it before having both drives attached to the motherboard.
Yes internet backup does take a while, but that’s only initially.
My first backup to Synology’s C2 service took just short of 12 hours for 47GB 52,689 files @ 10mbps upload. The daily incremental takes 6 or 7 minutes including the overhead of deciding what needs to be backed up and dealing with the versioning.
I have done massive 200GB+ synchronisations with Google / Dropbox / Synology servers and the initial sync took almost 3 days, but once it’s done it’s done.
Cost is another thing, however a Digital Ocean 250GB “Space” is only $5 a month. It’s Amazon S3 compatible so there are plenty of tools about. Filezilla has an S3 plugin for instance.
I still think Google Photos is probably the best place for most peoples snaps. However if you’re going to bring it locally I’d do what I do and use a Synology Server and it’s Photo Station.
I have a one way sync setup to my Google photos folder so once a day (could be any time frame) any new photos are brought down to the server and periodically I will sort them into Photo Station albums. They can then be archived along with the rest of my backups and the Synology does all of the heavy lifting. The Synology C2 backup costs $10 a year for 100GB, $25 for 300GB and $60 for 1TB.
Victoria Atkins can afford to be heavily censured with her majority, and so can a lot of the rest on that list.
I’m still not sure what the thoughts of <0.5% of the electorate show about anything. If 48% can be ignored why should the tiny percentage of hard liners be listened to?
So you agree it does’t really show anything. I still can’t see the point in petitioning the government to debate something they’re already debating.
If Victoria Atkins is so bad for going against the wishes of her constituents perhaps you need a word with Liam Fox, Graham Brady, Theresa Villiers, Dominic Raab, John Redwood, Chris Grayling, Crispin Blunt, Kate Hooey, David Davies, Steve Baker, Jack Lopresti (my MP and ERG member), Nigel Dods and IDS.
They clearly don’t agree with their constituents, but perhaps it only works one way? I mean it would be hypocrisy if it didn’t, wouldn’t it?
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