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It’s not eggs in one basket if the files are backed up properly. 1 locally and 1 remote.

My customers backup to a local USB HDD weekly and to my Synology daily. My Synology backs up to another local one daily and also to C2 weekly. I also have it backing up to a Digital Ocean C2 Spaces which is much faster than the Synology C2 but $5 for 250GB a month.

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Trackpads often use the old PS2 connection, might as well if it’s still there on the mobo.

I have a cheap wifi mouse (Victsing off Amazon) and it works absolutely wonderfully until all of a sudden it scrolls downwards so fast you’re at the bottom of a web page and you haven’t even touched the scroll wheel. Only seems to happen on web pages and the actual browser seems immaterial.

It’s intermittent enough that I can just shrug it off but it’s very annoying when it

 

 

 

 

 

 

happens ?

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We have diverged again ? Some think they did Bob. Flint worked to a European pattern found dated to the end of the last ice age. They think climate change later wiped them out before what we think of as native Americans came down from the north. Mind you theories change all the time as we get better at things like DNA. I find it fascinating.

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? from me too. I have a reinstall to do over the weekend.

I’ll keep my existing USB drive as it is though, just in case 1809 causes problems.

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We are a mongrel nation, always have been. I’ll bet the Neolithic locals of the time were moaning about the poxy Bronze Age Beaker people coming here and nicking our Stonehenge. They were up your way too Bob, western Europe’s oldest plank built boat was found in the Humber Estuary. Bloody economic migrants, they’ve been up to it for thousands of years ?

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I’ve just been watching Nadine Dorries’s masterclass in wild speculation presented as fact and then that fact attacked. All in one rush, don’t let anyone get in and challenge the premise. It’s quite funny when it happens though, I saw a Sky reporter interrupt and pull her up over the use of vassal state when that was sound bite of the week. She had no answer apart from “that’s what people are calling it”.

Also praising Mervyn King, who was actually in charge of the BoE when they failed to see the crash coming, not Mark Carney. But they think he’s on their side now so we can gloss over that bit and mangle history again.

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John, in my opinion I don’t think you have anything to lose and may have something to gain.

If you don’t send the forms back you’ll likely get “reminders”. Now you’ve started might as well carry on but don’t part with any money up front!

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Nowhere has Duke, or anyone else, said anything about the EU being Utopian. Please stop putting words in other peoples mouths.

I can see that you imagine our deal will worsen, but that’s only in your opinion. Federalisation? I’m all for it.

I see on the news that the rollover of our existing trade deals isn’t as certain as it was assumed it would be. That will be fun.

WoF, we have to pay what we owe. How will it look to potential partners if we demonstrate that we don’t give a fig for our obligations? It’s not payment for a new deal, it’s settling up our part of the finances. The amount may be right or wrong, I have no idea, but the principle is just that. We have to settle up before we leave.

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Don’t worry about it, you won’t notice any difference.

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The word vassalage is deliberately inflammatory and patently untrue. But hold on! This is where the European Army comes in! http://www.thefinertimes.com/Middle-Ages/vassals-in-the-middle-ages.html

Another important duty of a vassal was to attend to his feudal lord during court. He was also responsible for recruiting more men for his lord’s army, protecting and managing his lord’s manor, supervising all of the serfs and peasants who lived on the manor, and acting as a mercenary for his lord.

Honestly it doesn’t help using such language, I think everyone has seen through it by now.

But how can we end up in a backstop when the easiest trade deal ever is there for the taking?

I still haven’t seen any plan for the Irish border apart from calling the EU out over a game of chicken. “Go on, we dare you!” With negotiations skills like that international trade deals should be a piece of the proverbial.

Sorry, I forgot. Bojo wants to build a 25 mile long bridge. Didn’t he want to do that to Calais too at one stage? and spent £37 million planning a garden bridge across the Thames. Seems he likes building bridges everywhere he shouldn’t and not where he should.

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Hang on in there Richard.

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Well if it is all up in the air whatever direction then I’d rather the FUD we know and not the great unknown.

OK so in theory we could be nimbler than the EU at trade deals, but how many trade deals did Canada make in the 7 years it took to get the EU one? Answer, to the same scope, none. So unless you want a deal on the same scale as Jordan, Panama, Honduras, Korea and the Ukraine it will take a long time. BTW they took 4 years+

Sounds great in theory but in the real world? It’s all hopelessly optimistic and any potential downsides are never admitted never mind discussed. Let’s face it, according to the Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade the easiest deal was going to be with the EU wasn’t it?

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And of course it came back again before I got around to trying to stop it.

Microsoft says a specific update can be hidden and pointed me to wushowhide.digicab but that could find nothing to hide.

So I fired up Syspectr and the option was there, ticked the box and it seems to have gone. We’ll see.

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I applaud the inventiveness involved in demonizing anything the EU do, or don’t, but that’s all it is, demonization not rational debate. Once you start believing it you can apply it at will.

Imagine if the EU behaved the way our Parliament is currently doing! Then you may have a point. What an absolute shower, they will always put themselves first.

Hopefully we are now nearing a pragmatic softer Brexit, but of course that just won’t be good enough. You can’t just be out, you have to be out out (to quote Micky Flanagan). I’m not sure I can see the EEA wanting us in with them though, we wreck everything in the end. I’m sure it will only take 2 minutes to start accusing Norway of something or other.

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My son is doing a PhD in Chemistry but I can’t persuade him into making anything fun ? The scorch marks on the bedroom carpet are still there after his first serious chemistry set experiments 15 years ago ☠

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W-o-F it’s been talked about for 70 years! It is not a new thing whatsoever. I think you can thank Trump for it’s latest resurrection. He wanted Europe to stop relying on the US and now they’re talking about it it’s rubbished. Talk about damned if you do and damned if you don’t. This is just another example of the scare the children tactics with a huge spoonful of jingoism.

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I’d check the ram as well. The other good test is try and whack Linux on there, shouldn’t take long.

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Yes joining the Euro was a terrible decision. In 2003 we could buy a Euro for 73p, today it’s 89p. But that’s a totally different argument to leaving the EU and you’ll find those for and against.

You seem obsessed by the European Army. It’s been talked about for 70 years and will probably still be being talked about in 70 years time. It’s another Turkey. I still don’t understand what the problem is though.

It’s as impossible to predict where the UK will be going as it is the EU. If Corbyn gets in we’ll be going in a very different direction to the TM road map, I’m not sure even he knows where, I certainly don’t. But the EU isn’t given to such seismic shifts that I do know.

Euro scepticism has always been there and has it’s peaks and troughs and is in fact declining over the whole of the EU, though not by much. The chances of any other country following us, especially after seeing what a mess it is, is extremely unlikely. It’s only Cameron’s gross mishandling of the situation that got us here. I’ll go as far to predict that there will be no more and that the next generation will see us back in. They may well be glad to accept whatever terms are on offer, who knows ?

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They all trash each others predictions. What I find funny, and saw it this morning, is X politician will trash Y’s predictions as no-one can predict that, then push their own economists predictions which of course support their view. When challenged they point out a few details their economist guessed correctly, ignoring the same of others, and therefore it proves their economist knows what they are talking about.

So I don’t take a lot of notice of the detail of any of them but look at the direction the majority are pointing and any bias I perceive they may have, plus a dose of common sense. That doesn’t support Brexit unless you take the most optimistic view and assume that everyone will be beating a path to give us a better deal than we currently have.

I simply cannot see how that could happen.

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Yep, my green bar is back plus I can’t access my NAS in File Explorer.

EDIT – just uninstalled KB4467702 and access to my network devices is back to normal.

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