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The Duke wrote:

As as I know all current providers of 5g are using huawei chips, and the recevers are defo huawei made. They are the only only oem that can do both ends arm. That is why America want to slow its release. As 5g is going to take over alot of wired Internet. Meaning it a Chinese company will have the Internet tied up, basically taking control away form America. That is the reson America are kicking up so much of a fuss.

If 5G has any chance to take over from the cable operators in the US then that alone could be the most powerful reason to try to limit its spread within the USA until the likes of the cable operators can strong arm the system to support their malign ways of funds raising. Selling crap at the highest possible price would no longer bring in their bacon if, and it is a big if they could be bypassed.

Meanwhile, here in the UK I see little chance of having a meaningful cost effective version of 5G within my likely lifetime. We still have to rely on wired service to have any useful and reliable cost effective services. Also, I am unclear how multi-user set-ups would function. If one user went out they would presumably take their service with them, that would leave anyone else at base with no services. So everyone would need an expensive service. Then whose service would sustain in home services? That is just one of the foreseeable issues we would face.

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In the extremely unlikely event that they have the slightest interest in my social life on line or real, they would have a field day worrying as they will find zero on line and zero in real life either. The more worrying aspect would be that if they were wasting time on me, they clearly have seriously misplaced priorities and need a serious reset of their operational parameters. Having said that, unless they have improved since I had casual contacts, (and the recent evidence of their recruitment and vetting does not inspire confidence), it is doubtful they could find their own backside even using both hands, so they probably have little idea what they are seeking anyway.

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Bob, JayCeeDee, I can only agree, here’s hoping and wishing for a return to normality for John.

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Last week my daughter finally past her driving test and within the hour she was on the phone to ask about our old car. So the Jazz is now hers and reciprocating back and forth between her home and Addenbrooke Hospital where she works. It has probably done already done another 300 miles. So it is well into its second hundred thousand miles.

This left me with the ‘new car’ in which we went to see our younger daughter in her assisted living quarters. That all went well until it came to starting up for the return journey when the damned thing decided that it wanted a change, or at least confirmation of the language. Not what I needed and with no obvious way to back out of its demands it ended up labelling everything in Spanish. The handbook was about as much use as a chocolate fireguard when it came to correcting this errant behaviour, though once back home a little hunt and peck finally allowed me to track down the well hidden route back to language sanity. At least it had used conventional Western European lettering rather than Russian, Arabic Chinese or something similar.

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I am with you there Bob, mind you wireless reception only ever comes on the whim of what ever deity is in favour at any point in time. Though I drove past fields of ripening wheat a few hundred yards from home yesterday, I am not in the wilds of the countryside, but ‘services’ are far from being top-notch though they are far better than anything that the FCC can crow about in the USA. Of course, that is really setting a low barrier over which even stone gargoyles can expect to step if not take a running jump. For me the real dual killers are will it ever arrive in a usable form in my area in my life-time and at what cost. The initial indications are that it will be ever more delayed, for whatever reasons and however thin those reasons might appear to be plus the costs will be even more stratospheric than current projections support.

I have nothing against either Nokia or Ericsson, who are both present 5G providers (and I preferred their phones when they were available, but as is ever the case the market went off in a different direction). A market place with a choice of just two vendors does appear to be limited and lack any real choice or competitive thrust, though that is one too many for the USA cable industry and its pet dog in the FCC the infamous Pai, whose preference is to have one monopolist stealing from oops Cable Co ‘serving’ the suffering punters.

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Steve, you are crediting the so called USA leader with the capability to think. His prime motivation is to clamp the Chinese without thinking about anything else. Of course, he ignored Cisco’s holed below the water line software security, though they are not in the 5g race anyway so perhaps they should be ignored rather than get deployed anywhere and as for Oracle and sailing boat Larry the friend of the Orange with legs and a mouth the least said about him the better.

If 5g really was the threat to end all threats why would anyone on local political circles still be keen to seek its launch. As it is well outside my spending plans so is of little interest to me apart from seeing the wild eyed theories getting thrown about.

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Dave, that was a very much better and clearer image than the one provided by our neighbour. It provides a very good example of what the device can show, however, it is well and very evenly lit.

Was this a ‘happy accident’ relating to the alignment of your property and front door, or the result of careful planning and research?

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A neighbour has a Ring device and recently circulated a screen image of a caller to her house. The image was so-so. It appears quite hard to ensure that backlighting will not swamp the caller’s image and that their face will be well captured under all conditions. I wondered about getting one as our door bell rings to be heard in the front of the house, but can get missed when we are in the back. In the end I cried off as the siting and alignment issues put me off, along with the need to use a mobile to answer the door. I suspect that it really does depend a lot on your personal needs and patience to set it up and get it right.

Dave’s response does suggest it works well for some users.

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I am glad it has finally been fixed for you.

It was both annoying and annoying hard to solve with the answer often appearing to depend on nothing very obvious.

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Likewise, it did not affect my already saved passwords for this or other sites.

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My father went ‘cold turkey’. He had gall bladder problems that escalated rapidly and seriously to pancreatitis. After six weeks in intensive care, with a GP saying that no one of his age recovers, he did recover and organised an operation to start the repair work. He never smoked again in his remaining 20 years.

Drastic, but it worked for him.

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I had that trouble for a day or so, I told it to go away, and I am happy to say it has not come back. I am using Firefox with the latest version and I think that could/might have upset its apple-cart. Though I do save the password I think I told the interminable pop up not to save anything and so far it is good news, the existing save is still working and no more pop ups.

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I never use the lock screen, so sorry, I have no idea of its status. When I checked its workings I did notice that you can do all sorts of things and wonder if you could try resetting it to something else and then setting it back to the one you want once more? I have a vague memory that Windows used some sort of copy process at one time to select and use the active image.

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Bob, a while ago I got one of those tidy filing things, shortly after that I stopped build activities. One thing I do remember is that some mounts were plastic with two sprung loaded fingers that closed down when the board slid over them but which sprang out to hold the board firmly but without excess pressure. I am not sure I ever used any  of them, but they sounded like a good idea at the time.

Tadka, when all else fails it has t be the thought that you originally rejected. I am glad it is now working, but I am concerned that you might well have over tightened something, especially given the multi layer nature of many boards.

I did once fault find a system built for a relation by one of his young and aspiring friends. Sadly they had used no stand-offs so as a surprise to no one who knew about such things, it did not work. I rebuilt it, correctly, and as luck would have it the thing worked, but I was surprised to say the least.

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Bob, Bovril a treat on cold winter snow-bound days when ‘heating’ came from ‘nutty slack’. A form of hardly combustable substances armed with rocket launchable lumps of rock.

Vics rub another winter standby.

Chill proof vests and other items of children’s clothing.

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Les, though I never had a motherboard failure that was a darned good explanation of the mechanism of potential failure and how boards are now constructed. Any stress at any point that pulls or distorts the board has the potential to do damages, though in this case I suspect that it is possibly where an item, e.g. memory or the like has to be inserted into its connection ‘home’, with the CPU running a close second in the probability stakes, though to be honest it still could be anything. Since it is OK ‘unmounted’ I think earths maybe get ruled out, however, all the other ‘runners’ are clearly still in the race. I know how it feels to get tired before a project is done, (most times I feel like that before I start these days), but there is some mistake that is causing the issues, and it needs to be found to cause sleep to become restful once more.

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Marketing puff or more like bullshit perhaps?

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Wow, yes I have a vague memory of those ‘tubers’, though not of buying them very often, mind you mouths might have been smaller than as an adult. Liquorice sticks, I thought came from a UK source, not Bassets but someone whose name escapes me, though there might have been several sources. Many penny ‘sweets ‘ or perhaps sweet substitutes were cheaply finished with non memorable names for a child, though ‘flying saucers’ stole into my memory, they were not to my taste.

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Meccano good fun, Zubes ‘good for your tubes’, (spelling might be wrong), Brocks Fireworks, Standard Fireworks obvious reasons, Tizer fizzy drink – I never could stand. Ration cards for just about everything get used to juggling ration book goods basket and money for grocery shopping. Berkel bacon and ham slicers, it fascinated me being huge in the tiny front room grocer’s shop, it was a marvel of engineering to me at five years old; Dinky Toys obvious reason really. Quink Ink could be and usually was messy, of course Camp Coffee as others have said pretty grim but better than roasted dandelion roots, Gamages mail order store a great toy that was stolen during a house move came from them, Craven A – grandfather’s smokes, NHS vitamin enriched orange juice, Gibbs dentifrice solid block tooth paste, Guy trucks, some clapped out by war time use that I could out run as a 5/6 year old as they struggled up the road. I am sure there are some more but I tend to remember things in odd bursts at odd times.

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If there is any hint of stressing the board when tightening it down then I would prefer the use of rubber grommets to avoid stress while still holding it securely in place. However, do remember that stress can be accumulative, every future incident adding to past history until the failure become permanent. That said I still favour the idea of a badly seated part that is very slightly moving out of position. While the machine is working try a memory testing programme and see if it reports any hint of an issue.

Both the semi spring-loaded contacts and the tracks on PCBs can very easily become deranged by unwanted movements so such pulls are best avoided, even poor soldering can become an issue when the tension pulls just a bit in an undesirable direction.

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