[Richard]

Dave Rice wrote:

When you paste do a paste special and only copy the text.

Dave, is that because the pasting operation will otherwise cause the document to inherit the features of the document from whence the item came?

[Richard]

Is the option to detect the language being used automatically ticked?  Sometimes these options need to be ticked and unticked several times before the document gets the message

[Richard]

Today’s press reports suggest that Trump is almost admitting that it has been something of a negotiation ploy and that with an agreement (on his terms) all the issues might melt away. That might well be another false story of course, try to put the Chinese over a barrel, hint at an solution, then find a new barrel when they bite the bate.

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While you are at it you might have to hope for some great piles of dosh to pay for 5G the prices being quoted are insane, £50 for 10GB plus other costs. It appears that a few minutes of full fat connection would burn through the data allowance in very short order. So far I barely use a tiny percentage of my month 4G allowance currently 3% this month, but watching a film on a mobile is not on my to do list. Too much like uncomfortable, hard work and no film appeals – a purely, selfishly personal point of view.

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Many years ago the local police had a 3 year old Vauxhall that had done 350,000 miles. When inspected at a strip down there was next to no sign of any wear. It was in use for as near as damn it 24 hours per day, its only down time was for servicing.

At least our low mileage cars are only taken out on moderately fast runs for 20~40 miles at a time otherwise they are kept in a concrete floored garage that is integral to the house and pretty much dry and humidity limited. The old car missed out on a couple of service due to pressure of ‘other issues’*, it still did not need any oil between services. It does most of the short trip work and that does include many short trips, but it also gets a few faster ‘exercise cases’.

I am not sure about engine cleaning, I am tempted to suggest that if the engine really needs a clean out, then something has already gone wrong.

All in all I agree, in essence it is use it or loose it for mechanical devices of most sorts.

*Yes not an action by design, regular oil changes are usually regarded as the holy grail for good engine life, I was surprised and concerned at the lapse. Interestingly gear boxes are often sealed for life – or sealed for death?

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dwynnehugh wrote:

Do you think when all this is over and Trump eventually triggers WW3 – in the aftermath, will I be able to get 3G in my part of Anglesey?

You never know what the radio active dust cloud might blow in, just hope it was a Chinese wind not a Russian one, Chinese kit is usually better.

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The Duke wrote:

I’m not touch about it Richard. I just don’t care. If I had a choice who was to spy on my, I’d always choose the enemy. So if I was Russian I’d want the us/uk, and being british I’d opt for Russia China. Simpley because they can’t knock on my door. All sides spy, and will continue to do so, so it’s not worth me worrying about it.

Tell that to Salisbury and parts of London?

However, tell me why our lot would have any interest in the likes of you or me? If they want to read my shopping list or track my hospital visits, trips to the tip and the Eco store to clear things out or even the supermarket or garden centre (if I ever manage to get there), then they are clearly being miss-managed on the NSA/CIA scale of miss management cock-ups.

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Bob, I choked on that one. Steve is well known to be somewhat touchy on the subject of anyone worrying about the ‘reds under the bed issue‘ so I tend to ignore much of the rabid concern.

Frankly I would be very concerned if Corbyn and more especially some of his dodgy friends were not on watch lists and rest assured that many political animals are on a great number of watch lists here and across the globe. I well remember my ‘accidental and very casual‘ training briefing on the methods of recruitment used by foreign powers back in the 1960s. That they were very successful then (and probably still are now) is only being revealed in tiny bread crumbs as time rolls by. Some of Corbyn’s friends are very definitely people I would avoid knowing and as for their friends; barge poles are no longer made in the numbers and lengths some might consider usable for touching them.

Sadly the NSA and other USA based agencies are so hopelessly out classed and incompetent at anything they try to do that they are often happy to recruit turncoats rather than track them down and expose them. I am not aware of the agencies of USA, France, Germany Australia or the UK murdering people in the UK because they did not like their politics, the same cannot be said about the Eastern block and their warped allies, who had brought murder to our roads. Interestingly Corbyn’s cronies did moan about the removal from operation of some low life who had dedicated their life to killing while in Syria and in objecting to the risk that others might be gaoled if they returned to the UK. Perhaps others would welcome evil dross like them, I would not.

Mind you, I would never shake the hand of Trump and his criminal cronies either.

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Bob, I have a great deal of sympathy with your view points. I also hope that the so called POTUS has his turkeys come home to roost and that he finds their company very uncomfortable. Perhaps if he did call to ask for some level of cooperation/agreement then, let’s hope the PM’s or the MOD’s Huawei  ‘phone’s will not be able to connect to his moron telephone.

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I’m not sure that low mileage is everything. My wife’s Kia is now 7 years old but has still to get to the 3,000 mile mark. I try to put 25~40 miles on it each Sunday morning just to keep it going and make sure the battery is alive. It is the same low mileage story with my ‘new’ car, it is now coming up to 3 years old and with less than 5,000 miles. The elderly hack on the other hand has done 102,100 or thereabout. The A/C is fine once more having just had an A/C service. The A/C person suggested a service every year, I guess it has been at least 5 since it was last recharged, oops. Surprisingly the engine still uses no oil between services. At one point I kept it going because our eldest daughter might have taken it on, but it is worth almost nothing now so it gets all the dirty jobs, the tip and most hospital visits.

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That clip really summed up the state of play with too many things. The reason that some countries ‘won’ is that they no only did it a bit cheaper, in too many cases they simply did it vastly better. Unless some places learn that things actually have to work and work well enough for long enough, then there is no point in having an industry at all. All the subsidies, protectionist clap trap and stupid words  in the world will only delay the inevitable.

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Has rolling back the evolution of things ever worked? Certainly, he is making the USA grate in many areas of the world. It serves him right in my book, I do not see this playing out well.

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I think that this is one that has come round to bite people over a number of years. Was there not a recommendation in years back to disconnect all drives beyond C: and D: while installing and to only restore the devices when all was done and dusted.?The reconnection had to be done in order and drive letters had to be checked after each one.

Does the issue also affect networked drives I wonder?

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My concern is that it will all get very ugly quickly and that the idiot may well not realise what is happening until the wheels are off. Too many will suffer in the cross fire and many of those who suffer will not be in the USA or China. Some assembly work is already being carried on in other than China, where costs have been rising faster than in other locations. So it is possible that work could be transferred to them with some disruption likely. Licensing, IP and FRAND issues might be a whole new ball game and that is one area where the fool might want to leverage things out of China in the hope of Comcast and its palls picking up the fall out?

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I understood that Huawei hold many patents relating to 5G so if they are blocked I wonder if the patents would also be blocked from use or would the USQ decide to ignore the patent issue and pirate the technology.

Some press comment in various sources suggest that great tangerine malevolent idiot just wishes to try to shut down all of China’s trade.

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Apparently this was the prime idea for UK based users:

Version:
OS Build 17763.504

Improvements and fixes

This update includes quality improvements. Key changes include:

Addresses an issue that may prevent access to some gov.uk websites that don’t support HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) when using Internet Explorer 11 or Microsoft Edge.
If you installed earlier updates, only the new fixes contained in this package will be downloaded and installed on your device.

End quote

The above may well be a fair synopsis as it only took a  very few moments to crawl through what it was doing, the reboot took longer than the ‘install’. As I rarely use IE or Edge I would possibly not have seen those ‘UK.GOV’ issues!

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There is yet another one today! That makes it a sort of never ending monthly round up.

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It might be worth signing on to one of the free stuff sites, e.g. Freecycle and asking if anyone has a PC they no longer wish to keep. I ended up taking several to PC World for them to deal with a little while ago, even though they had nice new and modern PSUs, in quite good cases, the rest of the bits were just too old to worry about.

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When you go up into the 41~42 and upwards range things can get a bit ‘hazy’. My second bout of glandular fever had me reaching those sorts of levels even after IV paracetamol. I was in for ten days with that episode; I only remember odd bits at the start including a blood pressure reading that had the nurse go a funny colour. My memory could be distorted but I recall her gasping that both numbers were under 50, I was told not to move under any circumstances before she ran off. There was also muttering about white blood cells being in short supply for a while, I did meet all sorts of infection control people, though I only found out after I had been discharged what the likely infection had been. My wife still speaks cryptically about my delirium and total lack of awareness during that time. I think she was referring to me, I guess nothing much changes! I can see why they wished to have your wife nearby. With a known chemo impaired immune system, it would be a dangerous situation. You would be prey to any wandering bug de-jour. Sepsis is the bogey-bug of the moment, so any hint of an issue with my wife and we are assured of a minimum six hour hospital visit an IV boast and a bucket load of tablets when she gets released. So far no sky high results for her so no long stays so far: may I recommend you avoid a repeat ‘performance’?

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It is great when something works the way it should and the supplier stands behind with active support. It can be hard to get real support so a story like yours rises up and surprises people.

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