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Many of my devices have fixed IP addresses, at least for the wired devices so they are fairly easy to spot and track. The only variables are the WiFi devices I know what most of them are though the router is very reluctant to use a name and sometimes it works happily with devices while not listing their existence. I have just spent a few happy(?) moments adding details for them to be ignored. I will now give up.
It is a long time since I printed anything like that, but if I remember there was an issue of matching the programme to the paper stock. Some programmes specified the paper to use and, I think some had settings that you could adjust. The centre hole was a feature of the paper.
Are you printing directly onto the CD/DVD, that is a feature I never used, I am not sure that any of the printers that passed my way. Once more there might be some explicit steps you need to take to ensure that things line up as you want them, do you have a manual, an online guide or Google to hand?
Ed, I have never needed or used any open ports, the children had no use of them, or if they did they never asked and that was a while ago.
I wasnot talking of logging every piece of data but checking to see which device logged on to the network. In reality this should only affect the WiFi as far as interlopers go. If you cannot trace the wries, there is not much hope for you.
Some areas are possibly worse than others and yes, student accommodation areas and flats in general are likely pretty bad for cross linking. There are none near me and, as I said most people have their routers locked down enough that no neighbour is going to end up on the wrong network by accident. That is a more likely problem for most round here who would want to access their own servers, printers and whatever else they have, not someone else’s set-up. War driving and parking up and free riding is likely to bring a response from several sources. WiFi struggles to give good enough in building coverage, the gardens and beyond are a different issue all together.
It is true that routers used to have logs and many fruitless hours could be spent on them. I stopped bothering with that well before replacement routers lost the facility to log such data. I find the bigger issue with ISP boxes is that they are often pretty basic and configuring them into another style of set up is such a pain anyway that it is not worth dragging new problems on board. I have been sent a couple over the past twelve months, neither are in use as their performance was too dire to warrant further study or a total reconfigure of my set up.
We may or may not agree with all that the ICO says but a link to their words on the subject is here,
https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/wifi-security/
I am not aware of anyone still shipping totally unsecured routers, but if you did get one and left in the as received state than I would expect that not to end well. This would be my expectation even if you had not reduced the security level (how could you) if none was set? The ISP would not accept excess use arising that way, nor would any other authorities dealing with other more challenging legal issues, ‘here is a can, now carry it’ is a likely response
The reference makes no comment about the user’s responsibilities in the UK apart from a heavy hint to secure things and use an ‘undefined’ secure password that contains letters and numbers.
How often do most people check for ‘foreign’ users of their system? No I do not mean immigrants, I mean those who are not part of their user group, – not the same thing at all.
Bob, for many years my father who, like mother died in his nineties worked in the waste food disposal and processing industry. It was a standard joke in the industry. If the stuff now rejected from the food chain was as bad as is now claimed, the Germans would not have needed to bomb anywhere. The food would have wiped out the population before the bombers arrived.
We may be reaching somewhere nearer to common ground. Evolution does allow those with more suitable random genetic changes to survive better and reproduce than those with less favourable random genetic changes. Yes environments, especially through food intakes can change gut flora and some argue that changes can end up in the genetic make up. There is emerging evidence that the granddaughters of smokers can inherit subtle changes to their DNA which produce some issues for them as they grow up. Many do not realise that what they eat and do can have future impacts, frankly we know too little to be dogmatic.
I would not go as far as your Indian ‘friend’, but he would have been nurtured in a somewhat hostile environment so would have been better able to continue. A few years application of kill or, if not cure, at least survive may well have helped him. I agree that there is a strong body of feeling that over cleaning is the cause of many issues, not only that, some cleaning products may themselves increase lifetime complications, without achieving any real benefits. Washing with clean water gets rid of most issues – except specific contamination with water resistant substances. Adding soap get close to the magic 99.9%. Using too much soap or where it is inadvisable can cause real issues. They can be painful, enough said thank you, a one time experience was enough!
Asthma and other allergies are not to be sniffed at, sadly they can turn up and turn on at any point in one’s life and any steps that can be taken to limit or slow them down has to be a good thing. Happily I like, can tolerate and enjoy all the nuts I wish. I do not have an allergy to aspergillosis, (a sort of fungus) though my wife does, I do have some other allergies, which developed in the last few years. Possibly as my immune system either starts to give up or go rogue. They do cause breathing issues and have caused lung problems; the camera in my lungs was a novel experience. Not one normally enjoyed without a sedative, but other factors intervened that day.
I think alot of chest issue is simple down to out damp climate. I like in an area of low pollution, my boy has bad asthma, buy evey year we go away to the continent, Spain and Italy are the best, and his asthma all but clears up. Now word of a lie, evey year with in an hour of exiting the ferry his heavy breathing returns. Last week I collected ted him fro Liverpool (rip off airport). His nan said his chest has been “brilliant” (she worries), in the hour drive home, he was back k to his normal self. Ive met uk couples in Spain southern Spain, one from Norway also, that had moved to the dryer dryer climate because of their children’s chests
Steve, it is true the damp can affect chests, but damp water logged houses and more especially smoke filled houses in the poorer parts of cities suffered accelerated rates of plague and poorer chances of survival or recovery.There was an interesting program on plague ‘waves’ a few years back.
When our children had a severe bout of breathing problems the doctor came round and said,
‘I should send them off to hospital for this but the set up with your humidifiers is far superior to anything the hospital has so continue to treat them here’.
Chest complaints do have a relational link to other complaints is it causal or just chance?
Visitors to sunny climates from the less sunny also suffer higher rates of skin cancer, causal or just chance.?
Dark skinned people, especially their children migrating to less sunny (and damp) locations tend to suffer accelerated rates of some vitamin deficiency, causal or random?
Less outdoor time in general appears to have an association with other kids getting vitamin issues, causal or random?
People with sickle cell problems do not usually get affected by malaria, causal or random? – Arguably there is a clear evolutionary link.
Just to add again to Steve’s comment, one other more or less universal finding from the researchers is that cannabis is NOT a gateway drug though if it is more easily obtained then it is more widely used. (obvious really!) Richard’s response came in while I was posting but I’d decriminalise the lot and spend the money saved on rehabilitation and education. Laws are introduced for a variety of reasons – could one of these have been the close connection between MP’s Board memberships of distilleries and breweries, or the vogue at those times for all forms of Prohibition? Sometimes it is better to address the cause of a problem rather than its symptoms. I do not think cannabis has ever been a ’cause’.
Wow, you would wind things back to how they were before they caused problems. But then I guess that murder was only made illegal because the cloth makers found they could sell more product if their customers needed to buy clothes regularly rather than a one time funeral shroud. Housing standards were introduced to mop up the surplus bricks being produced and because the carpenters wanted to stick roofs on them, etc. The odd things that you can pick up.
One of the real issues with report findings is working out who paid and why, let sugar refiners submit and suddenly sugar is a god not a devil and so on.
I just hope I do not encounter any more failing addicts.As we have specific receptors for cannabis hard wired into all our brains (well at least those with a touch of Neanderthal!) there seems to me to be an evolutionary connection between hemp and humans – for good or ill. Picking up on Steve’s point with respect to different ‘types’ of people, there are definite links between different races and different ailments (For example Nordic types are more susceptible to plague). This also applies to mental illnesses with many showing a racial bias. Unfortunately the likelihood of forming addictions also seems to run on racial lines all of which makes any study very difficult to design and likely to be subject to criticism.
Very true, many current drugs can be contra indicated for some races and for some with known conditions, (there is a clear genetic relationship to those inherited traits). Members of my family show a range of abnormal responses to otherwise standard treatments as a result. Managing this issue is a very hot potato in medical research circles at the moment. It is far wider than such well known issues as lactose intolerance of certain races/ethnicities. I had not heard of Nordic races being more susceptible to plague – though I also understand there are multiple strains of plague. Could their greater susceptibility be down to fewer having been culled by previous outbreaks due to their greater physical distribution and lesser human concentrations in built up areas in the past? Some studies suggest that it was a greater issue in the UK where other health problems were encountered, such as poor housing, previous illness and chest issues caused by damp and contaminated fetid air from the combustion of various fuels for heating and cooking.
Which of the historic acts would you chose to repeal to return the country to the then status quo?
1868 – Pharmacy Act. First regulation of poisons and dangerous substances. Limited sales to chemists.
1908 – Poisons and Pharmacy Act. Regulations on sale and labelling, including coca.
1916 – Defence of the Realm Act 1914 (Regulation 40B). Sale and possession of cocaine restricted to “authorised persons”.
1920 – Dangerous Drugs Act. Limited production, import, export, possession, sale and distribution of opium, cocaine, morphine or heroin to licensed persons.
1925 – Dangerous Drugs Act. Controlled importation of coca leaf and cannabis.
1928 – Amendment to Dangerous Drugs Act criminalising possession of cannabis. Doctors continued to be able to prescribe any drugs as treatments, including for addiction.The 1964 act complied with UN resolutions of the time. There was a time when drugs and other poisons were totally unregulated, the above acts were a response to the ‘then’ problems which arose.
Would those ‘then’ problems re-emerge to mingle with the current crop of ‘difficulties’. Acid and corrosive liquid throwing is the latest craze gaining traction.
Now that medical testing on THC has been legalised in the US we should see lots of interesting studies coming out over the next few years.
I do not think anyone is unaware of the effects of cannabis on the brain of different species. I certainly agree that there are many who have been helped and though some would say they only claim to have been helped. I suspect that the assistance they received is more than the so called placebo effect. those with some specific medical conditions report equally specific benefits and good quality research is to be welcomed. Many drugs in use today have been developed from plants, heroin was the only way to manage some pains, though equally some have found less favourable uses in addition to any health applications.
The flip side of the issue is that equally some people have had less positive encounters with cannabis’s psychoactive attributes. This may result from a range of issues, age, weight, other drugs and conditions or their genetics. Sadly some I knew are no longer around to check, one graduated to cocaine and other substances. After killing his daughter in an accident, he died a little later from ‘life style issues’. The dead girl was a class mate of my eldest.
Another was a classmate of mine, he last one year at University, he started on soft drugs and soon lost the plot. I saw him during the summer vacation. He did not expect to see the next spring and I doubt he did. He spilled out his regrets in a torrent that probably lasted less than ten or fifteen minutes. It left me deeply affected, his final words to me were:
‘don’t let it happen to you.’
So far it is something I have avoided.
I was only wanting to know if there were many WiFi spots that were open in my area. I appears there are very few if any; deeper diving might be a good idea as a mental exercise but it is not one I need for the moment. There are too many other issues which are far from stimulating, but cut the day into many different often useless bits of time.
Steve, its all down to the environmental movement, they are trying to make air travel so unattractive that no one bothers with it any more. They have succeeded as far as I am concerned.
I will be the first to admit that my portable is not the best tool for the job, but I have just fired it up, today it sees 6 available points, sadly I have to admit that several are possibly mine, (though one entry appears rogue and might not even exist?) and one is an ASUS_2.4 with a very strong signal. All are secured including one by the enigmatic name of Fred. The printers have all gone AWOL for the past few days, but working from memory they were also noted as secured. No one appears to use a carrier’s own identifiable router or Wifi system. Though makers’ own SSIDs are used for a number of the devices
Perhaps all my neighbours have read the warnings, next door is a BT person but none of the rest are known to have any such connections.
Interestingly, the ASUS has just disappeared, only to pop back up with near zero signal strength, only to be replaced by a Belkin_N which disappeared as its weak signal fell off again – it was secured
It is a small largely private one who I knew through ex-work connections so he does not have a public face or operation. There are others who are more public but I used the line of least resistance when I went to him. I had and certainly have too many family health issues in my life at the moment, so did not devote much time to searching the market, I know there are others. I can only suggest that you start by Googling ‘hosting services’ and variation os that theme, then look for reviews. Beware, some reviews are written by those with grudges and are works of fiction.
Setting things up can be done very quickly, the biggest task is finding an acceptable domain name. One based on my name turned up as a cartoon character! Not helpful
Well Richard, I’m not one to not admit I was wrong. But in this case you are wrong. Only messing, it seems I’m wrong. However I’ve just looked up and I’ve never come across a micro type A or a mini type A, I think I may of come across but never known the name of a standard Type B. As I still haven’t figured out how to embed an image I’ll link to a chart I downloaded. https://goo.gl/photos/KuqdnyCiJuuMw9d69 Ed- yes I knew that I was just feeling to the smaller variants. Wrongly as it turns out.
Yes Steve, I had that image but could not paste it into the message. It is all set out in the very long Wikipedia account. Earlier I said about 24 volts, I might have been a bit out, in the same account it said ‘only’ 20 volts… still enough to fry many items.
I faced the same issue and signed up for my own domain with a number of email accounts via a host I knew. I needed several accounts that were interconnected and that was the only way I knew of doing the job.
From Wikipedia there is a mini a a mini b and micro a and micro b, I have a long Slieve USB ‘small’ – sold as a mini that does not fit anything I have seen. I was not careful enough!
Steve, I referred to the letters USB covering a range of sins, there are two minis A and B and there are a range of other sockets and plugs. The point I wanted to make is that it is dangerous to assume that the letters USB are all you need to know, there is a whole world of other stuff that can cause you grief. As I said I have three different ‘small’ USB plugs at the moment and several different voltage chargers, not just 5 v at 500ma, one does 5v at 2 amps, (not 500ma) and 9v at 1.67 amps, but a different ‘small plug’ another does 5v at 550ma with a probably mini plug and so on.
I find it’s very slow to charge using the cigarette lighter.
I assume you use an adapter so I wonder if that has a limiter?
It appears that USB is one name and picking up from Ed’s comment and my experience, it covers a thousand sins, or more.
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