[Richard]

Have none of you read the trash talk coming out of Brussels? If that is not a route map for the most unpleasant exist I would rather not know what is.

Read their ultimatums and weep.

Sadly too many of the young cannot read, write or add up enough to get work, what use is a vote to them if they do not understand what it all means? After all they only want ‘experiences’ and to hell with the future.

The Wigs  have never come up with anything remotely sensible since around the First World War and their leader, if he can be called that, is unlikely to find one any time soon, they are just another branch of the TAWS.

 

 

 

[Richard]

There will be no ‘soft’ anything. The EU have signed up for ‘your done roll over and take what we demand’, note demand not give. It is best to walk away from the squabble and leave them fuming, there is no other option either now or in < 2 years time. The fox is shot.

It is time to move on.

[Richard]

Wasbit, I agree with you, though the very pale blue on the blue or the white is not as clear as a darker blue on the white would be. I prefer the more contrasty arrangement, though I realise this is a very subjective topic. It may depend on eyesight, lighting and screen variables as to which works best for different people. I agree the green search bar with reversed out white is nice and clear. Straight black text of dead white background is a little over contrasty, course and cheap looking for most people.

I like the Submit button with its very clear change as you mouse over its face.

All said and done Lee has achieved wonders dealing with a sometimes grumpy load of _________s. You can fill in your own word in the space.

[Richard]

I had not realised that a change had been made. However I do like the appearance of this page while the index pages are rather harder to read. Some sites love such silly ideas as light grey and slightly darker or lighter background. Other daft choices are also made, especially with trendy layout creators going for reversing out the text from a subtly similar background. This makes them totally useless for many potential users and some ex-users. Some sites apply their daft light pastels to the printout that they allow or require, e.g. reply labels, with very pale grey on white, daft. Some print drivers allow this to be over ridden to give real black on white, good for them.

[Richard]

Ed, I agree that you can get some quite satisfactory hobby kit that might once have cost a fortune for less capability. However, since some is built down to such a low set of values your second point about security is vital. I have sometimes wondered about putting something in place to monitor the garden, just so that I can see where the dogs are when SWIMBO throws a panic attack that they are missing. I should add one parameter that you did not include in your list, the time and mental bandwidth to take on the items that you need to understand before you start. That is the one thing that is currently in very short supply for me at the moment. I certainly do not have any slabs of time to spend on fully debugging a set up. The ‘average home user’ is something between the fully clued up bod who knows what they want and need and the fully clueless who will connect any tat to anything with the right shape sockets.

[Richard]

Dave, you have confirmed what I surmised. It is vital to confirm what you want and most of all what is essential before you buy. Items on the wish list can be nice, but if you buy something of medium quality/price and upwards you are more likely to get some of those nice to have options already. Above all, it take considerable forethought and understanding before specifying and buying.

After seeing the Japanese at work I developed the idea of the tadpole project development curve. Get the eyes out front, apply intelligence and shed loads of really hard, detailed work. Select the methods and kit you require; then the deployment and commissioning is relatively simple and easy with no nasty surprises. In short you get what you set out to achieve.

A bit like the average tadpole in shape really, head and eyes first, with a tapering tail of movement type activity.

Edited to remove formatting commands that appeared on the post.

[Richard]

Dave those cameras do look pretty stunning, however they do all appear to need a real time operator to select and zoom in on the object of interest. I fear that a few ‘fit and forget types of amateurs’ will hope to get the same advantage while scanning for wild life or low life.

This is not really going to happen quite so simply and brilliantly effectively, ‘zooming in’ after the event will not be quite the same.

Still the cameras have come on a long way over the past few years. While the price you are paying appears high against the low end kit, compared to what would pay for something considerably inferior a few years ago it is well worth going for the best your budget will allow.

[Richard]

Ed P wrote:

Richard wrote:

Bob Williams wrote:

Richard wrote:

Apparently the problem has been splashing about in the mud for years, perhaps as far back as 2005 without anyone taking action.

Well, we just did Richard!

I meant to put in place a fix, though apparently IE is not affected, or so I am told. The problem sort of comes with stop gaps adopted without thinking them through at the technical level, in spite of several past attempts to start a solution. Edited typos.

Unless things have changed IE is completely vulnerable. I’m not certain about Edge as I do not have a Phishing example to use. link

I do not usually use IE, but I tried it this morning and the response was to not show the spoofed result but to show the address in garbled characters, just as the modified Firefox does. This will not stop numpties but should give others fair warning. I cannot be bothered to try Edge as I find it too slow and hard to figure out what Edge is doing, besides I have to take someone to hospital shortly.

[Richard]

It is having a (taking a few) moment(s) at 17:45 this afternoon.

Edited to put in a missing a

[Richard]

Bob Williams wrote:

Richard wrote:

Apparently the problem has been splashing about in the mud for years, perhaps as far back as 2005 without anyone taking action.

Well, we just did Richard!

I meant to put in place a fix, though apparently IE is not affected, or so I am told. The problem sort of comes with stop gaps adopted without thinking them through at the technical level, in spite of several past attempts to start a solution.

Edited typos.

[Richard]

Apparently the problem has been splashing about in the mud for years, perhaps as far back as 2005 without anyone taking action.

[Richard]

Thank you Tippon; warning, be careful how you search in Firefox . If you do it the wrong way you will not find the entry – I missed it the first time.

All corrected now, so thank you.

[Richard]

I wonder if there were slow network problems. Early this morning it was really motoring for me, then it slowed a bit, then it went back to normal speed. I wondered if school holidays over Easter had affected things.

[Richard]

Sure, it will not support roaming but many devices latch on and stay, ‘sat’, at least for a while, happily I have no experience with Apple gear, apart from changing batteries in an iPod.

My TV connected boxes are fairly static as are the TVs. Having one SSID and one password certainly beats the heck out of having to maintain a string of different ones that you can then forget – have one currently ‘running free’ while I try to remember its WiFi password.

I did pick up the suggestion from one of your earlier posts, though a quick scan did not trace it; have you changed your view recently? Due to a lack of wired ports and no spare data switches I have recently had to add several devices via Wifi and I found it a right pain entering their configuration details. So much so I nearly dug out an old 10mb hub to lighten the finger load.

Happy breakthrough I found a switch in a cupboard while clearing other old stuff out.

[Richard]

Re using a spare router as a Wifi extension.
Turn off DHCP on the spare router.
Connect the incoming network cable to one of the ‘normal’ LAN (four?) ports, not to the WAN port.
Enjoy extended coverage.
Dave suggests using the same name (SSID) and password as on your ‘main’ router, but set the two to use different channels, which ever are less popular in your area.

Edited to (hopefully) remove on-screen formatting instructions.

[Richard]

Sarin is quite unstable at the best of times. Unless strenuous efforts are made to clean it up in production it only last a few days to a few weeks in storage. For this reason is is usual to store it as the two components and only combine them when delivery is planned.

Once released into an open space rather (than a container) it becomes gaseous rapidly, in moderately high (for Sarin) concentrations it kills quickly. However it does still kill at lower levels only it takes longer and the suffering of those affected is both more obvious and painful. On clothing it i can kill a contact for up to about 30 minutes. However, in the presence of air and more especially water it degrades quite rapidly.

It is quite good for clearing a town or village as after a short while the town in still intact but the people are not. It is also quite good for the poison Tzar to test the metal of Trump and just as believable as anything else.

Question why did it take Putin and Butcher boy so long to come up with their story, were their script writers on an early Easter break?

Chlorine does have rather different effects to Sarin and yes it has been used by both sides as a terror weapon in Syria. Experience from the first world war showed that some survived, albeit often with horrendous injuries.

I do realise that if the USA said baked beans are a food, some would stop buying them and suggest they were a poison. – Just as the anti vaccine squad are now refusing to vaccinate their children preferring to let them die from the range of childhood illnesses that crippled many of my generation and those of generations before.

It is a funny old world.

[Richard]

Ed P wrote:

Neither of the war-mongering pair of Presidential candidates would have been my ideal choice. I just saw Trump as being less likely to drag us into a European war with Russia. However it looks like he has allowed the CIA to dictate public opinion on Syria by manufacturing a casus belli and who knows where that can lead. I now fear an irrational Kim rather than Trump, but both are unlikely to back down from their public statements. I’m just glad I do not live in Guam as that must be very high on the list of N.Korean targets.

Are you suggesting that the CIA dropped Sarin on Syria, surely that is part of Butcher Al Sad and Tzar Putin’s story book? I see one of Butcher’s ex-military bods confirms the butcher still has tons of stored gas reserves.-

We we have Tzar Putin who simply enjoys killing anyone he does not like plus a few others to keep the rest in check, Butcher al-Asad who is a Tzar Putin copy without the appeal to males of a certain type, Kim who  leads, (or is he led by?) a shadow mess of human slime, The Chinese who appear increasingly out of their depth with the mad guests on their door mat. Along with a whole chunk of European main land locations who are in Tzar Putin’s Imperial thrall if not debt, (Germany for energy and Italy for hoped for trade and France for questionable motives). I am not sure that the future is unpredictable at all, though I side with those who say it is not stacking up to go, or should that be end well?

It will probably be the usual fudge, Putin will keep his Syrian conquest of a Mediterranean port, a few more bits of Eastern Europe will be sacrificed and the mad fat one will be kept propped up for a bit longer. Oh and Trump  will go bellowing off somewhere else. As for the European deluded hopefuls, they will get only crumbs with a perhaps a hope for future hand-me-downs.

[Richard]

Ed, Trump was your man so you should know. I suggest he is erratic and may be borderline mad, he certainly has a grossly over developed ego, but unlike Kim, I do not think he is insane. Kim and his henchmen are clearly several sandwiches short of a picnic, so care needs to be taken over their possible lunacies. Russia may be pleased to see the eastern sphere blow up and distract everyone while Tzar goes on another hunting trip to pick off a few more of his imperial targets. With the perfidious French about to elect a dodgy president, they have a choice of two of the Tzar’s friends. Germany has too big a need of Putin’s gas to say anything. As we have a perfect receipt for dodgy indigestion inducing pudding.

As the only question is anyone for a polonium sandwich?

[Richard]

I feel it is in danger of getting a bit maudlin; the bucket list should be things that you still want to enjoy or experience preferably without a thought for the future. Pain free or pain reduced would be nice, problems cleared would be better still and worries about the future for dependants being cleared would be best of all.

A few moments of happiness without worries about the health of family would be lovely, but too many years have been spent with accumulating concerns for that to be in prospect. So, to go peacefully is perhaps the best and to do so with a belief that it was not all in vain.

Sadly the fool who said it was better to have tried and failed than not to have tried was seriously wrong. It is far better not to have been stretched to a point outside of ones limits; so the mental elastic can spring back with its Young’s modulus still intact.

[Richard]

 

Edit; Post removed as it was a double post, due to first try returning a server error response, sorry.

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