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I’ve just looked and it is five devices. The Stack Social page with the lifetime offer says it’s ten. I’m sure the Stack Social page is where I got five from earlier though.

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Either someone’s messing with me, or I’m going senile!  :wacko:

I’ve just double checked the details for both VPNs, and now VPNSecure says it only protects five devices, and Hotspot Shield covers ten! I’m going to bed! :scratch:

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I did look at a hardware setup after someone (Drezha?) posted this on MM:

https://blackholecloud.com/

I realised I’d need three though, at $280 a year, just to cover the house and our two phones, as we’re often out separately and leave the computers running  :wacko:

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Thanks Steve 🙂

I did look at Hotspot Shield, but I thought it had a bandwidth cap. I’m having another look now.

Now that I’ve looked, I’m torn between Hotspot Shield and VPNSecure, mainly because VPNSecure has a lifetime subscription deal for $39 at the moment, and covers more than five systems.

 

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The Duke wrote:

I’d rather the chineese was monertorimg me than gchq or NSA . That isn’t a joke either.buy chineese and say more private.

The scary part is, you’re probably right!  :wacko:

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Nice find Steve, thanks 🙂

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blacklion1725 wrote:

This has come up before – I posted this before – and I am as much sceptical of mumbo jumbo as anyone else………. I have been taking montmorency cherry juice for probably 3 or 4 years and it has coincided with the disappearance of the arthritis symptoms I had in my left ankle (fractured 30 years ago). It certainly won’t do any harm and has anti-oxidant benefits too. I’m almost rolling my eyes at myself but a glass of that a day has made a real difference for me….takes a bit of getting used to but you’d know by the end of the first bottle (make it up like a small glass of squash) if it is worth it…..I was amazed how quick it worked for me. ….as a side benefit it is great for hangovers (so I have heard).

There was something on the telly the other day claiming that it helps you sleep too.

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I haven’t been on the computer for the last few days, so I’ve only just seen this. Typical timing for me, I was just about to check my PMs for anything important!  :wacko:  😥

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Thanks Steve, I’m working through them on the laptop 🙂

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I didn’t realise that page was more than just the Windows Talk forum, I thought it was a leftover from the forum being altered recently. The downsides of being awake too late  :wacko:  :whistle:

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Along the same backing up lines as Jukebox’s post, I use portable apps for a lot of things now. e.g. I use Thunderbird Portable as I have to check several email accounts, and I can back it up to a pen drive and take it with me whenever I leave the house. Anything happens at home and I’ve still got most of my emails. The last few days are usually still stored online in the trash if I forget to keep up to date too 🙂

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You done busted summat 😉

The forum index isn’t working properly at the moment. I can see the Android Talk forum, but everything else is squashed down the right hand side in a single character column  :wacko:

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If you want a backup to catch spammers in the middle of the night, I’ll help as much as I can 🙂

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Ed P wrote:

…Windows 10 is SUPPOSED to intelligently use available ram. (I have 16GB to play with).

I’ve got 16GB here too, and Windows 10 is regularly giving me error messages and force closing programs when it’s at about 75% usage ?

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Much better, thanks 🙂

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PlaneMan wrote:

Unless you’re gaming at 4k or doing really heavy duty photo or video editing (or similar) why bother upgrading?

I’ll second that. I upgraded from a quad core Athlon II X4 to an i5, and it’s very rare that I actually notice the difference. The Blade server I posted about was bought because I need more cores rather than more power* It’s Xeon E5150 based, and they’re about as powerful as Core 2 Duo chips (£40 though, so worth a shot 🙂 )

*If I’ve got the time, I’ll document getting it running and post it up if anyone’s interested 🙂

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I’ve got a bit of a strange one here – any page on the site opens immediately, but almost as quickly it’s then greyed out and the spinner appears. It’s only for a fraction of a second, but it doesn’t seem to be doing anything

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The Duke wrote:

There is a definite mix up with autonomy and AI, I purposely picked GPS guided autonomy as it was mentioned a few post back, and I don’t count any of that as AI, but do think things like that do add to the overall compiters/robots taking jobs. So yes comptealy diffent, but also I’d partridge of our future issues , as they get better. I’d count an auto tractor , in the same bracket as a self check out, or a robot arm on a shop floor, definitely not “smart” just a one trick pony, but still takes the job of a person.

This is what I’m thinking too, apart from the partridge 😉

Although it’s not strictly AI, automation is a very basic form when it has ‘smart’ controls e.g. the hoppers empty, order more chips from the warehouse. The system I described earlier would take a minimum of one job, possibly more like three or four depending on how smart it is. If you ever met some of the guys I worked with, you’d probably think that it’s smarter than them 😀

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Malcolm wrote:

AI is interesting in that the intelligentsia buy in to the concept, but being members of the intelligentsia, their feet are so far off the ground, they are incapable of carrying out even the most basic reality check. Some reality checks:-

1. AI costs big time
2. Creating a fully autonomous adaptable functioning intelligent entity was mastered by the human race generations ago, they’re called human beings
3. Only repetitive tasks fall to AI and given the changes in products output the AI costs can’t compete with the existing entities in point 2.
4. Adoption of AI is therefore likely to lead to lower growth as innovation would have to be stifled in order to pay back the AI costs.

AI doesn’t have to cost big time, as it doesn’t have to be particularly intelligent. As an example, I worked in a plastics factory quite a few years ago, and it was godawful, boring, repetitive work. A hopper filled with plastic beads would empty into a machine, which would melt them, reform them into windowsills, and cut them to length. the sills would be spat out onto a conveyor belt, where I’d wrap them in plastic and put them onto a trolley. Every so often the trolley would be moved to a loading area and eventually put on a truck. Occasionally I’d have to refill the hopper. A few sensors, a conveyor belt, and something to flip every other sill, and it could be totally automated. It would only need the most basic of an AI to operate, e.g. Is the hopper empty? Yes, open the gate from the main hopper for x amount of seconds to top it up. Sill of x length passes the sensor, flip the next sill 180 degrees.

A friend of mine still works there and operates the CNC machines. Given the instructions needed to form and cut the various shapes, I wouldn’t be surprised if he could write a basic routine to do it.

AI doesn’t always mean walking, talking robots 😉

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Not the best video, but looks like it can be done, albeit not as neatly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEv0RGPz3oM

Now that I’ve got it, I may as well give it a go. It just means that I’ll have to put it out of sight instead of where I wanted it.

The original plan was to modify the cooling, as I thought it would be loud like a rack server, then put it under the TV for video processing. Now it can go somewhere else and just take files from the video server, process them, then send them back. The program I use for organising files doesn’t need a lot of power, but works better with a lot of cores 🙂

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