Posts by Efros

Unfortunately

There are people who would vote for this twonk on this basis. Hopefully not enough of them to make any impact.

I predict

Ikabai Sital T shirts before the week is out.

There are others available

Startisback

Start Menu 8

Classic Shell

Pokki

All of which are free-reasonable in price.

Hmmm

I uninstalled the fb app from the wife's phone and doubled her battery life.

5 installs one PC not happy

I've upgraded 5 of my machines to W10, 3 desktops, 1 laptop and a tablet. The only one that was a challenge was the tablet, which was more down to the size of the media on the tablet than anything. I have one other desktop that reports CPU incompatibility and refuses to upgrade. This is quite curious as it's a Q6600 (one of the other upgraded machines is also) and has all the requirements for the upgrade satisfied. I've tried the various 'tricks' that are around on the web to force the upgrade but it resolutely refuses to cooperate. I may just wipe it clean and start from scratch.

Now add

a drop of Fairy Liquid and watch those suckers sink. :)

Tangerine Dream Concert

Very entertaining, your ramblings brought to mind a TD concert I attended in Edinburgh back in the early 80s. Good concert populated by an overabundance of hair and greatcoats. Typically not a word was uttered by the band members throughout the concert and what makes the event memorable was the hairy who commented after the last encore... "Say sumfin you German bastards!", a master of wit and repartee.

I did think that

they would do something like this. Makes an inordinate amount of sense when you think about it. They should, however, have been a bit more open about what they were doing. Turning it off is fairly trivial, I have enabled mine to share updates over my local network, we'll see how that works out.

20 minute upgrade

Faultless upgrade, all programs working no driver issues. Installed StartIsBack W10 beta and all is good.

Kingsing W8

Interestingly the Windows 10 icon just popped up on my $100 windows 8 tablet, I'll definitely upgrade this thing, more out of curiosity that anything. With 1GB of Ram and a fairly small SSD it tends to struggle a bit with W8.1, it'll be interesting to see if that improves or gets worse. Also be interesting to see if the Chinese characters in the login screen will finally go away, never been able to figure out how to get rid of them.

Suggests

That tablets are still very much a luxury item, economy in the shitter so follows tablet sales.

Meh I'll upgrade my laptop

Just to see how bad things can be. I ghosted the boot drive last week just in case it's a complete can of worms.

g+

is that below an F-?

More flocculation

bigger conglomerates = less consumer choice = more consumer bills.

Jeep Grand Cherokee

Had one of these a number of years ago, it never worked reliably enough in normal use to make it a reasonable hacking target. Pretty sure it was a Monday morning/Friday afternoon job.

Thuktun Flishithy incoming!

Awaiting the arrival of the Chtaptisk Fithp...

Better get those project Orion plans dusted off!

.pages

Should be made the standard, that way no bugger will be able to read them.

Unheard of in large parts of his homeland

When I came to New England, some 14 years ago, I introduced a lot of my work colleagues to Hicks as they had never heard of him before.

We should

Pressure the brewers to offer similar rewards for bug hunting their software. Second prize lifetime supply of chosen brew, first prize new liver.

Geothermal Power

Something that's always bothered me about this in the US. Yellowstone, potentially the largest volcano on Earth with FSM knows how many TJ of heat energy lying in wait and absolutely, as far as I can see, no attempt to harness even a small amount of this. The objections I've seen to this are to do with geysers stopping and the survival of some of the exotic extremophiles, I'm pretty sure it could be at least trialled without affecting these in any way. Maybe we just need to be in a more energy deficient environment before this becomes important, well it's only a matter of time I suppose.

The trouble with backs

If your boss has never suffered from back pain then you are a whining skiver.

Current Renewables are a Band-Aid

I've always felt that the current renewable technologies are for the most part individual or small scale solutions. They can be used to minimize a family's or small community's use of fossil fuels, but when it comes to providing power for major conurbations they tend to fail in terms of capacity and/or reliability given that a lot of them are dependent upon unpredictable natural phenomena. That being said it should be written into building codes that new construction must use available technologies to minimize the occupiers grid usage, In the meantime we really do need to start building nuclear power stations, power consumption is only going to go up and with no massive increase in the availability of fossil fuels and environmental concerns about their continued usage, steps need to be taken now to avoid an energy drought in the near future. Let's face it, the one's who will suffer the most are those without a voice. Barring the arrival of a Mr.Fusion we are going to be in deep shit unless governments start acting now.

Scot's Breakfast

A selection of the following, fried of course.

Round Sausage slice

Lorne Sausage slice

Pork Link Sausage

Beef Link Sausage

Black Pudding slice

Haggis Slice

Fruit Pudding Slice

Clootie Dumpling slice

Egg

Ayrshire Back Bacon

Fried Bread

and of course a gallon of tea and a few buttered morning rolls.

Ermm summat wrong with UK pricing

Last June I bought an HP Envy 15t j100 quad edition, Core i7-4700MQ quad core, 8GB RAM, 25GB Boost SSD, 1TB HDD, 802.11ac, Intel HD4600. For $710, about 460 GBP. Knocks the socks off any of these offerings. Apart from the finish coming off the trackpad due to hours of use per day, a happy purchaser.

Installing AGK Fire on your phone, enabling ADB on the stick, finding the stick's IP address will allow you to install any app that your phone has on your Fire Stick, your mileage may vary as to their usability but it does widen the apps available to the Fire Stick. I managed to get a Twitch client installed which keeps my grandsons relatively happy when their visits become a bit too boring.