Posts by illiad

Re: Floppy drives?

Bootable USBs usually hold an OS that is way too large for the DVDs on most machines...IF they have them...

also, USBs with linux, win7 images, etc, take up a fraction of pocket space compared to *scratchable* discs!!!

Re: what colour are the lights?

to repeat....

if color blindness is involved, ** get a Janitor *** or **guy from the street** to tell you what color it is!!!!!!

and if color blindness is involved, ** get a Janitor *** or **guy from the street** to tell you what color it is!!!!!!

Re: Really - there wasn't a cleaner or anyone else in the building...

NOPE... you forgot to get your client to identify the different parts of the PC... dont you know that even 'clever' people often think the *monitor* is the computer???

The peopl I hate are those that decided they did not need a *second* socket on the PC PSU, to feed the monitor...

- ONE plug to feed both PC and monitor, improves fault-finding! Nowadays two sockets are needed, and quite ioften the monitor is plugged in a long way from the PC plug! >:(

Blood and death??

IDIOT, you are missing the message!! If you dont like it just go and watch 'saw' again, you **hopeless** creep...

The moral message is that yes, war, death, etc, etc, may be nice for a start....

B U T after that, WHAT will you do, after you have gloated that everyone is dead .... what will you do , sitting in the poisoned heap of dirt... ???

GO ON, WHAT??

A point... Mexico is NOT in the USA!! It is part of 'North America' .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas

Re: Anyone with any experience of GWX control panel?

If you have not managed to read their website yet, GWX is a *self-contained* program (it does not need installing, does not leave anything behind, just tells you the state of your win7) you just click the buttons to do thing!

NOTE! it is being updated regularly, due to more MS update changes...

Re: The recommended update will still require the user to accept or decline before installing

I am sure that any Apple OS upgrade does NOT *downgrade* the quality of GUI graphics or ease of configuration... Apple users please verify... :)

Re: Grandma is half savvy?

GAWD sakes, man.... A lot of 'elderly relatives' actually worked in computers or other tech!!! that 'doddering 80 yr old' may have been a physics tech or naval engineer, legs not working well, but brain still at full steam!!... :)

If they are savvy enough, they WILL know many parts of win7 and do not want change!

Whats to learn?

- where they have moved various settings, to a new *pointless* location??

- get used to the 'new' icons, they are 'retro' 1995 ones... >:(

Re: Only yourselves to blame

you dont have issue with the totally crappy GUI graphics? Or are you a win8 minimalist??

also you dont see it is just 'windows mobile' hacked to work on desktop PCs?? or you are not a serious business user, just 'pretend' with a tablet?? (I will bet you have not spent ALL day typing a document using a touch screen, hunching over to see it ...)

No, sorry linux promoters, the *problem * with linux, (*even* the latest ubuntu!! :O )

-- is that for 'normal' non geek peeps, it is not quite there...

- All the 'buttons' in the wrong place (close / restore/ power, etc, etc...

- Until *ALL* websites can do without flash, it will STILL be needed! (the strangest example is the BBC, where I once managed to get Firefox to ID as Ipad, and got a BBC video in HTML5!!!

They seem to have noticed though, does not seem to work any more..

That and many other reasons mean that Apple laptops will start taking over....

Re: Get Stuffed!

erm that seems to be for win10... and other paranoid widows users... :)

Re: WHERE IS THE CIO

WHAT ADS??? :D :D thanks, adblock.... :) :P

Re: Things move on . . . (reputation)

It is a crying shame, that 2, or even 1 month later, the 'standard idiot' will have forgotten about the incident, and think 'hey that's a good deal, the ad looks lovely...' :O

ROFL ROFL... I recently used my 'not compatible Firefox 28, (id as Iplayer) on this site... worked lovely without flash ... :)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20654335

Of course when I change back to ID as FF, it claims its impossible... LOL

most BBC video does... They will ONLY use HTML5 if you ID as Ipad!!

Re: I thought there was no such thing as the "bootstrap paradox"?

meh. Einstein was WRONG... Just like they said 'the human body cannot stand such speed!" back when the made the first automobile (we now call it a car..)... :)

Re: I enjoyed that, with one reservation....

ummmmm, you DO realise this is 'fantasy' right????

and if it was NOT 'littered with ridges and valleys', there would be no lochs there... :)

lots of 'bits of blue' here... :P

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@58.4952083,-4.0097552,10z

Re: Hmmm...

you missed the bit, where he HAD NOT SEEN the letters!! so he would not be attacked... :)

Re: In the old days...

83?? I think you forgot to mention that the 'mainframe' computer took up a whole room...

There were 'personal Computers' , but they were like comparing a 'bicycle' to a car... LOL

http://www.computerhope.com/history/1983.htm

Re: I still can't get my head round this one

I've got a better one... A certain manager I know, keeps saying 'the email isnt working' when the IT manager has has set 'monitoring' :) - she can see the email arriving in that inbox!...

You forget non-tech peeps have a different way of speaking - If they say 'it doesn't work' it usually means 'it looks odd' or 'it wont do what I want'... you get there...

"press that button'

"huh??"

"you see that green button "

"oh I wondered what that did..." - she thought just pressing 'enter' did it.... {roll eyes}

Re: Oh, is Dr Who back on?

heh, dont worry, plenty of repeats coming, on Watch, Gold, horror channel, BBC 3, etc, etc...

Re: UPDATE!

press 2 to...

delete all clothes!!! :P

Hey, dont worry... This is just the **first** episode!! :E Its good to see the doc 'messing about' for a change...

And the BBC would have got twice the viewers, if it was not 'in the way' of X factor' !!

Missy was 'leading' the daleks, she wanted to get 'exterminated'.. :) I am guessing next ep, we will have..

Clara: " huh? where are we??"

Missy:" why, this is the nethersphere, dear... :) "

Or some dark thing about the doctor and davros...