Posts by psychonaut 992 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Sep 2012
"the three body problem" and its sequel "the dark forest"...and the trequel coming out soon....
greg bear's hull 03 also .
honestly, these are books that i wish i could re read for the first time.
read them now....
yeah, niven is a biot light on plot ./ characters, i read ringworld for the first time, and from what i was told to expect i was a bit disapointed.
hmm...maybe thats why its hanging. its done it many times on kb3138612 in fact i have one im doing now with the problem.
ive just googled it and there are a number of people with the same issue.....manually install is the answer apparently. i'll try it...
as for MS doing it deliberately....yeah, i reckon you might be onto something there.
re: win 7 install from dvd.
might be easier to make an image (including your faviourite programs) then sysprep it. then you can install it on any hardware and it will be up to date (well, the date of the image anyway). its pretty easy to do. there are any number of guides out there. then you can get your drivers from wherever and off you go. my win 7 image takes 7 mins to restore via usb 3 cradle.
for win updates on 7 taking days, ive found something recently that has made a massive difference.
check task manager - run it as an admin / select "show processes for all users"
if svchost has massive memory usage, and when you click "goto services” on svchost it shows wuausrv as being one of the culprits, do the following.
goto services, and stop wuausrv (windows update service)
install these two updates
KB3050265
KB3102810
this will stop the high memory usage of wuausrv from killing the machine (ive seen it eat 4gb ram and upwards recently)
then restart wuauasrv then reboot
then you should get the updates a lot quicker.
you can also then use wsus offline (google it) which is also very fast, although ive had a few issues with it hanging.
"Yes, quite possibly "
no,it definitely goes backwards.
"You will still have a new electronic meter installed to satisfy the FiT scheme as the serial number would have had to be registered to make the payments against."
nope, i get FIT and they havent installed a new meter. it may be different now though, this was 5 years ago
"Count yourself lucky as you should be getting the money and reducing the registered import consumption, you will be making a double win "
yes, i know, its great
"with the old meter until your DNO decides to change it."
i dont believe they can force me to change it, not yet anyway.
"I recently [installed] the summer Anniversary Update for Windows 10 on both my laptop and my desktop which went without any errors."
should read:
"i recently upgraded a previously upgraded operating system. i have shit sat on top of bastardised shit. it installed without any errors, well, any errors like stopping me from opening a browser and checking my email. the deeper, underlying total fuck up nightmare that my installation has now become is invisible to me except when i try and do something other than browse the internet"
this may be only for some value of the total number of "upgraded", but i'll bet its happening on fresh installs too.
"There is also the issue of the C:\ProgramData, a folder you never get to choose the location of that Visual Studio (and others?) insist on copying what appear to be vast portions of their setup files to ...."
ive never tried this with that folder, but you could probably do it with a junction
I see the macs that have problems...not many but some. El capitan was fun. ..I run a repair shop. ..most of them dont have problems but some of them do...nowhere near as many as windows of course but then they have a much smaller hardware Base to deal with and maybe apple take more care. Still stand by my comment...and I was referring to ms stuff obviously
if they charge an annual fee, imagine the debacle at pc world or whatever other bucket shop most people buy their crap from
£300 purchase. oh, and you'll have to pay MS £50 a year too.
its just not going to fly.
although, it seems to work with office for a lot of people, so maybe im wrong. im still on 2010.
the only proper way to make tea is in a pint glass.
2 tea bags.
two sugars.
leave to steep until you remember that you started making a cup of tea. could be 5 minutes or sometimes 4 hours. shit ! i was making tea!
take out tea bags. scrape off tannins and other crap. put in microwave to heat to desired temperature.
THEN, and only then, do you add the milk.
the advantage of the pint glass is that
a) you can see exactly how much milk to put in as you can see the lovely colour change allt he way through the liquid column
b) it freaks people out because they assume the glass will explode when you put boling hot water in it.
c) it means you dont have to make tea as often as in a cup
its pretty simple for me.
have 7? then dont do it, if you really must have it, image your machine, back up your stuff, wipe the disk, do a fresh install. reimage machine with 7 when you are pissed off.
have 8? then back up your stuff, wipe the disk, install windows 7. if you must have 10,image your machine, back up your stuff, wipe the disk, do a fresh install.
the only good thing about 10 is it slighly less shit than 8
the idea of doing an inplace upgrade is fucking stupid, it always been stupid, it always will be stupid. even if it looks like it works, it can cause problems down the line. bite the bullet, and do it properly.
ive seen the 10 upgrades do all sorts of crazy shit. remove security, remove other programs, ruin file shares and permissions, ruin network adaptors.
stay with 7 until the middle of 2020, maybe then 10 or whatever it has morphed into wont be quite as shit.
yeah, it wasnt just dns. i had the same idea to use open dns instead of bt's. things seemed to load quicker, but still couldnt get on to most of the web. also didnt change the fact that we still couldnt ping the hosted mail server. then used 4g through a phone (vodafone) - that worked for about 5 minutes to the email server and then it went off too.
additonal peices of information like the teamviewer id and password?
yes. exactly, so its just people being gullible.
someone random phones you up and you give them all your bank account details, passwords, date of birth and mothers maiden name. same thing.
this hasnt got anything to do with teamviewer. you may as well blame the telephone system for enabling the "hackers" to be able to phone them up or the internet for letting them be able to access their machines.
the claim in the article that the "hackers" remote controlled their pc without them telling them anything is bullshit
talk talk definately DO NOT install tv on EVERY customers machine by default. this is bullshit.
they might use it for remote support if customer has a problem, so some of them might have it installed, im pretty sure they would use one time remote support though, rather than the hosted module or the full version.
this article makes no sense at all.
this doesnt make any sense.
1) if the miscreants ALREADY had your teamviewer id and passcode why would they bother to phone you up?
2) if TV has been breached (which i dont believe, more like crap passwords, reuse of passwords, 4 digit passcode enabled on TV instead of 10 digit) and they had access to your machine, why would they bother to phone you up?
if, on the other hand, they phoned you up and you are a gullible twat and gave them your temaviewer id and passcode, it all makes sense.
i got a spec from one of our more useless project managers at the software house i worked at. the project was to write a link between sage payroll and our HR system.
the project spec consisted of
"Write a payroll link between our system and Sage Payroll".
that was it. nothing about what fields, formats, types, who what where when wither whence.
nomity...one genuine compaq AT keyboard on its way. plenty of chow inside it too...
ac1 -
ac2 - yes, but to be fair i was so pissed by then that it didnt really matter. whats a little urine in your coke. its almost recycling at that stage
ac3 - nailed it. although he wasnt late at the freedy mercury tribute. or maybe he was, and they just slotted him in somewhere else. "slotting him in" anywhere now would be require quite a hard shove i think
yeah, but you can do that with a timer and a thermostat. i could do that 20 years ago, i can do it now. heck, the controller in my old house is a 30 year old honeywell. it works just the same. it still works...no firmware upgrades or hacking attempts. it doesn't need to be interwebbed.
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