Posts by lsces 101 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jan 2015
MSI CR630 is the one on the desk here currently ... ONLY W10 clean install from the W1608 disk ... nothing else installed again as yet. First thing it does is try to apply W1709 build ... and we are stuck in a loop of try - fail - restore old version.
YES I use classic shell ... it's the only way to make W10 productive again, but it's not that which is the problem! Number of AMD powered machines have been a problem ...
So who fixes all the machines bricked because W10 updates don't recognise the increasing number of machines that are simply unable to run the 'latest and greatest' junk? I've lost days trying to get laptops stable again because anything after V1608 simply bricks them. And I do mean bricks them as they are unusable until one plugs in a suitable disk to get BACK to the last stable version. You can't do it any other way !!!
When we can configure an android device with the same preferred applications we use elsewhere and NOT be forced down googles choice because you can't remove them ... but then it would be nice if say Firefox ran on android device without crashing when one ends up on a google search page. Lets have a clean 'no-google' option out of the box.
But then I still have my N900 on the desk here even if I can't use it on the move.
Many people keep pushing on-line forums as a replacement for the service that egroups used to supply before they were bought out. The bottom line is that there is STILL a place for a well managed email based listing system so that one does not spend hours each morning going around numerous on-line sites just to see if anything has been posted. I come down stairs, put the kettle on and look at my in box and ALL of the stuff is there. 95% can be ignored or shelved for later and the important stuff picked up and cleared. NONE of the on-line replacements play well with this simple and productive method of working ... that is while the add laden yahoogroups is at least sending out the emails ...
Just spent the morning around a neighbours trying to restore this laptop so it works with the second monitor. It was working perfectly Thursday and has been for a number of years even after M$ forced an update from W7 t W10 DESPITE!!! update being switched off. It seems now that the latest update does not like the hardware ... in which case Don't Frigging UPDATE a machine that you can't keep working !!!!!
Two changes spotted so far ... having typed in an international tracking number it gets displayed with credit card spaces! It's 2 letters 9 numbers 2 letters and that is how it's read...
Second change is the TOTALLY alloying capture that is often impossible to answer where it appears on other sites ... at least that seems to be skipped if one logs in before checking, but why should one have to? I there must be a capture, then a simple text string is a lot easier to live with.
Having had a mobile number with Vodafone since the days of the grey brick I've reached the point where I'm down to sim only and am trying to decide who to switch to and coming up with a blank! Competition in the UK is non-existent as nobody can actually provide a reliable service to large areas of the UK like the Cotswolds. I got more reliable coverage from the analogue phones we used to have access to!
What I find even worse is having NOT had the laptop on for a few days can result in a long wait to actually be able to do anything ... as MrBlack says ... usually after you have had an emergency call to a client site and need to fix something quickly :(
I'm glad the desktop machine here are all Linux, updates are never a problem.
How are most of the fraudsters being identified these days ... by finally getting around to cross checking names between all the isolated public computers we pay for. Someone has finally realied that a single cross referenced system will stop the hundreds of millions being wasted on catching fraudsters!
This seems to be the underlying plan everywhere. How many teachers have lost out where they have been moved to 'academies' which have then folded to re-appear without the pension liability. Since working place pensions are now automatically being created should there not be a more concerted effort to make sure the pots ARE independent and fully funded NOW.
It's taking a long time to die ... but does ANYBODY find the much more restrictive touch interface a better alternative to the clean control a mouse provides? Reworking websites which had nice mouse-over menus to run on tablets and mobile phones is most certainly not an 'improvement' :(
Anything is better than Facebook :)
NONE of the current social media options are without problems and all keep changing key elements, so Google+ is no different to anything else.
If we had a REAL cloud system, we would not be reliant on third party systems managing our material? We should be able to publish and maintain our own content rather than giving it away as a gift to advertisers?
Is it not the case that these chips are basically 64bit processors, in which case there are 8 core processors. I had thought the fpu's were 128bit, but it seems from comments here that they are 256bit, so the chip is potentially a quad core 256bit processor, or 8 core 128bit unit? It's sold as 64bit and in that mode it runs 8 parallel streams ... end of story?
Having been with Vodafone since the days of those big grey bricks I think I have a bit of experience, and none of it is good these days. In the analogue days I used to be able to use the phone most of the way between here and London, today there gaps in coverage and no signal a few miles north. CURRENTLY I have to go outside to switch the divert on and off, and get any useful bandwidth even at 2G and loading a cable connection which is now overloaded in the local exchange is not going to help. We need rural areas provided with ONE good supplier rather than several 'we will fix it next year' promises ... I've been waiting many years for Vodafone to fix it and I can't see that any of the competition can do any better !!! Perhaps we should just pay for the period that a usable connection can be achieved?
They insist on using real names but are quite happy to continue to force people to use place names which have been simply wrong for several years now and every attempt to get the UK's list fixed has failed miserably. ... Feel free to join us and add to http://www.jasonfriend.me/facebookplaces/w/editing:incorrectlyspelledcities:europe:uk#united_kingdom
A little honesty on just what Vodafone can actually do today would be nice. Despite being promised for YEARS that 'coverage will be improved this year', we are no longer able to get 3G in areas around here where it used to be possible OUT OF DOORS! Isn't it about time we got a refund for all the time that we are not able to access the service we are paying for? The idea of roaming freely to other providers is apparently of little use ... they have pulled transmitters to save money as well ... so compensation for not meeting advertising claims?
How many of those machines actually have internet access? Much legacy equipment that is still running on XP would require a complete replacement of all of the hardware when there is nothing wrong with the kit. The 'security risk' is purely a situation engineered by Microsoft to exhort more money when there is no justification in many cases! Simply keep them within a secure environment and don't pay!
Many of the 'automatic' processes on Facebook are ill-conceived. Perhaps some time in the next 5 years we may finally get a list of UK places that actually exist and don't keep changing when someone posts an inappropriate 'edit'. There are daily reports of places being linked simply because something looks vaguely similar.
Given the volume of smart devices today, surely ALL that is needed is an add-on to the meter to give the total usage and the current usage rate. The utility company can make readings at regular intervals removing the need for meter readers ( although you probably still need them to check for fraud anyway? ) Local applications can then be used to do all the smart stuff which has no place 'in' the meter?
In Worcestershire it's the council who are upgrading SOME of the cabinet, Not BT. And our cabinet is not even on a list to be looked at as it's 'uneconomic' despite our only being a mile for the exchange and a few hundred yards from the nearest already converted cabinet ...
Adding drivers to Linux costs nothing which is not the case for Windows .. which delights in making sure one HAS to provide software needed to make custom hardware work. The generic drivers only provide very basic functions and rely on at least a custom configuration file to work.
If you don't have your own physical backup of your data where do you go when a section of the cloud gets fried? I still get regular loss of broadband so loose backup to the off site servers, but at least I know where that data is physically and can recover later.
I'm still fighting the problems that Facebook continue to ignore by NOT fixing all of the mistakes in place information in the UK. The number of incorrect place names is in the hundreds and it is perhaps surprising that advertisers that rely on accurate demographics simply accept the faults?
Having had to switch to Android following the loss of the N900 Linux based phone, what is irritating is the pre-loading with 'google' locked applications. I've managed to unlock the S4 and get rid of much of the advertising crap and get a set of apps that almost mirror the linux desktop. I'm looking at the S6 upgrade. Apart from the problem of Vodafone insisting on 'G4' tariff for a free upgrade when they have never provided G3 in this area and even THAT is going down. I don't want to loose the current desktop on the phone which also matches my tablet. So just like a laptop, it would be nice to have a 'no-OS' option rather than having to take all of the pre-loaded 'facilities' ...
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