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Microsoft: You liked Windows 10 so much, you'll get 2 more in 2017

Friday 5th August 2016 19:34 GMT MJI

Well I have a dual boot PC, a few yours old now as it was built pre win 7, so of course original boot is XP, new boot is a latest version of Linux.

When XP is unusable (still fine in the real world courtesy of firewall, Windows embedded registry change, and a good AV) I will just go Linux. No point going newer Windows as they keep killing older software.

I really overspecced the PC (quad core, TB HDDs) and Linux runs as well as XP.

Everything about 10 puts me off, as long as I can surf web, connect to work, store photos and edit video I will be fine.

Games, abandoned PC games, not worth keep updating, it runs HL2 very well that is good enough for me.

Consoles play games well, on the telly, in their own environment. No messing with drivers, no having to use Microsoft and their constant redesigns.

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PC pioneer Gary Kildall's unpublished memoir revealed

Thursday 4th August 2016 15:35 GMT MJI

Re: Digital Research DOS

REAL/32

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Don't want to vote for Clinton or Trump? How about this woman who says Wi-Fi melts kids' brains?

Thursday 4th August 2016 08:59 GMT MJI

Re: #FeelTheJohnson

US and UK left and right

The US blue party is slightly to the right of the UK blue party.

The UK red party and the US red party are both in the hands of buffoons.

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Thursday 4th August 2016 08:56 GMT MJI

Re: Known risks with quantifiable outcomes

" A vote for Stein, Johnson, or Harambe"

Oh you want Boris do you?

Yes he would be a better choice than what you have.

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Wednesday 3rd August 2016 11:05 GMT MJI

Re: Now That Bernie is Out....

Clifton?

Ecclestone?

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Wednesday 3rd August 2016 09:56 GMT MJI

Actually Labour need someone electable

Corbyn

Smith (I think)

Cthulhu

Who would you choose as leader of opposition?

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Wednesday 3rd August 2016 08:28 GMT MJI

Words starting in Vax

I am afraid I only know of two things of importance.

A mini computer DEC VAX

And a brand of carpet washing vacuum cleaners. Vax

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Wednesday 3rd August 2016 08:26 GMT MJI

Re: No wonder the US medical system is in trouble

Is the second one the creationist?

If so nutcase.

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Beer merger dwarfs EMC/Dell

Monday 1st August 2016 11:06 GMT MJI

Lagers

Czech lagers

Been some changes recently, noticed that Staropraman now is a generic lager.

But here is my lager advice

Premium, try Budvar, still their own company and good lager

Cheap, French lagers in small bottles from supermarkets, slake your thirst, cheap, and not bad at all. Tesco usually have lots. Not premium at all but VFM is pretty good.

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Monday 1st August 2016 10:57 GMT MJI

Re: Awww...

Budvar

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Monday 1st August 2016 10:57 GMT MJI

Hmmmmmmmmm

I am sure that years ago Stella was different to today, now it is a generic Lager

But the ones they are merging, not sure if it would matter, most are just generics or poor quality US pop.

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Skyscape rebrands to UKCloud following legal challenge by Sky

Friday 29th July 2016 08:11 GMT MJI

Why don't MS just shut down Sky?

As they actually have so much money*, surely they could find a way to bankrupt Sky, or even better News International.

* I am including Bill Gates worth as well.

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Thursday 28th July 2016 14:27 GMT MJI

Re: How much would it stand in a court?

But we do know.

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Thursday 28th July 2016 09:19 GMT MJI

Re: How much would it stand in a court?

When in a legal case you would support MS you know they are dealing with evil.

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Thursday 28th July 2016 08:41 GMT MJI

A legal cancer

I hate the company, for many many reason and this is just another reason to add.

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Did Donald Trump really just ask Russia to hack the US govt? Yes, he did

Thursday 28th July 2016 09:45 GMT MJI

Re: I don't care ...

Did you see who was released from jail recently?

Have you thought why?

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Ex-Citibank IT bloke wiped bank's core routers, will now spend 21 months in the clink

Thursday 28th July 2016 09:16 GMT MJI

Re: Ethics..

Don't you mean Thuthex and Wethex?

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Church organist nabbed for playing glory hole in excelsis

Wednesday 27th July 2016 15:09 GMT MJI

Remember readers

Always take a mallet into strange toilets with strange holes in the partitions.

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No, the VCR is not about to die. It died years ago. Now it's VHS/DVD combo boxes' turn

Monday 25th July 2016 19:51 GMT MJI

Re: Transfer those tapes

I transfered about 20 or so camera tapes to PC, quality was not that bad, well it was good enough for some to be used on a retail DVD of a preserved railway a couple of years ago.

All played back on a 1982 portable

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Monday 25th July 2016 19:49 GMT MJI

Another Beta advantage, it stripped out Macrovision, I used to use it to copy rental DVDs pre burners

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Monday 25th July 2016 19:46 GMT MJI

Re: Actually VCRs still exist

Video home system came after Vhs like the BASIC thing.and beginners

Definately something Helican Scan

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Monday 25th July 2016 10:01 GMT MJI

Re: Actually VCRs still exist

Betacam not Betamax, similar mechanisms but different tapes

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Monday 25th July 2016 10:00 GMT MJI

Re: Actually VCRs still exist

Thought it was vertical helical though

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Monday 25th July 2016 09:59 GMT MJI

Sanyo

Hmm just like Sony then, bought in their Vhs rubbish rather than make their own.

As I have a few Sony and Sanyo made decks, the build quality of the 1980s decks was so much higher.

I managed to avoid the Vhs era, I did have one, but only for duplication. My work horse was a Sanyo M40 (still working) a Beta Hifi deck, my special machine a Sony SL-HF950 Superbeta deck.

Timeline was, watched Beta rentals, lost job, new job, mortgage, got some money, oh look brand new format called DVD. All along recording TV using those 2 Beta decks.

I have no pleasant memories of using Vhs, it was always that crappy format other people bought.

I still remember seeing someones edit master Vhs-Vhsand wondering why it looked worse than my final copy Beta->Superbeta->Beta

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Crashed and alone in a remote location: When paid help is no help

Monday 25th July 2016 10:17 GMT MJI

Interesting read

Real life stories like this always worth a nose

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Star Trek Beyond: An unwatchable steaming pile of tribble dung

Friday 22nd July 2016 14:23 GMT MJI

I meant to say that as well

We all assume they are the good guys but the bugs were only defending themselves

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Friday 22nd July 2016 08:40 GMT MJI

I enjoyed Starship Troopers film

Even swapped my DVD for free from Flipper to RSDL, even copied to video tape while it was being swapped.

A really enjoyable and well made film, nothing like the original story, but good enough to stand on its own feet.

If you hate it, I don't mind, I just like the cheesiness of it, and the overblown ridiculousness. Yes I did notice a very authortarian rule. But the use of not very well known actors and actresses stopped it becoming a vehicle for actor X.

BTW a tape copy was actually pretty good, much much better than any retail tape, worst thing was surround sound was downgraded to Prologic from 5.1.

Actually that tape was one of my best recordings ever. Showed how much better the loser in the video tape war was than the winner.

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Thursday 21st July 2016 08:35 GMT MJI

Re: Nobody stopped and asked the question; 'Do we need to remake Star Trek?'

Eric Banana?

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Thursday 21st July 2016 08:34 GMT MJI

Re: A bit harsh

Funny but I loved the original series, grew to like the Picard series a lot.

Enjoyed DS9, Voyager was quite good, but a bit messy.

Enterprise was a good series with a few odd story choices.

The films were a right mish mash, but Voyage Home was the funniest by a long way. But TOS films were prefereable to STNG films.

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Thursday 21st July 2016 08:28 GMT MJI

Re: Nahh, the old Star Trek was for nerds...

Actually mine was alive, but only liked chasing torch light on the carpet

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Official: AMD now stands for Avoiding Miserable Death

Friday 22nd July 2016 08:27 GMT MJI

Kept going by PS4?

This is what it seems like.

A very good business model really as the console market is a separate market to PCs.

Non PC market is expanding.

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BT internet outage was our fault, says Equinix

Wednesday 20th July 2016 14:07 GMT MJI

Out from PC on

Until around mid day.

NOT the short period they claim

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Softbank promises stronger ARM: Greater overseas reach and double the UK jobs

Wednesday 20th July 2016 10:30 GMT MJI

Re: "ARM, whose chip designs drive the majority of the world’s smartphones"

PS Vita ARM CPU

Not seen an ARM chip in a keyfob yet

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Monday 18th July 2016 15:37 GMT MJI

Re: Now..

Politicians?

I saw Hammond and May and thought where is Clarkson?

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Monday 18th July 2016 13:43 GMT MJI

Interesting

I think long term ARM will be safe and stay in the UK.

Why?

Because they are being bought by a Japanese company and not an American one. The assets are the workforce and you cannot easily move them. The Japanese do seem to like doing business in the UK.

What ever happens, hope for the best.

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Web meltdown: BT feels heat from angry punters

Wednesday 20th July 2016 10:21 GMT MJI

Just had an email

Still down at home

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Wednesday 20th July 2016 10:15 GMT MJI

Down at home

Only some sites active.

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Ad blockers responsible for rise in upfront TV ad sales, claims report

Tuesday 19th July 2016 09:20 GMT MJI

Re: Some of the web players are getting bad

Thing is it does show the ad videos then not show the programme, ABP was disabled on that domain.

So how come I see the ads and not the programme?

And yes torrents are the answer.

shITV help actually say you have to uninstall, good job it is only crap daytime shows which my wife could miss that normally get lost.

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Monday 18th July 2016 08:49 GMT MJI

Some of the web players are getting bad

And shitv are worst.

My wife likes a couple of their programmes, and occasionally due to scheduling changes, or too many things at once she misses them.

So power up a games console, BBC, C4, C5, and lots more but no shitv, why? They want mobile users not people on TVs.

Try computer, shows the adverts then will not show the show without UNINSTALLING adblocker from the PC, regardless of browser.

I got so ratty I reported them to various places including here and an official UK web watchdog (illegally inspecting my PC), well might as well mess them up.

Anyone have some greasemonkey scripts to sort this out?

End result has been that the last shitv programme I watched was Downton Abbey, so 1 series ina year because their channel is too painfull is ridiculous.

And yes I used to watch ATV a lot when I was younger, remember TISWAS?

I am watching less and less TV now, just annoys me too much.

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Monday 18th July 2016 08:39 GMT MJI

Re: Anyone know..

I do not watch films on ITV, a shitty little itv in the corner sees to that.

If its a film on ITV, I want to watch there are torrent sites for that.

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Monday 18th July 2016 08:34 GMT MJI

Re: Want people to watch your ads.

With hobby based forums often the adverts are very directed, at the users, you have the manufacturers, the shops, the magazines, all exciting you, then get blocked.

The advertisers are often small businesses with 1 to 5 employees, trying to tell us about their latest thing, but then the move to a dodgy server scuppers it for all of us.

Most hobby forums run adverts the users actually want.

Most general forums get adblocked.

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Sunday 17th July 2016 18:50 GMT MJI