COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY

[hartley353]

Sympathise with your problem Pluggy, for years I carried a pair of 3x reading glasses for reading small print on electrical and electronic parts. Now I have an illuminated jewelers loupe, the print has become so small as parts reduced in size.

[Tizer]

Have you seen the minute detail on the latest OO scale model railway locos and model road vehicles? For instance, the locos have engine shed numbers but you can't read them without a magnifying glass. Seems a bit pointless to me for models that are running on a layout...but it means they can charge a higher price!

[Stanley]

I find that I use my 8X Lupe more and more these days. My pet hate is the small print in the Lancashire Council street maps. As Sam Weller said, you'd need 20/20 binocular vision to read them....

[Cathy]

OG is running very strangely tonight, when I'm on a topic it keeps going back to General Misc Chat & Gossip and has asked me to log on twice ??

[Stanley]

It's those bloody Gremlins Cathy! Ignore them and keep posting!

[Cathy]

This is for the Gremlins Why am I thinking Packman ??

[Stanley]

Tripps was eyeing the FMIII up yesterday when he visited but I didn't switch it on and let him bore Maria with it!

[Pluggy]

Enjoy it Stanley.

[Stanley]

I am! I have no doubt it was the right thing to do. Someone once asked me why I used Nikon, Leica and Hassleblad cameras. I told them I had enough problems getting a good pic without the machinery getting in the way. Same applies to the FMIII, I can't blame the tools if something doesn't work. Updates for 12.04 64bit flowing in nicely..... All those dedicated people out there working freely for us, wonderful, it's what the web is all about.

[Stanley]

Have a look at this LINK for CERN's plans to celebrate the anniversary of the WWW.

[Stanley]

Ubuntu never fails to impress. 68mb of new Linux kernel just installed, less than 3 minutes including restart. How do they do it?

[Pluggy]

Fast computer & fast Internet. Mines on with it now, Mines a bit bigger because I have Virtual Box, which is 50MB on its own.

[Tizer]

...and I'm just downloading mine...applying changes....linux 3.5.0-28-generic. and it's done in 3 minutes, just need to restart.

[Pluggy]

Going to have to get me a faster computer......

[Stanley]

Janet was quite surprised the other day when she heard we had 16mb/sec+ in Barlick. In Perth the limit is 7mb/sec.
By the way, no problems with Talktalk connection to date, rock solid, invisible, just as it should be.

[Pluggy]

The Orange/EE has been OK since BT Openreach did their thing with a cherry picker and our pole. 15.75 down just now. Quietly reliable.

[Stanley]

Good, that's what we pay them for!

[Stanley]

News this morning that Microsoft are considering major changes to Windows8 after sales slump and complaints increase. It appears that this is something to do with the increase in the numbers of tablets etc. Don't really understand it myself but it's being compared to the great kerfuffle when Coca-Cola changed their drink and had to do a U-turn.

[Pluggy]

I've obviously not been reading the same site, it sounds more low key where I was reading about it. It isn't selling as well as Windows 7 did at this stage of its life, and M$ are talking about tweaking it to run better on smaller tablets. The sales of their Surface machine have been insignificant against the Apple and Samsung tablets, but I don't think anyone was expecting any different.

http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/226 ... 8-redesign.

It doesn't appear to have 'made the cut' for the Beebs news, or at least I can't see it.

[Stanley]

The report was on R4......

[Pluggy]

Theres an article on the Beeb site now, although its much about different journalist's spin on the news item as Microsoft which illustrates the differences I think.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22439496

[Stanley]

Looks like a well-balanced article but I note it doesn't rule out Armageddon!

[Any progress with LTP? Would the original disc be helpful?]

[Pluggy]

Its in Docs hands, he says he can get it back from a Windows copy of the old website. He said he was going to see you about it. I'll call in this morning with a memory stick and I'll take what you have. It would probably work better as a pdf and offer it as a single download on the site IMO

[Tripps]

From Pluggy's link -

" the firm has released new figures that show that 100 million licences for the operating system were sold in its first six months on the market."

Some 'failure' !

[Stanley]

Pluggy called round and I gave him a copy of the original LTP files. He is on the case. Over 300mb so give him time..... (If people knew the effort that goes into things like this.....)