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In my best Duff'man voice: Oh yeah! https://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/11/09/1510219/google-searches-for-president-impeachment-canada-immigration-nuclear-shelter-skyrocket-after-trumps-victory

I would just like to congratulate the citizens of the USA on the election of a "fine" President. I'm sure President Trump will make history within his term in office.

@sed, Relationships are freaking hard... But the joy and enrichment they can bring to your life is immeasurable. Don't wait, get out there and enjoy everything that is on offer... Your lucky, in that here most of us are older (30+) with life experience to go with it. Some of us have been...

While I don't believe this to 100% true, unfortunately at 40+ most single women are typically divorced with kids, and if this is a deal breaker it certainly can be hard. If you have no commitments (other than employment) is there anything stopping you from packing up and moving? (I here the US...

This is so true. So many people I knew as a teenager, haven't grown up any more than from when I knew them at 18yrs old. (and hence why I don't have contact with them anymore). Unless they have a drastic life moment (death, cancer, etc), they never really mature.

No issues with the new forum software.

Thanks for the feedback. Glad it's not just me. I guess this very minor but annoying issue is another reason to look at updating/migrating the forum software. (assuming there is no patch for 4.x of vBulletin to correct this issue).

Thank guys, Doesn't appear to plugin related (disabled all, no change). However it only happens if the editor window is in WYSIWYG mode when I click on "reply with quote". If it's in SOURCE mode, it works fine. Suspect some fault with how VB has integrated CKEditor. (To switch modes, it's the...

Hi all, I've had this on two different machines (both GNU/Linux based), one with Chrome and the other with Chromium. If I click on "reply with quote" on a thread, then the space bar input is ignored in the reply field. If I click on "reply" all works as normal. If I click on "reply advanced"...

So you don't own a set of screwdrivers and a power drill? Simply remove the main board from the case, and drill a hole in each chip. That's enough to stop anyone (except a few national states) from getting your data...

I thought Windows 10 has less than 25% market share? This seems to confirm: https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0 And the second link Newtun posted (trick or treat) indicates that the flaw exists in Win10, only Chrome has specific mitigations...

Hard to say with Logitech, as they seem very shallow about their specifications/limitations... And unfortunately, most reviews that go over the NKRO issue in detail are over 5 years old, during the time when most keyboards dumped PS/2 support. I do know that all DasKeyboard's are advertised as...

I thought it was the North Koreans? Or was it the people from Sealand? Actually I think it was the Republic of Zaqistan! Yep, Zaqistan!

Likewise, I have no interest in online backup systems.

Their database server isn't running.

We did... multiple times... One time lead to a huge fight between my wife and her mum... (at about week 5). And after that, we just let it drop as the household was becoming a nearly unlivable. At this point we had a hearing date for eviction, so we essentially kept quiet for 6 weeks until the...

Easy... Enable long paths in Windows. ( http://betanews.com/2016/05/29/long-paths-windows-10/ ) Update/reprogram all your applications so they solely uses the Unicode version of the Windows32 File API, and uses the UNC filename convention. And mark the application's manifest as being long...

In case you haven't read this elsewhere: https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/16/10/19/2138239/32gb-iphone-7-has-8-times-slower-storage-performance-than-128gb-model

Depends on the business size. SAP/Oracle (at least here in Oz) deployments start at AU$250K for the bare basic accounts system with ongoing annual support fees. Certainly not going to see it in SMB areas. In contrast QuickBooks, MYOB and Xero are roughly AU$1K deployments with very low support...

Sorry sed, but failure rates tend to follow a bath-tub curve (high failures within 6 months, low failure between 6-36 months, then high failures there after) with HDDs. Get your data off it, try the manufacturers diagnostic tool and get an error code, and return for replacement...

Unfortunately, with most telescammers being overseas from the targets, make it so much harder to track down and prosecute the people behind it. It's become a big problem here as well, we get calls calling to be from Telstra (the primary telco here), ATO (Aus Tax Office, aka IRS) or from...

I was under the impression most US GM was made in Mexico or Europe? To be honest, I'm not surprised by the shift to Chinese manufacturing. With Holden (GM Holden Australia) we have: Barina/Spark : Korea. (Daewoo/GM Korea) Astra: Poland/UK (Opel) Captiva: Korea. (Daewoo/GM Korea) Colorado...

More likely, it's Thailand, Japan, Mexico and Korea. The only Chinese made cars we have are direct from Great Wall/Havel and Cherry (both Chinese companies) and some VWs. I'm sure other manufacturers build in China for parts, but assembly is rarely done in China itself.

None of the majors. Pretty much all cars sold here are shipped in. There are still a few custom built cars done domestically, but even most of those are from kits. Some bikes are still put together from kits, but manufacturing is still done overseas.

These types of monitors are loved by medical and defence industries, but if affordable for the consumer, I see this as good for the IT industry in general.

I read about it, quite sad. But when botnets can produce a DDOS of over 1Tbps (http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/51726/cyber-crime/ovh-hit-botnet-iot.html), it takes a lot of resources to mitigate against them. Seriously, most people I know have been calling IoT, BoT instead... (Botnet of...

It's the cloud, man. It'll solve all your problems... :bglaugh:

FYI, IIRC, there are currently no (public) plans for low-voltage mobile versions of these chipsets, so if you get a laptop with these, I wouldn't expect stellar battery life.

Not at all. My wife refused to update to Win10 (I downgraded her laptop from Win8 to Win7 when we got it), and the kids laptops are still on Win7 as well (all downgraded from Win8.1 to Win7 when we got them).

The iPhone 4S, despite having a 4G chipset, wasn't compatible with the major providers here... http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/technology/iphone-4s-will-not-work-on-australias-4g-networks/story-e6frgakx-1226158650126 IIRC, I don't believe Apple was fined, as they complied with the...

Correct, The iPhone7 lacks a 3.5mm headphone jack. Instead users are expected to use bluetooth headphones for audio. IIRC, Belkin already make a bluetooth to 3.5mm headphone adapter for those users. IIRC, Apple also own the primary manufacturer of bluetooth chipsets and has a slew of patents...

Some people are truly stupid... https://apple.slashdot.org/story/16/09/23/1932233/people-are-drilling-holes-into-their-iphone-7-to-make-a-headphone-jack

My thoughts as well. A number of years ago here in Oz, a few manufacturers got pulled up on the same sort of issue, and apparently standards dictate power output is measured at the flywheel, and not what is actually driven through to the wheels.

I have a feature request. Is it possible to have a user option that controls how YouTube video links are displayed. I think Dave mentioned that he prefers plain links but others prefer the embedded video. I know it's minor, but allowing the user to select their preferred method would be nice.

Just tried it on Android 4 with chrome and worked fine for me. Really like the new look and feel of the new site, and having a set of themes to choose from would be ideal. Both the awesome flat and dark theme look good. The mobile version works a lot better as well. You have my vote to...

Barring some sort of physical issue with the NIC, cable or switch, haven't seen that scenario myself. I guess things to check would be: Firewall settings. IP configuration including possible duplicate IP addresses. Rebuild the IP stack. Eg...

The first thing my wife just said that it looks like a butt plug and a pair of crack pipes...

Are you using home groups for the workgroup, or using legacy sharing? (I've seen instances similar with very poor transfer performance when using the home group feature. Removing and re-adding the desktop to the home group fixed most of the issues).

I agree. That's about the only reason to purchase their printer business.

Yes... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVnO-3M0HNA But being more serious, yes, there have been very isolated incidents of battery malfunction on iPhones...

[/COLOR]Based on what I've seen recently (at least in the Oz market) that is certainly the case... No longer do you have 2-3 models from 6-7 companies available, it's now pretty much only 1-2 models from 2-3 companies being sold in store... In our case, it's either Samsung, Lenovo or rebranded...

As a follow up to me earlier questions, we ended up getting two Lenovo Tab3 8's for the kids to replace their current HP Slate 7's. (I'm now using one of the HP's as my personal tablet). Trying to obtain an Asus Zenpad locally was next to impossible... Contacted Asus for a list of authorised...

This was my initial thought... Dave, have you contacted these guys: https://store.spartonre.com/ They do all sorts of cases, both IP54, IP56, Mil-Std and Marine-Std, including rack mountables.

Sorry, no idea...

Enable at least one of the assistant technologies, go here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/accessibility/windows10upgrade And follow the prompts... (YMMV as normal).

Thanks, I'll see if I can find a Zenpad somewhere in stock here in Oz, otherwise may see what (at really crappy exchange rate) the price would be for getting one shipped from Amazon (US). Most of the reports of the Lenovo Tab2 seem favourable in the market segment it's aimed at, so would expect...

New tablet time for one of the kids. (The micro USB connector needed for charging has worn, out of warranty and estimated repair including parts is over $100). Their current tablet is a HP Slate 7 Beats Special Edition ( http://www.devicespecifications.com/en/model/5f7f2c58 ) The Lenovo Tab3 8...

+1, The Intel graphics drivers are top notch. (I have no issues with YouTube, etc on a Intel Atom N570 netbook, all video is handled by the GPU without issue). And the 850 Pro is a very good SSD. We have a few at work for testing, and they perform very well.

Also, FYI most Intel CPUs offer decent video codec acceleration support for things like HTML5 and Flash based video... so going for a dedicated GPU may not offer anything above what the integrated GPU offers if it's only video playback you're interested in. P4600 datasheet...

FYI, That SSD has an M.2 based form factor connector, and will need a PCIe adapter card to work with a regular PCIe x4 slot. Also, you'll need to ensure the BIOS of the T20 supports booting from M.2 based SSDs... (Most modern EFI based systems do, but you never know). eg...