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* Posts by David1

38 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Oct 2011

Microsoft really does not want Windows 11 running on ancient PCs

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Re: Alternative operating systems are available

MX1932 still running well here on several eeepc901s.

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Scientists speak their brains: Please don’t call us boffins

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I am proud to have been called a boffin by people I respect - RAF personnel operating the 'plane.

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MX Linux 21.2: Middleweight Debian-based distro is well worth a look

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Excellent Review

I recommend you to explore the MX tools more thoroughly: they are amazingly useful.

My personal favourite allows you to easily create a portable, persistent clone of your

own tweaked MX operating system on a USB stick: this works when plugged into almost

any computer capable of booting from USB. And it does not touch the machine's native

system unless you want it to.

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The sad state of Linux desktop diversity: 21 environments, just 2 designs

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Distrowatch will help you choose.

https://distrowatch.com/

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Internet Archive's 2046 Wayforward Machine says Google will cease to exist

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Re: 2046?

I am 85 and I care about this issue because many of my descendants will probably be alive.

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Brexit freezes 81,000 UK-registered .eu domains – and you've all got three months to get them back

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My .eu email is still working today!?..... WTF is really happening?

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Lenovo ThinkPad Carbon X1 Gen 8: No boundaries were pushed in the making of this laptop – and that's OK

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Yes, I use it happily!

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Happy

Yes, I still use it happily

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HP: That print-free-for-life deal we promised you? Well, now it's pay-per-month to continue using your printer ink

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I use a Samsung mono laser and a Canon inkjet all-in-one - am I safe or not?

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Giffgaff goody-baddy-bag billing faff: Ofcom fines operator £1.4m for overcharging folks by almost £3m

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Forgive them.

So they had a bug in their software: bad but not deliberate fraud.

I will continue to use them because they work well for me.

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Congrats, Satya Nadella. In just five years, you've turned Microsoft from Neutral Evil to, er, merely True Neutral

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Am I the only reg' reader to be annoyed by the ongoing butchery of Skype?

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The D in SystemD stands for Dammmit... Security holes found in much-adored Linux toolkit

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Re: It could be worse, we could be running Slackware.

Just realized it is not Wikipedia - sorry.

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Re: It could be worse, we could be running Slackware.

There are many others which are not worse. Wikipedia lists lots of them.

http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Linux_distributions_without_systemd

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For fax sake: NHS to be banned from buying archaic copy-flingers

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Is internet as reliable as legacy 'phone system?

My experience is that POTS outages are rare, but internet outages are common.

Does anybody have any (non-anecdotal) data about outages?

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In memoriam: See you in Valhalla, Skype Classic. Version 8 can never replace you

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Fake news?

Skype 7 is still working here today on W7, albeit with popups asking me to update.

Of course I just click the "not now" button.

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Still using Skype? Good news! After HOURS of meetings, Microsoft reckons it knows when you're Not Active

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Re: Unemployment scheme

Does not seem gradual to me.

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HP Ink's UK profits tumble nearly 85% – of course Brexit to blame

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Re: HP's disgusting con

Yes, you can now get good third-party chipped cartridges at a reasonable price.

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Mozilla to Thunderbird: You can stay here and we may give you cash, but as a couple, it's over

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Re: Pointless interface changes ?

LO's predecessor Star Office/OpenOffice did include an email client until about the turn of the century.

Seamonkey also has an email client (as well as a WYSIWYG web page writer) and IMO is preferable to FF+TB. Shame about the silly name Seamonkey.

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Linux lads lambast sorry state of Skype service

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What problem?

Can anybody tell me WTF the complaint is about?

I have checked today, and I find that Skype works fine between Linux and MSWindows, for video calls and text both ways.

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Google wins High Court fight with StreetMap over search results self-pluggery

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Thanks for the info' - Yandex looks pretty good.

Bing Maps has also got much better lately.

Google Maps on the other hand is much worse than it used to be.

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Heart Internet in 22-hour TITSUP after data centre power stuffup

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My site is back up now.

Using one of their resellers, my site has just returned to life!

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Firefox 35 stamps out critical bugs

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Re: Unrelated

How about giving us a full list of your preferences and addons?

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El Reg Redesign - leave your comment here.

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Effing awful!

It's terrible. Please revert to the old design while you do a rethink.

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Middle England's allotments become metric battlefield

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Re: Get a life...

Feet and fathoms are much better than metres for nautical (and aviation) purposes.

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Jackboot dangled over NSA's throat for US spy dragnet outrage

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Re: "Give me 6 lines from an honest man and I'll find something to hang him." (@ John Smith 19)

No, we will need all the welding torches we can muster to destroy the hardware which is being used by NSA - hopefully we will have sufficient acetylene to complete the job.

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Steelie Neelie: Crack down on wicked ISPs so we can Skype

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Re: THREE are the only provider that do not block SKYPE in my area ...

No, just a user of their dongle, mobile phone service and wired broadband. As a matter of fact I am very cross with them for selling out their wired broadband to Murdoch. However I have successfully used Skype with the dongle, and have found their support services are pretty good.

Sounds as if you were misled by one of their in-store people.

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Re: THREE are the only provider that do not block SKYPE in my area ...

You should really try an O2 dongle before publicly condemning it.

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Re: THREE are the only provider that do not block SKYPE in my area ...

Just spoke to an "o2 guru": he says I CAN use Skype with my o2 dongle on a laptop.

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Apple must apologise for its surly apology on its website on Saturday

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Just the UK version?

Since the judgement is supposed to have force throughout the EU, why does the "apology" appear on the UK homepage only (not on German/French/Irish/Dutch etc)?

I wonder whether the judges are happy with Apple's persistent truculent behaviour.

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O2 network staggers across UK

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Re: Don't mean to be a bore..

Will your valve CB work without mains electricity?

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Hard disk drive prices quick to rise, slow to fall

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Re: Just like everything else

Larry, you should understand that when we non-americans use the word "gas" we are using it in its true sense. I cannot understand why intelligent people persist in using it as an abbreviation for gasoline without any indication that it is an abbreviation. ("gas." might be acceptable.)

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Hard-up Iceland plumps for cheaper open source

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Re: Iceland? What's happening in Munich?

http://www.it-muenchen-blog.de/2011/12/munchen-hat-den-9-000-pc-arbeitsplatz-auf-den-limux-client-migriert/

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Google flings Bing into search engine bin

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Devil's Advocate

Much as I detest Mr Gates and all his works, I have found that Bing maps are much better than Google maps. (Of course this was accomplished by buying Multimaps.)

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UN set to dump GMT for tech-friendly Atomic Time

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Daylight saving time was always an abominably stupid idea and it should be abolished.

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Ubuntu One client now available for Windows

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Two word question

Other distributions?

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Royal Navy halts Highlands GPS jamming

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WAFIs etc

@Spider

As one of the WAFIs, I sympathize with your rant.

But I would point out that I have often encountered commercial vessels on autopilot with no lookouts.

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