11) Message boards : Politics : Boeing: Profits 1st, Safety 2nd? (Part 3) (Message 2133923) Posted 15 Mar 2024 by Sirius B Post: Sorry Scrooge. I've experienced racism from the early days of school right up to retirement. Couldn't understand it in Primary school as too young. From Secondary school onwards though. Sadly, then very rarely got it from other kids but the teachers. In the early days of working life, still experienced it but it gradly reduced even though it still bubbled under the surface. Enter "so called" entitled & superior peole. Sheesh. Entering the hotel & catering industry for a few years after several incidents on the road, one which was fatal shook me up so took a break from logistics. The snobbery, entitlement & racism was toxic, so glad to get back on the road. Still experienced snobbery & entitlement, but tunes were changed when driving away from those drops without delivering{ (actually delivered, the sight of us closing the rear doors & about to drive off worked wonders). To see people like us who enjoyed our work getting labelled as Ango Saxon superior/entitled peple P's me off. It's too prevalent in society just like the police. It only takes 1 rotten apple to get the rest tarnished which is not the case.

12) Message boards : Politics : Computers & Technology 4 (Message 2133922) Posted 15 Mar 2024 by Sirius B Post: I've often said that too much reliance in technology will come to the point where it will bite in the but... ...sadly, a tetanus shot won't be the cure. Oh dear, junk/fast food eaters had to go on a diet for 7 hours worldwide

13) Message boards : Politics : Profits 1st, Safety 2nd (Pt 4) (Message 2133886) Posted 14 Mar 2024 by Sirius B Post: 6 of 1, half a dozen of the other?

14) Message boards : Politics : Boeing: Profits 1st, Safety 2nd? (Part 3) (Message 2133885) Posted 14 Mar 2024 by Sirius B Post: Until now, I've found many of your posts interesting. That now ends & shall just dismiss all future posts as rambling. This is a serious thread so there is no need to turn it any darker. This post is borderline racist. The majority of Anglo-Saxons are hard working. We all need money to live. Not all Anglo-Saxons are pure greedy. There are greedy in each culture & they don't give a crap about their own, just their own greed. Please stop & think the next time you post.

15) Message boards : Number crunching : All things Window's 11 (Message 2133671) Posted 9 Mar 2024 by Sirius B Post: Sadly & IMO, it doesn't go far enough. Better late than never

16) Message boards : Number crunching : All things Window's 11 (Message 2133614) Posted 8 Mar 2024 by Sirius B Post: Thanks again Martin. Downloaded LibraOffice for Windows. Love the immediate appearance. Just 1 niggling issue but it doesn't really matter. The final cell of 5 columns, 10 rows shows the the last cell larger than all the rest even though the typeface & font are all the same. Now for Windows 10/11 users, remember the early days of Win 7 & the EU forcing M$ to give users the option to choose browsers? Well the EU has done it again. Forced M$ to give users the option to remove Edge. M$ stated that they will finally acieve this for all the EU by March 6 2024. Sadly, the UK is no longer part of the EU. However, a Brit on youtube provided a tweak. Add one registry key & change another & it seemed to have worked for him. Did download the video but lost some weeks ago when I completely rset this week due to multiple issues. Will search for it. One of the keys changed geolocation for the UK (242) to 94 (Germany I believe}.

17) Message boards : Number crunching : All things Window's 11 (Message 2133549) Posted 7 Mar 2024 by Sirius B Post: Thanks Martin. 1st, let's get the Linux issue out of the way. It's the desktp users guide that keeps hijacking the browser. Have to keep an app (like Boinc opened & minimised) or Firefox minimised then click on the guide to close it. The moment I close down the other app/s it crops up again. I found what was causing the issue in Windows. It was Brother's SoftwareUpdate NotificationService. With Win 7 it was easy, just use control panel unistall program (it appeared in the list) It doesn't appear in the list with later versions of Windows. However, it does show up in task manger under processes. 4 files, 3 easily deleted the 4th the actual .exe file would not allow deleting, but it did allow renaming so called it crp. Worked a charm. Now for the drives. Understood, however bios sees them all as does Windows, but each time trying to access get told they need formattiing. Huh, they've worked find in Win 7 as well as previous enclosures used under XP. As for power, all have their own power supply. Linux does see them but no spare drives to copy the files to. Not really bothered about those as they only music/TV shows & Films. All available on disks. It's the drives pulled from Win 7 rig, labelled Data, Personal. backups 1~2. Added internal to new rig, same formatting issue. As for sata cables understood that as well, not an issue for me as have many cables & in fact tried several with no change.

18) Message boards : Politics : The "Other" Electric Vehicles Thread (Message 2133542) Posted 7 Mar 2024 by Sirius B Post: At least the driver had the presence of mind to call the police for help. Oops

19) Message boards : Politics : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here 4 (Message 2133490) Posted 6 Mar 2024 by Sirius B Post: The Gestapo are firmly ensconed in the UK. What's next?

20) Message boards : Number crunching : All things Window's 11 (Message 2133464) Posted 5 Mar 2024 by Sirius B Post: Okay, to start off, a nice free chuckle for the rest of the week. Mark me down is the idiot of the week. I forgot the KISS principle big time. Spending a short time adding in a few expansion cards as well as a new optical drive (purcased along with all the components for the new build). After reattaching the side panels booted up. No joy, so disconnected & checked to see if I dislodge the power cables on the M/B. Nope, only figured it out after an hour so so. I forgot to switch it on from the PSU before booting. Doh! Anyway, back to Win 11. After use of a week in Linux switched to win to install & run Boinc as well as install device drivers, programs etc, the optical stopped working, powers up okay but would not read any disk. Recognised in Bios no problem, so maybe thought the laser disk reader gave up the ghost. Happened a few times in the past the with amount of use I give them. To play safe, booted into Linux. Same issue so though laser gone. 1 issue experienced with the Ryzen M/B is the fan headers - they're all 4 pin. The Win 7 board also had 4 pin cheaders but worked round that by running the fans from a molex with fan connectors, worked well in the past from XP onwards, until now. That option not working so purcased a pack of 4 pin fans. So had a lot to add this evening. Fans running great, Sata & usb 3 expansion cards also recognised & in use. Sadly the new Blu-ray is not. Totally new & unusued yet even recognised in bios & both O/S not reading any disk. My portable usb DVD RW purchased along with laptop last year, works perfectly in both O/S. Major Wins 10/11 issue all external drives in enclosures keeps coming up with drive needs formatting, yet they are all seen by Linux. WTH? Can understand it happening to 1 drive but all 12? It also happened to the 3 HD's pulled from Win 7 rig & added to this rig. Disconnected all 3 to prevent mishaps, too much media & data on them. Sorry for my long post. There is 1 remaining issue with Linux & if I can get that resolved, it's bye bye Microsoft. I've even begun to get used to Open Office as my legitmate copy of Office 2010 will not install on Win 10/11.

21) Message boards : Number crunching : All things Window's 11 (Message 2133449) Posted 5 Mar 2024 by Sirius B Post: The problem with Win 10 is that 22H2 is the final version & will reach EOL on 14/10/25.

22) Message boards : Politics : Computers & Technology 4 (Message 2133290) Posted 1 Mar 2024 by Sirius B Post: Oh dear. OpenAI being sued over its Microsoft links

23) Message boards : Number crunching : Ryzen and Threadripper (Message 2133142) Posted 27 Feb 2024 by Sirius B Post: Thanks guys, much appreciated @Martin & Wiggo, Secure Boot not set. Don't like M$ telling me what I should do on my own rig. @Mike, Thanks will try F8 after running the wu test on Win11. Over the last couple of days, have found that win11 really hates having no net access. :)

24) Message boards : Number crunching : Ryzen and Threadripper (Message 2133109) Posted 26 Feb 2024 by Sirius B Post: Question for Ryzen users running Windows & Linux on the same rig. Had many an issue with dual booting in the past so installed each O/S on separate drives & used bios to switch between them. However got fed up with this some time ago until Wiggo made a post in the Computers & Technology thread. He used the F12, that worked great for me so tried using that on the new rig. Sadly F12 does not work on Asus ROG Strix B550-F rig. Checking through bios couldn't find any option for F12. Ideas anyone as I feel I'm missing something. Did experience some annoying issues with both O/S's, 1: Windows kept opening up the help page continuously after closing brower & click on any app icon to run them. Had to boot into Linux & browse for a solution. Finally found several but many did not work. However 1 did so tried that. Success, it worked & on many reboots since them, it no longer occurred.. 2: On Linux the same issue but with the Desktop User Guide & no matter what I try it fails, so googled it. Found a lot of answers but none work so far. On the plus side, ran Boinc on the Linux rig as a test & After a week of testing, it completed 439 tasks for a credit total of 202,000. Nice. Now started testing Boince under Win 11.

25) Message boards : Politics : Positive World News (Message 2133103) Posted 26 Feb 2024 by Sirius B Post: Fantastic. 10 year comletes Artioc trek

26) Message boards : Politics : Profits 1st, Safety 2nd (Pt 4) (Message 2133072) Posted 26 Feb 2024 by Sirius B Post: imo since the split of the GPO into 3 separate organisations, greed & incompetence Right, that's two of them, what's the name of the third? If you mean GPO it's... Post Office Royal Mail Britsh Telecom If you mean the other, then Wiggo got it. :)

27) Message boards : Politics : Profits 1st, Safety 2nd (Pt 4) (Message 2133059) Posted 25 Feb 2024 by Sirius B Post: imo since the split of the GPO into 3 separate organisations, greed & incompetence has manifested themselves more. Again, imo public companies should be prohibited from instigating private prosecutions. Had than been in force then... ...there would have been no need for any of this.

28) Message boards : Politics : Shocking Pt 2 (Message 2132964) Posted 23 Feb 2024 by Sirius B Post: It seems after Grenfell nobody really listened. 4 dead so far...

29) Message boards : Politics : Profits 1st, Safety 2nd (Pt 4) (Message 2132928) Posted 22 Feb 2024 by Sirius B Post: Took long enough Sadly, too late for some.

30) Message boards : Number crunching : All things Window's 11 (Message 2132883) Posted 21 Feb 2024 by Sirius B Post: After nearly 40 years of Windows, I now hate M$ with a vengeance. I don't know what update caused the issue but could not click on computer or documents or any other icon as it opened up a web page - support microsoft & continiued to open further tabs, Hitting red X failed every time & click on icon in the tasking then clicking close windows also failed. Did a restore but keeping files etc. Bad mistake, on resetting, issue continued so used recovery. Worked for half a day before the issue returned. Now resetting but removing all files. Should that fail, then it's a case of factory reset next. I hate looking at small screens like a smartphone for net access etc, much prefer a larger screen. Thankfully, I got my Ryzen build done (Linux Mint) Got say ( & I hate doing so), thanks to Linux as it resolved several issues with accessing online accounts. Laptop & Win 7 rig held them all. Can't wait to get Win 11 pro on the Ryzen (Will use F12 for boot options).

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