Windows Up.dates: Feb 5, 2015 - Microsoft has rolled out its cross-platform, finger-friendly build o (20)
Yes I've adjusted my settings and turned off auto updates Rob 
And I use OpenOffice, which is free, rather than Microsoft.
It's a bit clunky but does the job
And I use OpenOffice, which is free, rather than Microsoft.
It's a bit clunky but does the job
Hi serene
Yep but watch out Windows Essentials and Action Centre also allow updates, i was shocked to note Windows Update (not current install) without my knowledge; Essentials downloaded 136 Windows Updates the installed during shutdown (unstoppable) tis why i disabled Update in System Services
Yep but watch out Windows Essentials and Action Centre also allow updates, i was shocked to note Windows Update (not current install) without my knowledge; Essentials downloaded 136 Windows Updates the installed during shutdown (unstoppable) tis why i disabled Update in System Services
Just been watching a TV program narrated by some guy riding a motor bike around South Africa was astonished hearing that Louis Botha, Winston Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi all shared experience together at the battle of Spion Kop, a hilltop in South Africa during the second Boer War, astonished to hear that.
Bit gathered information.
Louis Botha, Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi in the Second Boer War Spion Kop The result was 350 men killed and nearly 1,000 wounded and a retreat back across the Tugela River into British territory. There were nearly 300 Boer casualties.
Louis Botha was an Afrikaner and first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa—the forerunner of the modern South African state. A Boer war hero during the Second Boer War, he would eventually fight to have South Africa become a British Dominion.
He was General Commanding and fighting with impressive capability at Colenso and Battle of Spion Kop
Winston Churchill was captured and held prisoner in a camp in Pretoria from which he escaped and rejoined the British army.working as a correspondent. Who later championed World War I military attack that ended in disaster—Gallipoli. That messenger boy...the very same one with the big cigar...
Mahatma Gandhi volunteered in 1900 to form a group of ambulance drivers raising eleven hundred Indian volunteer medics
At Spion Kop Gandhi and his bearers had to carry wounded soldiers for miles to a field hospital because the terrain was too rough for the ambulances.
What a small world
Bit gathered information.
Louis Botha, Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi in the Second Boer War Spion Kop The result was 350 men killed and nearly 1,000 wounded and a retreat back across the Tugela River into British territory. There were nearly 300 Boer casualties.
Louis Botha was an Afrikaner and first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa—the forerunner of the modern South African state. A Boer war hero during the Second Boer War, he would eventually fight to have South Africa become a British Dominion.
He was General Commanding and fighting with impressive capability at Colenso and Battle of Spion Kop
Winston Churchill was captured and held prisoner in a camp in Pretoria from which he escaped and rejoined the British army.working as a correspondent. Who later championed World War I military attack that ended in disaster—Gallipoli. That messenger boy...the very same one with the big cigar...
Mahatma Gandhi volunteered in 1900 to form a group of ambulance drivers raising eleven hundred Indian volunteer medics
At Spion Kop Gandhi and his bearers had to carry wounded soldiers for miles to a field hospital because the terrain was too rough for the ambulances.
What a small world
Sorted a computer for someone, while i did that used my wi-fi to download stuff. Got to look at the computer yesterday as person couldn't get online, answer was no signal in your location.
Anyway also noticed the Hotspot Device the person was using to access wi-fi account included my login and another persons login well as computers owners.
Just completed purchase of new sim-card for my telstra dongal!!
Anyway also noticed the Hotspot Device the person was using to access wi-fi account included my login and another persons login well as computers owners.
Just completed purchase of new sim-card for my telstra dongal!!
robplum: Sorted a computer for someone, while i did that used my wi-fi to download stuff. Got to look at the computer yesterday as person couldn't get online, answer was no signal in your location.
Anyway also noticed the Hotspot Device the person was using to access wi-fi account included my login and another persons login well as computers owners.
Just completed purchase of new sim-card for my telstra dongal!!
Anyway also noticed the Hotspot Device the person was using to access wi-fi account included my login and another persons login well as computers owners.
Just completed purchase of new sim-card for my telstra dongal!!
Would have been easier to stop broadcasting the sid and generated a new key.
Rob I found your post re Botha, Churchill and Gandhi fascinating
We don't expect our icons to have shared experiences eh
I studied Gandhi in my youth, such a charismatic, driven personality how could one not be captivated and need to know more
Of Botha, I have little knowledge (note to self
); in addition you have reminded me of my mission to inform myself more fully of Churchill's life and times.
My interest was piqued a little while back when viewing his artworks - obviously I knew of him, being a child of Britain with parents of relevant vintage lol.
But my interest definitely got an upgrade when considering that such a powerful man produced gentle evocative landscapes, no doubt an escape, a therapeutic activity as art often is
I found your post re Botha, Churchill and Gandhi fascinating We don't expect our icons to have shared experiences eh
I studied Gandhi in my youth, such a charismatic, driven personality how could one not be captivated and need to know more
Of Botha, I have little knowledge (note to self
); in addition you have reminded me of my mission to inform myself more fully of Churchill's life and times.My interest was piqued a little while back when viewing his artworks - obviously I knew of him, being a child of Britain with parents of relevant vintage lol.
But my interest definitely got an upgrade when considering that such a powerful man produced gentle evocative landscapes, no doubt an escape, a therapeutic activity as art often is
I've just purchased a new sim, i dunno how to generate a new key. The current sim has allotted password are you saying i could have changed that?
I've attempted on two occasions on to computers i sorted to remove the login and password while all the googled forums i read on the subjected stated only way to remove that password was to format computer.
Actually didn't figure someone could login without my dongal logged in but the Hotspot thing-me-bob clearly can, topped up with $180 on 1st May the account had $223 credit at that time, now $23 so moved to block that
thanks
I've attempted on two occasions on to computers i sorted to remove the login and password while all the googled forums i read on the subjected stated only way to remove that password was to format computer.
Actually didn't figure someone could login without my dongal logged in but the Hotspot thing-me-bob clearly can, topped up with $180 on 1st May the account had $223 credit at that time, now $23 so moved to block that
thanks
serene56: Rob I found your post re Botha, Churchill and Gandhi fascinating We don't expect our icons to have shared experiences eh I studied Gandhi in my youth, such a charismatic, driven personality how could one not be captivated and need to know more
Of Botha, I have little knowledge (note to self ); in addition you have reminded me of my mission to inform myself more fully of Churchill's life and times.
My interest was piqued a little while back when viewing his artworks - obviously I knew of him, being a child of Britain with parents of relevant vintage lol.
But my interest definitely got an upgrade when considering that such a powerful man produced gentle evocative landscapes, no doubt an escape, a therapeutic activity as art often is
Of Botha, I have little knowledge (note to self ); in addition you have reminded me of my mission to inform myself more fully of Churchill's life and times.
My interest was piqued a little while back when viewing his artworks - obviously I knew of him, being a child of Britain with parents of relevant vintage lol.
But my interest definitely got an upgrade when considering that such a powerful man produced gentle evocative landscapes, no doubt an escape, a therapeutic activity as art often is
George W Bush is now also painting....
I read Life of Gandhi made big impressing, i used his wisdom throughout family court and other proceedings, mainly the British had right to there opinion he (Gandhi) had equal rights to his, Gandhi won...
Churchill think was a clown, a dunked, read bit about secret meetings with Stalin completely turned me off, three them sat around craving up the world like they were sombodies
robplum: George W Bush is now also painting....
I read Life of Gandhi made big impressing, i used his wisdom throughout family court and other proceedings, mainly the British had right to there opinion he (Gandhi) had equal rights to his, Gandhi won...
Churchill think was a clown, a dunked, read bit about secret meetings with Stalin completely turned me off, three them sat around craving up the world like they were sombodies
I read Life of Gandhi made big impressing, i used his wisdom throughout family court and other proceedings, mainly the British had right to there opinion he (Gandhi) had equal rights to his, Gandhi won...
Churchill think was a clown, a dunked, read bit about secret meetings with Stalin completely turned me off, three them sat around craving up the world like they were sombodies
My choice of reading material is always eclectic, but usually involves narratives that stem from peoples' travels and experiences in the sub-continent, the Middle East and Asia.
I am a huge fan of William Dalrymple, his exhaustive documenting of Indian history, politics and culture, for example, is unput-downable for me.
At present I'm 'embarking' lol on a 900+ page tome of his describing the 'fight' for Afghanistan, that fiercely independent and proud nation that has yet to be defeated by perceived 'super powers'.
This is partly due to my fascination with the 'Great Game' .. the strategic rivalry and conflict between the British Empire and the Russian Empire for supremacy in Central Asia... *insert nerd emote here
*the latter commitment i find interesting, a conflict between vatican and orthodox white (lefthand side) russia been ongoing for 1300 + years and just last week most interesting event occurred, think mh17
Afghanistan like India once-upon-a-time was mostly buddhist along came mohammad chop chop chop, likewise indonesia, really depends i think, how far back we look
Darjeeling I found an interesting place, next door Nepal to. But 
India...
India...robplum: Darjeeling I found an interesting place, next door Nepal to. But India...
Somewhere in my family's albums is a photo of me at five years old, a pale-skinned blonde haired English child having her sandals removed by a very thin black gentleman in Sri Lanka, then Colombo, prior to entering a temple.
Apparently I was terrified at this event lol, how ironic that those places and those people are the very ones that I would go on to have a yearning to revisit, over and over.
the events must of made strong impression, while who knows our past karmas.
The second world war if we consider how many millions who died and took rebirth in the six short years 1939 /1945, then have to listen to repeatedly expressed ludicrous notion that so called baby boomers are a burden on society. On one hand grieve for the fallen and pour scorn on there reincarnations...
I cannot think of any reason why you or I or any right minded person would not at least try to investigate our limited understandings rather than parrot a bunch of deeply deluded know-all's suffering from the afflictions of like and dislike.
I'm referring to those that continually start wars, babble on preaching all knowing, while over and over inflicting horror, pain and sufferings upon millions of humans and probably trillions of other sentient beings, the millions that died in Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Iran/Iraq, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, Congo, China and of course Tibet
The second world war if we consider how many millions who died and took rebirth in the six short years 1939 /1945, then have to listen to repeatedly expressed ludicrous notion that so called baby boomers are a burden on society. On one hand grieve for the fallen and pour scorn on there reincarnations...
I cannot think of any reason why you or I or any right minded person would not at least try to investigate our limited understandings rather than parrot a bunch of deeply deluded know-all's suffering from the afflictions of like and dislike.
I'm referring to those that continually start wars, babble on preaching all knowing, while over and over inflicting horror, pain and sufferings upon millions of humans and probably trillions of other sentient beings, the millions that died in Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Iran/Iraq, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, Congo, China and of course Tibet
robplum: Afghanistan like India once-upon-a-time was mostly buddhist along came mohammad chop chop chop, likewise indonesia, really depends i think, how far back we look
A lesson that the English learnt the hard way was forgotten with the last war . After the 1880's go , force was used to subdue the AG's , not to mention some public hangings then the English left as the comment was made by some foreign office fella that staying around "was not likely to be profitable " . But nooooooooo had to learn it all again . Bomb , bash , burn and most of all bolt , pretending to install democracy just a load of crap as it isolates moderate AG's making them targets . Brother getting booted out of there in '01 for calling someone a fat useless lazy cu't might have been a good thingrobplum: I've just purchased a new sim, i dunno how to generate a new key. The current sim has allotted password are you saying i could have changed that?
I've attempted on two occasions on to computers i sorted to remove the login and password while all the googled forums i read on the subjected stated only way to remove that password was to format computer.
Actually didn't figure someone could login without my dongal logged in but the Hotspot thing-me-bob clearly can, topped up with $180 on 1st May the account had $223 credit at that time, now $23 so moved to block that
thanks
I've attempted on two occasions on to computers i sorted to remove the login and password while all the googled forums i read on the subjected stated only way to remove that password was to format computer.
Actually didn't figure someone could login without my dongal logged in but the Hotspot thing-me-bob clearly can, topped up with $180 on 1st May the account had $223 credit at that time, now $23 so moved to block that
thanks
Yes your ISP can do it for you. You can do it yourself but it involves AT commands through hyper terminal. one mistake and you have to start all over again.
we do it all the time at work.
you ISP should be able to generate a new SID code for you.
Oldbushy: Yes your ISP can do it for you. You can do it yourself but it involves AT commands through hyper terminal. one mistake and you have to start all over again.
we do it all the time at work.
you ISP should be able to generate a new SID code for you.
we do it all the time at work.
you ISP should be able to generate a new SID code for you.
Oh thanks, have already processed purchase of new sim. So that is in transit, I'm with telstra and they are in my opinion, hard to work with.
Thanks mate
epirb: A lesson that the English learnt the hard way was forgotten with the last war . After the 1880's go , force was used to subdue the AG's , not to mention some public hangings then the English left as the comment was made by some foreign office fella that staying around "was not likely to be profitable " . But nooooooooo had to learn it all again . Bomb , bash , burn and most of all bolt , pretending to install democracy just a load of crap as it isolates moderate AG's making them targets . Brother getting booted out of there in '01 for calling someone a fat useless lazy cu't might have been a good thing
Yes much better off out of AG, still bound to hot up, Pakistan just got hold of a lot fighter jets courteously mr chang.
Find it hard to fathom a lot of what Britain does, the defence of Singapore, to there credit, probably on the ground the military did quite lot big well done in Malaysia, Borneo, but more recent, most recent, looking sticky...like australia NZ one foot jordan one iraq
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My understanding Windows 7 update Sp2 (the update after Sp1) is preparing computers for Windows 8 update, which then leads to updates for windows 8.1 operating system, the next updates are preparing your computer for Office 10 which Microsoft expects 80% of all windows computers will be using by end 2016. By the time your all enjoying the wonderful feature of being able to rent program, from poor Bill. Instead of installing Word, Excel, Access, Publisher, Power Point, Frontpage types of Microsoft programs, you'll be able to rent a program instead (though I admit I'm not quite sure just what that will mean) i notice Microsoft will already rent you a template for US$9 per month.
I've embarked on different path, before i did anything at all on refurbished L650 I turned Windows Update Off and Disabled it i Systems, also turned Windows Firewall Off, likewise Windows Defender OFF.
I then fully installed old faithful, Office 2000 Premium, most comprehensive Office Suit they released that is now not supported (anyone can use without fear of been struck down by Microsoft Bounty Hunters) all its 4 disks installed on my hard drive. Then fully patched with Office 2000 with its own Sp1, Sp2, Sp3 and later Microsoft somehow manged to slip Sp4 on top those and the programs are running in the 2000 mode it was designed to run in on lovely 64 bit computer.
Installed and paid for Spybot Antivirus Pro program that also protects computer by routing all my internet traffic though its SpyBot Proxy Server (Kaspersky Total is now doing that to) also I installed SUPERAntiSpyware Professional. Updated the computer with the latest drivers (disk off eBay) that allowed Windows to slip in Sp1 in on me as some the drivers required the Sp1 Win 7 patch
Had to buy a new printer settled on an Oki LED Printer with Duplex, "C531dn" as otherwise lovely Xerox Laser only part functioned because of the 64 bit driver lacked ability.
Purchased "Macrium Reflect" and "Outback Plus 9 Backup" programs and all works fine no Windows Updates or Upgrades...