Posts by Richard Bragg 34 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Feb 2008
When my PC started to misbehave playing a game then suddenly the screen going blank and 3 little beeps on restart. Googling suggested GPU overheat. Install nice little gadget. Start game play, then switch out to desktop and there is temperature of GPU climbing far too high. Quick clean on fans on graphics card and retry and GPU temperature stays OK whatever I stress it with.
Maybe there are other tools but this was nice a small and just sat there doing what I needed.
Mostly I just enable the repository and off it goes. Even kernel updates are handled fine. When I have had problems I can download a file from nVidia which then (looks like) it builds something using the kernel headers and it still works.
Maybe what's needed is some dialogue such that updating either component can be done without breaking something.
I think that if I thought there was an error in the presentation I'd try to talk privately to the speaker afterwards. This would help if I mistook what was being said and the presenter can rephrase for me then I don't look dumb, and if the speaker has made an error or was unclear has the opportunity for them to make corrections without being shown up.
Under the rules you are not allowed to "store" electricity produced by your panels.
And if like us you don't have a smart meter then it is assumed that 50% generated is sent back to the grid. This can be an advantage so if you use lot's of high use appliances when generating, even if you use 150% of generated power, you still get 3.1p x units gen'd/2 on top of the 43.3p FiT payment.
One area I lived in had a mix of 5 and 6 digit local numbers depending on which part of town/exchange you were on and it was a smallish town. And a couple of "institutions" couldn't accept the shorter number as their computer systems said nay. Not having a mobile that meant some fun and not having a mobile means I do utilise the shorter form of dialling local numbers.
I believe there is a God who can and does act in miraculous ways. I also dislike quite a lot of religious programming. Too much is either too nice and wishey washey (mainstream channels) or is exploitative and hyped up (some Christian channels). I really hate the prosperity gospel types and especially the "sell a blessing" crowd.
Mt 10:8 "Freely you have received, freely give" - (It is OK to fund raise to support a ministry it does cost to run a church or channel but that should never be liked to "getting the blessing".)
This channel has crossed a line that they have agreed to abide to, and that line isn't contrary to the Gospel, so they should be punished.
Linux users know there are alternatives but one big hurdle to companies rolling out Linux on PC's is "No Office". Since you can make Linux look like Windows or at least function is a similar way the actual O/S becomes less important than what you can do with it.
If staff need to do Power Point presentations, connect to Exchange with all features (calendar, Communicator etc.) then you have to provide a platform that those tools work on. Take away the barrier and uptake of Linux on corporate PC's becomes much more attractive and another market for MS and others to work to.
some grannies can manage much more complex devices. For some its not just the technology but simply remembering who you want to call or actually using all those tiny buttons. Having a nice simple device with your 4 most used numbers would be ideal. You may have more numbers you want to call but you can do that from a fixed line with you trusty address book.
This could allow some people to have a little more freedom. They can go out with some degree of monitoring, a nice panic button and an easy way to call for assistance.
that they don't always work well if topics digress and split. The tree structure of new groups means you could follow parts of conversations and not others.
When forum topics grow they become so unwieldy and since most are date ordered it can get very hard to follow conversations.
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