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Feature deprecation and removal
And for the UK, Ofcom have reserved sets of numbers for TV and radio dramas to use
Anyone not running regular, verifiable backups of any machine they give a shit about is asking for it.
Or, as I've seen it stated elsewhere, "Data you haven't backed up is data you didn't really want."
With Pro (not Home), you can use the Group Policy Editor to defer Feature and Quality updates for a period of time.
For example (but do scroll down to get to the gpedit bit)
Fixed domestic wiring in the UK is generally "twin & earth", so there isn't a second layer of insulation on the ground wire, just the (usually grey, sometimes white, with white latterly signifying low smoke insulation) outer layer.
When you get to a socket or switch (or ...) the earth conductor must be sleeved with a green/yellow stripe. According to wikipedia, a green sleeve for earth wiring was required prior to 1977.
(When we moved into our house in 2003, most of the sockets had green earth sleeves.)
My UK 3kW kettle (230V, 13A) is a different beast to a 3kW US kettle.
I'm assuming that left-pondians do have high-amperage kettles: I can't imagine them being happy to wait twice as long to boil water, though maybe they do, and that's why they're culturally unable to make tea properly.
Like alain, I don't want to spend significant amounts of time upgrading a computer.
So, the canonical anti-pattern for me is Windows 10: twice a year it demands your attention, it requires shepherding through multiple reboots, and then makes each user sit through a faux-jolly passive-aggressive "Hi, sit there and wait, because it's not your computer: be grateful we're doing this for you".
And Ubuntu's LTS + HWE (but skipping every other one) is what currently works for me: we're on 18.04.5, and I don't have to bother myself until 2022.
Erm, yes it does. If you don't believe me (Some Random Bloke on Those Interwebs), the online LO help also says it does.
there was an interesting article somewhere not too far away saying that Apple seem to have stepped away from CUPS...
I know we're getting perilously close the "unknown unknowns", but if you're that far out on the Dunning-Kruger inability-to-recognise-your-own-limits scale, you should be (at best) Assistant Manager of a motorway services franchise, not leading a government's response to a global pandemic.
My desktop is sat in the office, unused since March; it's an i5-2xxx (four actual cores, unlike the i5-7200U in my laptop).
The death-knell for it wasn't the CPU; it's the surroundings. It will take a maximum of 8GB, which just isn't enough when IT load up the images with enterprise-worthy sundry stuff; it's got a 1TB spinning rust HDD (>10 minutes booting to Desktop, 15 minutes before everything's actually usable), and there's no USB3.
And so, while the HDD is a straightforward fix, it's not worth it for the business...
I think it's been a bumpy path...
I used VC++6 and it had Intellisense, which was awesome.
When I later tried (the free editions of) VS 2008 and 2010, C++ support was barely visible (compared to C#): you could type, create projects (e.g. add new classes [header and body files per class]), and compile, but the clever stuff didn't work.
I always felt that if I wanted to stray outside the .NET bubble, I'd need to pay up for a real version.
Evidently, that's what's changed.
[...] Despite Oracle's fulsome explanation[...]
fulsome, adj: "expressing a lot of admiration or praise for someone, often too much, in a way that does not sound sincere"
Synonyms: oily, oleaginous, smarmy, unctuous.
For lots of public health, national bodies are the best level.
I have a professional interest in non-ionising radiation. The National Radiological Protection Board was created in 1970, became part of the (UK-wide) Health Protection Agency, and then part of Public Health England.
Scotland and Wales both defer to PHE for their non-ionising radiation issues, because the expertise handed down from the NRPB can sit quite happily in one office, covering the entirety of the UK.
In the UK, Ofcom maintain a list of numbers reserved for TV shows.
I couldn't possibly comment on whether I've used any of the numbers in online forms.
I checked early on, and found a half-hour Skype video call used half a GB downstream (and was presumably symmetric, though I didn't monitor the upload). Then a film in HD, plus half a dozen episodes of whatever cartoons my son's watching. It all adds up.
I think back in slight terror to the first broadband package I ever had, which had a 10GB/month limit.
Work stuff is slow, but it's not my connection (I have a mere 30Mb/s over ADSL) that's the bottleneck, but rather something between the far end of the work VPN and the actual server.
I've found that learning how to use robocopy has been very worthwhile.
But what else can you use PHP for?
I have used it for semi-automated graph generation (drawing primitives in GD). A version of this ran on an intranet site for a few years, but its main use was from the command line.
Most of the logic was folding, spindling and mutilating text input (file names and then their ASCII contents) into numbers, though, which is a strong fit for PHP.
"If users find themselves washing their hands before their next scheduled reminder alarm, users can just tap the ‘Wash now’ button before washing their hands to disable the upcoming alarm.”
So the user can tap on the screen with an unclean finger, and interact with their watch after washing, to transfer the grot back to their hands? (And viruses remain active longer on hard surfaces.)
I went to check if I'd been supplied with the new Edge yet.
Instead I found that it had "helpfully" "forgotten":
... so I'm not going to be using it to browse, since it can't respect my preferences.
The numbers of UK-based .eu domains are surely better contextualised if the reader is told how many there are in total: is ~300k domains a drop in the .eu ocean, most of it, or about what you'd expect, given the sizes of the UK and the EU?
So, I went and searched for the appropriate number, and according to the latest EURid report, there are 3.7 million registered domain names in .eu, as of March 2019.
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