Posts by dunbankin 13 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Mar 2015
Well I just happen to have one of those "personal devices used by individuals.", and I've been wondering why my Taskbar occasionally doesn't appear on my Win 11 PC in the last few months. A reboot generally brings it back, even maximising and minimising a full-screen window on the desktop usually works. MS are fibbing again.
I remember watching Echo 1 and Echo 2 with my dad's binoculars in the '60s. Not solar sails, but similar. They were huge shiny balloons in low earth orbit, designed as passive telecom satellites. - no on-board electronics. You bounced a signal off them. They were as bright as Sirius, and quite fast moving. Didn't last long in LEO - there never was a Echo 3...
I remember watching those last three commercial flights into LHR from the tower block I was working in, in the City of London. Three Concordes quite low separated by a couple of minutes. Beautifully choreographed. A magnificent sight. You knew it was the passing of an era. (Dabs eyes).
Thoroughly agree with the Verity's report on the quality of the Samsung disk cloning s/w. I stuck a Samsung SSD in my PC a couple of years ago, and, forewarned by on-line comments about the utility's uselessness, installed a copy of Macrium Reflect as back-up. I tried Samsung's s/w first - it spent 45 mins saying "Cloning...", before eventually saying " Oh. Actually it appears I wasn't cloning after all..." (or something like that). Reflect took 75 minutes not saying anything, until finally saying "Finished", leaving a perfectly cloned SSD. Aghast that Samsung haven't fixed such a fundamental bug after 2 years. The Samsung SSD hardware, however, is brilliant.
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