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Comment Re:I wouldn't know. (Score 1) 137

Same here, IMAP via Thunderbird client on my PC or app on the phone.
Just tried to log in to the website and it wil not let without my phone to authenticate! WTF, I never set up 2 factor authentication for mail!
if i need my phone to allow me to open a website, i might as well just us the gmail app on the phone !

Comment Re:Set and forget (Score 1) 242

"I change mine 2 times a year" ...
"Just turn it on and off at the at the wall at the appropriate time of day "

"Multiple times a day" is a bit more than twice a year isn't it?
Unless you consider "off" and "on" to not be changes in temperature... And then i would question if you even know what thermostats do...

As an AC fitter mechanic, yep i know what a thermostat does. I also know how silly people are by adjusting the settings willy nilly. Just leave it alone and let it look after the local environment. Thats what thermostats are designed to do regardless of outside influences assuming the system is sized correctly and if not, no amount of fiddling will fix that.

Changing the temperature of the room can be done opening closing doors and windows as well, and that does not alter the settings on the thermostat itself.

Powering the system on or off does not alter the settings on the thermostat at all either, so yeah I actually do change the settings on the thermostat 2 times a year.

Comment Set and forget (Score 1) 242

Why does anyone need to change the temperature anyway?

I change mine 2 times a year, Once coming into summer to set the upper temp and again in autumn to set the lower temp for winter!. pick a comfortable temp and forget about it,
Just turn it on and off at the at the wall at the appropriate time of day depending on weather conditions and forget about it.

Not hard and certainly does not require any outside connection :-)

Comment Re: Did it Fail? (Score 1) 149

And I concurr!
I live in the middle of Sydney Suburbia and am 4.5Km from the exchange. I have always had Shit internet on ADSL2+ (3.4M down and 500K up. I have complained for years as has everyone else in the street and Telstra Replaced the last mile of Copper a few years ago.
Despite all that and the fact that every suburb around me, and the Exchange is NBN Enabled, i still cannot get it now and are not slated to do so fro another few years yet.

If Fibre to the node was rolled out originally, I could have had a Much better service in place years ago rather than still now not being able to watch any form of streaming video

The original plan I liken to was to delay the rollout until everyone could get a Lamborghini at first connection. rather than quickly rolliing every one out a new Subaru WRX, then upgrading to the Lambo when each suburb had other infrastructure work to be done and roll in Fibre to the house then.

Comment Re: Who wants one? (Score 2) 186

Do you drive? Because I do, and it's handy as hell. Read/write messages without removing your hands from the steering wheel, or make calls or prettt much anything you want.

there are many situations in which is very handy to use a phone/computer with your voice, and some have saved lives.

Well then you are an idiot!

When I am driving, I concentrate on Driving, not " Read/write messages" or "make calls or prettt much anything you want"
Driving a vehicle requires 100% attention to the task, and anyone who thinks differently is a fool!

Turn the phone off when driving please before you kill someone! ( I do not care if you kill yourself though)

Comment Re:Installed in a VM (Score 2) 284

There were different installation types I think and they all had different number of disks. The one I had had 13 floppies but most came on the New CD and had to be written to a pile of user supplied disks to install. That version had over 30 disks as you describe

IRRC, you could write the first 3 disks to boot from, then install off the CD.

The first install I did from those floppies, was on a 386sx machine with 2MB ram too :-) Took ages to complete

Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 485

I did an interesting comparison to find out exactly what the performnace of 10 is like
Ran up 3 brand new VM's on my 4 year old desktop with 8Gb ram, with Win 7, Win8.1 and Win10 preview. Once the OS installed and running, Installed Chrome and opened my default 27 tabs.
Timed the process and that took 3 times as long win 10 than 8.1, which was slower than Win 7.
Did several tests to increase VM ram, # of CPUs etc Still performed like shit!

Unless you have a new machine with lots of RAm and fast disk, Stay with what u have

Ken

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