Vista's ONE good feature

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NOT as fast as my XP Home does when there's a mains power cut !

....mmm, ...that's a bit of a fib really, seeing as I have everything on
UPS's :-)

regards, Richard
 
Hello Kelly,

"My" village seems hardly to have a week go by without two or three short
breaks in mains power, all within the space of a few seconds or couple of
minutes. I understand that it's often caused by something like a swan or
other largish bird flying into power lines, out across the moors somewhere,
and tripping out our local sub-station - which then tries to auto-reset I
think it's up to three times - and if that fails on the 3rd attempt, then
"they" have to send someone out to sort it out !

....now for the conspiracy theory ! <VBG>

.... several times during the past few months whilst talking to my brother in
Bournemouth, and a couple of other people in local towns and villages, and
during the conversation, we wandered onto the topic of Echelon and the
"black rooms" filled with high speed equipment and software listening for
keywords, ...so we shout a few words at each other for fun like "bomb" "blow
up" "explosive" etc.- speculating that perhaps a software voice recognition
little red blinky thing is blinking away and highlighting our phone call for
closer scrutiny, ...all good fun, but, then, sometimes during the 'phone
call, or very shortly afterwards, there's a power outage. ...so we
occasionally speculate that the "closer scrutiny" is someone prodding a
button somewhere to "get their own back," and give us a short power cut !!
....of course it seems ridiculous to suggest that the "powers that be" have
the ability to do such things, ...the only other answer is of course
coincidence !

regards, Richard

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
http://cryptome.org/echelon-60min.htm
 
I still want to know what NTFS "multiple streams" are, and just what is that
whopping big, (in addition to the pagefile.sys), "meta-something or other"
can't be defragged unless I do an off-line defrag ? I think I went to NTFS
a while ago because of drive sizes :-)

I did read up on NTFS a while ago, and it all seemed to make sense at the
time of reading it, ....I wonder if I should have tried to remember more of
it !

regards, Richard
 
I think that Kelly's comment really got by you Richard :-o

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RJK said:
Hello Kelly,

"My" village seems hardly to have a week go by without two or three short
breaks in mains power, all within the space of a few seconds or couple of
minutes. I understand that it's often caused by something like a swan or
other largish bird flying into power lines, out across the moors somewhere,
and tripping out our local sub-station - which then tries to auto-reset I
think it's up to three times - and if that fails on the 3rd attempt, then
"they" have to send someone out to sort it out !

...now for the conspiracy theory ! <VBG>

... several times during the past few months whilst talking to my brother in
Bournemouth, and a couple of other people in local towns and villages, and
during the conversation, we wandered onto the topic of Echelon and the
"black rooms" filled with high speed equipment and software listening for
keywords, ...so we shout a few words at each other for fun like "bomb" "blow
up" "explosive" etc.- speculating that perhaps a software voice recognition
little red blinky thing is blinking away and highlighting our phone call for
closer scrutiny, ...all good fun, but, then, sometimes during the 'phone
call, or very shortly afterwards, there's a power outage. ...so we
occasionally speculate that the "closer scrutiny" is someone prodding a
button somewhere to "get their own back," and give us a short power cut !!
...of course it seems ridiculous to suggest that the "powers that be" have
the ability to do such things, ...the only other answer is of course
coincidence !

regards, Richard

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
http://cryptome.org/echelon-60min.htm
Click to expand...
 
It certainly did, ...I didn't have a clue what he meant, so I thought I'd
just ramble on about something else :-)

regards, Richard


I think that Kelly's comment really got by you Richard :-o

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Peter

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RJK said:
Hello Kelly,

"My" village seems hardly to have a week go by without two or three short
breaks in mains power, all within the space of a few seconds or couple of
minutes. I understand that it's often caused by something like a swan or
other largish bird flying into power lines, out across the moors
somewhere,
and tripping out our local sub-station - which then tries to auto-reset I
think it's up to three times - and if that fails on the 3rd attempt, then
"they" have to send someone out to sort it out !

...now for the conspiracy theory ! <VBG>

... several times during the past few months whilst talking to my brother
in
Bournemouth, and a couple of other people in local towns and villages, and
during the conversation, we wandered onto the topic of Echelon and the
"black rooms" filled with high speed equipment and software listening for
keywords, ...so we shout a few words at each other for fun like "bomb"
"blow
up" "explosive" etc.- speculating that perhaps a software voice
recognition
little red blinky thing is blinking away and highlighting our phone call
for
closer scrutiny, ...all good fun, but, then, sometimes during the 'phone
call, or very shortly afterwards, there's a power outage. ...so we
occasionally speculate that the "closer scrutiny" is someone prodding a
button somewhere to "get their own back," and give us a short power cut
!!
...of course it seems ridiculous to suggest that the "powers that be" have
the ability to do such things, ...the only other answer is of course
coincidence !

regards, Richard

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
http://cryptome.org/echelon-60min.htm
Click to expand...
 
Thankyou, just read through nearly all of it, ...I think I'll have to come
back to that and study it more throughly !

....long gone are the FAT32 days when I'd think nothing of altering a drive
type with Powerquests' pqedit.exe e.g. when I had problems hooking up a boot
drive as slave to get data off it :-) ...I never could get the hang of
just connecting a boot drive as slave, rather, it would never work for me
and as soon as Windows caught sight of 2 bootable partitions it all went
bang, so I used to set the partition as "extended" ...if memory serves :-)

regards, Richard


Bob I said:
Here, have another go at it! ;-)
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Windo...bf8e-4164-862d-dac5418c59481033.mspx?mfr=true
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He? :-)

It certainly did, ...I didn't have a clue what he meant, so I thought
I'd just ramble on about something else :-)

regards, Richard


I think that Kelly's comment really got by you Richard :-o
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....this must be some new meaning of the word "village" that I don't
understand. Perhaps someone would educate me ?
I like to think that I'm quite worldly wise,...and I'm not a prude, ...and I
like to think I have a wicked sense of humour, ...even if it is a bit camp
but, ...there you go, I'm lost on this one :-)

regards, Richard
 
RJK said:
...this must be some new meaning of the word "village" that I don't
understand. Perhaps someone would educate me ?
I like to think that I'm quite worldly wise,...and I'm not a prude, ...and I
like to think I have a wicked sense of humour, ...even if it is a bit camp
but, ...there you go, I'm lost on this one :-)
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"village" is an abbreviated form of "village idiot" in a round about
kinda way.

One possible fuller version might be: "Your village is calling. It's
missing an idiot."
 
The last time I referred to Kelly as a "she," he told me off and told me he
was a "he,"
....there must be more than one Kelly !

regards, Richard
 
AaaaaH! ... the penny finally dropped ! ...thank-you Uncle Grumpy !

regards, Richard
 
The last time I referred to Kelly as a "she," he told me off and told me
he was a "he,"
...there must be more than one Kelly !
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I'm sure that there are many Kellys of both sexes in the world, but "our"
Kelly, Kelly Theriot, the MVP who posts in these newsgroups regularly, the
Kelly of "Kelly's Korner," is definitely a she. See the link Elmo cited
below.
 
Don't be nasty. Every new OS has problems. That's what updates are for.
 
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