Windows 8 won't play DVDs?
7th May 2012
I Just read
that
Windows 8 won't play DVD's. It sounds like a joke doesn't it. I understand
you can pay more to upgrade the 'Media centre'
What a mess
Microsoft are making. I have XP on my laptop and Windows 7 on my desktop
machine. and I find XP much more pleasant to use. Windows 7 is such a messy
operating system. I don't know what other cock ups Microsoft are going to
include in Windows 8, but I sure as hell don't intend to find out. When my
laptop needs replacing I will try and get one that uses XP. If that proves
impossible, then I will switch to Linux. Linux is very different but I will just
have to get use to it.
I don't understand
Microsoft. It is as if they are
trying to
lose customers.
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Is this England or China?
1st May 2012
I heard on the
news that the British courts have decided to force the Internet providers of the
UK to block a web site called PirateBay. This site evidently lets you search for
the data required to download files using file sharing software.
It won't stop
file sharing. I doubt if it will even slow it down. I just did a search for
torrent and found dozens of web site offering the same service. Those that want
to use PirateBay will probably use a proxy server in another country to get to
the blocked site.
I am ashamed to
say that the UK Government appear to taken to censorship.
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The Tobacco Display Ban.
25th April 2012
I notice that
the supermarkets are not moving their displays of cigarettes. The Tesco Local to
me have put sliding doors in front of the display with "Tobacco On Sale" written
on each panel in large print, so when ever any one buys any they open it up for
all to see during the transaction and during the topping up of the display.
I don't consider
that to be "out of sight
out of mind"
The best way to
reduce smoking is to massively increase the duty on the product. The government
is suppose to be reducing the national debt. To do this they are reducing
expenditure and raising taxes. Increasing the cost of tobacco products will not
only raise money to help reduce the national debt. It will also reduce smoking
which in turn will reduce the amount of smoking related illness which will
reduce the drain on the N.H.S.
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No privacy.
4th April 2012
I have been
seeing reports on the news about all email communications to be stored so that
they can be accessed by government bodies. There was even mention of a list of
all websites visited being kept. It seems the only thing I can do now without
being recorded is to choose the channel my TV is tuned to on the freeview
system. It is not that I have anything to hide that causes me to object to the
above. It is that it is just a waste of time and money because anyone wanting to
do anything such as a terrorist communication will just use a proxy to hide what
they are doing.
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Google privacy.
3rd March 2012
I have been
seeing many reports about Google's change in collected data sharing. It is a
very good search system, but I don't trust Google with any of my details so I
have made sure they get none. I do not have a Google email address and have not
signed up to any of their other services. And to make sure they cannot get any
information about my preferences I have blocked cookies and have set up a
utility that clears data from the folders used by my browser every time I start
the computer. This works for Windows. If you are running one of these devises
running the Android or Apple operating systems Etc. then I cannot advise you.
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Whitchurch21.
9th February 2012
The
whitchurch21.com is now
http://www.whitchurch21.co.uk
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The internet ripoffs.
5th February 2012
A recent
edition of the BBC programme Click showed us new ways that hackers were getting
peoples banking details. While they were explaining how the latest tricks get us
to give information to hackers it occurred to me that all internet transaction
mean money is transferred from one bank account to another, which begs the
question how come the banks can’t catch the people taking this money? I would
wager they could if they really wanted to.
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Ever changing.
22nd January 2012
I guess I have
not been finding much I wanted to comment on recently. It's the 22 days into
2012 and I haven't added a thing this year. The internet like life is ever
changing. Social networking sites are taking over from personal web sites, but I
am a bit of a stick in the mud, and so I still keep my personal web sites and I
am avoiding twitter, facebook etc. Windows improved right up to XP and since
then has become full of gimmicks. Instead of nice dropdown menus with written
indications of what it does, we now have lots of little icons without writing so
we have to guess what they mean. I don't spend as much time reading as I use to,
preferring to get my entertainment from the TV. I tend to send the odd email,
read a few news items, and chat to my friends on Skype, and that's about it.
4ODear.
5th December
2011
If you miss an
episode of say "The Big Bang Theory" and you try using 4OD then prepare to be
disappointed. It didn't offer the last episode. It offered the next one (not yet
televised) and trying to play it made it respond with not available. Its no
wonder people resort to file sharing.
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OK so a football manager topped himself.
28th November
2011
I have had to
rely on getting the news from the internet the last couple of days because the
TV new has been dominated with the news of this prat who killed himself. You
would think they would spend maybe 5 minutes telling us about it and then move
to the important new going on in the world, but no. They go to a reporter at
some football stadium who starts saying what a good man he was in various ways.
Maybe if someone had told him how much they appreciated him he may not have
committed suicide.
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Kate Bush Stop.
19th November
2011
I have just
previewed the new Kate Bush Album. What a load of rubbish. Each of the tracks
contain a few notes on a piano followed by what is supposed to be singing
followed by the same sequence of notes. It is hard to find a great difference
between each of the slow boring dirges.
Had someone played
any of the tracks and asked me to say who the Artist was, I would not of had a
clue, and I loved her 70's music.
Quantitative easing.
7th September
2011
I heard
on the news the other day that the bank of England are going to do that
quantitive easing trick again. All this really means is they are going to print
more money, increasing the amount of money in circulation. When you consider
that the amount UK money that is in circulation is increased. As the total value
of the money remains the same they are effectively decreasing the value of the
money in circulation. This reduces the value of any savings you may have. To me
that is the bank stealing from us all.
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