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Stuart Borman
Since the last version or two, Password Safe has gotten glacially slow for me.
I use it on two different computers, and it's equally slow on both, even
though one of the computers is very up-to-date. The program used to be very
appreciably faster, and its behavior changed all of a sudden on both computers
a few months ago. I'm not sure what to do, as I love the program and having
been using it for years, but its performance has become prohibitively slow, to
the point that I cannot recommend it to anyone any more. If you have any
suggestions of what I can do, I would appreciate them. I thought there would
be many discussions of this problem in the Password Safe Forums, as I assumed
everyone was having the same problems I am, but I do not see much discussion
of this problem in the Forums. Thanks for any assistance you can provide.
There have been only 1 or 2 references to being slow in the past. In both
cases, it appears that the PasswordSafe database had become very very big -
over 100MB!
In one of them, IIRC, it was due to copying large amounts of data into a notes
The solution for this was to:
a. Save the database somewhere else - just for safety.
b. Export the database to a text and/or a XML file and use a normal text
editor to find entries with very large notes fields and delete the offending
notes (maybe save them elsewhere if you need any of the data).
c. Create a new database (with a different name) and import the edited
text/XML file.
Alternatively, start PasswordSafe with no database open (use the command flag
-c) or open it as normal and then close the database without ending
PasswordSafe. Then use Manage->Validate to validate the database (again - take
a copy of the database before doing this).
If the size is not that large, for example my main database is less than 100KB
- nowhere near 1MB let alone 100MB), then I can't think of why it is slow for
you. It isn't slow for me at all.
Dennis Kavanaugh
I agree this thing has slowed down tremendously in the past 12-14 months. My
safe is 124KB, and specific things have slowed the most: add an entry,
duplicate an entry, move an item or group. The whole functioning has changed
so that, when an entry is created, it first shows up italicized, then several
seconds later shows up in regular text. When I duplicate a key the process
takes about 10 seconds, fist thinking, then creating another entry in italics,
then changing it to regular text, then moving the focus back to the original
entry. It's pretty bad.
Rony Shapiro
As David says, we've seen a couple of odd cases where the password database
became unreasonably large. The fix David described should work fine for this.
As to the italicized -> regular text, this is due to (1) A change we made a
couple of releases ago in that modified entries are shown in italic font, and
(2) Manage->Options->Backups->Save database immediately after Edit or Add
being selected.
I can think of a couple of tweaks that I can try to improve performance, but
until I do, you might want to uncheck the above preference, in which case
you'll be prompted to save upon exit (but you might lose changes if there's a
crash/power failure...).


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1 oz Bacardi 151 rum
1.5 oz Kahlua coffee liqueur
.5 oz Grand Marnier
Homemade Chantilly cream to garnish
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Coat the rim of a tempered 8-10 oz Irish coffee or red wine glass in lime juice, then dip rim in sugar until covered. Add 151 and Grand Marnier to glass and carefully ignite with a long match or grill lighter. Swirl the liquid to help crystallize sugar, then add Kahlua, followed by enough coffee to fill the glass. Top with whipped cream and finish with a dusting of nutmeg. Serve immediately.
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The Bachelor's Juan Pablo is featured on the new cover of People in an apparent bid to rebuild a reputation that was nothing short of massacred this winter.
Despite the uber-romantic setting and having an engagement ring at the ready, Juan Pablo did not propose to Nikki Ferrell on the Season 18 finale Monday.
The backlash came on strong, and not just for the weak non-proposal. His comments and behavior turned off fans throughout the episode, and season.
Juan Pablo tells the celebrity news magazine that he's not the bad guy here, despite what you may have seen ... from his actual comments and actions.
He said, "You go on thinking if there is the connection, you propose. But I don't feel the need to propose to somebody if I don't feel one hundred percent."
"I didn't know Nikki. I want to know more, a lot more."
No one can argue with that on merit. Including Nik.
"Had he gotten down on one knee, I absolutely would have said yes," Ferrell admits, but "having a ring on my finger wouldn't stop us from breaking up."
"What's going to keep us together is having a real relationship," she adds in a candid, valid point. "I'd rather have him propose when he feels it's right."
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Viewers saw Juan Pablo say he loves f--king Clare Crawley, who left the show in disgust, along with fellow top six members Andi Dorfman and Sharleen Joynt.
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The last time Lonnie Curtis was in an Oceano Community Services District Board of Directors meeting, he was unanimously terminated by the board, he called a critic a "hemorrhoid," and he stormed out of the boardroom.
About four months later, Curtis has changed his tune. Although he was fired from his position as OCSD general manager on March 14, he told New Times that he's decided to run for a Board of Directors seat in the November general election.
"I think there's a lot of value I can add to the board, despite being terminated by them," Curtis said. "They were wrong for terminating me, but we will settle that at some point in the future."
Curtis is running for the two-year seat currently held by Jennifer Blackburn, who plans to run for re-election. Board members Lori Angello and Karen White—whose four-year seats are also up for grabs—will be running in November as well.
When asked how he'd be able to work with a board that will likely be very similar to the one that fired him, Curtis said he'd "work towards consensus" while also adding that "this board has not served the interests of the community."
"Their issues with me don't hold water, and it doesn't do the community any good to whip the dead horse and keep bringing up my past," Curtis said. "This district needs serious improvements in leadership, planning, and policy, and I bring lots of that kind of experience."
The OCSD board reviewed Curtis' job performance four times in closed session during his five months on the job before he was fired. The litany of complaints and allegations against Curtis included frequent plagiarism, mistakenly overcharging ratepayers, Brown Act violations, and haphazard agenda drafting.
Curtis was the district's eighth general manager in seven years. The OCSD's ninth general manager in that span—former SLO County public works director Paavo Ogren—started work on July 21.
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"I've never really wanted to be this visible," she said during a recent telephone interview. "I have children. I have a life. I have a few of my family members and friends who still don't know much about my history. I don't know how they'll respond now."
Still, she says, she knew she needed to come forward and participate in the new website, www.mormonsandgays.org, launched Thursday by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. You'll see her in several of the website's video sequences, sharing her thoughts and feelings along with other church leaders and members, urging compassion, acceptance, love, and empathy between Latter-day Saints and those who experience same-sex attraction.
With all her heart, she believes God requires this of her.
"It's time," she says quietly. "My husband and I thought and prayed about this a lot when the church approached me a year ago to be interviewed for the website. We feel it's time for me to come forward and be more vocal."
So here she is, coming forward as a happily-married 52-year-old mother of three who, 30 years ago, was living her life as a lesbian.
"We knew this was going to be a church website, so we figured our family and friends would see it," she said Friday. "The thing is, I hadn't told my kids about my past yet, and we just moved into a new ward. And I'm thinking, 'yeah, we're going to be telling everybody to come look at this website where I talk about the sins I did.' "
But after representatives from the church explained the purpose of the website to her and asked her to participate, she and her husband talked and prayed about it and felt it was the right thing for them to do. The filming process was sensitively handled, she felt, and talking to her children about it was a sweet experience.
"After talking to my oldest daughter, I asked her if she was going to be embarrassed by having me on a church website talking about my experiences with same-gender attraction, and she said, 'I'm not embarrassed. I'm proud of you for doing it,' " Campbell said. "My youngest daughter was like, 'oh sure, no problem.' It was no big deal to her."
As far as members of her new ward are concerned, she said, "Well, when they see it, they'll know. My motto in this has been the lyric of a hymn: 'Do what is right, let the consequence follow.' "
She has already received responses from friends who know her and her personal history.
"The first phone call came from a friend of mine who is a lesbian and not a church member," Campbell said. "She said she had just seen the website and was moved by it. She said, 'I am just so proud of you.' That meant a lot to me, coming from someone who is living the lifestyle."
Another call came from a friend who is LDS and who struggles with reconciling her faith with same-sex attraction. "She said she felt like there were angels behind this website," Campbell said. "She felt the spirit so strongly. I'm like, 'well, yeah — that's what we were going for.' "
Campbell has told her story before, in a book published by Deseret Book in 1994 called "Born That Way?" She has spoken about her experiences at several annual conferences of Evergreen International, an independent organization that focuses on same-sex attraction from within the perspective of the doctrines, teachings and policies of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She also has a blog with North Star, a website for Latter-day Saints dealing with issues surrounding homosexual attraction.
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August 25, 2005
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Blue Coat ProxySG 200 (Group Test: Instant messaging security)
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- Strengths:
It is possible to create complex security rules.
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There are some minor errors in the documentation.
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A versatile device that offers IM security to the smaller enterprise.
Blue Coat's ProxySG 200 system is a 1-U height rack-mountable device that provides proxy services for the small enterprise network. Using Blue Coat's secure SGOS operating system, it offers a range of proxy services and security features for a number of internet applications.
Its instant messaging features address the more common IM clients, namely those from AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo!.
Initial configuration can be carried out through either a Java-enabled web browser or through a command line interface over a serial connection. We configured the device using the serial connection after our attempt to use the browser connection failed because an error in the documentation gave the wrong connection details.
We obtained the correct information from the serial configuration, and we could then use the browser-based management interface. However, the standard of documentation was generally good, despite this.
The system offers the ability to configure polices controlling IM clients based on a large number of criteria. Policies can be applied globally, to groups of users or to individuals, and actions can also be applied to individual files. It is possible to block any or all IM services on the same basis, or to restrict access to certain services to particular time slots.
Quite complex rule sets can be created to cover most requirements, although careful planning would be needed to avoid leaving gaps in the security screen. The system can also control clients that use an http proxy.
Its content-filtering service can be configured to trigger alerts if defined key words are found, and the transmission can be blocked, if necessary. There is also a "reflection" feature that spots whether clients are operating on the same internal network, and simply routes traffic between them, instead of forwarding it to the public IM server.
The management interface has access to all aspects of the device's configuration and operation, with real-time statistics and graphs of the device's performance and traffic throughput. There are extensive archiving and reporting options allowing for detailed auditing of IM sessions.
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Microsoft's security apps still trip up on Windows 8
From what I see of malicious attacks...
...it's all ransomware/hijack stuff that's written on the hour by the crimegangs and pretty much none of the AV companies can defend against it because its so new.
Basically for most of the nasty stuff out ther, it's so new, you may as well not bother with AV.
I bet the samples that were used in this test were at least a week old and so not really a real world test in my experience.
I've seen all of them beaten.
If you want proper Zero Day protection from Microsoft...
... then you need to install their Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit. It's a separate application to the AV part.
Everyone seems to keep forgetting this but MS doesn't exactly promote it much. I guess one day they will integrate the two. Odd that a fairly crucial component is kept hidden.
I've been using it for about a year and so far nothing bad has happened. I also install lit on all my customers machines. No bad reports so far. All very quiet in fact.
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Re: Hmmmmm 3 or 4 hours in my workshop....
It is funny when you get to see a lot of TV and movie props as to how crappy they actually look close up. Even ones from $100 million movies look really nasty under examination.
The ten SEXIEST computers of ALL TIME
Re: I seem to recall..
I always used to love the look of the Apricot F1. They used to have them in Dixons.
Never saw anyone buy one. Was a sexy looking machine.
BT boss barks at TalkTalk for being 'copper Luddites'
Re: Why is line rental so much?
I mentioned the concept of ADSL only landlines here a few weeks ago but a lot of folks here pooh-poohed it for some reason.
Oh yes....
...and as a TalkMobile customer myself...could you please start your own 3G/Mobile Data services rather than using the crumbs left on Vodafones plate?
(Long story but I have one of those legendary 07777 numbers that are impossible to shift from the Vodafone network. I didn't know at the time.)
If Talk Talk say they are so good...
...then why is it that most of the customers I visit and use TalkTalk have ADSL speeds in the 512k to 1Mb range?
I then advise them to switch and Bingo...6Mbps+ straight away.
And this is after the customer has reported it to TalkTalk and they have said "computer sez no!"
Consistently the worst ISP I come across.
Pyongyang to unleash NUKULAR horsemen of the Norkocalypse?
So when does the whopping great...
....'financial aid' cheque land on the NK leaders doormat so he can stand down till it's spent?
Re: Missile fuels and testing
I wonder if that pack of cards exists already and is kept updated for 'eventual' release?
Kissinger and tell: WikiLeaks scrapes 1.7m US diplomatic reports from the '70s
Re: hmmm....
I enjoyed Channel 4 New's coverage of his Xmas speech from the Embassy balcony by basically taking the piss out of him.
Most entertaining.
Gartner: RIP PCs - tablets will CRUSH you this year
Re: PCs are being SNUFFED by crass pre-installed operating systems
Netbooks died out because once folks got over the rush to own a "small cutesy laptop" they realised, that with crappy 1024x600 screens and pathetic single core 1.6 Atom CPUS, that they had bought a piece of crap.
Whether you run Windows or Linux on a netbook its still a crappy frustrating hardware experience.
Most folks only bought them for email and web on the go and the tablet then came along and pissed all over them. I have a Acer netbook with Ubuntu on it I've used it on holiday a few times but since then I've got a Playbook and a Nexus 4 and both nuke the netbook from a high height. The Acer just gathers dust.
I haven't heard any of my customers say "Oh I love my netbook!" Quite the opposite.
Review: Intel Next Unit of Computing barebones desktop PC
It's not uncommon for large firms to get ripped off.
I used to work for one of the very very big financial firms.
I was often asking why our company with its huge buying power (our business was replacing things that got broken or lost) when ordering IT kit would have to pay £300 for 32MB of ram (6 week lead time) from our official supplier, when I could order it from Crucial for £30 (next day delivery)?
Every time I was told to "shut up!"
So I guess it was kickbacks between the IT supplier and the folks that organised the suppliers contracts.
Blue Screens are pretty rare really.
If I hear of someone experiencing them nowadays I ask them to do a Memtest on their ram.
Sure enough its usually faulty ram, if it isn't I then ask them what type of power supply they have in the PC.
"erm well it's grey....says 'Takashonky Power 300 watt' on the side. Is that okay?"
You know what I'm talking about. Problem solved.
Steve Jobs to supervise iPhone 6 FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE
Re: This is not unusual
You are right it's not unusual but in this instance it does have an air of "Hmmmmm" about it.
The guy was really ill for sometime and no matter what marketing BS they gave I bet his input was minimal for quite a while. If I was terminally ill with a family and several hundred million in the bank I know I'd rather be doing something else than discussing the whatnots of the 2015 iPhone 7. If he was working on that days before he died then that makes it all the sadder and weirder.
The thing is I'm sure I read in a few place that the iPhone 5 was listed as the 'last Jobs mobe' or 'the 5 had little input from Jobs'.
So if the next two STILL have input from him (really) I can only imagine it will be stretched out till at least the iPhone 9 by the time we get to the 7's release.
And maybe even beyond.........
Re: iPhone 6 and iPhone6s
I can just imagine Apple shoving every single design idea they had in front of his face in the last couple of days he was in the office, getting him to sign off every one of them so they could say there was a 'little bit of Steve's input' in them.
Wow so he knew about all the chip roadmaps.....
...etc. going back to 2010 (i'm sure in the last few months the aesthetics of the iPhone were far from his mind)!
A true visionary!
Anything to keep the devoted thinking there is still a little 'Job's Magic' left in them.
It's like Delboy's stock phrase to Rodney "You mum on her deathbed said to me........"
Rocket boffinry in pictures: Gulp the Devil's venom and light a match
Time to dust off Project Orion.
I'm sure with today's more precise maths modelling and experience a fully nuclear launch out in the pacific would work a treat.
Getting 5000+ tons of building materials and supplies into space in one go, not to mention a fully working factory/workshop would be a huge leap.
Re: Space Junk
Would be a shame to think that in say another 30 years it becomes so cluttered that it gets too dangerous and becomes off limits.
Trapped by our own junk.
Are the PCs all getting a bit old at your office? You're not alone
What I don't quite get is....
....that I see many articles on this topic from tech journos and market analysts as to why corps and companies are not buying PCs like they were 10 years ago.
To them it all seems a big mystery yet we all know the reason and its been mentioned several times in this thread alone.
The kit matured for business (and most of the domestic market) the minute dual core CPUs were introduced.
Why do they continue to write this stuff? PCs are still necessary, not many businesses will be tossing 90% of their computing kit in a skip any time soon. Its just that that old IBM 2GB desktop with the 2Ghz C2D in it is good for another rebuild or two for the new guy in Accounts.
Dongle smut Twitstorm claims second scalp
What I learnt this week!
That it appears as a straight white male I am regarded as the greatest force for evil, fear and oppression in the known universe!
Thanks, I really needed that lift!
Thing is...
...in this day and age you can build a career out of purely being 'offended and outraged'.
So many people now have very little to do so they look for things that instead of just tweaking their interest, actually enrages and offends them. Then they can collectively group hug-rage together to make themselves feel better.
Herd-Rage, a great way to find like-minded idiots.
...that escalated quickly!
Furious Stephen Fry blasts 'evil' Reg and 'TW*T' Orlowski
Re: It happens
Well in all fairness when staff asked me to explain them as I was the IT trainer, I just used to say "its magic!"
Surprisingly effective answer it turned out.
The great communication void of the internet strikes again!
Had this been two blokes having a leg pulling session in a pub over a packet of crisps and a couple of pints.....
TL;DR - Leg pulling doesn't really work on the internet.
Microsoft, Adobe, wilt during Australian price gouge grilling
As for Adobe.....
...I remember them stating a few years ago when asked why the UK/Australian versions cost more then the US versions was due to.....
(and I kid you not)
Language support!
Dragons' Den badboy's Expansys burns sales, profits up in smoke
Nothing to do with...
...all those folks ordering Nexus 4 phones direct from Google then?
Report: BlackBerry BYOD-ware doesn't pass UK.gov security test
Re: Bring your own Blackberry to work?
An iPhone....oh how ordinary!
Review: Sony Xperia Z
Are memories of Sony's Digital Walkmans....
...and their dreadful bloated and buggy software the reason a lot of folks stay away from Sony phones?
Paying a TV tax makes you happy - BBC
Re: A tenner a month for...
Only costs £2 for a US TV series season boxset for two weeks from your local lending library.
We've just powered through 4 seasons of Fringe for £8! Bargain!
No advert, no torrents and no waiting.
Re: How do they actually catch anyone not paying the license?
That's just it, they are nothing more than a subcontracted, half-assed debt collection agency.
No authority to do anything at all.
Re: Owning a TV is not compulsory.
Isn't it a case that the third party company paid by the BBC to enforce and monitor the License Fee is just that, a company with zero legal powers or authority.
Essentially they have less power than a debt collection agency.
Its like the detector vans. They don't really exist. All you need is a database and check the addresses not currently paying for a licence.
Re: A tenner a month for...
Yep and none of them really targeting you as a consumer. Just the odd blink and miss it bit here and there.
That's the problem with the BBC, always appealing to someone other than you.
I was always a big supported of the TV licence...
....but over the past 5 years or so we find ourselves watching less and less of the BBC's output in our house.
We recently did a check and found the only BBC produced show we watched was Being Human.
Now £120.00 is getting quite expensive for a show we could rent from the library for £2 on DVD.
BBC programming has nosedived bigtime. It's stretched itself too thin and works too hard trying to cater to certain demographics. Those of us wanting great involving drama with actors and in-depth documentaries fell a little left out.
Better stuff coming from the US.
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Ahhh c'mon the Desert Eagle bit was one of the funniest things I've read on here recently.
SimCity owners get free game, EA will get A NEW CEO
Re: 9 out of 10 Llamas refused to comment
That is the plan of course. That's why the single player offline mode was never considered.
All the stuff that's oddly wrong and plainly missing will appear every few months as chargeable DLC.
In about 18 months and $60+ later you should all have the full game as it was intended.
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Re: And some folks just build these.....@jason 7
Well whatever my hobby is it's far more worthwhile than running Wprime, Sandra, Prime95 or 3DMark 24hours a day for bragging rights.
If you think running pretty pointless synthetic benches all day is a worthwhile endeavour then go right ahead.
I'd say an intervention might be needed in these cases but that takes actual friends to do that....not just a collection of Manga and Marvel superhero figurines proudly displayed on a shelf.
And some folks just build these.....
...to run benchmarks on all day.
They don't think they are bonkers either.
Waste of life and electricity.
Samsung's new Galaxy S 4: iPhone assassin or Android also-ran?
Re: How I see it.
No you misread what I was getting at. 'Tech Experts' were going crazy over NFC irrespective of platform whether it was on Android or Apple. They were all hoping for NFC on the iPhone5 and then when it didn't appear on the iPhone, instead of bemoaning it, they just showed a split second of disappointment and then mostly went "Oh well it was never important!". Basically trashing NFC.
Had they included it it would have been a ticker tape parade for NFC.
I'm still looking for my S3.........I didn't think I bought one.
How I see it.
According to the tame tech press if these features are on one brand of phone they are 'gimmicky' if they were on another brand of phone they would be 'ground-breaking'.
Its like last year NFC was going to be MASSIVE (I can't capitalise that enough) it was going to be huge and everything. The IT gurus were literally ejaculating NFC tags all over the place (what a thought).
Then Apple didn't bother to put it in the iPhone5 and the next day the tech press were going, "NFC? What's that? Never heard of it. Never gonna happen!"
OpenSUSE 12.3: Proof not all Linux PCs are Um Bongo-grade bonkers
Hmmm as a dyed in the wool Windows user I've always liked how fonts look on linux over Windows. Even on a VM in Windows they still look nice and smooth.
Windows 7 looks fine but 8 looks like the Cleartype has been switched off (even though it says its on).
Who's riddling Windows PCs with gaping holes? It's your crApps
Re: Add EMET3.0 into the mix
Well this is it. But if it stops a bit of shareware from 2003 working I don't see the issue. The needs of the many...
As a side note it doesn't work too well with Office 2003 and earlier if you switch on all the configurations for each of the Office apps. So basically they were not written to conform to modern memory security policies.
However, if you load up the All profile for the applications then it configures the correct settings for Office so you don't get any issues.
Add EMET3.0 into the mix
It keeps tabs on third party stuff if it tries to act up in a naughty way.
Just shuts the sucker down if it does.
Don't know why MS doesn't roll it out as standard fit really. I'm putting it into all my customer builds and no issues so far.
BYOD: Bring Your Own Device - or Bring Your Own Disaster?
Just ban the use of Powerpoint in your organisation...
....and you can get rid of 25% of your workforce with no negative impact. The remaining 75% will have a lot more time to do actual work than sit through the pointless presentations created by the 25%.
Some twit with more money than sense.......
...bought an iPad and then had his nose put out of joint when he wanted to use it for work (to pose with basically) and the IT dept told him to sod off.
He then banded together with his other expensive pink shirted friends and pushed it and pushed it.
And BYOD was invented.
The power of whining knows no bounds.
As for the rest of us? I've seen what the general public use cos I make a living trying to fix it all. It's a mess quite frankly.
Hilarity and disaster will be certain!
Intel's Centrino notebook platform is 10 years old
Re: Yeah its all in the upgrades.
Its largely down to what CPUs will run on the Intel chipset in the laptop. Sometimes the BIOS can kibosh it but mostly you can slip one in. You just check the Ask Intel pages on the web.
There were a lot of cheap laptops sold as late as 2009/10 with single core Celerons in them. Nasty!
I remember buying a AMD based laptop...
...in 2005. It had a full blown Newcastle 3500+ A64 CPU in it.
You could burn your thighs with it. Nothing like a full blown desktop CPU in a laptop.
It got better when I put a Venice 4000+ in it....a bit. Centrino was the way for a good while.
My dad still uses it today.
Yeah its all in the upgrades.
The CPU may still be willing but that 4200rpm IDE drive will have to go and the choices are getting limited.
What I really love doing at the moment is when I get a customers laptop in that has a single core Celeron in it.
You can pick up a 2Ghz dual core C2D for around a tenner, swap that in and you then have a customer for life. Often I don't charge them for it or just charge them the tenner. However, the improvement is so much they rave about it and refer you on to others. Its a worthwhile investment.
Only problem is I'm stuck with a pile of Celerons......
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I like....
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Redmond slashing Win8, Office OEM rates for small devices
Re: Cut the price as far as you want
Main PC - Windows
Main Laptop - Chromebook
Main Phone - Android
Tablet - Blackberry Playbook
I like to spread it around. I like them all. They work just fine for me. Price is the overriding factor on my choices these days. It's not so much that I'm using Windows less, it's that I now have more equipment choices to do work on.
Five years ago it would have been PC and Laptop only. Now I have a range of weapons in my armoury.
Gnome cofounder: Desktop Linux is a CHERNOBYL of FAIL
Re: @another coward Huh. - Jason
Once again the point is that within two posts and not really knowing my level of experience you stated I must be incompetent and can't use Google.
See how that looks? How would you feel 30 mins into a course learning something new and you were called incompetent in front of everyone on the course?
This is the crux of this part of the discussion.
I have since stated I know how this stuff works but you still keep kicking me and reinforcing that less than tolerant attitude.
I've done all I can I think.
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We know Cammie and Drew have been shopping buddies lately but are they swapping jewelry too? These favorites ladies have very different styles but it appears they have both jumped on the acrylic accents trend and enjoy this modern material via jewelry, as seen in this week's Life & Style. Some of you expressed disdain for this Spring trend but I think wearing a little something clearly hits the spot. Also, this material is weather resistant, easy to keep clean and stands the test of time - both physically and fashionably.
To see a few of my clearly fun finds read more
Ben Amun Thin Lucite Bangle, $55.
Veloce Fashionable Clear Watches, $165.
Forever 21 Faceted Lucite Bangle, $6.80. This one has itty bitty glitter flecks in it - so cute!
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nati 7 years
I like the rhinestone bracelets, I can't remember where, but I've seen some acrylic rings with rhinestones that were really cute too..
redegg 7 years
Love lucite desk accessories, too:D
workinggirl83 7 years
I like the trend but I am not going to have my coworkers think I am stripping part time when they look at my feet :/
glam-sugar 7 years
I kinda like the rhinestone bracelets. The shoes are a no.
SassyRedhead 7 years
I love that chain necklace. Very edgy.
RCLdesigngirl 7 years
I love lucite...but hasn't this been "the next big thing" for a few years now? I remember a LONG time ago, Tyra Banks wore a lucite cuff bracelet to some red carpet event, and everyone said then, "Lucite is the next big trend."
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i like those bangles that drew is wearing!
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Last summer I went to Notting Hill Carnival. There was an electric atmosphere, with part of London closed off making way for the crowds of people in the streets, and the dancers in vibrant costumes on procession with blaring Afro-Caribbean tunes.
I spent two weeks at Hearst Magazines at the beginning of this summer. It is one of the best things I've done at Uni so far and I will definitely use a lot of what I learnt there next semester!
When you live away from home for most of the year, going back is a real treat. I love going home to the French countryside because it's the only place I can truly relax and there are other perks which I don't have in my Uni house, like a TV, a fridge with food in it and a double bed!
Last June I went to a festival for the first time in Manchester. My oldest school friend went to Uni there so I stayed with her and we had a crazy few days at my first festival and exploring the city.
We went from Bordeaux to Biarritz and spent every single day of our trip on the beach. The waves there were huge so one of my best summer moments was trying not to drown!
This week has definitely been the best of my summer so far! I've spent the week with my band preparing for the biggest free festival in the south east of England! Meeting up with friends from college and uni and releasing my bands first single! We recorded all the songs in the Kingston Hill recording studios. I'm so excited that I can finally share them!
Getting the week off to a great start when my first year results came out! I've passed first year with better results than I could have imagined! 3 firsts and one 2:1, this is roughly equivalent to 3 A's and 1 B. It's been hard work but I couldn't be happier or more ready for second year in September!
A quiet day today preparing for Basingstoke Live. I've been trying to make the most out of my voice after being quite poorly for the past few days as you can probably tell by wearing a jumper in July!
Visiting my friend Daniela in Windsor today! It's great to go ad visit your uni friends in their home town. I fell in love with Windsor and it was great catching up with Dani after not seeing each other since we broke up for summer last month! This will be the first of many visits I'm sure.
After lots of cleaning, tidying and excitement, one of my best friends, Dan arrived to stay at mine in preparation for Basingstoke Live. Dan is another friend I haven't seen since the beginning of June! I think you can tell from our faces we were happy to see each other!
I caught this picture of the boys hanging out in the garden after our 3 hour practice session. Having the band back together was fab and it was nice to have an evening to relax before the big show!
I always feel most at home on stage. This is just one of the many pictures to come out. It felt incredible to perform at a festival and you'll be sure to catch me performing around Kingston and London soon!
Smiles all around at the end of the world cup after Germany won! I would have loved to see England in the final but alas maybe in 4 years' time! Here I am with my friend Grace who is starting uni in September!
Posted 12 Jul 2014 by Sara Ann
Hello, hello, hello!
When I was thinking for a topic for this month's blog I was feeling a bit stumped, what hadn't I written about before? And then I had an idea - I'll write the Big Gay Guide to London for any students coming to Kingston of the LGBTQ persuasion (or anyone who just wants to join in - we throw the best parties after all. Fact.)
So here we have it, the lowdown of the best gay friendly places to go and things to do in London.
Kingston university has a very active LGBTQ+ Society that holds events and socials throughout the year, as well as having a designated LGBT officer to represent any students who identify as this on campus and help lead campaigns. There is a dedicated LGBT forum in kingston as well and they hold meetings on campus.
But that's just what happens at KU, obviously you're living right next to London and the gay scene there is almost never ending (and it's not just Soho!)
Let's start with the obvious - Pride in London. Loads of areas have annual pride parades, but London is one of the biggest and the best. I went to this year's and it was amazing! The streets were filled with colour, there was a rainbow zebra crossing, an open air concert in Trafalgar Square and winner of this years Eurovision, Conchita Wurst. There's a reason I like to refer to London Pride as 'Gay Christmas.'
The weather could have been better I'll admit... But to be honest the drizzle just gave us an excuse to pull out the Rainbow umbrellas. And it didn't seem to deter the great Sir Ian Mckellan who walked along with Stonewall.
Sadly Pride happens but once a year, but somewhere that is open all year round is the infamous nightclub, HEAVEN. It holds regular club nights and gigs by bands (Mcfly once played there completely naked for reasons best known to themselves.) and what's probably the most interesting part for you guys is they do cheap student nights. HEAVEN can be found on Villiers street.
One for the ladies is Ruby Tuesdays at KuClub near Chinatown. It has a chocolate fountain and drinks from £1.50. Enough said.
The final nightclub venue on my list is Madame Jojo's in Soho- whilst not strictly a gay venue, this burlesque/jazz club is a favourite of mine and I really would have out it higher on my list if it hadn't been for notoriety and chocolate. It hosts a lot of different nights with tickets from as low as £10 standing or £15 seated. Drinks are slightly on the expensive side but you can't fault it for the atmosphere. Especially after the main show when tables and chairs are shoved aside and the dance floor is open for everyone to get down to good vintage music.
One of my favourite nights there is the monthly 'Burlesque Idol' competition - open to novices and more experienced burlesque dancers it is the X Factor of the burlesque world and it takes place on the last Friday of every month. Okay, I mostly go because I have a massive crush on the MC, but regular judge Tempest Rose is also a reason to go - I was lucky enough to take some burlesque classes from Tempest at the beginning of the year and she is brilliant as a performer and as a teacher. (I also came second in a best dressed contest last time I was here, but I don't like to brag about it...) dress code is burlesque/vintage/dress to impress.
Right - enough of the night life. Now I'd like to direct your attention to 'Gay's the Word', a charming little bookshop in Marchmont Street, not far from. King's Cross station. It's pioneering in that it was the UK's first and now only LGBT centred bookshop - vital in a world where a lot of bookstores don't have a dedicated LGBT section so you could end up meandering for hours trying to find what you want (not always a bad thing but still... Nice if you're in a hurry.) I love GTW for quite a few reasons - the layout of the shop is so easy to browse, the staff are all lovely, and you always meet some interesting people in there - last time I visited I came away with a book by David Levithan and some valuable advice for my dissertation from a lovely ex-English Literature professor who was in there puttering about by the Gay Times.
So there we have it - your potted guide to gay London. These are just four small glimpses into what's on offer in the capital for LGBT folk because I don't pretend that I'm your gay guru, there's no way I've done everything yet ;)
Below you'll find some useful people to follow on Twitter and some website links to help you further.
Have a gay day! :D
Useful Links -
On Twitter, Follow:
@LondonLGBTPride (For the latest Pride In London info)
@pinksingers (London's longest-running LGBT community choir)
@BuzzFeedLGBT (the gay section of student favourite Buzzfeed.)
@SaraFarizan (YA Writer who writes gay themed novels that aren't overtly gay, but are overtly awesome. Also she has the same name as me - triple points :D)
@rubbishles (AKA Sarah Westwood, another awesome Sarah, and my favourite columnist for DIVA magazine.)
@gaystheword (The twitter account for the bookshop mentioned above.)
Obligatory "after school special" moment - if you or anyone you know is struggling with their sexuality, there are people out there to help you. Don't face it alone and don't be afraid to tell someone. The only things that should be kept in the closet are clothes and mothballs.
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The Need to Be Open: U.S. Laws Are Killing the Future of Robotics
The next step in transformative technology is already here, and the United States runs the risk of getting left behind. The amount of robotics inventions is steadily on the rise, and the U.S. military is already in on the action. A few years ago, Air Force drones surpassed 1 million combat hours. Hobbyists are using platforms like Arduino to build their own robots, and they're building them by the thousands.