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  1. Graham Carter
    Another vote for the Samsung... yeah its pricier but I got used to wireless charging on my s8 which the OnePlus doesn't have!
  2. Graham Carter
    Dude that sucks You could buy another S7 for that kinda price!
  3. Graham Carter
    Do you have any phone / gadget insurance? Did the same to my S8+ and was quoted £350 from some companies! Fortunately had gadget cover insurance and just had to pay the excess...
  4. Graham Carter
    LOL, I think this is another discussion for another new thread :-). You wanna start the thread or shall I :-P
  5. Graham Carter
    Dammit, have Calvin Harris - Acceptable In The 80's stuck in my head now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOV5WXISM24
  6. Graham Carter
    Some very good points, I like this :-) For me personally, it comes back to frustration, from, as has already been highlighted, sheer laziness to explain ones reasoning..... For example, where there are discussions be they online or in person, when the phrase is used, regardless of its intentions, or as you so eloquently summarised to highlight what was morally wrong in years gone by... ...Whatever the motive for using the "modern phrase" my frustration is that when its "clearly" used as an excuse or justifications for actions without backing it up with ones reasoning (going back to the laziness once again) Smacking children is another hot topic... and if I or someone replied to a discussion along the lines of "I don't smack my child, because OMG its the 21st century! ...would summarise the reason for this discussion! However, if someone said " I don't smack my child, because A) bad experiences in the past B) prefer other methods of punishment etc, this would be a quality rebuttal If your passionate about something, then shout it from the rooftops and backup it up with passionate arguments and reasoning... don't just blurt out "because its 2018"
  7. Graham Carter
    Never thought if it like that, but whole heartedly agree :-)
  8. Graham Carter
    I think most are getting off topic... the meat n potatoes of this discussion is simply why do some use "the modern times" as a groundless excuse for something to be accepted. By all means back up your argument with reasons of morality, religion, right and wrong etc, but not just throw phrases around like the example already provided...
  9. Graham Carter
    You got it! Its just as bad as when people who are trying to cement their opinion and use "fact" in their statement as if stating "fact" makes it any more accurate!
  10. Graham Carter
    Is it just me, or does this (the title of this thread) annoy the hell out of anyone?Let me offer an example, there will be a news article with user comments, or a social media post with comments, and folks come out with responses such as... ...IE using "The Year" Or "Modern Times" as a misguided justification for immorality!This is not a debate though, its to discuss using the era we live in, as justification for allowing previously regarded bad shit to happen!
  11. Graham Carter
    After reading articles like this ... AirPort Extreme Article Got me thinking... I purchased one several years ago as we had just moved into a new house and ISP provided router kept crashing when 5+ devices were connected. As our home devices / equipment is heavily Apple based, it made sense to grab an Apple Router product. However now that Apple have announced they are discontinuing the Router product line, there seems to be a lot of haters ranting against these products! Personally have been nothing but thrilled (and still am) with the performance of this product! We live in a x3 story house and the range / overall speeds / stability is incredible Im keeping mine until it goes pop! Any love / current owners out there in linustechtips world for these Airport routers?
  12. Graham Carter
    I own the .co.uk https://www.whois.com/whois/interwebz.co.uk
  13. Graham Carter
    I was an AOL user (uk) back in the day, and one downside was that you were charged per minute for both your AOL time and phone time. That said, AOL was the equivalent then of what facebook is now.. in that you never had to venture outside of AOLS application as everything was at your fingertips from games to stuff for sale, chat, news music etc Ironically the internet has come fill circle from the AOL days!
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    True but back then it was more like the wild west without big corporations breathing down your neck.
  15. Graham Carter
    Back in the day (late 90's early 00's) "computing" was fun. You were discovering new ways to chat online, new ways to download stuff, testing beta copies of Operating Systems, getting excited when your colleagues told you about ordering VCD disks from overseas! MP3's were cutting edge and you felt like a hacker, grabbing tuneage from the interwebz! Then there was IRC... you felt like you were breaking into the pentagon, issuing obscure commands into MIRC to "download stuff'. Torrents came along and again you were considered and internet God downloading operating systems, applications, movies, games! Before google came along, you were a zen master by discovering sites like metacrawler for hauling enclopidiea like results from the fledgling interwebz. Then you were heralded godlike for being able to rip and burn dvd's using ripping software etc Now, since google, youtube, Netflix, Spotify... everything just became so easy to acquire, the key word being subscription based content! What with the big content provider players and "broadband" there are no challenges any more on the interwebz "Before" on any given day, I personally would be multi-tasking with torrents, mirc, chatting on ICQ and MSN Messenger, ftp client sharing stuff etc Now its like a web browser constantly open to a handful of sites, Spotify playing music, and perhaps a twitter feed running in the background Its just so MEH nowadays on the interwebz #midlifeinterwebzcrisis
  16. Graham Carter
    https://1.1.1.1 Interesting, but haven't observed a notable improvement in overall browser web page response times... and also... https://community.cloudflare.com/t/considerably-slower-in-the-uk-eu/14730/9
  17. Graham Carter
    I had my suspicion that it was either a safari plugin, perhaps a background app or perhaps the fact that it wasn't running a clean install of the latest macOS. Cut my losses and formatted and re-installed directly to macOS High Sierra... so far so good... still annoying not knowing the root cause, but then these kind of issues whatever the os can remain a mystery
  18. Graham Carter
    Am on my 2nd macbook 12 now. My first was a gold 2016 model and my current is 2017 model. On both laptops and on all versions of macos from Sierra to High Sierra have noticed that more often than not when you begin to type in any field in the safari browser, it glitches and constantly over types the first character until you physically click on the field you are typing in and then proceed to type. It doesn't happen in any other installed browsers and doesnt happen on the Macbook Pro either To summarise this seems to be an over Typing issue with Macbook 12 models within Safari. Anyone else observed this behaviour?
  19. Graham Carter
    The company I work for have recently switched to paloalto vpn solution (GlobalProtect) What I personally don't like is that you can only download the client from your companies web facing link... https://yourcompany.domain/global-protect/getsoftwarepage.esp However on our company link, they dont have the latest version https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/Management-Articles/Software-Release-Notices-GlobalProtect-Agent/ta-p/61019 which is 4.1.0 (released on: 6-Mar-18) The weird thing is that the client isn't company specific, so I really dont know why they dont just offer a link to download the latest client I digress, am after the latest version 4.1.0 - anyone have access to the mac version?
  20. Graham Carter
    Looking for some recommendations on a good software package or web service (windows or mac) to easily put together training guides for proprietory software packages (IBM RACF stuff is one example) All of the training guides we have at work are either word docs, or powerpoint and are not easy to distribute, and can get out-of-date pretty quickly We have Microsoft 365 employed at work and Microsoft Sway looked promising to put together a web based training guide, but found it a tad clunky to use. I guess am looking for a package which can create a web browser based guide which is searchable and has simple navigation, for example navigation buttons to go from step 1, step 2, step 3 etc
  21. Graham Carter
    The main drive of this topic wasn't to troubleshoot but to discuss if anyone else uses other file manager apps in macos :-)
  22. Graham Carter
    Its not that it cant do what I want, it just does it slowly... for example connecting and navigating to the nas is just slow Connected drives do not stay connected like a mapped drive in windows, so have to keep re-connecting Again its more about speed and remembering connected drives than physical functionality
  23. Graham Carter
    We have a NAS at home to manage all of our files, downloading, remote access etc etc However apart from the native web interface file, trying to manage files is a real pain in macOS finder! For the most part, I would run up Parallels Desktop and manage the files in Windows explorer (thats how crap Finder is) That is until I discovered Forklift! https://www.binarynights.com https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/forklift-file-manager-and-ftp-sftp-webdav-amazon-s3-client/id412448059?mt=12 Am currently using the free version 2 from the appstore and am blown away by the sheer speed and convenience over finder! Back to the reason for the post.... what file management tools do you guyz n girlz use in macOS?
  24. Graham Carter
    Re-installed win10 once more (its incredibly fast on these modern ssd's) and same problem. Some more observations, before and during bootcamp installing its driver packages both my wireless Logitech keyboard and Apple Mouse connect automatically and remain operational until a minute or so after the bootcamp driver routine finishes Noticed that the bluetooth keyboard is suffering the same fate as the mouse Again, all bluetooth devices remain stable until the bootcamp install finishes So this has to point towards a bluetooth driver mess up with apple not testing their bootcamp drivers properly on the MacBook Pro touch laptops. I had a MacBook 12" previously and this was fine with bluetooth under bootcamp. Grrrrr
  25. Graham Carter
    Recently installed Win10 in bootcamp on my MacBook Pro Touch Bar 2017 model. Installation went smoothly and all of the internal drivers installed correctly. Furthermore it automatically detected the Apple Mouse (bluetooth) However after literally a minute, a or so, although the bluetooth settings were showing the mouse to be still connected, there was no response from the mouse ie no cursor movement. Troubleshooting 1) Rebooted 2) Removed and re-added the mouse into bluetooth settings 3) Re-installed win10 in bootcamp 4) Removed the mouse within IOS bluetooth settings and re-tested in windows 5) Updated OS to latest patches All of the above was done in an activated copy of Windows 10 Pro 64bit I will admit I haven't tried 32bit OS in bootcamp as of yet Observations a) After removing and re-adding the mouse in bootcamp, it works for perhaps 30 seconds then all cursor activity stops b) No problems with reliability in IOS (so that rules out hardware issues) A google on the issue revealed some peeps had luck re-installing the Magic Mouse drivers in the OS but for me that didn't fix the issue. Anyone either seen this issue or have any more troubleshooting steps I could take?
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