Re: Unauthorized credit card use
Well, Mike, I hope this finds you rested - but I somehow doubt it
will.
There are many eye-openers - for want of a less ironic description -
aren't there! One, we can drink the tap water now - if we boil it - so
not completely over yet (and yesterday I got caught out in it - in
summer wear - and in a couple of minutes the full drains were
billowing water out again! I expect that the worse hit would have
been, yet again, yesterday - though I don't know if it was so!). So,
not completely over, yet, but we don't need the bowsers anymore -
though perhaps it is wise to leave them in situ awhile longer! And
while loading up the dishwasher this morning, for the first time in a
couple of weeks (not that I've been using the dishwasher, of course!)
I didn't save the latest empty plastic milk bottles. But because we
have been saving them, quite a collection has built up and suddenly
I'm aware of how much of this stuff we throw away! I don't know about
running out of room on this planet, but we ought to be able to make
another one from our refuse!
The other eye opener just occured, and concerns the use of the stocks.
I thought actually it would be a pretty good idea for a good no. of
offenders - the kind who don't warrant long-term incarceration. The
only problem is, because of the types we have today - the very kids
you mention, in fact - people put in the stocks would be routinely
murdered. Which, as far as I understand it, didn't happen in the days
when they *were* in use! Pretty dreadful state of affairs, eh? In this
time of the height of our civilisation we're worse than ever before! I
was going to say except perhaps when we were still nomadic hunters -
except that was *before* civilisation, so doesn't count.
Meanwhile I see on the Technet Forum 2K8 testers seemingly accepting
that SuperFetch can't run on Servers. I tried to post that I had the
service (at least) running - but I had to join and couldn't post as
'Shane' because that name was already in use. That is a form of
idiocy, don't you think? Sod them. If people who clearly want to use
their actual name are prepared to be forced to use a pseudonym, what a
sad state of affairs! I could have chosen my full name, I suppose -
after all it's showing to the right of this! But when people tell me I
can't call myself 'Shane', personally I'd prefer to do violence.
This, of course, has no place in a Win ME group, but - I gather (I'm
just reading about it now) there's this false tip that SuperFetch can
be enabled in XP by adding the D-Word "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet
\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters
\EnablePreFetcher"="1". SuperFetch does not exist in XP, of course.
But this is the key - along with another D-Word "EnableSuperFetch",
also with the value "1", that enables the service (that definately
does exist) - in Server 2K8 b3 (possibly the 2nd D-Word is
unnecessary. I'll have to reboot to try it without). But then, I
expect just about everyone trying to enable it in 2K8 is doing so
solely because ReadyBoost depends upon it, and I don't believe the
necessary files for ReadyBoost exist and that's all there is to it.
Again, I don't suppose there are many - if any - here who will care
tuppence for it, but I've been looking at thumb drives available in
the High St. for weeks now, I got my sister one for her birthday a
month ago - a 1GB Verbatim in W H Smith for half price. A week or so
later I went back to get myself one but they were full price again (I
didn't think they ever were that price and like just about everything
these days was on permanent sale. I mean the point of the RRP these
days is just to make the goods look like a better deal than they are,
isn't it?). Anyway the Verbatim was much cheaper than anything else
around - much, much cheaper - until I saw the 2GB Maxell in HMV. Same
price, reputable storage media company, twice the capacity. And that's
the one I eventually bought. Then I found out about ReadyBoost. Next I
found out that my Maxell is not ReadyBoost enabled. Ha! Well, no big
deal, not really. I started looking for thumb drives that were
ReadyBoost enabled. Well, there may be 600-odd that are, but not in
the High St! Lots of drives in Currys Digital, but only 1 that
mentions ReadyBoost and that to say that it isn't compatible with it.
I eventually found one. Finally!
The Verbatim, in W H Smith. Which is now a quarter of the RRP.
And in the checkout queue I remembered that I don't actually have
Vista. I do have a 2GB drive (that was effectively half the price of
the Verbatim but is now more or less identical), so I don't have any
use for another 1GB. A 4GB drive, sure - but not a 1GB. So I put it
back. Really it was for the best because the Verbatim is red, and I
hate red. Whereas my sister would be red herself if she could. So, 1GB
ReadyBoost-capable (red) Verbatim thumbdrive in W H Smith ~£8, 2GB
ReadyBoost incapable (cool black) Maxell thumbdrive in HMV, £15. Get
'em while they last! There're also pretty colour ones in HMV - Splash
(which I believe are waterproof) - for about the same price, also RB-
incapable.
Shane
On Aug 3, 2:59 pm, "Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote:
> Shane,
>
> Goof to read you've still got a set of stocks. Care to have them shipped
> to Lambeth where they and others could be put to use? Not certain though
> who should be put in them, perhaps some of the do good community who just
> seem to make matters worse in this area although anything is better than
> the ASBOs which abound and are about as useful as confetti in this
> neighbourhood.
>
> >> with my time such as trying to sleep. 
>
> Which for the next few days has become a major problem as my cpap failed
> last night and won't be repaired until sometime next week by which time I
> will probably have been awake for 120 hours or more. As it is I'm already
> knackered and it's just 31-32 hours.
>
> See you on the other side, or at least after I've had some sleep as until
> then I can do little.
> --
> Mike
>
>
>
> Shane <shanebeat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Mike M wrote:
> >> I'm pleased to read that you've got running water back Shane and that
> >> you no longer have to share the dog's bath or use the village pump
> >> whenever you needed a shower or to brush your teeth.
>
> > Yes, the pump is in a most inconvenient position - on the London Rd!
> > - which was a darn sight less busy when it was constructed (we also
> > still have the village stocks, it would appear! The council
> > dismantled them a few years back but some crazy old bird had them put
> > back! I expect she envisages the day when they'll be in use again).
>
> >> As to all your playing with VMs especially with 2K8 I'm happy to
> >> leave that to you. I'm so out of touch with stuff nowadays and I no
> >> longer really want to be bothered with trying to keep up. Old age
> >> perhaps. disillusionment, a fair bit and well, better things to do
> >> with my time such as trying to sleep.
>
> > Good luck to you! Anyway I think my playing about with multiple OSes
> > is just the latest incarnation of the general obsession that is
> > almost my entire computer utilisation. Along with excessive
> > punctiliousness - ably demonstrated, perhaps, by the fact I don't
> > really know what it means!
>
> >> Enjoy your games. Oh, and why don't you try beta testing
> >> "officially"? Seehttps://connect.microsoft.combut you'll need a
> >> pissport <yuk>.
>
> > lol and cheers, Mike! I already am going the official beta testing
> > route. Or Arthur Sixpence is! (it was a requirement - like validation
> > - of downloading the iso). I regret having originally told them my
> > real name way back when I opened my long-disused Hotmail account. I
> > suppose it was required - or that I didn't know how to avoid it back
> > then. Only I suppose if I hadn't given them any genuine info I'd have
> > had to continue using Hotmail, not just the ID - so everything works
> > out in the end, I suppose. Meanwhile I see someone else with the
> > first name *Qwerty* was involved in the production of HackerDefender,
> > so I don't suppose I'll adopt the latest persona, which I was just
> > about to.
>
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