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That's the popular line the Tories take just to make it appear that they are in accord with the DM retards who will always be "Beautiful", but 20 years behind the times. You don't think any department of state, even MOD, really sees unrestricted asymmetrical urban warfare as a permanent sustainable solution - eventually, whatever the differences, talking is better than waring, which is very, very expensive and Debt and tax heavy. Nick

Security goes critical just as it looks as if the election script is going off piste with Mr Corbyn gaining ground. Luv the holy joe last night doing the "Manchester can take it line" -easy to say when most of the white middle-class are outwith the major conurbations now, following the population movements of the last 20 years. And we'll all be OK if we all stick together - only one way this issue will be sorted and that's talking to them, specifically the Saudis. But the Americans have just snookered every body else's chance of doing that with the $100 billion arms deal. And we're the Americans best buddies. So,we're not going to talk, and we're going to substitute troops in place of policeman (No additional cost). And lets not spend more money on surveillance and analysis (The only feasible systematic solution in the absence of intelligence breaks and talking directly to adversaries) or turning the Isle of Man into a Guantamo - we can't put the most important thing in jeopardy - Brexit and the interests of a few Tory backbenchers. So, standby for another 30 years of the same *******s we had with the IRA. Nick

Re-installation of Outlook 2010 on my W10 Desktop following a disk re-format has rendered the Microsoft Exchange Servers unavailable - I take it that this is something to do with Microsoft offering Office 365 subscriptions to home users. and W10 blocking access to the servers . I've temporarily overcome this by setting-up Outlook with IMAP and Smtp access. This keeps the mail sync'd across machines but does not do the same for calendars. This is annoying because I make quite heavy use of the calendar function at the moment. Given my relatively low level of usage of Outlook in general, I'm not keen to fork out £80 for an Office 365 annual subscription for multiple machines. Is there any way to set-up access to Exchange servers for the Home user other than thru Office 365 ? - I note that my Blackberry Playbook is able to sync its calendar (Push only) with the web version of Outlook, Outlook.Com using server eas.outlook.com, port 443, but the updated calendar info received from the BBP and recorded on Outlook.com is not forwarded to the Outlook client running on my W10 Desktop. Can Powershell be used to remove the block in W10 ? Are the Azure and AWS addresses only available to account (Commercial) holders ? Nick.

Oh ! solidcupoftea. N

And how many of the women would be wearing similar attire ? - "Don't worry Fatima, Semtex bumps is the new orange". Must have stuck out like a sore thumb - unless in staff uniform and/or accompanied by women . N

The most heavily surveilled country in Western Europe, in Europe's largest event centre and a guy of North African descent, on his jack (?) in a largely women only crowd and wearing a heavy coat in warm weather doesn't get spotted by Security ? - CCTV must have got him, otherwise they wouldn't have got the name post hoc. Does one presume no live feed to the SS ? Hmmm ? Or was he staff ? "Its so difficult to pick this sort of thing up", they say - another case of no investment ? Given the profile of this sort of thing, I'd have thought all major event centres, sports grounds, shopping malls, airports, stations, ports, motorway service areas would, by now, have some sort of feed out to the security services. It's so easy it could probably be facilitated on MS Azure !!!!! I think its another case of tight as nun's doodah on the expenditure front - "because you're not worth it" Eyes peeled when I next put in my next visit to the usual even softer securitised venue. . . RSVP. N

Odd target choice, apart from the fact that its very soft with high probability of success. Poor devils. Female Teeny-boopers who are keen on the over application of make-up, are hardly a key societal group likely to sway government policy. As a first try, they could have done the same in the Parliament attack - if you're a suicide bomber survivability isn't a real consideration for attackers as long as you hit the target. It all seems very illogical and shambolic. Trump's reaction - highly intelligent, as usual. N

"Saint goes to heaven " . . . surely ? . . . and finds Dorothy is the keeper of the Pearly Gates. Mind you, I wouldn't mind a bit of the £340 million (Old money) syndication rights that Lew's ITC earned on the Saint. N

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Britain-at-War-Unseen-Archives/dp/07525566ick14 Nick

No respect for restrictive practices - putting National Security at risk, that's Trump's job ! Meanwhile, in Ridyah, the lyrics of "Oh Effendi" are being played out again, ad nauseum:- "In the middle of a caravanOn a four wheel drive oasisThere's a man with a thought in mindTo cash in on the desert facesGot a truckload of Yorkshire girlsFor your harem going placesAnd the border bums never sawThe guns in the whiskey casesThere's a real, big demandAnd it's written in the palm of his handHe's gonna change the face of the desertHe's gonna sweep away the sandHang on sheik, I've got a yellow streakI ain't here, I'm a mirageGet back Des, keep it under your fezAnd don't give us away in the massageLook what I did for the pyramidI put a pool in and made it payI built a elevator and a film theaterI shipped it to the U.S.A.There's a real big demandAnd it's written in the palm of my handI'm gonna change the face of the desertI'm gonna sweep away the sandHang on friendsThere's a lot more goodies in the pipelineSo this ain't the time to close the dealHere's the dealOoh, now you've got a Howitzer all of your ownOoh, and a Panzer division to chauffeur you homeGun running is funBut hang on, friends, hang on friendsAllah be praised, there's a whole new crazeWe're gonna shoot up the foreign legionAnd it's up with the sheik and down with the frogWe're gonna liberate the region(Oh Effendi)We're gonna bury your head in the sand(Oh Effendi)You better get off my doggone landHey, prince of the moonbeams, son of the sunLight of a thousand starsYour gorillas are urban and there's bourbon on your turbanAnd the sun shines out of your ass(Oh Effendi)I'm gonna grovel in your wake(Oh Effendi)It's all been a big mistakeYou're gonna cut out my liver if I don't deliverThings are getting out of handI'm going to ride off into the sunsetAnd make a deal with the promised landGoodbye friendsThere's no more goodies in the pipeline" N

My concern, is that the first-line treatment, pull and re-align, won't work. Its failed once, apparently. Yet its persisted with a second time. Whereas the book, or at least one of them, says that a surgical fix is the best route to success:- http://www.handtoelbow.com/proximal-phalanx/ See 2.3 (E). And whether this is the best solution for someone living on their jack, as an increasing proportion of people are - the advice is to scrupulously avoid using my RH for the next two weeks - if you are on your own, who can do that consistently ? Even feeding out of cans, packet or frozen ready meals requires a second hand as a steady. And, I thought medical solutions were supposed to be tailored to the patient, not the system. Ok, if they want to waste money finding out the pitfalls, so be it. Don't like being used as a lab rat. . . Bring on the istate-funded mported slavery indentured personal hand maiden. Even more worrying is the speculative thought that pull and align may be adopted over surgery, under a system lining itself up for privatisation, as the preferred method - because of its "Much cheapness". In the clinic session, I attended yesterday, the consultant was over seen by an older "Guiding light" on station, at her elbow, advising and approving of the solution adopted. How long before, solution of first resort becomes the only resort and the skills necessary to do the surgery become rarer than . . . N

HMS Hood, HMS Barham and more recently the Kursk - before his time ? In London, we got one of these:- http://www.bombsight.org/#15/51.5050/-0.0900 Even in my outlier position, I'm within a couple of hundred yards of several. And didn't Barnes Wallis's invention illustrate that in some circumstances, water can magnify shock waves, causing munition casings to open up. After seeing the recent Tony Robinson bomb-site program, I don't think I'll be rushing off to the garden centre to buy one as a centre piece. Nick

Oyster card now on its own in a separate holder and, on a trip, yesterday, into outer central London, no problems at all either on the buses or the underground. So it seems that other RFID bank cards were interfering with Oyster card detection but that the system on the buses could cope with that whilst the underground one couldn't. Nick

I'll give it a bit of time until after the "People have spoken" - oh gawd ! Another classic today, emphasising that there are LITTLE OR NO ADMIN SYSTEMS underpinning the new dispersed patient handling arrangements in the London NHS its all "On-the_Fly", with all the responsibility for ensuring that the batton isn't dropped when its passed between hos;pitals on the patient - if you don't contact them, they wont contact you and you fall out of the system. Had to attend Royal Free Hand Trauma clinic again today (Friday) to have the hand re-examined as the Physiotherpists declined to treat my hand at MV on Thursday because when the strapping was removed my finger pinged back into its uncorrected i.e. damaged position - 35-40 degrees splayed from straight ahead. MV physios decided to refer me back to RFH so that corrective treatment could take place. No referral back letter was issued by MV for me to present to the Royal Free Hand Trauma Clinic - I just got the place, date and time scribbled on a fragment of paper and an undertaking that a fresh set of X-rays taken at MV on Thursday would be forwarded to RFH. Arrived at 10:40 for 11:20, and as I walked in front of the hospital I spotted a car load of grim-faced nuns waiting outside. I'm not one for omens, but as presages to future events go, this has got to be good. Now read on . . . So get into to see the clinic doc at RFH about mid-day. I was quizzed about the full history of this break, which suggested to be that no electronic patient or general notes had been forwarded from MV but I could see that X-rays were available (Whether they were Thursdays, I don't know). So my impression was that the RFH's appoach was to treat you as someone just off the street in A & E, rather than as an outpatient in outpatient clinic, where full notes are available. Anyway, the position of the finger was re-corrected under anaesthetic and I was told not to use it and to keep the strapping on for 2 weeks. Before leaving clinic , I was told to get the hand x-rayed in the A & E X-ray and the prints would be sent on to MV. No indication was given as to the type or length of treatment that would be given by to me by MV - can only assume that the doc at RFH was unaware of MV's standard treatment package (Which, again, presumably NPH is paying for under contract/service level agreement - internal or external), no referral back letter issued (and clearly no instructions to MV), and it seemed as if there would be no further contact, even electronically, between RFH and MV. I was told to contact MV by phone on Tuesday. So again, all the responsibility for ensuring that the "Service" (I use the term loosely) batton isn't dropped between hospitals rests with the patient. This has got the smell of a system designed to sever the links of legal liability between patients passed between hospitals - no doubt with commercialisation in view (If it isn't here already). Progressing the story, pitch-up at RFH's A & E, where I have to register as a new case (Obviously nothing has been sent down electronically on the intra hospital system to advise them of my X-Ray requirement) . Wait about 30 mins then the A & E Triage nursed calls me in (Said Triage Nurse on the door). What do you want ?(The only info she has before her is what I've already just given the A & E reception clerk, nothing from the Hand Trauma unit where I was just treated). I explain. She tells me that she will have to contact the Hand Trauma Clinic by phone to find out what needs to be done. She asks me to leave the room whilst she does this. Five minutes later, she pops out and tells me to go round to X-ray - I assume X-Ray have been briefed as to what's required. In the X-ray suite, the Radiographer tells me that she needs to remove the strapping in order to get the right shot. This is done and the X-Rays taken. I then return to the Hand Trauma clinic to get it re-strapped only to be admonished by the consultant for allowing someone to remove the strapping - I suggested to her that perhaps the lines between departments could do with clearing properly. At best it appears that even the departments within the same hospital are not communicating with each other. So finger has to be re-set and restrapped, luckily the local anaesthetic is still in effect. Inner city ***** ! Lash-up doesn't even get near ! Postscript One hour forty minutes later I get back home only to find a inner city London number has called me. Look the number up on interweb, yep, its the RFH hospital with a ****ing telephone survey, "How were you treated ?" Lucky for them I missed the call . . . . .eh readers ? Nick

Just tried it. You're right ! It will boot without problems with the original Double-ranked DIMMS (Vers 2) in mboard memory slots A1 + B1 (Blue) and the single-ranked DIMMS (Vers 4.3) in A2 +B2(Black). Only difference compared with the all single ranked set-up is that its a tiny bit slower. . Hands-up, that's the original set-up by me in 2012 of 1 x2GB Double-ranked (Vers 2) in A1 + A2 with the same logic carried on for last year's upgrade in slots B1+B2 of the single sided (Vers 4.3). I presume the reason I did that was because of the prior information on page 1-11 of the manual - the table which states:- Channel A - DIMM A1 + A2 Channel B - DIMM B1 + B2 . . . and because the original 2012 set-up (2 x 2GB in A1 +A2) worked with no problems for 5 years ! Postscript I also note the entries on the DDR3-1600 O.C. Table 1-13 under DIMM socket support A, B, C. Postscript #2 I've also had the chance to examine the original XMS (Vers 2) memory more closely and found out that they are not double-sided. In fact they are single-sided with the same number of chips (8) as the other later supplied DIMMS (Vers 4 & 8) - so I take it that each chip is 256Mb in size (8 x 256 = 2GB). However, the vers 2 DIMMS are reported by the CPU-ID program as Double-ranked and vers 4 & 8 as single-ranked, so, does that mean that the vers 2 DIMMS are addressed as two banks of 128 bit memory whilst the vers 4 & 8 DIMMS are addressed as a single bank of 256 bit memory ? VMT Cheers !

According to the Mboard manual 1+3 is only really for overclocking - I only had 4GB of the Double-sided original memory 2 x 2GB DIMM - but it worked fine as 1 +2 and was tested 1 + 3, as fine. The original memory is apparently treated as twin banks (With twin controllers) whilst the single sided memory is treated as one bank. What has just occurred to me is that the BIOS CMOS settings offer a choice between unganged and ganged mode for system memory(The default is unganged). I 've always been running the system memory as unganged, even when I only had 4GB of double-sided DIMMs installed. I don't know whether the effects of that are just limited to performance of memory of whether setting it inappropriately for the type of memory installed would cause the boot stalls. The other thing is that the memory controllers are located in the Microprocessor which we know has a damaged pin . . . hmm ? Beyond my limited expertise. When, I've got more time, I may play around with the ganged and unganged settings to see what they do. N

Exactement. Life as we know it is so Contract protocol driven, that common sense empirical evaluation is precluded at risk of liability and is buried somewhere in a corner. N.

Its been like that since 2012 , witrhout substantial deleterious effect.- one pin out of four which were bent whilst the processor was out of the socket, broke off when being re-straightened and was replaced by the leg of a Rexel Bambi staple. The only noticeable effect is a one-pixel wide vertical line which appears on the rhs of the screen whilst the BIOS software has control of the boot. It disaapears as soon as control of the boot is passed to Windows. CMOS battery voltage became the main suspect in my mind because 1). The button battery that I removed was completely dead, no voltage no nothing, 2) The machine had only been used 2-3 times a month over the last year - therefore the majority of the time the CMOS was being powered by the button battery and 3). During the same period I started switching off all electrical systems which ran standy mode (To save power) - in standby mode the CMOS is drawing its power from the mains rather than the button battery. QED the demands on the button battery increased substantially over the last year. It well be that i'm going up entirely the wrong avenue and that the apparent solutions found i.e. making all installed memory uniform rather than mixed, just happen to produce effects which stabilise the system only time will tell. I want to avoid the cost of a replacement processor (That would probably be a used Phenom II @ £50-£80) so that I'm not encouraged to start taking the existing processor out of the Mboard socket just to find out the condition of the Bambi staple leg ! Once lucky, . . . twice a miracle. Anyway, all OK. Booted first time from overnight power down without any errors. A few more days like this and I'll start incrementally re-installing the other boards and drives. Hoorah ! N

Asus M4A88TD-M EVO - can't recall the version number, but the manual is E5341, First edition, version1, March 2010 - comes with 2 X USB 3 ports as a mini add-on PCI board. Can be run with anything that's AM3/AM3+ socket compatible, including Phenom II 1095T which runs the memory at 1033Mhz (Believe another Briskodian had this set-up and thought it good). Mines running on an Athlon II 630 with 8GB Corsair DDR3 XMS3 1600 (Now all single-sided) and is fine - manual says its limited to 3GB if you are running 32 bit Windows and earlier AM3 socket processors are limited to DDR3 1033Mhz. Later versions had the USB3 connectors surface mounted on the MBoard:- Asus M4A88TD-M/USB3 & Asus M4A88TD-M EVO/USB3. Odd, cause the Asus manual says it only supports Double-Sided Corsair XMS DIMMS of the type listed above, whereas the Corsair on line table (Posted above) says the board is OK with all single-sided, double-sided or a mix. Mixed no longer works for my system (It used to), Double-Sided DIMMS up to 4GB in Banks 1+2 or Banks 1+3 does work and Single-Sided up to 4GB works in Banks 1+2 and 1+3 and 8GBs with Banks 1-4 populated - the latter being the current configuration. It s still working this morning after an overnight power down . There was a slight stall on boot when it came to initialising USB, this was overcome by disabling legacy USB support in the BIOS CMOS. Nick

Look I'm not saying two swallows make a summer, but,. . . . . . 20 years old, bought second hand from E-bay mailed From to US to UK, then after 2 years use sent to Fluke for calibration, comes back with clean bill of health, except for one item - frequency. And, if it does need "Calibration" then this seems like a home job (For the hobbyist/emthusiast):- Different kettle of fish for professionals as they will need a certificate from a third party for Professional indemnity cover. Edit #1: And if the button batteries are good down to 2v (As the manufacturer spec I quoted above suggested) against a newly supplied voltage reference of somewhere between 3-3.4V then +/- 10% is irrelevant. But manufacturers positions on the same kit can be different - see post below. I had four button batteries as replacements. Only one was substantially above 3v and since using that battery in the Mboard, CMOS values have been retained over powerdowns. Using any of the other 3 batteries, with voltages below 3v meant that some CMOS values were lost. But, its probably worth testing them again as the I suspect that the mixed memory combination I was using may have been causing a leakage voltage from the CMOS. Now the memory problem is sorted perhaps a different result will be observed with the < 3V button batteries. Postscript I suppose the real difficulty that the home bod would have, unlike Fluke, is getting an electrical source with more stability and less variation than the margin markers of the multimeter. N.

Corsairs official memory guide states with reference to AMD processors that Corsair XMS supports the Athlon II processor, 4 populated memory banks, all three combinations of single and dual ranked memory and has a maximum memory frequency in this configuration of 800Mhz - the CPU-ID program is reporting that is exactly the speed that all 4 memory modules are running at. https://corsair.secure.force.com/knowledgebase/apex/KnowledgeArticle?id=kA1400000008UVI&q=XMS+memory+compatibility&l=en_US&c=Technical_Support%3ADDR3&fs=Search&pn=1 Voltage is reported as being 1.65v at this frequency, again within spec, so hopefully, no damage is being done. Still a mystery why it won't run single and dual ranked together. I know the microprocessor lost one leg at installation(Outside rank, rhs), but that didn't seem to effect it to date. N.

Just for the sake of completeness, I took out the ver 4.2 single-sided DIMMS in Banks 3+4 and re-installed the ver 2.3 Double sided DIMMS, leaving the single-side ver 8.16 DIMMS in Banks 1+2. Popped the CMOS battery, cleared the CMOs using the Mboard pins, re-instated same and pushed the power-on. Thing wouldn't boot at all, even with coaxing - red "MEM-OK" light illuminated and despite pushing the "MEM-OK" button and later the system warm boot button, wouldn't respond at all - had to chop the power in the end. So, it would appear that the vers 8.16 + vers 2.3 combo is even more dysfunctional than the 4.2 + 2.3 combo in this motherboard - remembering that when installed on their own into Banks 1+2, with banks 3+4 empty, vers 2.3 DIMMS worked fine. The only discernable distinguishing characteristics between a double-sided Corsair XMS 3 DIMM and its equivalent single-sided DIMM are that, on this model, that , on close inspection,the chip legs are visible on both sides of the DIMM on the double-siders and the labelling on the double-side DIMMS shows "XMS" in white and "3" in blue with white surround, whereas the single-siders labels show "XMS3" all in blue with white surround and DDR3 printed vertically in white against a blue background. Nick

What on earth is this doing here:- N

Looks like the problem is solved, although I won't say definitely, until the system has had a proper overnight power shutdown. E-Bay supplier delivered Corsair XMS3 CMX4GX3M2A1600 vers 8.16, which is populated with memory chips only on one side (Confirmed Single-sided by CPU-ID software under windows) - not as advertised in E-bay picture (Version 2.3 Double-sided). Again, the outside packaging and labelling on the DIMMS made no reference to whether it was single-sided or double-side DIMM. OK, the DIMM I was expecting was Double-Sided and it turned out to be single-sided, so I just changed tack and made all of the installed memory single sided and luckily the Mboard was apparently able to deal with an all- single sided installation. So, it would appear that certain motherboards don't like mixed installation of single and double-sided DIMMS. So, simply removed the original 2 x Double-Sided (Vers 2.3) in Memory banks 3 & 4 and substituted the version 4.2 single-sided (The previous upgrade) and stuck the vers 8.16 in Banks 1+2, removed the CMOS battery, shorted out the CMOS memory on the Mboard pins, reset all the latter and restarted. All OK. Whilst I was at it, I tested the installed CMOS battery (Panasonic purchased this week) - 3.2v (Fluke 325) and 2.96v (Ansmann) - (Commentators will note that this is the nearest to official spec) whilst there is a small difference in the readings from the various meters, when the measured source changes, the readings all change in the same direction and don't Fluke given a calibration certificate which is good for at least the length of time equivalent to the warranty ? Be interesting to see whether the 8.16vers DIMMS are compatible with the 2.3 vers if they are not that could well point to damage to 2.3 vers DIMMS Nick

I thought Asus were pretty good - I've seen worse constructed stuff poked into major manufacturers kit This board's design is over 10 years old, the board was bought 8 years ago. No problems until this issue -obviously of my own making through the memory upgrade. The board has run all Microsofts Os's from XP up to and including W10 and does so at final output speed to the user that would rival lower end I7's(My mid-high end I5 HP laptop is slower). All the memory is Corsair, reportedly another good brand. I'd like to see the MTBF comparison charts between Asus + Corsair and the generic components that are stuffed into most the high-street branded stuff made in China. Agreed, the problem is rare and obtruse and I won't be able to tell whether the problem is in one of the sets of Memory DIMMs or in one of the set of memory banks until I have all the banks populated with the exactly the same type of memory. Postscript Postman has just pitched up with new memory DIMMS. Standby - I'll need a couple of hours to do a proper powerdown. N