Clunkclick

All other issues aside, there's a significant red flag on this one - the advertising copy for the enzyme product you are referring to actually states that the product hasn't got U.S. Federal Drug Administration approval. On these grounds alone, I'd say leave it alone unless a medical practitioner has actually prescribed it - I presume not. No doubt if we look on the NHS Business Services site, we wont find it listed in the NHS drug tariff guide or similar. This product seems to have everything in it, in terms of enzymes (Including some I have used) as the kitchen sink. Can you be sure that some of these are not contra-indicated for use at the same time - who has done the testing ? From personal experience from somebody whose just 6 months down the line from completion of surgery and chemotherapy for intestinal lymphoma (Cancer), the symptoms of which I'm sure I had been suffering from for at least 18 months to two years before my emergency admission to hospital (Although the docs say the actual disease process is far more fast acting) were such that the temptation to treat the multifarious symptoms with off-the-shelf medications, was overwhelming, particularly if the medication is partially effective, that you risk overlooking the main event - as I did. If you have a long-standing condition which causes you to even consider taking some off-the-shelf jollop on a regular basis, then surely it worth the going to a doctor and getting it properly diagnosed, particularly, if you're in the over 60s age range, as I am this being the age range when a lot of the body's systems start to go tits. Slow digestion/post prandial somnolence (Post meal kip) can be a sign of endocrine (Hormone) problems - i.e. the over-delivery of tryphtophan and over production of melatonin and serotonin causing the parasympathetic nervous system to go dominant and sending you (Or bits of you i.e. guts) to sleep. Have you tried have a small de-stressing nip before a meal and/or having a walk after a meal - stress hormones (Unless its the fear and fight ones) can cause your digestive system to close down. Nick

Its all in the public domain. Pluto II (Like Jindalee in the MH370 event), radars, radio interception, even Skynet - when the Secretary General of the UN, Doug Hammerskold, was taken out in the early 1960s whlist flying over the Congo in a DC3, its reported there was an NSA officer on Cyprus listening in real-time to the R/T transmissions of the pilot in the fighter that was doing the shooting - that's, what 4.000 miles away, listening to a relatively low power R/T transmission, in the 1960s? Postscript Who says it was a hit by terrorists, rather than on them. Israeli's ? Perhaps all that ADS-B data on FR 24 is a load of BS and the aircraft departed its FP much earlier and back tracked to CY or TKY. My guess is that there was something or someone on the plane which other someone's did not want to get to Egypt or wanted to have a tete-a-tete with. Nick

You'd have thought that the British and Americans have sufficient sig int resources on Cyprus i.e. Mount Olympus radar and radio interception stuff, to have gathered sufficient information to form a picture of what occurred. Nick

Technically, on an issue of such apparent importance, there is a case for a winning margin to be applied, if not a turnout minima - doesn't EU law have something to say on the subject ? Are we saying that Nigel is preparing the troops for some bad news ? That said, the "Remain" contingent amongst the ethnic minorities panel that appeared on tonight's C4 news kept on shovelling the notion that the EU social legislation which bears on the UK "Protected" workers from the worst of wicked capitalism and was therefore a motivator for incomers to vote "Remain" - yeah, of course it does Malcolm, especially as we are not signed-up or ever likely to be to the full Social Chapter. And, let's face it, with the surplus of labour to available jobs, who's going to refuse a polite request from one's employer to waive their EU employment rights (As is currently allowed) - doctors and the working time directive being a case in point. Nick

Channel 4 New this evening presented an analysis indicating quite strongly that the ethnic minorities vote might hold the answer. Apparently surveys indicate that minorities are in favour of remaining on a 2 to 1 ratio. The conclusion was that whilst the minority vote (Especially recent newcomers) might turn the overall vote in favour of remain, when account was taken of the increased likelihood of turnout of the "Leave" contingent, "Leave" would take the day by 1% !!!! - that's C4's arse covered ! Maybe right off topic, but whilst out and about today, I again saw an Apache helicopter stooging around the woods in NW London where I go to get a bit of exercise. This is getting too frequent to be a coincidence. Presume that HMG are anticipating that someone may decide to make something of it at polling time and that if that is the case there will be an appropriate response per OP Temperer et al. Nick

With 8 meg of memory and an R7 graphics board there didn't appear to be any performance issues running the barebones VMs on my 7 year old ASUS M4 boards. Any further work will have to wait till the weekend now, when hopefully some pertinent reading material will be available. Nick

I've got XP and W 7 set-up and running as VMs on a W8.1 system, with hardware access to the DVD/CD. Pedestrian Os', but that's what the Flight sim programs specify. I know nothing of Linux. Similarly, KVM other than the skim read I've just done - KVM that's part of Unraid ? - Unraid looks just the job, run-time user selectable OS's + user selectable hardware, unless I'm mistaken. Ideal for uniting the internet of things with the internet of data ? .The problem I was having was setting-up the HDD and Ethernet access. And from the reading I've done since yesterday, I not only installed the Ethernet switch downstream of where it should have been actioned but also allocated the wrong IDE controller to the HDD - no wonder both items didn't work ! I should have read the section on Hyper-V Virtualisation in my copy of "Inside Windows 8.1" instead of winging it. Nick

Thanks for the replies. As I feared, it sounds, at the moment, as if VM is not something that the casual home user, with low powered machine (Processor Passmark rating about 3500), could use as an alternative to OS segregation using disk partitioning. Echoing comments above, the consensus of internet reports seems to be that VM isn't, at present, suited to applications with a high graphics requirement, such as games. From my readings since yesterday, I think I committed a basic error in the Hyper- V set-up by installing the Ethernet virtual switch after I had created the first VM - my most recent sources say it should be done before. Anyway, as an academic/awareness exercise, I'll continue to play with it to see if I can get the network switch going and then see how far I can take the games issue. With obvious convenience benefits to the Home user in terms of the ease of expanding the range of application software available to run on one machine, in the absence of commercial self-interest conflicts, dare we hope for extra development work in this area ? Cheers Nick

After being on the receiving end of 18 months worth of regular sales E-mails from a VM ware agent (That's following ONE casual visit only to one of their web pages - they are on a par with Virgin cable (relentless)) and having had some disappointing results attempting to run elderly flight sim programs on the latest generations of Windows Oses, I decided to see if it was possible to run a VM on the kit I have, with a view to installing Windows XP on a VM and running some of the sims in there. VMs have been around at least for 8 years under the Microsoft flag, it must be well developed by now (?), what problems could there be ? All the technical guff seemed to indicate that the Athlon II x 4 630 supported virtualisation and the rest of my hardware spec easily met the technical requirements, so I activated the VM support in the BIOS and, once Windows 8.1. loaded, activated the Hyper-V (Microsoft's VM software offering) option in the add-in features menu in Programs. Re-boot and all seemed well. Long story short. I set up the overarching VM support facilities i.e.I established CD, HDD and network adapter access and, then, installed Windows XP on its own VM. Thus far all a breeze, boding well for future installation of game apps. Problems came when I set up an Ethernet switch in the overarching VM support facility and then tried to get the XP VM adapter (In software) to talk to the software representation of the actual network adapter. Just wouldn't work. Either, when I used the "External" switch method or if I used "Internal" switch and then software "Bridged" the VM adapter with the actual network adapter - no internet capability. After an afternoon of buggering around with all the options, I then decided it might be worth reading some of the advice on the interweb, but none was really specific to this issue of the home user experience and most seemed to be angled to organisational computing and software development applications. I also discovered that Hyper-V has some serious limitations which make it unsuitable for games/sims e.g. no audio support and video restrictions - the Oracle offering, Virtualbox, was put forward as an alternative which overcame these limitations. So, I downloaded that and after deselecting Hyper-V, managed to getting the Virtual Box VM running. However, I then ran into another road block, as I was unable to access the CD drive to load an OS. That's where I sit at the moment. The exam questions are:- Is VM for the Home user, still an immature and undeveloped technology ? Is it worth pursuing for the end I described above ? - to be quite honest I could have re-partitioned the disk and set-up the new sim software and had a three course banquet in the time I've wasted on this. Or is VM really something just for professional IT departments - as usual its promoted to be all things to all men, but the implementation that I've experienced so far is a bit different. Are there any well reported VM packages out there for the Home User ? - cause the stuff I've tried so far is NFFP. Nick

http://tunein.com/radio/A-Prairie-Home-Companion-247-News-from-Lake-Wobegon-Stream-s232052/ In PHC May 7. Deadpan, GK to audience: " Two of Donald Trump's former wives were immigrants . . . . . <Extended pause> . . . .just goes to show that that immigrants will do jobs that Americans are not prepared to do". Nick

Is there a "Remain" bias within the BBC ? Today,for instance, the BBC "Daily Politics" wheeled out Mr Blunkett (The ex- Home Secretary and remainer) who said that it was virtually impossibly to do anything about immigration whilst still in the EU (Possibly defeating his own argument). And he went to great lengths to explain how difficult it would be to control the levels. And then, they presented, some Dutch youngster from the middle-class cosy mob (Academic from University of Amsterdam ?) whose message was that the individual inclination to cast a "Remain" or "Leave" was more down to personality type (Rather than socio-economnic status as the rest of us misguided fools think). The inference being that those that voted to leave were the wrong personality type. If that wasn't big brother think aimed at the younger members of the population, I'm a well known Chinaman. Given that today is the anniversary of the Luftwaffe's largest attack on London in WW2, comparison with the situation UK find's itself in presently is envitable. If the attitude that's taken today to excess immigration had manifested in 1940, you'd probably find that the report "100 plus approaching Folkestone" would see Squiffy and Alge lashed to their deckchairs on the airfield dispersal as processions of Dorniers and Heinkels dropped sticks of "Letter-box ladies" on notable public buildings. Not that that could possibly happen in reality . . . . . Nick

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36243296 How desperate can you appear to be pushing out this drivel. Why stop there. Perhaps he can get quotes from Chicken Little "The sky's going to fall in " and Min Bannister " We're all going to be murdered in our beds" He'll be telling us something equally unbelievable next. That the Germans have been using the EU to rebuild themselves to a position of post-war superiority in Europe, whilst the UK was using membership as a safety net in case something went wrong during the transition from an industrial to retail economy (Some safety net). I'm off to French kiss a horse. Nick

Do you get the problem with your TV when running a DVD (Thru an HDMI port) or when tuning to a digital radio signal using the on-board tuner ? If not, then the TV part of the on-board tuner might be the problem, rather than the PSU. Had the same problem with my 6 year old Sony SD LCD TV - kept randomly switching off or re-booting when changing the TV channel. Changing the power source and the remote batteries made no difference. This problem is well documented on the web, but has no reported resolution. Local service centre suggested it was an incompatibility, dating back some 2 years, between a revised BBC TV signal and some tuners. So, I took this with a pinch of salt and assumed that even if it was true, I couldn't see Sony and BBC engineers being tasked to resolve a technical problem like this on an older machine (Even though the Service Centre maintained that was exactly what was happening and that a solution was in view) - manufacturers would be much keener on you buying a new un. Anyway, I purchased a cheapy stand-alone HD box and fed the output to one of the HDMI ports on the back of the TV, and I have had no further problems. And, of course, I now have half-a-dozen HD channels to view. If, 9 months on, I now revert to the on-board SD TV tuner for my TV signal, the problem returns ( So much for the myth of the confab between Sony and the transmission engineers ! ) Because the problem is so widespread amongst Sony machines, I suspect that it was a failing component in the on-board TV tuner, and was probably caused by a component with a shortened MTBF or poor quality circuit design being deliberately selected at design time (Under Marketing direction) to ensure that the great mass of untechnically enthused owners were gently pushed to taking-up HD. If you put most of the electronic circuits in the mass-produced crap we find in today's household appliances in front of an independent electronic engineer, they would be condemned as Carp ! I have a similar type of problem with a Roberts radio DAB radio, again over economically designed amplification circuits which give rise to hiss at low volume settings. The really distressing part of this is that we're importing this short-lived carp at great economic and environmental cost (Contributing to the UK's £11 billion a month BOP deficit) and that City Financiers are taking hefty bonuses from the profits on the import deals. So, if the problem doesn't manifest in the TV when accessing other services, try an external HD tuner box - mine was £40 from the SAC. Postscript How did my post by-pass the naughty words filter - crap and carp ! Nick

Cheaply ? With the object of stopping locally generated sound reflecting from the hard surface ? A heavy duty room-width curtain + pole ? As proof of concept try an old cotton dust sheet at first. An Argos type bookcase stuffed with decorative pillows/books. That's what I got in my place. Very effective at muting the excesses of humpah lumpah clumping about sounds made by some of the tenants in next door's property. Lots of soft furnishing to absorb the sound ? Polystyrene ceiling tiles guerrilla-glued on the concrete ? The builders solution (Expensive) might be a false wall, with lots of battening on the walls, proprietry sound absorbing foam in between the battens and a hardboard topping - without a sound absorbing wallpaper on top could be just as reflective as concrete. Nick

That's a "Don't approach within 500 miles of the GP surgery" letter waiting for me. Nick

Slightly off-topic. A week last Thursday, Aldi opened a new store in South Ruislip. Local on-line community newspaper reported queues out of the door. So, when on Monday last, I went to their website to look-up opening hours, no entry for South Ruislip. Nice new internship in a yet to be opened shop in Ukraine (The Eastern Front ?) is waiting for someone. Nick

Yeah. And the bill for the Syrian refugees rescue and settlement effort is something which should be slapped, with force, on the desk of the incoming president. When the idea of the "Arab Spring" was conceived by the wiz****s at the Pentagon, CIA and State Department, they won't have overlooked the fact, that if it went wrong (Or is that right ?) the economic consequences would fall on the European States. Polluter pays - even if its only socio-economic fabric that's damaged. Pay-up ******* ! Nick

And the City Of London are not acting in their own best interest by allowing uncontrolled mass migration that, through its scale and rapidity jeopardises the social fabric and infrastructure of a country. As soon as the UK goes "third World tits" the City types will be off in their exec jets to the States et all. Poppycock ? Really ? Absorbing and providing for 14 million people over a period of 20 years its unprecedented in UK economic history - that's equivalent to 28 towns of 500,000 people (Say 150,000 accommodation units) i.e. equivalent to 2.5 London Boroughs for each 500K - look at private housing developers abismal record in the last 10 years. Public Sector doesn't do building. And all that with the major manufacturing industries all but finished, the economic focus moving to central Europe (Look where all the domestic goods and car factories are now) and another intense round of automation on the near horizon (Ambulatory robots and automated road transport). Where are the jobs, even at the new living wage, to support an extra 14 million ? As to Turkey and the others seeking accession to the EU, Mr Hollobone tells us that under an EU scheme, to which the UK is signed-up, we are now paying Turkey about £1 billion to assist them to make arrangements to join the EU. As the MP asks, if, as is claimed in the PM's most recent statement, Turkey's admission is over 10 years away, why are these payments being made now ? George still hasn't eliminated his deficit (Next to deceit in the dictionary). Obviously, these are accepted facts, as Brokenshire, the Immigration Minister didn't dispute any of them and, I don't think he was just protecting his political future as a junior minister. Nick

Keen as I am to appear intelligent, I'm not willing to accept any old guff from City types (Including Accountancy and consultancy firms) who are amongst the group that are the prime beneficiaries from the economics of "Big markets" and mass migration of labour. The MP for Kettering did state that the EU is now considering a proposal to dispense with the rule that asylum seekers should be re-patriated to the country in the EU where they first landed. I think you'd have to be pretty niave not to expect that the moment after the UK referendum issue is concluded in favour of staying, our continental colleagues won't be unloading some of the re-settlement "Obligations" (Publicity stunts) they have recently entered into with respect of the Syrians in the UK's direction, if only in an attempt to pacify the outright rebellion they've got on their hands domestically (Especially Germany). This has already been partially confirmed by the EU statement requesting that every EU country should take their fair shares of the obligation unilaterally entered into by Mrs Merkel. - that's taking "Fair shares" irrespective of where the immigrants first landed or who allowed them to stay. I shouldn't think anyone on this forum has the right to vote in the elections for Mrs Merkel or Monsieur Hollande. Amazing though, when it comes to something that disadvantages the City, such handing out Tax payers funds between countries we have things like the Barnett formula and EU budgetary process, which are quite stricty and accurate. When it comes to something which advantage the City of London, we have to endure the woolly minded liberalism of Jacques Delors's "Free movement of Labour" and lump the consequences. Nick

That's going to happen anyway, whether we stay or leave. Is that a good enough reason for staying and trashing the quality of life in this country as well as our cultural heritage ? Nick

MP for Kettering's address on Immigration (In Westminster Hall ) yesterday had some horrifying statistics:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live/bbcparliament?rewindTo=current (Relevant bit starts at 17:05) Immigration Minister, Brokenshire, was present in the committee and responded and didn't question anything substantial that was said. In Summary. The vote next month is the last opportunity the current citizens of the UK will have to keep control of their country. A vote to remain means chaos long-term with future UK governments being increasingly unable to control aspects of domestic policy, i.e. Housing, education, welfare, pensions. The current Home Office Statistics on Immigration are a lie - witness the discrepancy with the number of new National Insurance numbers that have been issued to EU immigrants - over double the official immigration stats. Oh yeah, after a lot of stonewalling by the Home Office, following FOI requests, immigration statistcs have now been released so that the Office of National Statistics can do a reconciliation with the National Insurance Statistis - outcome to be reported on MAY 26th. WATCH THIS SPACE ! That population projections show, ignoring any possible effect of Turkish accession to the EU, that on the Home Office's current immigration figures (Lies, you remember) that the UK population will be 78 million by 2039.( You can probably add another 7 -10 million to the projected figure if you use actual immigration stats) That UK will become an increasingly lawless country as the proportion of organised criminals from Turkey, Albania etc settle here as EU migrants. Apparently, 75% of the brothels in the UK are now controlled by Albanians, including soho, London, where they have forceibly displaced the previous encumbents. That must be a worry for MPS, if not a potential National Security issue. That within 5 years the 1 million Syrian asylum seekers admitted to Germany will be entitled apply for German Passports and the freedopm of movement associated with that. And again, very worrying for youngsters, blatant discrimination against the native population in job adverts placed via a Government scheme for builders/decorators stipulating that candidates must speak at least one eastern European language. Absolutely, horrific. And not a millibean of denial coming from the Immigration Minister. Nick

I suppose that might include "Wildlife", web-cam, dash cams, astro cams, drone cams, Go pros on just about anything, local authority shopping centre cameras, gas stations etc etc. Any of these can be "Re-purposed" - me thinks that the "Campaigners" might have an uphill political battle there, genie's already out of the bottle. And with sophisticated cameras which with variable focus and tilt/pan, how can you tell what its taking a picture of. It is interesting to note in my locality how a gap in the official CCTV coverage between the local high street and an adajacent traffic junction leads to all the petty crime being concentrated in the portion of the intervening neighbourhood not having any coverage. Is my socio-economic interest as a householder any less important than that of a local shopkeeper, local authority or London Underground ? Like to see somebody prove that in the European Court of Human Rights. So, perhaps it could be argued, on the basis of statistics which are entered in the local crime databases (Now on-line), car insurance databases, local authority databases that the implementation of public policy is benefited by assisting in the correct attribution of cause and blame - a sort of "Polluter pays" principal. I'm sure the CEO's of the local utility companies would be interested to find out whose smashing -up their local inspection covers and road-side boxes, or for local authorities, who is doing the fly-tipping and smashing-up the paving on local footpaths. Postscript Don't forget to include the satelite cameras of "Foreign powers", Ordnance Survey, any web service that uses "Street cams", google auto drive vehicles, any MOD and Met Office satellite and drone photos and Tim Peek whilst you are at it Nick

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/matt/ (Matt cartoon 30/04/2016) Great "Conflation" of ideas. Nick

They've got you by the shorts when it comes to data capture of health complaints. However, for all other things that are a matter of choice and discretion, you can have great fun messing with the extrapolations that the purchase predictor software make by simply being inconsistent in the purchases you make i.e. so that the search pattern diverges rather than converges - discovered by pure accident and force of circumstance. The contents of my regular daily 00:45 "Have you considered this" E-Mail I get from the SAC is now as funny as ****. Hopefully, that makes the data, worthless for sell on purposes. Nick

Worry not - Theresea sees all, knows all and does nada . . . for you ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2fSXp6N-vs I suppose as soon as this doctor's dispute gets resolved, HMG will, as originally intended in the masterplan , escalate the capture and sale of patient data from GP surgeries and Hospitals, in preparation for flogging the NHS to all the American contractors, who as we speak, are "On their marks" waiting for the NATIP to come into full effect (No wonder 'le Mud Guts was over here advocating the virtues of staying in). Voting "Leave" would at least delay this. Back on thread. The desktop presentation of W10 is irritating, as is the way they've now squirrelled anything useful to the user in the depths of the menu system. I've got W10 and W7 as a dual boot on one desktop, 8.1. on the other, W10 on the new laptop and W7 (32) on the laptop used for VDCS for the motor. And I tried installing an XP VM in the 8.1 machine , for playing older games, but it didn't work to well. My current order of preference of use 8.1., 7 then 10. That one Key depression switch, that is available in 8.1, between a full window of tiles (Of my choosing, configuration and categorisation) containing the frequently used stuff and the Desktop, where the utilities and heavy weight applications can be found, is ideal as far as I'm concerned. And the use of an integral swipe pad in the keyboard, means its even easier to use the tile system, with less arm strain and screen cleaning, than a touch scree. I'd appreciate Windows designers actively cutting down the number of ways the same thing can be done in Windows - now you'd have thought that if the were "Dumbing the product down", so it could be easily used to access the new retail, banking and public services and trying to make process outcomes uniform, that "Mechanism" reduction would be front and centre. Apparently not. You'd have thought that approach would aid security as well. Obviously not. This aspect of the MS approach to desktop design seems to have been consistent since the year dot. Over-arching sodtware design philosophy or just coders making life-long jobs for themselves ? Let's guess. Nick