COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY

[Moh]

Not that I can find, but there again I am not a wiz. with computing. Ialso made my donation to the site.

[Big Kev]

I got a Hudl for Xmas last year which works fine but now will not accept my password if I want to download something.

Is it an app from the Play Store that you're trying to download?

[Stanley]

Horses for courses Ian, I am impressed. That's the sort of thing I would do if it was shed work...... But as it is I'll stick to Pluggy.
Moh, hope you can solve your problem. Get a school child to have a look at it! They know everything about this world....

[Pluggy]

Moh, if you use Gmail (which I seem to remember setting up for you) and you've changed the password, it will affect the Hudl if you used the same account. The playstore and gmail both use google accounts.

Failing that you could try the password recovery options at gmail.com on another computer, very easy if it was set up with a phone number, alternative email address you can still access or you know the answer to the security question(s). Practically impossible otherwise.

If the worst comes to the worst you could always reset it all to factory settings :

http://ttselectrical.custhelp.com/app/a ... our-hudl-2

[Tizer]

My sister-in-law is having a problem with her iphone - when she sends an email message it sends out multiple copies to each addressee. sometimes they arrive here in duplicate, sometimes triplicate. She hasn't been able to find a way of stopping the replicates. Her email address domain is live.co.uk and I think that's the same as outlook and hotmail. I had a look on the Web and other people seem to have had a similar problem but they didn't seem to offer an easy solution.

[Moh]

I used my ntlworld email. I would like a visit please Pluggy to tidy up my computer when you have a slot.

[Stanley]

Exactly what I would do Moh. That will be a solution! People like Ian can build a computer out of potato peelings but we need expert help!

[Tizer]

The squabbling between Microsoft and Google continues...
`Microsoft attacks Google's Windows hack alert' LINK

[Pluggy]

PM for you Mo, (and email and mobile message).

[Tizer]

We're seeing some odd things happening when viewing web sites yesterday and today and I suspect there's going to be disruption on the Internet and Web this week as the US election fiasco comes to a head. For example, I saw weird behaviour on the BBC weather site and Mrs Tiz found the Santander site doing strange things. Watch out for scams too - the scammers know we are distracted and busy worrying about Trump and Brexit.

[Moh]

Just had a visit from Pluggy - computer and tablet both sorted - thanks Stephen.

[Stanley]

Tiz, iPlayer was acting up last night as well.
Moh, isn't he a good man......

[Moh]

[Stanley]

[Big Kev]

The ongoing t'internet connectivity issue is still ongoing, Openreach engineer number 9 came out last week and swapped the line pair from the pole out the back all the way to the exchange and it worked for 5 days without issue. It's now been escalated to the Sky Network Operations Centre (really?) who have identified a fault with the equipment at the exchange (I'm sure Openreach engineer number 3 mentioned that could be at fault). I'm not impressed with them at all at the moment as it's a 5 day SLA for Openreach to do a 'lift and shift' (their terminology for plugging me into another board). I think I have a legitimate claim for compensation from them, I think I'll be pushing for fibre at the same price I'm paying for ADSL, £2.50 a month.

We'll see how it goes

[Stanley]

That'll be a goodie if you pull it off but you could do without the hassle!

[Pluggy]

Sometimes I hate computers.

Just building a Desktop for a client, nothing extravagant, just a basic PC really, but the economics / logistics decreed I move on to the new incoming generation of processors and memory. Pity moving on leaves perfectly usable technology behind. The case I've settled on as being reasonable quality at a reasonable price, uses USB 2 for the front connectors which isn't a problem in my book, unfortunately USB 2 is old hat and the've reduced the number of connectors to 1 on the new motherboards. Now when the client wants a card reader which is also USB 2 I have shortage of connectors. So now I have to buy an adapter to make stuff work. I'm going to have to find a different case for subsequent builds and cases are the worst things to find decent cost effective examples of. I've scrapped new cases in the past because they were crap and I didn't consider them good enough for a PC I put my name to.......

Yep, there is still a market for desktop computers, laptops, big phones and tablets haven't taken it all yet.

[Big Kev]

I still have a desktop, I think I'd struggle to get the 2 x 3TB and 2 x 1TB drives into a laptop

[PanBiker]

I have just inherited a desktop to replace the Smoothwall box I mentioned a few weeks back. That will be moved up into my radio corner up in the attic.

The desktop is a redundant ex lease machine now surplus to requirements. It had no hard drive so I have moved the HD from the Smoothwall into the desktop and added an extra 500GB Sata drive as an extra. Win 10 just updated the chipset drivers automatically as required for the swap of hardware platform. The unit has 64 bit architecture with an Intel i5-2400 CPU running 4 cores at 3.1GHz, and has 4GB ram. It has all the usual plethora of I/O options and a DVD/RW drive.

I have stripped down the raid array from our original tower machine and put one of the drives from there into the Smoothwall. I took the opportunity to add the power up switching from the front panel for the ATX PSU while I had the machine open. I have disabled the control pads for the COM programming panel which are now redundant as it no longer required. I cut the tracks to the 4 momentary switch pads on the front panel and have wired one directly to the ATX power connector header on the main board, it works very well.

[Stanley]

The only thing I understood about that post was the quad core processor. Sounds as if it could be fast.....

[Big Kev]

The ongoing t'internet connectivity issue is still ongoing, Openreach engineer number 9 came out last week and swapped the line pair from the pole out the back all the way to the exchange and it worked for 5 days without issue. It's now been escalated to the Sky Network Operations Centre (really?) who have identified a fault with the equipment at the exchange (I'm sure Openreach engineer number 3 mentioned that could be at fault). I'm not impressed with them at all at the moment as it's a 5 day SLA for Openreach to do a 'lift and shift' (their terminology for plugging me into another board). I think I have a legitimate claim for compensation from them, I think I'll be pushing for fibre at the same price I'm paying for ADSL, £2.50 a month.

We'll see how it goes

The "lift and shift" finally happened last Sunday and we've had continuous uptime for the last 127 hours. I am quietly hopeful that it is fixed once and for all. Sky will be calling me on Sunday evening to check I'm happy, I will be dropping the "how are you going to compensate me for the 5 months of degraded service and inconvenience" question when they calll

[Stanley]

Glad you're sorted Kev and you know your connection to the exchange is good as well! Go for the compensation!

[Big Kev]

I spoke too soon, it's been on and off since midnight.

[Stanley]

Courage mon brave, the connection is still monitoring activity and making adjustments. With a bit of luck it will settle down to a steady service.
When I went onto fibre I had glitches but in my case it was losing the ability to use my phone. We sorted it.....

[Big Kev]

Latest update, despite constant assurances that they have, Openreach never actually did the "lift and shift"...

An escalation to local management and I received a call, from the Openreach engineer (number 11), yesterday afternoon to tell me it has now been done, we'll see how that goes...