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Oh, you can, and that would be an option if I were only using it from home. But taking it along to public places?

True for their electronics as with any other (decently manufactured) electronic device.

Software .... mmmm

Why are the mechanicals always ignored?. They are the weak link reliability-wise in any electronic device (switches etc).

With their excessive use of the switches **, Home-Button particularly, Apple goes out of its way to ensure a limited device lifetime. By also making it difficult/impossible to dismantle and repair, they guarantee follow-on sales within a reasonable (as defined by Apple) period of use.

** an example .... why, when I pickup my sleeping iPad and press the home button, do I have to press it again to log in? What does Apple think I want to do at that point? Come to that, what else could I do at that point (other than change my mind about using the device which probably does happen in a vanishingly small percent of cases). (I could be wrong but I don't think that earlier versions of iOS did this but Apple changed it at some point).

Edited By Bandersnatch on 27/08/2020 01:10:30

Ah, I get what you're saying. They then needed to reduce the rubbing of the arrow on the bow when launched. Could be.

Edited By Bandersnatch on 26/08/2020 18:45:05

Sandboxie is a 3rd part sandbox that will work on other versions of windows. I don't know (either way) if has application in this situation though.

It was some company call "Outrageous Fortune" I think....

Sounds like an interesting device, Stuart. I wonder if anything similar is available on this side of the (big) pond.

Of course it will cost money which still leaves me in the annoying position of paying for a telephone service and then paying again to make it work (over 90% of my calls are nuisance/scam and I have an other-half who cannot not-answer a ringing phone) ... but I would pay.

(I still feel this nuisance call problem could easily be solved with action by politicians and the phone companies but there's no will on either side).

I would expect it to do just that, aided and abetted by entries in the registry. The repair part of the program can't guarantee that the user installed in the default location and so would have to locate it.

Just curious .... are there any legal ramifications involved in stopping an auction once bids are under way?

He should be able to as long as he does a reboot (and not a shutdown) since then the fastboot doesn't operate. See above.

Just an observation fwiw that with recent versions of Windows (V8 and up) "Shutdown" and "Restart" are not the same thing.

Shutdown saves/reloads the windows kernel allowing Windows fast boot to operate.

Restart doesn't save the kernel and starts Windows from scratch

In the case of a flakey system it would be best to use Restart.

You mean:

" Before criticising someone, walk a mile in his shoes. That way when you criticise him you're a mile away. And you have his shoes. "

Is it worth asking at this point whether he will guarantee that his proposed solution will actually fix the problem before going ahead and spending (your) money? In any case it might be interesting to hear his response.

Am I the only one who thinks that the constant barrage of updates to "Improve" the apps on our devices, ultimately succeeds in making them progressively useless?

I was using my banking app to deposit a small ($37) cheque today - a few weeks since I used it.

First, I noticed that when taking pictures of the cheque, the screen is now overlaid with a mine of "useful" information, obscuring the view and making picture taking difficult. Possibly there was some way to turn it off but I couldn't easily find it.

Having got past that and entered the amount of the deposit, it then came back to me and said that, although I had entered $37, their scanning software had determined that the cheque was actually for some $59,000-odd. Which amount did I want to go with?

Don't believe I wasn't sorely tempted.

Ah ... missed the "Imperial" (sorry Alan). The eBay one is the same (Metric).

I managed to ferret this out for a UK source. The same company has them on eBay UK too (lower price on eBay for some reason)..

Edited By Bandersnatch on 15/08/2020 18:40:31

Alan, that was the international site that I posted. I believe they ship to the UK. Since I'm in Canada, I don't have detailed knowledge of any UK-located sources.

Perhaps someone else will now that they know exactly what you are looking for.

(I have one of these btw ..... wouldn't be without it).

Edited By Bandersnatch on 15/08/2020 17:38:11

Brilliant, Raphael !

He (she?) almost looks friendly .... sort of.

Edited By Bandersnatch on 15/08/2020 17:01:17

These are available from a few sources. What size do you need?

Just noting that 0.1° amounts to .009" or .22mm over 5 inches - roughly the width of a vice.

(... if my trig is correct. I'm sure I'll find out if not).

You can edit your own post within a short time (15 minutes or so?) of posting it. During that time there will be an "Edit" selection attached to it when you read it.

You can sort of delete it by the same method. If you delete all the text, the message will be blank except for the "edited at ..." message.