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I suppose the best thing you can say about Hugh Perrett's somewhat intemperate rant is that it provides a bit of light relief in these troubled times. Let's remember that Te Reo Maori is a living...

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I totally agree with the comments about the police action, but not so sure about the politicians. It is easy for us to sit on the side-lines and say "they should have done this, or they...

Meanwhile, the Carnival of Fools goes on in Wellington. The heroic few protest their freedom to, er, do something or not do something, and to heck with everyone else. A main thoroughfare is blocked,...

While I can sympathise with that, it probably is a bit hard. The software universe is constantly expanding and I suppose operating systems have to keep up. This Power Automate thing irritated me by...

Thanks for responding, Wainui. It hadn't occurred to me that maybe something on my PC was encouraging this behaviour, but I have no idea what it could be. Perhaps something planted there by Russian...

Last week I made the mistake of installing a Win 11 update that was "now available" and it screwed up my desktop, hid files in the Recycle Bin and required restoring the system from a backup file to...

We picked up a catalogue of Escher's prints when we were in The Netherlands in the '70s. It contains everything he produced after 1937 and what was judged his most significant work from before 1937....

Thanks for that. I was starting to have serious doubts...

Oh dear, now I've upset people.

Remember the title of this thread.

Great idea, and with all those injected microchips you could throw away your PC and simply plug yourself into the wall socket.

My final comment on this topic...

Since my last post I have discovered that Gigabyte have released a BIOS update (F5) for the Z590 UD that automatically sets the board to be compatible with Win 11

No, not worth the hassle, especially considering what I paid for the CPU. As I have grown older I have developed into one of those characters who hates throwing things away - it might be useful some...

Oh hang it, Wainui, why didn't you tell me that before I ordered a TPM module from Ascent, $37 gone!

Well, OK, maybe I should have read your post before making the order, but it's the principle of...

Thanks, but this does not seem to apply to my MB.

In the BIOS under "Settings/Miscellaneous/Trusted Computing/Configuration" there is an entry to enable "Security Device Support", and under that...

I have just replaced the 7 year old motherboard in my desktop PC with a Gigabyte Z590 UD board to bring the system more or less up-to-date, especially with Windows 11 becoming available. I realise...

Thanks, B.M., I think it's right to let the idiots have their say. It helps us judge the quality of the counter-arguments. I wonder what his views on Covid vaccination are.

I must say I like the...

Well, yes, but the problem is not so much the number of people but what those people (i.e. us) are doing.

We need to remember that the actions that led to the present situation were, by and large,...

I have been using Fences for years, and wouldn't be without it. I never understood why Microsoft didn't put something similar (or identical) in Windows.

What does the question actually mean? I have just junked my wife's 6-year old Asus F555LA, which was painfully slow, because a suspicious bulge suddenly appeared on the keyboard panel, displacing the...

Certainly can be. When my HL-2270DW was due for a new drum as well as toner it was cheaper to replace it with a new HL-2375DW, basically the same printer with a more swept-up presentation (LCD...

Oh Gawd, don't bring that one up. We always ran a sweepstake for the Melbourne cup where I worked, though I usually didn't bother to take part. This time I thought why not? and put a few dollars in....

My wife and I are Group 3, and I have been grumbling about the apparent shambolic nature of the vaccination rollout. Anyway, we were finally told that bookings were open, either via the 0800 number...

Losing your husband is quite bad enough, you don't need this extra hassle.

At times like this, often the best thing to do is don't respond. Just let things rest for a while. The other party might...

A detail that has not been mentioned so far: Maori are not, and never were, "cavemen".

The title of your post suggests that one way to solve your problem might be to re-calibrate the way you see the world and how other people live.