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Definitely. I wrote a mental note that that when I have to start thinking in this manor and tread carefully in a minefield then the technology does not serve me any more and I don'…

This immediately came to mind when I read this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGi6j2VrL0o

Most stuff is like this. If you pick up an HP, Casio or TI calculator these days you'll find they are all Kinpo calculators with slightly different firmware.

Yep. I paid $170 (in UK money) for a 2.4GHz i5 520M X201 with 4Gb of RAM...

You forgot the ridiculous price tag for a refurb X200. My stacked X201 8Gb of RAM, 256Gb Samsung 840 pro, new 9-cell, ultrabase with DVDRW, keyboard, mouse, 22" TFT cost about the …

The Juno 106 is absolutely glorious. Not everyone's type of music but this track is basically a Juno 106 pad, strings and lead demo and my angry driving music: https://www.youtube.…

They need a London nutcase detector for the UK. That's a whole different case. I was on a bus a couple of weeks ago and a completely naked man proceeded to walk in front of it and …

4) have three kids, work on crappy enterprise crud apps, live in a house in a nice area near good schools. It's fine. Seriously.

Just a warning with the yubikeys. I had to use a solution that had these for a few months. The USB port of my laptop (2011 MBP) was pretty much worn out due the physical insertion …

Financial wit is a killer definitely. A lot of people spend a lot of money on things that they don't need then complain about their life collapsing around them. I've done this befo…

I was brought up on a very rough London housing association estate in the 1970s and 1980s. Most of the people complaining do not know poverty or have anything to compare it to. Pov…

She has a mortgage that the benefits are paying interest only on and disability benefit as well for her children. She bought the house in 2002 so the mortgage isn't terrible. I thi…

Carer. My neighbor is one for her two disabled children. She sells art and things on ebay to make ends meet.

I'm not super-rich and I'm doing fine in London. So is everyone I know and that includes nurses, programmers, artists and carers perhaps ironically. None of them are moving away. W…

No we go "hmm that might fuck something up; let's try it on a test VM" or at the very least google and see if anyone else has any problems.

This was Oct 2014. KB2949927.

No no no no no. I've watched entire networks of machines downed with auto-updates. Always read, always test.

That might have been the only text that allowed the updated to be signed.

Appeared on WSUS as well... NEVER turn on auto updates on windows. Read all the KBs, then choose to install, ALWAYS. If you have a corp network, use WSUS and stop all updates and c…

You're right but if I'm honest, for me it was because I pissed all my cash on a powerbook instantly and forgot to budget for stuff like food ;-) I still own that powerbook and it s…

I really didn't like my old Mac trackpad (2011 MBP). It made my fingers very sore.

I'm not sure I speak for the masses here but I really want a new high end ThinkPad that doesn't have a touchpad at all like my X201: http://i.imgur.com/oOiyl32.jpg I only ever use …

“That first cup of coffee in the morning is happiness.” Chopra said. “It’s a real joy.” That's what I thought. The I went through a rough patch with no money as a student and could…

This. My Bravia no longer works with iPlayer. That was the first and last time I got burned by that.