Windows 8.1 installer

I'm having to re-install Windows and now the boot loader thinks I have two installs.

Useless

Microsoft have been making virtual images of their browsers available recently for free. So I downloaded the IE11 Windows 8 one for Virtual Box.

I clicked the Explorer icon/pane thing in the PlaySkool display that confronted me. Then related that there was no obvious way back to that screen, nor was there a way to the desktop. How, I asked myself, do you switch the thing off?

I found it eventually. But what a palava. I can understand that level of simplicity from a tablet device (where, atleast, there is usually a physical button to return to the home screen), but on a desktop OS?

Beamdog's latest update for Baldur's gate 2. It wiped everything outside the city off th emap except the new destinations it added. I'll probably have to restart the game now.

So.... 4 hours and two reinstalls later and I found the problem.

A dodgy SATA lead.

Amazon suddenly changing my default Kindle to the one I sold to my mate - I'm sure he'll be wondering why he's got loads of samples he didn't request.

That company is getting more and more random every day

There has been a physical button for that on keyboards since 1994...

Tried the Amazon Prime streaming yesterday, watching in HD on our TV. I connected my laptop to the TV with HDMI, so the image quality was good. Shame you couldn't say the same for the film. The image kept breaking up and the encoding was poor, shouldn't have been the streaming, we have 36mbps and it spent nearly 6 minutes buffering, before it started - so long in fact, that I stopped it in Firefox and restarted it in IE, because I thought the player was having problems with NoScript. Certainly not a good way to promote streaming - and it shouldn't have been the notebook causing the problems, it was a Core i7 with 8GB RAM and an NVIDIA graphic chip, it doesn't have problems playing back Full HD from locally stored video.

The film also wasn't all that good, Aviator. After all the hype, when it came out, I was looking forward to it, but it was rubbish.

Prime was having problems last night in my experience, as was Netflix, try it again I'd suggest.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014 ... fraudsters

OMJF.

Even the DWP gave up on it, and they still sign up to use it.

I needed some stuff for work this week, so I ordered off amazon for first class delivery. Gonna arrive tomorrow. Perfect. Except I've forgotten to change delivery address to my workplace address. Ties me down to sitting at home waiting for the bleeding thing. Worse, I pretty much always deliver to work now as it's so much easier.

It looks like management seem to think that I'm going to be the new sysadmin.

Nobody's actually asked me yet.

And why do you think that you would be asked

If the Company has faith in their product then the Councils should pay a percentage of correctly identified frauds minus the costy of investigating any the system has got wrong

e.g. Say (and just to keep numbers simple)
Each fraud attempt identified saves the council £5000 (over a number of years) and we pay them - The Co - 20% of the saving (so £1000/case)
Each invesitagation costs the council £1000 in time / effort and the Co pays for that time / effort IF it gets it wrong
so the technology identifies 100 possible frauds. If the technology is 100% acccurate then the Co makes £100K. IF however after investigation its found that only 10 were real then the Co PAYS the council £80K - this would soon identify what level of faith they have in their system

Advantage you. Room for pay negotiations there then.