NFS 4 on solaris taking longer than Vista for writing files
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Oooooooooh yeaaaaaaaaaaaaahOriginally posted by eek View PostYep. Anyone old enough to use DOS will remember how essential Norton Utilities were.....
What happened to them after that?
Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.Comment
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Bought by SymantecOriginally posted by suityou01 View PostOooooooooh yeaaaaaaaaaaaaah
What happened to them after that?
merely at clientco for the entertainmentComment
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1 and 0 otherwise I'd be doing something interesting (although possibly not as well paid)“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”Comment
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Originally posted by FiveTimes View PostAVG - I got shut of it when an update disabled all access to the internet.
This made me laugh. Well at least your PC was secure after that. You don't want any of that pesky interwebby stuff messing up your nice clean PC.Comment
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I spent a couple of hours the first time on the phone with a friend explaining to me that there was something wrong with her PC and she couldn't work out what. Then I remembered that story was all over the web and went around to her house to sort it out. Oddly when she decided she wanted a mac I didn't dissuade her......Originally posted by worzelGummidge View Post
This made me laugh. Well at least your PC was secure after that. You don't want any of that pesky interwebby stuff messing up your nice clean PC."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Ubuntu works fine on the current laptop I'm using and on the last one I put it on.Originally posted by MyUserName View PostUbuntu.
At the time I made the mistake of trying to use it:
No support for SilverLite or WPF or any accepted equivalent so I was not able to play the PluralSite courses I wanted to play but that did not matter because ....
Plugging the headphones in did not mute the speaker and muting the speaker also muted the headphones. Hence I could not watch DVDs or listen to music on the train to work. The headphones work fine and so does the socket (I have dual installed Windows since) - it was just Ubuntu.
Maybe it is just you."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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