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I thought some of you might be interested to see this? I was competing in the Cretan Union Cup regatta last week, not on my boat though but on a Gib'Sea 36 belonging to a friend. We didn't win anything but we had a lot of fun. We're the boat heading left to right in this picture (number 23) and...

I'm not really looking for help here, more to check that I didn't miss anything.... :) Some dear friends have been visiting Crete for the last 3 weeks, they have an olive grove here. They went home this morning. Last night (at 9:30pm) I got a frantic phone call that their laptop had died. When...

I got a rather nice email from PCS the other day reminding me that it was two years ago that my Optimus IV was delivered to me, so I thought it might help those browsing these fora looking for info on the reliability of PCS built laptops if I posted a brief 2-year review of mine. Here's the...

I've had disagreements with others on here before about using msconfig to permanently disable startup programs. Microsoft recommend that msconfig is not used to do so, it's only a temporary debugging tool, and that is the position I have always taken. Others on here (and elsewhere) have...

Like most folks on here I know that having two firewalls active at the same time can be troublesome, but until I accidentally managed to do it the other day I hadn't realised just how troublesome it can be. I thought my experience would be useful, especially to those searching these fora for...

For those who don't know, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn developed the protocols that became TCP/IP for the DARPA network (ARPANET) back in the 1970's and that led directly to the development of the Internet we know today. My tiny claim to fame is that I once attended a seminar given by Vint Cerf many...

It's all in the title! Google Earth Pro is now free, see http://www.intotheplanet.com/google-earth-pro-is-now-free/. You have to register to get an unlock key sent to you via email but otherwise you just download and install it. I have it running alongside Google Earth (basic). I haven't...

To me Vanthus was a giant on here, when I first joined the fora almost 2 years ago he was everywhere, and always with sound advice and good solutions. I'm two time zones ahead of the UK and yet, in the mornings when I opened new tech support posts, Vanthus had already posted the best solution or...

....is a fire in a crowded marina. It happened here in our winter marina on Crete last night, a 65ft motor cruiser burst into flames. It took the fire brigade well over an hour to get it under control. There were lots of very worried boat owners here last night! Fortunately nobody was hurt but...

Following from the height thread I thought it might be interesting to get a feel for ages. I've made it a poll, the answers are private so that nobody need worry about giving their age.....

Apologies if this is already well-known but I've just spent and hour or so scratching around to find this. Those of us that installed Windows 8 and then performed the online upgrade to Windows 8.1 cannot use our original Windows 8 install disks to do a system refresh because the installed...

MY 18-month old Optimus IV is idling a tad over 10 deg C hotter than it used to (50 deg C instead of around 35 deg C). I've just done a good clean of the fan and vanes etc. and that's not made much difference. Might the thermal paste be breaking down? I've never re-pasted a CPU so I'm looking...

Patch Tuesday (yesterday) released a number of critical patches for all supported versions of Windows to close a serious loophole that has existed in Windows for 19 years! See http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30019976 and https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/ms14-nov. These patches...

I had a pop-up from Trusteer Rapport last night requiring me to accept new terms and conditions (a new EULA) to allow my continued use of the Rapport security product. I've been running Rapport for years, ever since my bank (NatWest) first offered it. I will confess that I didn't read the...

I'm sure everyone has read of the SSLv3 POODLE vulnerability. I'm a Firefox user and Mozilla have promised to disable SSLv3 in the next Firefox update, but that's not until mid-November. So I've been looking for the about:config hack to turn it off now and I've just found it. If you want to...

This is apropos of nothing really it's just something I came across whilst troubleshooting someone else's laptop and it was something I'd not come across before, so I'd thought I'd share it here. We have all seen the annoying "Limited" wifi connection now and then. The user who brought their...

Anyone else joined the Windows Insider Program to evaluate the Windows 10 Technical Preview? There is a wealth of knowledge, experience and skills on here and I'd have thought that collectively we can make a useful input. Joining the Windows Insider Program is free and easy - you just need a...

Unless we get a radical and dramatic change in the weather forecasts we'll be leaving the marina here tomorrow (Friday 16th) for our summer cruising. So I'll be on here very infrequently, if at all, for the next five months. (I know, it's a tough job but somebody has to do it). Our blog (which...

I upgraded to FF 29 a few days ago and since then I've been getting the occasional hang on closing, so that I get the "Firefox is already running" warning next time I open it. I spent a lot of time running without add-ons, running in safe mode, and I even uninstalled everything (profile as well)...

So, fess up, who had heard of Stuart Parkin before today? I hadn't but his work has helped make hard disks as small and powerful as they are today. Prof Parkin has been awarded the Millennium Technology Prize and it seems very deserved! http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26929250 +Rep for Prof...