It's usually obvious...

...which contributors have practical experience and which are just hand waving...

Bill

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Bill Wright
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Go on then, let's have a list.

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Scott M

Sounds like the start of a new set of lyrics for Its not unusual.

Actually often some people here while not having direct experience can make one think slightly differently about a problem one is close to, the old more than one way to... etc. Brian

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Brian Gaff

That would be invidious. And some people talk sense on one subject and bullshit on another.

Bill

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Bill Wright

I want to be on the *normal in all respects* list:-)

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Tim Lamb

And some days I type rubbish and nobody can understand it anyway.... Brian the slightly inaccuratee typost.

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Brian Gaff

You have just described yourself to a 'T'. ;-)

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Dave Plowman (News)

And it's obvious which contributors start good threads, judged by the number of postings. One of mine, ' Win 7 Pro vs XP Pro' has generated 199 posts (so far !).

Jim Hawkins

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Jim Hawkins

Actually I prefer posts with not too many responses; your type tend to be caused by diversions at a tangent.

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newshound

+1
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jkn

Tim Lamb put finger to keyboard:

You're doomed to failure, because it's not normal to be normal in all respects :-(

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Scion

Or as my wife once said, "going off on a tandem".

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Bob Martin

Lovely:-)

IMV long threads tend to relate to the life experience of the contributors. Perhaps unsurprising:-)

Particularly noticeable on any subject linked to software. I'll stop there!

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Tim Lamb

Yes - related inversely !

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Jim Hawkins

Ask any specific question about Windows, and someone will tell you to use Linux. ;-)

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Dave Plowman (News)

And imbeciles using Windows.

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Weatherlawyer

Its certainly a plan.

I have to say that these days you should be asking yourself 'Do I NEED Windows?' and if the answer is no, you shouldn't be using it.

Because it is inconceivable that anyone would WANT to use it.

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The Natural Philosopher

On Saturday 18 January 2014 22:44 The Natural Philosopher wrote in uk.d- i-y:

Add Fruity devices to that too...

I have witnessed in the last 2 months:

1) A macbook user who was using Time Machine lose most of her data (when the macbook was nicked) because TimeMachine claimed to be running, but was skipping her home directly because it was encypted while she was logged in.

2) Someone lose 3 months of data on iCloud because they accidently pressed "delete" on their iPhone and apprantly it does not move stuff to Trash - only does that if you delete via the web interface.

For systems targetted at non geeky people who were trying to do it "the right way", both of these are appalling shoddy. Not impressed...

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Tim Watts

don't get me started on Apple ...'how to manually clear and rebuild your font cache' 'what to do if a programs stalls and needs to be killed'

The problem is that with linux, you sort of expect that occasionally it will throw a wobbly, and then you google the error code and a hundred people who have had the same problem pop up, and one who found out how to fix it, so you fix it.

On OSX 'apples never have problems' 'take it to they dealer' 'reinstall everything'

Not helpful when you have no longer got the install disks, didn't get it from a dealer and it definitely seriously HAS got a problem..

on windows 'reinstall everything: Go to jail: go directly to jail,do not pass go, do not collect £200' etc etc.

Or 'update to the latest versions of....and that cots you 70 quid or more. every time.

I get three updates of linuxy bits a WEEK for FREE.

And mostly I don't even reboot. I did yesterday because it was a patched kernel and I hadn't rebooted for a few weeks anyway.

I hate OSX and I hate windows. I've spent more time fixing them than using them in my life.

with linux I don't spend time fixing it. It just bloody works.

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The Natural Philosopher

There is no granularity to iCloud backups, I've known a whole fleet of iThings "lose" WiFi connection after an iOS upgrade, no amount of forgetting or resetting the connection allows them to rejoin the network using 802.1x auth (zero changes to the access points or radius) but a factory reset works, however if you then restore iCloud to get the data back, you also get some erroneous setting back and lose WiFi again ... unless the apps involved support webdav or some other export method, the user is stuffed.

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Andy Burns

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