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A guy came home after celebrating the New Year to a note on the fridge door from his wife which said : "this is not working any more and I have gone to my sister's" He'd no idea what she was going on about, because when he checked the fridge it was fine with everything including a few beers...

So why not build them on the coast and cool with sea water? Also a preferred location for nuclear power plants, which the datacentres could/should provide themselves. After all the 19th century mill owners didn't rely on the state to provide their factory power. They provided their own and...

As I understand it when I buy a license and the online Access install from one of these companies it is a one-off fee. One company I have used has had the same name and email for ten years that I know about. So do presume they are legal copies. 1. If I install by mistake as 64bit instead of...

As the article states: In New Jersey, which is home to the largest concentration of data centres in the world, electricity prices have risen by 34% in the last year That to me indicates governmental adjustments, or taxes on electricity charges specifically in New Jersey. In the UK it is...

If as it says, tax payers are funding new power sources and distributing costs, then we are suffering cost in providing funding support to the AI companies in order to assist them in further regulating our lives. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/12/26/why-ai-is-driving-up-your-bills/

I thought the joke on EV drivers was that they cannot be towed, or pushed out of the way when they breakdown.

The NetZero fanatics and green anarchists never mention the internet, or their phones when it comes to pollution and global warming. The cost and power required for a windfarm in concrete, steel, manufacture, erection and maintenance is so high that it will take around 20 years to break even...

Where there is cash there is a theft. Systems for waste management and others dealing with the building trade with cash payments are an example. I know of companies who delete all cash transactions after invoicing with thousands of tickets removed. The tax authorities never check up mainly...

Each year the James Bonds at GCHQ* will publish Christmas puzzles. This is the one for 2025. Solutions on Wed 17th. No prizes. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c04vgn6xlzno * in case you guys in the US are wondering: GCHQ = Government Communications Headquarters is an intelligence and...

The code I included was from a working model written maybe 20+ years ago but it is the code to be inserted into a query. I've never used SELECT/END in a query. But just <128 isn't good enough as I exclude []{}~ // and everything <32. It worked and was quick to filter corrupted records from...

I use my own password system with encrypted data, in which I record the name I've given, the DOB if required and the email address I have used for that company. All security questions are there with no two of them repeated. I use a paid-for email supplier, so no adverts and it includes secure...

REPLY#2 --------- A bit more to it than I remembered. You will need to check that one or more fields don't have an ACSII value of more than 128 using Queries. You can often choose just one field if it is an indexed or relational field that must exist. Maybe check that also check for the content...

Have you looked for and found your corruption toy view the table on-screen?

From my experience corrupted records are often referred to as containing 'hieroglyphics' by users. But the content is usually higher ASCII characters. As opposed to any possible keyboard entered characters ASCII values. Usually more than one field is affected, sometimes whole records with the...

Flaky networks, or WiFi, or users switching off with numerous copies open are never helpful. Even switching off the PC with one copy open I always advised against. Beware your client's hardware support company with some smart Alec who decides that any additional users can all run the same FE...