Recent content by DickyP

I didn't even realise it was Father's day until I was given a card.

This post is, in many ways, the core of the problem with using ChatGP et al. All the accuracy you could want BUT no 'feel' for the results. I would be making my choices based on the impression the firms reps gave me when the visited to evaluate the job and comparing what the told me with what...

No it was just the settings to allow VPNs. Setting them to off solved the problem. I have no idea why I might add!

Thanks every for your help. Of course the question now is why should something that's worked for 4 years in its current form suddenly stop working?

Seems to have worked!

Thanks - I'll have a look but as they are all mine and as I never installed a VPN I don't hold out much hope.

Done all these (unfortunately).

It's attached directly my network as are all the PCs via ethernet connection. No cloud usage.

Any advice (polite and anatomically possible) about a weird problem. On one of PCs my mapping to my NAS has suddenly failed and I can't re-map it, whereas the other PCs (One Win 10 and one Win 11) no problems. I can still see the NAS on the other PC using a UNC path. Given I normally use UNC...

What if this weren't a hyperthetical question? - is always the basis of a good critical thinking session.

You are never too old if you can do the job you are being paid for PROPERLY! Ten years after her retirement date and eight years after retiring my wife is back at work teaching German as no one can find German teachers. The money is great, if unexpected, boost to our retirement income.

A good author of readable books but he hardly invented conspiracy theory - Karl Popper is the earliest recorded user of the phrase. And as for conspiracy theory as a concept it's been around for ever. Witchcraft?

The quote I cling to is from the Burial Service in the book of common prayer (Psalm 90). " The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are...

Just not true - I have multiple versions running!

ANY is a predicate and works perfectly well. The reason you don't see it often is that it works practically the same as the IN predicate. The latter gained prominence because a number of early implementations of SQL (pre-SQL standards) did not include ANY.