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The basic rule is that you are insured for everything, except the things you claim for. Back in the days when I was in steel fabrication, our insurance guy told us that for all small claims, they'd look to recover 110% within two years. So maybe think before you claim for a damaged carpet etc...

Looks about as interesting as the new Jag. I'll only buy a car that I'd have been pleased to have designed. So haven't had a Jag for years. Not since Ford based them on the Mondeo. THen Ford sold them to Tata and they became a Tata Jag, which is not good. Mind you Renault named on of their cars...

Being a bit of a luddite, I'd be quite happy running XP. But not bothered if Win10 doesn't have any more security updates. My remaining Win10 laptop is one of my machines that never goes online anyway.

Whilst a Carrington or solar storm are expected to take out satellites, substations and Datacentres. What is the likelihood of them causing battery operated vehicles to explode?

What I meant to ask was, which FE on your Linux?

So what about the millions of PCs that have been unnecessarily thrown away? The $billions pointlessly wasted? But the cynic in me wonders if it is to install the Win11 spyware onto PCs that their owners cannot afford to replace and may just go and buy a RaspberryPi5, or a Chromebook. As I have...

An update from a UK newspaper today.

Hello cheekybuddha, Just wondering which database solution(s) you use on Linux, if you don't mind me asking.

Like I said, I simply installed it into a folder that I had created. I have located a very, very old install instruction and just amended it by removing the company and program names. Maybe that will help. Without spending quite a lot of time I haven't any details about later improved versions...

How is this not theft? How different is it to someone entering your house and then stealing something. The thief sis doing it because they understand and believe it will be to their benefit and not yours. How different is that to what Microsoft doing for their sole benefit?

I always installed RunTime on customers' PCs to prevent them running the program using a different version of Access to my developed version. If they had the same version of Access installed, I still used RunTime, just in case they installed a later version afterwards. But mainly because I...

Tony Benn, Clinton and Jo Brand....what are you doing with rubbish like that on your shelves? Surely you haven't paid for them? Maybe it's a bit fuzzy because whoever took it was shaking with embarrassment? You'll never sell them if that is the intention.:)

On the Bovaer and the Gates equivalent Rumin8, organic farms cannot feed those synthetic feed additives to their cattle. Hopefully, only buying organic milk, cheeses and yoghurt will avoid any future issues. We'll see. Last week I did see some advice that those additives should not be Fed to...

From AccessBlaster #25 MS don't endeavour to promote Access with any enthusiasm. Just as Pat said in #1. I do think that anyone who wanted to promote their software wouldn't adopt MS's best efforts. If you buy a new PC, laptop, or notebook with Windows they all include promotions for O365. It...

I presume that MS will only know the number of users by 365 licenses, sales numbers and those enabling updates. They can only guess at the actual number, as there will be huge numbers using it with Runtime that don't know they are, or maybe care. My understand is that it is the largest database...

Basically being out of US politics and just an observer, I can't quite see the point in arguing which is the most dishonest, Trump or Biden. Which of the following would you give the house keys to if you go away for a month? Bill Clinton, the Bush twosome, Reagan, Johnson, Kennedy, Ford...

Indicators appear to be that MS cannot decide if they should abandon Access, or to enhance and continue with development. If they issue an end of life they don't appear to have a replacement for the millions of Access users. They abandoned Visual FoxPro and still today there are users out there...

Those in the USA may have a problem with her Moss Side, Manchester accent.

Giving a bunch of goat herders, just off the boats, jobs on road repairs is proving to be a mistake. However, I have been told that the person in charge of this gang was Angela Raynor. Which may just explain it as she has only just started doing sentences and things. (for those in the USA...