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I was in the first year to sit GCSEs instead of O'levels
I was last year to sit O-levels. And proud.
dick measuring session
no competition now there's that large hardon collider
southampton then, but surrey after
You were at Soton?
Apologies if this means nothing to you but two questions: Were you a spod? And, did you play Mao?
Andy & Cougar want to get a room?
No (but I knew some), and No.
Ah well, just wondered if there was some intersection of circles going on. (Not a euphemism.)
There was a spod that we actually nicknamed "spod".
There was also "stroboscope" (blinked 5x more frequent than normal), but I think he might have been a leccy eng like me rather than a spod.
I used to spod, but my definition is not the same as Cougar's. If you spodded like I spodded, you'd know, cos my name has always been the same.
I don't (and am doing a computer BSc). Using an iPad by age 2 seems a stretch imo. My 3 year old doesn't / can't.
She was never forced, she just picks things up fast, knows how to work an android phone as well ( as far as opening galleries goes anyway). Dont worry she does plenty of active stuff too.
IMO basic IT skills should be done and dusted by primary age as well as basic security (staying safe online). Secondary IT should be getting deeper into how office software works, recovering from mishaps (dead hdd, virus) and the things you can do to ease the process and computer science getting into advanced programming and the infrastructure side of things. Tech, art and such can train pupils in their own respective packages (PS, Autodesk, etc.).
If school wont do it I will, as far as I'm able, already getting to the point that a laptop with child friendly linux is on the horizon.
a laptop with child friendly linux is on the horizon.
That's where Raspberry Pi comes in for me. Nice cheap little Linux system for them to play on with good educational support and the opportunity to hook it up to some electronics etc. Ideal.
(And it even has minecraft)
Im thinking Qimo to start with, the Pi will come out later.
On the subject of RPi, they've just announced Win10 IoT Core for that - just sorting out a Win 10 dual boot to install that, as apparently a VM won't write to the SD card (and MS couldn't possibly make a standard image file which could be written with normal utilities 🙄 ) Hopefully have that going later tonight - very excited about that, as it's one of the few occasions where I'll have the highest spec available hardware!
Small Penis, Overtakes Dangerously ?Were you a spod?
Oh, and has anybody seen a (plausible) date yet for this windows upgrade thingy ?
29th of July.
I still don't know if I have to sign up somewhere.
On the subject of RPi, they've just announced Win10 IoT Core for that
Yep. There isn't much to see mind you - it is literally a black screen and a menu. And wifi doesn't work yet either. But it is a really interesting step by Microsoft and has given me a reason to go to Windows 10 so I can play properly with it.
It turns out on further research it's been out for a month, and they've only just bothered to e-mail people who've registered an interest (unless I'm special). Also it's possible to install using Linux and Python to reformat the image, so I don't need to dual boot. But by the sounds of things I might not bother, and just try some other updated things I've been meaning to look at on the RPi.
WTF is going on in this thread??
Anyway.... Yeah if you're doing any gaming you want Win 10 for DX12. If you have SLI it's likely to be a game changer, as there's going to be the ability for some programs to share/add-up the VRAM, not just to duplicate it as it stands now.
IE 2x 4GB cards will behave like an 8gb one!
WTF is going on in this thread??
A geekfest?
You expected something different in a thread about an operating system release?
Hah, no, but its pretty funny 😉
to be fair, even
is all geek to meYeah if you're doing any gaming you want Win 10 for DX12. If you have SLI it's likely to be a game changer, as there's going to be the ability for some programs to share/add-up the VRAM, not just to duplicate it as it stands now
@scardypants - do you have two graphics cards in your PC working together [not just two doing different things]?
If not, don't worry about it 🙂
Actually, another advantage is that DirectX 12 will also be much better at using multiple processors, so if you have a low-power CPU and a fast GPU then you'll also see an improvement in modern games as the workload will be shared better on the CPU cores.
not sure I have a graphics card at all 😀
DX12 would be a game changer. Hmm, SLI/Crossfire added to the upgrade list...
The CPU/GPU thing would be helpful on my athsmatic QX6850, never mind any furture upgrades.
This would be you and me Scaredypants, backs out of thread quietly so as not to disturb the geekfest.
I've got the "delayed right-click" bug now :/ 7-zip seems to have caused it.
IMHO Windows is still easy to "break".
What do you need 7-zip for? Only time I've ever had to crack it out is amending large Zip files, 7-zip can add files to archives, the native client has to unpack and repack the entire archive which can take ages (or at least, it used to). For pretty much everything else the built-in handling is fine I've found.
I added it to open a .rar
@squirrelking
LGA771 Xeons can also fit in your 775 board [assuming Motherboard compatibility] and will overclock too. Might be a useful upgrade?
Interesting but TBH the money they go for is a non starter, I'd rather upgrade than sink more money into a mediocre board. Thanks though 🙂
I added it to open a .rar
Good point. I use [url= http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm ]WinRAR[/url] for that.
Sorry, I've just processed what you said. When you right-click it displays a context menu, and things like Zip programs often add their own tools to that menu.
If 7-Zip gives you the option whether or not to install the context extensions (sometimes called Explorer Integration or some such) during setup, I'd bet that not installing them would fix the issue.
(And on a point of note, that's not really "breaking Windows," rather Windows is waiting on a third party tool to return information.
Ok, I'll look into it 🙂
Are you ever going to tell me which Xeons you have, Cougar?
I've got to find the buggers first.
Aaah
OK - so bizarrely, hitting the "context menu" button on the keyboard works instantly.... odd.
It's not the batteries.
I added it to open a .rar
Good point. I use WinRAR for that.
7zip is free for commercial use, WinRar should be licensed.
NB mortals, Windows 10 may install itself by default on your machine at this point.
It's been doing that for a while, to be fair.
That was more of a bug wasn't it? Only for a very few people. Whereas this is now a default for many other I think.
My work laptop has the windows 10 notification thing (bottom right). I'll check it on Monday, Thanks for posting.