Recent content by JonathanRyan

For anybody loving the series (and I've not seen it but have been a fan of the books for years), the books appear to have dropped to 99p each for a limited time in kindle. They are almost never discounted - I've bought at least 5 at full price. Just completed the set for 1.98. Hmm must check...

I found another thread where I said I'd been recommending Herman Miller for over a decade. Seems it was almost literally true :) https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/threads/office-chair.560799/post-6492246 Honestly, I can't remember how long I've had my Aaron - I thought 10 years + but then I...

I saw a teenager busking the other day. Guitar and amp. On the floor was the traditional guitar case for coins. Zip tied to a mic stand was a iZettle. It's the future.

I had an Octavia VrS Estate which was awesome - until the electrics went. All sorts of lights coming on at random and car switching into limp home mode now and again. Nobody could trace the fault so I sold it to a dealer and replaced it with an even more awesome diesel DSG VrS, which was amazing...

I've just been on another thread saying how great Faststone image viewer is. I bet this is great. https://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm For "maximum quality" I'd suggest process the raw, save as full sized tiff then resize for web.

It's Image Viewer - they aren't kidding when they say Support touch interface (tap, swipe, pinch) It looks like it will displace my long term most used app, Irfanview. I went back to their website to see if they want some money for it and will probably end up buying a commercial license even...

OK so a partial answer....FastStone is not only a beautiful piece of s/w it's fantastic on a touch screen. Also Luminar Neo seems a lot of fun. For backups, Cobian reflector is suitably nerdy though it does come with a warning....

TP where people can get angry about anything :) With you on the Excel thing. alt-N-V is part of my muscle memory along with ctrl-shift-L. Though I think in a past life I must have offended the chart gods as they never choose the right one for me. Also on the complexity - I just set up a new...

I'm off for a nice holiday :) Since I like to take snaps and will have some free time in the evening I thought I could choose any decent pictures from the day, give them a quick edit and resize for socials etc. I'll be taking my trust Sony RX100 and new (to me) Surface Pro 9. It's a fairly low...

Change it to whatever your old SSID and password was. Then you won't have to change all your devices :)

We're heading way off topic but we all know Microsoft are big Linux fans, right? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install

While there's definitely an argument for abolishing DST, some of the ones given here are flawed. Very much so. Here's what Rospa say https://www.rospa.com/media/documents/road-safety/british-summertime-factsheet.pdf Further down you'll see the RAC's numbers that it would save about 200 (278...

Well for one thing, no proper dev team is using _only_ passwords, for another I've never seen a serious outfit where one person can create, commit and approve their own pull request. And that would include automated code diffs to spot and quarantine unusual code. Back on topic....there are many...

No. That's not how security works. Back to the original question, as people have said, it's either OEM software (supposed to be bundled) with a very liberal interpretation of the reseller agreement or just pirated. It's low cost and relatively low risk. Personally I pay for an office...

You can also get adapters so that the take your preferred flavour of power to battery (DeWalt, Makita etc). The most annoying thing about a Dyson is that to swap batteries you need tools. It would be much better if you could just buy spares and swap like pretty much every other battery tool.