Took any excuse to get the bike out this morning so dashed to Bluewater to collect the wife's specs. Greasy roads so got the TC working overtime on the ride home. Is it wrong to like a tyre more because it has LESS grip than another. Sliding it on corner exit makes me feel like a hero and I'm not brave enough to do it on better rubber [emoji23] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Today I had news of my long awaited 1098S Tricolore - apparently it is still on the hook and coming my way
nope,, ever the optimist,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, anyway, just back frm 6 weeks in spain ,, so prob had my summer
I spent today with my very dear friend, Gordon. He was professor of marine aquaculture at Stirling Uni. Has over 200 published research papers. Worked with the guy who developed lorenzo's oil (it wasn't just a film). Was adviser to the Scottish Parliament on autism. He's been flown all over the world to give talks on both marine aquaculture and autism. In short, a very clever man and my most steadfast friend. He was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's about 18 months ago and had to step back from everything. My mum had pre-senile dementia and I didn't handle that too well. She lived in Grangemouth, my home town, while I lived and worked in Aberdeen. I'd hide up there pretending to be too busy to visit but actually I was just scared of what I'd find. Then the guilt got to me and I'd go see her. The shock of the deterioration since my last visit ripped me apart and I'd hide up north until the guilt drove me south again. And so it went for years, bouncing off of shock and guilt. My sisters, who both lived in Grangemouth, carried the burden, visiting my mum every day. It was a shit time and, while I eventually grew a pair and started pitching in with my sisters, I've never quite forgiven myself for the time I hid. So, with Gordon I've decided to enjoy my friend while he's here to enjoy. I can't undo the past but I can at least be there for him. Gordon lives in alyth now, in a holiday cottage he bought some years ago. Tonight we went to see a band, Independence, from Dundee who were playing in a local pub. We know the band, they played a Gordon's 50th birthday party. They are a superb pub band and can knock out everything from AC/DC to funk. A floor filler band. It was a truly excellent night. I always feel a little worried, dread even, about what I'll find when I visit Gordon (the ghost of my mum lives on) but, so far, I'm always really glad I did. Enjoy who and what you've got while you've got them to enjoy. You never know what's around the corner.
I have nothing to do with Windows 10 and hopefully never will. I got sick of that totally shit OS and I am now a Mac fan. My original post was a joke, referencing the constant insistence of shitty Windows machines to get you to fail a upgrade, so you have to buy a new PC. Don't, but a Mac. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
When I was out last night I had the hottest veggie pizza I've ever had. It was an ordeal. This morning the hole of my body is on fire. :Wideyed:
Every os has its problem mac also but I would say in all fairness it does tend to be the more reliable of the two but, at the end of the day you just cant do as much with a mac as you can with a pc (unless you install boot camp) Windows 10 is normally fine as long as its clean installed cleanly....this in itself is beyond most (not their/your fault) just knowledge that applied over the years...Microsoft made the mistake by trying to forcefully instigate a "migration" when it couldn't really check to see if the exisiting software was compatible (and hardware for that matter) On the flipside ive upgraded shitty old acer laptops internals to get them to boot windows 10 in under 10 seconds from the press of the power button. Build 1511 which came out arse end of last year fixed lots of stuff... There are also freely downloadable tools (just double click) which disable all of the internal tracking stuff (should you want it that way) that windows 10 does in the background....I would say its the better thing to do as windows 10 has a larger and newer hardware list so it just "knows more" about what current hardware is out there making the users life a bit easier in the long run...ie...I plug in my slr to windows 7 and I have to download a couple of drivers...on 10 it just finds it and it works... Putting my neck on the block here if anyone wants to tackle the "right" way to do it I'm here to help. And just to add to that I'm currently doing right now a conversion to a pc which is about 2 years old - a top end core i7 with an ssd raid array which has had a secondary SATA controller added....on 7 I would have had to install nearly all of the drivers manually plus the controller....so far its found everything meaning less work for me...
Windows 10 does find drivers, but they never seem to be the correct, manufacturers drivers. I think they need to revisit how they are doing this as we've had no end of grief with our customers who have upgraded to 10. Each device has a manufacturer ID and Device ID stored on the hardware. Why they can't use this to get the manufacturers driver, I don't know. Instead they go to Windows' bank of drivers which are either out of date or just plain wrong. I'm a Mac fan but have a Win10 PC in the garage for the times I need it, it also runs my cctv. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Yes it does get it wrong time to time (I'd say an 80/20 split) I'd still say it's the better of the 2 though but, that's only resting on the clean build scenario.... The other thing and it's a biggie is the quality of hardware people buy is shite. People will spend 300 quid on a cheap bit of tat.... Say a laptop and then expect it to run perfectly when the next on upgrade comes... Sent from my SM-P900 using Tapatalk
Sat in a chiringuito sipping a cold beer. Palm trees sway in the gentle breeze which is laid heavy with the scent of coconut and seafood. The blue sky envelopes the blazing sun like cream around a cherry on an indulgent dessert. It's a pleasant change from yesterday's different if equally enjoyable foray into the wastelands where dessert flowers and cacti punctuated the dusty trails. Another week here, then the cold stark claws of reality will bite back in.
