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mw0njm. said:
my Kenwood TS-570Dge wont work with win 10
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The only Ham programmes I use on Windows are Echolink and Wires X. Echolink will work on Linux Cinnamon using QTel.
Cinnamon users do not require security programmes, they are advised not to. Cinnamon has no registry, where the problems with Windows usually occur.
 
Serial port issue, have you installed W10 drivers, what cable are you using? are the FTDI drivers up to date?

Virtual COM Port Driver

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www.kenwood.com

Norton and McAfee are much easier to install than they are to remove when you realise just how resource hungry they are and don't perform better than the free Windows Defender.
 
ta richardinwales for reply and link. i have all the right drivers. my cable is a usb to rs232 the program rcp2 run ok in xp win 8 but a no no in win10.
its like most software uninstaling them is a nightmare. i try'd to uninstall nero what a fuss and polava.
 
Chrome is by a mile my favorite browser all down to the level of integration on different machines I run and its superb search engine. This computer is my 'posh' one, i9 based used for photo/video editing, two PC's in the radio shack, one in the kitchen and another plugged into the main TV and one in the bedroom TV plus a couple of laptops. They can all access my home NAS network so I can watch one of the hundreds of films stored...they all use Chrome as primary browser and whichever machine I log on to Google with all my favorites are there, my recent search history is there, gmail is there.

I use Opera browser for video searches and Torch browser has a very good torrent downloader built in. I've got installed Brave, Tor and Firefox but Firefox is just too clunky for me with seemingly constant updating needed.

Morturn said:
I would have thought the snip tool would be ok for copying web images
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It will but you'd be opening it up all the time, easier all round to add the google add on which sets the default download format.
 
richardinwales said:
Chrome is by a mile my favorite browser all down to the level of integration on different machines I run and its superb search engine. This computer is my 'posh' one, i9 based used for photo/video editing, two PC's in the radio shack, one in the kitchen and another plugged into the main TV and one in the bedroom TV plus a couple of laptops. They can all access my home NAS network so I can watch one of the hundreds of films stored...they all use Chrome as primary browser and whichever machine I log on to Google with all my favorites are there, my recent search history is there, gmail is there.

I use Opera browser for video searches and Torch browser has a very good torrent downloader built in. I've got installed Brave, Tor and Firefox but Firefox is just too clunky for me with seemingly constant updating needed.


It will but you'd be opening it up all the time, easier all round to add the google add on which sets the default download format.
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Chrome is my preferred choice too.
 
Had a strange strange happen this week with my my trusty HP office pro printer. It just shut down. Did all of the right things diagnostics, HP directed diagnostics etc. it keep saying “failed to update”. Shut it down unplugged etc etc. Of course did this right in the middle of an important consulting job for a non profit humanitarian project. I unplugged it and went to a local place for printing. The morning I was going to take it to be repaired and plugged it in one last time & it started to work and has worked just fine since. It’s a wireless printer and I am happy it’s working, just wondering why/how?
Any insight would be appreciated.
 
Richard Dye said:
Had a strange strange happen this week with my my trusty HP office pro printer.
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I have an office pro (inkjet). Is yours registered with HP? I use the instant ink programme, and if I leave it turned off for a while, I get a whingeing email that HP could not communicate with the printer. I get sporadic updates, but mine is ethernet connected, and they seem to go OK. The irritating thing is that an update will take priority over printing or scanning, and I just have to wait for it to happen. Maybe yours just got caught in that update focussed state, couldn't make it, and just needed to have a snooze for a while and reboot to try again.

Andrew.
 
Brummie a long time ago said:
I have an office pro (inkjet). Is yours registered with HP? I use the instant ink programme, and if I leave it turned off for a while, I get a whingeing email that HP could not communicate with the printer. I get sporadic updates, but mine is ethernet connected, and they seem to go OK. The irritating thing is that an update will take priority over printing or scanning, and I just have to wait for it to happen. Maybe yours just got caught in that update focussed state, couldn't make it, and just needed to have a snooze for a while and reboot to try again.

Andrew.
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Yes and yes to your first questions! I didn’t get the email but did when we moved it was off line for a few days.
An$ I think yes I do think that i5 got caught in the update because everything seems fine now. HP web site was NOT helpful at all!
 
I find printers and printer driver software just hard work at times. I have an HP too who occasionally decides it does not want to play ball anymore. I fined that you have to unstill the printer on the device manager and well as uninstalling the driver software to get them working again.
 
AnnS said:
Not to be left out, my HP Envy 4500 has days when it either won't print or won't scan, and sometimes both.

Apart from its temperamental ways it does do a good job.
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Ann, you are certainly not left out! This is my first time it’s messed up, and yes it does a very good job on all different print media. I use 24# paper, it’s a little thicker and never jams. I had a Panasonic printer that jammed very well.
 
i was thinking and wondered if ALL this info on the forum could be saved some way that it can it be replayedby machines 100 years or more in the future
Assuming microprocessor manufacturers can continue to live up to Moore's Law, the processing power of our computers should double every two years. That would mean computers 100 years from now would be 1,125,899,906,842,624 times more powerful than the current models. That's hard to imagine. or is pete being daft as usual
 
mw0njm. said:
i was thinking and wondered if ALL this info on the forum could be saved some way that it can it be replayedby machines 100 years or more in the future
Assuming microprocessor manufacturers can continue to live up to Moore's Law, the processing power of our computers should double every two years. That would mean computers 100 years from now would be 1,125,899,906,842,624 times more powerful than the current models. That's hard to imagine. or is pete being daft as usual
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How powerful do they really need to be?
 
Tinpot said:
How powerful do they really need to be?
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Over 35 years ago I asked the IT manager if our shared desktop PC could be connected to the internet. The response was 'not yet' - but what do you want to use it for, or do you just want to surf the web. We were working in literature and linguistics.

In truth, we didn't know, but we guessed that the internet might be important. As it turned out computers have altered the working lives of most people in the developed world. The mobile phones in our pocket or bag isn't really a phone but the most powerful pocket computer which can connect wirelessly to the web.

Internet banking depends on the calculation of large prime numbers for security. I don't think we know what we might need computers for in the future and so it isn't possible to know how powerful they will need to be.

It would be good to have access to all the pages of the web historically, then we could search this site and Mac Joseph's Ladywood site which is only partially archived. And I'd like access to all the printed books. As an ex-academic, I'm aware that there's a lot of material I can no longer access in professional journals because of cost. (On nailmaking in the Midlands for example.) It would be good to be able to pay to access or download for what I'd like for a few pennies or a pound. The digital humanities are only just emerging in the UK, but their potential is immense. I'm a words rather than a numbers person.

Digital mapmaking is another revolutionary technology. Imagine being able to see a map of Birmingham grow historically. The free maps on the National Library of Scotland site are brilliant, but they are hard to navigate at the moment. I'd like to create my own overlay and share it.

As cheaper more powerful computers become available then we will see what they might be used for... Some things might be community projects. I spent some of lockdown adding keywords to digitised photographs taken in Siberia so they could be accessed outside of the libraries which held the negatives or prints. Potentially anyone with a computer might see them. There are many such crowd projects https://www.zooniverse.org/projects
 
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mw0njm. said:
i was thinking and wondered if ALL this info on the forum could be saved some way that it can it be replayedby machines 100 years or more in the future
Assuming microprocessor manufacturers can continue to live up to Moore's Law, the processing power of our computers should double every two years. That would mean computers 100 years from now would be 1,125,899,906,842,624 times more powerful than the current models. That's hard to imagine. or is pete being daft as usual
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More like being humorous :). I think in computer speak 100 years is 50 lifetimes. It depends where you are in the cycle or scheme of things. I remember building a line in 2012 controlled with facial recognition, we installed in 2013. If you watch TV FR was not around until 2018!! certain development lab and universities were ahead of that. There are beta test cells all over the place. What I want them to do is get rid of "operator error" :cool:
 
Stokkie said:
Over 35 years ago I asked the IT manager if our shared desktop PC could be connected to the internet. The response was 'not yet' - but what do you want to use it for, or do you just want to surf the web. We were working in literature and linguistics.

In truth, we didn't know, but we guessed that the internet might be important. As it turned out computers have altered the working lives of most people in the developed world. The mobile phones in our pocket or bag isn't really a phone but the most powerful pocket computer which can connect wirelessly to the web.

Internet banking depends on the calculation of large prime numbers for security. I don't think we know what we might need computers for in the future and so it isn't possible to know how powerful they will need to be.

It would be good to have access to all the pages of the web historically, then we could search this site and Mac Joseph's Ladywood site which is only partially archived. And I'd like access to all the printed books. As an ex-academic, I'm aware that there's a lot of material I can no longer access in professional journals because of cost. (On nailmaking in the Midlands for example.) It would be good to be able to pay to access or download for what I'd like for a few pennies or a pound. The digital humanities are only just emerging in the UK, but their potential is immense. I'm a words rather than a numbers person.

Digital mapmaking is another revolutionary technology. Imagine being able to see a map of Birmingham grow historically. The free maps on the National Library of Scotland site are brilliant, but they are hard to navigate at the moment. I'd like to create my own overlay and share it.

As cheaper more powerful computers become available then we will see what they might be used for... Some things might be community projects. I spent some of lockdown adding keywords to digitised photographs taken in Siberia so they could be accessed outside of the libraries which held the negatives or prints. Potentially anyone with a computer might see them. There are many such crown projects https://www.zooniverse.org/projects
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Yes. I see that there are lots of possibilities. The concern for me is what does it mean for our quality of life? I have read that the processing centres use huge amounts of energy. How will we deal with the unsupported computers going to waste? Are computers being used for beneficial purposes?
 
I just wish they would not keep pushing things that often don't work. I had to ask my bank to remove fingerprint recognition from their site, as once it was on it they insisted on using it and often It needed over 10 tries to work , if then
 
mikejee said:
I just wish they would not keep pushing things that often don't work. I had to ask my bank to remove fingerprint recognition from their site, as once it was on it they insisted on using it and often It needed over 10 tries to work , if then
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Particularly Apple upgrades to your phone that make it worse!
 
It was Android. Wouldn't ever touch Apple on principal . I'm sure they are worse. always trying to make things obsolete so you have to buy an even more ridiculously expensive version
 
Tinpot said:
Yes. I see that there are lots of possibilities. The concern for me is what does it mean for our quality of life? I have read that the processing centres use huge amounts of energy. How will we deal with the unsupported computers going to waste? Are computers being used for beneficial purposes?
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Tinpot, unfortunately it's not really just the computer, maybe in our sphere. In the world that I retired from HMI's are mission critical, Human Machine Interface (which is a computer). When I started in industry working on factory automation, there were many things we could not do because the computer controls were not available. Today control engineers are amongst the highest paid and sought globally. The average car for example has 11 or 14 computers on board. When your say computers, its more than that thing that sits on you table or desk, that it's the tip of the iceberg.
This past week I had a heart monitor put in about half the size of a pencil and 1" long, the battery lasts about 10 years, and its output is measured wirelessly by a computer globally that will alert my cardiologist if my heart gets a little silly.
So yes, I would say they are being used for beneficial purposes.
 
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