Electricity falls out of the wall socket

Huge wrote:
On 2012-06-28, Steve Terry wrote:
Huge wrote:
On 2012-06-28, J G Miller wrote:

And please, whenever possible, only buy books in electronic form
because then you will pay VAT on the publication, and the coalition
government of national salvation needs every penny of VAT (now at
20%) in order to reduce income tax on the highest earners.

You do realise the top 10% of earners pay 50% of the taxes, don't
you?

It's more like half of the top 10% of earners pay 50% of the taxes,
the other half have accountants who make sure it's sent abroad, etc.

Eventually people become sufficiently rich that they can simply
leave. There is nothing you can do about that.

Yes there is, you don't let them back in the country they got rich in

Steve Terry
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On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 09:10:10 +0100, Roderick Stewart
wrote:

No, it talks about going into and out of standby. And you have to explicitly
enable hibernate in XP.

That's what I thought. I have not, to my knowledge, enabled anything to make my
laptop hibernate after it has been in standby for about 5 minutes, and cannot
find any settings for it, yet this is what it does.

I know that this is what it is doing because the next time I switch it on, I
get the "resuming Windows" message. It may have started off in standby but it
has subsequently gone into hibernation. Are you certain this is not what your
computer is doing?

Have you *really* not explored the Power Options object in Control Panel???

On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:06:01 +0100, Gary
wrote:

On 27/06/2012 18:05, Alan White wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:34:43 +0100,
wrote:

I read this NG a lot and the grammar and spelling and badly written
sentences are rife. However most are tolerated and not commented on.
It used to be considered very poor netiquette to criticise the grammar
and spelling of other posters for obvious reasons.


I find it really annoying. I have not had the advantage of a good
English education. Partly the school I went to and partly I just have
difficulty with spelling. I have, however, hadexperiencein Electronics
and ran my own business successfully for many years. Mycollegeresults
are good with my City and Guilds,distinctionon all parts. I have never
had a 'paid for' driving lesson, but passed my test the first time
forboth carand motorcycle. I also had courses in BSL and passed with
credit. Computer code (a long time ago). Ham radio (Distinction) when
the exam was a real exam.

When I amon hereand I seethe awful typing and spellingand grammar that
even I recognise as being wrong. I amappalled. ButIdon't say anything. I
am not dyslexic, but I do have a form of word blindness. I cannot spell
a lot of words and I cannot see what the problem is. I have to rely on
the spell checker. I can return tosomethingI have written later and see
the errors. I can see the spelling is wrong, butstillcannot spell it
correctly without thehelp of the spell checker . That is how the
incorrect plural came through on my original reply. I trusted the spell
checker inthunderbird.

The reply I got was uncalled for andunhelpful. And, as I said because
this is a technical NG the word Technical wastotally wrong in my
opinion. However, I did place a smile after it. The reply did not add
anything to the subject being discussed. It waspurelya pop at my reply.
I did not take it badly at first, but now I am slightly ****ed that all
the grammar policesuddenlycome out and have a go.

Thanks for the support where given.


You seem to be using a keyboard with an intermittently operating
space bar. You might want to try another keyboard, after all, when you
have the difficulties you have, the last thing you need is for the
technology to "throw its 2 cents worth" into the mix. ;-)
--
Regards, J B Good

"Roderick Stewart" wrote in
message .myzen.co.uk...
In article , Max Demian wrote:
As I said, in XP you have to explicitly enable hibernate (Control
Panel-Power Options-Hibernate) and the OS allocates a chunk of HD equal
to
the physical memory, and the "Turn off computer" dialog says you can
hibernate by holding down shift while you click Stand by (I think).

I know this. It doesn't help to repeat it. You still haven't said whether
on
starting up your PC from what you think is standby it gives the "Resuming"
message, which would indicate that it has actually gone into hibernation.
If
so, this would explain the otherwise unexpected disk activity.

I know that XP is not supposed to go into hibernation unless you
specifically
command it, yet somehow my laptop does. It waits about 5 minutes in
standby
mode then goes to hibernation even though I have not knowingly told it to.
I
wonder if yours could be doing the same? Maybe I've missed something but
your
replies so far don't seem very clear about this. Do you get the "Resuming
Windows" message whe you start it?

No.

--
Max Demian

On 29/06/2012 00:25, Johny B Good wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:06:01 +0100,
wrote:

On 27/06/2012 18:05, Alan White wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:34:43 +0100,
wrote:

I read this NG a lot and the grammar and spelling and badly written
sentences are rife. However most are tolerated and not commented on.
It used to be considered very poor netiquette to criticise the grammar
and spelling of other posters for obvious reasons.

I find it really annoying. I have not had the advantage of a good
English education. Partly the school I went to and partly I just have
difficulty with spelling. I have, however, hadexperiencein Electronics
and ran my own business successfully for many years. Mycollegeresults
are good with my City and Guilds,distinctionon all parts. I have never
had a 'paid for' driving lesson, but passed my test the first time
forboth carand motorcycle. I also had courses in BSL and passed with
credit. Computer code (a long time ago). Ham radio (Distinction) when
the exam was a real exam.

When I amon hereand I seethe awful typing and spellingand grammar that
even I recognise as being wrong. I amappalled. ButIdon't say anything. I
am not dyslexic, but I do have a form of word blindness. I cannot spell
a lot of words and I cannot see what the problem is. I have to rely on
the spell checker. I can return tosomethingI have written later and see
the errors. I can see the spelling is wrong, butstillcannot spell it
correctly without thehelp of the spell checker . That is how the
incorrect plural came through on my original reply. I trusted the spell
checker inthunderbird.

The reply I got was uncalled for andunhelpful. And, as I said because
this is a technical NG the word Technical wastotally wrong in my
opinion. However, I did place a smile after it. The reply did not add
anything to the subject being discussed. It waspurelya pop at my reply.
I did not take it badly at first, but now I am slightly ****ed that all
the grammar policesuddenlycome out and have a go.

Thanks for the support where given.

You seem to be using a keyboard with an intermittently operating
space bar. You might want to try another keyboard, after all, when you
have the difficulties you have, the last thing you need is for the
technology to "throw its 2 cents worth" into the mix. ;-)
I reposted this. Thunderbird did a reformat

On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:38:18 +0100, Gary
wrote:

On 29/06/2012 00:25, Johny B Good wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:06:01 +0100,
wrote:

On 27/06/2012 18:05, Alan White wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:34:43 +0100,
wrote:

I read this NG a lot and the grammar and spelling and badly written
sentences are rife. However most are tolerated and not commented on.
It used to be considered very poor netiquette to criticise the grammar
and spelling of other posters for obvious reasons.

I find it really annoying. I have not had the advantage of a good
English education. Partly the school I went to and partly I just have
difficulty with spelling. I have, however, hadexperiencein Electronics
and ran my own business successfully for many years. Mycollegeresults
are good with my City and Guilds,distinctionon all parts. I have never
had a 'paid for' driving lesson, but passed my test the first time
forboth carand motorcycle. I also had courses in BSL and passed with
credit. Computer code (a long time ago). Ham radio (Distinction) when
the exam was a real exam.

When I amon hereand I seethe awful typing and spellingand grammar that
even I recognise as being wrong. I amappalled. ButIdon't say anything. I
am not dyslexic, but I do have a form of word blindness. I cannot spell
a lot of words and I cannot see what the problem is. I have to rely on
the spell checker. I can return tosomethingI have written later and see
the errors. I can see the spelling is wrong, butstillcannot spell it
correctly without thehelp of the spell checker . That is how the
incorrect plural came through on my original reply. I trusted the spell
checker inthunderbird.

The reply I got was uncalled for andunhelpful. And, as I said because
this is a technical NG the word Technical wastotally wrong in my
opinion. However, I did place a smile after it. The reply did not add
anything to the subject being discussed. It waspurelya pop at my reply.
I did not take it badly at first, but now I am slightly ****ed that all
the grammar policesuddenlycome out and have a go.

Thanks for the support where given.

You seem to be using a keyboard with an intermittently operating
space bar. You might want to try another keyboard, after all, when you
have the difficulties you have, the last thing you need is for the
technology to "throw its 2 cents worth" into the mix. ;-)

I reposted this. Thunderbird did a reformat

Not a good advert for Thunderbird's reformatting abilities then.
--
Regards, J B Good

Max Demian wrote:


If standby on XP doesn't write stuff to the disk, why does it take such a
long time to enter (and leave) standby when there are lots of programs
active? About a minute or so on my (admittedly underpowered by modern
standards) XP desktop.

All the running applications, and services, get asked if it is OK to go
into standby. Even if the core OS doesn't flush anything to disk,
individual applications may choose to do so.

A virus checker with a network connection open for updating, may well
close the connection and wait for that to complete, before giving
permission to go to standby.

On 29/06/2012 01:03, Johny B Good wrote:
On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:38:18 +0100, Gary
wrote:

On 29/06/2012 00:25, Johny B Good wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:06:01 +0100,
wrote:

On 27/06/2012 18:05, Alan White wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:34:43 +0100,
wrote:

I read this NG a lot and the grammar and spelling and badly written
sentences are rife. However most are tolerated and not commented on.
It used to be considered very poor netiquette to criticise the grammar
and spelling of other posters for obvious reasons.

I find it really annoying. I have not had the advantage of a good
English education. Partly the school I went to and partly I just have
difficulty with spelling. I have, however, hadexperiencein Electronics
and ran my own business successfully for many years. Mycollegeresults
are good with my City and Guilds,distinctionon all parts. I have never
had a 'paid for' driving lesson, but passed my test the first time
forboth carand motorcycle. I also had courses in BSL and passed with
credit. Computer code (a long time ago). Ham radio (Distinction) when
the exam was a real exam.

When I amon hereand I seethe awful typing and spellingand grammar that
even I recognise as being wrong. I amappalled. ButIdon't say anything. I
am not dyslexic, but I do have a form of word blindness. I cannot spell
a lot of words and I cannot see what the problem is. I have to rely on
the spell checker. I can return tosomethingI have written later and see
the errors. I can see the spelling is wrong, butstillcannot spell it
correctly without thehelp of the spell checker . That is how the
incorrect plural came through on my original reply. I trusted the spell
checker inthunderbird.

The reply I got was uncalled for andunhelpful. And, as I said because
this is a technical NG the word Technical wastotally wrong in my
opinion. However, I did place a smile after it. The reply did not add
anything to the subject being discussed. It waspurelya pop at my reply.
I did not take it badly at first, but now I am slightly ****ed that all
the grammar policesuddenlycome out and have a go.

Thanks for the support where given.

You seem to be using a keyboard with an intermittently operating
space bar. You might want to try another keyboard, after all, when you
have the difficulties you have, the last thing you need is for the
technology to "throw its 2 cents worth" into the mix. ;-)
I reposted this. Thunderbird did a reformat
Not a good advert for Thunderbird's reformatting abilities then.
I never said it was. if you read my repost you would have known.

In article , Max Demian wrote:
Do you get the "Resuming
Windows" message whe you start it?

No.

Well, that eliminates my first suggestion then. It's really going into
standby and not hibernation. The next thing I would want to check is
whether it is running out of RAM and using swap space.

Rod.
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In article , Paul Ratcliffe wrote:
Have you *really* not explored the Power Options object in Control Panel???

I have. I cannot see any way to stop it going automatically into hibernation
from standby when I close the lid, after a time delay which seems to be about
5 minutes. It only seems to be possible to disable hibernation altogether.
Not that I mind the standby then hibernate behaviour, but it seems odd that
there isn't a way to adjust it.

Rod.
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