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HSBA petethenovice 24 Feb 2020

Brexit Wars 3 john.a.reeves: It’s an ironic response to your linking this problem to ‘Tory Brexit" Im Linking to the Tory Brexit with RW hate and replies we get here and in the SUN EXPRESS etc You replied to Deaths of homeless people sleeping in bins With My right hip hurts like bu@@ery - I blame ‘Tory Brexit’!!!

KIE stutes 24 Feb 2020

Kier Living Will HMG opt to squeeze housebuilders after Johnson’s comments on Persimmon? If HMG spends money how much of it will how much of the promised infrastructure spend is likely to go on coronavirus or other areas of the economy?

LLOY trader_jack 24 Feb 2020

LLOYDS is going to FLY Hi again Prefinvestor, You mention Office Home & Student 2016 , according to the Microsoft page you indicated yesterday mainstream support ends in October this year but extended support goes on until 2025 whatver that might mean in practice for someone like myself. I have been looking at OfficeHome & Student 2019 as I said I noticed that the offer states "Microsoft support included for 60 days at no extra cost. " but will there be support for it for longer I wonder? The offer does not make it clear at all Regarding Windows 10 which I have, it is version 2.59.0.0 for x64 based systems (KB4023057.) It seems to think that it was installed in June 2019 which is not correct. I bought this computer in late 2016 and Windows 10 was either installed then or perhaps copied across from my previous laptop. I cannot now remember. It has 16g of RAM and about 1TB of hard disk. I use Firefox as my main operating system 73.0.1 (x64 en-GB) Yes there seem to be many variants even on Amazon but hopefully I will choose one that can be actually purchased from Microsoft itself. Thanks to you Prefinvestor, swamp rat & J Westlock for your help and suggestions. At my age I need an easier life not one that gets progressively more technical and complicated. It is not as if the markets are offering any comfort to any of us today. Ah well, Best regards TJ

LLOY PrefInvestor1 24 Feb 2020

LLOYDS is going to FLY Eadwig: All the software I needed for my business and personal use was available and perfectly adequate by mid 90s. I’ve paid for new licences over and over again for them/ My last upgrade to Windows 10 wiped out my previous version of Office-like software and I’m not spending anymore. Hi @Eadwig, Well I dont make the rules, but unfortunately if you want stuff you usually have to pay for it. I DO understand people using free open source software to meet their software requirements. I have simply taken a view of our home computing requirements and decided that I AM prepared to pay for Windows (if I buy a new PC), for my internet security software (about £25 a year) and for Office 365. And any Microsoft software I get for about £30 a time so its cheap. I quite understand that others dont have that advantage. For other things (eg photo editing) I too use free open source software. ATB Pref

LLOY mememe 24 Feb 2020

LLOYDS is going to FLY @PrefInvestor1, thanks. Aren’t you concerned about putting all your financial information on the Cloud?

LLOY skiking37 24 Feb 2020

LLOYDS is going to FLY Down 5% - LLOY that is and NOT Microsoft

LLOY PrefInvestor1 24 Feb 2020

LLOYDS is going to FLY mememe: have you tried Office 2019 Home & Student yet. Any issues? I have a Win10 PC . What security do you use? I use Kaspersky Total Security which includes Safe Money. Any advice on what you think may be better. No I havent tried it because I have the full Office 365 paid for via the annual subscription model (I have a relative who works for Microsoft so I get all my Microsoft software cheap). Regarding internet security software - good choice thats what I use too. Tried the Security Cloud product last year but reverted to Total Security this year as it was no better and more expensive. Also licensing was occasionally problematic. ATB Pref

LLOY mememe 24 Feb 2020

LLOYDS is going to FLY @PrefInvestor1, have you tried Office 2019 Home & Student yet. Any issues? I have a Win10 PC . What security do you use? I use Kaspersky Total Security which includes Safe Money. Any advice on what you think may be better.

LLOY Eadwig 24 Feb 2020

LLOYDS is going to FLY PrefInvestor1: Going with this would give you a more modern set of programs and longer security support but for quite a lot more money. This is what I object to … All the software I needed for my business and personal use was available and perfectly adequate by mid 90s. I’ve paid for new licences over and over again for them/ My last upgrade to Windows 10 wiped out my previous version of Office-like software and I’m not spending anymore. I don’t use it that often and its become a bit of a bad joke that all the upgrades in the new software I not only don’t want and need, they’re making it more difficult to do what I used to. So, I’m sticking with Windows only because I can find perfectly adequate open-source software and other apps in the public domain. I guess I’ll just have to put up with adverts actually appearing on my screen at home plugging various things which is an absolute liberty if you ask me. I might add there are really only a handful of countries that bother to protect copyright. I did a test with my VPN for accessing Pirate Bay, the most notorious of sources for ripped off apps and media. If I set up as being in the UK and a couple of other countries, sure enough the site is blocked. Many other countries, including within the EU, have no blocking I can detect. I very much object to re-paying for licenses, just as I did for tapes and CDs that I already owned on vinyl. It is all a it unsatisfactory… and I say that as a sometimes programmer.

LLOY PrefInvestor1 24 Feb 2020

LLOYDS is going to FLY J_Westlock: Why do you think that upgrading and paying more for Excel is going to help you in setting up the formula and automation to pull in prices etc? You are certainly able to do that in Excel 2007 and earlier versions Yes @J_Westlock thats certainly true. But I really dont think trader_jack’s spreadsheeting skills are up to doing the job. I am happy to send him a spreadsheet which he can then tailor to do what he wants by adding in his own set of stocks and ITs but if I do that using Office 365 using tables and structured references (as all my spreadsheets do these days) it almost certainly isnt going to work on his Office 2007. If he upgrades his Office though then it ought to work. Of course I could go back 10 years and start using the old fashioned cell references (AS99 etc.) but then I wouldnt be able to just copy the formulae from what I currently have which works. I could do that of course but it would be tedious AND i couldnt test it on 2007 as I dont have that. So if it doesnt work (which it may not first time) then I dont see how I’m going to get it working on his machine where the whole layout of his Excel will be totally different to mine. Right now he is running an old Office version which may well present him with security risks that he is not equipped to handle either. Spending £30 will get him a new supported version eliminating those risks AND one which should support my spreadsheets. I dont know whether he is going to want to accept a spreadsheet from me - he might see even that as a security risk !. But other than that route I can see no way of producing an automated pricing solution for him. Anyway ATB Pref

LLOY Eadwig 24 Feb 2020

LLOYDS is going to FLY john.a.reeves: Not sure it will have any effect. It wont. It would be like having the flu jab and hoping it protect a little bit against AIDS. The one way it might help is if it does protect against flu, then it will protect you from having the new virus and flu at the same time, a combination we’d all like to dodge I’m sure.

LLOY Eadwig 24 Feb 2020

LLOYDS is going to FLY skiking37: If this spreads into the likes of the UK or Germany then we will have issues. I have news for you, it already has. It just isn’t very apparent yet. We’ll have numbers of cases peaking around end of April, May probably. Just when I was hoping to put a house on the market. I can see that being postponed.

GKP MikeyAdmin 24 Feb 2020

Level 2 Just back indoors to see the low trade hit 169.2, which is quite a bit lower than I thought it may go. The next resistance is BMCM @ 168.8 and 25,000 @ 168, which is getting down to its low of early 2018 Close . . . . 181.80 Open . . . . 179.00 High . . . . .179.00 . . . 08.00.19 . . UT Low . . . . . 169.20 . . . 13.47.05 . . AT MD Auc . . 129 @ 173.2p Full 156,454----320,150 . . . . still heavily weighted to the downside 31----46 LSE Vols . . . . 694,996 . . . 296 trades AT trades . . . 177 OT trades . . . 119 . . 14.06.42 Spread 169.2----169.6 . . . 169.3p

LLOY J_Westlock 24 Feb 2020

LLOYDS is going to FLY PrefInvestor1: Which is better having Microsoft working on any known vulnerabilities and issuing urgent updates when appropriate or having an unknown (and likely increasing) set of vulnerabilities with no one working on them ?. There’s little or no transparency or stats on what MS fixes actually are for so we don’t know. Yes, I’d agree in general that supported software is better than unsupported software for obvious reasons. In terms of purely security, the op system itself can only do so much is my point. eg. if you have habits of always using an account with admin privs rather than one with lower privileges (and potentially exposing that) or downloading items you aren’t 100% sure of the source/content then nothing is going to help you if you are unlucky and running without good virus protection … not the latest op system or the oldest. PrefInvestor1: There are risks on any system if you click on a bad link or visit a malware affected web site but your internet security software is your only defence against those risks. That’s why you need the very best security software that you can get and update it frequently. Agreed. I have that. PrefInvestor1: A VPN does not provide any protection against a keylogge Agreed. It does help on devices when you are on wifi not your own and as I have to travel and work with one of my laptops then it’s essential . PrefInvestor1: Keeping data in the cloud can be a problem – but generally isn’t if you don’t store any personally sensitive or financial information there. Yep… well that’s one of the ways that most people lose their data and get hacked. PrefInvestor1: Backups might be able to restore a corrupt or infected system to a known good state but will do nothing to mitigate any damage caused while malware was present. Don’t care. I can recover easily unless I got attacked by some ransomware attack which is highly unlikely and even if I was I would just build the m/c from scratch again as I have all the keys/disks necessary to do that. PrefInvestor1: Having a WiFi connection to your computer is a security risk in it own right. No WiFi network can ever be considered totally immune to hacking. I counter this by blocking all devices connected via WiFi from accessing my computers using my firewall. Yes, same here. I have two routers… one from ISP and the other acting as a firewall and the one I connect to.

HSBA Eadwig 24 Feb 2020

Brexit Wars 3 frog_in_a_tree: Priti Patel…no smoke without fire! Did someone set light to the wicked witch?