RANT CORNER

[jamesedwards]

Bloody enforced Windows Updates day. I hate the 2nd Weds of the month so much. I wish you could just permanently switch them off.

[Derek27]

Bloody enforced Windows Updates day. I hate the 2nd Weds of the month so much. I wish you could just permanently switch them off.

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; To stop Windows Update service (place in an automated startup file so it runs on every boot. Microsoft sneakily switch it on occasionally.)
NET STOP wuauserv
SC config wuauserv start= disabled

; To start the service when it's convenient to update.
SC config wuauserv start= auto
NET START wuauserv

[Derek27]

WTF don't Whiskas check that cats eat their food before putting a new product on the market?

[Derek27]

She started eating it. I knew it couldn't be bad, it's got real peas and carrots in it. I was half-minded to eat it myself if she left it.

The first bite is always the hardest!

[ShaunWhite]

Bloody enforced Windows Updates day. I hate the 2nd Weds of the month so much. I wish you could just permanently switch them off.

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; To stop Windows Update service (place in an automated startup file so it runs on every boot. Microsoft sneakily switch it on occasionally.)

Or use a Winders Server version. Business users don't tollerate these enforced changes and expect full control.

[Michael5482]

Just had my council tax bill through the post up 4.78% Absolute piss takers. I don't know how they get away with it, banging it up every year to the maximum they can whilst providing progressively worse services year on year

[Derek27]

flipping dozy supermarket staff. I made eye-contact with her but she thought I was just impersonating a statue and buggered off!

[Derek27]

Bloody enforced Windows Updates day. I hate the 2nd Weds of the month so much. I wish you could just permanently switch them off.

Code: Select all

; To stop Windows Update service (place in an automated startup file so it runs on every boot. Microsoft sneakily switch it on occasionally.)

Or use a Winders Server version. Business users don't tollerate these enforced changes and expect full control.

$501 dollars to save two minutes work?

[ShaunWhite]

$501 dollars to save two minutes work?

I got mine for £11.99 from cjs cdkeys. They've been going since 2009 and 've used them for yrs now. My Office 2019 pro plus was 18 quid.

It's not the time, I'm just a control freak.

[ShaunWhite]

Just had my council tax bill through the post up 4.78% Absolute piss takers. I don't know how they get away with it, banging it up every year to the maximum they can whilst providing progressively worse services year on year

The govt cut council funding by 37% between 2010 and 2020. They've got to get it from somewhere. Income tax rises to reinstate that funding would be fairer, but that's not a vote winner. So instead the councils have to ask for it directly, and take the flack instead.

[sionascaig]

Just had my council tax bill through the post up 4.78% Absolute piss takers. I don't know how they get away with it, banging it up every year to the maximum they can whilst providing progressively worse services year on year

The govt cut council funding by 37% between 2010 and 2020. They've got to get it from somewhere. Income tax rises to reinstate that funding would be fairer, but that's not a vote winner. So instead the councils have to ask for it directly, and take the flack instead.

And one council (in England) have awarded themselves a 35% pay rise...I really hope its that lot that turned down Clarkson's planning permission just for entertainment purposes.

[Michael5482]

Just had my council tax bill through the post up 4.78% Absolute piss takers. I don't know how they get away with it, banging it up every year to the maximum they can whilst providing progressively worse services year on year

The govt cut council funding by 37% between 2010 and 2020. They've got to get it from somewhere. Income tax rises to reinstate that funding would be fairer, but that's not a vote winner. So instead the councils have to ask for it directly, and take the flack instead.

Valid point and something I'd not considered however (I won't list them all out) but my local council have wasted tens of millions over the past few years mainly on construction projects. One example over 4 million on a traffic light/road scheme initiative to improve traffic flow, 8 months later 3 million to put it back to how it was as caused carnage with traffic. That is one of the lets say minor examples of there incompetence.

[ShaunWhite]

. That is one of the lets say minor examples of there incompetence.

I think councils have always been incompetent and always will be. You don't get top management types aspiring to work for the council. If they offered a 7 figure salary they might stand a chance of attracting the sort of person who'd save them 8 figures. But people kick off if an exec earns 100k these days so they get 2nd rate people.

[ShaunWhite]

I moved this....

Great news for many on here if the GC close all your accounts. New apprenticeships for people over 50 who want to return to work.

If a 50yo had the same outgoings as a teenager it would be a good idea..... It's the deluded world of a man who's never had to think about his bills. And when you've qualified... they'll employ the 25yo who trained with you.

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[Derek27]

I moved this....

Great news for many on here if the GC close all your accounts. New apprenticeships for people over 50 who want to return to work.

If a 50yo had the same outgoings as a teenager it would be a good idea..... It's the deluded world of a man who's never had to think about his bills. And when you've qualified... they'll employ the 25yo who trained with you.

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Yes, but we can eat at Lee Anderson's 30 pence-a-meal restaurant.

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-n ... w-23968538

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