I am certainly cautious about updating OS on a live system, as there is so much potential for things to go very badly and take a long time to undo/fix. Driver issues are a good example, software rely… (View Post)

I'm just going to drop a plug for the latest show onSyFy, The Expanse. Howard Tayler, over at Schlock Mercenary, reviews this far better than I could so I will just link his review: http://www.schloc… (View Post)

Not sure which forum is best for this, so picked general. Just a heads-up for Windows 7/8 users that are still avoiding Windows 10 (myself included). As of Monday, Microsoft will be be automatically … (View Post)

For those planning to avoid this by simply not upgrading to Windows 10, beware that Microsoft will be pushing that upgrade on you automatically from Monday, unless you have 'fixed' your automatic upd… (View Post)

thanks - interesting link, and the comments following suggest it may even be my fault! (I'm kind-of responsible for the change of destructor rules in C++11, but everything is a committee decision ;)) (View Post)