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A Tech Issue
Lately, since one of those damned Windows10 ‘updates’, I’m getting an indication in the TgR site address bar that the site is ‘Information/Not Secure’.
Is there something I need to do to resolve this, or is it a case that because I use the Google Chrome browser, Windows10 wants to play silly buggers with my laptop because I’m not using a Microsoft browser? I was advised that the latter might be the case but to check with TgR site admin, just in case.
It’s hard to believe that there was an Associate Diploma in Communications Engineering issued to me, hey? Admittedly, it was issued way back before home computers, just shortly after I’d come to realise that transistors (oh, I do love that word…) were not “just a passing fad” as one of our instructors told us. These days, I don’t even own a smartphone. I refuse to allow anothger device to try control my life.
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7 Replies
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Adrian will be more informed on this but I suspect t nothing serious. The TgR website is built with a high degree of protection from hacking so That message could just be a compatibility battle between Microsoft a d Google.
Do you get the same message if you access the website via a smartphone ??I am sure Adrian will see your post and respond with advice.
Caroline
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Oh Caroline, I’m the embodiment of a Philistine. I don’t own a smartphone. I flatly refuse to get one until there is absolutely no alternative. I don’t need a machine to control my life, I have family to do that.
I’m fairly certain it’s a Google vs. Microsoft stoush. I just thought I’d check.
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Jane,
I’ve also had that message from time to time, and I also use Chrome. I choose to ignore it as I cannot find any exposure of my data. So I am inclined to think of it as part of the Windows bloat.I have become increasingly frustrated by the bloat that keeps making my PC run slower and slower. So much so I am considering dropping Windows and buying a Chromebook.
I also was amused by your play on the word “transistor”. I am of a generation who used a cats-whisker to listen to the radio when I was at boarding school, and so was thrilled when the transistor arrived to make tuning of the radio much simpler
Best wishes
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My laptop has also been a bit slower of late. I thought it might have been to do with the volume of photos I have. I’m a photographer by inclination. But I have been moving them to an external hard drive for some time and it, the slowness, continues.
And it is is so nice to hear the words transistors and cats whiskers again. I used to have one of those ‘educational’ wireless kits when I was a littlie. A variety of plug in circuit boards with transistors and all the bits and pieces so I could make my own genuine radio. I could only receive the BBC home service so the novelty of Jimmy Young and the Archers soon rubbed that enthusiasm off.
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Claire
I think I was a bit earlier than you with the Cats Whisker – our beds were up on the 3rd floor and, as the school was about 100 years old, whenever anyone walked past our beds the floorbeds moved resulting in the cats whisker going off station.
To get the radio to work we had to connect the aerial lead to the bedsprings and the earth lead was dropped out of the window and was buried in the ground 3 floors below !
How things have changed !And apologies, Jane, for going off-topic
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Hardly a problem Stephanie.
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Also known as a Crystal set as I recall and the material was a piece of Galena ( lead sulfide) which acted as a primitive diode.
I suspect POWS were able to put such things together
Oh how far we have advanced in so many waysTransisters !! Oh they are just wonderful !!
