Hi! Holger,   
      
   On 10/06/2016 09:45 AM, you wrote:   
      
    HG> Good evening Paul,   
      
   Spot on, Holger!  Good evening to you too.   
      
    HG> Knowing that Jean recently had a blockage in the arteries from/to the   
    HG> heart, and that he is only one year younger than I, makes me worry about   
    HG> how he's recovering.   
      
   If he'd reading (and I do know he is), then he is fine and doing well.   
      
    PQ>> Ahmm... the "Great Race" is on this weekend, Holger.   
   [ ...trimmed... ]   
    HG> I do however expect a new weekly listing today, since usually they do   
    HG> have a new listing on thursdays.   
      
   Cool.  Apparently this year's trophy will be celebrating Peter Brock's memory.   
      
    HG> On the Windows front, I'm progressing, and hoping it wouldn't do its   
    HG> old-time-tricks of suddently removing programs. That happened on the   
    HG> laptop a couple of days ago.   
      
   I gave up on Windows 8.1 after I got a pop-up from Hewlett-Packard advising   
   that the warranty had expired, and, also being bugged by Avast warnings about   
   renewing my registration.  There were other reasons similar to yours...   
      
   Windows used to take some sort of perverted pleasure from alternately killing   
   running programs.  The affected programs included: a binkD point (just the   
   mailer, nothing else behind it); also, a BOINC manager running a couple of   
   SETI jobs; and, the easiest to notice when -not- running were some desktop   
   "gadgets" providing an analogue clock and a couple of graph meters measuring   
   network & memory usage.   
      
   But the crunch for Windows was when it started to kill off running VirtualBox   
   PCs just for kicks.  That I couldn't stand.  I knew then that Windows didn't   
   have a future for me on that machine.   
      
   Windows was probably running a background timer compiling statistics for M$,   
   to see how long it took me to notice something was missing.   
      
    HG> On the stationary machine it was still working yesterday, knock-on-wood!   
      
   Watch for splinters!  :)   
      
    HG> A couple of days ago, it had made the VLC progran unusable, so I had to   
    HG> reinsltall it. I got the original icon on the bottom line, but the icon   
    HG> on the desktop, the VLC icon still tells me that the shortcut doesn't   
    HG> work, because it can't find VLC.exe, even though it's still and now in   
    HG> the original directory. Oh well, Windows!!!   
      
   I've had mixed results with VLC just in the last week, with my new Linux   
   configuration.  But with regard to Windows, I think there's dialogue via a   
   right-click & properties to show Windows where that shortcut can find the .exe   
   file.   
      
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    HG> On the speaker front, I bought a similar set that I have bought a couple   
    HG> of years ago for my 23" LED TV, that does have a built-in DVD reader.   
      
   Mmm...   
      
    HG> I have been satisfied with them, but when I connected the new set to the   
    HG> stationary computer I got very distorted sound. I did connect them to the   
    HG> laptop, same distorted sound.   
      
   Mmm...   
      
    HG> Then, I connected the new set to the TV, instead of the earlier ones.   
    HG> Nice and clean audio from the same DVD as b4.   
      
   Ah-ha!  It was probably the act of multiple unplug & plug-in actions that   
   helped.  Or, the elevation of the moon.  That's about the level of my   
   knowledge of electronics.  ;)   
      
   Cheers,   
   Paul.   
      
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