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@petepjksolutionscom
Where's the CCC? 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I went ahead and got the Roku, and we're all set up.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Now the channel setup. Getting rid of the pre-picked junk and putting in useful stuff.
If you happen to get more ROKU's and register them to the same account then when you add an item to one you add it to all (but not necessarily logins, if any!). Mine are actually shut off when not in use (they suck a surprising amount of power) and are powered on/off with the TV through a smart power strip. Because of this, it goes through its startup routine every time which, aside from the visible dancing Roku includes looking for updates and downloading any new channels you added to any other Roku devices.
The ROKU (top) level search is skewed towards paid-stations and they almost certainly get a nice kickback.
Weather4US is a good (handy) weather channel if you just want the weather.
A lot of the remainder becomes personal taste. One last note, however, is that there are "private" channels available for Roku. What "private" means is that it's not in Roku's built-in selection list. They still connect up the same way and are, to some extent, know and authorized by Roku. If they don't like a channel for some reason they get disappeared from your selections without a word. I've lost a few that way.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Bought a new computer Tuesday!
In fact I am super happy with my acquisition, spent 1 hour scrutinizing Officeworks website.. Ordered online, go it today, sweet! 
The beats is sleek, and slim, and fast (for its purpose)! nice!
However, it comes with plenty of pre-installed uselessware, like antivirus. So I presto remove them (antivirus only cause me grief and never did any good) but I got struck by a vague remorse, could it be that today's antivirus are ok?
I.e. they don't spend time vampirising all your machine performance... 
It was McAfee Live Safe that I just removed.
What say you?
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I'm using the free Avast antivirus software and it works fine. There were some complaints that it gathers user data, but you can turn that off in the settings.
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AV-TEST | Antivirus & Security Software & AntiMalware Reviews[^]
You usually are happy with your choice unless something really strange happens on your computer, you install another one and that one tells you had a virus...
Those guys are an independent laboratory that stress all anti-virus softwares to check which one works well and which one don't.
Hope this helps.
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Ha... Another compounding factor to my decision! Windows Defender is a top 10 ! 
Thanks for the link
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I've used BitDefender for a few years now without any issues (except nagging reminders that my WiFi is "unsafe" if I don't use their (not great by all accounts) VPN).
Just NEVER accept the "special offer" to renew for next year. Leave it until a day or two before and that special offer is likely to be improved considerably (or just buy a licence online).
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Super Lloyd wrote: It was McAfee ...
Nuke it from orbit, and never look back.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I'm using Kaspersky, so far it's the easiest on the CPU and does not break compatibility with old games or software. Also it's completely local, as opposed to Sophos that went cloud and now is configurable only through an Internet connection, is a cpu hog and will make some software fail silently without any possibility of excluding them.
NortNot and McCoughee are laughable, BitDefender came highly recommened and it basically killed two computers that I own so I avoid it, Avast and AVG became worse than the threats they supposedly protect from.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Windows defender, that's builtin is good enough and also quite unintrusive.
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I've read various reviews to that effect, so I stopped paying for one. But I have to run periodic scans myself. Not that it should find anything if it's doing its job properly in the first place, but you never know. I haven't noticed a way to schedule this automatically but am probably missing something.
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You have to use Task Scheduler - Windows Defender doesn't have any shortcuts to make it easy 
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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Yes, there is that too!
Thanks for reminder!
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Straight there (2,3,4,5)
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Talk about lack of focus - you were submitting the answer whilst I Googled to see if they really do fly in straight lines (apparently they don't).
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 If we're right, you can take tomorrow then - I've done one this week and my next clue is far from finished!
On a macro scale, bees fly in straighter lines - though when you watch one, they're all over the place.
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I think the "doing tomorrow" aspect may have influenced my decision to Google rather than post answer. Never 100% sure I'll be available in 24 hours time (and I am useless at doing the clues!)
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It doesn't matter whether they fly straight, what matters is - they are known to.
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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You are up tomorrow
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I could have been bluffing about having the answer!
But I'll have a go if nobody else wants to!!! (Apologies if it's late or I'm not around to award the win!)
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From the newsletter: 5 dead programming languages we should never forget
Erlang - maybe not mainstream or popular anymore, but the basis of RabbitMQ.
Perl - Also still being used.
Objective-C - Also still being used.
I think sometimes people just write articles for the sake of it and have very little idea of what's actually being used in industry, especially when it comes to the popularity of programming languages.
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