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Bathrone · 06-08-13, 08:16 PM

If your not internet connected getting online just for some updates is important:

* Windows 7 requires many updates for application compatibility and general performance / stability improvements not to mention all the security hotfixes. Microsoft update is your friend.

* Apart from those updates, graphics and sound driver updates are important (nvidia do WHQL'ed releases approx every month), along with the latest Directx9 install is important for SH5

Generally while the internet is a threat vector to security, there is other ways you can get infected via USB / CD / DVD etc. The internet is also where all the security updates and device driver updates from from.

Maybe if you fully define "weird things" we can help

BTW, I was in New Caledonia about two years ago on holiday. I visited the markets and I bought some lovely chocolates from a traditional French hand made chocolate stall there, and I bought a huge fresh lobster I cooked up from a seafood stall. Up over the hill from the main town I enjoyed espresso in the fancy hotel there over the road from the beach. I ran out of time to goto the resort that you get to via boat from the mainland that's slightly off shore. My family took the bus and we did a loop from the main town. There seemed to be allot of rubbish around littering in the main town but the other parts of the island were clean like Australia. I went into the Maritime Museum near the dock where the cruise ships dock down in the main town area. The dock also had a few very large luxury powered yachts.....I remember one had a helicopter aft of the helm on it

Some of the shop keepers were a bit different to Australian culture, like one shop objected to us sitting down and "only" ordering coffee (it was a cafe) - I dont know if that is a French custom but no one does that in Aussie cafes. Different is why we go though, to see different culture, language, sights and experiences. The local islander population seemed to be pretty dodgy in the main town and looked mostly idle/unemployed and had wandering eyes on my wife but once out of the main town area they seemed more at ease and normal. And man the humidity was like being in the rain without it actually raining it was thick and pungent air that was wet to breathe and be in. Maybe a seasonal thing. I'd love to have another holiday in New Caledonia, see things like million dollar reef.

06-08-13, 08:16 PM	#11
Bathrone Ensign Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 234 Downloads: 82 Uploads: 0	If your not internet connected getting online just for some updates is important: * Windows 7 requires many updates for application compatibility and general performance / stability improvements not to mention all the security hotfixes. Microsoft update is your friend. * Apart from those updates, graphics and sound driver updates are important (nvidia do WHQL'ed releases approx every month), along with the latest Directx9 install is important for SH5 Generally while the internet is a threat vector to security, there is other ways you can get infected via USB / CD / DVD etc. The internet is also where all the security updates and device driver updates from from. Maybe if you fully define "weird things" we can help BTW, I was in New Caledonia about two years ago on holiday. I visited the markets and I bought some lovely chocolates from a traditional French hand made chocolate stall there, and I bought a huge fresh lobster I cooked up from a seafood stall. Up over the hill from the main town I enjoyed espresso in the fancy hotel there over the road from the beach. I ran out of time to goto the resort that you get to via boat from the mainland that's slightly off shore. My family took the bus and we did a loop from the main town. There seemed to be allot of rubbish around littering in the main town but the other parts of the island were clean like Australia. I went into the Maritime Museum near the dock where the cruise ships dock down in the main town area. The dock also had a few very large luxury powered yachts.....I remember one had a helicopter aft of the helm on it Some of the shop keepers were a bit different to Australian culture, like one shop objected to us sitting down and "only" ordering coffee (it was a cafe) - I dont know if that is a French custom but no one does that in Aussie cafes. Different is why we go though, to see different culture, language, sights and experiences. The local islander population seemed to be pretty dodgy in the main town and looked mostly idle/unemployed and had wandering eyes on my wife but once out of the main town area they seemed more at ease and normal. And man the humidity was like being in the rain without it actually raining it was thick and pungent air that was wet to breathe and be in. Maybe a seasonal thing. I'd love to have another holiday in New Caledonia, see things like million dollar reef.