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Water cutting jet
Well, this water cutting jet impressed me .... Fascinating on Twitter: "Watch what 90,000 PSI (pound-force per square inch) water jet cut can cut through. https://t.co/RzqvsnvOQ3" / Twitter...
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Retaining Dyson V8
I have never been greatly impressed with this appliance. The battery life is very restricted (especially on the high power setting). It is not as powerful as I expected for removing dirt. As the...
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Anyone updated to Forte Agent v. 8?
I've been on version 6 for some years. Is version 8 worth the update?
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Energy price rises for some on this group in January
Energy billing From January £39/year rise for those who pay on receipt of bills. <>"The bump up for those who pay in receipt of bills takes the premium for paying that way to more than 10% over...
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Importing messages into Thunderbird
Can one of you fine folk advice me how to import messages from Thunderbird on my old PC to Thunderbird on a new PC? I've tried copying everything in the email folders on the old PC into the...
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OT: Another scam.
Got two calls on my landline - no one ever calls my landline - to inform me of 'suspicious behaviour' on my (unspecified) ;credit card;, from the 'Bank Fraud Department'. Usual 'dial one to speak to...
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Thunderbird
Today's tweak of inverting the inbox seems to indicate they are running out of sensible things to do:-( Who wants new messages at the bottom of the screen when all the controls are at the top? Or is...
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TOT Dog Food
By coincidence, I read an article about how the cash strapped are now eating dog food and then slightly later was looking at the ingredients on a tin of cheap dog food (approx 50p for a 400g can) Beef...
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Knots
Gentlemen, I'm hopeless at knots, so this explanation will be a bit laboured, I'm afraid... Can anyone suggest a knot which is capable of cinching up tight around (for example) a hook AND can be put...
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New Shower enclosure issue
I have a Neo-Angle shower tray, … imagine an oblong with corner cut at 45 degree It’s 1.2m x 0.9m The ‘Roman’ shower door has failed, the only shower door that fits this tray is a now a...
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OT - Fed Dibnah's house
A fairly recent video of Fred's house and workshop. A rather sad and poignant view of what has happened to it in the 18 years since he died. <> FRED DIBNAH'S HOUSE 2022 (Unique insight) Exclusive Many...
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Clonning HDD to SSD - no boot
My old laptop is becoming rather sluggish and I thought to try swapping the HDD for an SSD. HDD 1Gb SSD is a Crucial 500Mb. Laptop Acer has 8Mb memory, running Win10. HDD has around 150Mb of data on...
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Heat distribution around home
The home being a bungalow. Noticing a 3C differential between ends of the house, and not wanting to heat one end at ludicrous energy prices, what's most cost effective way to get air to move around...
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OT: Electric cars
The secret genius of modern life: Prof. Hanna Fry; Episode 4 Electric Car. An absolutely fascinating programme. Repeat still available on BBC2 8th Dec. 02.40; set your recorders, or alternatively,...
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Strange Error log entry for BDnet.sys with Win10Pro/32
I notice this error being logged recently and Google says it is something to with Bullguard security, but I have never installed anything with this name. Does anyone know what it is ?. Should I just...
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