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'Seeing' Android phone from Windows PC
Having adopted my son's Samsung phone, I'm having a play. This is my first android type phone (I thought my last mobile was sophisticated because it took photos as well as made phone calls), which is...
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OT Cameron's cunning plan
I see Camoron is giving the Scots/SNP more fiscal powers. Cunning plan to discredit the SNP and the lying little bitch forever. The Scots will be eating grass after five years of the New Marxist SNP....
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adaptor to join hosepipe run to irrigation timer....
I bought an irrigation timer that's designed to screw onto a usual outside tap and a hose comes off it to lead to the target plants. I want to mount it away from the tap, I.e. at the end of a run of...
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Shed base: concrete raft, concrete beams, wooden structure on posts, or ... ?
SWMBO has bought a good quality 8x6 shed so now I have the task of making the base and erecting the shed. The most obvious ways to do it is either a 3-4" slab or to make-up a wooden frame and support...
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Email from BT
Got a slightly strange email from BT "It doesn't look like you're getting the best from your wireless connection, so we'd like to help you make it better. " Which was odd, as I've not really noticed...
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OT: car warranty diagnostic charges
Astra just under 3 years old, still "under warranty". CD400 radio unit some times reports an error on inserting a disk, usually works after several tri es. Dealer says we will have to put it on a...
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Workshop dust collection
I currently run two forms of dust collection - a shop vac (sometimes with secondary interceptor cyclone), and a large double bag style chip collector. At the moment I have to hook up individual hoses...
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OT Boeing assembly line
Amazing stuff! On fast track.... On fast track....
 
Fire doors
In residential blocks, what is the legal/regulatory position, including penalties, concerning the propping open of internal communal doors blue-labelled as "fire / door keep / shut"?
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Glued on dust caps
Following a dispute with a local tyre supplier they provided and fitted two new tyres to the car. I had to go through head office to get the dispute resolved so I imagine the local branch manager got...
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OT: London Congestion Zone
After a whole lot of searching I can't find a definitive answer to a simple question... if I drive into the zone on, say Wednesday at 10:00, drive wholly within it on Thursday between 12:00 and 14:00,...
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Paint Charts
... are they always wrong? We've got 4 patches now on our house walls, and every single one is a heck of a lot lighter than the ones on the chart. Hue and saturation look about right. I don't suppose...
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OT: any Newstap users out there (on iPhones/iPads)?
For some reason that nutter (and his alterego repeatedly and consistently gets through my filters on Newstap. I know it's a fairly basic news reader but it supposedly can filter by email address and...
 
OT Where our foriegn aid goes.
A Mail on Sunday investigation exposes the shocking truth behind all those soft-soap promises of politicians and charity chiefs to change the world with our tax billions.
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OT Our wonerful MPs
Exclusive: References to 'chauffeur-driven cars' and a criminal arrest wiped from online biographies in run-up to election Exclusive: References to 'chauffeur-driven cars' and a criminal arrest wiped...