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Please recommend a "Windows like" UNIX flavour
Having been stung buying what turns out to be a fake version of Windows 7 Professional, I'm going to have a go at trying UNIX or one of it's flavours to see how I get on. I've done this a few years...
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What are these upvc window parts?
Just had two upvc tilt-and-turn windows delivered. Each one came with four of these parts: Any idea what they are? They're 10cm long and 1cm deep and about 4.5cm front to back. I can't see any part of...
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Thermal insulation above a hob
I'd like to put something like a cupboard a little lower than is usual above a hob. Maybe 400mm instead of 650mm (which I think might be the usual recommended minimum). Seems to me that if I put a...
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TV connection
The position is that we have my simply ancient mother in law occupying the only room in the house with a TV aerial. She hates TV, so I haven't been allowed to watch anything for a week, and I'm...
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OT - Calc of Avg temperature
Somewhat embarassed to ask this. Helping daughter with h/work. How do you calc the avg when the temperature values range from below zero to above? And do you tell if the result is +ve or -ve after the...
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Earthing metal switches
As part of the hall decorating I've replaced 3 of those bloody awful Georgian Brass (effect) light switches with nice white plastic ones. In all three cases the earth was connected to the back box,...
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10 years ago
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Power Cut
Last night I had a power cut lasting 2 and half hours. This is not unusual in our village but what was unusual was how it started. Initially the oven switched off and the kitchen ring went off but all...
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USB battery packs
Does anyone here have a USB battery pack similar to this one I would welcome any comments, good or bad. To be DIY I would need to homebrew it.
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10 years ago
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Just replaced an RCD
I've just replaced an RCD which had failed. It was 63a 2-pole, between the meter and the main distribution board, in its own box. The only one I could get was 80a, but I can't see any problem with...
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Watering house plants with tonic water
I just found my wife giving some of our plants a drink of tonic water, she swears blind that it is good for them, I have no idea if it is or not. The only thought that I had was that they like to take...
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10 years ago
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Strange MCB trip
We woke up to a cold house this morning because the MCB on the ring main to which the CH is connected had tripped in the middle of the night. I reset it as soon as I realised, and it didn't trip again...
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10 years ago
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MR16s
The Handyman Towers stairs are quite dark during the day, having a wall either side. They are lit by 6 x 20w MR16s. SWMBO decreed the walls must be painted in a much lighter colour. Fine until you...
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TRV head -Can anyone identify this?
Photos taken on my crappy old phone. Look good enough to identify this TRV head. and This second picture shows the lugs that go over the outside of the valve. These four lugs have about 1cm broken...
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Now that is just showing off
(never realised that Japanese planes worked on the pull stroke as well as their saws - makes sense I suppose)
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B&Q and unit pricing
I went into a B&Q shed today[1] and I see that they have taken unit pricing to a new extreme - WD40 was 1.1p per ml. [1] I wanted some potting compost and they are much cheaper than any local garden...
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