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Facebook questions
I have been persuaded to sign up to Facebook to allow me to follow an event tomorrow. Does anyone know how to make Facebook logout automatically? None of the ideas on Google seem to work. Also, how...
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Shampoo won't stop coming out
I cannot stop the shampoo of my Vax carpet shampooer coming out once I have squeezed the handle, it seems stuck on open, so my carpet gets comprehensively flooded! Any suggestions how to stop a...
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Internal insulation and BC
There was some reference in a previous thread to the notion that although one ought to be able to add internal insulation in an older building (such as a 20s or earlier house with no cavity above the...
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Pence per unit? And I hate energy companies.
I appear to be on Bulb's 'vari fair' tariff, the 'fairness' element seems to be that it keeps going up. I presumably changed to them to save money and given I'm paying 18 pence per unit it's hardly...
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Internal walls of a bare brick shed - paint?
Hello all, I am in the middle of clearing out the brick outhouse which is about 2.3m x 3.2m internal. I want to turn it into a useful workshop space by installing some of the old kitchen units later...
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Covers on 13A 3-poin plugs
Can anyone enlighten me as to why new 13A 3-pin plugs, or devices with integral plugs such as mains timers or pluggable RCDs, always have a piece of removable hard plastic which completely covers the...
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CAT5e wiring error?
A few days ago I completed the wiring of half a dozen plugs to the T-568B configuration and two wall-plate sockets according to the coloured pattern grid shown on the back. The first test was from the...
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OT: Windows license
I want to install Windows on a spare PC (I use Ubuntu but I have a specific need), I can't decide how snide to be about it :) I'm not buying retail from MS obviously. I could buy someone's pre-used...
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Well OT - sparkling water shortage?
Recently there has been no sparkling water in any of the supermarkets. Is this localised, or country wide? Assuming that anyone else buys sparkling water, of course. Cheers Dave R
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E10 and petrol tools
According to an AA "Technical Specialist", we should be using super unleaded for our mowers and generators rather than E10. Suggestions about "increased corrosion". Anyone planning to follow this...
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OT Apprentice abuse
So for the last three days I picked the apprentice up from his house and told him I would pick him up a 7am Thursday he came out of the house at 7.03am Friday he came out of the house at 7.03am I only...
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Thumb drive -> HDD
Another gadget/converter question: I have a couple of AV devices (PVR, TV) which have added functionality if one plugs in a "USB HDD". But neither recognises a perfectly ordinary thumb drive as a...
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Car Tracking
Is it straight forward to re-stablish a car tracker module with a sim card. I had one working for about a year, but the subscription expired ages ago now.
 
OT: Naughty mathematicians
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Car radiator leak
Yesterday I noticed a damp patch on the garage floor below the car radiator and the level in the water reservoir was low. Not yet had a chance to investigate further, but I assume a leaking or split...
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