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OT BA. outage. What happened. Allegedly.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/british-airways-system-outage-it-worker-power-supply-switch-off-accident-flights-delayed-cancelled-a7768581.html...
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Silicone render
Hello. I've been looking for estimates for rendering the gable end wall of my bungalow with a coloured silicone coating; the wall is a mixture of brick and block where repairs and alterations have...
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6 years ago
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Installation manual for Parkinson Cowan Widsor Radiant Gas Fire, circa 1972
I am desperate to obtain the installation/service manual for the Parkinson Cowan Windsor Radiant Gas fire. The fire was installed in 1972....
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6 years ago
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Help with Victorian iron roof light
We have several iron sky lights in our roof, and I have just plucked up courage to actually start working on one. Got it to open, and managed to scrape off a lot of the old paint, down to bare metal....
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6 years ago
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Smartmeters revisited ...
No, not the usual "should I have them fitted?" vs "no they're insecure!" discussion ... You may remember last year I opened up the in-house display for my smart meters, and using a digital scope found...
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6 years ago
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Getting round a mortise lock with lost key :(
Last week I managed to drop my back door key somewhere over the course of a several-mile dogwalk. Oh well; at least it can't be tracked to my house, so no security issue; and I have a spare key at...
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6 years ago
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Drawer front fixing
Does anyone know what this fixing is called and where I can buy one? Thanks https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4269/34995848126_3f7eced224_m.jpg
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6 years ago
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Grrrr! couriers
Odd. Their website never said anything like that here.
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Looking for user manual ...
Can anyone help me find a user manual/parts list for the 75G14-28A mower? Many thanks.
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6 years ago
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glue metal to plasterboard
I need to glue a small 4cm metal strip to plaster board (magnetic catches) I currently have wood glue and silicone, would either of these suffice? It is not load bearing just to hold in place.
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6 years ago
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A substitute for resin fixings
I've recently been using resin fixings in walls that are hard to mount stuff on and have used them for a TV bracket and microwave oven bracket. They're great for really heavy stuff but quite expensive...
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6 years ago
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How to identify iron pipe sizes?
I need to remove some redundant pipework and temporarily plug the bits I can't deal with at the moment, but I don't know what size they are. The approx external pipe diameters are 1.7" (43mm) and 1.3"...
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6 years ago
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[Power] UK breaks solar power record, supplies more power than nuke
Mostly the European Union with Browns Milliband licking their tailpipes. "The Utilities Act 2000 gives the Secretary of State the power to require electricity suppliers to supply a certain proportion...
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Following on from the win xp bug that allowed remote execution..
I hope linux users have fixed their file sharing exploit.. CVE-2017-7494 Samba since version 3.5.0 is vulnerable to remote code execution vulnerability, allowing a malicious client to upload a shared...
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6 years ago
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RIP John Noakes
One of my childhood heros. And not OT as he did stuff. Anyone who can do this is either insane or brave (or both as he was from Yorkshire) And comments like this one at 2min 38sec
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