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Sky Set Top Box

Greetings. We bought a Sky box and dish for a one off price back in 2005, without subscription, so free channels only,...
33 comments posted 2yrs
posted by News
33 comments posted 2yrs posted by News

Bamboo Items- cups, plates etc

I've noticed numerous items made from Bamboo in shops- everything from plates to cups to trays to ipad stands ..... Whe...
6 comments posted 2yrs
posted by inv
6 comments posted 2yrs posted by inv

OT: cars at traffic lights

I have noticed that queues of vehicles seem to take longer to set off when the lights turn green. At first I assumed th...
108 comments posted 2yrs
posted by newsgroups
108 comments posted 2yrs posted by newsgroups

Joining large cables

I have a couple of 10mm2 twin and earth cables I want to join together non-permanently[*]. I want this to be able to ta...
17 comments posted 2yrs
posted by theom+news
17 comments posted 2yrs posted by theom+news

Different Amazon email scam this morning

Much of it was the usual stuff. New login to your account from a new/different location. Click the link if it wasn't yo...
1 comments posted 2yrs
posted by wibble
1 comments posted 2yrs posted by wibble

Thunderbird not displaying new messages

I am a new user of Thunderbird, so please humour me. On the NG display on the left of the screen, each box shows new me...
5 comments posted 2yrs
posted by pfjames300
5 comments posted 2yrs posted by pfjames300

OT: meter needs replacing.......

Only recently, I received a message from E-on that my meter was out of calibration. I told them that I did not want a '...
84 comments posted 2yrs
posted by davey
84 comments posted 2yrs posted by davey

Makita portable air compressor

Just received a Cordless Air Compressor for Makita 18V Battery, 160PSI Portable Hand held Air Pump with Digital Pressur...
2 comments posted 2yrs
posted by me
2 comments posted 2yrs posted by me

Deleting cross posts in Thunderbird

As per the heading. How do I do this. I remember a thread on filtering way back, but my use of Google can''t find it. An...
2 comments posted 2yrs
posted by pfjames300
2 comments posted 2yrs posted by pfjames300

induction hob problem

A year and 35 days ago I bought a cheap induction hob to try, with view to replacing our ceramic 4 pot main hob if we l...
8 comments posted 2yrs
posted by news
8 comments posted 2yrs posted by news

Problem setting up T'Bird

Any T'Bird gurus on this NG. I'm trying to sset up T'Bird and every attempt to download mail brings up the following er...
2 comments posted 2yrs
posted by peterf
2 comments posted 2yrs posted by peterf

Win 10/11 NTFS storage

Taking my laptop today to an office where it's all Windows, with each machine there having been set up to connect autom...
13 comments posted 2yrs
posted by tim
13 comments posted 2yrs posted by tim