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Power Cycle a SSD

Crucial have suggested I power cycle my defective SSD and that will bring it back to life. From Googling that seems to...
7 comments posted 4mos
posted by jgnewsid
7 comments posted 4mos posted by jgnewsid

Crucial SSD RMA

I emailed Crucial on Sunday and got a reply this morning with questions, lots of questions. I copied it into Word and r...
2 comments posted 4mos
posted by jgnewsid
2 comments posted 4mos posted by jgnewsid

OT: Underground utilities

Anglian Water are happily putting miles of pipelines underground, linking Lincolnshire to Colchester in Essex, yet Nati...
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posted by davey
67 comments posted 4mos posted by davey

Multi-use teabag devices

I like to drink tea all day, a mug at a time, normally made with a bag in the mug like anybody does. I wish to use a qu...
24 comments posted 4mos
posted by timw
24 comments posted 4mos posted by timw

Toilet 'extractor' fan.

Downstairs bog under the stairs, not too small, toilet and washbasin. However there's no extractor. It doesn't have an...
10 comments posted 4mos
posted by nothanks
10 comments posted 4mos posted by nothanks

OT:M Milliband must love these:

From US's NPR News: "Easy-to-install solar panels that plug into regular outlets are gaining popularity as Americans wo...
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posted by davey
10 comments posted 4mos posted by davey

Phone PUK number

I had a song and a dance to get EE to send me a PUK, as I had locked myself out on wednesday. I ended up going to a EE...
3 comments posted 4mos
posted by reading.mostly
3 comments posted 4mos posted by reading.mostly

Self levelling stuff

This house is quite old, about 1880. The front hallway is tiled in a repeating mosaic pattern with thick quarry-like ti...
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posted by nothanks
0 comments posted 4mos posted by nothanks

Another SSD Bites the Dust

I can't believe it, a 4 TB Crucial this time, they are falling like ninepins. I'll have to check if it's still under war...
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posted by jgnewsid
19 comments posted 4mos posted by jgnewsid

Amazon Invents Teleportation

Beam me up spotty: 6:25 am Package departed an Amazon facility Weybridge, Surrey GB 6:25 am Package arrived at the final...
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posted by jgnewsid
3 comments posted 4mos posted by jgnewsid

SOT: Amazon login problem

I am having problems signing into my Amazon account. It keeps asking for a passkey which seems to be the PIN for my PC....
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posted by newsgroups
55 comments posted 4mos posted by newsgroups

Procreating Computers

I have just ordered a 10 port HDMI/USB KVM switch as my brain hurt trying to work out how to manage them all. Is it jus...
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posted by jgnewsid
7 comments posted 4mos posted by jgnewsid

Question for Engineers/Mechanics

Here's something I can't get my head around due to not having exercised that part of the old grey matter for over half...
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posted by dhg99908
5 comments posted 4mos posted by dhg99908

Re: Bulletproof shed

> There are two houses built twenty years ago, which have a classic > six-foot ship-lap fence on the boundary in the ba...
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posted by gemehabal
28 comments posted 4mos posted by gemehabal