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Velux Opener

Any bright ideas for an out-of-reach Velux window opener? £20 plus seems a bit steep.
7 comments posted 5yrs
posted by patchmoney
7 comments posted 5yrs posted by patchmoney

Laptop - worth increasing RAM?

Acer ES1-521 with 8Gb RAM, AMD A6-6310 CPU, Radeon R4 Graphics1Tb HDD. It seems to have one memory slot occupied, one em...
71 comments posted 5yrs
posted by a
71 comments posted 5yrs posted by a

Annual Temperature Anomaly -- 1850-2019

Why did the Yale researchers call for Zero Population Growth in 1970, when we were at only 4 billion? http://berkeleyea...
14 comments posted 5yrs
posted by imbibe
14 comments posted 5yrs posted by imbibe

WTF ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRuaFYhhzs8
9 comments posted 5yrs
posted by jim.gm4dhj
9 comments posted 5yrs posted by jim.gm4dhj

OT Vision question...you guys know everything ...

I have had to wear 1.75 prescription reading glasses for years....in the last few weeks my eyesight has improved for no...
102 comments posted 5yrs
posted by jim.gm4dhj
102 comments posted 5yrs posted by jim.gm4dhj

Smoke alarm alarm

I have a mains smoke alarm with a 9v battery backup. It started to beep: regular beeps at roughly ten second intervals...
23 comments posted 5yrs
posted by mail
23 comments posted 5yrs posted by mail

VAX RAPID POWER REVIVE Carpet Washer

I bought this machine a few days ago and have used it twice. It doesn't seem to suck up the dirty water. All that is in...
2 comments posted 5yrs
posted by mermaid1
2 comments posted 5yrs posted by mermaid1

Photography Q and eBay rant.

Is it just me, or if you buy a lens described thus "55 mm 0.45 X Macro Photographic Fish Eye Wide Angle Lens for Nikon...
32 comments posted 5yrs
posted by rsandr
32 comments posted 5yrs posted by rsandr

Fishing.

If anyone had told me all those years ago that the industry which voted Brexit perhaps more than any other would be one...
65 comments posted 5yrs
posted by dave
65 comments posted 5yrs posted by dave

Removable adhesive tape

I am going to need to tape down the covers of some small storage boxes that will hold electronic components and small t...
16 comments posted 5yrs
posted by pinnerite
16 comments posted 5yrs posted by pinnerite

O/T: Rearranging a mathematical equation.

(I also posted this in uk.tech.digital-tv but the loving sentiment is the same) Hello all, Please forgive what must see...
2 comments posted 5yrs
posted by pastedavid
2 comments posted 5yrs posted by pastedavid

OTish: Hard Drive recovery after 8 years

I would be very surprised if any data could be recovered from the drive, even if the most edge forensics were deployed....
55 comments posted 5yrs
posted by jethro_uk
55 comments posted 5yrs posted by jethro_uk

OT: Snow clearing

I think senility has finally struck, just been out clearing a path through the snow to let our Tom cat to get up on the...
9 comments posted 5yrs
posted by tricky.dicky
9 comments posted 5yrs posted by tricky.dicky

Tower Bridge

Good TV programme last night with Rob Bell. Does anyone know the purpose of the blue painted blocks on the inner face of...
28 comments posted 5yrs
posted by JohnP
28 comments posted 5yrs posted by JohnP