[Bob Williams]

Not as expensive as the iPhoneX:     http://tinyurl.com/yccmgour

But it appears to outdo it in every department. Anyone with deep enough pockets, comparing these phones (excepting Apple Addicts) will surely choose the Pixel2.

Steve is probably drooling over the Reviews as I write this. ?

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What a bummer! An apology is the least you deserve out of all that incompetence. Absolute inability of the left hand to cooperate with the right.

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That IS unusual for DPD Nolan. I recently had an Amazon Seller problem, with box.co – I posted about this: my 2 fans, supposedly delivered by Hermes, disappeared. In their place I received a package for a guy in Haulfryn, with a nice Intel SSD. My address on the outer packaging, his inside on the Invoice/receipt. Eventually sent his back for local collection and recived my fans as Next Day, delivered by DPD.

I suppose **** happens from time to time, but when you make arrangements, perhaps miss a day’s work or an appointment and don’t get a delivery on the arranged day, it is frustrating. Problem in my case could have been made worse by the 3 organisations involved: Amazon, their Seller box.co and Hermes the delivery company. I expected them to squabble over it, but box owned up, apologised and it was sorted.

Good luck in getting your delivery sorted.

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I think Steve will be more upset with the result than the subtitles, Ed!

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Stalin, Hitler, Roosevelt and Churchill would be good too. They would probably find that they had a lot in common.

Maggie Thatcher and Arthur Scargill…. Mother Theresa and Harold Shipman… have to go for a lie down again.

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Yes Dave, a Dual is apparently also called a Hybrid, just to confuse the issue even more! I guess the Quad and Octo are also Hybrids, but I am not giving myself a headache with that.

Anyhoo, I have ordered the 1TB Humax box for click & collect from Currys. I had an e-Gift card, which knocked £50 off the £219 cost and made shopping around irrelevant. Most other outlets are £209, but the Gift Card settled it. My mate in the village is going to sort out an LNB and make sure that the dish is aligned correctly, for less than half the £100 quoted by the Lincoln firm. I have taken a warning from someone in my son’s village, who tried to fit an LNB himself and must have nudged the dish, drove himself crackers trying to align it and had to call in an engineer.

I sorted out the whole purchase at Currys online, including the e-card voucher, just gave them the e- card numbers. “Interesting” that they would not accept PayPal or Credit card with an e-card purchase though. Everything will be go on the 26th and I will eventually give a report on results after some use. Incidentally, naming everything with RJ 45 ports a ‘Hub’ is a bone of contention between my 2 grandsons. (cousins) The Aspergers network engineer 23 yo is serious and offended by it, whilst the 18 yo Leccy knows this and winds him up with it. It’s entertaining (sort of) when this happens. ??

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After my last post, I picked this up from    http://community.screwfix.com/threads/satellite-dual-lnb.187940/

” Twin LNB
With the advent of digital satellite broadcasting and the launch of services such as Sky+ and Freesat in the UK, a new type of LNB was required. Twin LNBs receive and decode more than one signal from the same satellite at once. A twin LNB is easily identified by the twin coaxial output ports at the base of the device. Twin LNB devices enable the provision of key functionalities, such as watching one program whilst recording another, that modern digital satellite services offer.

Dual LNB
A dual LNB differs from a twin LNB in that it is designed to capture and downgrade signals from two satellites. The signals are transmitted to the decoder box across a single coaxial cable, and it is the decoder box that selects the particular signal that is being received at a given time. This type of device is designed to allow programming from two satellites to be viewed, but not at the same time. ”

I believe that I need a Twin LNB as opposed to a Dual: 2 simultaneous recordings is the most I will need, only from the Freesat Satellite. I am going to order a twin LNB and a Humax HDR 1100S, tomorrow. Off to watch a bit of telly now, instead of just waffling about it. ?

Guys, thank you all very much for the input. It’s been educational.

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Thanks Dave, confirms what I thought. I’ll get the Dual LNB. The engineer in the village should be able to fit it, but I will get the stepladder out and take a look to see if I can do it myself. It’s on the bungalow side wall, about 15 feet up, so shouldn’t do much damage, should I fall off. Maybe get SWMBO to hold the ladder steady…. ?? You can’t be too careful with Elfin Safety.

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Strange: I have posted replies already once, or thought I had. Here goes another:

Many thanks Stevie P and Dave, that advice will save me some brass!

EDIT: just saw BL’s post. These are the kind of conflicting stories I had from other sources. Think I will buy a Universal LNB, to be safe.

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Well reported Ed. As you say, had it been a RR Trent engine, the British papers and BBC would have been crying doom on one of Britain’s successful industries. My BIL used to work for RR, but left to become a copper. He says because he wanted more money for a growing family, but I learned the truth from a former workmate of his, met by accident on holiday: BIL was just not skillful enough nor qualified, to be accepted for the engine plant.

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One of these needed!

Or the crossing patrol ‘lady’ at one pedestrian school crossing in Louth. She is about 6 feet tall and 5 feet wide, defends her spot, parents and children with homicidal intent against motorists who take liberties. Has used her Lollipop to threaten retaliation against uncompliant drivers.

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Why are you in my taxi?

Are you sharing?

Is this on expenses to the taxpayer?

Are you on your way to your second or third home?

(Cackles like a loon) – I have a nuclear weapon in this matchbox, want to see it?

OK, that’s more than one question.

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[Bob Williams]

Thanks Ed, that’s on its way to No.2 grandson.

Cheers, Bob.

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Wire wool and Dettol, pressure washer on ‘Warm’.

Combine it with carwash days, but leave out the wire wool and Dettol for the car, substitute with sponge and wash’n’wax.

Do it on the drive and horrify the neighbours, a line of realistic-looking dolls being scrubbed, should get the curtains twitching.

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[Bob Williams]

Guess it all depends on one’s own definition of ‘damaged’. Wonder how long it will be, before the Politically Correct, Feminist and Equality/Diversity barmpots start agitating for Sex Robots to have Human Rights?

The Greens will want to know where they can be safely recycled and if they are potential pollutants. (Imagine turning up at your local WEE dump with a broken sex robot ?) At least they won’t have any polluting emissions, unless…. No, let’s not go there!

Friction burns, Doc – I ran out of lotion.???

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It’s only a matter of time before the “biological” prostitutes take industrial action against these dolls.??

I think of myself as broadminded: I’ve been around the world and seen some strange goings on in very different places, but this whole Sex Robot thing all seems more than a bit tawdry to me.

What would dear departed Hugh Hefner think?

Cue joke:

Iman goes to Paradise – “OK where are all the 27 virgins?”

Hefner: “You got here too late, man!”

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Well I am left cursing the fact that I sold on the Slide & Negative Scanner * that I used to convert Fil’s old slides and neg’s to digital form. Daughter has just “found” some more slides, and even older B&W negatives. I considered buying another scanner, but would be faced with the same problem: when the “found” ones are converted, what use would it be? Have to sell another one, cheapest I have seen new is £55. So I asked at a Photographic shop in Louth: 100+ slides and 50+ neg’s, digitalised onto a CD and a USB drive, £80. Worth it to me, as they promise to use their software to edit each photo to make them all sparkly, better than my efforts. This way I can spread the pic’s around the family and let the grandbrats have a laugh at dad and auntie as babies and toddlers.

I have all our photos on my NAS, external Hdd and Google Drive.

*Thanks to someone here nagging me to move stuff on…

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Ed P wrote:

Looks like a number of files are cross-linked. My reply in this thread had nothing to do with the thread! It originally was an attempt to reply to Marc in this post: “i just tried to install the tool. firstly it only asked if i wanted to install windows 10 and didnt mention home or pro so i presume that just depends on the key i use. secondly, it wouldnt let me install as it said i need 8gb space available on C which i dont have. any thoughts?” Hey – ho cross-linked files are a ‘b’. Other than a restore from backup I’d just run the appropriate utility or give-up!

I saw that Ed, but like others did not dare to comment. Relieved that you are not yet afflicted by Brainfart! ??

 

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I agree Nolan, over the years the few problems I had were always quickly sorted out. I suspect Box are also keen to remain as an Amazon Seller, don’t think they have been with them long.

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Not noticed on any other Topic or post, just that one.

Sod’s Law: things fall over that you least expect.

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