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I'm out.The whole front comes off and you can unclip the drive bay cover mesh from behind. This also makes cleaning off the dust easy.
Graham is right, Dan. Feel for the slot at the bottom of the front panel and don’t be afraid of giving it a sharp tug with your fingers. The top will follow, with another sharp tug. As the switch panel is at the side and separate to the panel. you cannot damage anything there. Slide the DVDRW in from the front and line up the front panel with it, to make sure it’s aligned flush. Screw and connect everything up and replace front panel.
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I'm out.After injury and disability caused me to leave motor engineering work as a workshop foreman, I retrained at a Disability College, met computing for the first time in my 50’s and gained qualifications from the College and from a Technical College at weekends.
Business cards were one of the many items I used to design & print as part of my last business, before retirement. Using Publisher 2000 and Office 97, I set up the sizes, designs, images and fonts myself, using A4 pages of 160 to 200 gm stock card, number of cards dependent upon what size the customer wanted the cards to be. Then I laminated and cut them, setting all cut lines up to templates I designed myself. I really wished I had kept all or some of that work, but having abandoned Microsoft Publisher and Office after retirement, I deleted everything, giving a mate and last customer my DVD with all the works on it that he needed to keep making his own. He has retired himself now.
I designed and printed everything that was asked of me: complete, coordinated packs of business stationery, books, entertainment flyers and brochures, leaflets, shop window ads. It was very hard mental work at first for an ex-grease monkey, but I really enjoyed the work and developed a talent for the designs. A big seller was prospectuses for independent schools: these were good profit makers and contributed quite handsomely to my retirement prospects. The emergence of companies such as Vistaprint would have driven me out of work: I saw the train coming and made my way out of the tunnel. If anyone else takes up this kind of work, take a hint and put a watermark in any samples created for a customer to inspect and request an order.
That was all done with Windows of course Lee, never having used Linux I could not say how that would work. But I did find this:
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I'm out.Just another performing, exhibitionist American YT-er. Too much meaningless verbal, too few facts.
Steve, I am halfway between tidy and obsessive: my case is a Coolermaster N300, the one Dan chose in his Page 1 link. It’s bottom mounted and will take a watercooled fitment, or fans everywhere – 2x front inlet, 1 on the case floor, 1 at the side, 2 at case top and 1 at rear. I just have 2 front inlet, 1 top exhaust and 1 rear exhaust. It all works fine and all my temp’s are below 30ºC. The cable management is great, most cables are tucked in behind the backplates, although I can get the rest up above the DVDRW. Lots of empty space for air to move across components and the exhaust fans work with the CPU cooler: an Arctic Freezer Pro. What that sucks out, is sent further on its way by the top and rear fans.
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I'm out.It is not generally known, but my adopted county of Lincolnshire has four postcodes. In the north, North & Northeast Lincolnshire share Doncaster’s code of DN. Here in Lincoln, West Lindsey and my area of East Lindsey, with a few adjoining areas, It’s LN. Down south, towards Cambridgeshire, it’s PE for Peterborough. Closer to the Nottinghamshire border, around the towns close to the Trent as county border it’s NG. It gets even weirder when Retford, Notts., is listed as PE.
Please don’t get me started on STD dialling codes within Lincs. That is even more confusing.
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I'm out.Front panel does attract dust thanks to the 2x intake fans, but it stays on the outer surface. Panel is easy to remove though.
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I'm out.You’re welcome Dan, but even at 73 I still get the same tingle if I have a new piece of hardware or a new gadget on its way.
The basic Anglo-Saxon comes later, when I’m fitting, building or trying to make it all work! ? ? ?
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I'm out.No thumbs showing, thanks guys. We also have these problems JayCeeDee:
” The biggest problem round here is the “atmosphere”!!! Bl**dy farmers are muck-spreading and have been for the last week or two?? it can get eye-watering!!
The other problem we get is round-about related. The seaweed comes in onto the beach and stays there, hot weather follows, stinking beaches follow!! ”
If it’s really, really bad, the smell that is more than a stink and grabs the back of your throat, it’s either Pig muck or has Pig muck in the mix.
During the last few days of storms and heavy rain, a very strong onshore breeze has acted with high incoming tides to batter our beaches and send sand up over the Coastal Path. Seaweed is at the fringes of the tide as it turns, but most of the weed seems to go out again. Another problem is jelly fish, which sink into the sand and the big ones can sting if trodden upon. This is exacerbated on Lincolnshire beaches by the annual “Renourishment” I have spoken about before: a Netherlands company is employed to dredge the seabed farther out, pumping sand, gravel and whatever else is on the seabed, up onto the beach in one big heap, then spread it along the beach in a long ridge. This is then colonised by Marram Grass*, forming dunes. The result is that the seawall I remember from 20 years ago, is now buried beneath all of this, and a seawall is now redundant. Not only that, but the high ridges and dunes are a better tidal flooding defence, as the sea runs back through the porous sand and into the sea again. It’s a much better coastal defence than concrete walls. And the Dutch are coastal defence experts, of course.
Places like Mablethorpe and Skegness are vulnerable: large parts of our coastal towns and villages are either slightly below sea level, or only just above it. Hence the deadly floods of 1953. The renourishment has dealt with this threat well.
The rain has now decreased to the point of very light drizzle. Tomorrow, after my Grimsby hospital bloods and clinic visit, I will have to clean out the gutter that feeds one of my water butts, which is not filling as it should. I suspect that the trap valve is full of moss, thanks to those $$$***!!!! birds that scatter the stuff about, looking for insects and eggs.
*Marram Grass & dunes: http://tinyurl.com/y7qbb77e
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I'm out.That’s my case Dan and I love it, had it almost 4 years now. Bags of room and good cable management. I just wish, now that I have less storage requirements, (1x 1TB spinner and a 32GB Express Cache SSD) that I had chosen the MATX version, as I have a MATX board.
However, with all that empty space, I need only 2x front fans, 1x top fan, and 1x rear fan, to keep things cool: all temp’s below 30ºC, most around 26 to 27.
My advice is to assemble all components and try various fits, with an eye on cable management. I didn’t at first fit and stripped to refit twice, before I had a good ponder and removed everything, then trial-fitted everything.
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I'm out.John Major did not take us into Europe, that was Maggie Thatcher, who gave us a vote to join a Common Market.
Major refused to hold a UK referendum on the Maastricht Treaty, or the TEU (Treaty on European Union)
Only France, Denmark and Eire held referendums (referendae?) because their constitutions required this. Denmark rejected the TEU by a margin of 50.7% to 49.3%: does that result sound familiar? The Danes were granted 4 opt outs in a second referendum and that was accepted by Denmark. The opt outs keep the Krone, give priority of Danish citizenship over EU status, keeps Denmark out of the Western European Union Defence policy, giving them independence in Defence. They were initially independent in Justice and Home Affairs, but have taken the decision since to participate, with provisos.
The TEU referendum in France, resulted in a very narrow 50.8% vote in favour. Yes, you read that correctly. 50.8%.
Eire, a big supporter of the EU and a big recipient of its benefits, voted 69.1% in favour. It’s interesting to note that, had Eire followed Denmark’s first vote, Maastricht may have been killed off.
The Netherlands government told their own electorate that, as they held the Presidency of the Council of the European Union at the time of the vote, and the vote was held within their borders, they needed no referendum. I have Dutch friends who have informed me that this remains a source of disquiet and unrest amongst the Netherlands population to this day.
The history of the way European citizens have been led by their own governments, at the direction of Brussels, into making crucial decisions, is a festering swamp of lies and misinformation. And the fact that the EU has managed to sweep their own Audit procedures under the carpet, has been successfully buried. Remember that? The issue still exists, but no mention of it for a few years.
I want out. Now.
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I'm out.Can I ask Forumites to please stop asking for rain? Around here, precipitation has been off and on constant since yesterday. We had hours of thunderstorms and several power cuts yesterday evening and during the night. First power cut happened just after dinner began to cook. Naturally I blamed you Rainmakers and my SWMBO is not at all happy with you guys.
My water butts are now chock full and the guttering is overflowing and it’s all your fault! ?
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I'm out.Corvid family, all closely related:
Carrion Crow and Rook have unmistakably different beaks and the rook is smaller. Around our village there are many large woods and smaller copses of large, older trees. These are full of crows, many large rookeries, which is the name given to conglomerations of rooks or crows. Crows and rooks are the most social of birds, there are breeding pairs which are together for life and breed every year. They have great concern for their young: some crows and rooks will never breed, but act as ‘childminders’ to look after young whilst parent birds look for food. I experienced this concern a few years ago on Broadhaven beach in West Wales. A very young crow had been drenched by a wave after landing in the surf. I managed to get a towel around it and started to carry it back towards shore, when its calls drew several adult crows who dive-bombed me until I put it down. About 7 or 8 adult birds surrounded the young one and we walked away to a safe distance, sat down and watched. After about an hour, the young bird dried out and made it into the air, surrounded by adults. Then a strange thing happened: two of the birds peeled off and flew around us in a circle, cawing softly and looking us in the eyes, before flying away. It was almost as if they knew that we had been helping the young bird and were thanking us.
We get them on our back garden, trying and failing to get into the bird table and feeders. There is a real pandemonium every spring when the rookery over the road has eggs and/or young and the magpies are about. I cannot stand those egg and hatchling thieves and neither can the crows. They take to the sky and dive bomb the magpies from height, chasing them away. The crows I regard as the most intelligent of birds after some of the Parrot family. They can use tools to get food and I think if they had evolved opposable thumbs, the Human race would have a competitor! I just wish that they, and the smaller birds I feed, would not leave such objectionable substances on my car, although when the gulls form up over the Close, to go to the beaches after feeding on the local fields, their deposits are far larger and messier.
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I'm out.Handbook if you don’t have it John, download from here:
Can’t find a door anywhere under £90 and that includes my old mate at Domestic Supplies back in Mansfield. I used to be able to get anything for any White Goods there, but he has doors as “unavailable”. I have sent an email to the Grimsby shop we use, they have parts that are listed by others as unavailable. Does not open again until Monday, so I will let you know if he can help and will give you the website to order: he delivers using couriers.
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I'm out.No preservatives in proper Lincolnshire sausage Richard! The “hand over exhaust” is a very old trick. I ‘silenced’* a customer with it once. He was a crabby and miserable git who had a complete new exhaust fitted and complained about the price, then brought it back saying it was leaking. Put it up on the ramp, had him stand underneath (OOOH, Elfin Safety!) and covered the tailpipe with a rag. No leak. Eventually found that what he thought was a leak, was a rattle from his golf clubs in the boot, not in a bag, just lying on the boot floor.
I had only very few Muppets like that, which is why I remember him. Saints preserve me from becoming an Old Git like that.
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I'm out.Bob Behave. It’s not about visiting porn sites. Its the fact that the password sent in the email is accurate.
OOOH Matron, disappointed again!
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I'm out.You are right about grain dust Richard: in the States and Canada there are huge grain silos storing thousands of tons of grain and there have been explosions over time, until the relevant US & Canadian authorities passed legislation treating the sites as explosive hazards.
One of the good measures brought in by Health and Safety, has been the banning of certain materials such as asbestos, in vehicle brake pads and shoes. I feel aggrieved that this was not spotted tens of decades ago, before grease monkeys such as myself used to use scrapers and emery paper to clean up discs, pads, brake drums and shoes. Then cheerfully blow out the dust all over ourselves, wearing no masks. We also used trichloroethylene to degrease and clean the oily bits we worked with. It did a fantastic job of cleaning parts and nothing else has ever come close. Now it is banned as a carcinogen. I also used stuff as an AAC technician which was later banned. As a kid, my dad and I shared a favourite breakfast of 2 fried eggs, bacon, sausage and cheese, all fried in lard and rolled into a Staffordshire Oatcake, which was actually the healthiest part of the meal. How did I ever get to 73?
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I'm out.I was a Remainer, voted that way because, as I have said here before, I believed that staying in the EU was best for the future of young people, including my grandchildren. That was despite all the misgivings I had about Brussels powercrats and the “United States of Europe”, with the overweening influence of France and Germany.
I have become exasperated by the continual refusal of Barnier, guided by French and German influence, to to consider any proposals that the UK Brexit team puts forward. It is now my belief that the EU does not want us to leave, and is convinced by the London Blue Flag protesters, that the majority of the people of Britain would favour another Referendum, with a new result favourable to the UK staying in the EU.
They are wrong: I believe that people like myself will change their vote to produce an even bigger Leave majority. The EU, not for the first time, has misjudged the majority of the British people, by basing their judgements upon the actions of a stridently vocal minority. Those Blue Flag protesters do not speak for us all. There was a vote. The result has to be viewed as democratic. If we begin denying the veracity of a democratic procedure, where does it end?
France and Germany both know that, if we leave, they will have to stump up more Euros in order to support the lame ducks among the 27. They are also deadly afraid of other nations following our lead: in fact they blame us for the unrest among other members of the 27. The fact that they are causing the unrest themselves does not appear to enter their bureaucratic agenda.
I have become convinced that we need to break free of a Union that we never wanted to be part of in the first place: we were given the case for joining a Market, not a European super state. It is going to be tough times when we leave, but it may be that our PM needs to give the EU an ultimatum: this is our plan. Agree or we go, no final payment, no concessions. Goodbye, Au revoir, Auf wiedersehen, Ciao, Adiós para siempre.
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I'm out.All ticketty-boo here, Lee.
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I'm out.We have an appliance parts shop in Grimsby that has everything for every appliance sold in the UK john. Is there one like that near you? Might be easier to buy a whole new door?
The Grimsby shop found me 4 new control knobs and a grill for our 8 yo Belling, no problem. Inside, it’s like Aladdins Cave for appliance parts, components everywhere and all labelled.
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