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I didn’t even realise that Mint had a KDE version. Shows you how much I know!

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The Honor is the cheaper phone -£400 from Carphone Warehouse. The P20 is £479. The P20 Pro is £679. If you’re throwing that sort of price around as well, then  the Oneplus 6 comes in to the ring as well.

The Pro is a bit out of what I was looking for. And looking at the GSM Arena photo comparison area, the Honor appears to have a better image than the P20 and in the tests, I think that some of the images are better than the P20 Pro ?. I know that’s a controlled environment but still, I would have thought that the Pro would be head and shoulders better. Maybe I’ll have another proper look this evening.

"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett

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Dave Rice wrote:

I don’t know of any contract that has download limits these days.

The John Lewis broadband ones do when I was in there the other day.

"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett

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RSB wrote:

I have been using it a few hours now and I must say I am not impressed. The battery seems good but bar that I am sure you can get much more for your money outside of the apple echo system. Nope, not impressed at all.

Well, I’ve never used an Android tablet and come away thinking that was a good exerpeince, so horses for courses!

 

I use my iPad Pro 10.5 regularly for work. I use the Site Audit Pro app a lot (I notice it’s now avaialble for Android), as it helps when I do my risk assessments but that’s hardly an app that everyone will want to use! This is often used alongside PDF Expert and Notability (I have the Apple Pencil). In general, most of the apps then are Android and iOS equal. I do use Apollo for Reddit, which the closest I’ve found for Android is Boost.

But I’ve found that more and more apps are cross platform anyhow.

iOS now has the file manager built in (Files) in iOS 11. It plugs in to web services and shows the files located there. Personally, I rarely use it – either using DS File, or accessing files directly in PDF Expert (or Documents)

"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett

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Ed P wrote:

Given: “Restart the server and the new options are sourced” my guess would be that it starts running the original script all over again. It is however possible that there is some sort of flag file which stores a job completion flag, if so it would rapidly jump to the failure point in the previous run..

Well, whatever is running continues to run with no issues and it restarts and then does actually start processing the queue again, so it does seem to work.

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I believe that it is the same share. I hadn’t looked in to Torque to much, other than when I’ve had to ignore it and run files on the nodes individually whilst he was on holiday and it went wrong and a restart wouldn’t fit it.

I thought it was just issued commands via SSH, but maybe not.

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The queue system is Torque. We submit the modelling jobs to the TORQUE queue and then as machines free up, the next models get run. For whatever reason, it sometimes fails to pass on the jobs and a reboot solves the issue.

It terms of data loss, I don’t think we’ve seen any errors from missing data, so perhaps it is playing catch up. I guess the main way to make sure is to try it and find out – I’ve got NFS setup at home for me NAS, so I may well set up a model running and then turn restart my NAS and see what happens.

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Ed P wrote:

LibreOffice Draw or Dia are good free alternatives to Visio or Lucidchart.

Or I used yed for my diagramming needs if I’m not on the iPad.

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Tippon wrote:

Drezha wrote:

Did I see somewhere you suggesting this instead of a homeplugs?

It was in my thread here: https://forumite.co.uk/forums/topic/network-transfer-speeds/#post-19890

Thanks – I did a search but couldn’t recall where it was and the search wasn’t to helpful.

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The Duke wrote:

That’s a sweet price at £140. I think next time we go on a long road trip I’ll get a 1tb ssd to replace my 1tb samsung hdd. Should extend the battery life form about 9h to 12 or more.

Link

Perhaps not the fastest, but ~1TB SSD on the cheap! I’m tempted as well but I don’t carry around that much data normally!

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Dave Rice wrote:

You know what I’m going to say Get an independent AP that’s up to the job of a modern household. A Cloud Managed Ubiquiti UAP-AC-LITE (1200Mbps AC) is £78 and if you buy it from Broadbandbuyer they will set it all up for you. All you do is plug it in. The Cloud Controller lasts 3 years after which time you can set up your own (loads of How To out there and a Pi will more than do) or just leave it. It doesn’t need the controller to function day to day.

Did I see somewhere you suggesting this instead of a homeplugs? It looks like we’ll be moving my home office upstairs and away from the back room, where it currently is and wired in with a Cat6 cable under the floorboards (installed prior to my purchase of the house). With it going upstairs, I’m looking at my options. I can get wifi in the bedroom – seems to work Ok for browsing on the phones, but when I get round to moving the PC up there, things might get a bit slower with NAS access and the like so I’m in two minds as to upgrade the wifi and get a wireless bridge upstairs, or to get powerline plugs.

Current router is a Netgear AC1900 Nighthawk Modem Router.

"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett

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JayCeeDee wrote:

John – you can give your eyes a rest for the next 5 years at least – that’ll likely be when a 1TB SSD of that variey comes down to <£25 delivery included or not!! They’re £172 odd at the moment.

Saw a 960GB one on eBuyer for £140 recently that almost temped me.

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PlaneMan wrote:

Navigation apps, Chris. Try anything other than a Google one, nada.

That makes more sense. I’d only used Google Maps so that explains why I didn’t come across the issue. Not quite a draconian as Apple CarPlay then which only apps Apple approve (though I hear this may well be relaxed slightly in iOS 12, allowing the use of Google Maps, not Apple Maps).

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I’m dying to try this out as well. I see Dawn of War is on the list, so I’ll be downloading and installing that when I get a chance at a weekend – in like three weekends time when I’m not away!

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PlaneMan wrote:

I would use TomTom overlay but it won’t work with Android Auto, google owned apps only at the moment. Which is a pain.

Sure that’s not the case – unless it doesn’t apply to Music programs? Because I’ve had Doubletwist and DS Audio working through it I’m sure. I’ll have to check again.

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I use these – I have one for my razorblades from shaving. Any moneybox would do.

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Watched the entire season (well, 10 episodes) over the weekend and quite enjoyed it. Look forward to the next ones.

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Interesting – I’ve not had an email from them.

Mind, the last time I used Carphone Warehouse (about a month ago when I bought my Moto G6), they wanted my email and address etc when I was purchasing a SIM free phone. I couldn’t be bothered to much at the time, but I mean why do they need that information for a purchase in a shop?

"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett

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I’m using one of the Nighthawk routes and have been pretty impressed with it. Might well have a few years left in it yet. I can’t recall why I binned off the BT Homehub, but there was probably a reason I dropped £100 on a router!

"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett

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For whatever reason, the Travelodge I was at in Acton last night was in a black spot. I could only get 3G in the room and fairly poorly at that. Mind, I’ve also noticed that my network in Manchester is dog slow even when I have full signal (Tesco – so, O2) a lot of the time so I’ve grown weary of using 4G. Maybe Three is better. If I have to, I’ll tether my work phone and use that. They’ve sent me away, so they can pay for the data!

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