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A surprise to me was that a young woman was one of the people who went out and attacked others who were apparently just by-standers at that stage. Hopefully she was one of those arrested.

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Richard try reverting to your Japanese diet – healthy daily quantities of brown miso, and natto a couple of times/week. It worked wonders for me and after two months took 5-10 points off both Systolic and Diastolic and trimmed the glycemic index down to the lower end of normal. Rest of my diet was the same unhealthy stuff as usual  but maybe a bit more fat(cheese) to soak up the good stuff in natto. (the latter is a very acquired taste – Asians that I know liken it to them eating blue cheese — a revolting experience for the unwary).

There is science behind this albeit controversial and not yet accepted by mainstream cardiac specialists. (look up MK7 and cardiac health).

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I just hope that the TV cameras point at Philip and have a lip reader on stand-by. Could make excellent reality TV. On the other hand it could be a dangerous move!.

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If the weather is fine it can be a great day out – relatively inexpensive as well if you don’t back too many old nags. Strangest race-course I ever went to was in Harare, I felt really out of place in my sub-tropics formal wear (short sleeved white shirt, tie and long trousers), as everyone else (mostly ruling party members including Ebagum) were sweltering in full morning suits.

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What I hate about that sketch is that it verges on reality. In a horrible way it  reminds me of the days when kids discovered that they could use  word processors with a ‘Thank-you for my present’ template and then just top and tail a couple of personalisation sentences.

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I agree with you Steve, it is a good repair-man accessory. The biggest point in its favour is that it cleans plastic things without eating them – like meths or vodka but better.

I would add a Neodymium magnet to your kit, for the frequent times you drop a screw into the works. (but watch how you use the linked one it will pull out your fillings if you are not careful!?). I encased my magnet in Sugru and made a Sugru loop at one end so I could fish for things if needed. (HSE note: these magnets can be dangerous! One on its own can jump at a piece of iron and nip your fingers, get two of them jumping together and they can cause major damage to any bits of flesh trapped between them)

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Agree that even 100% IPA is a very weak solvent, but it will mix sufficiently with light mineral oils to move them without harming plastic polymers.

The greater the percent of water that is added the worse the solvency so I’m not surprised to hear your comment about rubbing oil being poor in removing oil.  If you need to increase the solvency of the IPA just put its container in a bath of elbow hot (not boiling) water. (IPA boiling point ~80 degrees C)

Acetone is a great solvent but it will ruin the finish of most plastics.

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Bit hoppy for my taste – you will probably need to order it on line. In the US they dilute it 50:50 with water and call it ‘rubbing alcohol’,  I think a more dilute mix is called Surgical Spirit in the UK

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Following the Spring Downgrade it isn’t always possible to see the remote PC on your network.  I have no idea why it just seems to be at M$;s whim!

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I should have said open ‘This PC’ using file explorer otherwise you do not see the network section. M$ have completely lost the plot in having consistent interfaces.

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Just thought John, the other fairly easy way is to use Public Folders on the PCs to move stuff around.

First look up the Internet Address of the computer you want to connect e.g. 192.1668.1.85

Second open Windows File Explorer

Right click in the Network Locations area.

Choose to Add a Network Location, choose a Custom Location

Type in the network Address \\192.168.1.85, click on Browse, select public folders and choose OK

You can use other folders but then you get into the dreaded permissions areas.

 

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IPA will do the trick without eating the plastic.

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Most of the Reception Admin are volunteers at my local hospital. They are actually pretty good.

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John, the other problem with the update is that it messed around with network connections. Check your LAN is still shown as a LAN in your Firewall and not Public or something.

IMO the Spring update was a step backwards in Desktop usability.

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They are non-printable characters (i.e. outside the normal ascii range for print symbols (<chr$32 from memory).It normally means that someone is either trying to display a picture, or more likely with spam it is a piece of hex code trying to do something to your pc). The other alternate is that they are in a non-Western character set e.g. Ukrainian i.e the Ukrainian for ‘You like my sister?’.

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John, assuming more than one PC has been updated, make sure that network sharing with no password is allowed on them all. (read the Advanced Sharing section, basically says if you do not turn off password sharing — stuff-you, which is why I wonder about samba connections, though Synology works ok)

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Release 1803 kills off Homegroup. It was supposed to make file sharing over a LAN easier but never worked as well as XP file sharing.

The new method is imo a LOT easier to use, but I have not explored it with non-M$ systems. (biggest failure with Homegroup). The ‘share with specific people’ is just a bit of M$ Corporate paranoia on file ownerships, though I guess it might make it harder for network intruders.

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Make sure at a minimum that all your passwords are newly minted. Some of these fake M$ Indian bar-stewards have been known to go through the list of hacked passwords and check if yours is a known password. They then make life a misery by hacking into email accounts turning them into bots, spammers or worse.

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I gave up when the first child came along. (Combination of not-pollute the kid and money), before that I was a St Julians rollup king, with 50 Sobranie Black Russians as my Christmas/New year treat.  I can still savour the weird smell of Latakia & Yenidje leaf – not a common odour in this day and age!

When asked by the quack did you ever smoke I reply of course I did, any male my age who says no is either a liar or in a distinct minority.

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Depends how often you change contacts/passwords. I use Keypass for Android and Windows/Linux. It needs a bit of housekeeping from time to time but that is all. I personally use a usb stick to do the housekeeping but as the article says you can automate the process.

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