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Thanks, I do not need the kit but the link made me look at whether Rust could improve some of my programming efforts as there are times when Python’s inconsistent syntax and indentation drives me nuts.
I put in some CAT5e external cable a few years ago and it worked just fine.The stuff is black to give it some UV protection so you may need some trunking for aesthetic reasons or to stop malignant squirrels chewing it. Above all avoid sharp bends as the wires inside the cable can be fairly frail. I’d guess you will need a cheap impact tool for the wall plate as most cat5 plates need it.
Add a network cable tester to your list as you could drive yourself daft without one.
There are plenty of good how-tos on the web.
My only question is why cat6? It is far harder to install and a bit more expensive. I do like the idea of buying cables with RJ45 connectors already on as it means you can test the continuity in the cable before you start. I once made the mistake of buying some cheap cat5 that I’ll swear had random cable breaks every twenty metres or so – that burned up more in time than the money I saved.
My take would be more nuanced than yours Steve. I would just have house arrest for all BAME and people over 60 for a period of three months. Anyone caught breaking it would lose all medical rights. I would then remove all restrictions on everyone else and let them work and party their way to herd immunity!
Well at least they will keep out the Starlings!
Sack Dido Harding!
Given her proven ‘organisational’ abilities at Talk-Talk, why was she ever even considered for the job?
I find it b-embarrassing that our ‘world laughable’ contact tracing system was so shambolic we required most of the EU to help rescue our OUTSOURCED pathetic attempt to develop a contact tracing app. link.
It is even more embarrassing given the existence of a proven app (the BBC Pandemic app) that could have been used before the virus even hit the UK as a stop-gap measure.
[edit] I made a Freudian slip by saying ‘contract tracing’. I wish we did have an app for tracing Government Contracts as some have more than a slight whiff of corruption attached. (I do not think the VMWare app contract has this, but others certainly do)
If the Government’s handling of the crisis looks terrible the answer is simple – just fiddle the numbers and make it go away. The solution is to keep people in ICU long enough not to count before pulling the plug!
Mushroom Matt – you can fool some of the people some of the time . . .
Unfortunately people with 20+/20 vision tend to need reading glasses as they age beyond 40 because the focussing muscles in the eye have to become ever stronger to deal with an increasingly rigid lens in the eye. As a result I now need almost a magnifying glass to solder any electronics.
If like my wife the vanity aspect of wearing contacts/spectacles appals then either save up to have your eyes lasered or start doing eye strengthening exercises which may help delay the inevitable.
Other than cutting back on updates it SEEMS ok on the cases trends.
What does stand out is that a much lower proportion of covid cases now require hospitalisation. (e.g. covid cases rising, hospitalised falling). From this I infer that all the new cases in the relatively few hotspot areas are young. Also most of these hotspots are in cities.
The young have been made to suffer disproportionately in this epidemic. I hope that the Government consider bribery when trying to convince this group to take up vaccination. (e.g. Wetherspoons/Pizza Express vouchers to be handed out post vaccination). Without it I can see the young just saying no to vaccination.
We seem to be going nowhere fast over Brexit so instead of controlling our borders will will lose the Dublin Agreement to repatriate illegal immigrants back to France or wherever. Good move BoJo and Co!
Mind you if we do a trade deal with the US we will all be moving very rapidly, towards the nearest toilet because as usual the low US food hygiene standards have now resulted in an ‘explosive’ outbreak of salmonella which is spread in US red onions and onion-containing products!
+1 All the very best for tomorrow and all the days to come. Then maybe we will somehow get all your stories organised and deposited in your county Archives or something. You never know, one of your great great great grandchildren may find the stories and take pride in what you have done.
One of the MM posters knew a lot about the Opticians and Audiology business. All I know is that like many medical items the UK is one of the more expensive places, and I was unpleasantly surprised at the difference in spectacle cost between the UK and Singapore.
To answer the last part of your question some people are entitled to vouchers (in England, sorry did not check Wales). link
With respect to your own glasses. Varifocals are the expensive option even more if you had the Rolls-Royce self tinting lens option.
A ‘long distance’ pair usually allows you to drive without issue, while reading glasses can often be simple lenses without full astigmatic correction. However if you are big into spread sheets scrub that last remark as reading the wrong line/column can be an expensive mistake. The other big expense are the frames, cheap & cheerful NHS plastic do the job but are not at all trendy.
Not many will have access to N95 masks but if you need to use one for personal or job reasons, you may get concerned at the relatively high cost of regular replacement. However research has shown that cooking at 100c for one hour will keep the mask sterile and reusable.
This simple procedure looks to be the way of conserving precious mask stocks.
Strangely enough they soon grow terrified of a nerf gun, and flee if I even walk out with it, but the really effective way is to lamp them at dusk with an LED torch and one or two nerf foam darts. They do not really fly too well in the dark so they tend to remember locations that unsettled them at night. Even with the idiot laws we have, scaring pigeons is quite legal but I would much rather it were a .22 pellet as that would be a more permanent solution..
August 7, 2020 at 8:02 pm in reply to: Read First if flying on a Boeing 737 Max–or maybe not! #61190Just as the FAA is about to release a litany of fixes for the 737 Maximum Disaster, there is yet another Boeing crash, but this one was at Calicut in India.
Somehow though I suspect that this one is not entirely down to Boeing. Apparently it was near monsoon rain and a landing on one of the more scary India runways. Perfectly straight in but I’d guess a runway that slopes at 5% all the way down to the arrivals hall. One of those runways that tighten the sphincter even on a good day when animals are not wandering across it!
The Witcher — this evening only
Did Covid pinch part of BoJo’s brain???
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30228-5/fulltext
I’m obviously very lucky, or he is just low-tech. I guess he wants to use his ladder certs for windows as well as cleaning algae from UPVC barge boards. (I’m not sure the pressure hose boys do that job very well as my guy seems to have a monopoly on that particular trade.)
You will rarely see a Starling nest, they seem to like eves such as yours. Nice warm winter roosts!
Once upon a time I used to regularly climb 60ft ladders with no back rest. However those days are long gone, so I paid my window cleaner £15 to hammer in some replacement ventilation covers in my eves. If you have a friendly window cleaner getting him to stuff some wire mesh into the hole might be a low cost solution.
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