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One day at a time, Bob, and each one is a bonus.

Glad you’ve got in here now. As PM says, expecting more stories tomorrow!!

Stay safe and well. :good:

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Cheers all, unfortunately we’ve made all our pathways with block pavers, the only pea ( 10mm ) gravel is on the flower beds to protect them from the dogs, we now hardly ever have ( atm ).

The side drive already has a PIR LED security spotlight on it, but I’m looking for after the fact detail/evidence. Ed is right about making it more complex than the average burglar/oik wants to deal with. A Home Beat Officer from the Met called it the F**k It Factor – if you can make it look like it would take longer than 2 minutes  for them to gain entry, they’ll think F**k It and move on!!!

Dave, I’ve had a look and while we do have corner soffits on either side of the bays, the angles and window openings cause problems. I’ve got a four port hub by the TV which is near pipework that is boxed in up to the loft, so I can get the internet up there – bonus will be that I can finally fit the Ubiquiti with the wife’s approval – she’s the one driving the camera project and thus far didn’t see the need to mess about with the wifi when it was working ( sort of ) OK. Women!! :wacko:

I’m sending you a link to the outside Street View on Google Maps, plus my address.

I’ve got some Cat5 cable plus a crimping kit, plus power is up there already. There was an aerial amplifier up there, that was never used after the digital switchover and a socket or two for the essential fan!!

I’m just wiping a couple of 1TB drives from my son’s PC one of which can go into an external USB case or as I have two monitors, one of which displays emails, so could be purposed as a security monitor display/playback. My PC is in the lounge and permanently on.

Are the cameras powered individually ( off mains ) or can they be PoE’d through a different type of switch?? Just guessing here.

Thanks all for the info so far.

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Trying to post in Visual as opposed to Text and for starters, the cursor is back in top left corner  not ‘margin’d’ across. Here goes.

Edit – @bdthree that worked fine. Cheers Lee.

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Steve – it turns out this was Bullstuff2 ( our Bob ) who was having problems logging in from the hospital!!

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You’re going to end up our very own 6 million dollar man!!! “We have the technology”!!

Do whatever it takes to come out the other side and just come back out sorted. Thoughts and prayers are with you Bob, even if your password isn’t!! :yahoo: :wacko:
Stay strong and safe.

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Wrote a big long edit that disappeared into the ether!!👎

Just guessing, if Bob has installed Secure Connection – I know he has KIS and they have been pestering recently – I did install it, but Forumite acted like I was a foreign spammer and gave me all sorts of problem, because it acts like a VPN.
I un-installed it and all was back to normal.
Hope you both get it sorted.👍👍

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Ok, well that explains my last two topics, Lee!!

Please feel free to delete them.👍🤣

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You can probably thank the English for most of the older Welsh castles – if they hadn’t been such a PITA neighbour, you wouldn’t have needed them!! :yahoo:

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Drezha wrote:

The onboard graphics might be using some of the RAM?

True – it could well be that. :good:

I’m playing around with a lot of his old stuff at the moment. He’s had a couple of computers stored here since he moved into a rented flat. He just wants me to nuke the hard drives – he was doing a lot of corporate work and thinks their might be some residual logins, or other work related stuff – that’s no problem, but what to do with the machines is another matter.
The first one I’ve opened up is in a fancy NZXT full tower, with an i7 ( don’t know which yet ) Asus Rampage II Extreme ROG, ( which looks like it was the dog’s proverbials about 8 -10 years ago ) 12GB ( 6 x 2GB ) HP ram, very fancy CPU cooler, Sapphire Vapor-X HD 4890 2GB GDDR5, OCZ 700w Modular plus a few other plug in cards I haven’t worked out yet. I might just leave it running in the garage to keep it warm over winter!!

I’m going to pull out the HDD’s and drop in an SSD, load Windows10 and see if it works and then decide whether or not to keep it as a functional rig for doing things in isolation from my everyday rig. That way, I can keep an image of the SSD and just reload it if anything goes TU!! It’ll be something to play around with in the coming weeks.

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Drezha wrote:

I’m openign the laptop up to put in a 1TB SSD, so I might as well do the RAM whilst I’m in there!

I’ve just done similar to an Ideapad 320. It had a 2TB spinner as the main drive which I replaced with a 120GB SSD, when it came to adding the spinner as a second drive, there was a blanking plate for the old dvd rom slot and it was all moulded to just mount the drive straight in. Bonus!! :yahoo: All I had to do was get one of THESE to connect the drive to the DVD rom connectors. A fairly straightforward job made easier by a thoughtful manufacturer. :good: That SSD has made a huge performance increase over the old spinner.
It already has an extra 4GB ram installed, ( which shows for some reason as a total of 7GB ) so that should meet all my { basic } needs ).
Now I’ve got that done it’s time to repeat the process on the wife’s laptop!!

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Bob Williams wrote:

Any advice regarding a non-oily sauce for pasta?

What about adding a portion of stir-fry sauce to your pasta, they come in a wide range of flavours and they’re low fat ( <1g fat per sachet and <0.2g saturated ) – I’m presuming that’s non-oily.

Shame about the porridge, but never mind. :good:

We have a friend who is having a problem with Thrombosis in her legs. She has been on injected thinners, but now they want to put her on tablet thinners, but they have to do it carefully. She was in pain so she went in to her local walk in clinic and they checked her out, e-mailing her GP with details and a recommend for different tablets. When she got home there was a message on her answer machine from her GP with his home number to call him back on. He had already arranged with the ( Sunday ) out of hours pharmacy to deliver to her the new tablets. Plus a follow-up appointment for during the week to check progress.

I was very impressed. :yahoo:

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Hi Bob, best of luck with the new regime. Some of your breakfast/lunch ingredients sounded familiar. I realised they were a part of the Slimming World Magic Pancakes that the wife eats when she wants a change for breakfast. I actually tried them once and they aren’t at all bad.

Ingredients/instructions as below.

Ingredients
35g porridge oats
half muller light ( Natural would substitute )  yoghurt
2 tbsp granulated sweetener
2 eggs

Instructions
place your 35g of porridge oats in a bowl & mix with ( Natural would substitute ) half a muller light yoghurt
leave this mixture overnight in the fridge
Then in the morning whisk 2 eggs into the mixture
Add 2 tbsp of sweetener
Pre heat a large frying pan and spray with fry light – medium heat
Use a desert spoon and measure out roughly 12 small pancakes
Fry one side for about 4-5 minutes until it stops bubbling
Flip over and cook for further 3-4 minutes until golden brown
Serve with some fresh fruit of your choice or any other syn free accompaniment ( or not ).

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I had one like that with my last car – it turned out to be a socket for the wheel nuts had come off the extending bar and where it was sat on top of the spare wheel, it rattled.

Finally found it, put it back on the bar, wrapped it in a tea-towel and that sorted it!!

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JayCeeDee wrote:

After an email exchange with MB Customer Services they have arranged for my local dealer to honour the free service given by the dealer I bought the car from last year. I’ve just rung and booked it in for the 15th July, the car will get a £325 service for free. I’ve also booked an MoT for the same day. They’re even collecting it and dropping it back to me. Result!!

 

Just had the call from my local dealer, who collected the car at 8am today, telling me the service was all sorted with the selling dealer billed, MoT done ( passed with no advisories ), a minor recall issue updated too and it’s on its way back me now.

One happy JCD!!

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Bob Williams wrote:

Working on a Datsun Laurel, don’t now if you knew them

Yes, I certainly do remember them from the late 70’s. I also cast a few envious eyes over the 240Z and 260Z, hoping I could guilt SWMBO into replacing the Stag that I had sold to help purchase our first house. No such luck as practical needs took over.**

Around the same time I was Chairman of the local Dog training Club in Hendon, I was living in East Finchley then. We had quite a few members from Golders Green, who weren’t short of a bob or three. One had the Toyota version ( if not a bit grander ) the Crown Royal. That was a beast – the closest thing ( other than a Mark 10 Jag ) to an American boat on Britain’s roads. But very comfortable and ahead of it’s time in many things. It actually provided the rolling chassis for the start of Lexus evolving from Toyota, aiming for the luxury end of the market.

**I had bought what turned out to be a troublesome MkIV Cortina estate because the other half was pregnant with our son. I replaced it in 1984 with a Cherry hatchback – truly a gem of a little car, that was almost self-financing after the running costs of the Cortina!! That served us well for the first three years of our son, before I upgraded to the Bluebird ( which almost qualified as the Laurel’s replacement, although mine was a hatchback 🙂 for all the baby gear).

I was about to put in a note to Drezha, but iirc he’s got a Golf which is well suited for a family car.

 

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Drezha wrote:

What with expecting our first child in September, I’m not sure I’ll get the chance for much gaming going forwards!

Congrats :good: :yahoo: – alternatively you could well find yourself falling asleep in front of the monitor, mid-game, following all those sleepless nights ahead!! :wacko:

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Boris wrote:

Areas currently deemed at risk of a second wave

@boris – THIS details some of the info, don’t know if it was Ed’s link or not, worryingly, for those Forumites in the Midlands and North, that seems to predominately be where it is rising. With the exception of Luton, Southend on Sea and possibly Peterborough, the rest of the list is all above the Watford Gap!!! 🙁

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Frankly the only way I can see out of the mess this Government has caused is to pursue a version of the Bolsanaro/Cummings strategy – warn every vulnerable person that they will need to take their own measures to avoid the virus and to expect no Government/NHS help, then fully reopen the economy with no restrictions.

That sounds more of a Trumpian approach ( without the warning ) than Boris. Deny there’s a real problem, if there is one, blame it on China, pretend they’ve got it all under control and just put out the message ” I’m in charge – you’ll all be fine!!”

As far as the UK is concerned, the next wave, I think, will be youth-centred. The word was that old folk were vulnerable, but youngsters only had a bit of a rough time, or didn’t even know they’d had it. The statistics backed that up.
That sublime ignorance/indifference has led to the scenes we’ve all seen, of mostly under 30’s trotting round, or playing football in the parks during the early stages of lockdown.

The number of deaths within the NHS and Care has likely been due to over-exposure to the virus, or exposure to multiple strands of the virus as it evolved. The youth of today – late teens to early 30’s could well find themselves in the same scenario. They are not invincible and they are so mobile, who knows who else they will infect and take with them.
I’m not painting all youth with the same brush, just those that attend raves, house parties, street parties etc, etc. They are the next typhoid Marys. That is where the next wave will originate, but not where the majority of casualties will come from.

Sensible precautions, as advised, need to be adhered to, so that the majority of our population stands a chance of getting through this.

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Bob Williams wrote:

Never suspected you were ginger JayCeeDee!

Not in the Chris Evans league, more auburn/light brown.

Before marriage:-

After marriage

:yahoo: :wacko: I’m not always done up to the nines, but they’re the most times I have photos taken. One was at a fashion show, the other was for a Christmas Dinner on holiday!! Wife has been cropped out because she hates photos of herself. :yes: :unsure:

 

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iirc some flats used to have ‘Patch Panels’ tucked away in a cupboard, usually near the Electricity Consumer Unit, using the RJ45 sockets as ‘extension leads’. Not having a Master Socket is a PITA!!

Does networking Grandson have a solution??

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