[Dave Rice]

I let my daughter have the 1+1 and bought a Moto G4 3rd Gen for £150 ish as I was finding the screen too dim for me.

The only thing it’s missing is NFC, but I use my Barclaycard for that. When I had the 1&1 paying using the phone was always hit and miss. M&S always thought it was an iPhone so turned to Applepay which of course failed.

Battery life is amazing. I wouldn’t swap back.

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Three: £10 12 month Essential Plan (so no hotspot (tethering) allowance) http://www.three.co.uk/Store/SIM/Plans_for_phones

4GB data. All-you-can-eat minutes. All-you-can-eat texts.

Feel At Home in Europe, so you’ll be OK if you cross the Severn ?

The 12 month Advanced Plan is £13 so includes tethering.

Three actually reward existing customers so I got a second sim for my daughters 1+1 with 12GB for £12. So you may be able to get a second Advanced 4GB for £11 if tethering is important.

Personally I think the 1+1 is still hard to beat. You’ll have to spend a lot of money to better it anyway. Three are doing some good deals on the Honor 9 with 12GB for the price of 4GB @ £29, but you don’t use 4GB any way! http://tinyurl.com/y9644yxn

 

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TBH Game of Thrones was probably the only reason I didn’t ditch Sky 6 months ago.

Since then I’ve been living with extremely paired back Sky and find we rarely very watch anything that’s not on Freesat. I don’t even miss F1 that much, it’s just a case of avoiding the result until the highlights on C4. Catchup is a must but there’s many ways to do that, especially with a Fire TV box. A decent GUI is a must too, my cheap FreeSAT box is fine for the kitchen but would drive me insane on the main TV.

After a major bust up with TalkTalk (I’m now using my own router) they’ll be going when the contracts up too.

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My kids started off using the Sky Go app when they went to Uni, but have found other ways to watch what they want when they want it.

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There is always latency. Whether it will be enough to be annoying I can’t say.

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The theory is people wake up to what they’re using as they can see it in real time. They will then switch things off.

For all those I know that have one it’s a 5 minute wonder. It still hasn’t convinced my in-laws to replace their incandescent bulbs with LEDs, but neither will they switch their supplier or even move off the default tariff.

Without being too conspiracy theory about it, I believe the control aspect is what it’s all about, but from the other end. It’s the usual politicians answer. It looks like a good idea until you actually do some proper thinking it through, but what the heck, you can tick a box in the green column so that’s OK yah.

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I’m not getting one as the old meter goes backwards on very sunny days when the solar panels are at full whack.

The only plus point I can see is no more meter reading saving me a whole 10 minutes a month.

The main waster of electricity here is my daughter and a smart meter won’t change that. She’s off to Uni in 10 days. When she has to start paying for things herself is when she’ll change her ways.

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I record hardly anything any more.

When we are reading to watch something we’ve missed, that’s what catch up TV is for.

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As I understand it it will work all Ethernet, read this http://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Sky-Q/Forget-the-new-Sky-Q-Mesh-wi-fi-and-go-hard-wired-it-solved-a-lot-of-my-issues/td-p/2439995/page/3

I know a lot of Sky installers and not one of them has any technical ability and that will be ditto for the help desk. They will know how to set it up for wireless and may need some persuading. They will cover the lack of knowledge with marketing bollocks like “mesh”, which you won’t get anyway without a Sky router. It’s not mesh as I understand it, but a chain of wireless repeaters, and the TV part is 2.4 Ghz.

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Happy Birthday D2.

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If your printer is functioning OK, don’t update the drivers.

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I have to say I never suffered from depression, more the opposite. I’ve cheated the reaper twice now both ending with life changing injuries, so I know that dying is the easy bit (terrible cliche but true). Probably helps that I was only 22 the first time!

They do run the exercise classes, although given my disability they weren’t appropriate for me.  At the time I had raging arthritis in the ankle as well, in fact my total ankle replacement operation (TAR) had to be delayed by a year. I’m happy to say that in the end the heart attack made no difference to my recovery from that.  The TAR has been a fantastic success and has enabled me to start walking distances again which has helped with the heart recovery.

Indeed our holiday of choice now is wandering around northern European cities, something I couldn’t do before the heart attack due to the arthritis. Off to Amsterdam again in 6 weeks time for 6 days and we’ll spend a day travelling as well. Rotterdam or may be Utrecht or Haarlem.

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Good luck with that!

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Looks good.

I do like my grub ? and whilst I like my steak I’m trying to eat less of it.

At the Melplash show last week I went to a cooking demo by the owner of the Taj Mahal in Bridport. She did a wicked veggie curry that tasted fantastic using all English veg from her garden and none of the mucking about you get from chefs trying to be clever.

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Doh! Yes, should have spotted that myself.

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I’ve seen the bridge simulators in action at HMS Collingwood http://tinyurl.com/ya93kxzj The CCTV system they use to monitor the students is one of mine. The array of PCs used to power it is provided by Novatech.

They used it to test the dredging plan for Portsmouth harbour to make sure the Carrier could get it as well as allowing people to practice doing it!

Go to page 2 of the link and look at the second video. At 1:25 they put a bit of a swell on and standing there I’d swear the floor rolls with it, even though I know it’s impossible.

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Stick with slot 3.

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I’m not sure what the real problem is as I have three different results! But it has the whiff of permissions about it. I can’t believe that they changed the backup format (container if you will) and didn’t make things backwards compatible on purpose, indeed I’ve proved they didn’t.

EDIT I just upgraded HB on my own server and did a backup now of the daily job and it succeeded.

EDIT 2 – a new version of HB just appeared:

Version: 2.1.2-0605

(2017-08-29)
Fixed issues

Fixed an issue where Hyper Backup might randomly fail to back up data to local, remote, or could destinations.
Fixed an issue where an integrity check for the C2 destination produced a false alarm even if the backup was normal. Please contact Synology Support for further assistance if you have encountered this issue.
Minor bug fixes.

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It’s permissions.

The owner of the new backups is Admin in group Users, the original is Dave in group Users. Only the owner has Write permissions.

So I’ve changed the owner of the original _1 folder to Admin. I can now link a new backup task to it, which I haven’t done’ I’ve hit backup now and it’s been successful!

EDIT hasn’t worked on another server where the owner was already admin. I did another quick backup job which worked and the permissions were the same. I think permissions is at the heart of it though. More tinkering… Couldn’t fix it so recreated the backups.

Just check server #3, it’s on the latest version of HB and hasn’t missed a beat.

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Just got back from hols and have 2 failing and 2 OK.

Having a look.

EDIT – looks like it’s the upgraded versions failing. I just created a one off small backup on one of the failing boxes and it backed up OK.

Ran backup now on the existing job and it failed. Tried creating a new job and linking it to the original one but it only shows my one off as available. Looked in File Manager.

Looks like they’ve changed the way backups are stored. MKADS_1 is the original, MKADS_2.hbk is the one off and _3.hbk is the one I’ve just created using the same source folders as _1.

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