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I had a stent put in 5 years ago following a heart attack. It’s a tiny tube made of lattice work so it can be inflated by a tiny balloon once it’s in the right place (they use a wire to go through your arteries from wrist or groin). It becomes part of you as the artery walls grow around it.
The good thing is that like me he is one of the 49% that made it (I was the same age BTW) and the doctors will keep an eye on him from now on. The medication keeps my blood pressure absolutely perfect and the statins get rid of the cholesterol. I take an aspirin a day to keep the blood thin so every cut bleeds like a stuck pig and the water tablets mean you can piss for England, but that’s a minor whinge.
Plenty of exercise and a decent diet, it’s all common sense stuff. I still drink but smoking stopped that day. That reduces the chance of another one by 50% and is the biggest concern the docs will have. Giving up with help from the doc was easy, especially when you have that motivation.
So he’ll be OK and so will you within 30 minutes of sitting in the dentists chair and they get the pressure of the abscess off. In the meantime I know there is little worse than toothache, just do what you need to do and don’t worry about this place it’ll still be here.
LG non smart TV + basic Sky + Amazon TV box with Kodi side loaded.
Sky will probably go in 9 months when the contract is out to be replaced by a freesat humax.
Don’t really bother recording anything any more as catch up TV is so good. But getting the home network sorted with proper WiFi has been a major factor.
I saw somewhere that bitcoiners are snapping them up.
It was a while ago but iirc they did the 12 month trial setting up and then it was up to you to cancel it. I can’t imagine life without it now.
Just let Microsoft get on with keeping Windows working and secure. They will do a better job of it than anyone else. Not patching allows malware to propagate.
It’s a toy.
The next survey I do I’ll propose putting the cameras 3 inches above the ground and see what the customer says ☺
I set up a unique gmail address for every customers Synology box and have that send the updates (daily backup, monthly health report, update notifications and any urgent issues) to me and them.
None of them have missed a beat yet (neither have the NAS). I can’t remember logging into any of the gmail accounts after day one but I have my email address as the recovery address for them all just in case.
For my own NAS I’ve also paired my phone to receive any status changes or errors.
If this is true people would be dropping in the street.
I’ve just looked at the APs detected by one of my managed APs in a house on the busy main road through Kingswood (A420).
Today it’s detected 102 APs nearly half of which are the local buses, 5 are Audi’s, a Jag and a VW. There are 2 “ConnectedCAMxxxx” which I believe are Ciroen dashcams.24 are Apple product hotspots, 8 are Android and single Xperia (why are people wandering around with their phones as hotspots)?
So based on the traffic from probably only 50 metres of road, if WiFi is an allergenic I think we would know by now!
It’s 2.4 Hz, WiFi is 2.4 Ghz
Loads of quad-channel memory, an M2 SSD and I’d imagine it’ll do the business for you.
Try running even a 6 core CPU. Cores 5 & 6 are hardly ever used.
This is specialist stuff and the CPU is just part of the equation.
The Brix use laptop parts so a very weedy older 1Ghz type one would struggle.
However if you are looking at one of the new i3-7100U 2.4Ghz models (or similar 5th or 6th gen) you’ll have no problems at all.
There is no comparison to the 1st gen i3-320, everything now is in a different league.
Let’s look at this another way. You are your sister here on a visit. Would you expect to be able to take your <insert electronic device> to the UK and have it work? Too damn right you would, you wouldn’t even think about it.
Charging won’t be a problem, tourists coming here (or you going there) just have to buy a mains plug adapter. The camera’s power brick sorts everything else out.
And neither should the output format of the video be an issue i.e. NTFS and not PAL. The only time that would have been an issue was for players (including the camera) that plugged directly into a TV or monitor. For years any such box has been able to deal with NTFS and any loss of quality would only be an issue for a pedant. You may have got into some issues with “regions” but there were always workarounds.
Looking at the specs it’s going to output MP4 files. If you think about what you watch on You Tube, does any of this matter? Nope.
I would worry about warranty. It’s obvious to Canon that it’s a “grey” import as that model isn’t available here, so there will be no warranty.
Plymouth is the mighty metropolis! In the days when I couldn’t get a 2G signal anywhere in Cornwall, coming down the hill at Saltash towards the bridge was the first place you could make a call.
I’ve just looked at the coverage maps for the big four for PL27 7RX and only Three tell the truth. Just as well their wifi calling works.
Aunties bloke bought some genuine Lenovo handsets cheap off E-Bay.
After a while they had all sorts of weird things happening so I explained over the phone how to do a reset according to Lenovo’s instructions. Surprise surprise, it wasn’t there. Everything behind the scenes was in Chinese characters, no play store, etc. He had enough sense to bin them.
On the outlook for another bargain he’s bought some genuine but old Samsung handsets. Allied to the shit Cornish 3G coverage I now know why I phone her on the landline. I was down there recently and used my Three in Touch WiFi calling which was fine for text and voice was OK at my end but complaints from the other. Cheap Plusnet techincolor router and shit Cornish ADSL. Max 2ish mpbs unless it rains when it can halve. So say to them use WiFi calling, bit dodgy but better than walking to the end of the lane. They’re on GiffGaff as it saves a few pennies (but neither are big users) so no WiFi calling.
Buy cheap buy twice. TBH buying one less pint a week would double their monthly mobile budget.
Cousin lives on the same site (it’s converted farm buildings). They rent the barn out in the summer and live in a caravan / summerhouse. The barn has BT FTTC so I got them a wireless bridge and an AP to distribute it in their caravan area, cost about £150. They are on Vodaphone so have WiFi calling and they have 80mbps for them and their visitors to do whatever else they want.
Finally convinced Auntie to let me put a wireless bridge / AP into hers and move her off GiffGaff “sometime soon”. Other cousin onsite still not convinced even though she complains all the time about her internet and mobile. Fricking Cornish, they are all nuts.
I have never seen any spam in my gmail inbox since I first opened the account 10/7/2008
Recently I stupidly registered a new domain using my business email account. The Outlook 2016 client on my Office 365 account has been pretty good at detecting yet another website design / seop / logo design offer and moving them straight to the junk folder after I blocked the first half-a-dozen (they arrived in minutes after registration). I am now using 1&1’s anonymous registration service!
Could be a real game changer.
Wife, m-i-l and s-i-l all have the previous version. Perfect for them.
Have a look at the APC Back-UPS range.
“no need to be at home.” Is the clue, but they could be a lot clearer in where “there” is in “an engineer will be there shortly to run some tests,”
It’s all OpenReach not TT, but TT do tend to pass on everything they get from OR in the belief that all knowledge is worth it if only to let you know you’re not being ignored. I find it hard to slag them off for that approach, but maybe you only need to know when you need to be involved. But then you may think you’re being ignored if it’s taking a bit longer behind the scenes.
A bit damned if you do and damned if you don’t. It is hard to get these things right as everyone has a different opinion on what is right. But one thing for sure, OpenReach still act as if there is a monopoly. Maybe that’s because there is.
My own experience of TT as both a home and business customer differs only in that as a business customer you get a UK based helpdesk that answers calls a bit quicker. I’ve found both to be very efficient and if voice is involved they will divert all your calls to a designated mobile number for free for the duration. OpenReach however can be a PITA but it’s in their admin and not the local engineer. Try phoning OR direct:
“If you’re at home or work and have a problem with your phone or broadband or want to change an engineer appointment you MUST contact your service provider (the people who you pay your bill to). They will raise the issue with us on your behalf.”
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