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I had retching hard enough to damage my abdominal wall but never actually threw up. That’s when I knew it really wasn’t indigestion and got the Mrs to phone the doctor who said dial 999. Within 5 minutes the motorbike paramedic was there followed fairly soon by the ambulance. I worked out quite quickly what they thought the problem was but have to say I was never concerned or in fear of my life. Having been through a life changing accident at the age of 22 I knew I just had to trust them and they would do the right thing. Worrying wasn’t going to help.
The Mrs was I think in denial until we got to the Bristol Heart Institute rather than the BRI where they grabbed her and sent us different ways. Six aspirins and under an hour later the stent was in, but I gather from the comments being made it was a bit tricky. The part of my heart that was damaged deals with back pressure to the lungs (probably got the description wrong) so I have issues with fluid on the lungs. I have double the normal dose of diuretics but any cold that goes to my chest (like now) is a total PITA. I can also pee for England.
For the stress testing you normally pedal a machine but as I can’t do that they had to inject me with something to raise my heat activity which I didn’t like at all. The most boring test was being strapped into a machine for an hour whilst it did a 3D scan of the heart, but at least we now know exactly what the damage is and so it can be dealt with.
Every time I get my bloods & pressure tested they are perfect. As long as I can move at my own pace, which is only a bit slower, I can walk for long periods. But any quickening of the pace or stairs / steep slopes and I’m done within 10 minutes, but they’ve always been a problem mechanically with a leg that doesn’t bend.
The Mrs chucked the deep fat fryer away but I can’t say my diet has changed radically as we were moving in a more healthy direction as a family anyway. We have a formal veggie day once a week but quite often we’ll go through a meat free day without planning to. I got a vegetarian cookbook for Christmas with some good ideas in it, but I can honestly say we’ve not had a boring veggie meal yet and I’ve never been near a nut roast.
Stopping smoking and drinking moderately were the biggest changes and probably what caused the problem in the first place. I think bread may have to go though and that will be a wrench.
I believe Wilkins is a person and he was either replacing them or reporting to them.
May be they think they’ll need to act quickly depending on what they find?
I have a stent, fitted within 2 hours of the symptoms, it’s a doddle. They push it up on a wire via your wrist, mine got stuck at my shoulder so they went in via the groin. You don’t feel a thing until the stent does it’s stuff which can be disconcerting at first, like the blood returning to a dead leg.
They’ll put you on the big 4 – aspirin (blood thinning), bisoprolol (blood pressure), ramipril (ACE inhibitor) and a statin (cholesterol). For 12 months there will be a pill that helps the stent and a nitroglycerin spray for under the tongue if you get any bad chest pain (then dial 999).
After care is marvelous, but be prepared to have to explicitly tell people that when you say you have a bad chest because of a cold or flu, it’s not that pain in the chest. You now know what that feels like and you will know it again.
So good luck, I hope it goes well but it’s not so much bad news as it was years ago. It will be life changing but in a good way as you chuck out the bad habits. If you are a smoker this is your time to pack it in.
Ed, it’s the testers that do that function and I have one of these, the multiple remotes are very useful. I also have an IP camera tester similar to this that has this and many more useful cable / network testing tools as well as CCTV stuff. It has PoE out and an SD card for snapshots so makes life lot easier on the top of the ladder!
Both let me know the relevant distance to a break or short as well as the wire map for crosses. We also have tone generators to help find the relevant wire in a bundle.
But none of these will let you know if the cable is up to spec, those are ultra expensive and we just don’t need them. Not even the MoD make us prove our work to that level, but of course if you’re doing infrastructure it’s a different matter. B-I-L has some that will do whole patch panels at a time.
It’s a lot easier if you leave the thoroughly untwisted wires long. I pull my thumb nail down the wire to work the twist out and snip out the pull cord. However sometimes the little buggers still swap over, usually brown and brown / white for me.
Yes you do need the correct crimp tool, it has a blade to cut off the ends of the wires poking through.
I would never go back to any other tool / system. It makes much better connections as you don’t have to get the bare wire lengths correct by eye. The number of connectors I’ve seen with the insulation miles away is untrue.
Look for RJ45 Pass Through on Amazon.
We use this crimp tool @ £18 and this one @ £19 that includes 6 ends (both just as good as the £80 big name one) and these connectors 50 for £19 (I see there are more about now). You can use any of the slide on strain relief boots, but I prefer the ones designed to be crimped on like these.
I think Displayport is going to be the sticking point as it’s seen as Corporate or Gaming.
The first mobo I can find with it is the £90 MSI Ryzen B450M MORTAR. However there are loads of refurbished HP 8200 Elite i5s about and they have a DP v1.1 port. MicroDream have a HP EliteDesk 800 G1 SFF Intel Pentium G3220 3.0GHz 8GB 500GB DVDRW WiFi Windows 10 Pro for £140
What is the “real world”? Mine is very different from yours.
In general computing each core is more efficient so quicker, but let’s face it you’re not going to really notice it in every day usage. But in your case the extra cores are going to get used by Blender so I would imagine that would be one hell of a difference, effectively more than doubling the processing power available.
It’s one hell of an outlay, I think only you can answer the value for money aspect. The 3900X is on offer at Scan at the moment for £468, may be easier to swallow for still a huge boost in cores.
A Merry Christmas to everyone 😃
The hoped for whisky is Welsh! Danzy Jones Celtic Spirit, it’s a liqueur made with single malt, herbs and rosehips and so a lot sweeter but it’s as smooth as silk. Far too drinkable and will be perfect for the hip flask if the weather lets us get out of doors.
I like it.
Must admit I am hoping for a nice bottle of single malt, I have a couple of bottles of gut rotter for mixing. Fevertree ginger ale is really good for that. Worth the extra pennies.
But Jamesons, or any Irish, is different again. I discovered John Powers on a trip to the AST PC factory near Cork (AST got taken over by Samsung way back when). Old Paddy and Bushmills too of course.
If I’m really lucky and they’ve been listening to hints, it’ll be Metaxa 12. Rediscovered at a Greek restaurant in of all places Vienna. Just reminds me of holidays by the Med when the kids were little.
You could even follow this How To Raspberry Pi File Server in Blogs 😀
OK, sorry I thought you were moving the Ryzen. What you actually want is to stream to the office? If so no, RDP / VNC won’t do it.
I would definitely be looking at something more powerful than a Pi type box and the 200GE seems to be shouting look at me. Further research points to checking what the motherboard can support HDMI wise too and may be dual channel ram. But as usual lots of conflicting “advice”.
One thing to remember is the Vega nicks 2GB of system ram so you need 8GB, which TBH is my standard these days anyway.
Nice one Bob.
It’s just a SATA hard drive, but most of the modern USB mobile drives aren’t. Not relevant in your case but if anyone was thinking about cannibalizing one…
I agree in theory streaming 4K should take up about 25mbps, you would hope your WiFi was up to that.
What about turning this on it’s head and leaving the Ryzen where it is and having the low powered box in the “office area” instead and remote to the Ryzen via RDP or VNC? I do this literally all the time. Once a new PC in the workshop has it’s o/s installed the next thing that goes on is TightVNC and the rest of the setup and testing takes place via my laptop from the sofa 😀
I have an 8 core VM host which is run headless, literally everything, the host and the VMs are run remotely. Every server is run the same way.
One of my customers has a door access controller / club membership database that will only run in Win 7. That PC has just been replaced as it’s not up to running W10 very well, but it’s been kept (thoroughly isolated) to run said database and the customer does it via TightVNC. A lot easier than virtualization or KVM switches and the customer often forgets they aren’t sat in front of it.
I still think a Pi / upsquared is limiting but a refurbished ex corporate would be fine (and some). Looking on Ebuyer you can get a Xenta AMD 200GE 8GB RAM 240GB SSD Vega 3 for £203 plus a tenner for W10 from E-Bay.
The Synology has an app called Cloud Sync, I’m sure you can guess what it does! More on it here.
Until recently Google used to allow you to sync your photos with Google Drive and I used this to mop up anything that may have been missed. Then on a weekly basis I’d look in the folder and move anything I wanted to keep to it’s proper place. You could do this on a reverse basis with One Drive i.e. use OD as a second copy of the NAS (it’s not backup as it’s a real time sync).
My new NAS has an Intel CPU which allows me to use Active Backup for Business which backs up my business Office 365 Sharepoint stores etc.
So you can, and I do, use various Cloud stores and still retain control of your data. Cloud Sync also makes it easy to migrate from one system to another using the NAS sync share as a middle man.
+1 it’s all you need on a PC but if your AV comes with one there’s no reason not to use that instead.
My old mate Sue is a silversmith so she’s made the Mrs a Russian wedding ring, it’s currently in Edinburgh being assayed. Probably due to looking at too many old photos, this year I’m getting a leather biker jacket but not the bike to go with it. Wouldn’t mind a trike though (it’s not going to happen).
The kids are all adults but the boys still want Steam vouchers and my daughter things I don’t understand. They will all be here for the main festivities and they still insist we hang up their stockings they’ve had since they were tiny. The contents have changed a bit, but there’s no way a bag of chocolate coins could be left out, this year it’s credit card sized power banks.
Christmas Eve evening will be everyone (except the Mrs) preparing the veg for the big day and drinking obscure alcoholic drinks. My recent trip to Amsterdam was invaluable this year 😀
Both Huawei boxes and a Draytek with a Huawei Unlocked E3372- LTE/4G 150 Mbps USB Dongle have been rock solid.
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