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Ah yes, Norman Tebbit, his immigration test would be to ask “which cricket team do you support”? I’d fail that one. I go to the local T20 derby most years but the object is how much beer can you get down your neck before bad light forces you into the local curry house?
Not knocking it, as an afternoon / evening out it’s hard to beat but did I support Glos or Somerset when I went through the turnstile? By home location it should be Glos, but my cousin batted for Somerset and became an umpire for England.
Tebbit did change his mind “One test I would use is to ask them on which side their fathers or grandfathers or whatever fought in the second world war,” Tebbit said. “And so you’ll find that the Poles and the Czechs and the Slovaks were all on the right side. And so that’s a pretty good test isn’t it? Perhaps we’ll even manage to teach them to play cricket gradually over the years.”
So the Chingford Skinhead came around to EU immigration in the end, but not fatties, “Obesity is stupid people eating rubbish”. Pointing to Labour benches, he mocked: “That would apply to quite a few members over there who are clearly eating too much.”
Clearly he hadn’t seen Eric Pickles behind him. But then it’s best to ignore anything that doesn’t obscure your own view.
This isn’t even the leaving deal. With all this fuss over the transition what chance is there of the real leaving deal getting anywhere?
History mangled again, you must stop believing the propaganda sound bites coming out of Moggland.
Hitler didn’t change his mind as he had no intentions of doing anything other than he did, we sold the Sudetenland down the river and that’s what Hitler wanted. Also Chamberlains actions were very popular with the public at the time and he remained well regarded after his resignation and served in the war cabinet. All the capitulation stuff came later.
Welcome back Bob. After my second bout of iritis I found the eye hospital had shut their own pharmacy. You had the choice of going to the Boots in the main hospital (BRI) and wait for them to do it (it’s a massive place, long waits) or have it sent to your local (Boots only) pharmacy or home delivery (if you can show you’re disabled) within 36 – 48 hours, or have it posted to you.
What use is that? If you’ve been to outpatients and been given medication it’s unlikely you can wait that long. What if it’s after 7pm or a Sunday or Bank Holiday when the BRI Boots is shut? Can the NHS no longer afford pharmacists?
No wonder people are saying it’s privatisation through the back door. But there is a Costa Coffee, WHS and M&S Simply food to cater for you while you wait. It’s called the Welcome Centre.
Enough of the rant ? Enjoy those new BB speeds ?
Should be able to do something tomorrow.
Not at a lot @ 5Ghz, and I know from experience not to listen to claims in ads. I think that’s why Lee is asking for personal recommendations.
I have just bought this USB adaptor that is no longer required for the project. Give me a few days to be able to test it on actual Linux hardware. If it doesn’t work I have this one that is in use on a Windows machine but could be swapped out. Both work on Windows 10 out of the box which allows me to confirm the claims to speed etc.
It’s funny, the more the years roll by the more Linux is king of the server and Windows is king of the desktop. I wouldn’t contemplate reversing their roles for one minute in my business. Also my servers and services are now mostly cloud based and cost a fraction of what they did, so much so that I bundle some for free they cost me so little.
Well one of our major customers has gone into administration just after we did £thousands of work.
I cannot in all honestly blame it directly on Brexit but this year has been awful. No one is investing any money worth spit and the banks are being real barstewards (that’s what did for them) as if they can’t make money the easy way they’ll just screw where they can. Ridiculous, if they had let them finish their project it would have brought in extra revenue (that being what “investment” is all about). The business plan is sound it’s just a cash flow thing (now affecting us and their other suppliers too).
Our politicians must now just fecking well get on with it, especially as Lord Snooty and his self interest group have been shown to be firing blanks. The DUP won’t even govern their own jurisdiction, what a shower, they are firing blanks too when it comes to it and they know it.
We need some certainty, even if that is the certainty of hard times to come, so we can all start planning how to deal with the coming years. But of course this is a politicians dream, the ball is coming out of the back of the scrum and they all want it to head towards their particular goal line and two figs if that is best for the country they purport to govern. No matter that they don’t have the team to deal with it, try and grab the ball anyway and work out what to do with it later. You can always just pass it about or kick it into the long grass again.
What I hope comes out of this, and absolutely won’t, is a change in the way we govern this country into a more consensual one. That will involve politicians giving up power as even if we keep having hung parliaments, with only 2 major players it won’t happen naturally. May be the next generation will do things differently, after this debacle my kids are certainly fired up in a way my generation weren’t at their age.
I just feel a backlash coming and it isn’t going to be pretty.
Having had a look at Timeshift it’s not really a backup system, it’s a system snapshot. All or nothing, there seems to be no way to restore just one file.
That has it’s place, I do something similar with my Windows machines monthly (but even then I can extract just the files I want) but I do a traditional incremental file backup daily.
If I was still using a Linux desktop I think I’d still be using Back In Time.
A customer of mine got given a load of Huawei MediaPad T3 8″ from Vodaphone and you see lots of them on Ebay
They are very nice indeed and he uses his with a mobile sim to view PDFs of huge CAD drawings on site, zooming in and out no problem at all.
Absolutely may be. TBH matey you know more about these things than anyone here.
Not going to happen. With a tablet the o/s it comes with is what it will stay with, not least because of the CPU they use i.e. Apple and Android will be ARM and Windows will be Intel.
Yes I caught it at the time thanks. Wilko’s voice always cracks me up. Wish he’d been my English teacher. I saw Squeeze a few times too back in the day.
OK, so it’s now an ad blocking VPN ?
Having done this the hair shirt way, definitely use a script. The reason I went for a cloud installation was to experiment with termination in other countries.
EDIT – this is an outbound VPN not a way to access my internal network securely from outside. That I do with an SSL VPN on the Draytek router.
Digital Ocean make it so simple to spin up a VM and dirt cheap. A $5 a month 1 CPU, 1 GB ram, 25GB SSD comes with 1 TB of outbound data transfer (inbound is free), but you don’t even have to pay for the month, it’s $0.007/hr. So just spinning one up for a week is trivial, plus I got $100 60 days free credit as I signed up through a referral.
Their data centres are in San Fransico, New York, Toronto, Bangalore, Singapore, Amsterdam (2), London and Frankfurt. Keeping data inside the EU is probably all they’re worried about, so who cares if it breaks out in Brussels? The pipelines are so fat it doesn’t affect performance. It’s not something I’d even considered before as the ping times on my other servers are great. Looking at tracert, it takes 7 of the 10 hops to get out of TalkTalk land.
EDIT just done another DNS Leak Test and it’s from London this time. I’ll keep an eye on it.
UPDATE it was me interpreting a report incorrectly. It’s breaking out in London and always has been. The Brussels bit is to do with Google’s regional DNS servers (the VPN server is set to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4). I have seen a Pi tutorial about using PiHole and OpenVPN on the same server. Will have another look at it as the server can easily run both and probably not notice it.
Had an email from Broadbandbuyer, 10% off Synology and QNAP with Iron Wolf HDDs. Bugger just bought and DS218j and 2 x 1TB . Should have know, the deal is only for the DS218+ and 4TB drives.
The DS218+ is a damn fine NAS but literally twice the price.
Been using it ever since. I forget that I am.
I forgot Wilko played with the Blockheads. I did see Dr Feelgood but at the Colston Hall, far too big a venue.
Saw Wilko at the O2 which in our case is a smaller standing only venue, the sort of place once big names now play that can still attract numbers. Next down from that is The Fleece (& Firkin). Once a pub with music, now a music venue where the likes of Bad Manners play (always sold out, always brilliant) and lots of indie and other non mainstream bands. Just seen Hayseed Dixie will be there in March, may go for that. Big Country are there on Friday. You see them there on their way up and their way down.
I’ve officially given up, it’s just too fiddly. Couldn’t get the traffic flowing and setting up a user is just bloody awful and far too easy to get wrong and cockup existing users at the same time.Still it’s cost me nowt and I may well have a look at other tutorials as it’s a good idea.Well that didn’t take long. Found a script that did it all painlessly and correctly in minutes. It only does 1 user but can’t see that as an issue.
It doesn’t knock off much in a speed test, but despite the server being in London the traffic appears to be coming from Brussels.
If anyone want to help test this, just PM me. There should be loads of bandwidth available, 4 TBs comes with my number of servers and I’m using hardly anything.
The Blockheads was Ian Dury, bit I think I know why you thought that. Their bassist, Norman Watt-Roy, but he’s been playing with Wilko since his non-death.
Wilko was a member of Dr Feelgood. Pub rock at it’s best. I wish I’d lived where you do in the 70s. Mind you I may not have survived ?
Blimey, I remember that mobo, it was the first “serious” mobo I bought. Probably because it was quad core ready and had a pci-e x 16. Stick rigidly to the Asus approved ram and God help you if you used all 4 slots.
This upgrade blocking is going happen more and more now, at some stage older hardware has to be abandoned by any o/s. C2D is 12 years old now and the HD 4670 is ten.
Boris, you don’t need to install solar panels to save money, just buy a mobo with a recent Intel Pentium SOC. The Pentium Silver J5005 does the same as the Q6600 at 10 watts vs 105 watts plus it has graphics onboard.
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