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I wouldn’t ditch the Fire TV. TV manufacturers have a habit of not updating their apps, there’s plenty of older “smart” TVs that no longer have iPlayer.
With consumer goods you have no long term relationship with the manufacturer, once they’ve sold a widget to you they have to sell the next widget to you to get any more income so all the effort goes into that, not support. I’ll bet the warranty doesn’t cover this aspect.
Apart from that looks a good TV.
I remember we did a lot of real world benchmarking back in the day of the old Forum with dual channel memory i.e. both modules the same. It made little difference apart from in the synthetic benchmarks.
My own laptop has 1 x 4GB and 1 x 8GB but it’s still dual channel
I think that’s a trick of the latest memory controllers.
What can screw thing up is mixing single sided and double sided, but that depends on how picky the motherboard is. I tend to go to the memory vendors website and see what they recommend.
I deliberately bought some sour beers from Beer Hawk as I’ve tried some European brewed ones in the Wildman. Lambic, Gose, Beliner Weisse and Flanders Red are well known ones. The one I remember most from the Wildman is a sour Saison (Belgian farmhouse beer).
I haven’t tried the Rodenbach Red (Flanders) or Sofie (Saison) yet and I’m keeping the Timmermans Kriek (cherry Lambic) for when my daughter comes back from Uni as she loves Krieks.
What I have tried are the British and American ones and their idea of sour is to load them with citrus and / or salt. Not unpleasant but one a night is more than enough and the only one I’d go back to is the (Bristol) Wild Beer Sleeping Lemons and then only on a hot summer day in their bar on the docks.
I guess the Belgians have just been doing it for much longer and know what they’re about. Lambic is a bit of an art form in that it’s left exposed to react with wild yeasts and it has to be between +8 and -8 centigrade so that limits the brewing season.
The most useful single upgrade you can make is from a spinner to an SSD. Even an SSD to a new M2 SSD is noticeable, transfer rate more than double. But it’s not just the transfer rates, it’s the zero latency that is the real killer.
That’s not to say that the ram shouldn’t be upgraded too, but that will be noticeable when you are multi tasking and have run out of ram causing disk paging – to a slow spinner.
The server I am working on is 7 years old and the spinners are 5+, but it’s all still working OK. HP built it to last, but that’s not to say I’ll be ignoring the backup side of things!
The mega database servers I was using on the Carrier project are now bargain basement. HP ProLiant DL380 G7 2x Xeon E5620 2.40GHz 4 core CPU (8 thread) 24GB RAM P410i RAID card 2 x 72GB HDD for £120 inc p&p on EBay. If I had a large enough rack I’d be tempted.
Well at least it’s only a newspaper.
RabidBrexiteerSome over excited Conservative MPs (not just supporters) were at the judiciary and the Lords because they didn’t agree with them (many after staunchly defending them before when they did agree with them). That’s a bit more constitutional in impact than an opinion column or even the BBC.IIRC the more excitable parts of the right wing press even went so far as to call them ‘Enemies of the people’.
“We want UK judges deciding on UK legal matters!” – UK judges decide on UK legal matters. “ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE!”
Sure.
Had to reboot the PiHole and it didn’t, again. Added PiHole service to the PiUniFi server but decided the Pi is too flaky for anything serious i.e. production.
My old HP Proliant Microserver Gen 7 (AMD N54L) is sat there doing nothing, so I decided it’s time to tip my toes in the VMWare pool. It’s got a dual core 2.2Ghz Turion CPU, 8GB ram, 4 x 1TB spinners (unfortunately no VMWare compatible RAID) and a spare 120GB SSD. All drives checked with OEM diagnostics and are fine.
The free ESXi hypervisor has been installed via a USB DVD drive on a 16GB USB drive plugged into a socket on the motherboard and the SSD into a similar spare SATA (both are designed for tape / CD drives as the HDDs are in a custom cage). ESXi can also access the NFS shares on my Synology which means I don’t have to move downloaded ISOs onto it’s local storage.
I’ve been running proof of concept for the last 2 days and it’s very usable and rock solid. Running an Ubuntu 18.04 desktop remotely via VNC is acceptable for most “office” type tasks but not for things like watching video **. This is whilst a PiHole and UniFi server are running in another VM. So this morning I wiped the lot and started again bearing in mind all I’d learned.
I’ll probably do a proper blog post on it later.
** yesterday evening I was running U18.04 remotely full screen on my laptop. I had a notification on my phone from Amazon about a case I may want to look at. Spookily it was one with 4 x hot swap drives bays – how do they know? Anyway I was on autopilot and just fired up Firefox and googled the case, then went to a You Tube review. It was only when I couldn’t increase the sound that I remembered it wasn’t running on my laptop.
Just completed the upgrade job. EaseUs Parition Manager just couldn’t get the cloning right for the new disk to boot. I think the myriad of Lenovo partitions on there had some thing to do with it. There were even partitions after the W10 one.
Anyway I put the old disk back in the laptop and downloaded EaseUS ToDo Free (I use the paid for version on my laptop) and did a System Backup to an external drive. I then created a ToDo boot USB stick (could be a DVD), stuck the new drive in, booted from the USB and did a restore.
It had only backed up the MS boot and the W10 partitions, none of the Lenovo stuff, and it booted first time. Went into Disk Management and expanded the partition into the free space. If you leave out the failed attempts with EPM the ToDo process too about 2 hours for a 128GB SSD to 2.5″ spinner and back to a 480GB SSD. Most of that is sat about waiting.
Any of those will do, but I am upgrading a customer laptop to a Kingston 480 this morning and my own laptop has one too. I got mine from Amazon for £68.
You can ditch the cache drive, it’s only of any use with a spinner.
Bob, yes but you may have to shrink the partitions on the original to fit.
You can use ToDo or the free EaseUS Partition Manager to clone the disk. You’ll then have to do the fix to let Windows know it’s an SSD.
However I would agree that it’s a good time to do a clean install.
Glad to see you’re home John. Let them spoil you for a couple of days ?
It’s the marks from the sticky heart monitor pads. You start with a 13 pad monster that even has a pad on your ankle (looks at circulation I believe) and gradually go down the scale as their confidence in your recovery increases. They regularly remove and reattach them and boy are they sticky!
I didn’t resort to chemical help, the worst comes off straight away, just a few days of soap and water in the shower gets rid of the ever fading circles.
I have a shoe with a raise in it, but it took >20 years to get one! The problem is that the leg that doesn’t bend has to be shorter to walk so I will always be lopsided. The shoe makes that a bit better and doesn’t look like a Frankenstein job, you couldn’t tell at a normal glance (I know how Tom Cruise feels now ? ).
You only get one pair and not all shoes can be adapted, so I decided that my “formal” shoe will be the one. It’s a Doc Martin clone and they weren’t sure it would be suitable, but they managed it (the raise is basically a wedge in the heel). There is no way my safety shoes could be adapted, nor anything you would wear about the house. So it’s a bit of a waste of time. My every day non work shoes are Clarks Active Air ones, that sort of sole makes a difference.
It’s just as well my spine bends a bit more than it should, try putting your shoes on and doing up the laces without bending your leg. I can touch my toes no problem.
The knee itself has never been painful, there is no joint to be painful. However it’s nearly 3″ shorter (it has to be a bit shorter to walk) so my body is lopsided. You would think all the strain is on the good side, after all my left knee has to do the work of two when standing up etc. however that’s not the case.
More weight goes down the right side of my body plus my spine bends to compensate for the difference in length. That has caused my right ankle to wear out, no longer painful since it’s been replaced though. But all the joints on the right hand side, including my shoulder (seems weird but makes sense) are more worn than the left. I get bad backs because of the spine bending but it’s rare it spasms so much I can’t move.
My left knee is now very painful when standing up or sitting down and perversely at rest including at night in bed. It’s fine standing and walking, but the residual soreness from standing up now lasts a long while. It’s not arthritis, I’ve seen the x-rays. They don’t know what it is, they just say it’s “over strained”, but to me it seems like something is causing inflammation between the knee joint and the knee cap and that is hitting a nerve. There is no discernible swelling but it wouldn’t need much in that small gap. I can’t cope with long car rides, like going to Cornwall, very well any more as I can’t move my left knee much. Stairs are a nightmare, especially going down them in crowded public places like the tube. I get the Mrs to go behind me to run interference ?
All this combined has me back on Tramadol 3 times a day which I hate. It contributes to the “I can’t be bothered” mentality.
Glad you like it, I keep going back to that enclosure. I may well be needing one of those 2.5 to 3.5 kits soon, now I know where to go ?
The joint is totally gone, the result of knee hitting railing at 40+mph They squared off the ends of what was left of the condyles (not much) and joined the two together, so it’s now one bone from hip to ankle.
We will need to match the EU GDPR rules for lots of reasons, not least if we wish to trade with EU nationals.
It was a bit chilly to start with, but that’s what coat, hat and gloves are for ? Hat and gloves came off half way through. I wandered down to and around 40 acres park. Its a bit of land next to the south wales railway line that used to flood every winter when I was a kid. Due to the massive building projects in the area the worst of the drainage was sorted but I don’t think it can ever be built on. Good news for us. It’s the same a mile up the Stoke Brook in the middle of the concrete jungle of Bradley Stoke. There has to be somewhere for all that run off to go.
Accidentally did 3 miles as it was so nice out; diverted to Parkway Station to pick up my train tickets to London next Tuesday – to the Synology 2019 do. One issue I have is the venous pump back, I have no right knee joint. This can lead to blood pooling around my ankle but this doesn’t happen so much since I had the joint replaced (arthritis). The circulation was tested thoroughly before the ankle operation could go ahead and deemed acceptable.
Time to do as you’re told young man ?
As I mentioned before the after care I’ve had, especially immediately afterwards, has been brilliant. The outpatient cardiac nurses really know their stuff and will talk through everything with you. You’ll get tons of leaflets too, and tablets. I take 4, aspirin, beta blocker, water tablet (I can pee for England) and a statin. I have been on a super water tablet too when I had some fluid on the lungs trouble (the part of my heart that got damaged deals with the lungs).
I only have annual checkups now, basically blood tests, but the hospital keep a separate watch on the fluid on the lungs issue. Again this is down to an annual visit and for the last 2 years it’s been fine. I have had no problems getting travel insurance (for Europe) and it wasn’t expensive.
Everything in moderation is now the rule. I haven’t given up alcohol or other treats but no longer have them hanging around in quantity. I can honestly say they’re not missed day to day but sometimes you need a treat ? I have been lax at exercise, my other disabilities don’t help, it’s easy to sit there if you have nothing planned. On that score I’m out for a walk in a mo.
It took me days to scrub off the marks from the heart monitors, it looked like I’d been attacked by a fleet of octopuses ?
Stents are wonderful things, I only had 1 though, usually you are home on the second day but they kept me in an extra day as my T count had been so high. They wanted to do a full ultrasound before they let me out and no-one was available.
Good news! Amazon tells me your doormat has been delivered to a neighbour ?
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