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Blimey John. I remember being in the same boat 7 years ago now, almost to the day. You’re feeling better than I did!
The after care is fantastic, as you’ll find out. My blood pressure and cholesterol level since is always described as perfect. I don’t think you smoke any more, but giving up the fags is the biggest thing anyone can do. It cut my chances of another by 50%.
Stranded is used to achieve a tighter bend radius, so it’s found in patch leads. It’s totally useless for punch down keystone jacks or patch panels.
I spent this morning making a wall mounted 12 port patch panel for the workbench. 4 ports to the main house LAN, 4 to the Test LAN and one for the workshop PC (so that it can be simply patched to either network). That meant some jiggery pokery coaxing Cat 5e round some tight corners and into the switches.
The Test LAN has it’s own router who’s WAN port connects to the House LAN and on to the internet. Now I can have all sorts of devices, including PoE, on the bench and test the effect of double NAT on my network designs. The router is a cheap and cheerful (£20) TP-Link WR841N and does all I need. The best thing is I can change it’s IP subnet in 2 seconds and it automatically changes the DHCP pool to suit. The antenna are 5db so it’s range is pretty decent too. I can be sat in the 1st floor living room watching the telly and testing kit at the same time ?
Not much has changed in 12 months!
Yes, stranded is a PITA. Given the cheap cost of flat cables I’d just buy the appropriate lengths.
That’s the fun of Linux ? My love affair with Cinnamon (or Mint) didn’t last long with virtual machines and I got to like the lightweight stuff like LXDE. Although my current laptop is now more than powerful enough for anything I’ve stuck with them.
The only native Linux desktop I use now is for 1 Pi, the 2 other Pi’s and the AWS server are non GUI. Might be time to look at KDE in a VM again.
No, we don’t really do referendums in the UK as we are a representative democracy. In other countries, such as Eire and especially Switzerland, it’s part of the constitutional arrangements. Therefore they do them much better than we do in all respects. I think I’m right in that for the Irish ones the wording of the question(s) is decided by representatives of the public, not the politicians. I don’t think we’re grown up enough to do that ? So we don’t have any referendum history to set a precedent either way as to timing (or much else).
What we do know how to do is a General Election, and as I’ve mentioned before some have been very close together indeed. I was all for a “Peoples Vote” but I’m coming round to think this will be just as divisive and have the same issues as the last one.
What is for sure is that Tories are lost in a mire of their own making and their actions since the vote have only made it worse. The country is being held hostage by several opposing minority groups that have the power to bring the Government down. Pleasing them all is impossible and the more rabid of them listen to no-one except their own voices which now have more power than ever before, or will again.
A lot of these characters are the ones the media would go to for a loony view of any particular topic in the knowledge that they knew what answer would be coming. I wouldn’t trust any of that lot to be in a position to govern anyone.
One for Dan. According to the switch the Pi Hole is consuming 1.7 watts and the Pi UniFi Controller 1.8 watts.
Bob, I use this £6 USB 3 Hard Drive Enclosure from Amazon. To stop thinner drives moving about it comes with a sticky felt pad.
I loved reading the 1 star review. The idiot thought they were getting storage not just a case. For six quid? ?
We joined in 1973 during a Conservative Govt that was elected in 1970. Are you saying Ted Heath was a Marxist?
The final payment for WWII was made in 2006. At the end of WWII the national debt was 1/3rd of GDP. It’s now 86%.
What was your point again?
You are making up scenarios to suit your argument. That is an impossible question, you have no idea of the state of the UK if we hadn’t been in the EU for 40 years. Look at the state we were in when we joined! The sick man of Europe. Why would that be any different if we’d stayed out? If we were in that state now we’d be biting their hand off to join.
It’s since we have been IN the EU that we’ve prospered. Go look at the figures. No-one is saying it’s the land of milk and honey, that’s putting words in others mouths. Of course there are flaws in the EU, or if not flaws things that not everyone will agree with. With that many people involved how could there not be? It’s exactly the same within these borders. But the alternative of the UK out on it’s own will be far, far worse.
It was the SD card but it hasn’t been totally trashed, so set the PiHole up again from scratch. Set the DHCP server to point to the PiHole, rebooted my laptop and went straight to the PiHole admin. I was amazed to find the laptop had already made 271 requests 47 of which had been blocked.
Thanks to a sale at one of my suppliers I have now picked up an IP-Com 8 port Gigabit Managed PoE switch. It’s 802.3at PoE+ (30W) so can handle everything except the big PTZ cameras. The Pi’s and my AP are running from it.
As it’s managed, and so is my normal switch, I can now set up my test network on the same infrastructure as the home network. That will save having to get various switches and routers out of cupboards and temporarily plugged in on the bench in a pile of spaghetti patch leads.
Next project is to look at Dan’s NFS share hand off for my own internal use Pi’s and a USB drive one for anything going elsewhere. I’ve just had a thought, my wireless test kit runs quite happily from a mobile phone portable battery pack, I wonder if a Pi could?
You cannot upgrade the ram, it’s soldered to the motherboard. The machine is not designed to be worked on.
It’s had it’s day Bob.
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A weeks work in Portsmouth coming up soon. Four of us staying in a hotel in the middle of town, it will be out every night for food and drink but I can’t do volume any more. The hotel deal includes breakfast thankfully.
+1 Even supermarket trips are a rarity these days.
The description says 2.4 A.
I have one running a Pi Hole and another a Ubiquiti controller, both on 24 /7. The Pi Hole is in trouble but that looks like the SD card as mentioned before. Most of the Amazon reviews are from folk running Pi.
Les, what a PITA. Lets hope this fun doesn’t await us in 6 months time.
I’m quite happy organising our own travel in the EU but outside I’ll leave it to the experts. Two of my kids did a 3 week tour of eastern Europe in August. No visas required but once outside the EU things like mobile data got complicated and expensive. It’s the first time they’ve been over a real border and were amazed when the Serbian border guards woke them up at 2 am (sleeper train) to see their passports and took them (the passports) away for stamping.
Lots of companies still insist I must live in Avon, not South Gloucestershire which according to them doesn’t exist. Avon was scrapped in 1966 however the name lingers on, especially in institutions like the Avon & Somerset Constabulary.
I use these to get data and power to my Pi machines from a PoE switch. At £8 a lot cheaper than a hat and works with all the Pi models, and anything else powered via 5v micro USB.
It’s the same thing, are you thinking of devaluation? That happened in 1967.
Let’s just remind ourselves it was an immediate large drop, not the normal movements you get from economics at work. It was totally due to the reaction to the vote and it has not recovered. If the Govt screws up the deal it will fall again. It is hard to see what policies proposed by the Brexiteers will see it rise.
Perversely the FTSE 100 does well because the large corporate there are more linked to the dollar. However that increase in wealth only goes to the few, not the many. Like Jacob Rees-Mogg and the other ERG millionaires and not those in the North East or other areas in need.
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