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The golden rule of give-aways as far as I was concerned was that I would only ever win something if there was no way I would ever be able to use the thing. So it always turned out I only every won, e.g. cinema tickets for place to which access from home was just about impossible.
Glad your main event was something to fire your interest, though I suspect it would be of interest while you wore your ‘trade’ rather than your home hat.
I have set my portable to try the latest windows 10 1809 update, the initial phase of the update took a while, but the restart part is not going anywhere too obvious, since I restarted the thing about 15 minutes ago. There is no progress bar or anything like that, though the SSD appears to be involved in something ‘vital’. It is starting to feel like a walk away and do something more interesting event.
Ideally, systems should be balanced, whether using the so called thermostatic valves or not. Those with active room stats that can open or close, preferably restricting flow rather than totally closing it off can be discounted from this as they have their own rules for system design and configuration. The flow balancing can, perhaps should also be achieved via the tool operated valve at the other end of the radiator.
I once knew someone who balanced the system in a power station in Malaysia. He considered that was the pinnacle of his heating, ventilation and air-conditioning carer wish list and never wanted the achievement masked by a subsequent defeat somewhere else. So he declined all knowledge of the process when he worked elsewhere. I suspect he felt users should only be admitted to his balanced spaces after the removal of their ability to meddle with the controls. Dummy controls are a useful accessory. If a room is too hot or too cold a setting somewhere has been messed up, or the user(s) are wrongly dressed. Health issues can greatly change the heat dynamics of people and as for rooms, using doors and knowing the effects of the heat contributed by people, – it can be surprisingly generous amounts, are both important.
If a system has been in use for several years, the effects of sludge build up along with air and airlocks can really mess up the running of the system.
I suspect that Ed’s suggestions are very good. I started back in the early 1980s so my experience of any detail is irrelevant though the basics are vital and those two suggestions did appear to lay them out very clearly. Think clearly, plan logically and break the task into small manageable parts. The first thing I ever did was reprogram a multi position training simulator at work, we only had it set up for 6 trainees plus and instructor but it had the capability of dealing with 32 trainees. I guess it was a bit similar to a game in some ways. It was written in assembler and we only had a 6byte window through which to access the programming code, so write it out long hand, enter 6 up to bytes, save and if you though that was the right point, then test the steps. Boy did I learn to save little and very often! Along the way I had to write some test routines to map out previously unused functions – we had changed the main machine’s method of use during contract negotiations. The simulator was delivered RFS to start training staff in advance of the new system going live and that was before the changes were made. We did not have the budget to pay for new training programs…
Do chose an achievable target for your first steps and something that will give you good payback, or ‘early gratification’. I still get a buzz from my early efforts, I am sure ED does from memories of his successes and overcoming the failures through bugs. One routine was called 39 times but on the 40th it fell over, it took a while to find the error – a variable was longer than the space allocated. Easily corrected but initially the devil to find. For me that was the ‘game’ element. Remember, my tools were very crude with no programmer’s access just a 6 contiguous byte window to poke data into – though I even taught the manufacturer’s staff some short cuts when finally synchronising the programs to the audio visuals.
We had our boiler replaced at the start of 2016 after 24 years use. As it heats the water as well as doing the central heating it is never really off. Leaving things like the pumps and fans idle for months on end can cause them to stick, been there done that got the T shirts which the moths then ate!
It is wise to give them a precautionary five minutes ever few weeks when they are not in regular use, then you can call out the plumber before the rush if all is not well. Some times a well placed gentle knock on the various parts can unstick the offender. After 11 years some faults can be expected, the main question if how expensive they are compared with a new boiler. The cost, including an 8 year guarantee sounded reasonable at a fraction over £2,300 for a Worcester Bosch, time will tell if the choice was a wise one.
Thank you Dave, I will have to plan that change for a quiet time as changing the drive is a little more of a task than simply powering the rig down and plugging in the new module.
With one of the machines I upgraded from spinning rust to an SSD I also had a ‘bit of a time of things’ I ended up starting off a USB formatting the SSD I think then ‘installing a system image I had prepared earlier onto the SSD. Windows 10 uses the original Windows 7 image creation package and appears quite useful.
I was wondering about doing the last machine in the house using a spinner. The micro server is feeling very slow and the other machines are hardly fire breathing monsters. Then I wondered if increasing the memory from the original 2 GB to perhaps 4 Gb there is not a huge difference in price between 2 GB and 4 GB ECC corrected memory and a jump from 2 GB to a total of 6 GB might be as useful as the change from spinner to SSD as a first step. On the other hand is it worthwhile messing with a working 5 year old system? The existing spinner is only a 250 GB item with a small OS partition, so a cheap SSD is possibly worth my interest. I just wonder if it is worth the effort or the cost and whether any benefit would really be felt.
Sorry, I can hear the edge of depression in your writing and yes, it has not been an easy time of things. I have ‘graduated’ from Lansoprazole to omeprazole a little while back in an effort to control by stomach in its upper reaches. I cut it in half that way because things in other areas are still out of their and my comfort zone. I do not have the advanced levels of arthritis you have, though as one doctor said I do have it everywhere before adding, ‘everyone has some evidence of arthritis by your age, with some bits worse than others’. It can be an autoimmune problem which might tie in with the stomach issue. Though, Asperger’s is associated with malabsorption of some nutrients, e.g. Zinc and in some cases by self screening of food stuffs that the body would benefit from consuming. This can be a real issue for some, we have a disabled daughter whose food fads are like a religious mania at times.
I have mild arthritis in several fingers and the characteristic nodules on several knuckles with mild reddening especially in cold weather. The Naproxen I take appears to have limited success in controlling the various inflation sites and might well play a part in the digestive disorders, but genetics might also be in play. They played a major part in my needing one knee operation two spinal operations and five hand operations, another finger is now showing signs of wanting to joint that party but I keep trying to tear up its invite.
I understand it is depressing and a struggle against the daily round of pain and the cycle of depression that it causes. We have my exercise plan, sorry eldest daughter’s dogs with us this weekend not just for the week, the combination of a cold and the almost freezing temperature outside meant that their walk was severely truncated. As my weight had already edged up this morning, it was a bad start to the day. I have now put off taking my wife’s car out for its weekly keep it happy run. The dogs are now doing what older dogs do best on chilly mornings, sleeping in their baskets, having decided they were too tired to bother much with food. That will change as the day warms up and I will regain some of my lost activity points before night falls once more. Now to deal with the rest of my morning breathing medical schedule to keep that source of reactions at bay, once the music starts the roundabout just goes round and round.
Good luck with the PIP star court machinations; a qualified ally can be a great help in such cases
Our 31 week baby was in the central children’s hospital of the area in Japan. The treatment was good but very standardised, three washes and changes of footwear to get into the intensive care treatment room. The equipment was fine but the sticky pads were carefully graduated to the baby so they fell of rather than taking the skin off. They reasoned that changing a pad was less intrusive than skin repairs, I tended to agree! With some on the infants the skin was so thin you could basically see through the outer layers. All in all a very tense time so JayCeeDee, I understand how your wife must have felt. My wife was in another, adults women’s hospital several miles away after emergency surgery, so that was one source of initial stress that could be handled in a more controlled manner. ‘Everything is fine’ being the order of the day until she was discharged a couple of weeks later and could visit our daughter.
They regularly remove and reattach them and boy are they sticky!
They come in graduated strengths, for adults they are stronger than for new born babies where they are for ever falling off after a few hours, There they cannot be strong for fear of pulling the skin off. I does give you a jolt when they fall off and all hell breaks loose for a few seconds when the machines spot a possible flat line situation. Then you learn to take it a bit more steadily and react in a more measured way each time it happens. They leave virtually no residue, but the baby can get marked under the skin.
As Dave said it is a cosmetic thing with adults and either way the marks will wear/wash off or fade with time. Some people are more intolerant of them than others. It is a personal choice thing in the end.
There are two possible causes of those marks in my book, either it is where they were stuck on and you have adhesive residue. Surgical spirit can help with that. Otherwise it it is the under skin bruising and arnica is said to help with gentle massage. I believe it is the massage that does the trick. Looking on the bright side if that is the sum total of your worries today then you are doing well and welcome back. This is the important time so follow the instructions to the letter and accept all help – from skilled qualified sources.
Ah, you mean the period of excess when Darling, Blair and Gorgon Brown spent all the money, until someone had to rein things in a bit. Somehow the news from the just ending spend-fest jamboree has not sounded quite right for correction or even over correction. It sounded more like a period of economic annihilation with a typical TAW response of let anyone but me pay. Roll on a quarter century of darkness – they will all be out on sympathy strikes and secondary pickets anyway so who will notice?
I have bought a couple of such cases over the last couple of years. They have all been to a high standard. This example is one of the cheapest, yet shows a level of quality and completeness that is very hard to fault. I already have several 3.5 inch external drives, that have not come out of their hiding place in several years, some with once useful sized drives. So it would be hard to justify purchasing a case and an SSD, even though it would make a very tempting package, but I am not sure how or why I could make use of it now. One to ‘think about’ I guess.
Its basic and base human nature and as such it is the same the world over. It was how the communists stayed in power in many places except they had the power of the gun and the boot to help things along. Enough crumbs fell the way of the earnest helpers to keep them on side. From Trump to the ‘Hero’ in N Korea the method is almost the same though the effect in Trump’s case is bolstered by liberal doses of hysteria and wishful thing, a bit like the souls dashing after Corbyn into the darkness.
The pain sounds awfully familiar and I suspect that it could be at least in part from the back, or more exactly the spine. I had tramadol for the back pain before my operation but I found it had no discernable effects at all. Perhaps that is related to my abreaction to some tablets. It neither controlled the pain nor made me feel light headed or any of the other effects people are said to feel – and the rest of the family (including the dog who was then dying of cancer rather more happily and comfortably) tend to exhibit when taking the tablets. My problem was spinal stenosis cured by a spinal operation to relieve the compression and ‘wedging’ the vertebra to let the leg nerves out. The spine was all but totally crushed on the MRI images and I was given the 8 hour warning; ‘if you get these symptoms you have up to 8 hours to get an operation before you are dead‘ warning. You could well have something similar trapping the nerves to the leg, if the vertebra are canted over, (though without the dramatic warning!). The vertebra pinch the nerves where they emerge to go into the leg. Before the operation I would sometimes ‘sleep’ in very short stretches as the leg pain blasted through again and again with no relief position that I ever found. Since the operations and injections strategically timed physio really helped me to correct my standing and walking posture errors with very beneficial effects.
Sadly they were just the latest of a long line of similar ventures. I used to think that it was down to us having a long line of really crap ‘managers’ but I slowly realised that the feather bedding of the sharks and charlatans became the main game, just look at the mess that was created out of BHS.
Maplin’s rot did start a long time back, when you could cross the road and find the same kit in PC World for up to 30% less something had to be wrong. The abandonment of mail order, its once own ground was another own goal, but what shocked me was the gross margins that they aimed to generate, no wonder a lot of the stuff was at the lowest end of cut price quality but sold for far too high a rice, now we know why. The term pyramid selling keeps wanting to come up. In the end those wonderful high margins were only used to create an illusion that the chain could trade – did no one bother to realise that it was all illusion? The whole desk of cards was built on selling the business several times over. Once to raise a loan with which to buy it, then to take the money a scarper leaving only a high interest shell to implode. The most amazing thing for me is that someone should realise the name of the game and call out the loan abusers, if not the first time round, at least by the second or third. Someone must be left holding the bad, worthless paper.
I learned from earlier, much earlier displays never to live on credit, I saw too many businesses and people suffer from high cash flow zero residual worth situations. I struggle to find the difference between what was done and money laundering, which is of course a close cousin of the pyramid deals.
It will be interesting to see if Peter Jones can create a worthwhile mail order business out of the wreak, there is still a chance,but for a long time Amazon and to a less extent EBay have more or less sewn up the business since Maplin started.
ouch, that sounds seriously painful, then and on an ongoing basis. Walking must be a serious challenge, I applaud you for being able to walk and the extent to which you achieve walking.
About 65 years ago I lived a little to the south of there and had several uncles who worked for Bristol Aeroplane Company at Filton, but have left the area in the early 1950s even my memory of Fishponds, the Oldbury Court Estate, etc. is now somewhat faded, but I remember the walks in the area. Traffic was much reduced compared with now so far safer and easier on the lungs, even when not out in the country. The rail wine still worked via the local station to Bath, I understand it is now just a walkway after the Rail Closures of the 1960s.
After me early morning frost cruncher walks with the dogs yesterday I had a warmer march round one of the more specialist hospitals with my wife to learn more about her planned surgery, so added another far slower half mile or so to my days total. An hour’s drive there and another hour back, half way across the adjacent county for a 20 minute consultation. My wife was happy with what she gained, but, the effects of her latest and hopefully final round of chemo were very clear, she is struggling to eat and walking is not fun. So those walks round the large hospital were not fun. Still the plastics unit staff were pretty upbeat and my wife stands to loose a major scar though gain a number of hopefully less obvious ones during the process.
I brought the afternoon dog walks forward so they were shirt sleeve affairs and far more enjoyable for that though they took my daily walking distance well past 6 miles. The effects on such as blood pressure was far less obvious though it is now more consistently within the acceptable range.
Sorry that your knee is locked, has the joint actually been removed or is it simply not flexing at all. While a lot of things can now be done with joints that were once impossible. I could understand that fixing them, or trying to fix your now now is probably a gamble you would probably not wish to undertake, even if it was considered possible. I was lucky, neither my right knee nor left ankle reached the problem level yours attained.
Today’s morning dog walk has been delayed to attend to other issues which allows the worst of the frost to clear. Hopefully it will be a more comfortable experience.
On a different subject, my 30 metre flat patch cable is now currently part of my spares chest, where it may well remain for sometime until it finds a useful home, if ever.
Walking is the best exercise, as the leg muscles actually do part of the hearts function in pumping the blood around. (Not jogging or running on hard surfaces unless you want your knees/hips to disintegrate). Swimming is even better. But if you cannot do those then the post-cardiac nurses will advise you on upper body exercises that do a good job.
No argument to that. I was told of the venous pump back in the 1960s when I had a knee operation, ‘so get moving!’. The nurses said something like 40% of the circulation effort can come from the legs. If you have to walk (not run or jog) on firm surfaces, wear suitable footwear. There are many supportive shoes with cushioned soles that work. Avoid the fashion statement junk. My knees, ankle and spine hate anything the lacks good support and cushioning A well conditioned foot should also help with the impact management for walking, running or jogging require perfect technique and training. As a lousy swimmer I find making time for regular swimming too challenging. I was offered hydrotherapy after one spinal round, the the physio told me that the prescribed exercises plus walking including to and from the hospital already put me ahead of most patients even after their hydropool sessions. They were, on average younger than me.
Dave, you might want to delay the walk for a few more minutes and do wrap up nice and warm before you go. I have just done a whisker under 3 miles with daughter’s dogs and it was blooming chilly with frost on the grass and a very chill air, the dogs loved it, but my hands did not. A neighbour had a similar experience to you over aftercare he was always out walking briskly about the area after his initial recovery period. he has since moved to a new location because of dealing with aged parents but he used to say how he was monitored for all the vital aspects of his care with plans and guidance sheets to keep him right.
Disabilities really do not help with exercise, do you think that they played any part in your heart trouble? or is there no clear reason for your heart attack? At least you now have in mind to try to keep moderation as a guide and watchword. I have never had any hint of heart trouble, but I know that moderation would be wise to adopt. Though I should couple that to ‘balance’ and pacing myself in all things that I do, think, or say. If you can exert leverage on a situation do so, if you cannot; then do not fret, never fret rant or rave, walk away and deal with something you can fix. It served by father well for the last 45 years of his life until he died at 93. The last few years he lived with a monster aneurysm which with over excitement could have burst at any moment. His surgeon never got to operate father left it too late, but urged me to get checked out, I did and was given the all clear, that condition can be genetic.
As far as I know, it activates the temperature controller to allow the oven to be set to some sort of prewarm, e.g. to dry things out after washing metal dishes or prove bread. The other two settings determine the cooking mode, grill or fan. It may also allow the oven light to be turned on in some types of oven.
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