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Geek is just the electronics department of Wish.

I normally wouldn’t go near it, but I was ill while I was away on Saturday, so had money left over that I wasn’t expecting. I rarely get time to myself, so anything I save for those times is essentially written off. I paid through Paypal too, so I should be covered if it goes wrong.

Has Ali Baba / Ali Express been around for a while? I vaguely remember hearing about it 15 – 20 years ago from a friend from Hong Kong, but I might be getting memories confused with each other and thinking of another shop.

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Ed P wrote:

If the photos are > 30 years old then you will almost certainly want to colour correct the blues and greens before archiving. It can be a long painstaking job. Photoshop and Corel Paintshop Pro have plug-ins to ease the pain. Tbh I do not know a cheap/free way of doing it.

Scan them with an Epson ?

I scanned some old photos for the wife’s grandfather last week, and there’s a big difference when you use the colour correct setting (I can’t remember the exact name as the program’s on the laptop).

The original’s on the left. I’ve cut out faces etc. just in case

 

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PlaneMan wrote:

Warhammer 40,000, Space Marine. Use a spam email account. Just under 2 days left.

I signed up to the newsletter for the last giveaway. I clicked through the links for this, and got the game, so it’s working for existing subscribers too 🙂

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Bob Williams wrote:

Wheels-Of-Fire wrote:

Oh welcome to the club then Bob. I had the tail of my pancreas and spleen removed in 2012. I had a pseudo cyst in my pancreas that was causing pancreatic fluid to leak into my abdomen. There was nothing wrong with my spleen but as it normally connects to the tail of the pancreas it had to go too. Perhaps we could compare scars one day

Graham – unless you’ve had: *3 brain surgeries after hit & run & fractured skull. *spinal surgery to remove, rebuild with carbon fibre & refit, No.4 vertebra. *Bowel disease with a Parastomal hernia. *Arthroscopy left knee. *Aforementioned Pancreatic& spleen adventure, tail had cancer cells, spleen full of them: – – You might lose on scores! Not bragging, just very unfortunate and wish I had none. BTW, if I had not had a Prostate problem in December 17, I would not have had the CT & MRI scans which found the cancer on the Pancreas. Medical serendipity?

I don’t think I should play this game. I just got to half a dozen serious injuries without much effort. I don’t think I want to tempt fate! ??

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The only music that matters tonight is Golden Earring – Radar Love 😀 It’s the unofficial motorbike rally anthem*, and I’ve just finished rebuilding the bike at 2:30 AM ready for a rally tomorrow morning 😀

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NzZ1mCNbNA

 

*Every rock cover band in the world seems to play it at biker rallies ?

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John, you might be better off either copying the music to your phone, or streaming it from your computer to your phone. MediaMonkey will do it for free, and I’m pretty sure that the free version does volume normalisation too. If not, you can get the Gold Windows version through TrialPay, where you buy something from a choice of shops and get MediaMonkey as a gift.

https://www.mediamonkey.com/download/

The Duke wrote:

You’d know my bose head phones go further than my teotronics buds, but never tested how far bose go, but I know they cut out at around ten foot, where my buds do. I know this as desk to toilet is about 10 feet, as the crow flies, (via two walls), they go choppy some times when I visit the loo.

That’s more likely to be the walls rather than the range. I’ve got a Bluetooth stereo in the garage, and if I go through the door into the house, the music stutters. On the garage side, the music’s perfect.

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The VFM Addict wrote:

When classifying an employee Green meaning ready for promotion focus is always on likely competency in the new potential role rather than competency in their current role.

I had a manager in British Gas who attempted something like that, but under his own steam. If a difficult problem came up, he’d try to get us to solve it on our own. He was a great guy, and it was a good idea, except there were things that we hadn’t been trained on for a reason – imagine being a shelf stacker and a customer tells you that they were short changed. How do you even begin to deal with it?

I had one customer whose problem took me about eight months to fix, when a specialist could have fixed it in a week…

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Just an update, in case anyone’s interested.

For us, qi chargers are not worth it. As they interfere with the fast charge ability and the ability to connect the phone to the computer, we don’t use them. If they were built in to the phone they’d be perfect.

We back up our photos and transfer music often enough that removing the case to unplug the qi charger gets in the way. Media Monkey’s wireless music syncing will help, and if we ever get a decent NAS, like the Synology setups that Dave recommends, then it might be a different story. Until then though, it’s a no go.

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Looks interesting, thanks 🙂

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I made one a few years ago for a motorbike run. It only had four checkpoints, but I dragged the dots to change the route, and they stuck. It’s here if you want to have a look and see if anything looks helpful:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir/Celtic+Motorcycles+Ltd,+Cardiff+Road,+Aberdare/52.2200942,-2.7200934/The+Steel+Horse+Cafe,+B4598,+Abergavenny/Celtic+Motorcycles+Ltd,+Cardiff+Road,+Aberdare/@51.9635405,-3.4199805,10z/data=!4m51!4m50!1m20!1m1!1s0x486e3ea4de5520a3:0x996d6c537cd60816!2m2!1d-3.7015439!2d51.7093069!3m4!1m2!1d-3.4642689!2d51.7283637!3s0x486e39258e48b23b:0xa6b39ff92fa15ea5!3m4!1m2!1d-3.5203137!2d51.740315!3s0x486e389be71536c7:0x50ca3972bea3cd8e!3m4!1m2!1d-3.1916862!2d52.047662!3s0x486fd5c3fc751217:0x5ac362a92c2ab998!1m15!3m4!1m2!1d-2.7224907!2d52.0281893!3s0x48704af48932883f:0xfe9476934fa16832!3m4!1m2!1d-2.7329041!2d52.0007849!3s0x48704aba87d32a1d:0x7f6ae9bdfeef2efa!3m4!1m2!1d-2.7330261!2d51.9389873!3s0x4871b58452ec90bd:0x52113dbe4f1c53ee!1m5!1m1!1s0x4871dadcf68e3efb:0x2b535e76bdf072f2!2m2!1d-2.9474914!2d51.7811626!1m5!1m1!1s0x486e3ea4de5520a3:0x996d6c537cd60816!2m2!1d-3.7015439!2d51.7093069!3e0?hl=en

As an aside, goo.gl is closing, hence the long url.

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If you’ve got an old modem and another phone line you can send one to yourself, but I’ve got a feeling that you may be out of luck.

There are services that let you fax online, and receive a fax from a real fax machine, so they may be worth a try. This one’s got a free trial, but obviously I’ve never used them.

https://www.efax.co.uk/how-it-works

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Thanks for the replies guys 🙂

I’ve been doing some more digging today, and it appears that Windows 10 truncates the username if you sign in during setup, and cuts it down to five letters. The only way to avoid it is to follow Jukebox’s steps and sign in after the computer is set up.

In most cases it’s not a problem, but if you occasionally use the command line, or have existing programs that you copy to a new build, it’s a pain in the backside.

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Thanks Dave. I might invest the £4 in an adapter to try it out on the laptop as a new to me technology, but I won’t bother wasting any more.

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Dave Rice wrote:

nor will it supply power

I knew I’d missed something ??

Adding ESATA seems to be quite expensive. An external drive bay is about £50 on Ebuyer 🙁

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Thanks both 🙂

You’ve just reminded me that one of the cases I looked at had a hard drive slot on the top, which I think was ESATA. I didn’t really think about it then, but with the laptop too, it would have come in handy.

Does anyone have any recommendations for an ESATA card, or is something like this fine if I’ve got spare ports?

https://www.ebuyer.com/266639-1-port-sata-to-esata-slot-plate-esataplate1

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Thanks Dave 🙂

I would have thought that they were all hot swappable. Surely it defeats the object if they’re not? One day I’ll understand the thinking behind engineering decisions…

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When I used to print A6 flyers, I’d use Publisher, set the page size as A6 and design the flyer, then copy it all to an A4 page and paste it four times, moving and rotating it as needed. I used to find that easier than trying to get the paper sizes set up to match the printer.

I haven’t used it, but I imagine that Libre Office has got a good Publisher equivalent.

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The Duke wrote:

Linus tech tips done a great set of tests about 5 years ago (cant look it up, as I’m on foreign data and I’m not wasitn it sorry) . They went from a tidy case, under load, then in incremental steps made it less tidy, then went mad, stuffing a T shirt, an iron and all kinds of crap in this mess of a pc, and the temps hardly moved.

I think I’ve found it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDCMMf-_ASE

I haven’t got time to watch it now though, so have saved it for later.

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D-Dan wrote:

Tippon wrote:

I bought my first case with the PSU at the bottom, and cable management behind the motherboard, and it wasn’t the easiest build I’ve ever done. I had to forget half of what I know, but it was worth it in the end. https://forumite.co.uk/forums/topic/well-that-was-fun/

It looks like you had a journey. I’m giving myself 1 hour max for the rebuild

That’s what I did 😀

Before you start, have a good look at where everything goes, as there’ll probably be a few things that are different. That’s what tripped me up

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I bought my first case with the PSU at the bottom, and cable management behind the motherboard, and it wasn’t the easiest build I’ve ever done. I had to forget half of what I know, but it was worth it in the end.

https://forumite.co.uk/forums/topic/well-that-was-fun/

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