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I Thought Broadband Is Supposed To Be Simple These Days…

Posted in broadband / 6general

I mentioned recently that I had a 22 day outage on my fibre line. Today is switchover day to go from fibre back to ADSL. The fibre line dropped at midday, and then nothing. I then found that at the same time, my landline was dead, and phoning it …

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Rain Attenuation :-

Posted by: mkinga in electronics / 30gen

1.5kM line of sight 890 MHz (approx) link, looks like we can afford at least a 6dB loss before we get a problem, so is rain likely to be an issue? Looking at this suggests not :- http://www…. Ball park guesses a…

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Agressive Tax Avoidance Is Immoral

Posted in enquire_within / 56discussion

Agressive tax avoidance is immoral So say the PM and Chancellor (and others). Does that bury Lord Clyde’s 1929 judgement?

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Love Padlocks

Posted in sasha_lubetkin / 12chatterbox

Love padlocks Quite common on the continent but apparenty beginning to appear here in the UK. Though I’ve never seen any here in Harrogate. Any of these where you live? JAAMOI

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Www.Seedrs.Com Lending To Startups

Posted in own.business / 3finance

Has anyone taken a look at this yet? www.seedrs…. Peer-to-peer lending for startups. I have signed up (to invest) but not yet committed any funds. Singing up includes a questionnai… and test to see if you’re suitable to invest. That’s good. It…

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Odd Bug In Windows

Posted in windows_7 / general02

I have a strange bug in that one of my Windows PCs can no longer ping the Samba server. It used to happily share files with the server but now cannot even ping it. The server can ping the PC. Another PC in the same network segment can ping the s…

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Commercial Electricity

Posted in bikers / 19nonbike_qury

What does the team think… Our commercial electricity supply is currently with Scottish Power. The contract expires at the end of September and we have to give notice by the end of August if we wish to change supplier. They are quoting 23.46p p…

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Samsung Call Oddity

Posted in android / phones - 5 hours ago

The inferiority of the phone call function of the Samsung Galaxy S II compared to all my previous phones in just about every respect (speed, usability, audio quality etc.) is I guess WAD, except for one failing in particular that baffles me. Cal…

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101 Uses For A Dead Telegraph Pole?

Posted in backyard_farms / general

BT are going to replace the existing pole serving my home because it’s getting old, and they say I’m welcome to keep the old one if I want. The obvious thought is to cut it up as firewood for my wood-burning stove, but would preservativ… in th…

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Men’s Logic

Posted in jokes / 24jokes

A wife asks her husband, “Could you please go shopping for me and buy one carton of milk, and if they have eggs, get 6.” A short time later the husband comes back with 6 cartons of milk. The wife asks him, “Why did you buy 6 cartons of milk?” …

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