Aug 06
pain relief
Posted in enquire_within / 82general
mags is having a hard time sleeping due to a variety of injuries, a frozen shoulder and possible fibromyalgia, and of course poor sleep works against healing so there’s a bit of a cycle …
480 replies
Becky
Posted in bigbrother / bigbrother13
She must be one of the most unpleasant housemates ever. She’s actually putting me off watching the program. Being big and loud is one thing, but not having the bubbly personality that usually…
6 replies
Problem with HTC Desire
Mrs Doghouse’s phone, when she is in France, seems to want to add +44 to any* number she dials – which is a tad not-useful if she’s calling a number which is in her address …
14 replies
Olympics tickets
Posted in sasha_lubetkin / 4ask_aunty
I wasn’t able to get tickets to anything in the first three ticketing rounds. There seem to be lts of empty seats in everything that’s been on telly, including last night’s ceremony…
298 replies
Microsoft Hardware Announced New Keyboards and Mice Designed for Windows 8 To get ready for the official release of Windows 8 which has been set on October 26, Microsoft Hardware announced a seri…
5 replies
An “Electrician” in an online discussion about neon
Posted in electronics / 3wibble
testers/Martindales :- ” i wouldnt trust the plug in testers either. had one showing ‘normal’ when the earth and neutral where strapped together in…
2 replies
Pi production
Posted in raspberrypi / chatter
The magazine “Linux Format” issues a fortnightly podcast. In the latest one they report that production is running at 4000 units per day and that it’s now possible to order as many as …
36 replies
Capital Allowances
Posted in own.business / 6help
My business is a smallholding with a very low turnover (currently sub-5K), and last tax year I bought a few pieces of farm equipment totalling about 8K. I gather that these shoul…
2 replies
Vibration test rig
Posted in model_eng / 2general
I want a small one. I’m thinking that a displacement of half a mm would be fine, although 1mm would be cool. Working area needs to be about 100mm square and the mass of the thing…
21 replies
‘Curiosity’ is due to land at 05:31 BST tomorrow – anyone watching? If I
Posted in astronomy / 5general
can’t find a terrestrial channel, I shall watch NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html. (I’d prefer terrestria…
14 replies
Dead balls
I’m not totally convinced that the bails coming off 6 feet below the action would really put me off. I am very suspicious that there is an element of Oz-type gamesmanship there especially…
3 replies
Freezer bag labels
Posted in backyard_farms / general
Very quiet in here lately. If anyone’s still around, perhaps this might be a suitable place to ask about labels for frozen produce. Can anyone recommend reasonably priced printab…
37 replies
Ordering data in a view in MVC
In index.vbhtml, which shows a table, we want to allow a user to click a header cell, which will re-order the results of the query. Tried Model = Model.OrderBy(Functi…
3 replies
Just uploaded: 3.3 beta 13
Registered beta testers can install from http://www.bjarneco.net/Bryan/iXolr-beta.html What’s changed since beta 10: * More long-running operations can bd cancelled * Ad…
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