Snow Blowers
Posted enquire_within / 83general
Which Tax Year?
Posted accountancy / taxation
October 16
Snow BlowersPosted enquire_within / 83general Does anyone have any experience of these things? recommendat… Warnings? Petrol, rather than electric. Our drive is about 100yards from house to road, and shovelling four inches of snow is becoming boring and wearing. Please, no suggestions …
When I had to freeze-dry some purified protein in a lab it was the combination of low temperature and a vacuum that removed the water. Icy asteroids colliding with the Earth are postulated as a source of terrestrial water. Ice-contain… asteroid…
Which Tax Year?Posted accountancy / taxation Daughter has a number of sources of income. She invoiced one source for £800 on 18 March and a further £800 on 1 April 2012, and she was paid £1,600 on 10 April. In which tax year should that be declared? In case the amount is N…
A small boast I’ve given up sweeteners. This is the second day I’ve had my coffee without a saccharine tablet, and it’s just fine. Feeling very chuffed.
Cat5 OK for telephone? I need to run a phone line from the BT master socket to my office for the fax. I’ve got loads of Cat5 cable left over. Is there any reason why I shouldn’t use it for a telephone extension?
Posted in digital_tv / pvr
Signal pass through on Humax PVR My brother has just installed a Humax HDR Fox T2 and reports that the TV will not work when the Humax is in power-save mode standby. It works when in ordinary standby mode. Does aerial pass through need power then?
Sally and I have been watching this program and enjoying it a great deal. During a recent edition, just viewed, they referred to artificial milk. Sally said powdered milk but surely that is NOT artificial milk. What would it be? I do not think t…
September 27
Goodness, you’d think Windows could agree with itself on something as important as account type, wouldn’t you? http://img8… I got this after changing the account type from standard to administrat…
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How are others here finding MSSE real-time protection? Here it is rather intrusive. Even on the most powerful machines e.g. 3.3GHz 4-core 8Gb, it delays the opening of a 500Mb installer by about 30secs during which it gives no indication – in exp…
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The trouble with the fasting regime is that I’m still buying food at the same rate as I used to, but missing meals twice a week is having an impact: food is going off and having to be thrown out. I must force myself to draw up a menu for the wee…
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Financial Irregularity–Not The First Time.Posted in own.business / 16chatter - 2 hours ago One member of my staff went out on a call-out and was paid cash by the customer. When I asked him about the money he said he’d rung it up into the till. I knew it hadn’t been, so checked the audit roll. No evidence of the money there. Showed hi…
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.” 12 years ago: http://kott… via https://twi… Matthew Jones People are up in armsFEB 27 2000 People are up in arms about Amazon being awarded a patent for their af…
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In case anyone hasn’t heard, Samsung owners need to be aware that a bug turns out that visiting a specially formatted web site can wipe the phone completely with no confirmation at all. http://www….
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BS Equipment PoolsPosted in accountancy / taxation - 8 days ago BS equipment pools I have 3: laser plant and machinery van CH computation section only allows me to have 1 and won’t allow me to claim more than £1000 in WDA. Any thoughts? tia geoff
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B&Q have a 15% discount this weekend for B&Q Club members. www.diy.com… They insist on (or at least did when I signed up) on a mobile number. I just gave them one in the range rec…
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Contactless Payment SecurityPosted in enquire_within / 82general - 21 days ago “Contactless payments are processed using the same technology as chip & pin so you can be confident when shopping.” says HSBC The same technology … except for the contacts, that is. Am I the only one unconvinced by reassurances such as the …
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Any Views On PIBS: Permanent Interest Bearing SharesPosted in investment / 3shares - 9 days ago Any views on PIBS: Permanent interest bearing shares I had not heard of these until today, but they appear to offer a good yield. Nationwide were recommended. Any views, as a safe-ish home for spare cash? Best Regards, John
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August 30
At some point in the coming weeks, we’re launching email digests. To allow everyone sufficient time to change their delivery preference, we’re announcing this now. Those who have used CIX in the last week have been automatically set to not receive digests. If you’re a regular user who would like to receive digests, you may need to change your delivery preference. To change your delivery preference, go to https://forums.cixonline.com/secure/settings.aspx . Under ‘Receive Email Digests’, select either daily, weekly, monthly, or never. We’ll post here again with more details of the digests when they’re ready to be sent out.
Shaun Donnelly August 22
Today we’re releasing a major update to CIX Forums, available at https://forums.cixonline.com/ Thanks to all our members who have given up their time to beta test and provide feedback to many of these features during development. If you have any questions or support queries related to this new version, don’t hesitate to contact us in cix:cix.support . You can discuss these changes in cix:cix.customer . Here is a non exhaustive list of the changes it brings: Message Viewing Notifications Search General Note – If you go to Forums and it displays strangely, you can simply clear your browser cache and everything should clear up. Instructions on how to do that are at http://www.wikihow.com/Clear-Your-Browser’s-Cache We have many more plans to make CIX Forums even better in the coming months, so stay tuned for further updates! August 17
CIX has teamed up with RITLabs to offer reduced priced software for our customers. RITLabs are the author of the popular mail client The Bat! (Unofficial CIX conference at cix:the_bat) The Bat! is a feature rich award winning Windows email client used by many CIXen with full support for threading, multiple identities and advanced mail rules. For more information on The Bat!, please see the web site at http://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/thebat/index.php Please note the following pricing information The Bat! Professional Edition RitLabs Price £27.00 plus VAT The Bat! Home Edition RitLabs Price £21.00 plus VAT There are further discounts available for other RITLabs products. To order your copy of The Bat!, please email solutions@cix.co.uk requesting this and we will bill your account accordingly, and send confirmation of the license via email. August 17
Posted in windows_7 / general02 Recently set up a new dual core, 6GB RAM, W7 64-bit Home Premium machine for a friend who decided, against my judgement, to stick with the pay-for, pre-installed Norton secu…
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RIP Harry HarrisonPosted in sf / 7discussion Just seen it reported. Not unexpected, alas. He was always fun to see at conventions. http://www.harryharrison.com/ …
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Posted in mobile_phones / 8general son is going to greece shortly for a fortnite. He uses O2 business via his blackberry so i decided to contact O2 to see what current position is with regard to EU tariffs. Via a chat line …
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SON 10Posted in electronics / 30gen Yesterday the latest PCBs and parts arrived. I’d chosen to use SON 10… It’s amazing how you can deceive yourself about your ability to solder a new package – when it’s on the screen it look…
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About lying…Posted in enquire_within / 56discussion Just came across this article: http://professional.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443343704577548973568243982.html “Lying to yourself—or self-deception, as psychologists cal…
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Image Despeckle algorithm….Posted in developer / 2chatter I’m after (or an explanation of) an image despeckle algorithm. I’ve had a nose round the net but cannot find much can anyone recommend anything? Cheers, Mike …
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Earlier today I became a mac owner. (Basic current 21″ iMac)Posted in mac / 3.beginners Fifteen minutes later the screen went off and it wouldn’t reboot any more. Tomorrow I will no longer be a mac owner, when they take it b…
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Okay, here’s a suggestion for taking IxOLR to a mass market: Do a version for newsgroups. The only newreader on the iPad is not a patch on IxOLR. The general operation is dire. Bu…
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Russian recipes – and more exotic onesPosted in sasha_lubetkin / 12chatterbox I’ve recently acquired a copy of the Babylon 5 recipe book, which includes some Russian recipes, as well as adaptations to earthly ingredients of several alien …
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Firewood Moisture MeterPosted in alt.energy / general I now have several log stores full of timber cut last winter. Some was dead timber and some live. I guess I need a moisture meter before I start trying to burn them. A quick…
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Now we are 17Posted in peewheet / 18general Mym (aka archdruid) created this conference on the 16/08/95 to honour Tony Peewheet who has been a wonderful friend and inspiration to many of us on Cix. It’s Tony’s birthday today;…
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STARTTLS and root certificatesHaving finally got my iPad to talk STARTTLS to mail.interdns.co.uk (thanks, Mat!), I decided to do the same with my old Nokia phone. The phone doesn’t trust the certifi…
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Click fraud – by advertising companyhttp://www.cringely.com/2012/08/14/click-fraud-the-old-fashion-way/ /Matthew Jones/ …
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Email clientsI love the Nexus 7 but it seems I’ve been spoiled by htc’s email client. So, unless anyone can tell me where the setting is to change the number of days’ worth of emails that are kept …
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DevExpress TcxTreeList -> XtraTreeList?A colleague is having trouble saving and restoring the column order in an XtraTreeList. Now in my Delphi world we do the following: Saving the column orde…
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Vintage Champagneapparently 2010 was a very good year. Anyway Tesco Direct appear to be selling the stuff at half price (less than £20 i think) for a case. worth a punt? I’ve also just notic…
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Breakdown recovery serviceabout to renew mine with Britannia Rescue when i realised it doesn’t cover a 2 car scenario. http://www.money.co.uk/breakdown-cover/breakdown-cover-for-2-cars.htm doesn’t…
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August 06
pain reliefPosted 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 …
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BeckyPosted 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…
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Problem with HTC DesireMrs 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 …
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Olympics ticketsPosted 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…
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July 26
2012 is not only the year in which the UKcelebrates the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the 2012 Olympics, it is also the year in which ICUK and CIX celebrate their 10th and 25th anniversaries respectively. Customers of both organisations were invited to join the celebrations with a large hog roast barbeque held at the Wyke Down Country Pub & Restaurant in Hampshire. The event provided customers with the chance to meet both the ICUK/CIX team and fellow users to share ideas, best practices as well as learn more about how ICUK is embarking on an aggressive development path to revamp the infrastructure, improve the end user experience, and to expand the CIX community. CIX is Europe’s longest running premier means of high quality discussion populated by many thousands of people from political parties, journalists, professionals and individuals alike to exchange ideas, debate views, catch up with friends and be informed of current affairs. Founded in 1987 it has enjoyed a very long and successful past thanks to its loyal members known as ‘CIXen’ who have successfully discussed every topic imaginable over the years. In May 2011 CIX Online Limited was purchased by ICUK, a successful ISP whose foundations lay within the CIX community. ICUK was formed 10 years ago and acquired CIX Online to become a leading provider offering advanced internet communications for both the home, business and reseller channels alike. Customers of both ICUK and CIX can take advantage of our world class technical support with emails answered in minutes and telephone calls answered in seconds. Through the automation of a control panel, all hosting, Internet and telecom customers can configure their products and services at any time or day or night, without the need to ‘submit tickets’ for an operations engineer to action the request for them, allowing us to concentrate on improving the service further and focusing on new projects. For further information on ICUK/CIX, visit their websites www.icukhosting.co.uk or www.cix.co.uk or call 0845 0099 175. July 25
Help! Msado28.Tlb WantedPosted in windows_2008 / r2_general Help! msado28.tlb wanted Looking for a copy of this file from before Win2008 Server SP1. Anyone got one handy? Apparently it’s likely to be dated 16-10-2010.
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Posted in electronics / 30gen
Anyone recommend a very low noise switching voltage reg module? Input 12V vehicle power Output 5V at say upto 500mA I’ve been playing with this DAB tuner module in the car with various voltage regulator modules. Works best with a linear vreg (780…
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I was wondering whether there is such a thing as a ‘logger’ app, i.e. one that logs which app is active at any time, when the phone is switched off/on etc. I’ve tried browsing through the app store, but at first sight I can’t find anything remo…
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July 24
CIX is pleased to announce that, effective immediately, we’re now able to provide TLS support for outgoing SMTP (sending mail) and incoming POP3/IMAP (receiving mail) on our main mail.cix.co.uk email platform. TLS provides encrypted support for authentication and the sending/receiving of email from our mail server. Our mail servers are configured to use STARTTLS on ports 25 and 587 (SMTP), 110 (POP3) and 143 (IMAP) for mail.cix.co.uk Please note the following To use this feature, you must use a mail client that support STARTTLS for SMTP, POP3 or IMAP connectivity. Ameol2 doesn’t support this feature; there are currently no plans to add this to Ameol2. Ameol2 users that wish to use this feature will need to CIX Customers connecting to mail.cixonline.com have already had TLS support enabled, so this feature is now available to all customers. If you experience an issue using this feature, please raise it in cix:cix.support/3support *FAQs* What are the advantages of using this feature? All communication between the mail client and the server is encrypted, including the authentication of username and password, and sending and receiving of emails. Does Ameol2 support this feature? No. There are no plans to add this to Ameol2 at the current time. Which mail programs support TLS? The Bat!, Thunderbird, and Microsoft Outlook all support this protocol. How do I set this up in my mail client? The best way would be to search on Google for ‘TLS Support in <email client name>’ i.e. TLS Support in Outlook 2007 will provide you with plenty of guides on how to use this feature. If I still use CIX Conferencing mail, can I use this? Only if you convert your mail to a modern POP3/SMTP method of sending/receiving, and use a different mail program from Ameol2 to do this. Contact solutions@cix.co.uk to arrange the necessary. Does the ICUK shared hosting mail platform support this? Yes. For feedback on this feature and non support related queries, please use cix:cix.customer/11feedback
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