SpuffMonkey

Just watching Sacred Games - a sort of Indian bolly-noir from Netflix - halfway through and pretty good so far...

And relax...

Happy Birthday - its my birthday too - but alas I have just about double the amount of Awesome

- using a phone box must be a dying art! Queueing up to use them when a student - and that distinctive smell of old fag ends and pi$$

Made me smile even though its old

Not a fan of water meters myself - I'd much sooner have an unlimited connection (like I do for bb). On a slightly connected subject - I've been reading some correspondance in New Scientist recent about energy smart meters - I hadn't realised that they were initially being pushed so that the companies could do "surge charging" at busy times. I note that isn't heavily publicised! I think I'll be staying on my old fashioned meter https://www.newscientist.com/letter/mg23831791-100-smart-meters-as-a-plan-for-peak-power-pricing/ https://www.newscientist.com/letter/mg23831822-700-smart-meters-as-a-plan-for-peak-power-pricing/

Yeah - I'm cable bb only - but have a sipgate landline number so the elderly parents can still ring me

There's always DIY https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/27/welsh-village-residents-dig-15-miles-trenches-faster-wifi-michaelston-y-fedw

And a few water filled ones, just in case he gets cocky on the bursting them front

Give your local locksmith shop a call - they were very helpful to me a while back

I've got Comodo running...

Just curious to see if anyone has an explanation to some observed behaviour on my home setup... I use Thunderbird for emails and in the last 6 months its been pretty sluggish downloading emails from my provider (123-reg) over a pretty nippy 100 meg Virgin line... however.... I've noticed that if I'm downloading (something completely legal) from newsgroups (not provided by 123-reg) and start to grab emails at the same time - they download nearly instantly??? I'm just interested if anyone has an explanation for this??

Its a 3 verging to 4 - ah well. Not looking forward to seeing Shrike as I have a very definite image of him in my head, which I know will be nothing like...

That about covers it

Personally I'm very disappointed with Westworld, the pace is so slow it makes Mad Men look zingy and I think Humans does a better job of examining the potential conflicts of AI

Went back to our Maplin to see if there were any decent bits left = alas the fancy keyboards I had my eye on were all gone - I did spot these for sale though - does ANYONE use BNC nowadays??

I did similar with my install, and just bodged in a long bit of cat5 as a temporary measure - 17 years later its still working fine - it wasn't even outside cable!

Its never been entirely clear to me WHY there should be a conspiracy about whether the earth is flat or spherical? Who gains from the (so called) conspiracy?

Given everything is held in by a wall of ice - the flat earthers must be pretty damned worried by "global" warming!

I've been keeping an eye on a few bits I fancy - but even now they are still more expensive than buying online!

Well its saving me nearly £18 a month after I dropped the monthly line charge - so I'm well happy I'm sure there are deals to be had with haggling - but it suits me

Virgin do this - I dropped the monthly line charge and put in a voip connection so the oldies could still call - saved a fortune!

Mostly just streaming across the network (preferably by just browsing to shared folders rather than having to run a backend) - but I'm after an up to date set of codec support - my current one doesn't support 265 - and its being used increasingly. Thought this sounded a little bit future proof and a bit better spec than buying a Raspberry and bodging it myself. Happy to look at any alternatives you can recommend.

Looking at replacing my home media streamer - the Vero 4K looks pretty good - anyone got one? What do you think?

We still get occasional letters for the previous owner, and we moved here in 1989! I long ago stopped forwarding them. I also get strange letters from a French local council demanding local taxes - I've written to them, returned the letters, had a school French assistant talk to them for me, and still they come - I've stopped worrying about it now...