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SteveBentley

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  1. Have you looked into the pre-payment certificate you can get for prescriptions? Help With Health Costs Help with Health Costs NHS Business Services Authority
  2. So not free, and not available here?
  3. If only the Yes campaign had used the analogy of a series of the X Factor with an extra rule that if you get 50% of the votes cast you're the winner and that's it. Could have got Cowell to do the party political broadcast for it.
  4. Cynical translation: "We've got a solution. We'll work with you to find a problem to apply it to"
  5. You can get trains from Hull to Leeds, but not affordably. A 7 day season ticket is £88!
  6. And gaffa tape.
  7. F Plugs and a length of CT100 cable (unless there's sufficient slack to be able to make the join) - don't use cheapo coax
  8. Aren't you testing the Disaster Recovery plan, using alternative premises with wi-fi?
  9. In the OP's case either a wideband or a Group K (a relatively new group that does 21-48) is required because three of the digital multiplexes are out of the original Group A band from Bromsgrove. But as a general point I'd agree that a grouped aerial is better for most people (although I'd have said it's more to do with performance across the frequency range than interference from neighbouring transmitters.)
  10. Yeah the UHF system was planned for four channels (at the time that was quite well futureproofed, C4 was only a vague plan back then). Channel 5 and the six digital multiplexes have been shoehorned in, and in some places there are compromises. And don't get me started on the "half a freeview" postcode lottery!
  11. If you're on the Bromsgrove tx they're making some changes tomorrow - analogue BBC2 goes and the post DSO BBCA mux comes up, and then on the 20th you should find the signals are at their final full power as analogue is fully switched off. Looks like Bromsgrove is one of the few areas where you will get a benefit from a Wideband aerial.
  12. Without some sort of clue as to which part of the country you're in it's impossible to say!
  13. I've got a 50mm prime and love it, I use it as my walkabout lens. Only accessory I would say is a must is a basic UV or similar filter for the lens protection angle.
  14. I read it that the station had closed for the night and only the card-operated pumps were open?
  15. Currently every 2 years, but basically whatever the optician puts on the prescription as when a retest is due.
  16. My radio controlled watch didn't update and then threw its toys out of the pram showing ERR when I tried to force an update.
  17. I did mine online, and found the Job title field was too short for the official version of mine, and the tell us briefly about the kind of work you do was much too short! I was surprised that it only asked for first and last name and not middle names, which would surely be of help to future genealogists to know they've got the right person?
  18. lowcostholidays.com are decent, also try the low cost airlines - they often have holiday arms, Jet2 and easyjet certainly do.
  19. I think saving a few pages is probably going to be ok (as in view a page and do a save as). Spidering the whole site is perhaps more objectionable. Caching pages that have already been viewed is the accepted model of how the web works (caching proxy servers, browser caches) so there's plenty of precedent for that being standard practice and by putting that on the web you're inviting people to do that. Using software to trawl the site, I guess you could make a case that if there isn't a robots.txt file at the root of the site disallowing it then it's fair game (it's what Google does, after all) but that's much murkier water, and IANAL!
  20. That's gonna be good for people who use the same password for multiple sites, to now see it being entered in the username box in plain text rather than dots in the password box
  21. I guess a sat-nav kind of display within the train itself is much less of a technical challenge than getting that data online. Something I was surprised to find out - Network Rail isn't subject to FoI despite it effectively being government owned
  22. What we need is the geek version of the Big Society, where pressure is put on publicly funded bodies to open up APIs and let people develop and release apps and sites like this - stuff that the data providers should be doing themselves in an ideal world, but people who are scratching their own itch tend to do a lot better anyway, as they know what they really need.
  23. The medical profession's equivalent of PEBCAK, PICNIC and ID-TEN-T seems to be a lot harsher than our terms of affection for users! BBC NEWS | Health | Doctor slang is a dying art
  24. Is that not the whole purpose of ERA+? You record it off-air and keep the recording. I thought the digital bit referred to your recording, rather than the transmission medium - in Lincolnshire you'll only have analogue broadcasts until August anyway! I don't know if this is the case for schools, but for us in HE we have to be careful with the BBC documentaries - if it's an Open University co-production it's excluded from our license, so that means that things like Coast are off-limits.
  25. Adobe - Flash Player : Settings Manager - Global Security Settings panel has some info on this
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