To get the benefits of Cat6 or above, it really has to be installed to a specific standard. It’s a little thicker, stiffer and harder to work with, so unless the person who is installing it has decent knowledge of the appropriate installation guidelines and is equipped with a proper cable certification tester, then you are getting minimal gains from using it, especially in short run domestic settings. 5e should do the job adequately unless you are aspiring to run over 1Gb

10-52 should be fine to go down to D or drop C on a 24/34 if you aren’t too heavy handed. However, if you change about with gauges, it will impact neck adjustment and intonation. A lot of fixed bridges you seem to get away with maybe 1 gauge before the tools come out, won’t be spot on but close enough for bedroom fun. Also, if the nut is cut well for a 52, if you go down to a 42 you may get a bit of nut buzz as the string vibrates in the slot

I’d swerve that Lenovo, for some obscure reason it’s running Windows 10 in S mode. This limits you to store apps only so could be a pain

Cheers cougar, I tried the docs route for tenda and couldn’t get what I was looking for. I am not a returner by nature, but I’m tempted to just get one and jib it back if it doesn’t work out. My sky Q is a temperamental beast and I’ve found hammer level channel control and a wifi analyser has been the only way to get it all to behave. Frankly I wanted to get the big drill out and wire it all, but the minister of the interior threatened sanctions.if you think the VM router is guff, never go to EE. Shockingly bad

Russell Nah, just a single MR32 AP for now. Was handy to run a specific work SSiD and it covers most of the house, but it needs to go into a building that will finally open in Jan, so I’m on the hunt for something. We experimented with mesh for some tricky retrofits in existing buildings but as you said the lack of backhaul trashes performance.

Cheers Cougar

Can anyone with any of these google or tenda systems let me know if you can select channels? I don’t fancy spending a bolt load of dosh to replace this enterprise grade AP when a mesh on the surface would be better if I can shape it around sky’s fixed channels

Ahh, late to the party. One of the challenges of these home mesh systems is that most of them cannot have the channel changed. So if you’ve got signal bleed in from a neighbour or have sky q, then you can have some tuning problems. Let me know how you get on, I’ve been put off mesh for this reason and have a Meraki on “home test”, but it will need to go back and earn its keep for real soon

For me it’s either my iPad, as it’s stopped me stealth working so I focus on relaxing / wasting time reading this forum or on YouTube… or my Line6 helix, which means I can finally get the high gain guitar sound i’ve had in my head for years without a divorce / asbo

Enhanced DBS has specific eligibility criteria now Clicky It also has to requested by an employer I believe, this seems to suggest it’s not possible for direct even as self employed, you’d have to do it via a local authority or governing body for the sector Click

Recently went through this Myself with all senior ICT staff as part of a governance review, I suggested we should do enhanced initially, but the rules have changed a lot since I last did it and it wasn’t permissible.

Be warned that Ola uses an odd picking angle. As a 46 year old thrasher who on a very good day can still play master of puppets or slayers postmortem without cheating and sneaking in some alternate , there’s two things on technique I’d suggest that don’t come up in the andertons vid. First don’t over grip the pick, it adds tension which you’ll feel in a long section of downpicking or even galloping and second look where you are putting pressure on your forearm against your guitar – feel which parts between forearm wrist and pick feel tense when picking and try and tweak your angle till it feels more comfy. As with most things warm in and build your tolerance and then speed. There’s a great clip of Hetfield (imho the king of down picking)recording where he gets forearm lock and says – I like the gaga-gaga but I’ve got to get back in gaga-gaga shape

CITES has been lifted from rosewood, except Brazilian rosewood. Yes you will need to pay both import duty and VAT on a guitar from the US if it’s over a certain amount (used to be £135). It goes on the shipped value of the goods, regardless of it being new or second hand. It can soon rack up – I got hit when the guitar was held by DPD and had to pay a pretty penny to get it released. example here https://www.homeoftone.co.uk/blogs/news/im-importing-a-guitar-from-the-usa-where-do-i-even-begin

Over 20 years ago. We had two teams of 6 one a year ahead of the other in terms of time on the hill. The first team went way quick on Snowdon, we were waiting 90 mins for the second team. Cadair was murder, we were cramping after having 12 of us in a 14 seat minibus. Stupidly did the left side up pen y fan. I can’t remember when we finished, we set off up snowdon at 5 am. Everyone fit and used to doing 10 -14 hour stints carrying full rucksacks with tents and cooking gear – still found it a challenge, mostly due to being wedged in a minibus between peaks for yonks. Well worth it though, Especially with the right group. Luckily had two drivers who also brewed us flasks of coffee ready for when we got down from Pen Y Fan

Funnily enough I’ve been setting up some banking governance today, the banking guy was telling me there’s a fair amount of this happened lately with crafted trojans on the pc end. Typically they were setting up stealth rules to hide emails in deleted then retrieve and reply. One client was landed for over a mill in in a diverted payment

Amuse Douche
Foreskin leotard
Disregard my last
Get in the van!
Exposing our magnificence
They’ll be off in a minute
The eternal brexit
Scrubbers!

Bon era, I’d say let there be rock. Brian, has to be back in black. Classics.

By HA are you meaning housing association and do you mean they are asking your client to only raise 40% of market value? If so I’d say that is pretty decent, it’s usually 70% with a HA having a 30% retained stake.

This captures some of my mood

Politics since the last election makes me sad. Ive always tried to vote based on who I felt would serve the widest interest, last time it was purely based on who felt least likely to ruin the slim veneer of financial security I’ve tried to put in place for my family.

Yet, we had a party unable to capitalise on a post recession coalition which demonised liberal out of the game, because the frontman was a joke and the drummer couldn’t keep time. Labour decided to fix that by bringing back the 80s, brilliant. Better yet the new shadow chancellor makes balls look competent.

We then had a referendum where it appears that many people on both sides didn’t have a clue what they were voting for and two lobying sides which played out fear vs control, in a daily mail fashion. The fallout in terms of leadership on both sides shows what an wtf moment that really was.

The only thing that remotely cheers me up is that America are keeping us off the foot of the table by having an even less informed electorate and an utterly hatstand chaos monkey in the form of Trump.

Depends how much of a social system is left. Regardless of your political affiliation it’s been true for quite a while if you have an inadequate private pension, you’ll end up far worse off than having nothing. Income support used to trigger all kinds of relief on council tax and eligibility for property maintenance grants and so on.

Final salary pension. Sounds great on the surface, but my inner cynic predicts I’ll reach the point i want to retire only to find its imploded, my money has been spunked by some fund manager and I’ve suffered 30 years of lower wages for no good reason. Ah well, I’ve always fancied a job on the b and q paint counter in my dotage.

If it all goes Pete tong, my new plan is some fraud of a sufficient level to get me 3 squares a day in a suitably civilised open prison. Somewhere by the sea would be nice.

Brown eye sos
Ross Kemps Worlds most dangerous farts
Masterchuff

Broccoli plus real ale for potency, add some good old fashioned cabbage or kale and a nice rich gray for frequency. Risk of follow through increases, as does the chance of having the vehicle stopped by hans blik or whoever it these days who identifies wmd’s

Alternatively eat nothing and follow a German wheat beer only diet for three days. I attempted this in Berlin and on the s bahn back to the airport unleashed a cavalcade of air biscuits so rank, that they were tearily described as life changing by one of my former friends

There is some outrageous nonsense on here. Defiling a corned beef and beetroot sandwich with lettuce. I despair. What it is missing is a liberal scattering of crushed ready salted crisps and maybe some cheese spread to prevent said crisps escaping.

Loved boxing then, mcguigan, Benn, Collins, , Eubank, , Bruno, prince naz, Lewis. Great era

Sorry woodnut, still don’t see it. But if that’s what you get from the vibe, then it’s all good. I also don’t get the whole occult thing with early metal. Everyone used to say that about sabbath, but again lots of their lyrics were rebellion, anti war anti establishment. Venom are the first band I can think of that seemed to base their whole shtick on the devil thing, and despite what they have influenced, I thought they were utter cack personally.

I think bad news fully distilled what metal was all about lyrically in warriors of genghis Khan, difference being they were extracting the urine deliberately 🙂

I never really get the punk references with di’anno era. They had less of an audience and the production was more raw.His post maiden stuff shows he was all metal and Harris has repeatedly stated he hated punk. I think it stems from the fact di’anno had short hair which was fairly verboten in the early days

Are we confusing new wave of British heavy metal with nu-metal here?

I actually prefer the DVDs of live after death, cos maiden are a great visual band as well, unlike so many. Favourite album floats, because I love them all up to and including seventh son. Seventh son has the greatest variety stylistically I think. The new album I feel is quite over hyped, it’s not bad, but no where near as great as some of the press are making out.

Hi, when you said residential is this for a work thing? If its a not for profit you can probably use Symantec connect safe for free

Places to eat we enjoyed a couple of weeks ago – all walking distance from Copley in back bay

Lolita Cocina & Tequila Bar – 271 Dartmouth Street, Boston, MA

Fogo de chao – Weston Copley place

Erbaluce 69 Church Street,

Maggianos Little Italy – 4 Columbus Ave, Boston – near boston common

Two of my favourites were at a cup game Hereford v Tranmere-

Hereford – clap your hands if you all hate scousers – then bemused when the Tranmere fans started clapping

It was during the BSE scare monger phase –

Tranmere fans – We only eat beef from Ireland, eat beef from Ireland

As a Liverpool fan from a family of scousers – the Man U Park song should bother me, but it is really quite funny to be fair

Have a look at divide. We use that for bring your own, some people not OK with us requiring the ability to brick their device and have it pin protected. Divide can get past that by creating a work container we can wipe.

I’d be more worried about the “Skype” camera capturing and broadcasting you enjoying yourself on the rug during the 10 minute free grot window on Sky…

Social media and work issues\ gripes can be a dodgy mix. Key thing to remember is its not like moaning to your mate(s) down the pub or on a ride. It’s anything from putting a poster up to taking an add out in the national papers. It’s also all down to privacy settings, and the common sense of your “friends” in thinking before they’re electronically blabbing your gripes all over the net.

I had to have a quiet word with one of my workmates after an ill considered rant on social media. Basically if its about work and you wouldn’t say it to a member of management, don’t put it on the internet. A lot of this comes down to reputational management and the views of the business in protecting their image \ brand

Hi Graham – yes we have. 95% virtual in server estate. Desktops not cost effective for us to do at last look. Licensing windows desktops in user vms is a massive PITA from a licensing perspective. Plus with good old Micrsoft poised to deliver the shaft to public and third sector it may get much worse.

All of ICT have 2 screens 1 PC, but our devs have 3 and 2 PCs. They use 2 screens for dev and 1 screen and a separate PC in a user build and login context to ensure they test compatibly and frequently.

OK, sounds like a common thing these days. Having done a range of training over the years, just beware there’s a huge variation in quality of courses.

Depending on your learning style there are often better value options than courses. Stuff like CBT nuggets or plurasight are around £500 quid a year for as much e-learning as you can physically stomach. Microsoft, VMware and Cisco all have some free stuff if you look hard enough. VMware and Microsoft both have hands on labs for free as well

Microsoft and Cisco still have fewer restrictions on gaining quals – you can self study and pass the exams. VMware and several others, you need to go on official and verified courses.

There’s also a bigger move towards time locked certifications. I kind of got out of step on that, my last big certification round would have cost me nearly a grand in exam fees to update my Microsoft stuff and re-cert my Cisco CCNA and that was 9 years ago. They haven’t got cheaper either!

Mikey do you already have any IT role? If not I wouldn’t try to break in using that method. those salaries will be mostly achieved by people with lots of experience, its a competitive market. Best way to break in these days is try and get a helpdesk position and then show your aptitude, unless you have some funding source – in which case its not as much of a gamble

Its the same as the thread on PRINCE2 – a qual no more makes you a project manager than a Microsoft cert makes you a subject matter expert. Time and experience do that in conjunction with a qual.

I say this because I see it a lot, when people apply to roles when we recruit, but also as several of my mates either took Microsoft or cisco routes when leaving the forces. They got the certs, but still cant get positions in IT as they have no practical experience relevant to the certified level.

Hope that helps

As above all digital. You can get a pdf of the registration for 3 quid online at the land registry. Very disappointed when I found out all the bank did after handing them a cheque for the last 10 grand was discharge the property. I even had to nag for a letter to say I didn’t owe them any more money!

Does it need to be a permanent vpn or on demand? Couldn’t you do this by using cisco anyconnect client on the PC if it’s a softphone?

If you really want to do scheduled file transfer, you would need a static ip probably using something like this if its a vdsl connection http://www.ebuyer.com/255719-cisco-887-annex-m-with-vdsl2-adsl2-cisco887va-m-k9?utm_source=google&utm_medium=products&gclid=CPOFqaz62cACFarpwgod0UkAkQ