Evening.

We had this happen once.

Ended up changing the password on the Microsoft website first, and then logging in on the PC/Laptop.

This is the site – account.live.com/password/reset

Once you’ve changed the password online, you should be OK to log in.

Does that work?

Hi,

Its a fairly new ‘thing’ on eBay, to allow offers on a auction item.

It allows the interested buyer to make you a reasonable offer, which you can then accept if you want. If you do accept it then goes through as a Buy it Now sale.

If you decline, the auction just continues as normal.

In my experience, auctions tend to give better results. But if its a good offer, it would be silly not to accept!

This is strange..

I’ve just got a new hob, oven and hoover. All using that code and its worked.

Sorry for the mistake.

I think you’ve got every right to feel annoyed and singled out.

Especially if the negative side of his ‘banter’ was only aimed at you for most of the weekend.

You mentioned you had a word? Did this result in anything, did it stop or did it just make it worse?

I have never shipped a full bike out to Germany, but have done frames, components and some pretty expensive and delicate Audio gear.

Ive always used Parcelforce, and never had a single issue.

Ive popped your info into parcelmonkey and her quotes for £12-£18, not bad at all.

This will go up, as I’m presuming you will want to add insurance?

We’ve done quite a few of them, mainly around the Chesterfield/Sheffield area.

I find them great fun! People are idiots when it comes to pricing, but if you stand firm it can be pretty decent.

The other half took some pretty decent clothing once, with the intention of eBaying it if it didn’t sell. It all went for amazing prices, and took away all the hassle.

One tip, always put price stickers on. It  can get amazingly busy, and not having to shout out prices every 10 seconds is a great help!

And as Nobeerinthefridge says, thieves everywhere! If you can take more people with you to help then do!

I used to always make my own at home, as I thought it tasted much better and I seemed to be able to keep it down.

Banana, milk, yogurt and some sort of flavouring and the basic bases.

Peanut butter, cocoa powder or some form of berries.

I always added Baking Soda too, no idea if it was a placebo effect, but I was told it reduced lactic acid build-up and therefore chucked it in!

I’ve seen people use raw eggs, and other various things, but no way!!

It is the livestrong website, but these is a pretty decent article on the Baking Soda ingredient –

https://www.livestrong.com/article/261747-sodium-bicarbonate-as-an-ergogenic-aid-for-exercise/

We take it in turns for films, I make my other half watch some absolute rubbish, and she does the same back!

I just have to hide the fact I actually quite enjoy the odd Romantic and Disney film.

However we have watched Pride and Prejudice over 5 times in the past month. Luckily Rosamund Pike is a very very attractive woman!

Ask her to piss in yours, just to even things out?

I went for the weeding idea, and sold it to myself.

So i’ve ordered one… Lets see what, if anything turns up!

Gobuchul,

Its not a conventional description, I’ll give you that.

But I still don’t know what makes you think its a joke, not a single part of that implies its a joke.
If you read the rest of the website, that description follows the overall trend.

I’m not sure there is a point in owning it really.
I just think its cool!

And gobuchul – I’m not sure it is actually a joke..

See if they have PayPal?

I have been in a similar situation before, and did a proper PayPal Payment.
I did have to pay the fee’s, which ended up being around £40, but it gave me some comfort knowing it was protected for 6 months.

I would say most people have PayPal.. so it should be OK?

We might be describing the same thing here, but one of my favourites is the ‘Napkin Ring Problem’

Copied from wiki, as I can’t find the words to explain –
In geometry, the napkin-ring problem involves finding the volume of a “band” of specified height around a sphere (i.e., the part that remains after a hole in the shape of a circular cylinder is drilled through the center of the sphere). It is a counterintuitive fact that this volume does not depend on the original sphere’s radius but only on the resulting band’s height.

I like it!

Thanks for the replies!

trademark – My other half showed me a similar photo earlier, with the words – “If you end up in hospital, i will come out of necessity not sympathy!”

However, just to add some reassurance. I already have 2 forklifts, but they came with the warehouse when we got it last year. However I have decided I need a reach lift, think –

So I have never had to move one before.

rwalkers came up on a google search this afternoon, I will give them a shout tomorrow. Thanksstevedoc

Thanks for all the replies!

A few interesting ideas, and the link to Bluesound was a good one. I’ve not heard of them before, so its another place to research..

Currently considering a Bose system –
The Wave SoundTouch IV with a few of the Soundtouch 10 wireless speakers.

I think this will do what I need it too, but I have never owned a single item from Bose. So its a trip to my closest shop to see what the quality is like..

Does anybody have any thoughts on Bose?

Edit – I fully agree with all the spotify and Nas comments, but my other half works from home and its what she has asked about. She loves the process of picking a CD and physically using it. The online solution does doesn’t work!

mikewsmith – Thats my thinking at the moment. I would just then need a wifi/app controlled CD player.. Sounds easy!!

Rachel – I’ve seen Linn kit before, its amazing stuff! I will have a bit more of a read into it.

Thanks both!

I’ve never had a bad SSD, and I’ve used super cheap Chinese unbranded all the way up to Samsung Evo.

Yes you will see a slight amount of difference with the slightly more expensive units, but if you are coming from a non SSD laptop, it will be a massive improvement anyway.

However, having said that this is a great price – ARIA

Buy that!

My neighbours already think I’m a bit weird. That might just be too much for them!!

Do they watch everything you do?
Surely you could hide behind a curtain, give it a lick, then pop back out.

Squirrelking –

You’ve maybe taken what I said in the wrong way, as you have basically typed exactly what I meant!
I however truley believe that Cat6 will start to float down into more ‘home’ use systems, so my point of view is if your running a ‘long’ cable, you may as well run the best you can at the time.

Anyway!
Similar to somouk, if you are anywhere around Peterborough way, I’d gladly give you a hand too.
I’m also more than happy to send you over the kit you’d need FOC (ish). It would obviously be used, and I’d really appreciate some form of donation to either the Ride for Charlie charity, or the Dibbs just giving page.

Just an offer, fire me an email if I can help out!

As above really, I would run a cable and then switch it out however you needed.

With regards to Cat5 or 6, I would go with 6.
Chances are you current set-up wont take advantage of the extra cat, but it would be future proof.

I’ve just taken out a load of 50m Cat 6 cables from a install, fire me an email if you want to go down that route and i’ll get you one in the post!

After the cable, a simple router, but try to make sure its rated 10/100/1000 otherwise you may get bottlenecks down the line.

Then depending on how many people will use the Wifi, something like THIS would work perfectly well, and its not expensive!

Following your last post.

Didn’t NCIX go bust just before Christmas and go into voluntary bankruptcy?
Link

I’d be slightly sceptical buying anything from there, just encase you have a problem

Evening,

Obviously try the ‘simple’ recovery steps above. I’d be very surprised if they work, but you never know!

Failing that, this would be a direct swap –
eBay link
I just looked for the Vancouver area, so forgive if this is wrong.

That is an exact match in terms of connections when compared to your current system. So it should just swap over (not a sure thing though).

However sometimes, if a PC has suffered a power surge, it can cause CPU and even RAM damage as well.

You might be better just buying something like this –
eBay link

If you need any help, feel free to drop me an email.

We arrived at the MIL house on the 19th, and we leave on the 2nd. My other half is Polish, so its Polands ‘turn’ this year!

Honestly, its fantastic! However none of my partners family speak any English, and my Polish is OK, but not great!
Therefore they could be slating me left right and centre! I just sit and laugh along most of the time!

Trouble is, I’m not a drinker, and they seem to treat Vodka like water over Christmas!

Foods utterly amazing though!

GrahamS –

Good question, but in my opinion the answer is no, its never worth trying to solo mine anything at the moment.

I have done some work on this, so I will try my best to show the explanation below. This is done on a monthly basis –
The current total Hash rate for mining bitcoin is – 15 million TH/s
Source – Click

A new block comes out every 10 minutes –
(6 x 25 x 365) / 12 = 4380 new blocks per month.

To have a chance in solo mining 1 block, you would need at least –
15million / 4380 = 3500 TH/s of mining power

The antminer s9 is largely regarded as the best SHA-265 mining machine, which on a good day will give you 14 TH/s.
Meaning you will need 3500/14 = 250 Machines at least to have a chance of mining 1 block solo.

Current cost of a S9, if you can get it is around £2000.
So your outlay would be around £500,000 in just mining hardware.

The last block rewards was 12.5 BTC
See the block info here – Click

Obviously 12.5 BTC is currently around £12000, meaning it would only take 3.3 blocks to be breaking even. But this isn’t guarantied in anyway!

Mining in pools means you are sure of a return.
1 S9 Miner is currently bringing in around £25 a day in pool rewards.

If you had 250 miners, that’s £6250 a day almost guarantied. Meaning a ROI on 250 miners would be just 80 days (No electricity counted for here).

That’s why I would choose pool mining!

Afternoon all,

I’m glad this topic started some debate, its been interesting reading through all the replies.
For people who think its a bubble and a ponzi scheme, I fully understand why you would think that. However while this bubble is still well and truly inflated, I don’t see a reason not to get involved and try to profit from it.

Yes there is always a risk, but surely that’s the same with most modern day investments. Especially ones that have the ability to offer a decent reward.

Timing is key to a lot of these things, as a few people have mentioned. I find Poloniex a great platform to exchange and invest on. Initially buying currency through Coinbase and transferring it into Poloniex. This enables me to do instant trades between most coins, and getting out of a position is a matter of seconds.
Ripple is a really decent investment at the moment, and I am buying this with funds I hold in Bitcoin.
I am currently buying a selling daily, but keeping a bumper of Ripple which I will never sell just encase a sudden upwards streak comes in!
Today for example I got Ripple at 0.000063 BTC and then I have just sold at 0.0000778 I only purchase 5000 today which cost around 0.312 BTC, but when selling for 0.389 BTC thats a daily profit of 0.077 BTC which equates (at current rate) to $1100 ish after fee’s. Today was a good day, but if you watch the charts and it gets to a 24 hour low, in my opinion that’s a great time to buy. Then just check back every couple of hours and see what is happening.
At first I was hesitating on selling, just encase it went up more. But after a few times where a toilet break cost a couple of $100, that hesitation stopped.

Its also worth mentioning new starter coins or tokens.
There are loads out at the moment, Electroneum looks particularly interesting, and I have purchased a few of these just encase things go well.

But there was a new token called NAGA (NGC) that was crowdfunded a few weeks back, the crowdfund buy price was $1 per token.
It was finally listed on the HitBTC exchange a few days back, and within 4 hours it hit a high of $4.36. Its now back down to $1.65. I got out at $3.56 each, but I only purchased about $100 worth to start with.

Just to clear this up, I have lost too. But forgetting the mining investment, I initially put $500 worth of Bitcoin into my Poloniex Trading account, and I haven’t invested a single penny more since then. I was happy to risk $500, and if I lost it all tonight I would walk away annoyed, but not harmed.

Onto the mining –
I decided to try and do this properly, as it was going to cost a certain amount to set the room up to be suitable for the mining machines.
This initial set-up cost was going to be the same for 1 machine or 20 machines.
The main issue I have had is cooling, the Antminers pump out some serious heat. And the hash rate is seriously effected if it gets too high.
I did start of with the air-conditioning on 24/7, however the electric rates are fair to high, meaning the profitability was taking a hit.
In the end, I decided to cut some 400x400mm holes in the warehouse walls, and install some 14inch fans, rated at 4850m3/h, bringing the fresh and cold air in from outside.
The hot air from the backside of miners gets piped into 100mm ducting, goes up and through the ceiling and into the back of the 2 upstairs offices. Since putting in this system a few weeks back, not a single radiator has been put on in the offices.
The miners now run at around the optimal temperature, and we actually make use of heat they produce.

Onto the equipment –
I now have 16 Antminer D3 units, which are personally mine.
The mining rates vary massively, but the average capability per day, per miner is around 0.01 Dash per miner. Which is around $14 per day for each miner. With an electricity of around $2.
My average cost per miner was $860, meaning the ROI is around 75 days (including a few days for downtime).

Anything mined from this goes straight into a Nano S Ledger Physical Wallet, and does not get touched. My intention is for this to stay untouched until the miners are all paid off. Then I will consider moving any profit over into the Poloniex trading interface.

As for GPU mining, I have stopped this completely.
I purchased 2 x RX Vega 56 and 2 x Vega 64 GPU’s around a month back, and I just don’t see it as a profitable way forward.
I am considering adding a GPU into each office PC, and running Nice Hash in the background while the PC’s are on. But as yet, they are sat on a shelf waiting for a plan!

That’s about it!
As always if anybody wants any advice, please send me an email.

Jambalaya –
Don’t you have to be careful about this? I could be wrong, but I’m certain I read a US phone won’t work in the UK due to the reception Frequency (or something along those technical lines)!

A couple of weeks ago we got 4 deals via mobiles.co.uk

It was a Black Friday special and we got the iPhone X for £450 upfront and then £22.99 per month for 24 months.
It is a large amount up front, but the total contract price is £1002, which was only £3 more then the phone alone from Apple.
I was slightly sceptical, but all phones have turned up, and are fully working on 02. They are only 12GB data, but as most of the times the phones are on WiFi, we find that is fine!

Now that deal is no longer showing on the website, but we decided on a 5th phone last week, and called them directly. And they honoured the price.

Might be worth a try, it is a fantastic price!

Hi,

As a personal seller, coupled with the fact you have stated no returns. You do not have to accept it.
Has he just asked in a message, or gone through the ‘proper’ return process?

I’ve always used GoDaddy and they have never let me down.

That handyman pc looks great for the money btw.* (you should be ablt to up the ram yourself 4gb won’t be that expensive, check it’s got a spare slot though.)

Just encase you are interested, the motherboard has 4 ram slots and it comes with 2x2gb dimms installed.

This is a blatant sly advert from me, so sorry if this is bad!
But would you be interested in-
Dell Optiplex 790
Intel Core i3-2120
4GB Ram
250GB HDD
Dell 20’ Flat Screen Monitor
Dell Keyboard
Dell Mouse
Trust Speakers
All cables you would need
Fully genuine Windows 7 Pro with COA installed

£100 posted?
Email in profile if you would like it

Murray,
The £14 a day is currently only on the GPU system.
I’m still waiting to find out the return on the ASICS system. The GPU system probably cost around £1300 all together.
I did already have windows COA’s, SSD’s and Ram, so it’s not a ‘true’ cost.

If anybody is looking for a PS4, HMV are doing –
Black 500GB PS4
Fifa 18
Assassins Creed
Hidden Agenda
Gran Turismo
Farcry Primal
All for £219.99

It’s the best price I can find anywhere.
If you don’t want the Games, they are all current and can be traded in at CEX for around £60.
Makes the system alone a great price!

There is another mix of 5 games for £219.99 but I didn’t see what. COD was included.
+ they aren’t advertising this online or promenantly in store, so you have to go hunting!

Ewan – Member
Handyman – how much did all the kit cost?

I think in total I have spent around £7K
BUT that does 14 extra graphics cards, which got purchased on impulse and will be sold. Leaving my actually investment at around £5.5K

So, its been an interesting bag of responses.

I fully expected some people to either not understand, or feel that it was a waste of resources and money.
I was skeptical, but Amazon, Google, and multiple IT suppliers now accept Bitcoin, so it is a fully ‘working’ currency.

To explain slightly more I am currently mining for Dash, Ethereum and Sia, but when I am paid out of the ‘pool’ I am paid in Bitcoin.
And to clear up even more, I will then sit on this Bitcoin for the foreseeable future. I am certain Bitcoin will fall towards the end of the year to around $4000 each, but then after that all reports are showing a slow and steady rise.
If you choose to believe websites such as THIS, THIS and THIS.[/url] Then investing a few thousand £ now, could well be worth it. My intentions are to re-coup my initial investment, and have the equipment owe me nothing, and then keep the miners earnings from that point as a future investment.

I’m not going to talk £ numbers on here, if anybody wants to know anything in more detail please email me and I can provide a tad more info.
But my ROI on all equiment at the moment looks to be around 60 days. That factors in all electricity costs from actually powering the equipment, and cooling all equipment.

Is the income from mining virtually guaranteed for a certain hardware setup until it tapers off?

Secondly, what happens to your blockchain machine(s) once the mining income has tapered off? Do you just switch them off or is there some money to be made by acting as a blockchain machine?

This is an interesting question, the first answer is yes. The exact amount per day is not guarantied, but the income is. To an extent anyway.
There are so many different currencies, that if one of my current choices suddenly starts to become unprofitable, I will start a different variation of the mining script on the same equipment.
I am not looking at this with rose tinted lenses, this could all crash tomorrow. But i am a tiny tiny player, so I am relying on larger multi million pound investors who have much more to loose, being right!

A slightly tangent has been the co-location of mining equipment. I have a couple of parties sending me over equipment to install and run here.
Obviously this based on profit after all electricity and device care is put into place, but I have the facilities to store and run the equipment. So for people who want to buy into the mining concept, but don’t want to keep a loud/warm unit at home, I offer the environment for it to run in.

I still haven’t had enough details to give a report on the miners income, hopefully after a full weekend running, I should know if it was a good investment!

Lastly, the regards to the environmental aspect.. Really?
Yes, it uses electricity. I am trying to be as conservative as possible, but like it or not, this is a real life currency and something that I believe will become the norm in a few years time.
The comment with regards to high street banks is very valid.

In my opinion for your basic workload you wouldn’t notice too much of a difference.
The processors will still work, and do a decent job but will just lack in power.

Think if it like a Shimano Deore groupset, the 2017 version is basically the 2013 (ish) XTR system with a few upgrades. So it will still shift as it should and work like any other system system but it will miss some of the newer technology needed for super smooth shifting.

We are now on 8th gen mobile/laptop i3 processors, and i wouldn’t go less than 4th gen.

Only an opinion though!

Tier1 computing is pretty decent CLICK[/url]
They have some good deals, and everything will turn up working and ready to go.

Or chuck a wanted add up, it sounds like a pretty entry level system I’m sure somebody on here will have something!

Hey Piers,

I’ve just sent you an email to your profile email address, with a recommendation. I’ve got an out of office reply, so let me know if I can send it over to different address!

Cloudnine, unfortunately (for sellers) its 180 days.

Quote from Paypal –

If you purchased the item from one of our merchants, follow these simple steps:
Log in to your PayPal account.
Open a dispute in the Resolution Center within 180 calendar days of your purchase.
Click “Dispute a Transaction.”
Select item dispute.
Be aware that disputes must be opened within 180 days of your payment date, and that you and the seller will have 20 days to work things out.