Cheshire Oaks, Suits Direct in the corner by McD’s or M&S as said above

It’ll be that dodgy accent Nige, they can’t wrap their heads around why you haven’t got a scally accent like the rest of us :-)

Second the Plantronic Voyager Focus, sat in incredibly noisy offices and its worked brilliant. Only problem is I’ve got one of those voices that carries and hardly anyone else uses the same headset.

22 years as a homeworker with fair bit of travel UK and EU here. Set a rule that you will consistently stick to, say two and half hours before your contracted start time where unless you can have a kip on the train, you’ll drive down the night before, then travelling down the night before, say 50% company time 50% your time. For example 4 hour drive to hotel, and you finish at 5pm then leave at 3pm arrive at 7pm, you are demonstrating some flexibility, but not going silly. One more rule if its a Monday start and you have to travel on a Sunday then its TOIL or overtime, make it clear and consistent what you’ll do. On the train say for one of those 14 hour working days, kip on the way down, work on the way back, giving that bit of flexibility but not letting them take the P.

If it was a summer cup, usual is to turn up put in a performance that isn’t too shocking, but gets em kicked out in enough time for a decent summer holiday with the WAG/Kids. I’m waiting to see what tricks are pulled out of the bag to get some time off, an example will be the player getting silly bookings that mean under totting up that they get a three match ban over Xmas.

Congrats N!, I had that lumpy cheque but after a year off, I jumped back in the job market, chose a firm that’s fun to work.

Waves at you in the garden from the other bank of the river.

To keep the grey matter working I’ve started on a MSc, oh and slowly building up a bike packing setup once my legs are back working properly again.

He’s gotta be careful what he does, cos otherwise its a Gieger Counter to check your cup of tea, and never touching a doorknob again.

Get a farm kitten, 100’s of generations of selective breeding for being tough little ratters. Wait a few months and all the cats will be too scared to come in your garden and as a big plus they’ll hide inside when its shitting in their gardens.

In charge of an operation that murdered an innocent man, named as obstructing an inquiry into another murder and police corruption, and so on. What has pushed her as previous posts have suggested, when such prior episodes have not?

Yes it is a USB device that you hang in the centre of your screen for the software with it to do the calibration. If you leave it plugged in by your pc/laptop it will also sense the ambient light and adjust the calibration based on that too.

Most likely the laptop will go into a low power mode as well as trickle charge to the battery. Stopping CPU boosting to higher frequency etc.

I’m using the Datacolor Spyder X pro across my PC and laptops. My MacBook pro was almost spot on when I used it on that, but my PC and Windows laptop, wow what a difference. Guess it is only of use if you are serious about your photos/video. But first place to start would be trying the built in screen calibration in Windows https://www.groovypost.com/howto/calibrate-monitor-color-display-windows-10/

Mavic Crossmax freehub death howl

Use a Beanbag as a pillow so you don’t scream yourself awake, when you roll over onto the damaged side in your sleep.

Like a lot of the wonderful initiatives this current government has come out with, I think the adage ‘follow the money’ comes to mind. With the relaxation in encryption and the capturing of ‘essential data’ A new database to collate and allow access to ‘selected agencies’ will have to be outsourced for ‘best value’ to an IT integrator that will by pure chance have a number of ex-ministers join a couple of years down the line from their ejection from political life. Also allowing their third cousin twice removed budgie, who happens to be a shareholder a share dividend that will pay for a 8 figure cage with preening mirror, with the entire ex-minsters family employment as staff one day a week at £100k a year each.

Get a Draytek router and create a ‘Teen’ SSID that has a time of day schedule to limit his access.

https://www.draytek.co.uk/support/guides/kb-wireless-lan-scheduling

Then for the wired port, a logon with time of day

https://www.draytek.com/support/knowledge-base/5497

Hmm and now its come out that they are worried about the 787 one of their most modern jets, wonder what other corners have been cut apart from the the exploding batteries?

At least the US DoD chose the Lockheed Martin F35 over the Boeing version, imagine the 5G death rays swatting stealth fighters out of the skies (well rather than the RN and forgotten engine covers)

Agree Ars article is a good start on the subject. Whilst the FCC are allowing the Telco’s to operate at significantly more power output on Band C than the rest of the world, the Telco’s are going to use a 220Mhz guard band from the top of Band C to the radio altimeters which is a heck of lot more than normal between frequency allocations.

I suspect that the FAA have allowed some pretty shonky designs on the equipment, given their proven track record of letting manufacturers mark their own homework with tragic results (737 Max) and doing covers ups.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54174223
https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/18/22189609/faa-boeing-737-max-senate-report-coverup-tests-whistleblowers

What’s amazed me this season is the lack of silly yellow cards, leading up to a automatic ban for the matches over Xmas. I wonder how they’ve managed to get Xmas off this year.

Game had the Series X in stock online most of yesterday, so at last managed to order one at RRP.

Answering some comments from my post.

“should I isolate if I have a cold” = yes you should if you have the option to, one thing I hope that this global ongoing event should have taught us is personal responsibility. “It’s only a cold” what about all the people with suppressed immune systems? Even a cold for them can be a dammed scary time. If you have to go into work, with such symptoms how about wearing a mask, as well as warning people that you are unwell, hopefully from a distance.

“how do I know it was them” I’m normally a home worker and it was my first time out of the house in 2 weeks. The only other member of the household didn’t give it to me, and seeing the answer above I went well out of my way to make sure I didn’t pass it to them, which I didn’t, once I caught it.

Said Mr “I only have a cold” went off sick with Covid 3 days after the meeting, with the people that sat either side of him at the meeting going on to develop Covid, as did the person he shared a car with to that meeting.

My learning experience, when a c-nut in work says after sneezing “don’t worry its only a cold I’ve had multiple negative tests” either tell then to **** off home asap or exit the area asap.

A month after recovering from Covid they’ve given you, you still have energy crashes daily and sometimes struggle to even get up/down the stairs at home, and then find out in your Xmas pay packet you didn’t get full wages and instead sick pay for the week you took as sick off (only recently getting a new job after being laid off right at the beginning of it all) Lets just say my faith in people has been reduced, and more so for a certain person, who’s on my cr*p list for the near future and isn’t likely to get any willing tech-support on their future bids.

Moved from a 2014 13′ MBP to a M1 16Gb 13′ MBP last year, zero complaints apart from the recent 14′ MBP Pro envy.

KeePass, its multi-platform, and the best bit the encrypted database for it you can have on say Dropbox or Onedrive. Then set the database up so its locally cached on your devices from Dropbox/Onedrive. Then as well as a password to access it, you can use a keyfile which you manually install on the devices you want to use the password manager on.

I spent a few years as a onsite telecoms architect spending a couple days each week onsite at the HQ and IT dept for one of the big supermarkets. The levels of inefficiency and feckwittery I saw throughout the business were a real eye opener. They were all propped up by one dept that operated with a ruthless streak, yep for any suppliers out there, you have already guessed who, the buyers who would gouge year on year cheaper and cheaper costs for the goods going on the shelves. In fact I can recall quite a public rant from STW towers on some of the tricks they try.

Outsourcing key components in their JIT supply chain to 3rd parties, then tightening the screws was the next step to retaining their bonuses, after the easy wins got harder to achieve from their regular punch bags of years gone by.

No doubt it’ll be price rises due to increased labour costs next, rather than looking at how better to optimise their internal structure, or heaven forbid eating into their profits and senior leadership team bonus scheme.

Wonder if there ever is going to be any any audit on any senior gov officials when they land in their chosen place of exile? That has by pure random chance, such a welcoming policy towards their counterparts from around the world.

Loving my DS220+ with 2*4TB discs. Whole pile of file shares, then instead of backing up to the cloud, I’m backing up the cloud back to my NAS, got it setup that if a file is deleted in the cloud it isn’t on my NAS. To protect against malware I’m running hourly snapshots of the BTRFS filesystem that take up hardly any space, and allow me to restore easily, the snapshots I’ve got setup with a retention policy so it isn’t a silly amount of them.

Expanded it to the allowed 6GB of RAM, allegedly it’ll work with more, but the Intel CPU according to Intel only supports the 6GB.

I run docker on it with Pi-Hole for DNS ad-blocking.

WD Cloud I had one before this, but glad I got rid of it before the recent attacks.

Bloody impressed with the software on it, the speed and ease of use. One big tip be wary of running the Anti-Virus package on it, if setup incorrectly it’ll be scanning on every single file change, thereby thrashing your discs.

But if you are set on having some sort of logging, then do what contact centres do for ‘agent training purposes’ screen recording. There’s no logging of password issues, but you’ll record the iffy content.

As per Cletus, A keylogger will get you in a whole world of hurt, when/if there is an investigation of who did what on a system. The person(s) under investigation could turn around and say oh there’s a keylogger so our individual login to system xyz, anyone with access to the keylogger knows our individual usernames and passwords for it, so you can’t prove it was us that did whatever.

Depending on the email system you might be able to do DLP (Data Loss Prevention)

Use a proxy to apply any filtering regards web usage, there’s plenty out there that are cloud based and easy to deploy. For the email you will already have the tools, to have a email retention policy in place, along with the ability to recover deleted emails, for the who said what discussions.

Enforce role based access to any systems, individual logins and passwords. Disabling local admin on any machines so stop people installing for example chat progs etc..

Key thing to look out for on Mesh Wi-Fi is a dedicated backhaul between the Mesh AP’s. These help explain it https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-features/33023-don-t-get-caught-in-the-wireless-mesh https://www.casatech.com/blog/2020/7/19/five-mistakes-to-avoid-when-setting-up-your-mesh-wifi-system

I’ve a Rok Espresso that’s lasted longer than they have been called Rok, its had a new piston and seals a few times but its going fine.

I have also got a Gaggia Classic, had it for 14 years as of next month, its used daily whenever I’m working at home (most days) it has had a couple of pump/boiler swaps in that time, but I guess it shows that parts are easily available.

@dannybgoode GW1RVC mix of QRP HF and digital modes on UHF.

Oh and they do regular tests on EMF from masts, more here https://www.ofcom.org.uk/manage-your-licence/radiocommunication-licences/mobile-wireless-broadband/exposure-electro-magnetic-fields

As an amateur radio licence holder, OFCOM have recently issued a variation on my licence and I’ll have to do assessments on EMF for my transmitters/antenna. In relation to international guidelines

@CountZero

I saw that prog too, they found an old hall in a mobile not spot, setup a trailer mast in the front, and as you said had it off when they said it was on and vice versa. I recall one person had to be seen by a doctor and taken off site in the first week.

You should have a look at the crap put in the RF spectrum from an Ethernet port, never mind what a FTTC/VDSL2 line can put out.

Ethernet – gazillions of Google refs

VDSL2 – https://rsgb.org/main/technical/emc/vdsl-interference-reporting/

2nd AZ for me yesterday too, had some splitting headaches yesterday, and a mild arm ache today.

Expeditionary Force (series) by Craig Allanson “I mean, your species is responsible for Windows Vista.”

If its running a anti virus app, scanning changes all the time can trash performance, switch the app off.

There’s some settings tweeking that can make a large difference, In the link below the author had 2MBps to start with and got it upto 80MBps

https://bobmckay.com/i-t-support-networking/nas-media-servers/solved-slow-transfer-speeds-synology-nas/

My DS220 averages about 78MBps on file transfers.

Irident do the X-transformer, which will take .RAF files and convert them to .DNG, applying the in camera lens distortion settings, and will also apply noise reduction and sharpening that get around the ‘worms’ you get in certain files. It’ll bulk convert files, and also work as a plugin within Lightroom.

Good article on it here, https://yannickkhong.com/blog/2018/12/28/iridient-x-transformer

I’d second/third the Fuel filter, old Yammy peds would have a little plastic nut under the fuel tap that was hollow for all the crud from the tank to settle in. I’d look at all of the fuel line from tank to carb. Then if that’s clean, flush the tank and refill, then after that look at the carb.

Spark plug (checked before fuel system) then a look at the ignition system. Clean plug in lead touched somewhere to earth on the ped and start it and see if you get a nice big clean spark.