Jonboy

My wife is one of a number of her factory floor colleagues who don’t drive but cannot work from home. This means myself and various other spouses are now on the roads twice a day to both drop off and later collect their respective partners (their shift starts before public transport is an option and finishes at the same time as the local schools meaning the buses they normally use to get home are over their COVID-capacity levels).

ironically this means I am now driving further than I ever have before each day, despite working from home full time....

The manual says that In programming mode only 250 milliamps are available to help avoid frying incorrectly installed decoders....does this occur only in programming mode or both in programming and running mode?

Saw it in real life at Dismaland a few years back. It really is an incredible piece of art.

11 minutes ago, brianusa said:

C. cards from GB not received yet nor a book, a present, ordered over a month ago.

        Brian.

a lot of transatlantic mail has reportedly gone ocean recently simply due to lack of passenger flights (pre COVID 42% of air-freight went in passenger flights cargo holds). This takes three weeks port to port in reality plus the time either side for local transit and any customs processes.

Is it possible to run an Ethernet cable to another part of the house and leave the virgin router in place, and the new router in access point mode at the other end? This would allow you a separate WiFi channel and can then simply choose the one with the strongest signal?

(If you get the correct crimping tool making your own Ethernet cable is dead easy and only needs a 5mm hole to get through walls- cost for the tool, cable and plugs would be around £20).

the other thing to check is how many other WiFi networks are in the neighbourhood. If a few show on your phone/tablet/device it may be worth looking at changing the WiFi channel in the virgin router. There are 12 channels (from memory) but most routers default to 6 which can be congested. They are often supposed to auto switch if congested but don’t always...

you can get powering adapters with a pass though plug socket but they will not increase the 4mb you mentioned, unless the extension you have plugged it into is surge protected that could potentially interfere with the signal.

does the equipment in the railway room have both 2 and 5 ghz capabilities? If so it may be worth seeing if one is stronger than the other and if the devices are switching between the two which would explain the speed changes? In the router I use I can set the two up as separate WiFi networks if  I wish, no idea on the virgin router however.

(I do have a router from my employer in place of my isp’s as it allows a dedicated vpn back to the office, but as I live in a flat the coverage isn’t an issue. Prior to switching to fibre I always used my own routers with bt without issue).

No doubt all locked up nice and tidily in a public enquiry that costs a few billion quid, takes 8 years, 3 heads quitting due to a conflict of interest and reports shortly after a general election.....

Just me that hopes the Swiss ban them from entering the country for 10 years or similar???

So I ordered a 12 bottle mixed case of ales from a brewery online on Monday, and the order arrived today. Unfortunately they had made an error and instead sent a mixed case of 12 x 330ml mixed cans...I was surprised at just how deflated I was, as I just don’t rate small cans as the same “experience”. Is this just me or do others think the same?
 

The positive is that they have resent the correct case for tomorrow and told me to keep the cans.

Don’t forget there are a lot of containers stuck on vessels outside uk ports, or diverted and sat in Rotterdam at the moment. This is a assuming they haven’t been held at factory’s due to the silly level of costs (shipping a container from Asia in November was £2100, now £7000 and counting).
 

This is impacting all retailers great and small in a even handed way at the moment with shipments up to 3 weeks late and counting.

6 hours ago, zarniwhoop said:

Can't you flip up the accelerator and pull down an accelerator on the right ? That's how mine have been for about 20 years (my right ankle is inoperative after a spinal cord injury). I recall that when the first such car (a secondhand one) was delivered to me (the salesman collected my previous car that I could no-longer drive), he said he'd tried it on the left foot - but whenever mine goes in for service I make sure I've swapped the pedals.

one of those fun ones where you can, if you remember.....the mother in law also drives the cars so you never know what your getting into. 

Apparently Swindon has been overwhelmed almost continuously  since April so not sure where they could divert too if a wider issue.

If you want real fun driving an automatic try jumping into the father in laws car, with the pedals reversed via an adaptor to account for his missing leg....

1 hour ago, frobisher said:

 

You can't do much with the account number and sort code apart from pay money INTO it...

I dunno, Jeremy Clarkson printed his in a newspaper column to prove this point, someone promptly signed him up for a £500 a month direct debit donation to a charity....

It’s going to be interesting for McLaren, apparently they have had to restrict their rear development to “essential changes “ for fitting in the new Merc engine for 2021, and not performance gains. Other teams have the normal array of tokens for the components.

will they keep third place next year I wonder?

I work for a wholesaler supplying small retailers nation wide via carrier delivery. For their trade account payments we dropped from 10 or so cheques a day to 1-2 a month over the last 16 years. This was with minimal effort to encourage them from our part.

Over the last three years it was simply a case of complete a paying in slip, putting cheques in an envelope and popping through the banks local branch letterbox as I cycled past in the evening...

Was it just me that got the feeling Bottas was playing safe to secure 2nd in drivers championship, rather than pushing for the race win today?

13 hours ago, Reorte said:

I'm wondering if there's a bit of confusion going on by what is meant by engine braking. Using just the engine and not the brakes to slow down, by putting the car into too low a gear for the speed? That's probably not a good idea. Using the engine to hold your speed on a hill though (which might result in it revving a bit higher than normal, but much in the way of that means it's time for a dab on the brakes) - if that's not taught then I find it worrying.

thinking it through it’s possible it’s simply not taught round here, south Oxfordshire, because there are no hills of any significant size to worry about...

I was taught to pass my driving test in 2005, I was taught brakes are cheap, clutch’s are not, so not to engine brake. This was an instructor from one of the national chains of driving schools.

14 minutes ago, Hobby said:

 

Yes. They are paying for experience.  

my bad, I thought they (as in the brand, not necessarily the team) were paying for marketing, and they seem to have had plenty of attention this weekend.....

My bookmarked link to the index page no longer existed as they seem to changed the url to the forum, hence 404’s.

https://www.gpfans.com/en/articles/50286/formula-1-driver-salaries-2020-what-lewis-hamilton-and-sebastian-vettel-get-paid/
 

shall I just leave this here and ask if the return on investment between Hamilton, still not signed for 2021, and Russell is worth £47,800,000 to Merc (less the difference taken to settle with Williams ).

Regarding the ORR deadline of 2023 to remove red zone working, what would the reaction be if a 2022 provisional WTT was published with nothing moving anywhere between 10am and 12pm daily to allow inspections/minor repairs  planned and reactive???

Nah the updated version gives you a unique code on screen, you have to go to their website, sign in and then enter the code. This links the tv/box to your bbc account and allows to track your secret strictly fetish...

An item I ordered was posted on 2nd November on a 24hr service and turned up on the 18th. This seems to be typical at the moment talking to relatives here in Oxfordshire and colleagues in Suffolk.