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It seems that the cartridges supplied in some new printers are only half full when compared to the replacement cartridges. The sale of replacement cartridges is where the profit is made. Dave
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The Saundersfoot Railway
Danemouth replied to rogerfarnworth's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
Good article. As a boy at the end of the 1950s we had several caravan holidays at Wisemans Bridge. I remember the three tunnels when walking into Saunderfoot. Dave -
I worked in the IT Dept of a small financial instution. Had a call out at 7:30 one morning whilst on my way to work - the burglar alarm had been triggered. I arrive to find our door of a multi occupancy building ajar and there are a couple of desktop p.c.s missing. However the scrotes had walked by a pile of cardboad boxes marked "Dell" - 27 new laptops had been delivered late the previous afternoon and not been locked in the storeroom. Dave
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Can I have a large portion please? 😀 Cheers, Dave
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I wonder if @Happy Hippo and @The Johnster remember the truly awful smell that sometimes came from the Brains Brewery when it was in Cardiff City Centre? In those days Brains was a really good pint. Dave
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If that happens put me down for one in GWR Green with a Pannier chip fitted Dave
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When my parents married in 1943 my father, who was in the Navy wore his uniform. As my mother entered the church the air raid siren sounded, as they came out afterwards the all clear sounded. Many years later my then young elder daughter saw their wedding picture and asked why her grandfather was wearing a pirate costume 😀 Dave
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I've now reloaded the later images, earlier ones can be reloaded if needs be. Dave
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Danemouth still gets a run from time to time and every now and again I think of rebuilding it - I can lengthen it by about 12 iches and would like aan additional siding in the goods yard. I doubt I will exhibit it again - my back would be less than happy with lifting it and standing around for much of the day. I am still really pleased with what I have given that I am not the best of modellers Cheers, Dave
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When I first started work Wales Gas Board had a single holder in Bute Terrace Cardiff behind the offices that had been decommissioned some time. They decided to remove it so the steelwork was removed leaving a pit about 30 feet deep. Lorries started turning up dumping earth etc. into it. I was having lunch in the canteen one day which overlooked this pit when a lorry backed up to drop its load but was halted. A couple of men came from the cashiers office and emptied several bags of foreign coins, clipped halfpennies etc that had been accumulated from coin meters over the years into the pit - the lorry was then allowed to tip its load on top of them. One other story from an old hand I worked with. In the war there was a man who used to go on top of the holder at Vorlons in Barry during air raids and kick off an incendaries that landed on top - how true this is I do not know. Dave
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When I started work in Wales Gas Board back in 1965 I was told the story of a gasometer in North Wales in the days before natural gas and transmission grids. A small town had a coal gas plant and single gasometer. Now their highest load was of a Sunday lunctime when the pressure on the district would drop. So the Manager and his wife would take deckchairs and sit on top of the holder - their weight would help keep the pressure on the district up. That would be an unusual feature on a layout 😀 Dave
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Agree with Jamie, the first volume is particularly helpful with track layouts etc. Dave
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Thank goodness, so I don't need to lock the Penderyn in the vault to keep it safe from marauding Pachyderms😀 Dave
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SNAP!!! My daughter has just arrived with the same for me. I will force it down over the coming weeks days Dave
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Sorry Phil, perhaps I have been misunderstood. The level of data security is dependent upon the nature of the business. This is a hobby website and the level of security put in place was proportionate for that purpose - you were let down by a third party. What I was trying to say was that each situation rrquires a careful assessment and the needs of a financial institution are entirely different and cost a great deal more to implement. As I said no criticism of RMweb was implied. Dave
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Having said that had RMWeb been a financial institution the regulator would descend on them like a ton of bricks. The regulators view rightly is that you cannot subcontract responsibility for data security. I worked for a small financial institution until I retired and was quesioned more than once about backups, offsite storage and disaster recovery tests as part of their periodic checks. I still find it incredible that the third party had the backup on the same disk array as the live data and apparently no offsite backup
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Well said that man sound advice indeed 😀 As a retired Information Security Manager this is my approach - a cheap second laptop is used with a DOS script to back up each evening all of my personal files over the home WiFi network - just the files that have changed. In addition a UPS drive is connected once a week and Acronis True Image used to backup the complete laptop. Never leave a backup drive permanently connected - all it takes is a virus or power surge to wipe out your backup and leave you up **** Creek without a paddle! As Rick rightly says never rely on the cloud soley for your critical data Dave p.s. This is in no way a criticism of RMWeb - the issues are with a third party whose approach to backup was less than robust
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Prototypical freight operation - best resource?
Danemouth replied to Ted-ish's topic in UK Prototype Questions
I've just had a quck look - covers steam only Dave -
Prototypical freight operation - best resource?
Danemouth replied to Ted-ish's topic in UK Prototype Questions
I found this book useful https://www.amazon.co.uk/Freight-Train-Operation-Railway-Modeller/dp/0711031428/ref=sr_1_8?crid=2L4DRREBK0V6K&keywords=freight+essery&qid=1651755238&s=books&sprefix=freight+essery%2Cstripbooks%2C42&sr=1-8 Dave -
When I were nobbut a lad in the 50's in the days before cooking oils such as Mazola (other brands available) came into common use my mother always cooked chips in lard - almost everyone did. I was in the local chippy recently when they were loading up one of the fryers with a solid block of something which remined me of lard. Dave