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| message from Nick Brooks on 17 May 2004 |
It's Monday morning and you lot have posted 594 messages since Friday.
Haven't you got any DIY to do?
Nick Brooks
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| BigWallop replied to Nick Brooks on 17 May 2004 |
It's all done. Fixed the starter motor in the car. Laid some beading
timber around the gap in the new laminate flooring. Fixed and cleaned the
windows. Done an alarm call-out at three in morning.
And still had time for a kipper at breakfast. :-))
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| Mary Fisher replied to BigWallop on 17 May 2004 |
Did you cook it yourself though?
Mary
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| BigWallop replied to Mary Fisher on 17 May 2004 |
Hee Hee :-)) That I did Mrs F, that I did. Along with a lovely slice of buttered
bloomer and a squirt of lemon. Booteefull.
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| Mary Fisher replied to BigWallop on 17 May 2004 |
You can come round here any breakfast time. Spouse doesn't like kippers ...
:-(
Mary
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| Huge replied to Nick Brooks on 17 May 2004 |
It was my birthday weekend. I was too busy drinking champagne to do DIY.
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| Nick Brooks replied to Huge on 17 May 2004 |
Lucky you. I converted a ton of sand, six bag of cement and 300
reclaimed bricks into a garden path
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| Dave Plowman replied to Huge on 17 May 2004 |
But are you young or old enough to still celebrate birthdays?
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| Mary Fisher replied to Dave Plowman on 17 May 2004 |
I celebrate all the birthdays I know about.
I go through a lot of bubbly ...
Mary
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| Huge replied to Mary Fisher on 17 May 2004 |
Why ever not? I must admit I don't like making a fuss, but this one's
being going on for a week or so.
Me too.
Me too.
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| Mary Fisher replied to Huge on 17 May 2004 |
Mine always seem to do that ...
Another chap's tomorrow :-))))))))
Should be Wednesday - I remember it well, I was there - but I reckon that if
we start early it will give more time.
Mary
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| John Laird replied to Huge on 17 May 2004 |
I hope for your mother's sake that your actual birth was somewhat more
abbreviated ;-)
Half-century perhaps ? Happy birthday old bean.
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| Nick Brooks replied to Dave Plowman on 17 May 2004 |
Any excuse to sit in the garden in glourious weather drinking champagne
and you can count me in
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| Huge replied to Nick Brooks on 17 May 2004 |
Who are you and what are doing in my garden?
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| BigWallop replied to Huge on 17 May 2004 |
Many happy returns Sir. (BW raises glasses and clinks them together)
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| Huge replied to BigWallop on 17 May 2004 |
Ta.
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| Lurch replied to Nick Brooks on 17 May 2004 |
For a change, no. I have been working Saturday though, but spent most
of yesterday in a pub. I've got to finish cleaning the van to go up
for sale today, and finish off the phone\tv\sat nav setup in the other
the van as well, so my diy starts today after a well deserved rest!
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| Dave Plowman replied to Lurch on 17 May 2004 |
I hope you're installing a PABX in it too...
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| Lurch replied to Dave Plowman on 17 May 2004 |
Now there's an idea! I had thought that the next project for mobile
equipment would be to build a PC into the van somewhere, with RF
keyboard and mouse and feed the video into the TFT monitors AV input.
With a spare mobile and GPRS I can keep up with the newsgroups when
I'm working away, as I can't find a decent free newsreader for the
PDA, and web browsing is easier on a PC than the PDA.
I suppose I could incorporate a mobile VoIP device into that, and a
software PABX of somesort!
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| Andy Hall replied to Lurch on 17 May 2004 |
You can get embedded type PCs for companies like Advantech that work
pretty well for that. Small box, no fan, option cards to do the
interfaces.
.andy
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| Lurch replied to Andy Hall on 17 May 2004 |
Not seen those, I was looking at the mini itx type boards but I'm
always looking for new ways to do things, cheers.
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| Andy Hall replied to Lurch on 17 May 2004 |
I have some mini-ITX machines that I use for firewalls etc. These are
mains run but low power.
Then I have a small Advantech PC-104 type board that I'm using to
provide various things such as a serial console to various routers and
servers and to control equipment cooling.
This runs an embedded Linux and currently runs from a 2.5" HDD of
notebook type. Shortly it will all be shifted to flash drive
because the board will accept one of these and treat it as an IDE.
Not fast, but not needed for this application - equivalent to a 200MHz
P3.
They make faster machines for use in cars etc. but they cost rather
more. Still small footprint though.
For car use, before now, I've used an old notebook hooked up to an LCD
display and that works pretty well.
.andy
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| Lurch replied to Andy Hall on 17 May 2004 |
That's another project, my firewalls and servers are currently running
on old PC's, luckily they're all in the garage, which is central to
the office and main route to upstairs for any cabling etc... but the
power consumption is something that I'm concerned about, especially as
there's 3 of them!
Sounds like just the ticket, where might there be a supplier of those?
I haven't come across any after a bit of googling, found a little bit
of info on the machines though.
I'm after anything basic really, with a reasonable speed I don't need
it to do much, it's just a starter project really. If I'm going to do
it the way I wanted, with a high spec mobile machine, I'd buy a bigger
van first!
Yes, I'm on the lookout for a decent laptop to use. The ones we get
back from clients are generally ancient machines of limited spec or
with terminal motherboard faults.
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| Andy Hall replied to Lurch on 17 May 2004 |
www.advantech.com
Then look at Embedded Computing -x86
I'm using a PCM-5820 plus extra serial board.
There is an online store but not available in the UK.
However, they have an office in Milton Keynes who will take an order
and ship to you from their warehouse in Holland.
.andy
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