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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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Nick Brooks wrote to uk.d-i-y:
It's Monday morning and you lot have posted 594 messages since Friday. Haven't you got any DIY to do? Nick Brooks 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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On Mon, 17 May 2004 10:13:13 +0100, in uk.d-i-y Nick Brooks
strung together this: It's Monday morning and you lot have posted 594 messages since Friday. Haven't you got any DIY to do? 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! -- SJW A.C.S. Ltd. |
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Lurch wrote: 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 van as well, so my diy starts today after a well deserved rest! I hope you're installing a PABX in it too... -- *Why don't you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"? Dave Plowman London SW 12 RIP Acorn |
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On Mon, 17 May 2004 11:12:44 +0100, in uk.d-i-y Dave Plowman
strung together this: In article , Lurch wrote: 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 van as well, so my diy starts today after a well deserved rest! I hope you're installing a PABX in it too... 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! -- SJW A.C.S. Ltd. |
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Huge wrote:
Nick Brooks writes: It's Monday morning and you lot have posted 594 messages since Friday. Haven't you got any DIY to do? It was my birthday weekend. I was too busy drinking champagne to do DIY. Lucky you. I converted a ton of sand, six bag of cement and 300 reclaimed bricks into a garden path |
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Huge wrote: It was my birthday weekend. I was too busy drinking champagne to do DIY. But are you young or old enough to still celebrate birthdays? -- *Give me ambiguity or give me something else. Dave Plowman London SW 12 RIP Acorn |
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Dave Plowman wrote:
In article , Huge wrote: It was my birthday weekend. I was too busy drinking champagne to do DIY. But are you young or old enough to still celebrate birthdays? Any excuse to sit in the garden in glourious weather drinking champagne and you can count me in |
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"BigWallop" wrote in message 13.46... Nick Brooks wrote to uk.d-i-y: It's Monday morning and you lot have posted 594 messages since Friday. Haven't you got any DIY to do? Nick Brooks 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. :-)) Did you cook it yourself though? Mary |
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"Dave Plowman" wrote in message ... In article , Huge wrote: It was my birthday weekend. I was too busy drinking champagne to do DIY. But are you young or old enough to still celebrate birthdays? I celebrate all the birthdays I know about. I go through a lot of bubbly ... Mary -- |
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"Mary Fisher" wrote in message . net... "BigWallop" wrote in message 13.46... Nick Brooks wrote to uk.d-i-y: It's Monday morning and you lot have posted 594 messages since Friday. Haven't you got any DIY to do? Nick Brooks 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. :-)) Did you cook it yourself though? Mary Hee Hee :-)) That I did Mrs F, that I did. Along with a lovely slice of buttered bloomer and a squirt of lemon. Booteefull. --- http://www.basecuritysystems.no-ip.com Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.687 / Virus Database: 448 - Release Date: 16/05/04 |
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"Huge" wrote in message ... Nick Brooks writes: Dave Plowman wrote: In article , Huge wrote: It was my birthday weekend. I was too busy drinking champagne to do DIY. But are you young or old enough to still celebrate birthdays? Many happy returns Sir. (BW raises glasses and clinks them together) Any excuse to sit in the garden in glourious weather drinking champagne and you can count me in Who are you and what are doing in my garden? --- http://www.basecuritysystems.no-ip.com Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.687 / Virus Database: 448 - Release Date: 16/05/04 |
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On Mon, 17 May 2004 12:23:13 +0100, in uk.d-i-y Andy Hall
strung together this: 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. Not seen those, I was looking at the mini itx type boards but I'm always looking for new ways to do things, cheers. -- SJW A.C.S. Ltd. |
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"BigWallop" wrote in message ... "Mary Fisher" wrote in message . net... "BigWallop" wrote in message 13.46... Nick Brooks wrote to uk.d-i-y: It's Monday morning and you lot have posted 594 messages since Friday. Haven't you got any DIY to do? Nick Brooks 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. :-)) Did you cook it yourself though? Mary Hee Hee :-)) That I did Mrs F, that I did. Along with a lovely slice of buttered bloomer and a squirt of lemon. Booteefull. You can come round here any breakfast time. Spouse doesn't like kippers ... :-( Mary --- http://www.basecuritysystems.no-ip.com Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.687 / Virus Database: 448 - Release Date: 16/05/04 |
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"Huge" wrote in message ... 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. Mine always seem to do that ... I celebrate all the birthdays I know about. Me too. I go through a lot of bubbly ... Me too. 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 -- "The road to Paradise is through Intercourse." [email me at huge [at] huge [dot] org [dot] uk] |
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On Mon, 17 May 2004 20:34:15 +0100, in uk.d-i-y Andy Hall
strung together this: I have some mini-ITX machines that I use for firewalls etc. These are mains run but low power. 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! 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. 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. They make faster machines for use in cars etc. but they cost rather more. Still small footprint 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! For car use, before now, I've used an old notebook hooked up to an LCD display and that works pretty well. 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. -- SJW A.C.S. Ltd. |
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