Padded Cell

I returned from holiday and a misunderstanding occurred with the electrician who was installing a dedicated mains power cable from the main fuse board to new sockets. He is currently putting the sockets in place. Unfortunately he has installed a...

...but they can't make accurate clocks it seems.    

Another airshow display crash...   Gulp

So if you were lucky enough to live in a house which is probably quite modest compared to many on this forum, but both partners had said many times - "we never thought we would be this lucky", and then SWMBO wanted a better one for another £100k +...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/parrot-detained-by-indian-police-after-hurling-obscenities-at-85yearold-woman-10461725.html  

Answer: Very Incompetent! On Tuesday, BT managed to mess up and disconnect my broadband without my permission. They have recognised their mistake and apologised, even though I had to talk to half of their staff in India, who I'm sure are hard...

By 11 AM EDT on Monday morning, a total of 1,235 circuit breakers triggered as stocks fell precipitously after the open of the NYSE/NASDAQ/BATS stock markets.   That at least indicates our software works in the sense that it prevents an even...

Seeing the comments in the Win 10 thread, prompted the though of an Mac version  or equivalent.   Does it exist and are there any recommendations, for handling  junk mail programmes?

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/bank_of_canada_urges_star_trek_fans_to_stop_spocking_their_fivers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldIGX1QuPjE   Finally the British are back in CoH franchise; they removed American and British and added Soviets for COH2..put Americans back in, now come the British finally.  One day I hope they do the Pacific.

Given this is a padded cell, does that mean that this forum has been acoustically treated?

My ancient iPod Classic has just died so had to replace it with something else. Gets used a fair bit for travel and is always plugged into my car.   After not much research I just bought a Fiio X3 Mk2. Daft name but blimey it sounds good....

From this side of the pond for all Tony Blair's supposed faults I can't overlook the huge effort he (and Bill and Bertie) put into trying to find a peaceful solution to the seemingly intractable situation in Northern Ireland. I cannot believe the man...

Hi, Our boiler has sprung a leak and at 18 years of age Its time to replace it. I have a gas engineer coming out Monday to give me a quote.He recommends Worcester/bocsh but he can get a hold of most boilers. So my question, Any recommendations for...

There are occasions when remote can't be accessed by my iPhone or iPad but today the problem has changed.   As per usual remote app opens shows my music library click on library and it downloads shows whats playing and all artists  or albums...

I'm not a natural Labour supporter but I want a vigorous opposition with ideas and energy and this is clearly not going to come from the Lib Dems (remember them?). Whatever your political flavour the rise of Corbyn has surely been pretty fascinating....

I steal the best of your jokes from the thread...and I use them without giving credit.  It makes me feel good when people think I made them up...it makes me feel...like I'm really funny, but I'm not.   There.  That wasn't so hard was...

I see that ofcom have amalgamated the data from various mobile phone companies about cellphone coverage.   I have submitted to them my report on our local coverage.  According to O2 (and ofcom) I should be getting 3G cover in our village....

At the recent Founders' Day of the VMCC I bought a few copies of Real Classic magazine. I rarely buy any motorcycle mag these days but I was saddened to learn from the July issue that Dave Minton had decided to call time on his writing. I can recall...

Woke up this morning to find my PMC Twenty.23s turned sideways and flush with the back wall. As they are mounted on Skeet and fairly easy to slide on a polished wood floor I concluded "My gosh! We must have had an earthquake in the night that I slept...

I gave up amateur radio 28 years ago when the children arrived. Having now retired I decided to buy a little scanner to listen to aircraft etc. Talking to Richard at Martin Lynch I discovered that renewing a licence was straightforward.  I now...

Any one else meteorite watching tonight? I saw 5 last night within half an hour. Hoping for clear skies tonight.

I have been clearing some old thumb drives and general housekeeping. Result is I have 2 files on my desktop a .icbu old calendar and a .abbu an old address files. I have finished with them but they won't go into the trash an error - "The operation can’t be completed because one or more required items can’t be found. (Error code -43)" All translations I have found helpfully tell me something is misusing. Any way of "force deleting" or equivalent ?

Only two months old, it was fine yesterday now it will not print at all, shows on printer screen it is printing but nothing happens! I have tried updating drivers & software to no avail. so it's back to the shop tomorrow!

Couple of weeks ago, I rebuilt my PC: Gigabyte mobo, 16 GB RAM, i7-4GHz proc, etc etc   Started the interminable process of re-installing the software, starting with Win 7 Pro 64-bit. Loaded the basic OS and chipset drivers, and then let Win...