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      20th century blues

      of course the dinosaurs are still here - who do you think runs the country?
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      20th century blues

      Just a thought - remember all those people holed up in oxygen tents, suffering from "allergy to the 20th century"? Are they better now?
    3. S

      Digital radio info missing

      I don't know - I haven't slept with all of them.
    4. S

      Digital radio info missing

      Alarm? My wife snores......
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      Broadband Disaster

      I recently switched to Xilo, their O2 LLU offering, which presumably now also uses the Sky infrastructure. Having initially promised "up to 6Mb" and consistently delivered about 5MB, for the last couple of weeks it's been giving 6.75 MB. Compared with Demon that's about twice the speed for a bit...
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      Digital radio info missing

      .... and when did politicians consider good reason to be a good reason?
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      Dehumidifiers

      Presumably the only place the waste heat can go is back into the room, whether the output air is ducted through it or not? From my dodgy recollection of physics some of the energy is absorbed in the state change ( ie from water vapour to liquid water ) without a change in temperature. All I can...
    8. S

      Dehumidifiers

      The efficiency question is interesting. I leave my car A/C on auto all the time, even when the heating is on. It is the most effective way to demist. I have no idea whether the system uses any sort of heat recovery but I have never been able to detect any consistent difference in fuel...
    9. S

      Digital radio info missing

      I have an ample supply of FM radios throughout the house ( including the attic ) and would not bother with DAB but the Roberts was a present. It gets garden use but that's all. Internal charger doesn't work, wall plug causes interference which crashes Homeplug network, battery connections so...
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      Digital radio info missing

      Indeed, you're all correct! It seems the Roberts sometimes loses it's settings, and in the same way I had lost all memory of there being different settings. Restored now. Gomezz - what do you mean "all stations"? Are there others? Why?
    11. S

      Digital radio info missing

      I've noticed over the last week or so that the scrolling info display on BBC R3 and BBC R4 has stopped - R3 now simply says "Arts" and R4 says "Talk". I'm assuming this is general and not just another fault in my Roberts radio. The cynic in me thinks that as it also means the current...
    12. S

      HD Red Button

      True but I'm forced to press exit! And it keeps reappearing! It's more irritating when it appears in a recorded programme but if I remember correctly that doesn't happen with the HDR. It was one of the few irritations with the Tivo which used to control an external digibox and record the video...
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      HD Red Button

      It would be nice to be able to turn off MHEG on the HDR - after trying the red button once in the early days I have since found no use for it at all, it's just an irritation. And, as my wife tells me, at my age I have no need for any more of those. Currently one of the benefits of HD is the...
    14. S

      DLNA over powerline adapters

      I doubt it's the powerline connectors - the only issue I have ever found is that the HDR can sometimes fail to connect to the network at all because the connector doesn't come out of sleep mode quickly enough when the HDR starts up. That was easily solved by connecting via a hub which prevents...
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      LED lighting

      I've just come home from a short break in Northumberland ( Landmark Trust - Brinkburn Mill. Highly recommended ). The house was fitted throughout with Tesco frosted globe CFLs rated I think at 20 watts. I can't see them on the Tesco website but would assume they were pretty cheap. Anyway...
    16. S

      LED lighting

      Looking at the spec of the Phillips bulbs recommended above what strikes me is that the high efficiency originally claimed for LED seems lacking. I find a 50 watt GLS equivalent bulb totally inadequate for main lighting. A 100 watt is about right and equates to a CFL of between 18 and 21 watts...
    17. S

      Americanisms

      As I recall its just Joycean for "fings is wot dey iz, innit"
    18. S

      Americanisms

      I can accept BH's definition of methodology as fair but not applicable to the way the word was actually used in the IT businesses I worked with. Essentially each company's "methodology" was in fact a set method for developing a system with defined steps to be carried out in a prescribed order...
    19. S

      Americanisms

      I was never convinced - I always struck me as IT pretending to a professionalism and academic status it never deserved. And that's after 30 years in the trade.
    20. S

      HDR T2 still a good/relevant buy?

      The original TiVo from 2001 could do "c" - no mind reading required. It maintained a schedule of your desired recordings in whatever priority order you chose and if it was unable to record one, eg due to a clash of priorities or being offline, it would search all channels for a repeat and record...
    1. S

      20th century blues

      of course the dinosaurs are still here - who do you think runs the country?
    2. S

      20th century blues

      Just a thought - remember all those people holed up in oxygen tents, suffering from "allergy to the 20th century"? Are they better now?
    3. S

      Digital radio info missing

      I don't know - I haven't slept with all of them.
    4. S

      Digital radio info missing

      Alarm? My wife snores......
    5. S

      Broadband Disaster

      I recently switched to Xilo, their O2 LLU offering, which presumably now also uses the Sky infrastructure. Having initially promised "up to 6Mb" and consistently delivered about 5MB, for the last couple of weeks it's been giving 6.75 MB. Compared with Demon that's about twice the speed for a bit...
    6. S

      Digital radio info missing

      .... and when did politicians consider good reason to be a good reason?
    7. S

      Dehumidifiers

      Presumably the only place the waste heat can go is back into the room, whether the output air is ducted through it or not? From my dodgy recollection of physics some of the energy is absorbed in the state change ( ie from water vapour to liquid water ) without a change in temperature. All I can...
    8. S

      Dehumidifiers

      The efficiency question is interesting. I leave my car A/C on auto all the time, even when the heating is on. It is the most effective way to demist. I have no idea whether the system uses any sort of heat recovery but I have never been able to detect any consistent difference in fuel...
    9. S

      Digital radio info missing

      I have an ample supply of FM radios throughout the house ( including the attic ) and would not bother with DAB but the Roberts was a present. It gets garden use but that's all. Internal charger doesn't work, wall plug causes interference which crashes Homeplug network, battery connections so...
    10. S

      Digital radio info missing

      Indeed, you're all correct! It seems the Roberts sometimes loses it's settings, and in the same way I had lost all memory of there being different settings. Restored now. Gomezz - what do you mean "all stations"? Are there others? Why?
    11. S

      Digital radio info missing

      I've noticed over the last week or so that the scrolling info display on BBC R3 and BBC R4 has stopped - R3 now simply says "Arts" and R4 says "Talk". I'm assuming this is general and not just another fault in my Roberts radio. The cynic in me thinks that as it also means the current...
    12. S

      HD Red Button

      True but I'm forced to press exit! And it keeps reappearing! It's more irritating when it appears in a recorded programme but if I remember correctly that doesn't happen with the HDR. It was one of the few irritations with the Tivo which used to control an external digibox and record the video...
    13. S

      HD Red Button

      It would be nice to be able to turn off MHEG on the HDR - after trying the red button once in the early days I have since found no use for it at all, it's just an irritation. And, as my wife tells me, at my age I have no need for any more of those. Currently one of the benefits of HD is the...
    14. S

      DLNA over powerline adapters

      I doubt it's the powerline connectors - the only issue I have ever found is that the HDR can sometimes fail to connect to the network at all because the connector doesn't come out of sleep mode quickly enough when the HDR starts up. That was easily solved by connecting via a hub which prevents...
    15. S

      LED lighting

      I've just come home from a short break in Northumberland ( Landmark Trust - Brinkburn Mill. Highly recommended ). The house was fitted throughout with Tesco frosted globe CFLs rated I think at 20 watts. I can't see them on the Tesco website but would assume they were pretty cheap. Anyway...
    16. S

      LED lighting

      Looking at the spec of the Phillips bulbs recommended above what strikes me is that the high efficiency originally claimed for LED seems lacking. I find a 50 watt GLS equivalent bulb totally inadequate for main lighting. A 100 watt is about right and equates to a CFL of between 18 and 21 watts...
    17. S

      Americanisms

      As I recall its just Joycean for "fings is wot dey iz, innit"
    18. S

      Americanisms

      I can accept BH's definition of methodology as fair but not applicable to the way the word was actually used in the IT businesses I worked with. Essentially each company's "methodology" was in fact a set method for developing a system with defined steps to be carried out in a prescribed order...
    19. S

      Americanisms

      I was never convinced - I always struck me as IT pretending to a professionalism and academic status it never deserved. And that's after 30 years in the trade.
    20. S

      HDR T2 still a good/relevant buy?

      The original TiVo from 2001 could do "c" - no mind reading required. It maintained a schedule of your desired recordings in whatever priority order you chose and if it was unable to record one, eg due to a clash of priorities or being offline, it would search all channels for a repeat and record...
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