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All road distances in the UK are in miles, and speed limits in MPH.
I'm guessing the main reason is the cost of changing all the signs!
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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I did not know that. You learn something new everyday. Hey! My day is done!
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Wherever the source, be warned that those "Made in China" can be prolific leakers.* I'm talking about brand name (as if that makes a difference with that origin stamp). Similarly, all the rechargeable I had from there have been trashed. Power capacity could easily be 40% below specified and inconsistent withing the same package.
I've even had Alkalines, with with an expiration date of 2022 leak, unused, in a drawer (fortunately, not onto the wood) just sitting there, never used. At the time, the battery still had about five years on it's clock.
They do come from other source countries (so far, those from SE Asia's are not bad).
* In a device (an old SW Radio), the AA's leaked so bad they leaked through the container and onto the counter.
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>> Just used my last two AA batteries...
That's what she said!
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OriginalGriff wrote: "Hang on", I thought. "£1.99 is rather cheap for 50 AA's".
Then I noticed: pre owned[^]
Ahh, just tape em all together: series, parallel, bit of each to be sure... be as good as a new one two.
kids these days, so wasteful. 
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OriginalGriff wrote:
It would never have occurred to me to sell used non-rechargeable batteries ... 
I'm always amazed at what people will buy from local "swap-n-shop" sites. I had an outdoor grill that was pushing 15 years old. It was rusty, greasy, the bottom of the cooking area was falling out, one of the wheels was wobbly, and I could no longer get it to lite. All of this was revealed up front. I was going to toss it. My wife said wait, I'll post it for sale. I told her he we'd have to pay someone to haul it off. Two days later I was meeting some guy in a public parking lot to trade the grill for ten dollars. I was floored. People will buy most anything.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
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Pre-owned is OK if they're "gently used". 
/ravi
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Only driven by a little old lady on Sundays?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Must be a non-smoker, too.
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Have you a link to where you bought them Paul ?
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Thanks  A few of the reviews weren't very good have you bought them before ?
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Yes - and I've never had a dead cell.
The five packs of ten that arrived yesterday are all original Duracell cardboard boxes, unopened, with an expiry date of 2025.
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I thought I had killed one of my Pis on Monday while I was messing around with wire management on my server rack. I caused power to be cut/supplied repeatedly over the course of a minute or so, and as a result, the ethernet port stopped functioning. Given the nature of a (self-imposed) flaky power situation, I just assumed I had somehow crippled the Pi (it's useless to me if the ethernet port doesn't work), so I ordered a new one ($36 is easy to spend on a whole computer).
Yesterday, I got the new Pi, hooked it up, and powered it on, and much to my surprise, the ethernet port on the new Pi failed to work. I was all set to re-image the boot drive, but out of curiosity, I tried a known working cable. No joy, So I connected the cable to another port on my Linksys 8-port switch.
Huzzah! Connectivity!
So, I have a switch with at least one bad port, and an extra Pi. 
On the way home from work today, I'm gonna pick up a new 16-port switch (I need seven ports, and now only have six available), and a spool of CAT-6 cable so I can make my own cables for more precise cable management.
Linux update:
0) Lubuntu/Kodi is running on a used Intel NUC I bought for $250 (and doubled the memory to 8GB). It appears to play my movies just fine. I still have to install some remote drivers, but that should be a minor task. This box will replace my current home theater PC (which is in a desktop case).
1) I intend to run OpenMediaVault on two boxes - one is for backups (will back up all other machines on the network using RSync), and one is for serving media to the Kodi box. The backup box is currently running Lubuntu and not doing anything - if fact, it's powered off right now. For the media server, I'm in the process of moving media files around so that I can reformat the media drives with from NTFS to EXT4. After that's done, I'll install OMV on it.
2) All of the laptops are running Ubuntu, but I think I'm gonna switch the two older ones (both are Acers running Atheros Wireless cards) to Mint/Cinnamon to see if the wireless problem gets cleared up. I can't get Ubuntu to connect with wireless at all on those two boxes.
3) Originally, I was going to install Ubuntu on my and my wife's desktops, but I've read that Mint gives a more Windows-like look/feel, which I think SWMBO will like better. I'll make that decision after seeing it on the Acer laptops.
4) I've decided that I have to maintain a Windows VM because I abhor the dev stuff on Linux. I wrote some code with MonoDevelop, but I really don't like that environment. I'll use VS2017 in a VM. I also need to use DVDFab to be able to rip DVDs without menu/copy protection, and there is simply no Linux app available that will do that (that I've been able to find). They made a half-hearted attempt at a Linux version in 2017, but they killed that effort with no reference as to the reasons. Bummer.
5) I gotta find something to do with the extra Pi - maybe use it to monitor the network...
6) I may write up an article for those looking to make the transition from Windows to Linux.
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congrats!
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I can make my own cables for more precise cable management.
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: 6) I may write up an article for those looking to make the transition from Windows to Linux.
yes, please.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: DVDFab ... no Linux
what about Handbrake[^]
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: SWMBO
I guess that means your wife, but what do the letters stand for???
#SupportHeForShe
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The last time I tried Handbrake, it was painfully slow to use, and I don't recall why, but I came away annoyed as hell...
TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: I guess that means your wife, but what do the letters stand for???
Yes, it's a reference to the wife, and the acronym means She Who Must Be Obeyed.
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"Handbrake doesn't work with copy protection."
If that's the case, then WTF good is it? Every video DVD ever made has been copy-protected in some form.
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Ummm... Handbrake by itself doesn't work with copy protection. Add "libdvdcss" and it work's with most DVD copy protections.
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: SWMBO
I guess that means your wife, but what do the letters stand for???
She Who Must Be Obeyed - originally coined by H. Rider Haggard in a novel called "She" (first published 1886), but (in the UK) best known from Rumpole of the Bailey
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I'll use VS2017 in a VM
I did the same, but more coz clients on windows - for sure wasn't going to kill myself developing on mono then trying to port it back to windows on site (particularly coz some with winforms).
yes I know mono "can" do winforms, sorta, but not really - some things jus dun work and from memory oddly pink.
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Have you successfully tested running DVDFab in a Windows VM yet? I recall having significant issues trying similar stuff (Ubuntu, Windows 7 VM and AnyDVD / CloneDVD) a few years back.
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Not yet. I'm going to try to get to putting Linux on my box this weekend. I'm still knee-deep in hardware in the server room.
If I run into issues with DVDFab, I'll just keep one of the lower-spec'd boxes on Windows in the server room and use it for disc ripping.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: 1) I intend to run OpenMediaVault on two boxes -
Very interesting! I am running FreeNAS on one of my old Core i3 boxes.
Did you consider FreeNAS, and what made you choose OpenMediaVault?
The difficult we do right away...
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