... You've got the alarm bells ringing now- how many sockets are on your spur? Are you sure it is a spur? Domestic wiring is usually ring final for sockets- I...
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patrick@...
Aug 2, 1999 9:13 am
Over the weekend, one of the hard-drives (a Quantum fireball FWIW) on my Linux server - which controls most of my home automation kit - packed up. The same...
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Nigel Orr
nigel.orr@...
Aug 2, 1999 10:04 am
... Can you add a grill to the top? Hot air needs somewhere to go- and it goes up. If you have no vent above the PC, the one at the bottom won't help much....
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paul gordon
paul_gordon@...
Aug 2, 1999 12:40 pm
I run many PC's in my house, all but one of them (currently) are in the 3rd bedroom - IE a normal central heated room, under a desk, not particularly near a...
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Rick Hughes
rhughes@...
Aug 2, 1999 12:47 pm
I guess guys on this list are not very ecologically biased then - that is a LOT of electricity being used 24Hrs a day....
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Timothy Morris
timmorris@...
Aug 2, 1999 12:50 pm
You didn't mention whether it is a SCSI or EIDE drive. Some manufacturers share drive mechanisms between different types, but with others you get a drive with...
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Raymond
Reb.barnett@...
Aug 2, 1999 1:20 pm
... I don't follow the logic in this. The effect of running a PC continuously isn't really that significant on the wider scale of things (what car do you...
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patrick@...
Aug 2, 1999 1:58 pm
<19990802124033.48274.qmai-@...> wrote: original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/ukha_d/?start=745 ... 17.3GB ... degrees ... two ... inside ... ...
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Timothy Morris
timmorris@...
Aug 2, 1999 5:37 pm
It depends on what you use the PC for, and how old your motherboard is. Supermicro (and others) sell boards which have built in SCSI. The drives are more...
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paul gordon
paul_gordon@...
Aug 3, 1999 7:58 am
I agree the price differential between SCSI & IDE has narrowed in recent years, as has the performace differential, but it is still significant. As an example,...
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akitson@...
Aug 3, 1999 10:02 am
Is there any way of downloading sections of the message base? I posted a question about TV over Cat5 and the response would play havoc with my phone bill :-) ...
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Mark McCall
mark@...
Aug 3, 1999 10:19 am
You could change to the digest or just read replies on the web from the archive.. http://www.egroups.com/list/ukha_d/ Regards M....
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Timothy Morris
timmorris@...
Aug 3, 1999 11:39 am
As a matter of interest I just had a SCSI disk fail (yesterday). Thank goodness for Windows NT and disk mirroring. The mirror just took over! Tim....
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akitson@...
Aug 4, 1999 7:52 am
Keith, OK so whats Composite Video and Audio. Is RF TV the stuff we get from teh arial. Isn't there some way of applying a simple converter and turning it...
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Mark McCall
mark@...
Aug 4, 1999 8:12 am
Dear All, Apologies to everyone for the lateness of the Comfort CD ROM. We've had some snags with our supplier which have now been sorted out, we can expect...
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Keith Doxey
keith.doxey@...
Aug 4, 1999 8:18 am
Hi Ashley, RF is the normal TV signal received via the aerial. It contains many TV channels and requires a tuner to extract the required signal. I also...
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Nigel Orr
nigel.orr@...
Aug 4, 1999 8:28 am
... It's called a tuner- you could use one in an old video, and then send the composite video output down the cable. The aerial signal has all the channels,...
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Mark McCall
mark@...
Aug 4, 1999 9:17 am
Hi all I just thought I'd pass on some info to any of you considering fitting DIN Rail Dimmers (LD10s) especially in a "new build". The electrician's finally...
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Nigel Orr
nigel.orr@...
Aug 4, 1999 9:41 am
... What is on the dimmer connections- is it mains or LV? Could you pull something with a better twist/screening or is that the problem now the walls are up?...
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Dr John Tankard
jtankard@...
Aug 4, 1999 9:52 am
Mark, is this happening on only one circuit ? if so I would think that a _small_ filter, perhaps even a ferrite ring at the x10 module may be enough to block...
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Mark McCall
mark@...
Aug 4, 1999 10:04 am
... Its mains Nigel. The sparks have used "twin red" to each switch. So far the hall lights are the only ones effected (out of around 35 circuits). The hall...
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Mark McCall
mark@...
Aug 4, 1999 10:05 am
... Yep... ... Sparks seem to have it fixed...dunno what they did though. ... More details please :-) M....
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Raymond
Reb.barnett@...
Aug 4, 1999 10:10 am
I know this is off-topic, but people on the group seem to know a thing or two about audio matters... Scan are currently advertising the following: 600 Watt...
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Mark McCall
mark@...
Aug 4, 1999 10:31 am
One word...Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... It's pretty hard to get a good set of PC speakers for 24 quid let a lone a sub as well. At the risk of starting a "mines bigger...
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Nigel Orr
nigel.orr@...
Aug 4, 1999 10:41 am
... Run away, run far far away... oops sorry, must stop posting first reactions... Don't get confused by the power rating, for starters. PMPO is basically ...
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Raymond
Reb.barnett@...
Aug 4, 1999 10:43 am
Thanks. Yours sounds really good. Two problems being I daresay it costs more than I want to pay, and it looks bigger than I can fit in my lounge (Kate might...
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Nigel Orr
nigel.orr@...
Aug 4, 1999 11:10 am
... So the subwoofer + extra amp power + extra packaging could be conservatively priced at £8... hmmmm If you fancy some experimenting, get hold of a cheap...
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Harrison, Mark (Allia...
Mark.Harrison@...
Aug 4, 1999 4:33 pm
I don't have a separate subwoofer, since my Linn Keilidhs go deep enough for the moment, and the Nautilus 801s that are on the shopping list go _deep_. My gut...
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Harrison, Mark (Allia...
Mark.Harrison@...
Aug 4, 1999 4:57 pm
My lighting control system is almost all together, but I need some help in the last bit. Can any provide me with ... - The details of how one takes some known...
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paul gordon
paul_gordon@...
Aug 4, 1999 9:33 pm
Uncanny! This sounds very much like something I thought up many years ago, (before I'd even heard of X.10 actually), whereby I figured that I could Use a PC's ...
