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A garden table with rotten feet is now a few inches shorter with plastic feet. I intend to make all new garden furniture but the timber I need is scarce.

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My son's mother's selfish and autocratic attitude as to when I can have extra contact with him...

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True, ironwoods, teak etc are expensive but do last without treatment. They can go a dull grey/green colour but form own protective layer.
When my brother-in-law put our deck in we would have liked to use ironwoods, we had the money for the timber but not for the tools needed to work them. As it was the deck grew from a small stand about half width of house to something all round the backside of house and round the side to back door, no step up/down. There are thousands of screws holding it together and the planks are all offset so easier to replace one and they don't all move at same rate.

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My main PC which is also my media server: It had been behaving oddly resetting or powering down out of the blue. I changed the PSU but the problems continued until it wouldn't start up at all. At least it ran long enough to get an up-to-date backup of critical data.

Seems a fault in the old PSU (+5v SB was 6.2v) had damaged the power control and reset circits on the Mobo. ( nForce3-A)

I'd almost resigned myself to a new build when on the off chance I googled the Mobo and found a tested and guaranteed one on ebay from Riga in Latvia. Amazing as it's 15 years old. Arrived beautifully packed with a CD of the test photographs.

Fitted and it works fine. (So far, fingers crossed ) The CPU supplied with it is an Athlon 64, my old one was a Sempron so a bit more horsepower under the hood. The installed XP SP3 was quite happy to accept the new CPU.

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One of the solar rocks had stopped working. Just needed the battery contacts cleaning up: Good tweak with the pliers, shot of engineer's magic spray, freshly charged battery and good to go.

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Wall mounted our TV, so when my mum mum comes home were her bed will be she can see the TV.


My brother-in-law helped put it up, 2"+ screws

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2" - thats a pretty small screen :)

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A partly rotted garden bench is now a solid single seat.

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Fixed my jet engine stock cpu cooler by replacing it with a Noctua. Silence is golden.

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Admin of a site is a thankless job, most is done in the background so no-one ever knows.

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Thus the old joke about IT - why do we spend so much on it when it doesn’t go wrong?

When it goes wrong - why are we spending so much on it?

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Since I repaired the PC the TV seemed unable to browse the media servers files and folders. Despite ensuring that the PC had the same IP and MAC as before. Another section in the sets apps could see some selected files and play them.

Tried any number of things like re-detecting and testing the server to TV connects ( all fine), checking router and firewall settings, open ports etc

Last week I started to get a message on TV startup: "Due to a boot error some applications may not be available"

It's the Media Player, it always is and the cure is a factory reset. Now the player connects to the servers without any problems. There must be some extra information squirrelled away in the set that "remembers" something about the PC that the servers are running on that cannot be reset / cleared through the normal menus.

Sony Bravia KDL42W706

The message "Could not receive contents list" in the Media Player from Media Servers can be fixed by a factory reset.

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On my TV I get a message sometimes stating: Restarting the App to free up more space... Dhoooo.

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I've had "The Android process has stopped"

No evidence as to what process and the OS isn't Android. It is on the next years sets so I guess this one is a mish-mash. UMS* suggests it's Mint when reporting the renderer data.

Also "Media Player has stopped" That one only seems to happen occasionally when playing content from the USB port Only a full power cycle will restore the Media Player operation.

*Universal Media Server

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Had a BSOD on the PC this morning (Had several recently all with different fault references) and afterwards the cordless mouse wasn't working. Went through all the usual stuff checking the driver, etc. Even plugged in a USB mouse to prove the system was working. Then I thought "Has it just lost wireless connection?" Re synched it and now working fine. :doh: That's two hours of faffing about.

Windows is an absolute pig to drive throgh the keyboard.

Like tearing apart the washing machine only to find the fuse has gone. :D