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« on: Yesterday at 00:06:11 »Might want to take a look here.
https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/
Oh, dear. I appear to have lost an entire evening in their Vintage Computing section.

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Might want to take a look here.
https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/
Since my switch from MS Office to Libre Office, the only major issue has been with databases. Almost impossible. Spreadsheets, Word documents, presentations have all been fine with just a bit of tweaking. Care needs to be taken when saving anything. There are many options for file formats including most MS, but sometimes the default is Libres own odt, which is a bit oddball.
Obviously, both should be banned, and if you want to camp, do it properly, with a tent
You can add 20% onto US mpg, ....
12 to 18 miles per imp gallon then ....![]()
That is about the same as a petrol Range Rover or Shogun.
You might squeeze it out of a V12 Jag on a motorway run. That does mean keeping it well under 100mph, which isn't easy
Speaking of Fiat.
a pretty Fiat Dino with the 2.4 V6 from the Ferrari Dino would be nice.
I imagine they cost a bob or two these days.
The chap a couple of doors down has just acquired a brand new/freshly rebuilt looking roadster type thing... Looks like a 3/4 scale Bentley/Ford Model A hybrid that sounds like a stock car... Apparently it's powered by a Fiat Twin Cam. It could use an exhaust and a decent tune though as it idles rougher than a badger and sounds like half a big block running a 4" straight pipe
His daily is an Audi TTS which says alot
I did wonder about the possibility of being called up if the first Gulf War went sideways
How old would you have been?
From memory the first Gulf war was around 1990/91.
Heating the bottle isn't going to help if the pipes and (in particular) the nozzles aren't heated. The bottle isn't subject to much windchill, which is why cars have heated nozzles. I am of course making an assumption mine hasn't got them, but the fact they froze. Its is of course possible it has them, but they are bust. If I CBA, I'll go out and look for any wiring to the wiper arms
No idea on the lack of a passenger grab handle. Rear passengers get them, just not the front. Does seem a significant oversight, even if its for technical reasons (the shape there, along with the sunroof cassette, doesn't look conducive to fitting any). No interest in retrofitting any unless it was a pure plug and play operation, mostly because its not often I'm in the passenger seat at a time when I feel I need a grab handle. And for anyone else in the passenger seat, well, they chose to get in.
Lockdowns suppress the virus temporarily, but cannot be part of a permanent solution, and if the virus had originated in the US, UK, Australia or anywhere else in the democratic free world, I don't believe any government would have even considered shutting down their country to the same extent as they have.
I think with the new border controls, they are trying to make the UK into a 'bubble' like New Zealand or Australia. I really can't see foreign travel getting back to normal any time soon, but I'm hopeful that domestically we can resume life almost as normal in the next couple of months as the vaccinations are rolled out.
She also mentioned Share Point, whatever that is.