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General Discussion Area / Re: Site very slow to load pages

« on: 13 August 2020, 18:32:45 »

mmm getting interesting now ... since Windows 10 upgraded to version 2004 Build 19041.450 there seems to be a new "feature" (at least I've never seen it before) in the security section labelled "exploit protection" ..  with 3 sections... Control Flow guard (CFG); Data Execution Prevention (DEP); and Forced Randomisation of Images (Mandatory ASLR) ... after turning all 3 to "OFF" normal service at OOF as been restored..... both in speed and images ....  just need to do more research now ...

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General Discussion Area / Re: Site very slow to load pages

« on: 13 August 2020, 18:06:59 »

mmm interesting ... logged out of OOF and then back in .. worked as normal for about 5 seconds.. then back to very slow and images not loading

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General Discussion Area / Site very slow to load pages

« on: 13 August 2020, 15:20:26 »

Anyone else finding the site pages very slow to load, and the smilies all show errors?? .... the page data at the bottom shows pages loading in milliseconds .. but in practice there is a long time sitting showing "connecting", especially to images.omegaowners.com

Tried 3 different browsers (FF / Chrome / Edge ) and two seperate systems ..  ( PC / laptop ) .. so if its just me it must be the router, but all other sites load fine

184

General Discussion Area / Re: Word Association.

« on: 06 August 2020, 19:59:41 »

Rust

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Omega General Help / Re: Oil cooler failure contamination

« on: 05 August 2020, 11:58:52 »

Two dish washer tabs in the top hose. Fill with distilled water. Run until the fans kick in twice.

Drain from bottom hose.

And repeat. Twenty* times. 

That's not an exaggeration.

What he said ^^^ or ...

Instead of dishwashing tablets use "Biological" clothes washing powder/tablets/lozenges and leave to stand for 30 minutes after the fans kick in, then flush while still warm and start all over ... the one I did (luckily not mine) ... was flushed as described 4 times a day and took a week before it ran completely clear... the last few flushes only showing small traces of oil .. but that's the hardest bits to get rid off ...  the bulk comes out quickly .. its the small bores that are important !!

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General Discussion Area / Re: Word Association.

« on: 03 August 2020, 18:44:38 »

Bohemian

187

General Discussion Area / Re: New Edge

« on: 30 July 2020, 22:25:09 »

A very quick and dirty analysis of the page code shows there are two instances on this page of references to http://www.photobox.co.uk ....   they are insecure links (http not https) so the whole page gets the label "not secure"

The index page has no such references, as it has no images ....... so remains as secure

If you wish to check other pages ..the procedure is and I'm using the "new" Edge:

right click a blank area of the page - choose "inspect"   ( or hit ctrl+shift+I)
across the top screen that appears on the right, choose "Console" ..

You should now get a list of all the issues the software detects with the site code .... it will highlight security issues, often as a code 17 .. but sometimes with just an exclamation mark in a yellow triangle.... the narrative will, usually, read something along the lines of, but can differ:

Mixed Content: The page at 'https://www.omegaowners.com/forum/.............' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure image 'http://www.............................'. This content should also be served over HTTPS.

HTH a little

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General Discussion Area / Re: New Edge

« on: 29 July 2020, 18:15:09 »

Probably caused by some of the images on the page being on insecure sites ... that includes images in peoples name blocks (avatars) as well as signature blocks and the actual text !!

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General Discussion Area / Re: Interestest Rates - The good old days.

« on: 28 July 2020, 20:21:23 »

We bought our house in August 1978 for £13300 with a mortgage rate of 8% .. 2% above the base rate of 6% ........  by November 1979 the rate was 19% .. 2% above the base rate of 17%  .....   

The mortgage repayments were £27 MORE then my RAF monthly salary !! and Chris had lost her job .... (and then there were all the other standing orders as well) .... my parents lent me money every month. .... we came very close to "giving up" and moving back into "quarters" ... some of the "older" guys told us to hang in there until the 1979 pay rise was announced .... the year the labour government tried to "buy" the forces vote ... and failed as Maggie got in in the May election ... but  labour gave me a pay rise from £599.40 a month to £676.80 and we survived, in June Chris eventually got a job then ... in September 1979 I also got promoted and my pay leapt to  £720.86 a month ... we started to actually live !!

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General Discussion Area / Re: What is wrong with people?

« on: 26 July 2020, 22:22:39 »

methinks you might have that arse about face ... the UK media are simply totally anti-government .. and so do ANYTHING do attempt to discredit them ...  As DG says .. apparently the gov were too slow to do anything at the start (20/20 hindsight being the worlds best vision) and are now acting to fast .......

but to answer your single question regarding masks ... in the simplest of terms ....  when under lockdown no-one met anyone .. so masks were not needed .. now lockdown is eased and folks meet folks .. masks may have a role to play .... not difficult, not rocket science ..  ..but to UK media .. a stick to beat the government.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Very Nice

« on: 23 July 2020, 20:53:39 »

They seem to go quite nicely ... (turn the volume up !!!  )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXm4IwV_F8U

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Omega General Help / Re: Driving Abroad

« on: 21 July 2020, 21:35:31 »

As has been stated, it does not convert LHD lights to RHD or RHD to LHD.  The levers convert the beam to a flat pattern which would certainly fail a UK MOT,


The levers are there on all Xenon cars, and takes a few seconds to do - rubber cap off, flick the lever, rubber cap on. Done.

Not in my experience .... I set mine to "flat" for a french holiday and as it was raining at the ferry terminal (where I usually changed them) left them there on the way home, and then forgot about them !!!  Nothing said at all at the MOT, only noticed when winter came and it got dark much earlier so the lights were actually used in anger !!

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General Discussion Area / Re: Word Association.

« on: 20 July 2020, 14:21:48 »

Radio

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General Car Chat / Re: So, back to the age old question

« on: 14 July 2020, 21:40:04 »

Audi A6 ??

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General Discussion Area / Re: HP 1510 not accepted as Default in Windows 10

« on: 04 July 2020, 19:57:13 »

https://hp-123.net/hp-deskjet-1510-printer-scan-to-email/#:~:text=For%20HP%20DeskJet%201510%20printer,automatically%20on%20your%20computer%20screen.