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Feel the power..

or rather not, since the we’ve now had the house re-wired over the past couple of weeks. So all the old wiring in the original house has been removed, and replaced with new stuff, which now has good earthing, is colour-coded correctly to new standards. This means that the lighting ring with no earth is [...]

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Back in the cupboard

Karen has prepared the cupboard with a lick of paint, and now it’s time to put some stuff back under the stairs.. but firstly need to get some power there.
Which gives us a long saga about the merits of converting a garage into a room (that was done sometime ago, but it appears to have [...]

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Back to the sysadmin minefield

Having got the HTTP server working and accessible across the hinternet, we now have web-email available again. So access from work is now possible.. yipee! Need to now move the email service onto the new server, but this requires duplicating the user info from the current one.. That

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Deforestation

Finally it is complete, the removal of the two pine trees from the back garden that is.
These were a couple of small bushes at one point in the very distant past, and appeared to have been lopped to reduce growth some time ago. However no maintenance has occured since then, and the things have grown [...]

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Total Immersion

The cold snap continues. Having got no hot water

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