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In my other posts, about my DIY adventures, I recently had a need to lift floorboards to gain access to the spaces in between the joists to run various cables like TV, Satellite, CAT5e, and telephone around the house. So using a B&Q bought pipe and wire detector (about 40 quid anyone?) and...

Has anyone seen that old comedy film where they buy a cottage and they rewire it and "daddy" puts oversize amperage fuses in the CU and the cottage goes up in smoke? Show the parents that film and casually mention that they used rubber sheathed wires in that house too...

Not quite as bad as the V slicer (and I have one of them too), but along the lines of the comment about catching a soldering iron when you knock it off your desk... NEVER, EVER, PICK UP A COPPER PIPE YOU HAVE JUST SOLDERED WITH A BRAZING TORCH, FLUX AND SOLDER! They are not cold even 12...

You have covered most of the options available to you. However, are you trying to mix a USB pc (no PS2) and a PS2 (non USB) pc on the same USB KVM? If you are, then it is destined to fail due to the non USB pc having to "sense" the keyboard and mouse. You can use a PS2 switch on a second...

It may be that you are using a SDHC card in an older standard SD card reader. I have found that the two are incompatible. If this is the case, then you are in a bad place. buy or borrow a new or recent external card reader and try that option. If it now reads the card then para one is...

See the reply to your problem with old devices and Windows 7, earlier in this thread. When youhave this problem, and you have the installer software for the device, right click on the setup.exe file and select the compatibility wizard, from the context menu. This does assume that you have...

Finally got round to posting my pictures of my hallway at my last address, and work to date. Also got the pictures of my doorway. Sort of, anyway. A Bit of painting in the front room too. Having fun tonight, steaming the walls and ceiling in the hallway/stairwell, as they are next on the...

Duly noted. :oops: I rarely read the DateStamp on these posts, so it appears that I am what someone called me, a while ago, to whit: "An Epic Necroposter". Whatever that is... Not that I care too much, anyway. I enjoy a bit of a laugh. :P :P :P :P :P :P :P

You could try right mouse button clicking on the picture and selecting either properties, or if this shows a link to go to file directly, use that. This should take you to where the files are stored on your PC, which they obviously are, and also because you say the program is loading them...

Job now done. 3 coats of white emulsion on the wall and no peeling/stripping. Unfortunately for me, though, I am putting the stuff on the wall and I am thinking - this matt emulsion is a bit shiny, maybe it will dry matt. No it don't. A quick check on the pot and it says on the printed...

It's in the small print. If you read the T&C's of your contract with your ISP, it will usually have a clause, that passes the responsiblity of the data being up/downloaded, to you, the person paying the bill. So when PCPlod comes knocking, YOU have to prove it wasn't YOU doing the nasty...

Ahh, the joys of DIY lol What has happened is that as I have come down the wall, it has got thicker near the floor and is thinner near the top. also has become "raised" near the corner and flattens out towards the left hand side of the ex-doorway. And to add insult to injury, the "good"...

Check your microscope software options/preferences tab, and look for the deault save path. They may be being saved in your TMP or Temp folder which is a System Folder. If you HAVE truly deleted them, have you emptied your Trash lately? Sometimes, they still show up until this is done.

Since when has UK law been fair?

Got a bit lost in all the bad things in my life recently.... :twisted: Anyway, got the doorway done on both sides now and the finish on the kitchen side went perfectly, yet the front room side went a bit out of control. I will post a few pictures later, but tonight, I am struggling with a...

:lol: Well it worked :D :lol: First coat, watered down 75% paint & 25% water, hand brush painted, left for about 5 hours then a second coat, at full strength, and it has gone on a treat. Currently no stripping, peeling, or bubbling. The old guy at wilko, was a professional painter...

:oops: Yeah, That too, :oops:

Just got back from Wilkinsons where I was advised to buy basecoat wall coating. This is supposedly as good as Shellac, but at a fraction of the cost. I will be giving it a go shortly and will post my verdict about it later. :lol: :lol: :lol:

:lol: 7ZIP :lol: Free and it's good.

The other thing not mentioned here is Warchalking or similar expressions. If you have an open wireless connection and anyone logs on to your internet access, you are legally responsible for the consequences of their actions. These offences are very hard to defend as the IP only has your...