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2 hours ago, TheBiscuits said:
Some cheap charging cables only have the power cables but not the data cables inside them. can you connect anything else to the computer using those two cables?
The house wifi router might be blocking the connection if the wifi works via hotspot. Or the house router might be set to only use a type of wifi the reader doesn't support.
The Kobo connrcted to the house wifi fine until this week. Now it wants the password, but ignores it and won't connect. Apparently Kobo use a very cheap and nasty wifi chip, and it's all based on a very old android version.
It says it wants a WPA/WPA2 password - I assume this is the one everything else (eg Sky box) uses to connect? I changed a router setting from WPA2 to WPA/WPA2 and now it works. The connection is better on the tablet too. If someone out there can tell me why I'd be grateful!
I was an early adopter of all things computerised, internetty and then webby, but have now been well left behind.
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34 minutes ago, LadyG said:
Aha, I stopped turning the thing off manually as I assumed it went to sleep when the flap covered the screen, obviously not a good plan.
Some do. My old Lenovo tavlet did but an upgrade stopped that working. I now make sure the wifi is off when not in use and always turn the location off, as that uses loads of power. I use a widget on the home screen to turn the wifi off.
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41 minutes ago, LadyG said:
Just so, its coming back to life now, on charge and it seems to be the cable that came with it is dedicated.
Excellent. Cables are weirdly important. I've got a Kobo reader that will charge ok with two cables but won't connect to the computer with either of them, but will with a third. And its wifi will connect via my phone hot-spot but not with the house WiFi. These things are designed with built in irritations.
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If it's absolutely stone dead, it won't make a noise or show 0% because there's no power to do it. Good luck.
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If the battery is completely flat, it may take a while on charge before it even shows it's charging, presumably because there isn't enough power to run the gubbins that lets it know the battery is flat. And if it's charging from a 12v car charger, it's not getting much current anyway.
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Check there's no muck in the charging port, blow into it and maybe probe carefully with a pin.
Try other cables.
Found this online (nb says volum up button, not volume down) .:
If you can’t find any problem on the charger, cable, and port, you can try this method. Although this method seems weird, but many users have reported that this method worked for them.
Disconnect the charger from the Samsung tablet.
Hold the power button and the volume up button for 30 seconds.
Keep holding buttons while plugging in charger.
Continue to hold buttons for another 30 seconds.
Release power button only and keep volume button pressed still.
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1 hour ago, MtB said:
Bear in mind YOU know the condition of your boat but the insco doesn't. The surveyor is their eyes and ears in terms of assessing its condition.
And there is more to it, if the survey is hookey or lying, the surveyor will generally get sued for any losses resulting.
So demanding a survey is insurance for the insurance company!
Has anyone in all history ever successfully sued a surveyor?
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3 hours ago, BoatinglifeupNorth said:
I was chatting to the landlady of my local, as she has stopped putting bands on as the cost was not recouped on the night or profitable, as people were not coming in to listen too them and the groupies the band brought just didn’t drink and often sat with a pint most of the night as they drove in just for the band. You can see why live music venues are struggling. Shame really.
Very true. Most have stopped round here, too. I packed in regular pub work when the pandemic shut down happened, and even then a lot of the time we were playing to half empty pubs apart from a few of the ones in a real Irish community. They just had a brewery entertainments fund which they had to spend. Now, it's open mic nights or sessions which don't cost the pub money.
And I must admit, if I go for a pint with a friend, I don't want to have to shout over a band playing stuff I don't particularly like. I never understood why landlords thought it brought people in - mostly in my opinion it does the opposite.
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39 minutes ago, BoatinglifeupNorth said:
How much would you you get for playing in a pub for an evening? £500???
Which is why big bands don't play pubs. The duo I play with gets £180 for pubs. You obviously limit the fee to the max you think a venue can pay. I did play for years with a zydeco band in pubs, which was fun but counted as a hobby not a business, although the financial loss looked good on tax returns. It broke up as we just couldn't afford to keep doing it and still eat.
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2 hours ago, BoatinglifeupNorth said:
An old woman who I spoke to who had her new buy boat moved from West Stockwith to Thorne, said she was charged £600 by a professional boatmover, the journey at the time of year and Trent tides could be done in a day/2 days most. Which I thought was ridiculously high.
We did a house gig for a surgeon once who complained about being charge £500. I said, "Five people , four hours work here, over an hour travelling time each, that's 25 hours not counting rehearsal time, petrol, insurance and instrument costs. What would you charge for that?"
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4 minutes ago, LadyG said:
Sorry, having a bad day.
We'll let you off. Had a few of them meself. Hope it gets better.
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25 minutes ago, LadyG said:I cant understand many of your words, please write in English
Seemed plain enough to me. No need to be rude.
PS "cant" and "can't" are different words. Please write correctly.
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I do like demobilisation. I wonder if they mobilised the construction site in the first place, though I suppose that would the second place, as they'd have mobilised it from the first place, in the first place, to Tod, which would then be the second place.
I wonder though how you can demobilise a site, unless you just take the wheels off.
Not that it matters. Happy St Pat's Day everyone, I'm off to play me fiddle.
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One if my favourite runs. Don't moor overnight before Milton, good moorings there and just below Engine Lock. Excellent 2nd hand bookshop in Milton if you're a reader.
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6 minutes ago, David Schweizer said:
And that is not what I expected. If I wanted that, I would be looking for an appropriately qualified presenter, but isn't Mark Benton an actor?
I don't think the presenter matters much, they're only reading the script they're given, so they're all just actors really. I did the voiceover on a stack of steam railway videos some years ago, and the fact I didn't know what I was talking about was irrelevant*. Narration is just script and timing.
*ETA well, I presume it was. At least, they kept paying me to do another one!
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2 hours ago, IanD said:
Of course a discussion was expected, but some of the complaints just don't make sense given that it was a general interest TV programme about the canals not an in-depth online tutorial for students studying industrial archaeology... 😉
OK, fair enough. At least those who had the capacity to pay attention learnt that 25% of boat owners live on their boats, that the original navvies didn't have electric light and that nine year old kids should play with explosives.
Dead educational, this telly.
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10 minutes ago, IanD said:
I really don't see why you're getting your knickers in a twist about this -- and I don't think it was a sterrible as you're making out.
You're not the intended audience, and neither am I, and neither is anyone else on CWDF -- and the same applies to pretty much every programme on the TV about canals, with the possible exception of Robbie's "Cruising the Cut" -- which people on here still nitpicked about... 😞
"It's almost as if the programme makers were trying to come up with easy-watching TV for watchers after undemanding entertainment requiring no familiarity with the subject. " is a good summary, and I think it was just that. If that's not what you're looking for, don't watch it 🙂
You mean a programme about canals is aimed at everyone who isn't interested in canals? Odd. I may well not watch next week's one on railways, even though I must be the intended audience, as I'm not interested in them.
It's lucky for David Attenborough that so few people are interested in animals, as obviously his programmes aren't aimed at anyone who is...
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1 hour ago, Sir Percy said:
It's almost as if the programme makers were trying to come up with easy-watching TV for watchers after undemanding entertainment requiring no familiarity with the subject.
And didn't want to spend any money on research, or the script, or the presenter, or the director... you really think easy watching has to be badly written, badly narrated tosh aimed at people you hope have switched their brains right off?
It was Channel 5, I suppose, so maybe you're right. But I suspect no other channel would touch it with, well, a bargepole.
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12 minutes ago, IanD said:
Welcome to the media world of today, especially broadcasting but also large parts of the press... 😞
However in fact the programme in question was (mostly) correct, not "twaddle" -- apart from the obvious (to CWDF posters) errors being nitpicked about -- and I would guess most non-canal people would have found it interesting and informative. Which is rather the point of making it, isn't it?
My argument with it was the tone of the commentary. The talking heads were mostly ok, even the Cunk lady, but the main bloke and script was dreadful - patronising in that "this is jolly good fun, isn't it?" way of a 1950s government information film, or one of those Disney wildlife things they used to show in schools. As if, because he was talking to stupid, ignorant people, he'd be pretending to share the joke that this wasn't really serious, now, was it?
The error is thinking people don't want a bit of depth, a bit of knowledge, the sense that these canals actually mattered to people - both those earning their living back in the day and those renovating or using it now.
And nine year olds being used to light the dynamite fuses because they could run faster than grown men, that's really funny, isn't it? That's a real joke. I wonder how many died. That was when I felt it had gone beyone the pale. A serious point could and should have been made, but no, it was just a laugh a minute, building canals, and everyone was having a damn good time. There was the bit about some people losing all their money in the bubble while a few made a fortune, and that being jolly good, too. So much for economics.
I thought it was appalling. Nice pictures, though.
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If anyone was genuinely only interested in killing wildlife humanely, they'd never own a cat.
The guy who sold me my air gun for shooting squirrels insisted I bought one powerful enough for a clean kill, but as the target for that in the head is about the size of a peanut, it's virtually impossible to to do. My predecessor here used to trap and drown them. The last hedgehog to appear unwisely in my garden got disemboweled by a badger - I doubt it stunned it first. The thing is, animals don't treat animals humanely. Most humans don't even treat other humans humanely if they can get away with it. I can't get upset about a rat. And I swat wasps.
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1 hour ago, Pluto said:
The usual TV twaddle, completely lacking a detailed understanding of canal and industrial history, which could then be refined into something entertaining.
Glad I'm not the only one thought it was pretty bad. Though I did learn something. How else would I have known that the navvies building the system didn't have electricity?
And whoever wrote the script should be sacked: "comprised of" indeed.
Possibly I'm turning into Athy...
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4 minutes ago, Porcupine said:
Thanks, done all those suggestions.
If it's still doing it, I think we're out of suggestion unless we get more data. You could post a photo of your filler point so we can see if there's a problem with that. We need to know the type of boat and the nature of the tank (integral steel or plastic). We need to know if this is a new boat to you, so you've never tried to fill the tank before, so we know if this is a new problem that's never happened before or not. And we need to know why you think the tank is empty. At least we now know you're on a river.
I can't see how it can be an airlock as air can escape as easily up the filler as elsewhere. You've used a wire so you know there isn't a blockage in the pipe (sorry, I missed that before) . If it were me, which it aint, I'd think the tank is full and water isn't coming through for some other reason. If that's why you think it's empty.
Does your water pump run when you turn the taps on?
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38 minutes ago, Porcupine said:
I am definitely putting it in the water tank. The water seems to be stuck in the filler pipe - thinking it might be an airlock.
Surely an airlock in a water tank filler tube would clear itself pretty quickly, they're usually wide pipes not a thin tube. Trying to fill with jerry cans is a bit odd, too - would take hours and about a hundred to even quarter fill mine.
Is this a narrowboat or a cruiser, how much does the tank usually hold, and are you absolutely certain it's empty? If you're not getting water to the taps, the tank may be full and you've got problems elsewhere.
And finally, shove something flexible all the way down the filler pipe, though I can't believe you haven't done that already. If it won't go down, pipe's blocked. If it goes all the way down and water still sits at the top of the filler tube, your tank's full.
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2 hours ago, ditchcrawler said:
We had similar with a cash development buyer on a terraced house that her mum had rented out for years to the same couple for years that needed fully modernising. It ran on for months as well.
I sold my first one to the council so they could knock it down. I think we got £400 in cash and a very nice council house to move into!
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Thanks, I thought it must be something like that. I remember the days I used, when boating with no internet on the tub, to just sit on a wall outside someone's house and pick up my email...