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  1. So Pont Cysyllte Aqueduct is actually Pont Cysyllte Pont Dwr which is Water Bridge near Cysyllte Bridge; what's Cysyllte the Welsh for?
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  3. Some weeks ago I "reported" a thread as being a duplicate with a request the two were merged. It was actioned within 24 hours.
  4. This ^^^ should be the first bullet point!
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  6. My site was with 1and1 but I moved (to 123-reg) as 1and1 were relatively expensive. I had good technical support from both. The site for my step-son he built on another provider (can't remember the name now). They were fine until they were bought out. The new owners were hopeless; even (in the end) neither acknowledging nor acting on his request to release the domain. In the end i had to get Nominet involved to forcibly redirect to 123-reg, a course of action which 123-reg talked me through. None of my sites are SSL but they all will be this week! Good support today is no guarantee of bad support tomorrow following a buyout!
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  8. Back in days of old when NiCd cells were common, many of them died through (for want of a better phrase) Lack of Exercise. Batteries which were left unused for extended periods developed an internal short as a crystal (Nickel? Cadmium?) bridged the two electrodes. A well know short term fix was to charge a honking great capacitor (100uF or so) to 5V and drop it across the affected cell. The instantaneous current literally blew the crystal away while the total energy wsan't enough to cause further damage as might happen if you just threw a 5v supply at the cell. Once the short was gone the cell could be charged normally. Slightly different application; restoring an otherwise "dead" cell but same principle?
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  11. Thanks - as a Parish Councillor I'll make a note of that!
  12. Likewise However, depending on the frequency of the meeting this may cause issues itself; releasing the minutes of the April meeting in May is OK and logical, possibly the release of the AGM minutes following the next AGM are not (unless the business of the AGM is so glacial in speed as to not matter). In fact many entries in the AGM's I'm privileged (?) to attend are on the lines of "appoint auditors for the next financial year" so if the 2018 auditors couldn't be appointed until the minutes were agreed in 2019 we'd never get the job done.
  13. It (possibly; I'm no expert) depends on the context of the image and any other data. It's not against the DPA or any variant of it to admit that an address of "1 High St" exists but if you assign that address to an individual, then it becomes personal data.
  14. If you have a compact camera, some have "hacks" to allow time lapse. I've had lots of fun with CHDK for the cannon compacts http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK Other sites cover other makes and DSLR's
  15. I was lucky as well but in the opposite direction - I worked in Milton Keynes and the job re-located to London. When I did the maths housing very quickly got stupidly expensive as you got nearer London and commute time didn't really reduce until you got a lot closer. Leighton Buzzard was houses twice the price to reduce the commute from 90 to sixty minutes each way. Watford was three times the price to trim another ten or fifteen minutes off. What I did manage was to negotiate a relocation package that amounted to "pay my season ticket after tax" as well as the increase for working in London. So I've got a long commute in my own time but I'm not financially worse off for it. And there are worse commutes than 50 minutes snoozing on a train or reading the times / CWF.
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  18. Quite agree - and if I wasn't looking at retirement in the next twelve months I might look for one. But when I started the commute I accepted it as part of the deal for a house costing ~ a quarter for what I'd pay "in the smoke". Plus having open fields a few hundred yards away to walk the dog. And what I generally view as a better quality of life.
  19. There was a full spread review in the Times earlier this week which started on the lines of "Where else could you get a home for .... within a short commute of Central London." and referenced the program. It seemed to my untutored eye factual and included costs of berthing, licence and blacking (although if it never moves...). I thought at the time the article would be a magnet for the "me too" brigade who want a high profile, high salary job in London then realise they can't afford the high profile, high price two bed bedsit to go with it. (and if you detect sour grapes from a regular ninety minute each way commute and a five grand season ticket you won't be far from the mark)
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  23. Air Inlets? The engine has to draw air from somewhere (both cooling and combustion), maybe in those days they didn't just rely on loose fitting deck boards?
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