Appoximatelty fourty miutes ago, I was double flashed in the dark, 10 feet later, I passed national speed limit applies signs, I turned the car around to check, and the signs going back in stated 30mph. I later drove up to a Van full of the fuzz in the dark, with a mobile speed camera!
Who were laughing!!!
Umm.
Live by the sword die by the sword!
I’ll have to keep an eye on the post! See what drops through the letterbox, I was also programming my TomTom at the time!
as we used to call it back in the day, also known as Token Ring. I was cleaning out some cupboards and found an old computer laptop circa 1996-1998, and found this in the PCMCIA slot, Token ring LAN speeds were either 4 Mbit/s or 16 Mbit/s, and it was very important not to connect the wrong device at the wrong speed to the ring, or you knew about it, as you brought the ring down, and all devices on it! I learnt that rule very quickly! Far better than ethernet in the day!
Token Ring PCMCIA adaptor
This post is dedicated to all those, at CSC/BASE, you know who you are!
and to celebrate here’s my display:-
High Resolution version, especially for the widescreen monitor or TV!
yes okay so it’s pretty naff, but I think you’ll agree, it’s better than the public display where Guy Fawkes was born!
I’ve been meaning to get some photographs of Arnie for a while, But he’s very difficult to photograph, as he moves so quick, so here’s are a few quick photos
Arnie The Silver Arrowana
Arnie The Silver Arrowana
Arnie The Silver Arrowana
and here’s a quick video clip
I’m trying to rear him off muscles, because of the high fat content may have caused slight drop-eye, in one of his eyes. So he’s currently on a diet of raw tiger prawns, I’m going to try him soon on crickets, wax worms and earthworms. He’s not keen on a dry food at present.
My sync speed has fallen to 19,200 this is ridiculous, so I thought I would just get another Draytek Vigor 2600G router out of the box to test, the router has not failed. I have three routers as backups, all the same with the same basic config and firmware on each, I just backup the config off the current active router and transfer to the new unit after power-up. Seems a little overkill, but with three routers exactly the same, it’s easier and quicker to configure, it times of need, and this is one of them.
After connecting up the new router, the sync speed jumped up to 3,136,000, this is the highest I’ve ever seen it, with a SNR Margin or 4.5. So I thought maybe the router I was using was duff, until I connected up the old, current unit and it reported the same!
sync speed as reported by Draytek Vigor 2600G
I think someone is fiddling with my broadband connection as I type. I’m happy to say that my speed has returned to about normal at 1.6Mbps, but I’ve just run another speedtest, and it’s up at 2 Mbps, I’ve not seen 2 Mbps for many years.
2 Mbps results
speed tests over the years
Yes, I know this may appear sad, but all you City folk that live with Cable and 24Mbps, just take highspeed internet for granted, us rural folk have to put up with slow speeds. This speed increase will not last long, I have a theory, it would appear, that when we get these sunny warm spells in the village, my speed slows down, I bet it’s cold and clear outside at present!
But at least I’ll be able to work tomorrow…
unless it breaks again overnight …
Considering I only had one Pinocchio Chilli plant germinate, I’m very happy with the number of 10 inch “Pinocchio Chillis” it’s produced. I think I may concentrate on growing more chillis indoors next year, if the weather is poor for tomaotes.
Pinocchio chillis No.1
Pinocchio chillis No.2
Pinocchio chillis No.3
As the local farmers lift the potatoes before the frosts from the fields, I thought it was about time to lift all my potatoes, I’ve had a good crop of Anya, Edzell Blue and Lady Balfour this year, the first earlies Epicure, weren’t very good, so I’ll be dropping them from my grow list next year. I’ve had bumper crops from Anya, so I think I’ll be growing more of this salad variety next year. The potatoes have certainly done better than the tomatotes! Here are some pictures of the final harvest this year drying on the rotten porch in the sun.
Salad Anya potatoes
Salad Anya and Edzell Blue potatoes
Edzell Blue and Lady Balfour potatoes
These are photos of Iberian Wight and Elephant garlic just sprouting, the larger plant is solent white from last year (a clove I missed), planted approx 1 month ago also.
Iberian White sprouting
Elephant garlic sprouting
These are my Christmas Potatoes 1 month after planting. This variety is Maris Peer. No show from Estima as yet.
Maris Peer No.1 1 month after planting
Maris Peer No.2 1 month after planting
Maris Peer No.3 1 month after planting
Maris Peer earthed-up again
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