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Cycling DIY

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Cycled up to work today, nearly killed me, much more than usual. Turns out the rear brake is binding. I tried to adjust the caliper mountings and managed to depressure the caliper instead = rebleed of the avid brake which is a pain (although 50ml luerlock syringes are useful for this 🙂 ) I have also lost half a powerlink when taking the chain apart to soak it in degreaser. If you see it let me know…..

Windows 7 Homegroup vanishing #2

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Well, that fix didn’t last long. I’m utterly perplexed by this. I’ve reset windows firewall rules on the remote pc which worked. For a while. The workgroup vanished again from my main rig. 🙁 . I’ve looked more closely at my main rig and have uninstalled Comodo firewall and gone back to using Windows firewall again. This seems to have cured things. For the moment anyway.

Windows 7 Homegroup vanishing

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I have had issues with a Win7 homegroup vanishing (and therefore its shared libraries) from the homegroup list on my main PC. I can still browse shares and remote desktop into this other PC but can’t see it’s Homegroup. Weird thing is if I am sitting at this other PC i can see ALL the other Homegroup members with no issues. After much searching this seems to have solved the issue after i ran it on the remote PC

Sometimes the HomeGroup listening service is disabled.

Click on Start, and search “Administrative”
Click on “Administrative Tools”
Click on “Services”
Scroll down the list until you see “HomeGroup Listener”
If it is not started, right click on it and hit “Start”. If it is started, right click on it and hit “Restart”
Below it is “HomeGroup provider”
Do the same for that.
Scroll down until you see  “Peer Networking Identity Manager”
Start or Restart this. It should also trigger a restart/start of  “Peer Name Resolution Protocol” and  “Peer Networking Group”
Now go back to the HomeGroup settings on your computer and the HomeGroup should be visible.
All sorted now 🙂

Best kids android handset

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At the moment it is probably the Huawei Ascend G300. £100 on PAYG then a fiver to network unlock off ebay and then root,unlock bootloader,install recovery and flash a custom ROM of your choice 🙂

There is an excellent how-to guide here

You can now network unlock it gratis but ebay was quick and easy.

PAC code from Three

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Trying to get a PAC code from 3 is exactly that – trying. First time phoning customer services after asking for the PAC code the overseas operator just hung up. The second time when I got through (Dial 333 from mobile then options 1,1,4,2) after repeatedly asking for the PAC, being put on hold for several minutes, being offered iPhone handsets for loyalty etc etc she finally grudgingly sent the code.

The operators don’t make it easy. The sooner it can be done instore or online the better.

GiffGaff here i come….

PACcodes is a useful UK site to walk you through the steps required

Antrim Primary School

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Toying with the idea of helping to setup a website for the Primary School. Something like wordpress is ideal as it can be so easily edited and adapted. Now looking for somewhere that could host it…

Sine qua non, or not, as the case may be

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Interesting case this morning – abdominal stab wound

Standard ATLS/Surgical dogma is penetrating abdominal injury = absolute indication for laparotomy. However a bit of searching pubmed et al suggests a significant proportion of these type of injuries *could* be managed by expectant observation in a HDU type setting rather than by rushing to theatre. Much depends on local availability of FAST/CT/surgical experience, but it is interesting that penetrating abdominal trauma does not always sine non qua a laparotomy. There appear to be many papers on this so go google……