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Electronics | FAQ | General | Journal | Linux | TechnologyMy Grandstream HT801 forgets my new password after a while. Why? SOLVED!
ByGarfFinally got decent fibre to the property (FttP) broadband here on Hampshire’s new high-speed “CityFIbre” network as retailed by local provider ‘toob’. I immediately took the opportunity to dump the appallingly poor internet provided by a British outfit called Global4, that we’d put-up with for the last decade or so. Which also meant I could…
BREAKING: Brexit voters to be to pay extra “Brexit Tax” to pay for leaving the EU
ByGarfIt appeared on the AP this morning and hasn’t hit the mainstream news yet, but the EU has just announced that ongoing Brexit negotiations have cost in excess of €1,500,000,000. Brussels has decided that the fairest way to recuperate this money is to tax those who actually voted for it. The current proposal is that…
Roamer Ten
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Using my redundant TV aerial for DAB and FM radio
ByGarfI don’t have a TV licence – I don’t intend to buy one either. We have a nice big roof mounted TV aerial which I have repurposed for much better things. For a start, it receives FM and DAB radio perfectly adequately. We’re only a 20 km crow’s flight from the hefty Rowridge VHF transmitter….
France – drive down to Strasbourg
ByGarfToday we drove through France down to Strasbourg and arrived safely at the gite.
