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  5. Wind Turbines

    in Talk of the Town

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    Modern technology is very good and improving, at work we have built a "Green Building†(a gun range/ training building) it has two wind powered generators (was going to be one large but two smaller are higher cost but easier serviced etc) and we also have a large solar panel array. The solar and wind turbines both feed the green building, the building also has solar heat windows/ shutters and heat walls also composting toilets.

    Most days we are putting power back into the grid, and getting paid for it!

    We are now being funded to add LED outside lighting and Solar/LED roadway lighting!

    That being said we don't have neighbours or aesthetics to consider!

  12. Delta Search

    in Computing

    Posted · Edited by Brett
    Correcting Quotations

    No, you simply run it again and again until your system is clear. Has never installed any "extras" on my system, but perhaps that's because I read all the install screens (except the licence agreement of course! ;) ).

    I also read the install screens and didn't take any extras.

    If you really have got 834 other problems maybe you should pay them the mungy - or do a clean o/s install? :D It will generally find some annoyances that AVs will ignore, and it does have good rep which they aren't going to endanger.

    834 problems! an obvious scam to get you to pay for the "better" program!

    Have to agree with Adam, Norton is an infection in itself! Lost count of the number of times I thought I'd removed it from my system but the Symantec Updater was still clinging on in memory. The instructions on the Symantec website for the "removal tool" didn't work. I think I'm free of it now but it took hours of poking through the system files. To add insult to injury it's in the ROM of the tab I just bought and you can't remove it. I've disabled it but it's still lurking and taking up storage.

    Try Avast! - it's free if you play canny and don't want all the unnecessary bells and whistles. Been using it and recommending it for several years and no one has come back to me and said "bad idea" yet!

    "Not a good idea" I tried it, after several side tracks like install for mobile devices! then everthing was VERY slow, and EVERYTHING I opened was a "Potential threat" and we can save you if you BUY the better version, but it did un-install very easily! and everything back to normal! AVG on this laptop and (dreaded and unremovable) Norton on the desktop.

  16. Did You Wave Keithl?

    in Chat Central

    Posted

    Local bylaws allow three animals, two and one, cats or dogs but not everyone follows it! I think it is $20 per year for dog same for cats, our last cat was a house cat, and never went outside, hence no tag! (in the past we lost too many cats to the coyotes and other wild beasties.)

  17. Did You Wave Keithl?

    in Chat Central

    Posted

    Sorry to hear that Keith, we lost ours almost two years ago, she was over 18 years old, we have had many offers of cats and dogs, kittens and puppies, but my wife was not ready.

    Four weeks ago a stray kitty found us, and adopted us! Now Lippy (he was very vocal) has a vet appointment in two weeks. We don't have a vet in town and only get one every Wednesday, that's when they recoup their travel costs! $$$, Fixed, shots, licence etc, its a big road trip when they are sick or injured!

  20. Miners Killed In Bedlington Pits

    in History Hollow

    Posted

    I think if you look at the old Miner's Picnics and you'd see that the mining community was a very close family that moved freely around the area, just look at the different pits that HPW worked in! and the names from all over the area that had Bedlington connections. I'm sure if there was an death underground you would find a Bedlington miner in the rescue or recovery team!

  21. Banana Sandwich

    in Food & Cookery

    Posted

    Caad tetties, chips, crisps or owt left on the dinner plate! there wasn't much of a loaf left after my brother and I had egg'n chips!

    Hmm!I think I know why I had that heart attack!

    O.T. Anyone hear from Canny Lass?

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