Re: [Dorset] OT: Keeping costs down

2022-08-29 Thread Ian Morris via dorset
, then the latent heat of vaporisation to actually boil it. Peter M.   [ Applies to any form of boiling water of course. ] n 29/08/2022 11:31, Ian Morris via dorset wrote: 500ml of water = 500g water.  let's assume you want to go from 20-100 C => increase of 80C Specific heat capacity of wa

Re: [Dorset] OT: Keeping costs down

2022-08-29 Thread Ian Morris via dorset
500ml of water = 500g water.  let's assume you want to go from 20-100 C => increase of 80C Specific heat capacity of water = 4.184 J/g-K => 167,360 J = 0.0465 kWh Electricity @27p/kWh = 1.2552p So rather similar (OK, I don't know efficiency of electric kettle ... but heating elements are

Re: [Dorset] PVR disk formatting problems

2019-02-04 Thread Ian Morris
I would speculate that the disk has hardware issues ... check the SMART data with smartctl. Out of sync audio is a classic sign of corruption on a DVB-T stream in my experience ... if disk is having a hard time and produces occasional read errors, DVB built in error correction might be making up

Re: [Dorset] VPN

2019-01-24 Thread Ian Morris
I use strongswan on my phone and on a "server" at home to which said phone connects to save me from the perils other peoples wifi. took a little bit of setting up (problems with getting let's encrypt certs working at first) but seems to work fairly well now. On 24/01/2019 15:52, Ralph

Re: [Dorset] Network connectivity issues

2019-01-13 Thread Ian Morris
AP isolation active ??? : https://www.linksys.com/gb/support-article?articleNum=135098 On 13/01/2019 14:47, t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote: Hi Ralph On 13/01/19 11:31, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Tim, I'll just ask lots of questions in the hope it strikes lucky. I have a puzzling issue here,

Re: [Dorset] Swap file issue

2018-11-30 Thread Ian Morris
Did you format the partition with mkswap first? Used to be that this was mandatory but I'm not sure if it sill is because it's been a very long time since I did this manually... It could explain why the kernel stops using it unexpectedly though On 30/11/2018 14:22, Tim wrote: > > I am

Re: [Dorset] Problems with The UK Mirror Service https://www.mirrorservice.org/

2018-07-09 Thread Ian Morris
Whois indicates domain was updated this morning: whois mirrorservice.org Domain Name: MIRRORSERVICE.ORG Registry Domain ID: D104609905-LROR Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.easyspace.com Registrar URL: http://www.easyspace.com Updated Date: 2018-07-09T09:52:52Z Creation Date: 2004-07-08T08:53:01Z

Re: [Dorset] Can I recover a Hard disk?

2018-04-15 Thread Ian Morris
Perhaps run smartctl  -C /dev/sd -a to see how long an extended check might take, plan to leave PC on for a little over this time and run an extended test: smartctl -t long /dev/sd monitor status with smartctl  -l selftest /dev/sd PS, longest serving disk in my RAID: 61068 hours has no

Re: [Dorset] Revisited - Accessing a Local Network over a Wireless Router that is NOT Connected to the Internet

2018-02-25 Thread Ian Morris
The reason for the error is because your certificate is not signed by one of the trusted Certificate authorities ... indeed the certificate you have is self signed, it's not signed by any CA. You could create your own CA ... but anyone using the site will still get the error unless they