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Hello, Bonjour, Just a post to say Im sampling tonight my recently acquired Talisker tonight, as always its wonderful with a beautiful aroma. Perhaps if I can give 'my helper' the slip when shopping next Ill stow another bottle away! Slainte to all malt drinkers/posters from France N

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Hi made me smile! N

Hello, I was thinking the same as I read your post, made me smile. N

Hello, Agreed & signed N

Agreed, may invest in another couple of bottles, I dont know the ones you have, but wasnt Glen Marnoch the 40yo that Aldi was selling ? N

Bonjour tous les arboriculteurs Français, Quite a few single malts on offer in Hyper U today; Talisker, Laphroaig 10Yo, Jura etc some quite good reductions. Hyper U & Leclerc generally have a promotional week for whisky around first or second week of December so I got a bottle of Talisker for about £22.00 & may get another if shopping 'unescorted' if you know what I mean! N

Hi, Thats exactly their objective, yes it makes the banks loads of money, but it also returns a huge amount in tax as people have to slave to service the mortgage repayments. Great house BTW. N

Hi, I dont think Ive taken anything for about 10 years despite leading a fairly active life, Im 55. I think you may have arthritis or something like that if you have to resort to pain killers on a daily basis. I much prefer a glass or two of vin rouge or an islay malt. N

Hi The idea with the plastic & a bungee is a good one, but the plastic may deteriorate & you say the hole is square? If an old rubber inner tube would be large enough cut it so it bridges the gap, if that dosnt fit then make a collar to cover the corners, with sheet metal then fit your shroud to that. N

Agreed, you could ask if its OK to just stick a stamp on the goods & await collection by the post fairy! N

Hi You ought to see the prices for delivery to France, typically £15 or £20 then item turns up sent as RM parcel cost about a fiver to send. Still much cheaper than paying daft prices some stuff is here. N

Im running TP link unmanaged switches. Hi OK, Im not familiar with that one but Googled & looks fine, the reason I asked is that sometimes people use a four port router such as a Netgear DG834 which is a very good router but only runs at 10/100 so adding in something like a Netgear GS108 Gigabyte switch (with the router connected to one of its ports) ensures the rest of their network & connected devices all run at Gigabyte speeds. Plenty of bandwidth for network cameras as well. TBH I think this is all going to work fine & if its any consolation its a terrible night here, no sitting outside in the setting sun with a vin rouge or G&T! N

Hi, Cat 5e switches at 100MHz but you will get improved data transmission speeds, I think it will be fine. Incidentally, which network switch are you using? Good luck with tests! N

Whilst Im thinking of this... What you could do is download a BluRay coded sample file from t'internet & try streaming from your NAS box, that should give you a some idea of how your net performs, ie: Planet earth bird scenes at 1080p or similar. Also Im not sure if you have it but the iSkysoft media converter is a nice bit of software & reasonable to. Bon chance N

Hi, A little more detail would help, I assume you will want to connect the Blu ray player to your network, if so Plex should find it & stream any content. I suspect the next question could be: will the Blu ray stream saturate my network? The max bitrate for video/audio is 48Mbps or 6MBs (thats Mega bits & Mega Bytes) although 36Mbps is considered sufficient for HDTV. If I recall cat 5 cable rated 100MHz will transfer at about 12MBs & CAT6 at 1Ghz will do over 100MBs maybe upto 120MBs - wiki it, assuming a perfect network & a good switch. Therefore cat 6 cable may be necessary or you may be OK with N speed wireless. Anyway hope this helps, my son streams from his QNAP over Gigabit ethernet so I know that works! N

Good post, thanks N

Hi Our ginger cat Leon seems rather prone to them, we use Frontline but he still gets the odd one, whilst Tahlulah seems to avoid them. Ive ordered a Tick Twister as in principle it seems like a good idea. I have got rid of one with Eau de Vie which is 60% ABV but I dont think thats the correct method! We 'spot on' the chickens, its powerful stuff but does seem preventative. Will have a go with the garlic in the diet, they are French cats after all! N

Hi all, Incidentally, if you go to xft.co.uk You'll find the domain is currently for sale. Can't take their business seriously if thats the case. N

OK Your 80A/hr battery will be sufficient, although a 100 or 110A/hr would be better. If the intended use is 2 nights a week then plenty of opportunity to re-charge. Try and equalise the battery once every couple of months or as per manufacturers recommendations. N

Hello Dean, Surprised your dog picks him up with all those spines! Saw a very large hedgehog in the garden last few nights we've had quite a few, good for clearing up slugs & so on. N

Hello, I have a reasonable amount of experience with battery discharging gained from the nuclear power program in the RN & also have a small off grid solar power system. A few points: 1. As other posters have stated, battery selection is important & a battery capable of being deep discharged necessary. I use Rolls batteries they seem very good. 2. Your stated load of 10 * 15W is 150 Watts at a nominal 12V DC equates to a load of around 12.5 Amps. You need to look at the discharge curves for your battery to see how long the run time will be at this load (it is not linear). Your battery should NEVER be discharged below 10.5 volts below that voltage it becomes scrap metal - unfortunately below 10.5V it would not accept a full recharge & performance severely degraded. 3. Be aware that batteries are generally specified at the 20 hour rate, this means that the battery is discharge over a 20 hour period at a set discharge to 10.5 volts so for an 80 Amp/hr battery this would be approximately 4 Amps. Your load is around three times this so it would mean the battery would be fully discharged in around 6 hours or so. This of course assumes a fully charged battery 100% capacity. 4. If you deep discharge a battery 100% to 10.5 volts you will find it will provide a lot less cycles than if it were discharged to say 50% or less - Your manufacturer should be able to provide this info. 5. The next issue is will your solar panel re-charge the battery the next day? I would say you probably need a couple of hundred watts of panel, I have 4 * 100w & they sometimes give around 28-30 Amps on a sunny day (in SW France) if that helps. Dull days a lot less. If it were me wanting to run the lamps for a full six hours, I would probably select a 200 A/hr battery because it would not be fully discharged & last (in years of use) a lot longer than your 80 A/hr - all depends on how long you wish to run for really, if say, 2-3 hrs then 80A/hr would probably be fine at that load. Hope this helps N

Bonsoir tout le monde, Today was nice but... It looks like theres a storm brewing off Biscay from tonight's meteo. High winds from Sunday into Monday perhaps a little later for the UK. Take care but I think it will set your phones ringing for assistance! N

Hi all, I agree entirely & support the forum moderators. Its a public forum, people are entitled to different opinions but dont judge negatively or persecute people for expressing opinion, as Old Mill Tree Care stated "This is a shame because their fear leads to our loss" If you wouldn't want your post read out in a job interview or as John said 'your Nan to read it', then exercise restraint. Perhaps one should have the ability to remove a post at a later date as we all say things we regret after a few scoops of beer? N

Hi all Ive noticed the increasing sophistication of some malware attacks, this one is not detected by a lot of AV software and is using the Zeus botnet to attack: The link below is to Sophos Information regarding the Cryptolocker ransomware Trojan making the rounds | Sophos Blog The attack arrives in the form of an e-mail from companies house, encrypts files on your PC using asymmetric encryption then demands $300 to provide the key to unlock them, I suspect anyone's CC number will also be stolen if they submit & pay, the cypher is strong. The problem here is if you remove the trojan your files remain encrypted & thus lost (unless the cypher can be broken). Yet another good reason to control spam, use good AV & backup your data. N