Cloning hard drives – check merits of gparted/systemrescuecd vs Acronis TrueImage – also for general purpose backups https://unetbootin.github.io/ recommend tron script for clearing/cleaning. https://www.reddit.com/r/TronScript/wiki/index/ recommend Immunet. https://www.immunet.com/index Windows sleep problems https://thegeekpage.com/fix-windows-10-sleep-mode-not-working-solved/#:~:text=Interference%20of%20a%20third%20party,to%20sleep%20in%20Windows%2010.

Manually charging batteries with a bench power supply (safely) Building a battery capacity meter/rig Dewalt/strimmer battery pack with sub C cells Understanding differences between li-ion and ni-cad Converting ebike from 36v to 48v Replacing/rebuilding cells in the RC car

reproduced from https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-partition-and-format-storage-devices-in-linux incase it disappears   Introduction Preparing a new disk for use on a Linux system can be quick and easy. There are many tools, filesystem formats, and partitioning schemes that may complicate the process if you have specialized needs, but if you want to get up and running quickly, it’s fairly straightforward. This […]

I was finding that ‘this file wasn’t saved properly etc.’ messages came up every time even when I knew the file had been cleanly saved and excel closed down properly.   deleting ‘MicrosoftRegistrationDB.reg’ did the trick (find with finder) It looses your recent files history, but its worth it.

Saving directly to the device doesn’t work for me on the bikehike site – given up troubleshooting it and instead documenting a work around.   Save as a TCX file. Open Garmin Training Centre Plug in the watch to the cradle to the usb (wait for it to sync) File -> Import -> select file […]

I came across urlwatch whilst looking for something to tell me if a web page had been updated. http://thp.io/2008/urlwatch/ Its pure python, and easy for even a beginner like me to read and sus out once I’d worked out where the files were. Your can install it with sudo pip install urlwatch – I needed to […]

So I might not have stuck to keeping a blog updated, but I did stick with the fasting ! I thought it might be getting on for a year, and remembered that I’d started a blog. If I remember I will weigh myself on the 1st June, but as of now I weight 176.4 pounds […]

Well, for the last four and a bit weeks I’ve not eaten anything on two days, apart from a large bowl of soup late in the evening – typically around 3-400 calories. If anything on the rest of the days I’ve eaten more.  I am certainly eating a big breakfast on the ‘morning after’, though […]

(you’re not supposed to call it a diet) 🙂 My wife has very wisely suggested that I set myself a milestone and review at that point.  I am tempted to try eating nothing on fast days, but will stick to what worked well for me on the first day. So each Monday and Thursday (day […]

Not only taken up running again, but also after having read the ‘fast diet’ book last weekend, decided to try fasting two days a week. Yesterday was my first day.  I had read hundreds or thousands of lines of other peoples advice and research, and decided just to go for it. In the end I […]

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