Recent content by onomatopoeia

This has brought to light the fact that barges / houseboats on leisure moorings do not get charged council tax as, like a motorhome or touring caravan parked on someone's drive, they are not homes and don't stay in one place, whereas if they are on residential moorings (which are very hard to...

Yep, massive data protection breach for which I was financially compensated with processing my medical licence renewal. Had to get my MP involved to get it sorted out.

What is the nature of the wall? If it's concrete block a cheap core drill bit will work, if it's red engineering brick my experience is that a cheap bit of a size suitable for a sink waste will give up before the brick does and be a false economy.

Havene't read them all but "Excession" is one of my all-time favourie scifi novels and if I ever become a spaceship I will be called Serious Callers Only. Currenly reading "I who have never known men" by Jacqueline Harpman, before that the first two "On the calculation of volume" novels from...

Lovely. Whenever I see one I think it could do with a BDA on 40s though.

You won't go wrong, the car might though. Still, you can make it run with two bits of wire, at least until the condeser or rotor arm fail as they're all made in a factory in China these days and are all rubbish.

I've got some years to go so I'm not panicing. I've been moving some of the money from heavily US weighted (due to the big tech companies) global trackers into other global funds that don't include those particular companies so it's not such a rollercoaster on every AI announcement, but other...

You weren't tempted by Unix v4 which as recently been recovered from a 50+ year old tape and is now available to download?

UK government debt is sold by the Debt Management Office (DMO) as government bonds aka Gilts. New debt is auctioned and anyone with an appropriate investment account can bid. I could, if I wanted, buy them in my S&S ISA or my general investment account, possibly my SIPP as well (haven't...

That is even more complicated because the formatted capacity of that disk in the standard format understood by the BIOS of PCs and compatibles was 1,440 KB (where 1KB = 1,024 bytes), so 14747560 bytes, meaning quoting it as 1.44MB is wrong by any measure. There is no rule to say that such a...

RAM is sold on powers of two to this day, everything in low-level computing works in powers of two, it's only disks that are sold on powers of ten and that changed in the mid 1990s when manufacturers saw it as a free way to increase the headline size in their marketing.

I'm using a pair of Kef 104AB I bought s/h from a friend maybe 20 years ago and they must be at least 45 years old now. Still sound great,

Buried in that article is the fact that of the top ten programmes, nine were on the BBC. So commercial television is clearly soaring ahead and what everyone wants on that basis. Or not. However there has been little on. I would of have watched Unforgiven this evening as it is a truly great...

Jeremy Hunt did it with the two 2% NI cuts in quick succession before the 2024 election. That went well for them.

Given VAT is a purchase tax paid by the buyer and collected by the seller (in both cases only if the seller is a VAT regsitered business), that makes no sense at all. The only place VAT should come in for a UK private seller selling to a buyer in the UK is on the fees ebay charge.