Recent content by Cotswold

I bought two TAPO cameras and hub which operate via a phone app. From memory I think they are C200 but can't check as I'm in Australia at the moment. They were less than £200 for both and are a well made product. Cameras are battery operated and need charging from time to time. They operate by...

I am staggered that people pay so much for doorbell cameras. Particularly as they are of little help or use year on year. I've fitted front and back security cameras but do not pay an annual fee but just save generally pointless data onto an SDcard in the Hub. Then every now and then format the...

It will also depend upon the application. If you are supporting an invoice, or sales order system then I suspect that a rapid fix will be the priority. Of course in your case it may well have been that your standard of work and ability was far higher that they could obtain from other regular...

From a business aspect. Why would any business rely on someone who is only available at weekends for their systems and support? But at weekends they maybe don't want to work, or have a tiny window. You make a change, it falls over, then they need to wait a whole week before it is fixed. Makes no...

We have a government, a King and a King's son pushing net zero so much it is almost persecution. But is it for a policy without any scientific proof of cause, or success? In general it is costing everyone £1,000 to £2,000 a year in hidden taxes on energy bills. There is a power station, DRAX...

The trouble is that the USA has no idea about the UK. Before you roll out the rubbish about "giving Northern Ireland back to Ireland" why not ask the people in NI what they want instead of telling them what is good for them? Ask many in NI what they are and they'll say they are British. This is...

Just wondering if it also says 'suitable for inclusion in Chinese and Indian recipes' on the tin? You must have noticed those spongy bits that sit there in the mix.

When I do imports and exports, I always included a batch number to separate one from the other. An export to be imported to another system would have the batch number as their reference, or a part of the reference. So easy to see which import. If an import was to an accounts system and imported...

The same size of beam has to be larger in titanium. As an everyday reference I referred to a cycle frame which are often made in titanium but as I explained the tube section sizes has to be larger than a steel frame. You cannot have a frame in titanium with the same tube sizes as steel. Just as...

Sigh Any beam steel or titanium has s specific strength dependent on section size. A 20" beam will be stronger than a 10" beam. To obtain the strength of a 20" beam in titanium will mean that it must have the same properties. It But it may well be, that a titanium beam has a smaller section size...

I generally use a 27" screen at 1920x1080 for development. I will often create some screens to totally fill that screen in order to show as much detail as I can. When I then create the ACCDE and test, it is fine . However, if that ACCDE is transferred to a laptop with a 15" screen and the same...

In much the same way that for decades investigations into climate change will only receive money if the analysis has the sole intention of promoting climate change. Any academic who is in any way sceptical is viewed as an alarmist and will not receive funding. So no income. It is simply a...

@BlueSpruce, I'm sorry in my opinion but you are wrong. A floor in any building is designed to carry its own load as well as the estimated maximum load to be placed upon the floor. Any individual floor is not designed to carry the weight of two, or more loaded floors. Many buildings, those...

I suggest that you replace the macro solution with VBA. Code is (virtually) always preferred to macros. Maybe take a look at IslaDogs' Progress Bar which I would say is a sound and a preferrable solution to a macro. https://isladogs.co.uk/progress-bar/index.html

Once mild steel reaches a cherry heat it will begin to be easier to work. Most forging can happen at between 1000ºc and 1200ºc, with melting occurring around 1400ºc. According to Isaac Newton, force increases by the square of the speed. So faster = more force. Strength of materials works in the...