Don't know what your feelings are on having your internet history accessible to everyone below, but please share and sign this petition and write to your MP via https://www.writetothem.com . Google "Investigatory Powers Act" for much more info...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/19/extreme-surveillance-becomes-uk-law-with-barely-a-whimper

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/investigatory-powers-bill-act-snoopers-charter-browsing-history-what-does-it-mean-a7436251.html 

http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/11/investigatory-powers-act-privacy-disaster-waiting-to-happen/

Please sign and share...

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/173199

Metropolitan police force

City of London police force

Police forces maintained under section 2 of the Police Act 1996

Police Service of Scotland

Police Service of Northern Ireland

British Transport Police

Ministry of Defence Police

Royal Navy Police

Royal Military Police

Royal Air Force Police

Security Service

Secret Intelligence Service

GCHQ

Ministry of Defence

Department of Health

Home Office

Ministry of Justice

National Crime Agency

HM Revenue & Customs

Department for Transport

Department for Work and Pensions

NHS trusts and foundation trusts in England that provide ambulance services

Common Services Agency for the Scottish Health Service

Competition and Markets Authority

Criminal Cases Review Commission

Department for Communities in Northern Ireland

Department for the Economy in Northern Ireland

Department of Justice in Northern Ireland

Financial Conduct Authority

Fire and rescue authorities under the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004

Food Standards Agency

Food Standards Scotland

Gambling Commission

Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority

Health and Safety Executive

Independent Police Complaints Commissioner

Information Commissioner

NHS Business Services Authority

Northern Ireland Ambulance Service Health and Social Care Trust

Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service Board

Northern Ireland Health and Social Care Regional Business Services Organisation

Office of Communications

Office of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland

Police Investigations and Review Commissioner

Scottish Ambulance Service Board

Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission

Serious Fraud Office

Welsh Ambulance Services National Health Service Trust

In the night garden.

Way overdue for an update, so going to cover a few topics.

After reading Hurrah for Gin's great open letter to Postman Pat, ( http://hurrahforgin.com/2013/11/21/an-open-letter-to-postman-pat/ ) I will be eventually cataloging the personalitys in the kids series "In the night Garden" as it is ripe for a roasting.

I have noticed, that my opinions on things are very not mainstream and not popular, usually by the amount of commenntards who reply and downvote anything forum based I comment on. So do I accept that I am wrong. No, I blame their fucking ignorance, even though it could be mine.

Also, How fucking irritating is that bullshit cookie pop-up? Every fucking site. Instead of creating a setting in the browser that could be configured to your preferences, No, every fucking site says, "we use cookies". No fucking shit! Sometimes I just fucking hate the EU.

What else, nothing for the moment.

Laters

Checkpoint chat - Really?

1 hour 32 minutes to get a support representative on the chat, and he closes it in 10 minutes? You can guess than I am not happy. 

3:52 PM  Connecting...

3:52 PM  Connected. A support representative will be with you shortly.

5:25 PM  Support session established with Kazuo .

5:25 PM   Kazuo : 

Hello, my name is Kazuo. How may I be assistance to you today? Thank you for waiting.

5:31 PM   Kazuo : 

I haven't heard from you in a few minutes; are you still there?

5:33 PM   Kazuo : 

Are you still there? As I have not heard from you for several minutes, if I do not receive a response soon, I will be forced to close the chat.

5:35 PM   Kazuo : 

Thank you for contacting us at Check Point Live Chat. Unfortunately, I am forced to close this chat now. Please rejoin chat when you are available to discuss the issue.

5:35 PM  Kazuo would like you to complete a brief Customer Survey. Open Customer Survey

5:35 PM  Kazuo has ended the session.

London 020 phone numbers, can no one get it right?

So its been 14ish years since the introduction of the 020 area code, and it is still being written down wrong. Are people just idiots?

For example I had a gotomeeting by Citrix(tm)  and this is the connect window:

But yet again, the London phone number was written down incorrectly in the format 020X XXX-XXXX.

WRONG! (ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/020 and http://www.area-codes.org.uk/020-area-code.php and http://www.area-codes.org.uk/correct-phone-number-formatting.php )

The correct format is: 020 XXXX-XXXX. 

For local use just dialing the XXX-XXXX (i.e. the bit after the 020X area code) in London will not work. The correct local number is XXXX-XXXX which is another reason to separate it from the area code of 020.

Also it would have made the above phone number just a little easier to dial... i.e 020 3535 (see the pattern) 0624, as apposed to 0203 (which is not an area code) 535 0624 (no real pattern to quickly memorize and enter)

Microserver

My HP ML116 G5 is dead. It had a "thermal Violation" when the heat sink mounts snapped while I was on the company away weekend. Even a new heat sink can't seem to revive it for more than a few minutes.

HP microserver seems to be the way to go. Recommended by everyone at work.

About 25% power consumption of the ML115, smaller and quieter, and I will stick 16Gb of RAM as compared to the 6Gb I had in the ML115.

So for reference,

http://www.serversdirect.co.uk/Hewlett_Packard_HP_ProLiant_N40L_1P_2GB-U_Emb_SATA_NHP_250GB_LFF_150W_PS_Mi_658553-421/version.asp

and memory

 http://www.crucial.com/uk/search/searchresults.aspx?keywords=CT2KIT102464BA1339

The Low carb Choice

I have been on a low carbohydrate lifestyle. I choose not to use the word diet as this imply's a temporary situation, and form how I feel, and everything I have researched, I think this as a permanent lifestyle choice is far healthier in the long run. So here is a quick bunch of resource links for my reference and anyone else who wants more information:



http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=ketostix&_sacat=0
To check to see if you are actually in ketosis and burning fat...

Steve Gibsons low carb page:
http://www.grc.com/health/lowcarb.htm

An interview with one of the authors of the "art and science of low carb.. living"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkdFkPxxDG8

And finally, they low carb podcasts (both) for your listening pleasure, well your info at any rate.
http://www.grc.com/health/lowcarb-podcasts.htm


And finally finally, some personal advice:
Stick to it really strictly, or don't bother. There really is no half way house on this. And I miss Pizza.

Enabling the Aux audio on my Honda Jazz

I used to use a iPhone windscreen dock with integrated FM transmitter to listen to the audio from it on the car's Radio. It did the job, but I got lots of 2G phone static, as well as low fidelity and just interference from actual radio stations and the occasional passing car set to transmit on the same frequency. By far the worst was the 2G interference from the phone. But I knew that I should be able to have an aux audio input for the radio, as there was a little blank area next to the cigarette lighter that was the right shape, and the radio had a button labeled CD / Aux, so it should be do-able. I was going to compile a blow by blow account with pictures on how I enabled and wired an aux audio input, but all I did was pretty much follow this: http://hondafitjazz.com/audio.htm, the deviation I made from this was to route the cable so that it come out to the center console of the car and not the glove box. And it works great! I have had to turn down the treble as its very high fidelity, with great overall frequency response. I don't get any cutting with the low frequency base which used to push the limits of the FM transmitter, and the high frequency are crisp and clear.