Month: November 2014

  • Print A Long Thin Calendar For Any Year

    Print A Long Thin Calendar For Any Year

    NOTE: You can now select 365 day calendars E, F and G. I’m sorry they were unavailable. Coming on this site later this year (2024): A4 landscape style calendar, suitable for printing on Laser Printers which have smudge resistant ink. Introduction My wife and mother-in-law both prefer a long thin calendar like this in A3…

  • Backdoor Trojan Regin Spying Since 2008

    A recently discovered Backdoor Trojan Regin is a computer bug found by the software security company Symantec. Its purpose is to spy on the activities taking place on computers. It can collect passwords, capture screen images and even recover deleted files. The Backdoor Trojan Regin has been made to operate in five stages the last two being encrypted to…

  • Fourteen Different Calendars

    Fourteen Different Calendars

    Introduction If you didn’t already know it the 1st January next year will always be on a different day to the 1st January this year. This comes about because: for ordinary years with 365 days there are 52 weeks and 1 day remaining, for leap years with 366 days there are 52 weeks and 2 days remaining.…

  • Hythe To New Romney By Steam Train

    Hythe To New Romney By Steam Train

    Introduction It was a nice summer and I enjoyed a family day out travelling from Hythe to New Romney on the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway (RH&DR) in Kent on 5th July 2014. We travelled on an overcast afternoon and the breeze was slightly chilly when it whistled through the carriages. We travelled  West from Hythe as far as…

  • Winter Steam Gala 2013 At The Great Central Railway

    Winter Steam Gala 2013 At The Great Central Railway

    Introduction It was a wet day this year at the GCR Winter Steam Gala 2013 (on 27th Jan). I didn’t take so many photos and the videos were short. For the most part the videos are of trains leaving stations. The event ran all day but I only arrived in the afternoon. Here is the Featured Image of №…

  • Manual Search Using Binary Chop

    Manual Search Using Binary Chop

    The Problem To Be Solved. A good friend of mine had found that an Excel spread sheet no longer had a formulae in a particular cell. It had a number there instead. This meant that any changes in other cells associated with the missing formulae had no effect on the result in the TOTAL column.…

  • Dyson Slim DC18 Cleaner Head Maintenance

    Dyson Slim DC18 Cleaner Head Maintenance

    Introduction This article advises how to perform Dyson Slim DC18 Cleaner Head Maintenance. This can involve removing the Brushbars to remove items that have got wrapped around them and removing the Soleplate for access  so dirt can be cleaned out. In extreme cases the Motor Housing can be opened so that dirt can be sucked out of…