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Re: Got loads from most stages of the build, but to give the general idea; and interior;

I would use nails, less chance of splitting (assuming you're not going to pre-drill holes for screws) and a more tidy job when done. If you use a membrane I would think you'd need to leave an airgap behind the cladding, otherwise it'll trap moisture against the rear of the wooden cladding and...

Re: Re: Just ban the remaining site users, that should make modding far less onerous. They're bound to have been just about to think something unacceptably topical anyway...

I believe that most washing up liquid contains a fair bit of sodium chloride and will therefore promote corrosion on bare metal... if you're going to be lubing the chain immediately I wouldn't think it likely to be a problem. A soak in paraffin oil or diesel as HM mentioned are the best in my...

Re: Re: Ah, I was going to do that but then I saw that the UN's Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression had their role amended by Egypt, Pakistan, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, China, Russia and Cuba. I subsequently didn't particularly value what they had to say...

Re: Re: Ah yes, Cuba - perhaps we've been too hasty, maybe that's totally different from every other repugnant Communist state in history... let's see what glowing report Human Rights Watch have produced on that particular idyll; "The Cuban government continues to repress dissent and punish...

No disagreement from me on that - I just think the issue is much bigger than this particular tower block and would hate to see so much hate focused on one particular contractor or one particular political party and the chance to properly consider the wider problem (which is not necessarily...

The more I read on this subject (in technical terms, not pathetic rabble rousing garbage like the above) the more disturbing I think it is. It may well turn out that we currently do not have any properly safe material available which is fully suitable for external insulation of buildings...

Er - yes, I'm willing to tolerate it for very (vanishingly) brief periods of time which are entirely within my control. I am not willing to tolerate it under normal circumstances. Simple! Yes, concentration camp was an obvious exaggeration... but I directly equate being forced to carry...

Personally I have no intention on going on holiday in any other country in the EU, none of them really appeal to me as a holiday destination. You're talking about something totally different from day-to-day life though - when I'm on holiday I am more willing to tolerate other people's...

Exactly, but not, I think, like you mean. I have no problem whatsoever with producing ID to open a bank account, get a passport etc. I do have a problem with being obliged to carry some stupid bit of plastic about with me wherever I go, on the offchance I'm going to be stopped by some...

About an hour north, but travel a bit (Glasgow this week, but thankfully most of that stuff is usually done remotely!)

Grand, I think we all knew that already - so what most seem to be agreed on is that there's no point in adding a requirement to carry ID cards as these would be expensive to implement and entirely pointless anyway.

That's good, a local account password can definitely be blanked - I've done it dozens of times. The hardest part is getting Windows 8 actually cleanly shut down (rather than the partial hibernation which is default now) and also then getting the machine to boot from the USB stick or CD that you...

Theoretically (and in fairness, mostly in practice in my experience) Windows 8 will (re)activate itself fine on most machines if it was pre-installed by the OEM - the licence is now tied to the hardware in a way it wasn't previously (the key is often stored in the BIOS/UEFI) and especially for...

Machines preinstalled with Windows 8 and onwards probably won't have that sticker, but if you do need to reinstall Windows any old Windows 8 install media should work anyway without a licence key. If you used a local account there are options like Linux + NTPasswd...

The answer depends on whether you used a Microsoft Account to set it up, or a local account - do you know?

Perhaps we in the Highlands (or other rural areas) enjoy and value our freedom more than those locked up in the cities?

Re: Of course I have a bank account, not to mention a passport, driving licence, all the rest. The point is, I'm not currently obliged to carry them and as a matter of habit almost never do so. I would hate for that to change - I don't like totalitarian states or anything that helps lead to...

Re: I suspect you didn't read my previous posts carefully enough. In the first place, (and given this is/was a thread about TM in particular) I stated that the protesters baying for TM's blood in Downing St, as being somehow responsible for the Grenfell tragedy, were ridiculous.