Recent content by wolsty

D just tried his old Sky+ box with my old card with the existing LNB. He's got the Freesat channels he wanted and is happy as Larry. Perhaps he'll now finish off the outstanding jobs at my house. I'll get him a quad LNB and good cable and help him install it when the better weather comes.

Thanks for the reminder, Paul. I'll be buying the kit and D will be doing the cable run, so I'll make sure he has good stuff to work with. Nanochickin ensured that I used the proper specification when I renewed my old cable in late 2011 and the system's never worked better, so it's a lesson...

I can. Very strong signal. Redruth is NNE of us and, on a clear day, I can see it from my roof. But D is on the other side of the valley, about half-way up, looking more or less SW, and Redruth is well below his horizon. The Helston repeater transmitter was built to give coverage to those in...

He'll be a happy man! A local supplier had quoted well over £200 to supply and fit a Freesat box. He's a builder, so he can do the cable run himself and for the price of cable, connectors, LNB and my old blue card (for which I will charge him an exorbitant amount!) he and his wife will be able...

Thanks for that. He'd be happy with Freeview, but can't see the Redruth transmitter from his house. He can see the Helston transmitter, but it doesn't carry the full range of Freeview, so he's forced to look skywards. I know most of the channels are fta, but will he particularly wants to get...

Hello again. As usual when I post, I need advice. A friend has just moved house and has asked me to help him set up Freesat. He has a Freesat tv, which is connected to an external dish and he's pleased with the results. However, he wants Freesat in his bedroom and has a Sky+ box and tv...

I spoke far too soon! The fix has stopped working and I haven't a clue as to why. However, the good news is that I googled a solution that seems remarkably elegant. It allows me to use my LAN to access files on my laptop. I can copy, cut and paste from the laptop and ES File Explorer is...

Am I missing something? Why would I want to buy Open Source software that I can legitimately download free of charge from the Internet?

It does! :-wow

Can't get the second solution to work on either computer. On both it goes tits up at: You’re almost done! Now, restart your computer, and then run these three commands : echo “alias android-connect=\”mtpfs -o allow_other /media/GalaxyNexus\”" >> ~/.bashrc So I upgraded my wife's laptop to...

I quite like Cinnamon.

Now if it'd been an announcement about an energy-efficient method of producing hydrogen from water and a means of safe storage, particularly for road vehicles, that would be an earth-shaker. I agree with CH petrol is not the best fuel, but so much of our economy is dependent on fossil fuel...

The Love of My Life is very happy with Ubuntu and even likes the Unity Desktop that I can't get on with at all. Crunchbang looks tempting, though, and when I've solved the Samsung Tablet connectivity problem I may just give it a go, wolsty

Well, I've tried the second method on my Kubuntu 12.10 laptop. When I run the commands to identify the tablet, I get full details, but only VID and PID numbers and then the laptop automatically goes on to connect to the tablet. That's when I get the error message. I'll try the 12.04 Ubuntu...

How much energy does it require to produce a litre of the fuel? If it's not an efficient conversion, that'll be the killer.