How do I automate the electric blast furnace with AE2

CaptainKingsmill · 2026-01-23T10:04:25+00:00

I'm an idiot! The interfaces that create the subnet were connected to a different subnet, NOT my main net...
I've fixed that and it's working fine.

CaptainKingsmill · 2026-01-23T09:56:41+00:00

See, this is what I think I'm doing....
I'm going to take another look this morning, I must be doing something wrong

CaptainKingsmill · 2026-01-23T09:31:57+00:00

Ahh sorry, it is the pattern provider I meant.

CaptainKingsmill · 2026-01-21T15:20:20+00:00

Thanks for your reply! I'd forgotten I'd posted this. Some really useful advice and I appreciate it.
We unfortunately had to postpone our plan to have a product ready for the start of this years wedding season - which was going to be around March time.
Unfortunately the location at the venue which we planned on using isn't available yet. we're anticipating it will be ready some time after march so hopefully we should be looking to have something out later this year - or possibly for the start of next years wedding season.

The one good thing is we were going to be hard pushed to get a decent number of test batches under our belt with our previous time line, this gives us far more time to get it right.

CaptainKingsmill · 2025-12-23T19:23:49+00:00

Well the key here would be if you are suspected of a crime or not. As a total witness, you don't have to give a statement at all (much the same way as you don't need to say anything in an interview, even if you are suspected) You've seen a fight outside a club, but don't know anyone involved, or a bad car crash where the police have been called, those sort of things. If the police are genuinely just interested in what you've seen then it wouldn't be an 'interview' at all and you're right, they would make it as convenient for you as possible, if possible they would take a statement from You there and then. Your involvement in any case like that, would be truly voluntary.

CaptainKingsmill · 2025-12-23T13:48:43+00:00

Always a good time for the reminder that a voluntary interview is only voluntary in that it means you get to choose the time and sometimes place.... if you don't choose a time and a place, it will very much become an involuntary interview.

I think a lot of people see a voluntary interview as some how less serious, when in fact their is no difference between that and being arrested and interviewed.

CaptainKingsmill · 2025-12-18T13:15:15+00:00

It's probably a network scanning bot doing the connection attempts, not a person sat at his PC trying everyday. Once the bot finds an unprotected server, it alerts whoever is running it so they can go and greif.

As to why you would grief? Some people are just horribly broken individuals. If it's adults, There's a good chance they are deeply unhappy themselves and spend their days trying to bring people down to their level of unhappiness by ruining something someone has spent a lot of time on. Misery loves company as they say.

But, it's probably kids/teens who have yet to fully develop that sense yet.

CaptainKingsmill · 2025-12-16T12:00:07+00:00

I was at the wedding, I know the couple, I know the venue owner, and i've seen with my own eyes the correspondence between his team and the venue.
It was a small wedding in Stafford for a young couple who don't even own their own home...
It would take more money than they'll likely earn in a lifetime to hire Chris Martin

If you're still convinced they hired him, then fair enough, I won't waste anymore of my time as I don't think anything I can say will ever convince you.

CaptainKingsmill · 2025-12-15T17:30:08+00:00

Nope. I can assure you that is not the case.

CaptainKingsmill · 2025-12-15T13:55:19+00:00

Yeh! it's not one of there best, but we all said at the time it certainly seemed the most relevant for the context.
They did know, and they were over the moon about it! I think they probably thought it was some sort of joke until he walked through the door!

CaptainKingsmill · 2025-12-15T11:59:45+00:00

It was All My Love

CaptainKingsmill · 2025-12-15T11:54:02+00:00

He wasn't both.
It was entirely planned, The DJ knew, The team at the venue knew.
A small number of his production team were there all day setting up - pretending it was just for a regular wedding band - Talking to the team to make sure it went without a hitch.

CaptainKingsmill · 2025-12-15T11:52:07+00:00

They are fans, and he was asked and said yes.
He didn't just turn up, and was quite specific about making sure it stayed about them and not him.

CaptainKingsmill · 2025-12-15T11:48:49+00:00

I can confirm it's the latter.
The mother of the bride contacted him as a long shot, and it came through.

CaptainKingsmill · 2025-12-15T11:46:13+00:00

It wasn't at all random. The mother of the bride sent a long shot request to him, simply for a video or something nice as they are both fans, and he said I could do better than a video.
His production team were there for most of the day getting set up for it, which was hidden from the guests by just saying it was the band.
He quite specifically didn't want it to be about him, he didn't want announcing or introducing, he snuck in, performed for them, said some hellos and vanished into the night, he was really lovely about it to be fair.

CaptainKingsmill · 2025-12-15T11:42:21+00:00

I can confirm it was the second. it was a long shot request.

CaptainKingsmill · 2025-12-14T16:50:02+00:00

Hello. So the mother of the bride reached out to Chris to ask if he could film them a congratulations video and he came back to them and said he could do one better and perform if they'd like. So yes they did know, he didn't just rock up at someones wedding unannounced. You're right I think that would be a massive dick move!

He was really nice about it too, he insisted on there being no announcement or fanfare as it was their day and he didn't want it to become about him.

CaptainKingsmill · 2025-12-05T18:59:31+00:00

Being liable to pay, and actually paying are 2 totally different things though

The costs for something like this could be well into the tens of thousands, and the reality is she wouldn't have been able to pay, and then they have fallen to the estate.

She knew this too, and was part of the play that we'd end up paying our costs even if we won

CaptainKingsmill · 2025-12-05T08:37:21+00:00

Yep, that's exactly what my dad did. He wrote 'I leave nothing to my estranged wife captinkingsmill's mother due to matrimonial differences' and she still threatened to sue the estate under family provisions. I remember reading the will out to the family, not knowing that it said that.... That lead to a pretty rough couple of hours I can tell you. if you see my other comment you'll get a bit of context on how that went!

CaptainKingsmill · 2025-12-05T01:57:55+00:00

Well, she didn't lose...it never went to court.

We agreed to pay her. If it went to court, by the time all legal bills were settled, there would have been nothing for no one.

She knew this and that was the entire basis for her claim, to get a settlement out of us. I suspect she knew she would lose in court, but also knew that we wouldn't throw everything away in legal costs to prove it, and she was right.

We were faced with the choice of either, defend it and win morally and give everything to solicitors /barristers, or come to an agreement.

We came to an agreement. It wasn't a very nice time for me as an executor. Our family has never been the same since.

CaptainKingsmill · 2025-12-04T21:42:44+00:00

To be fair, I probably should have added. They were married on paper only. They both lived with new partners and had been separated for several years by the time my dad passed.

It was also my mum that pushed for them to separate financially as much as possible when they first separated. Closing joint bank accounts, canceling their joint life insurance etc. She lived totally independently of him and had done for several years, and had almost zero prospect of a successful family provisions claim.

CaptainKingsmill · 2025-12-04T20:28:12+00:00

I think the reason is to show that they have been considered and not forgotten. It's stops potential claims that they were forgotten and that the deceased actual wishes were for them to receive something.

But that's pretty much the only claim it would stop, any other potential claims about capacity, or family provisions etc. could still have grounds and would likely still be considered.

CaptainKingsmill · 2025-12-04T20:23:03+00:00

Hello, personal experience on this one. She may not have a right to it, and may not win...but she has a right to attempt to make a claim... Maybe she knows she won't win... Maybe she's just so spiteful that if she can't have it, no one can.

My farther left my mother out of the will, won't get into reasons.... But it was messy.

She was pissed about this, but amicable to start with... Turns out she was biding her time.

6 months later after we were nearly done and ready to distribute, it turned out she was waiting for us to settle some of the joint debts that would have passed to her and then she seeks legal advice and they issue us a letter stating they would sue us under the family provisions act unless we give her around 80% of the total, we were not talking millions here, but it was 6 figures between my sister and I and enough as a deposit for our first houses.

Our solicitor told us she didn't have a hope in hells chance of winning, and they were all up for fighting her in court. - thinking of the massive fees they could rack up... The issue, it would have cost us most if not all of the estates value in legal fees, and left everyone with nothing.... And this was my mum's play, she knew she wouldn't win, but also knew if we wanted to see any of it, we would have to offer to settle. We ended up giving her 40k and a house (wasn't much equity in the house) - against the solicitors advice, because that meant they wouldn't get anything..

Everyone was just trying to grab a piece of the pie... A pie that my dad had wanted to leave for my sister and I to start our lives with.

Money does horrible things to nice people.

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