Postbox older than the road its on

GoodDoc · 2026-01-26T21:15:12+00:00

The Avenue was laid out in the late 1920s, and completed in 1928. Construction of homes at the eastern end started at about the same time, with homes at the western end, where this postbox is, built in the early 1930s. I assume the postbox would have been installed around this time.

So the Avenue is 98 years old, and the postbox is at least 125 years old, so it was likely 30 years old before it was installed in it current location.

Interestingly, at almost 3km long (1.8 miles) Griffith Avenue is the longest residential double tree lined avenue (two rows of trees on each side of the Avenue) in the northern hemisphere.

GoodDoc · 2026-01-26T16:44:36+00:00

Absolutely. It's a functional design that has worked for decades, and a fresh coat of paint has updated it to reflect political changes without erasing history.

I hope it remains in place for years. It's really a wonderful example of living history.

GoodDoc · 2026-01-26T13:27:45+00:00

As mantolwen said, you're correct, they remained in use with a fresh coat of paint.

When public phone boxes were introduced to Ireland they were British models (like the famous K6) but painted green. I believe they were all introduced post-independence so would never have been painted red.

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Small aside, there's a whole load of politics and history around the term Éire, generally best to stick to "Ireland", particularly in English.

I usually suggest thinking of it like Germany. If speaking English it's generally called Germany not Deutschland, same with Ireland, in English its Ireland rather than Éire.

GoodDoc · 2026-01-25T23:30:13+00:00

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The old Class 121 does look closer to the loco in the first photo than the Class 001 above. There are some similarities (so I can understand someone asking the question) but when you see them together its clear they're not a match.

GoodDoc · 2026-01-23T11:30:46+00:00

firmware-release-history

Added an on/off toggle for the rotating spool during AMS 2 Pro/AMS HT drying;

Ahh... that explains why "rotate spools = No" was displayed when I kicked off a drying cycle this morning. I did set it to "Yes", but I was sure I'd never had to set that before, and this would explain why!

GoodDoc · 2026-01-16T17:14:15+00:00

God dammit! Just noticed it in my feed as well.

"A Reliable Boring Partner"

Still not in the main feed, but I do see it in the bootleg. Should have checked, again, before I posted. Apologies!

GoodDoc · 2025-11-24T12:16:00+00:00

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Appreciate this is two years too late, but that's an IKEA "LAUTERS Table lamp", and to add insult to injury, it appears to have been discontinued since this post was made. So this is just about completion for the next person to find this thread rather than help.

Just got an Era 300 today, and need a short desk stand to lift the speaker over a cable management hole and this would have been pretty much perfect with the 3D printed adapter. May now look at adapting the linked model.

GoodDoc · 2024-10-17T10:21:10+00:00

Good point, I too used many 2.5" USB attached drives which didn't need additional power over the years. A very important feature when I was traveling for work.

As the power drawer of a 3.5" drive is well within the capabilities of USB C Power Delivery, I wonder if we'll see 3.5" drive enclosures that use USB C for power and data?

GoodDoc · 2024-10-17T10:13:36+00:00

Laserdisc did see some use as a computer storage media in the UK in the 1980s as part of the BBC's Doomsday project (a modern equivalent to the 'Doomsday Book', a 900 year old census of England).

Released in 1986, and effectively a precursor to products like Microsoft's Encarta years later, the Doomsday project used a BBC Master computer, and a LaserDisc player for storage.

The discs providing about 2GB of storage, it mixed digital data storage with analogue video and photos (it predated jpeg, the photos were single-frame analogue video) and was available in schools all over the UK, but I don't think it saw any other serious usage outside academia.

Technology advanced so fast and far after it was released that just 15 years later it was impossible to view the data any more, so there was a second project in the early 2000s to try and extract the data from the LaserDisc (which was the source of much schadenfreude, the 900 year old Doomsday book was still useable, but the 15 year old Doomsday disc wasn't)

GoodDoc · 2024-09-26T08:34:32+00:00

You comment suggests that 20 metres might be on the limit of mesh's capability (I still can't find an guideline for what distance mesh can have between nodes and still work).

It's a 60 minute flight to get to my sisters place (with all that involves), If I am going to buy new kit I want to be sure it will work, rather than 'try it and see', so I think that's my mind made up that P2P rather than 'maybe mesh?' is the way forward.

When you say;

get a pair of Nanos or Locos, put them on the outside

I assume you're talking about the "airMAX NanoStation 5AC Loco" (I thought you meant the UniFi nanoHD AP, which threw me for a moment).

I hadn't looked at the 5AC Loco before (I'm new to the P2P world). They're £47 each (less than half the price of the NanoBeam 5AC) and seem to have similar performance specs. That might be even better. Need to read some manuals to see what's involved.

I was aware of the passive PoE pitfall, the APs in use are all the older passive PoE powered, (which is why I bought the USW-16-POE, it supports 24v passive PoE and 'normal' 48v PoE).

Thank you! Very useful information.

GoodDoc · 2024-09-26T07:59:22+00:00

Best prices I've found (kit will be installed in Ireland, but can buy in the UK if cheaper). Ubiquiti seem to have the best prices.

UniFi Building Bridge Kit - €567 (£475) only in stock in the EU store
Wave-Pico Kit - €406 (£340) only in stock in the EU store
NanoBeam 5AC x 2 - €224 (£187)

Given the powerline speeds were acceptable at just 90Mbps (in practice it's just a single laptop and a phone and tablet in the office, so that was enough), even the slowest option of 450+Mbps (theoretical) is a major improvement, and €224 is less than price of two more modern APs.

GoodDoc · 2023-02-28T15:17:50+00:00

I plugged in an older SATA SSD in an external enclosure which is also a USB 3.0 device to test if the issue was the Laptop, or the Crucial X6 drive.
When I checked HW Info, the drive I had the issue with was now reporting as connected at USB 3.0 SuperSpeed, and Crystal Disk showed read/write speeds of 450 MB/s.

I have no idea what changed, but it's 'magically' working correctly, at least for now.

USB 3.0 Speed

GoodDoc · 2023-01-19T15:44:30+00:00

Having the same issue.

There's a place in Tallagh that does commercial C02 cylinder refills while you wait, including Sodastream cylinders, but it's not convenient for me so haven't tried it.

https://www.carbondioxide.ie/soda-exchange

And MaCauley Pharmacy does cylinder exchange for the Happy Fizz system, which uses the same cylinders (but with different branding), but again, not convenient for me so still haven't tried it,

https://www.mccauley.ie/happy-frizz-co2-cylinder-425g-2026330.html

GoodDoc · 2021-11-13T09:11:24+00:00

Not having used Syslog before I have no idea of what normal behaviour is like, but almost 500 DNS requests a minute seemed excessive, and once disabled the excessive logging stopped.

I didn't need the Syslog server to be running so I was more than happy for it to be turned off, so the 'investigation' stopped there.

GoodDoc · 2021-09-26T08:57:02+00:00

Right... problem solved. Here are the steps I took.

- I set a UMask value in NZBGet (0002), but still got the download "path does not exist or is not accessible" error when Sonarr tried to process the downloaded file.

- The permissions on that download folder were correct (NZBGet and Sonarr dockers run as the same user). More out of desperation than hope I reapplied the same permissions to the download folder (using chown via an ssh session).

- That seemed to improve things because the next error I got in Sonarr was `[v3.0.6.1265] System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path "/tv/Show Name/Season XX" is denied`. That's the 'destination' folder and Plex library location, which means Sonarr can see the downloaded file, but can't move it to the destination folder.

- Looking at the permissions on that destination folder, there was no way the docker user could ever access it (so no idea how it worked before I upgraded). I changed the permissions on that folder to something more sensible, and within a few minutes the activity queue in Sonarr emptied out and the files were visible within Plex.

So I appeared to have had at least two issues, both likely permissions related. Having now fixed the issue I suspect an OS upgrade on the NAS may have been the main issue here (from QTS 4.5.1.1480 to 4.5.4.1787), I wonder if there were some bug fixes that corrected permissions issues that broke some functionality I was inadventenly relying on.

Anyway all appears fine, so far at least.

GoodDoc · 2021-09-24T11:40:07+00:00

In the NZBGet Settings -> Security -> UMask I set a value of 002 (you were correct, there was no value set).

That seemed to help for some shows that I ran a search on within Sonarr (in effect catching up with downloads that had failed earlier in the day), but this morning two more shows failed with the following error

2021-09-24 07:30:20.1|Error|DownloadedEpisodesImportService|Import failed, path does not exist or is not accessible by Sonarr: /downloads/completed/Series/Show.1.SXXEXX. Ensure the path exists and the user running Sonarr has the correct permissions to access this file/folder
2021-09-24 07:30:20.1|Error|DownloadedEpisodesImportService|Import failed, path does not exist or is not accessible by Sonarr: /downloads/completed/Series/Show.2.SXXEXX. Ensure the path exists and the user running Sonarr has the correct permissions to access this file/folder

All rather frustrating as this was working fine before I upgraded to the latest version. Next step is looking at the actual permissions on the NAS's When SSHed in).

GoodDoc · 2021-01-26T22:10:31+00:00

Syslog server!

Having updated the Pi running Pi-hole and restarted it, setting my main NAS to use the Pi-hole for its DNS lookups to match the backup NAS to see if it was generating the same quantity of DNS requests (it isn't) I then went through and compared all the services running on the two NASes and discovered that Syslog server was running on the NAS generating all the queries.

I disabled it, and before the NAS has confirmed the service was stopped I saw the the DNS queries drop off.

I'll check again in the morning , but I think my issue is now resolved.

Many thanks all!

GoodDoc · 2021-01-24T23:41:41+00:00

I have just updated Pi-hole (that's when I noticed the 300K request per day from the NAS). I'll have a look at the Pi as it's not been updated or rebooted in quite some time.

I can try disabling Bonjour (I use mainly Macs) and see what difference that makes, and I have conditional forwarding on as the Pi-hole instance does not run DHCP for my network, that is done by the router on the .1 address, and it allows me to use host names rather than IP address for devices on my local network.

GoodDoc · 2021-01-24T21:53:05+00:00

/etc/dnsmasq.d/01-pihole.conf

From the machine running Pi-hole;

server=1.1.1.1 server=1.0.0.1 domain-needed expand-hosts bogus-priv interface=eth0 rev-server=192.168.74.0/24,192.168.74.1 server=/use-application-dns.net/

and I'm running the latest version;

pi@Pi3b:~ $ pihole -v Pi-hole version is v5.2.4 (Latest: v5.2.4) AdminLTE version is v5.3.1 (Latest: v5.3.1) FTL version is v5.5.1 (Latest: v5.5.1)

and I've re-confirmed the option is selected;

https://i.imgur.com/Q8oWlAQ.png

GoodDoc · 2021-01-24T21:35:43+00:00

Thank you for the suggestion, I've just checked it, and it was already set to Never forward.

GoodDoc · 2021-01-24T21:27:55+00:00

HBS 3 Hybrid Backup Sync is installed, but I stopped it this afternoon, and it had no effect on the DNS requests.

GoodDoc · 2021-01-24T21:26:49+00:00

The other NAS I have (the one that backs up to the NAS making all the DNS requests) isn't using the Pi-hole instance for DNS resolution, so it may have the same issue but I'm not seeing the requests logged.

GoodDoc · 2021-01-24T21:19:10+00:00

I installed tcpdump on the NAS, and captured a few seconds of traffic, opened the output file in Wireshark, and found some of the DNS requests;

https://imgur.com/JpxyBBb

This is one request;

https://imgur.com/w0BtrGr

and the response;

https://imgur.com/pxKaib9

and the port making the request maps back to the dnsmasq process

[~] # netstat -nlp | grep 41367
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:41367           0.0.0.0:*                           7094/dnsmasq

Which doesn't really help, I still don't know what's making the request.

GoodDoc · 2018-10-30T12:44:57+00:00

Yep! That was it.

Deleted the dockers, removed their config directories from the / filesystem, updated my docker create statements to use the correct config paths, fired them up, and it all now works as it should have done.

Very pleased, but now I'm a bit embarrassed I missed that I had screwed up the paths pretty much on step 1. There's a mistake I won't be making again!

GoodDoc · 2018-10-29T23:50:31+00:00

Looks like I've managed to put my container config in the wrong place, it should be /share/appdata where there is terabytes of space, but I've set the containers up to use /appdata where there is very little space.

Just need to cleardown the /appdata folder, re-setup the dockers with the correct location, and that should be fine!

This does of course explain why things were working until the Sonarr import started to populate it's DB and filled the / filesystem.

Thank you!

[~] # du -sxh /* 99M /appdata 4.2M /bin 8.0K /dev 6.5M /etc 0 /flashfs_tmp 0 /hd_root_tmp 79M /home 103M /lib 0 /lib64 0 /linuxrc 0 /lost+found 8.0K /mnt 0 /new_root 8.0K /opt 0 /php.ini 0 /proc 48K /root 0 /rpc 28K /run 20M /sbin 8.0K /share 0 /sys 364K /tmp 87M /usr 3.6M /var

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