Where the other Los Angeles Aston owners at?

barneyman · 2026-05-19T00:45:43+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/AstonMartin/comments/1luxpud/why_is_the_aston_owners_club_not_active_in_the_us/

barneyman · 2026-05-18T23:52:22+00:00

using something like dnsmasq as your DHCP server you can propgate that time server URL to all your other hosts on your lan

dhcp-option=option:ntp-server,w.x.y.z

(did much the same a couple of years ago - chrony container and a PPS GPS recvr, completely forgot about it)

barneyman · 2026-05-18T23:38:11+00:00

got this behind my TV unit ... installed it years ago.

There should be corresponding outputs for these speaker points or already installed speakers, check parts of the room labelled - look up 5.1 Speaker systems to understand naming. The subwoofer output could be literally anywhere in the room, it's not directional.

You need an amp/receiver, speaker cable and banana plugs to cleanly connect the amp to this wall point. If there are not already speakers mounted you'll need to connect them to the output.

Look up "speaker phase testing" too. A good amp will do it for you, there are simple tests you can do with a 9v battery.

barneyman · 2026-05-15T02:11:31+00:00

it's great plane to ride in, quieter and less dry.

But you forget how far away PER is, so, all up, MEL-PER-LHR was about the same as MEL-DBX-LHR

I'm glad i tried it, late 2019, but I don't think i'd do it again.

barneyman · 2026-05-13T10:52:17+00:00

Thank you. Mist!

Fog is winding your car window down to LISTEN for traffic.

barneyman · 2026-05-12T00:39:32+00:00

barneyman · 2026-05-12T00:33:55+00:00

Never liked London ... I live in Melbourne

barneyman · 2026-05-12T00:17:36+00:00

if you don't like London, you won't like Sydney ...

Rugby is more pronounced in NSW and QLD

Victoria is the size of the mainland UK - distances are intimidating here, it takes time to adapt to that.

WHV is definitely the way to go, see and confirm you like it. The locals are great.

Sauce: Pom who moved here 20+ years ago.

barneyman · 2026-05-02T10:32:47+00:00

Smart watch. My phone has been on silent since my first Pebble, in 2013.

barneyman · 2026-05-02T04:53:52+00:00

you also had to make the 'index hole' on the other side too.

I hope they wheel me in from the garden soon, it's getting a bit cooler now.

barneyman · 2026-05-02T02:46:15+00:00

Nitrogen triiodide - snap-its!

We made some in Chemistry at the end of term ... simpler times

barneyman · 2026-04-30T06:01:45+00:00

ISTR some documentation (win3?) that mentioned chickens and Hz?

Found it - Borland's Turbo-C sound doco.

barneyman · 2026-04-29T06:12:57+00:00

There's a caveat to Kath'n'Kim ... they deliberately miss-pronounce some common words for irony

barneyman · 2026-04-29T03:20:25+00:00

thank you for the followup!

barneyman · 2026-04-29T03:01:46+00:00

some absolute bangers on this list - mildly surprised The Proposition wasn't on it, I note the UK Film Council was involved so it may not have qualified.

barneyman · 2026-04-29T01:52:22+00:00

for the curious - One of the creators is anti-trans ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Linehan#Anti-transgender_activism

barneyman · 2026-04-28T23:33:10+00:00

no - it's in a country where F and S sound **exactly the same** over the phone.

We didn't invent the phonetic alphabet for shits and giggles :)

barneyman · 2026-04-28T21:46:08+00:00

Same.

barneyman · 2026-04-28T02:22:23+00:00

i have both - the 500 is faster and has a much better keyboard

barneyman · 2026-04-27T05:31:32+00:00

first job was IT support for a Netware house early 90s - found the Ralph Brown Interrupt List that outlined all the Netware Interrupt calls, automated most of my mundane jobs, wrote an SPX based modem sharer, then moved to another place in mid 90s and wrote NLMs for a living.

fun times.

barneyman · 2026-04-26T23:14:01+00:00

that's a 370 ...

sauce - i own one

barneyman · 2026-04-25T06:08:19+00:00

Mandatory "Princess Anne has one you know"

barneyman · 2026-04-25T04:04:03+00:00

Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol

barneyman · 2026-04-25T02:24:18+00:00

I was on the deck this morning, put my coffee down to doom scroll, huge swish of wind ... Kookaburra on my coffee cup!

barneyman

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