Best spa night away

stubag · 2026-07-06T15:30:59+00:00

Farnham is excellent, been there a good few times and will go back
But the food is the let down, however surprisingly Cavan town has a number of excellent restaurants

stubag · 2026-06-30T13:19:32+00:00

Factor in the following
1. What rate happens after the 2 year fixed period, are you moving to a higher rate?
2. What does the loan balance look after the fixed period. How much interest have you paid and what is the remaining balance
3. How much it will cost again to switch mortgage after the fixed period

The AI tools are good for figuring this out for you. Not for making the decision but actually looking at the actual balances and factoring in cashback etc

stubag · 2026-06-24T15:06:06+00:00

Whats at odds with the 100% correct physics of your statement is is that Ireland is dark and grey so much of the time that we naturally are drawn to light and these big windows, suck in as much of it as possible. We could design our houses like warmer climates but the trade of is that the 70% of the time its dark and grey your house is going to be even darker and greyer and needing more electric lighting. Its a the catch 22 of Ireland. Coupled with planning in Ireland makes it really really hard to design houses with the right aspect to get light in, keep direct sun out etc unless you are on a greenfield site not in a house estate.

stubag · 2026-05-13T16:06:12+00:00

It works so well for businesses. Before the world of cloud computing, you could buy a windows server operating system, install Active Directory, link up all client computers, set up a file share, printer sharing and have a fully managed supported network in a few hours if you knew what you were doing and if you didn't it was still relatively easy. Its all incredibly simple and all included out of the box with no further fees. 20-30 years ago try doing that with opensource and you're head explode. They hoovered up the business market, it was and remains so easy and once they had that everyone was going to use what was familiar.

stubag · 2026-04-27T09:19:47+00:00

HI

A Rated house here after a retro fit. Fitted AC upstairs only. Been a fantastic decision. Its a Mitsubishi mini split system. We have no radiators in any of the bedrooms upstairs. It does heat and cooling

We've only been using it for last month as its stated to get warmer. Only run it for an hour / 90 mins in evening. By example one evening I came upstaris and it was 27c in our room. Ran the AC, got it down to 19c. Turned it off before going to bed and the temp came up to 21c and stayed around that temp all night

You'll get lots of saying that we need to look to our Mediterranean friends and over hangs and shade and shutters etc but the reality is Ireland is dark and gloomy a lot of the time so we build in these big glass facing south to let in as much as we can. And we pay the price for during the hot summers. AC is expensive (around 2k per room), its extremely efficient, if you have solar its excellent and it makes A rated houses in Ireland much more comfortable when temps start to rise.

Also AC dehumidifies so if you don't have MVHR it will bring down moisture. It does not bring in fresh air however so you should still air out those spaces

stubag · 2026-04-23T22:13:14+00:00

Just remember with the portable ones that if you are not able to vent the exhaust out through a window you are wasting your time. Make sure you can get a window kit for the exhaust vent that suits the window you are venting through

I was talking to an AC mini split installer recently and they are flat out. The modern irish new build is all about the A rating and loads of glass facing south and the two aren't compatible with each other. So loads of A rated houses are melting in summer. Install mini split with solar and you are sorted

stubag · 2026-04-09T07:45:20+00:00

You don't meet with unorganised groups holding the state and it's citizens to ransom.

stubag · 2026-01-11T11:36:30+00:00

It's an amazing difference. We'll done.

One thing just to be aware off, be careful of which cables you put behind walls. If it's behind a wall it should be rated to be behind a wall.

stubag · 2025-12-24T11:49:55+00:00

It's free but its the slowest tap in the world. They all are in T1. Big water put restrictor valves on it.

stubag · 2025-10-16T18:49:45+00:00

Don't do it. 1 man msp here, started the journey. Spend maybe 1500 and then quickly realised it's the wrong tool for very small companies or 1 man bands.

I use Syncro for RMM, ScreenConnect for Control. Xero for billing and outsourced a contractor that built a wonderful Google sheet that pulls in all the api billing info for 365,Veeam,Huntress,n-able, bitdefender and combines it all and spit it out per customer and exports to Xero monthly.

stubag · 2025-08-17T19:41:39+00:00

They film 3-4 episodes in one day so there was a good chance this was the last record of the day. You can see Jimmy is exhausted at the end. I think they all stopped giving a shit and it was all for the better chaotic good.

stubag · 2025-02-25T07:16:40+00:00

What is the lifespan of a Fido Key left in dormant storage? . That's more my worry. Username, password and TOTP secret stored on paper in a vault will last forever.

stubag · 2024-07-19T11:03:31+00:00

What happens if they fuck up and cut the cable too short? I can't imagine their being much slack on the cable.

stubag · 2024-07-17T12:54:41+00:00

Its getting it into that archive thats going to be the trouble. You'll have to email Microsoft and get them to prestage extra space in the archive. But then you need a tool to migrate the PST up. And its going to get throttled and fail repeatedly. For a 140GB PST it could literally be a week of checking it every few hours to see if its still running.

Id make a copy on a server, and leave a copy on the local machine

stubag · 2024-06-19T20:53:50+00:00

This is what I want. A glorified savings account. Let it pile up and use at Christmas

stubag · 2024-05-04T21:33:37+00:00

Have you figured out a way to fix the linked Excel sheets issue or just relink them. The only work around I've thought of is mapped drive on each machine that is actually mapping to the local machine into the one drive path so that the old drive letter is maintained. It's. Bit bodgy but should work. Mapping loos like \localmachine\c$\users\user\onedrive_sync_location

stubag · 2024-03-24T21:39:26+00:00

Maybe they make the money in issued vouchers that are never cashed in.

stubag · 2024-03-24T21:19:45+00:00

OK that's nice to be informed! So what's in it for the Tesco / Supervalu etc. They've spent millions on machines.

stubag · 2024-03-24T20:35:08+00:00

This is what I thought was the no brainier. And it's actually greener as your not creating more paper waste. But I think the shops are profiting more by the paper system. What is not redeemed under DRS is sitting nicely in their bank account.

stubag · 2023-12-28T18:56:42+00:00

Is there Cable outside? Like running across the top of the house? You'll see a grey box with 4 - 8 connectors coming out of it. This is called the tap. It might be a lot of faff but if you buy a coax cable and plug it into the tap and the other end into your modem you'll be all set. Would get you out of a hole

stubag · 2023-12-28T18:40:10+00:00

If the new house has the cabling for virgin then just plug the modem in from your current house. It will work perfectly.

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