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The problem is not covered by that. I DID all that to set up an account but I must have typed something wrong. The dumb non ipad user question is now, faced with a non working email account on the screen, how do I get BACK to the settings page to edit the settings and try again? The account is working in so far as I can send an email, but I am not receiving any, so I must have typed the incoming server details or password wrong and I just need to get back and edit them, but for the life of me I just can't find a way to get back. ipads make no sense to me, so alien how they work, no obvious menus etc.

I am trying to set up email on my daughters ipad and I can't figure it out. Basically I just can't navigate on an ipad and need some help from someone who understands them

Ha, they like to hide it. I went to Panda's website from a web search and it bought me to a list of pay options, with no mention of a free option and no links to anything but buy a paid version. Just out of interest, this is where a web search took me, and there is no mention of a free version https://www.pandasecurity.com/security-promotion/?reg=GB&lang=en&track=109054&campaign=dome1802&x-hideselection=true&coupon=30405065OFFER&option=yearly&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI9ZzN6PXx5gIVGeDtCh3m6gQHEAAYASAAEgKUJPD_BwE

When did you install that? Panda came up on the list of recommendations, but when I tried today I could find no free option?

Time was, AVAST was recommended as one of the best free anti virus options. Well it had an annoying habit of making you renew every year. and last time it "ran out" I could not get it to renew for free, every avenue pointed me towards a pay option. Alongside this, my computer has been complaining at critically low disk space for some time, but I could not imagine why. So today I took the decision so uninstall AVAST. Suddenly after doing so, I find I now have over 7GB of free disk space. In it's place I have installed AVG anti virus, also free and (so far) none of this registering nonsense. And I still have 6.9 GB of free disk space. So just a heads up if anyone else is struggling, it seems to be becoming awkward to renew, and it eats your disk space. Time for something different. And a quick search finds loads of people having the "fills up your disk" problem.

^^ +1 Also top mounted immersion heaters are far more prone to tripping their safety thermostat, even when working normally.

Ceiling first by all means. I think the important thing is floor first then walls onto the top of the finished floor. Walls first, then floor, would leave the potential of water at the edges getting under your floor tiles and a much harder joint to seal.

Don't you? When choosing where to put the dividing wall between two bedrooms, I made sure that neither bedroom was more than 4.0 metres wide. (try buying carpet for a 4.1 metre room)

Floor first with the floor tanked to the walls then tiles. Then the multipanel / tiles is sealed down onto the top of the tiles. Direct links to my blog entries : floor http://ardross.altervista.org/Wilowburn/bathroom-wet-room-floor/ walls and finishing http://ardross.altervista.org/Wilowburn/main-bathroom-complete/

Hi and welcome. I am somewhat further north than you.

But do they want to come and check the install? If not, just tell them it has been done.

Enjoy the moment. Tomorrow you will be rodding the turd berg out from where it next came to rest under the garden.......

That's a DONNER machine. And I thought my spelling was bad.

I was always led to believe that the utilities all have a permanent road opening permit so don't have to apply individually to the council for each job. A private contractor doing work on the road or pavement must hold a minor street works permit. (might not be the exact description of it)

I often wonder how this one will fair in the long term. Dead flat run between the joists. Out of shot it then turns right to the en-suite with not much fall on it. Far too many places for a blockage to occur imho and nowhere for rodding access. It was done by a plumber.

Yes that's right. This is the only photo I can find, not much help really. This is one of the joists running parallel with the front wall of the house. You can see the membrane wrapped around the joist that goes round the outer ring beam and back in one piece. That gap was filled with rockwook offcuts by stuffing them through the gaps in the joists and into the void behind. Warning: Posi joist webs have sharp edges. Obviously this photo was before the insulation.

I was just trying to find a replacement for this computer, my "downstairs computer" Just used for a bit of light browsing and keeping an eye on my emails. I don't do much else on this computer (most serious stuff is done on the desktop pc in the office) though I have done all the Arduino programming on here. This PC is on it's last legs. The battery is knackered so it has to stay tethered to the power supply, and it's falling to bits in various ways now. The idea of linux is that's usually (though not in this case it seems) a good way to usefully use an old computer. So still looking for a suitable doner machine.

Well I have come to a conclusion on this project. It is simply not going to get linux on it. So it will live as a working windows XP machine of very limited use. I am surprised at the speed of a fresh XP install, and even more surprised that the current version of Firefox still works on XP. So its set up as a web browser and email tool for emergencies, e.g if the main computer(s) croak. I will keep looking for a better candidate to make into a linux machine to replace this one before it falls apart.

Too late for you I am afraid, but we lapped air tight membrane over the ends of the joists and round the outside of the outer ring beam, with all joints taped. This then gets taped to the rest of the air tight membrane. It has become known here as a Tony Tray. Then the gaps between the joist ends, I was given bags full of rockwool offcuts by another local self builder and I stuffed all the voids with these rockwool offcuts. A tedious job so one done gradually a bit at a time rather than all in one hit.

AND some anti virus

I am still waiting for someone to tell me how. The only way I know needs you to BOOT from a linux install disk, and that is the issue, it won't boot from USB and there are problems trying to install from DVD. WUBI seemed to be the only way I have found anywhere to install it from a non bootable USB source fir instance, even if it is not a "proper" instalation. If you know a way to do it please share.

Make sure you have your "wet weather" PPE on for when it does uncouple....

My money is in a blockage being at the branch outside at the bottom of that black pipe running down the wall, where it goes through to the downstairs wc. There is no way it would have backed up any higher otherwise it would have been spilling over the rim of the downstairs wc. Is there any rodding access to the black outside pipe, either from above or below? Send a rod up from that manhole and hope it goes straight up rather than into the downstairs branches.

Well it did not work. It got part way and crashed with a brief error message and re booted. By photographing the screen when the error flashed up I gleaned it was something to do with kill now restart <warn> could not acquire the 'org.freedesktop.modemmanager1' service name I have posted a question on the ubuntu forum. I am out of options really, it won't boot from the memory stick, it won't install from the DVD, so this is about the only option left to install it from the memory stick, albeit on top of windows.

I think the DVD issue is something like Ubuntu by default enables DMA to a DVD drive and in some cases (mine) that runs very slowly. If you think about it a DVD is never going to be fast, the seek time compared to a HDD is huge. Anyway the answer appears to be WUBI, Windows Ubuntu Installer. It is actually included on the Ubuntu memory stick I have already. It is a little different as it does not partition the disk, instead it creates one massive file within the windows file system, and installs the entire ubuntu file system inside that file. You start it from within Windows, and if it works you end up with a dual boot system. I will give it a try shortly and report back.......