Early Risers.

[jamie92208]

2 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. Welcome back Smiffy and Peter B B. Are there any other ER's on the missing list? I know Dutch Master and Horsetan will not be back having upset the powers that be. Time for dinner, be back later.

It would be nice to hear from Ddolfelin who we haven't heard from for a while.

 

Great to hear about the Whelkmen again Smiffy.  I hope that the other issues get sorted.   Also good to hear from PeterBB who seems to have had his hands full.

 

Here we seem to be getting into a bit of a routine and are still gauge clearing various items related to mobility assistance. I managed to get back to the hospital to pay the bill and it turns out that it's all covered on our Carte Vitalle and the top up insurance.   The district nurse has been and will be here every morning for the next few weeks.  We had a good tea and then had fresh made pancakes for supper, they went sown well.

 

Regards to all.

 

Jamie

[Gwiwer]

2 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Chris, I was under the impression that Wheeltappers was not visible to mobile phone users. (It's not to me either on my 'phone.) Of course I may be wrong there.

 

It is available to tablet users.

Wheeltappers is visible and available to mobile users.  That is how I normally access any part of RMweb.  One needs to be logged in which is not the case for the "public" areas of the site.  Being logged in is also supposed to limit advertising to modelling-themed material but that seems to have gone out of the window recently.  

 

Evening all.  Another rather tedious day Upon the Hill of Strawberries being denied the chance of a decent day out by the amount of wetness and blowing outside the door.  I ventured forth during the afternoon aiming to be in the general area of SWMBO workplace at her finish time to grab a drink or two.  I received a message "No drinks - going home" to which my thoughts, had they been voiced, would have turned the air momentarily blue. 

 

I am off at small-brown-bird-windbreak in the morning thanks to the Orange Army digging up the Sussex coast and a need to travel by Rubber-Tyred Replacement to my destination.  Arrival time is non-negotiable so departure time from here has to be brought forward by an hour or more.  If any other RMwebber happens to be in Durrington High School during the morning please introduce yourselves.  I will be attending the Southern Electric Group and Kernow MRC stands for a while and no doubt taking a quick look around the rest of what is usually a reasonable show.  

 

Friday night and no drinks then.  Hmmmm.  I need to find a new drinking buddy or buddies now that Neighbours (Upstairs) (former) have moved on.  No likely candidates that I know of anywhere around here.  And walking into any pub on your own on a Friday night isn't always a good way to start new friendships.  

 

Best wishes to one and all.  

[TheQ]

Evening awl,  having said no muddling would-be done a surprising amount was and I'm pleased with the progress.  A lot of white plaster has turned grassy green  or rocky grey.

When i got back here SWMBO was packing  the car. Ben decided he didn't want get left behind  and got in himself.. It took some persuasion to get him out..  Just wash kit,  sandwiches and the three of us to load in the morning.  We hope to leave first light.. 

[Coombe Barton]

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2019/09/27/sandys-treatment-day-283/

[tigerburnie]

Evening, well you may know it's Red Squirrel week this week...………………………….no neither did I and I'm supposedly one of the registered assistants, email? nope . However of far greater importance it's 50 years since Captain America rode across the silver screen with Jack Nicholson on the pillion wearing a football players hat in his first big part in a movie. I immediately went home and started taking a perfectly good BSA to bits and converted it into a chopper(no not a Raleigh one) and rode off into the sunset(admittedly rural Leicestershire wasn't quite the same as the badlands of the USA) searching for something...…………………….still have the VHS and the soundtrack album for the movie somewhere. During the next couple of years I managed to see most of the artists who played on the soundtrack, just been reminded by watching the Old Grey Whistle Test and Steppenwolf were playing Born to be Wild, happy days man...……….

G'night all

Edited September 27, 2019 by tigerburnie

[Ozexpatriate]

41 minutes ago, Gwiwer said:

Wheeltappers is visible and available to mobile users.  That is how I normally access any part of RMweb.

Thanks Rick. I thought I was logged in. I may not have been.

 

Ever since the switch to 'strong passwords' I have struggled to remember the password I chose for RMweb. I'm sure I chose one that I thought I would remember but failed to remember it. I recently tried to log in with a laptop previously unexposed to RMweb and had to reset my password, having forgotten my password again. My password is now written down (slightly encoded, and not via a sticky note on the screen!)

 

I've been untangling my old business email from personal accounts for several weeks now. One is advised to make passwords different for each account - in case one system has a data breach. In a business context, password repository software was recommended to me to make sure all the different passwords are each "remembered". The idea of having an electronic password safe stored along with all one's data feels daft to me. (It isn't but it feels that way.)

 

Today, conventional wisdom holds that the "strong password" rules for ~12 character passwords are bunkum, irrespective of how many numerals, capitals and special characters are employed. What is really effective is very long passwords even if they contain regular words.

 

So elephantslikecoolingmudbaths is far more effective than 1Lmn0p5!. The longer the password, the exponentially longer it takes for a software program to crack it.

[Barry O]

Goodnight all!

Baz

[newbryford]

1 hour ago, Ozexpatriate said:

 

 

So elephantshipposlikecoolingmudbaths is far more effective than 1Lmn0p5!. The longer the password, the exponentially longer it takes for a software program to crack it.

 

Suitably amended for ER use....

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone 

 

Its been a long, but very enjoyable day, dinner at Rowley's in Baslow followed by a short walk around the Baslow itself, it didn’t take long! The weather has thrown everything at us today, rain, sun, rain, sun etc. Luckily we managed to dodge the rain, most of the time. Then it was on to Beeley for tea, really great food and good service, although to be fair, we’ve never been let down there before. 

 

Time for bed, goodnight all 

 

 

[Stubby47]

If you access different computer systems from your home pc, it makes sense to use real sticky notes to record the passwords - it is very unlikely anyone is going to break into your house and use your pc to access stuff.

 

For work's computing,  a password safe is an excellent solution.

[Smiffy2]

2 things. Way back in my childhood my grandfather (station porter at Carshalton for the LBSCR, SR and BR) told me the story of the LBSC overhead electrification. His take was that after two deaths of firemen who were on their tenders using the water tower at Sutton the system was abandoned - now I know it was a financial decision to go over to the LSWR system.

 

If you would like to see some of the photo work I've been doing it's on Flickr

https://www.flickr.com/photos/96815759@N06/

richardsmith5

 

and Instagram

@smudgesmith

 

Constructive criticism always welcome.

[The Stationmaster]

G'night all.

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[J. S. Bach]

17 hours ago, roundhouse said:

Good morning from Chester. ...snip...

Wrong Chester; otherwise we could meet at Gene's for a lunch!

Edited September 28, 2019 by J. S. Bach

[trisonic]

Potti in Georgia has twined with the town of Plop in the former Yugoslavia (Yes - I cannot remember which modern state the town is part of)

 

Apparently I can wear Hepburn tartan - but should I?

 

Best, Pete.

[BR60103]

18 hours ago, BlackRat said:

Tartan..........Having lived and worked in Scotland.......and played in 2 pipe bands I have no excuse any more for 'not getting it right'.

 

It's surprising how often I see the wrong hose, or ghillie brogues etc......

 

Does that make me a tartan counter? Sporran spotter? Ghillie brogue gricer?

 

As usual.....Answers on a post card to.....

 

 

I have a book called The Tartan Spotter's Guide.

[BR60103]

I always felt that Southern locos should have the flash pointing down.

 

 

[JohnDMJ]

5 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Thanks Rick. I thought I was logged in. I may not have been.

 

Ever since the switch to 'strong passwords' I have struggled to remember the password I chose for RMweb. I'm sure I chose one that I thought I would remember but failed to remember it. I recently tried to log in with a laptop previously unexposed to RMweb and had to reset my password, having forgotten my password again. My password is now written down (slightly encoded, and not via a sticky note on the screen!)

 

I've been untangling my old business email from personal accounts for several weeks now. One is advised to make passwords different for each account - in case one system has a data breach. In a business context, password repository software was recommended to me to make sure all the different passwords are each "remembered". The idea of having an electronic password safe stored along with all one's data feels daft to me. (It isn't but it feels that way.)

 

Today, conventional wisdom holds that the "strong password" rules for ~12 character passwords are bunkum, irrespective of how many numerals, capitals and special characters are employed. What is really effective is very long passwords even if they contain regular words.

 

So elephantslikecoolingmudbaths is far more effective than 1Lmn0p5!. The longer the password, the exponentially longer it takes for a software program to crack it.

 

https://gizmodo.com/the-guy-who-invented-those-annoying-password-rules-now-1797643987

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Lottery_(United_Kingdom) demonstrates that the more numbers required to match yields higher odds.

 

Characters, bethey 1234!"$£abcABC are, to the computer, just numbers; what the characters are (to us) is irrelevant. Based on the ASCII character set of 256 characters, there were 256 single character passwords, 256 x 256 (65536) two character passwords, 65536 x 256 (16777216) three character passwords and so on.

 

In short, minimum length restrictions on passwords is more secure than diversity of character use.s)

[TheQ]

Mooring awl. Just having a Muggacoffee before Ben "I'm coming with you in the car"'s patrol. 

We appear to be heading north through a gap in the weather. 

 

I use a formula for non financial web sites,  another formula for any site that uses money IE amazon.  Trackshack etc.  And another formula for bank accounts. You would need to Know several sites codes to crack the formula  but the formulas are easy to remember. 

 

Northerly gales, spring tides, there could be flooding  ..

 

Anyway

time to patrol.. 

 

 

 

[Barry O]

6 hours ago, Smiffy2 said:

2 things. Way back in my childhood my grandfather (station porter at Carshalton for the LBSCR, SR and BR) told me the story of the LBSC overhead electrification. His take was that after two deaths of firemen who were on their tenders using the water tower at Sutton the system was abandoned - now I know it was a financial decision to go over to the LSWR system.

 

If you would like to see some of the photo work I've been doing it's on Flickr

https://www.flickr.com/photos/96815759@N06/

richardsmith5

 

and Instagram

@smudgesmith

 

Constructive criticism always welcome.

Lovely photographs Smiffy. The Black and White ones catch the mood.

Baz

[Barry O]

4 hours ago, trisonic said:

Potti in Georgia has twined with the town of Plop in the former Yugoslavia (Yes - I cannot remember which modern state the town is part of)

 

Apparently I can wear Hepburn tartan - but should I?

 

Best, Pete.

Pete

If you can wear a tartan please do? Or have a  guitar painted in the Tartan....

Para 1 is funny but I can't rate it seperately.

Have a good day

Baz

[Barry O]

8 minutes ago, TheQ said:

Mooring awl. Just having a Muggacoffee before Ben "I'm coming with you in the car"'s patrol. 

We appear to be heading north through a gap in the weather. 

 

I use a formula for non financial web sites,  another formula for any site that uses money IE amazon.  Trackshack etc.  And another formula for bank accounts. You would need to Know several sites codes to crack the formula  but the formulas are easy to remember. 

 

Northerly gales, spring tides, there could be flooding  ..

 

Anyway

time to patrol.. 

 

 

 

Hope the trip goes well

Baz

[Barry O]

Ey up! Chuckinitdarn here.

 

Off for my flu jab first thing then to a Macmillan Coffee morning across the road.

 

Slept well but need a bit more eyelid inspection so TTFN

Baz

 

 

[AndyID]

5 hours ago, trisonic said:

Potti in Georgia has twined with the town of Plop in the former Yugoslavia (Yes - I cannot remember which modern state the town is part of)

 

Apparently I can wear Hepburn tartan - but should I?

 

Best, Pete.

 

Go for it. They'll certainly see you coming

 

My kilt is the more subdued Gunn tartan. Purchased in the "Heart of the Highlands" - Paisley.

 

[AndyID]

Many thanks to Mike and others for the info. re. steam under the wires. Soot on the insulators never occurred to me but I understand why it would have been a serious problem.

 

We're expecting a significant weather event over the weekend. "Should" only be a lot of wind and rain at our elevation (2,000 feet) but snow is forecast above 3,000 feet. Slightly further East they are talking about four feet of snow in Western Montana. We've never experienced anything like this so early in the year. We've been here for 24 years. Hope it's not a new trend.

 

It's down to 7C now (11PM) and likely to drop a lot lower as the system moves in.