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Omega General Help / Re: Elite ...complete lock out.
« on: Today at 14:25:13 »
If it's the right mechanical key, turn it HARD in the lock. The button may not pop up, but it will unlock the door.
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Omega General Help / Re: Elite ...complete lock out.
« on: Today at 14:24:19 »https://youtube.com/shorts/0_O4BBl2pNM?feature=sharedIf its deadlocked, that won't work.
This works I’ve done it myself
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General Discussion Area / Re: I'm lost.
« on: Today at 09:23:27 »
Sorry to hear that Al. Its a sad loss when we lose our 4 legged furry friends 
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 22 August 2025, 15:20:13 »Thanks! I'm not often called tolerant.I'd rather tolerate that nice Nigerian Prince from Microsoft than anybody/anything on Arsewank...I've unplugged my landline from the router and, if I don't recognise the number calling my mobile, it doesn't get answered. Apparently, the latest wheeze is to clone your voice if you do speak..
I very rarely get calls on my phone my pals normally just WhatsApp me for a meet up or a chat, the only calls I usually get are from our GP surgery, I guessed straight away what this idiot was up to and the number is now blocked, we have no landline now.
Perhaps you're more tolerant than I am then I despise them all.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Never heard of them
« on: 22 August 2025, 13:24:41 »
You find this a lot if you use chinky volume sellers like aliexpress or banggood. Probably why they can afford to ship a package halfway round the world cheaper and faster than I can send a birthday card to mum....
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 22 August 2025, 13:22:24 »I'd rather tolerate that nice Nigerian Prince from Microsoft than anybody/anything on Arsewank...I've unplugged my landline from the router and, if I don't recognise the number calling my mobile, it doesn't get answered. Apparently, the latest wheeze is to clone your voice if you do speak..
I very rarely get calls on my phone my pals normally just WhatsApp me for a meet up or a chat, the only calls I usually get are from our GP surgery, I guessed straight away what this idiot was up to and the number is now blocked, we have no landline now.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 22 August 2025, 13:19:40 »Changed it, now need to see what the PHEV is capable of from a range perspective (it did 63 miles on electric today and then 6 on petrol)What you got this week?
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General Discussion Area / Re: Brave
« on: 20 August 2025, 17:56:22 »I agree some sites are unusable due to the intrusive nature of the ads. As a rule, I choose not to use such sites.Yes I use an ad blocker, but as you say sites increasingly detect it and demand that I disable it for access.Absolutely.
Running internet sites is *VERY* expensive, and somehow needs to be funded. So assuming the site isn't selling anything, that means either:
Subscription required
Ad funded
A kind benefactor/sponsor that pays for it
So for ad funded sites, using an ad blocker means stopping that income for the website owner. Therefore I believe that website owner has every right to refuse to show the content when ad blockers are being used.
The internet isn't usable without an ad blocker, so they have themselves to blame if they don't get my business as a result.
Somebody somewhere has to pay for the stuff though, with the 3 options above being the only real options. Don't take OOF running costs as an example, because we really are a bunch of cowboys, running on a shoestring
You can't really buy a viable server for under £10k with a realistic life of 5-7yrs, and because it's monumentally moronic to have the database internet facing, that means you need a 2nd for a database. If you're stupid enough to use MySQL for a database, then you need a 3rd to use as a replica to take backups from. Then you need backups. All that has to be hosted somewhere, and due to near zero remaining capacity in UK data centres for CoLo, expect to pay £700+ per month per server - energy costs normally included, but network bandwidth usually not. Then consider that most websites taking any traffic likely need multiple front end web servers, and big sites, multiple databases, it gets massively expensive very quickly.
There still appears to be an assumption that anything on the internet should be free.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 20 August 2025, 17:35:23 »
At long last, have a year's ticket on it.
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 19 August 2025, 13:50:50 »The shower of rain earlier that deposited a fresh patina of Sahara dust all over my car after I washed it yesterday. Sigh.Thats a lie. You didn't wash it.
It's good for the garden though I guess.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Brave
« on: 19 August 2025, 13:50:04 »Yes I use an ad blocker, but as you say sites increasingly detect it and demand that I disable it for access.Absolutely.
Running internet sites is *VERY* expensive, and somehow needs to be funded. So assuming the site isn't selling anything, that means either:
Subscription required
Ad funded
A kind benefactor/sponsor that pays for it
So for ad funded sites, using an ad blocker means stopping that income for the website owner. Therefore I believe that website owner has every right to refuse to show the content when ad blockers are being used.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Brave
« on: 19 August 2025, 08:40:38 »
Its yet another Chromium based browser, so should function as well as Chrome, Edge and many others that use the Chromium browser engine.
What you trying to achieve? Anti tracking, anti spying? TBH, advertisers have other ways of tracking users, so you will never truly get away from it. It can reduce certain kinds of tracking, and has an ad blocker (note, large sites that fund themselves through ads, can detect ad blockers and disallow access).
Its a freebie, give it a go, if its not working well for you, remove it.
What you trying to achieve? Anti tracking, anti spying? TBH, advertisers have other ways of tracking users, so you will never truly get away from it. It can reduce certain kinds of tracking, and has an ad blocker (note, large sites that fund themselves through ads, can detect ad blockers and disallow access).
Its a freebie, give it a go, if its not working well for you, remove it.
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 19 August 2025, 08:32:56 »Neighbours tree, dropping all its crap over the Omega.It hides the dents...
In the meantime, the car is under a car cover.To hide the dents....
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 19 August 2025, 08:30:59 »Yup all the way to Lundun Bridge and 3 trains to get to Kent...Trains aren't viable if you live outside the cities. Even between cities, where they could be viable if you ignore the cost, they aren't really viable.
Just over an hour in the car and even the Proper Car is cheaper than the £40 the train cost.
By the time I've paid for parking at the station, I get a couple of quid change from £100 to do 50 miles each way to Londonium. It's cheaper to hire a car, pay for fuel, pay for Khan the Khunt's taxes and pay for parking....
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Newbie Welcome Area / Re: Hello.
« on: 18 August 2025, 08:02:16 »
A subscription to GlobalTIS will get you a wiring diagram for 2002/2003, or an old copy of TIS2000 will give same info - but TIS2000 only really runs on old versions of 32bit Windows.
Although mostly similar to facelifted cars, the Haynes wiring only covers earlier cars up until about 1999.
Not aware of any other sources.
Although mostly similar to facelifted cars, the Haynes wiring only covers earlier cars up until about 1999.
Not aware of any other sources.