A question for TV techies if I may. I know about getting catchup TV etc from the UK by using a VPN and this works fine to a computer.
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Thanks to all who chipped in on the sweet potatoe chat a few months ago. You inspired me to plant one and now there is a 1m square of verdant bush in the orto and still spreading. It is weathering the drought really well too.
Sun, 09/04/2011 - 07:52
http://heatingsolutions.design.officelive.com/LatestNews.aspxThe latest issue of 'Heating News' is out and freely available on the site above, and a slightl
Wed, 05/04/2011 - 10:23
this may be a bit esoteric but I have just put up 3 updated Excel models on www.heatingitaly.com in the downloads section. These cover panel angles with a graphical study on how fitting ove
Sun, 02/27/2011 - 07:53
I promised a report on the 4.6Kw PV solar car port a few months ago. The full year isn't quite up yet but the results are now pretty clear.
Mon, 12/20/2010 - 04:06
Just read an old post from Bunterboy with regard to solar panel angles. The accepted wisdom is to angle them the same as your latitude which is moving towards a winter bias.
Mon, 09/20/2010 - 05:13
Recently we went to check in a bag at the counter at Stansted and the girl there said it would cost £35 but we could do it on line for £15...
Thu, 05/20/2010 - 04:28
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....yes I think that would be good but you still need to get the wi-fi router to do the VPN trick so that UK or US TV content can be viewed. I am pretty confident that a media streamer would be more satisfactory though because they do so much more than access i-player... eg dedicated you-tube, web surfing, video juke-box, data storage, radio....
I haven't seen a price on the new PCH A-300 yet but bet it'll be £400 The Xtreamer job is about £130 Yes it's all a bit pricey but compared with big dishes and set top boxes etc it's cheap and free UK TV from then on without even a license fee can't be bad. I know some folks round here have paid some €4,000 for big dishes to get Freesat TV so this is a much better solution. How much is a SKY contract? - must be in the same ball park and that's an annual cost.
I may be shifting my longing gaze from the Xtreamer to the latest Popcorn hour A-300 which has the most advanced chipset. With the wi-fi aerial plugged in the back this will stream HD content without the use of a computer. With a huge hard drive on board transfer rates become less of an issue. I am currently doing this with an Apple TV which can stream brilliant HD pictures but lacks the full audio transfer... very limited use but an amazing You-tube surfing machine with no buffering... I watched a whole movie recently with no stops. You can rent movies on this but a bit pricey.
It may be quiet but you just wait. The northern European and American baby boomers are just starting a wave of retirements that will go on for 2 decades and their parents have one foot in the grave and another on a bananna skin. There is a shed load of money heading this way. Where will they go .. Spain? get your house nicked by the authorities. France? they don't like foreigners, Italy - yes they love us and we love them and the sun comes out a lot... the last few wrecks are nearly gone now so the property market is becoming a scarce resource. My prediction - house prices will double in just a few years and this forum will hum again.
Thank you for the links - fascinating and useful.
Hi Maria, I've just looked at your profile and co-ordinates and see that you are quite near our patch - preggio/Umbertide. We've got a 9 year old son and via the kids at school network know loads of folks round here including a couple a families actually next to Bruna. You'll usually find us and a few others at the market in Umbertide on Wednesday mornings so that might be a good start for you... take a coffee at bar centrale and look out for a couple with a 9 year old son called Spike.... sorry might not make it next week but otherwise nearly always there.
sorry ...... mm diameter is what I meant
120 cm is the norm for ventilation of a room with a gas appliance - and presumably oil too. When in a wall Its just a standard bit of plastic drain pipe at floor level with a clip in mesh guard.. copper one preferably. I hope you are not buying a new oil boiler though. These days boilers of any sort are not really needed if you have a balanced wood and solar input along with an immersion heater in (or on) your tank (preferably a heat bank) Alternatively you might consider comparing the difference in costs - including running costs - between an air source heat pump and an oil fired boiler. Plenty of data to see on Badger's posts here. Paying huge energy bills in Italy is entirely optional - you do have a choice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dIz4R-1d2k the man in the blue shirt here is very convincing about running a pool pump on 200 Watts. It sounds too good to be true but there are now quite a few of these pumps humming away round here. There is a cheaper and simpler manually switched version which is a better bet than the programmable one shown here. Payback is about 3 years.
In case you get stung by one of those oversize wasps you'll need to substitute vespa with calabrone. English people refer to them as hornets and as a rule everyone checks in to hospital when stung. We nearly had someone killed by one a while ago but luckily a neighbour restored life with an epi-pen.