If it makes you feel better, when we took our car in the other day for squeeky brakes, we were expecting to change the pads and/or discs. At it turned out it was just some gunk build up that was easily (and cheaply) cleaned.

Because Logitech want to own you.

Yes but it is counter productive. I no longer register. I like their mice but hate their software or more specifically the registration aspect.

When I set it up, I was looking at using the code generator option, but the only option it gave me was SMS, no backup codes and no code generator.

I was lucky, I could still get into my Microsoft account and disable the phone option.

Edit: My laptop in the cellar was still authorised, so I managed to delete the phone option, so I now have access to the account on all devices.

I had lots of problems with my blizzard account so eventually stopped using two step authentication. The only account that I still use two step authentication for is Paypal and that works well, with a separate PIN widget.

I'm of a similar opinion however it's been my observation that cars have been getting progressively worse visibility in a lot of aspects.
Narrow rear windows and honking great big thick pillars make it much harder to see what you're doing particularly out the sides and back of the car. Thicker pillars I can understand from the point of view of improved crash protection (to some extent anyway). Maybe I'm being cynical here but it looks to me like some manufacturers are using technology to overcome their poor (from a visibility point of view) design decisions and, in the process, force owners into purchasing an (expensive) option.

As an example, my brother has a Citroen Saxo. Visibility is pretty good all the way round. When it was being repaired after an accident he was given a DS3 as a courtesy car. Visibility was frankly a major step backwards particularly for reversing and seeing what was coming at junctions. The tinted rear windows didn't help of course but I don't think normal glass would have improved things much. All the windows were very small.

Try sitting on the wrong side of the car, with a honking big B pillar and no rear passenger glass. That'll make those merging into traffic manoeuvres much more considered.
Mind you - isn't one of the responsibilities of being a driver considering whether or not you've been seen by the cars you're approaching?
As for parking sensors, the front and rear of my car drop off, which means it feels like you've parked almost touching the car behind/in front, but when you look you're often easily 8-10 inches away.

Do parking sensors pick up one inch square, foot high poles? That's the only thing I've ever hit, and there was no way I could see it even from a good few yards away. It was right in the middle of a street closed for market.

I think rear cameras should be compulsory on some vehicles; especially large trucks with a blind spot you can park a bus in.

I had a mk4 fiesta. Thin pillars and lots of visibility. Big difference when I went for the Golf. The A-pillars were huge and I started to pull out of a side road, when I heard a horn. There were a car hidden by the width of the A-pillar. It took me a while to get used to the difference. I have since had a rear view camera fitted (pops out of the VW badge on the boot) and it's made a big difference. Doesn't replace eye, ears and common sense though.

On Saturday I had the pleasure of waiting patiently for an elderly driver to reverse his - frankly - idiotically visually-challenged Chrysler C-thingy estate from a parking bay. He obviously wasn't using his reversing sensors, because he stopped a good 1.5m from the next bank of cars. This required him shuffling his monstrous motor back and forth over about a metre before he felt he had enough clearance to make the turn properly.

My comment to my friend, as we watched this long drawn out spectacle, was that I never had that kind of problem with my Carlton estate. Apart from the fact I normally reversed into spaces, I would just reverse until I felt a bump. Then I knew exactly where my car was in relation to other vehicles.

Not so easy now when cars have expensive painted bumpers that scratch very easily. Personally I prefer to reverse into parking bays, it makes escape easier.

Never let a day engineer do a night engineer's work!!!!

Tim's going to get a slap when he comes on shift tomorrow morning.

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Mark

I think it is an engineering term


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Nope.
Thanks to him messing with my inventory, the datbase is a right mess.
Okay, that's partly due to a bug which means you can't delete any products that have been entered (even if you remove the delivery of them).
I now have four listings for Barite, three for Bentonite and three for Calcium Carbonate when there should only be two for each.
The dick never entered the correct unit size or specific gravity when he created them, which means the computer didn't account for any volume changes when they were used. I've got them correctly set up now, but I can't get rid of the duff ones.