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I joined Viewranger last September at £24.99 a year for "Premium + OS Maps for GB", and using the phone app as my GPS. I've put up 4 screenshots of Tunbridge Wells to give you an idea of the zoom levels available: https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=kZl7kEkZEXOyj3Y9yIhMHIrvqMsPjFwo4Pz7 In fact, the subscription also gives mapping on quite a detailed road-level for the whole world!

It depends what you mean by " accurate enough for walking purposes": a walk my friend planned for us using Tracklogs would have involved a stop for lunch at a pub which is now closed - and that's a serious issue for me! I use Viewranger for my routes and tracks now, and that seems to keep well up-to-date. Plus it gives maps down to what seems to be 1:1250, and I've found that useful for finding more obscure paths.

Glad you got sorted. I see that tracklogs.co.uk is still registered as a domain until 4th September, so it'll be interesting to see if they renew it (which I doubt!).

I suppose you can receive PMs, so I've sent you one...

Yes, 3.18 will save to GPX. Please PM me if you wish to progress this mattter...

Please PM me or/and Stephen1789 if you'd like to progress this matter. [As a general point, it's worth bearing in mind that the Tracklogs maps we all have are now likely to be well out of date and will, of course, remain so.]

David, In case Roger is not monitoring this topic, from what I can see you need a subscription to CW magazine (https://www.greatmagazines.co.uk/country-walking-magazine) and that enables you to get half price sub to OS Maps, but whether that entails a full subscription (£61 for 26 issues) or trial or single-issue subscription I don't know. IH

Urgent dental care is available, as described here. But it's a staged process, and there are hoops to be jumped through. The suggestion of regular warm salt water rinses is the sensible first step, along with pain killers. If that doesn't sort it (thankfully, it did for my wife over 3 days earlier this week), it would be triage and escalation to emergency care.

David - private message sent.

The best line I've seen (from Twitter) was: If you think society is bad now, wait until 2040 when we’re governed by people who were home-schooled by day drinkers

Does anyone know what the legal position is regarding copying of defunct software? Are we allowed to give copies of our CDs and licence keys to others? If so, I'd be willing to share mine, but I only have OS50 for whole of GB (plus separate Peak District) i.e. no OS25.

Very sad news. Frank was not just a legend in Sheffield. I first saw him 1969 or 1970, playing at The Ancholme Inn in Brigg (North Lincs, my home town). Brigg was a bit of a small, sleepy town, but Frank livened the place up, and the pub was always packed and rocking whenever he came over - which he did often. Also saw him at The Greyhound on Fulham Palace Road, and Kingston Poly (supporting Al Stewart) when he was trying to reach out to a wider audience in the early 70s. Then many great nights at The Pheasant after I moved to Sheffield. He was always willing to spend time chatting to us, and even brought the band back to my parents' house after one Brigg gig. Top talent; top man.

The tracker is not 100% reliable, as we found to our cost on Monday. Went to catch the midday inbound 135 which was tracking OK all the way from Rotherham; it turned up, but showing SNIS... Similar instances with other services. And, even if a bus is not showing as tracking, it does not necessarily mean it won't turn up: all pot luck in my experience.

Ah, the lesser-spotted 135... What a shambolic "service" we've been lumbered with. The age-old ploy in action: run down the service, complain that not enough people use it, then scrap it.

A quick search for "files random size 221,184 Kb" shows you are not alone - and have got off lightly with a mere 164GB! Maybe have a look at this post for starters. And if you don't feel happy about deleting the folder immediately, just rename it (by adding a string such as ' disabled' to the end of the random name) and see if anything complains or breaks.

There are mixed reviews about Shell Energy on Trustpilot, but, overall, 4 out of 5 stars. Some of the reviews are not pleasant reading (especially if you have an aversion to long, abusive rants in uppercase...). But credit due to Shell for at least being willing to reply there in a calm manner.

So the scam's not as clever as I imagined. OK, so pressing 1 still gives the opportunity for a wind up 👍

It's the first time I've come across this line of attack. Rather annoying, because I do enjoy the occasional wind up of a "human" caller.

I've had a couple of landline calls in recent days where there is a recorded message played: "Openreach" going to disconnect me, and "Amazon" going to charge me for something or other. Both ask you to "press 1" to talk to a manager or whatever. I suspect doing so would trigger a call to some premium rate number... Anyone else experienced this?

Oh... OK... The flippant answer would be because it's the only way I can get a stable connection! But there's more to it than that... I originally started using a VPN several years ago. I do a fair bit of travelling out east (China, Philippines, Singapore), and felt the need to have something on my phone that provided privacy/security and obviated geoblocking, so a VPN was the obvious answer. I tried two or three before plumping for ExpressVPN - not cheap, but seems to be the best regarding logging, DNS leaks, and WebRTC leaks. My main use for it has always been phone - also useful on public w-fi networks here. But it does come with a Windows client. There's mostly been no need to use that, but it has proved a godsend more than once. I have a (personal) website and on two occasions I have been unable to access it or its cPanel via my ISP. The first was a routing black hole several hops outside my ISP: VPN fixed that while I went through long and painful discussions with my ISP to accept it and negotiate with the offenders (Call27) to sort it. Then, more recently, my webhost was blocking access from this PC because the shared address that my ISP assigns appeared on several blacklists: VPN was the temporary solution, fixed IP the permanent. And now this latest issue. So, in the past, generally no need or reason to use a VPN on the PC: but it was always there for emergencies, and now it's a necessity.

I came across the concept of "malformed LSPs" today. This is a new one on me, but symptoms certainly match mine and it's obviously not an area that I've considered. The fix is to do a "netsh winsock reset", but there are reports of this screwing up internet connectivity altogether, so I'm leaving this as a last resort (i.e. until even the VPN stops working).

I seem to be getting a mixture of weirdness if I try to connect to websites using IP address. The first one I tried (from Chrome) was to 184.72.104.138 (duckduckgo). This seemed to do a reverse DNS lookup to get the hostname, and then tried to resolve that to an IP address! Which timed out, of course... Yet, other IP addresses seemed not to trigger a reverse DNS lookup, just gave "site can't be reached, took too long to respond". I'm even having trouble connecting to the router: the web interface is hit and miss; sometimes, ping and tracert are instantaneous, other times they just time out... This is all becoming far too tedious, and I think I need to wait for inspiration to arrive. Just have to accept that I need to use a VPN on this machine.

Yes, I've tried setting different DNS servers on the router, but no joy. This 1903 thing... I'm not sure whether or not that's getting sidetracked on a separate issue. I'd like to back out of it, but the manual uninstall instructions refer to components that do not exist on this PC (e.g. there is no C:\Windows10Upgrade\ folder) so I'll have to tread carefully over that. For now, I've just renamed the c:\windows\UpdateAssistant folder which was created by KB4023814 (I think!)... Yes, I've thought about getting a list of IP addresses - but keep forgetting to do so! Now done and I'll give it a go once I'm out of the VPN.

Just an additional thought... I'm running Windows 10 1803. The issue seems to have started occuring around the time of update KB4023814, which is the nag to upgrade to 1903 (and which keeps failing with Error 0xc1900223...). Of course, this update does not show in the list of uninstallable updates because it's not considered installed until 1903 installs succesfully... But it can be uninstalled manually it seems, so I'll have to give that a try. Grasping at straws on this, though, because I can't see any reports of that screwing up a NIC!

I've tried setting DNS servers both on the NIC and defaulting to router settings, but it makes no difference. The VPN I use is ExpressVPN. If it's not connected, then the NIC shows the DNS servers that I would expect (8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4 at the moment). I have already posted a query to them regarding a possible stream of SSL connections to the bare NIC address (i.e. 192.168.1.10) from 45.56.130.124 (which I do not recognise), but that may be one of their servers so I'll have to wait till they respond; I can then try to push this issue on to them to see if they have any ideas before I try reinstalling the VPN (I don't want to risk losing my only way of connecting just yet!).