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by IanW
Thu Apr 06, 2017 1:41 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Field Number Database - The Future
Replies: 15
Views: 4039

Re: Field Number Database - The Future

Take the Raspberry pi option, find a network point in the University library behind a bookshelf, plug it in there, leave it, and hope no one finds it :lol:
by IanW
Tue Mar 28, 2017 2:07 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: BCSS Website - have your say - functionalty.
Replies: 14
Views: 4111

Re: BCSS Website - have your say - functionalty.

With the server's disk being full yesterday, and bandwidth being used up today, is this the right place to ask again if some new fit for purpose hosting is on the agenda? :lol: The problem I foresee is if we're using such bargain basement hosting as we can't even cope with current volumes both in te...
by IanW
Fri Mar 24, 2017 1:07 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: BCSS Website - have your say - design and feel.
Replies: 15
Views: 5055

Re: BCSS Website - have your say - design and feel.

5.7mbps should be ample speed for any modern website (you can easily stream 1080p movies on that). If you find simple web browsing to be too slow at that speed, then odds are your ISP is selling you a line that's over-contended. That is, their network is being shared by way too many people at once f...
by IanW
Wed Mar 22, 2017 9:55 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: BCSS Website - have your say
Replies: 50
Views: 14893

Re: BCSS Website - have your say

In your opinion/ experience maybe, my personal experience is vastly different and so it is something that I am happy to explore and aslo will quickly turn off if proven wrong. No, not just my opinion/experience, our behavioural analytics team have done work on this (and some other features) for our...
by IanW
Wed Mar 22, 2017 8:44 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: BCSS Website - have your say
Replies: 50
Views: 14893

Re: BCSS Website - have your say

Sure Jane, and that really proves the point - before you know it there's convergence around a single view, and anyone with an opposing view rapidly gets fed up with the group think and leaves the forum. It seems great for people in the cliques, but pushes away new people with new ideas which is typi...
by IanW
Tue Mar 21, 2017 12:37 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: BCSS Website - have your say
Replies: 50
Views: 14893

Re: BCSS Website - have your say

Like or thanks button is in the list, comment about mobile picture uploads noted. Like buttons on forums are an awful idea, they work fine on things like Facebook where people only have their real life friends, colleagues, and family, or are sharing content widely without a care for what the impact...
by IanW
Fri Mar 17, 2017 8:07 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Spaceman
Replies: 11
Views: 3238

Re: Spaceman

From late 2015, access to insecticides, fungicides, etc. has been restricted in Portugal to authorized people, following a (paid) workshop that lasts a good number of days and ends with a practical exercise. This is a picture of my class, I'm the one leaning to the machine. :D DSC07486.jpg Wait, is...
by IanW
Fri Mar 17, 2017 8:05 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: One for the ladies?
Replies: 8
Views: 2708

Re: One for the ladies?

I wonder where I can buy Cipocereus bradei blue :lol:
by IanW
Thu Mar 16, 2017 2:35 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: One for the ladies?
Replies: 8
Views: 2708

Re: One for the ladies?

Have you considered going Lithops optica rubra Dave?
by IanW
Fri Mar 10, 2017 12:28 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Potting on time for one-year-olds?
Replies: 13
Views: 3341

Re: Potting on time for one-year-olds?

Seedlings always do better in a tray than individual pots, not because of the grouping but because they get to spread their roots much farther and wider, exactly as they would in habitat. But moving them all into much smaller individual pots you're restricting their growth with the bonsai effect. Se...