Replacing the Fiesta’s fuel pump

Regular readers will recall that I have been having problems with the fuel pump on my old Mk 4 Fiesta. Well, whilst I was in the process of fixing the rear brakes it seemed to fail completely. I guess I should be grateful that it always seems to pack in when the car is on the drive! This time the fuse didn’t blow leaving me not entirely sure that the fuel pump was the problem. I spent some time trying

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Making a start on my new server

I have decided to begin the process of replacing my venerable AMD Athlon based server which has been running continually since 2006 (99.526% uptime). After a considerable amount of research I settled on the ROCKPro64 because: It comes with 4 GB RAM. Very unusually for a single board computer it has a PCIe slot allowing a SATA card to be added. I would like to attempt to use the Xen hypervisor and the chipset is alleged to be compatible. With

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