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How to change the time on a Bosch HBT578F2A electric oven

I m blogging this because I found that the instructions to change the time on my oven are confusing. This is because the paper copy I got with the oven is correct, but the PDF that I found and saved when it was installed has slightly different instructions, which are misleading. It says to touch the [ ]

160/10/6 print chart

Just having a clear-out, and found this old sheet of paper from my university days. I have no idea why I kept it. The full thing is A3, but this is an excerpt. I seem to have kept this photocopy, and a few originals which use yellow ink. They seem to have been printed by [ ]

Use Python to load CSV into sqlite3 database

The Internet seems to have trouble telling you how to load an arbitrary comma separated values datafile into a database. Assuming the CSV has a header row, and given sqlite3 doesn t know or care about data types, this ought to be a doddle. import csv import sqlite def import_csv_to_db(table_name: str): """Load arbitarty CSV file into [ ]

Windows 10 end of support in 2025 – options

Windows 10 ends support in October 2025. Annoying. I had a desktop PC on Win10. The desktop is very fast, and was a recent hand-me-down from a friend who is a gamer and has upgraded. But it has an i5-4670K as its CPU, which is not supported by Win11. So I had to figure out [ ]

Nine newspapers: one for all

Nine Entertainment s major Australian newspapers, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, and Brisbane Times, have a soft paywall. You can get some articles for free; some are only for paying customers; and some fall somewhere in between, with them granting complimentary access to a few, before asking for money. This post is not to tell you [ ]