I'll try and keep
the Gallery
up to date as the new garage is constructed.

Today they are mostly tearing up the existing hard standing and digging/filling in the new extended base and foundations.

Door should be here in ~2 weeks, which is OK apparently, as long as everyone agrees how big 290cm is :-)

Rachael kindly acted as a remote controlled pan/tilt on the web cam, and it now points at construction area, which is nice.

*Oooh* - it does know my external IP address. Pity it doesn't appear to attempt the funky uPnP stuff that would allow it to make use of it...

By way of apology, I've just been told that "put the mouse over the systray iMP icon and depress the right button and simultaneously pressing the F12 key" brings up a usage monitor for iMP - this is one of the most useful things that was missing from the main GUI.

I really shouldn't know more than you about iMP, given you work at the Beeb, and all I have is Ethereal and a brain...
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> The iMP download manager KHost.exe is a service running in your PC;

No, it isn't. It's not a service in the windows sense, sorry.
It is a *server* and client though.

> The port is 80
> as the download is by HTTP.

No, it isn't. iMP uses port 8888 for taking to impkgrd1- and impkgrd2- inet.rbsov.bbc.oc.uk and port 1947 for talking to peers as far as I can tell. I suspect the two impkgrd hosts are two 'super peers' with fast links so you'll always have at least one source for a download.
Authtenication is to vip-inet.impkdir.rbsov.bbc.co.uk over port 5000 at start up.
It uses port 80 to download content into the embeded IE in the iMP itself though, from vip-inet.rbsov.
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... should have written down all my subscriptions before I upgraded, it's nuked them - hope that is fixed for release !

Also, beta can't be installed multiple times for different users - hope that is fixed too.