heat milk until 60 or 70 degrees before whipping with balloon whisk, skimmed works best. Any hotter and all the protein in the milk goes funny, and you get no bubbles.

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run my 456 with pikes at 120mm. reckon its the best compromise between slackness and BB height

cambridge audio DACMagic or a musical fidelity VDAC. rip your CDs into FLAC files and youre away.

At best one or the other might offer a better compression ratio. In practise is a result of a more intensive coding algorithm, and depends on the coder, not the codec. Dont believe the 24x44kHz though, unless thats a DVD rip. normal CD quality is 16x44kHz as far as im aware.

Definitely clean your machine with pulycaff. All the oils in the coffee go rancid after a while and you end up with crap coffee and no crema. Might not solve your problem, but only costs a few quid, and if you get a new machine you’ll need it anyhow.

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Bree louise is indeed fantastic: great beer, reasonable prices and friendly people. Only problem is its normally rammed any time I want a drink. The Doric Arch just outside the station is really quite good too, bit grim inside and next to the bus station but the beer is excellent.

A dodgy gasket where the portafilter (handle bit) attaches to the grouphead (water pump bit) means that the pressure of the water for brewing is lower, and the crema can then be poor. Changing it is a piece of p155, 10 min job at most.

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Definitely descale and clean with pulycaf regularly too, both available from happy donkey mentioned above.

i’d be skeptical about any uni that needs to advertise on tv to get bums on seats

inertia.

Also an external DAC means that you can easily remove any noise due to the power supply in the PC. This is probably the primary reason that an external can be made to sound good more easily.

Personally i don’t rate mp3 at all: the perceptional layer of the codec throws away the stuff that it thinks you wont notice, and even at 320k I hear a big difference. FLAC files on a computer or mp3 player offer the best size/fidelity compromise ime.

I use an external DAC with a USB interface (musical fidelity V-DAC, about £150). It retimes, upsamples and digitally filters the computers PCM output giving better sound than on my CD player that cost 4x as much. You can also play upto 24bit 192KHz WAV/FLAC files.

@TurnerGuy: Why would firewire be better? is it just specified for less jitter?

Yup, the tube and tyre rub against each other as they are deformed by whatever it is that your rolling over, dissipating energy. This effect gets worse with lower tyre pressures as the two bits of rubber stick to each other less and rub more.

As the friction occurs at the edge of the tyre, you have in effect a lever ~35cm long in comparison to a lever ~2cm long due to your hub friction. As far as I understand, this is why you can have lower rolling resistance using tubeless compared with tubed, even with lower tyre pressures.

I find my hubs bet louder with age as the grease gets moved around away from the ratchet pawl interface areas (particularly hope).

The drag issue is pretty negligible though, when compared to the amount of bearings and seals that a decent hub has. Even then, the amount of drag caused by that is negligible in comparison to the rolling resistance caused by tyres and the tyre tube interface which has much more leverage and therefore causes more torque per N of friction.

Just bought myself a MB air to replace a windows laptop that broke. Lion with the touch stuff and a big trackpad is really very good (get better touch tool though, apple firmware is shit), but the best thing is the size and the weight. All my other machines run Linux, but I think a laptop needs to be designed a bit more thoughtfully.

The only other mac i’ve had was an 8-core mac pro that cost the thick end of 10k a few years ago, which ended up running red hat linux.

Interesting debate. Just to add my 2 cents, everything between your hands and feet and the ground interact with how a bike rides. Structural rigidity, tyres, tyre pressures and the design of chain/braking torques all make a big difference. Most of all though, the huge difference is shock technology. Imagine (or experience) the difference between riding a single pivot trail bike like an orange 5 with a basic fox float r shock, and a cane creek double barrel. A great damper might not be able to save a terrible design, but a poor damper can certainly ruin a good one. Personally, it seems to me that as shock technology improves, the difference between linkage designs is becoming more about patentability and marketing than performance. Witness WC DH, different race winners on different designs each claiming to be ‘the best’. The real common factor is they are all ridden by awesome riders with custom damper setups.