Are you telling me I didn’t have to lug this to the top? No wonder it was so hard…

Californication might be the one – I hardly listen to it for that reason, which is a shame because I like it a lot.

Not crashing now, eh?

Must have been something incompatible.

I suppose the real reason is that the equipment to record high quality sound has been around for a long time, we’ve [as mentioned] mostly moved away from it as a concern though.

Big fat fast tapes, valves, quality vinyl – they all sound very very good. There was also a huge amount of engineering effort going into the equipment, The UK, the US, Japan and Germany all made some amazing gear then. Now many pop musicians are more concerned with the number of samples and effects they want, and there’s a lot of pressure on sound and mix engineers to think primarily of things other than the reproduction of the sound as it is first made/played.

Hell, you can go back more than 40 years. Some early mono LPs sound lovely.

There is also the issue of Rainbow Tables – lookups of encrypted passwords. It may take 1,000 hour [on what system I wonder] to crack a password, but that don’t mean nuffink if someone’s already saved the answer in a rainbow table – it’s just a lookup.

And there’s the issue of GPUs turning a 1,000 password into a 10 minute one 🙁

They just don’t make ’em like they used to…

I get to use loads of 3D and CAD software FoC while i’m at uni. The licences last only one academic year, so I have to go and get a copy every time, and as-if that wasn’t enough some of the software requires patches of a few GB every few months….

My PC hasn’t been re-installed for a couple of years, and when I was dialing in my overclock I crashed it too many times and Windows is messed up. It’s not bothered me because I’ve been using this Chromebook in the last few months.

I have to do mine at the weekend – and I also need to download about 20GB of Programs.

I know the feeling…

How weird…

A little bit of sick came up.

I have to preface this by saying i don’t run tubeless, but can sealant not be made from Copydex? Perhaps with extra water? Do these sealants smell a bit fishy like the aforementioned glue?

http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?bf=2452

It’s attracted to dirty fingernails. 😉

Actually, I had a Looper Moth lay it’s eggs in my bathroom last week – came in to fine 1000 hair-fine caterpillars – I was reluctant to use Henry on them, but I had no idea what they’d eat anyway so up they went.

Read the warnings!

But they look so good!

I have some neat software here, eh 😉

I think this thread needs merging with the “GIFs you can watch all day” one…

Reporting for duty – how many do we need sir?

molgrips – Member
Someone needs to figure out how to make metallic hydrogen on Earth.

There’s better ways

These guys are the business.

I look forward to working with their gear quite soon.

WRT energy generation/renewables – As I see it, what we need [apart from people turning off lights etc] is large areas of desert covered with solar energy capture devices [Photovoltaics, reflector and molten salt/steam stations etc etc]. A concerted international effort to build these systems could transform our energy mix, provide a huge number of jobs and promote world peace and understanding. Unfortunately this requires altruistic international world co-operation, and no-one to ransom the really long extension leads we’d be running everywhere.

Ho-hum

Best of luck – keep us up to date.

How are you going to run that? The Windows boot disc?

Last time this came up, headset adjustment was also mentioned.

By me*.

*”Dude, I told you to do the bending once in a while!”

Oh wow!

Yes – it should be an option at boot from the Live Disc. Leave it overnight and report if it finds ANY problem

Ubuntu also has a diagnostic application IIRC – I think it’s called “System Testing” or something

In that case I’m wondering if there’s another problem with the machine.

Go to the application centre and download a HDD SMART checker for your drive.

Not necessarily.

In other news – what the heck is this:

They are roughly arranged so as to keep the chain line straight-ish when you use the gear combinations that develop the most power via a human’s legs.

Having said that, they could both be flipped and that would still be true – smallest on the outside at the front -but then two things would happen

*The small cog at the front would really eat your socks/jeans etc

*The large cog, now on the outside at the back, would have a lot of leverage perpendicular to the bearings of the free hub, and be mounted furthest from them [seeing as small driving large will develop the most mechanical advantage]

This brings me back to the question from yesterday’s sprocket thread – does the force on the teeth of a chainwheel or cassette sprocket have to do with the gear combination driven, or only the force input from the pedals/crank arm length.

Maybe I’m thinking too much too.

EDIT: awww heck

+2 for Bessons’

*tries not to think about Milla this early in the morning*

*looks at rubberised external Hard Drive*

*sighs deeply*

The Honka Hoota is an interesting redesign of the bell. I like it a lot!

spursn17

Maybe this[/url] was your problem.

Must try Mint. I’m going to hide a USB 3 stick inside the shell of my Chromebook so I can run either the Chrome OS or Linux. I think there is room inside the casework because it doesn’t have the 3G internet option 🙂

I don’t know which OS to use yet though. Oh my gods if it could run Android, Chrome OS and a Linux distro I’d be in heaven. Or something like that.

Aaah Unity……

Love it.

No, they are definitely bigger and made of wood. That other thing is clearly not made of wood.

They breed in standing water. Got a water butt? Pond?

I’d leave there if that happened!

I’d stay there!

Duel 🙂

Two tone ones are even better 🙂

Making a Live CD is downloading a .iso from the Ubuntu website [‘d use 12.04 32-bit as it’s most likely to work].

Then when it’s downloaded: in Windows, pop a blank DVD-R* in your drive, find your file, right click, and choose Burn Image to Disc.

That should give you a bootable DVD.

Start your PC – head into the bios first to set it to boot from DVD drive, then pop the Live DVD in and let it boot – you want the “Try Ubuntu without changing my PC” option. It is slow to boot from a DVD, but eventually you will land on the desktop. From there plug your external in, wait for it to mount and go grab your files to copy off.

You may need the laptop running to Google info about how to find your way around in Ubuntu, but it’s pretty easy.

*dismiss any messages when you put it in.