I’d suggest a vice AND a pair of liners for the vice – A couple of bit of angle-iron or similar. You only want to bend it BACK, not beyond – the more it bends the more it will fatigue, so try to get it right first time.

Regardless, brass is not know for fatigue resistance, I think it’s used in keys because it it “self lubricating”. Get a new one!

OK, last shot [guess which tab I still had open on this PC]…

RX Bandits best album – – The Resignation.

Quite a shock coming from their previous stuff, I had to listen to it a few times to get over the layers and the shock of it all, but it’s so damn rewarding. Exciting, beautiful; inventive yet discordant and in tune at the same time. Not that accessible though, I understand, and you DO need to listen to the whole thing, not just this track ;)

Best gig of my life that was, in ‘t Cavern Club, in Exeter

You can pry my reel of Lead solder out of my weak, uncoordinated hands.

Edge of Darkness, bitches

iolo – you tried open/libre -office?

You can use Ubuntu/libreoffice on Ubuntu, if you feel like experimenting. Otherwise I’d get a late edition Samsung NCxxx secondhand.

Horsetail might be incredibly annoying, but it’s also incredibly interesting how long it’s been on this planet!

Firefly. Won’t take long, but the memories will linger [Mal’s butt and Mal’s wife for two].

Review of the Samsung Chrombook Series 3 ARM

I think the Android devices are a little better for video, just because they are not running the video decoding WITHIN a web browser, but with a native app [so AFAIK it’s a little more efficeient]. As I said the Chromebook stutters with HD YouTube videos, but then the screen is 720p-ish anyway, so there’s not a lot of point getting worried about full HD.

They’re different beasts, the keyboard/trackpad is the main deciding factor.

EDIT: RE Apps, see my first post. Chromebooks run web pages, not native apps. Android apps will not run directly, though there may be a version that does.

Two Weeks With A Chromebook

It is also possible to install Ubuntu on the Chromebook, giving you a whole series of possibilities of running any native Ubuntu applications, which means almost all the Unix/*nix applications ever made. This however is not worth it unless you want to hack it into something it was not meant to be, it works fine for what it was designed for.

Typing all this on my Chromebook reminded me how much I like the Keyboard on it!

I think you should be a little more understanding of nature. Just pull the buggers up regularly?

Shame they banned Sodium Chlorate – used to make rockets and roman candles with it. Took out a good patch of lino in the kitchen when I was a sprog with a mix that went off at the wrong time! 8O

Very late to this party…

Jamie – have you tried [SHIFT+RETURN] for [ENTER]?

Maybe it’s a good time to pimp my mate’s new business?

https://www.facebook.com/VeloNetUK?fref=ts

Looool

No idea what you’re talking about Houns…

Nope.

Chrome OS is effectively the Chrome browser and a logon/file system.

When you turn the machine on you get a logon window, after that you get a desktop and taskbar. The only “Program” ie fixed-function application on the machine is Google Chrome, the browser. All other applications are actually webpages that run in a tab or window. For example pixlr[/url] – this is a photo editing webpage that behaves like a small photo editing program. The only difference with these web apps vs traditional apps is that they appear in a tab or window. [try pixlr for 5 minutes, you’ll see what I’m getting at].

There is a file system browser, you can navigate to a memory stick or external hdd much as you would on Windows/OSX/etc.

If you truly want a machine for web-use it’s going to do you fine, if you want something else it’s variable – you can for example edit Office documents using Google Docs, but that’s not where the strengths of the machine lie – you need to be online for that, and it’s just not quite as fast and efficient as having a copy of Word running locally on your machine and saving it’s own native files back to it’s own hard disc.

Another big advantage is security – Chrome OS is built to be very secure, it’s modern software so no old bugs, it employs several layers of anti-hacker technology and every time the machine is switched on it checks to see if any of the operating system has been changed in any way from what it should, be and if there’s any changes it just reverts to fresh install of the OS [which takes about 20 seconds].

That’s it in a nutshell, and don’t worry about using Chrome as a browser. With browsers [as with so many things] all the best innovations/features are copied by all the other vendors. IE/Firefox/Chrome/Opera all work pretty much the same and the switch will take you 5 minutes plus looking a little thing up every now and then. It’s not like a Minority Report Interface or anything ;)

EDIT – Surface RT, dunno man, dunno. Not tried one, might be nice, but I surely do hear about that platform being on life-support….. Even if Microsoft continue to expand their ARM software, I’d personally expect them to make radical changes to it that cut the support from the early generation machines. That’s just my guess.

I am also quite curious as to what Google are going to do to merge ChromeOS and Android. I am convinced they will do, but I just don’t know how.

Samsung ARM Chromebook is cheap and tough, the software almost impossible to break.

I find it a little glitchy on HD YouTube vids though, it’s just not quite powerful enough. IF it were my money I’d hold out for the version 2 of it, seeing as what you want it to do.

But overall I wholeheartedly recommend them :)

Sounds intellectual.

GolfChick – that’s some impressive hardware…

What wonderful replies.

OP – Do what you want. As pointed out, the skinny race-whippets are first up the climbs. Do as you will, do as what you want :)

You’re right. Veg out 100%, and more power to your elbow!

hahahahaha

Abandon all hope. In my experience BT customer service is pathetic. The only bloody thing they have managed to get right for me is sending me spam. Lots and lots of spam.

People have said before that Twitter is the best way to get attention – try that?

Post photo or model name/brand and we’ll try.

Clearly they are, and are generally propelled by awesome; and flapjack.

So, what do you do with those bits left over after other people eat the meat? .

I think I agree with every post above. WOW

As a pescatarian [once a week], I kinda think you might as well eat the bits of an animal that are left after all the meat has been removed, no?

I got a couple of raisin and toffee combos out of the last pack. That sucked.

Mmmmmm chocolate – I’m going to have a Ripple

Veggie burger, “gourmet edition”, second pint of Tuborg (Wetherspoons’s) my girlfriend talking about a Christian forum she used to mod.

Evening all :)

Aussie Magpies are a damn menace, it’s not happened to me but it sure does happen.

IIRC Maglite bulbs are bright, but expensive. LEDs should last forever. I’d do it, but then I like to play with LED’s.

What does the kit cost, what’s the O/P and what’s the power consumption vs a regular Maglite bulb?

I can bite a palate-sized chunk out of an empty 330ml can.

I have no idea where/why I found this out.

Mandatory “Happy ending! Fnarrrr”

Eeer, yes. Glad to hear it.

Nearly bought a Umax firewire scanner the other day, top of the line one. ‘Twas £3. But then I thought about having to move house with it and left it in the big pile of stuff where it was.

oh but it’s good

LOL OK – I’ll send you my copy for postage monies only.

EDIT: Another suggestion Justice

@CountZero

Yes, I own a copy of The Big Roar and it sounds like a cross between the Delays and epileptic fit in a cymbal factory piped through a plastic tube and recorded with a D90 on the wrong bias setting- to my ears/neurons.

But, different strokes for different folks.

EDIT: I’d say this sums it up.

NiN?
QotSA?
Rolo Tomassi??

You could do worse than check out Blood Red Shoes and The Joy Formidable.

….but not a lot worse than The Joy Formidable, IMHO.

Clutch, OTOH, there’s a band.

We keep coming back to peeing in sinks.

Should I design a widely-acceptable pee-sink-urinal for my 3rd year Major Design Project, is there demand?

*usually ride, but persistent achilles trouble :(

Didn’t get to finish that ‘cos we got to the station :) The journey is about 5 or 6 miles, so cost is 58.333p/m.

I think it’s kinda remarkable, and not in a good way. Seems to me there’s worse though. Heathrow Express seems the ultimate weewee-take, so far.