As you’re local to them, GAK in Brighton have a good selection of what people have suggested above on demo in their shop if you want to try them out. Their online prices are competitive & they often have bundled deals.

Suggesting he browse on Muff Wigglers is cruel :) Starting a modular synth habit at 8 hahahahaha.
(Muffs has a great sell/trade sub-forum for 2nd user gear. It has a “good trader” sticky thread at the top thats actively maintained so you can check who you’re buying from. It’s one of the members only sub-forums, so you’ll need to register to access it).

I finally got around to taking mine in to the local genius bar. It refused to fail their VST (video stress test) diag, but once warmed up would crash under OSX as soon as it did any intensive work on the external GPU. They told me that it had to fail VST for them to replace it under the program, but given the fault symptoms in OSX suggested a GPU fault, they agreed to take in to the workshop for more extensive tests.

I got a call from the technician looking at it. He was managing to get it failing consistently under OSX even though it was still passing VST. He agreed that it was the external GPU at fault, and management have agreed it can be replaced FoC. \o/

(Someone told me that only keep stock of FRUs like this logic boards for 5 years after they’re withdrawn from main production, which covers most extended repair programs. 5 years is now up for my model MBP. What happens going into the 6th year with the England & Wales buyer protection cover will be interesting).

+1 with what bensales said.

As that Apple UK consumer law page says “Under consumer laws in the UK, consumers are entitled to a free of charge repair or replacement, discount or refund by the seller, of defective goods or goods which do not conform with the contract of sale.”. Apple have admitted it doesn’t conform to the contract of sale, so you shouldn’t have to prove that. That Apple text would suggest that the seller (PCWorld) should provide you with “repair or replacement, discount or refund”. Maybe contact trading standards ?.

I’d hope Apple still have spares for that board, even if they’re reworked ones.

Haha. Weird co-incidence. My late-2011 MBP, bought new as a refurb from Apple in 2012, started showing the exact same symptoms last week whenever i ran a program that used accelerated graphics. Corrupted screen, laptop would hang. The stack trace from every crash dump i managed to take has the Radeon driver in it, GPU failing to acknowledge an interrupt. Diagnostics show no fault.
I found that Apple page [1] (that admits that it’s a known issue & they’ve extended the warranty to end of 2016. Checking the warranty page for my MBP states that i should check the regional consumer law as that might provide additional cover as it’s a known manufacturing defact. To their credit, Apple have a very detailed page that covers that [2], and yes in theory mine is still covered (edit: it’s 6 years from purchase date).

Rather than waste half a day going to the local Apple store only to be told “sorry mate, that offer has expired” i thought i’d contact Apple support today to check that indeed the UK consumer law does cover this. TBH, I was expecting an uphill battle trying to convice them. I was wrong. The woman i spoke to couldn’t have been more helpful. She checked it out with support management & yes, assuming the issue with mine is the fault detailed in [1] then yes i’m covered. So now i have a support ticket with all the details in it that i can use to arrange an appoiintment with the local expert bar to get the mainboard swapped out.

I’d suggest you do similar.

You will need to provide proof of purchase. (If you bought it through an Apple store you should have an email with the purchase order on it).

[1] http://www.apple.com/uk/support/macbookpro-videoissues/
[2] http://www.apple.com/uk/legal/statutory-warranty/

Conrad_Schnitzler – Con
Pole – any of his first 3.
Woob – 1194
Gas – all 4 (Malvern Rider looks like you missed “Gas” ;)
Aphex Twin – SAW II
Autechre – Amber
Bola – Soup
Cabaret Voltaire – Crackdown & 2×45
Deepchord – if i had to pick one Hash Bar Loops, but all of his output really
Echospace – The Coldest Season
Basic Channel – Basic Channel
Tim Blake – Crystal Machine
Silent Servant – Negative Fascination
anything on Silent Season
Pete Namlook & Richie Hawtin – any of the From Within series
SPK – Leichenschrei
Chris & Cosey – Trance
Donato Dozzy & Neel – Voices from the Lake

Are we allowed mixes ?.
The two Natural Electronic System’s mixes for Mnml Ssgs
Cio D’Or Panorama 33 extended mix

Certainly a distinctive looking bike. I’m in Worthing, will keep a look out.

Whereabouts in Worthing was it nicked ?.

Number 69 too !! :(

By Cissbury Ring in the OP, I take it to mean the inner area bounded by the inner ramparts & the fence the NT erected. There’s no bridleway in there. You have to lift a bike over a fence/gate to get there.

I regularly see people riding in the inner area, more so in summer. And i’ve seen numpties skidding down the rampart by the SE gate. I can understand why people get annoyed when they see that.

I use GAK[/url] for stuff like this, & they seem to have them at the same price as Scan.

In the past LTT’s have been infrequent visitors here, & then like others above, usually in a group.
The last few weeks i’ve had a pair staying around the garden. I have nest boxes up & Blue & Great Tits nest here most years. It’ll be great if the LTTs stick around.

I had been wondering if there’s been some change in environment that’s pushed them into the town looking for nesting sites.

If you have the ability to do so, run daily checks against the drive’s smart status. You should be able to predict ahead of time when they’re going to fail.

You can also get the drive’s temperature from smart. If the drives are getting hot they’re more likely to silently corrupt your data & cook the spindle bearings.

I run nightly smart checks against the drives in my server & have any change emailed to me. If a drives looks like it’s going to fail i’ll swap it out, run Seagates seatool against it & assuming it fails get it rma’d.

I don’t know about windows, but with Linux guests running older kernels on any virtualisation, it helps to reduce the clock wakeup frequency – normally from 1000Hz to 100Hz. Newer kernels are tickless so they’re not continually interrupting the hypervisor & consequently have lower overhead.

This WMWare link suggests windows experiences it too.

Seems like Premier Pro CS6 supports OpenCL on a 6570M & 6770M MBP.

That old C2D MacBook will have an slow SATA-2 or even SATA-1 interface in it, so an SSD in there won’t be running at native speed. Transfer speed won’t be much different to magnetic media, though access time will.

Oh and is it certain that the latest MBP graphics card will allow Premier Pro etc to utilise CUDA?

Latest MBP’s are NVidia, so CUDA is a possibility. If the OP buys a refurb, the MBP from last year have ATI. (The one i have here has 6970 in it). You’d need OpenCL support for that, not CUDA

It’s not something i’m familiar with, does Premier Pro allow offloading the render to cloud – eg EC2 ?. If it does, it’d probably be cheaper than buying a new laptop. You can buy an hours compute time on there for pennies.

For smallish tears up to a couple of inches, Seamgrip has worked well for me on Gore-tex, eVent & Pertex shells. The repair is mostly invisible. Most outdoor places seem to do it.

The fan/heatsink that matthewjb linked is a Zalman CPU cooler (something like this) with peltier pump & a lump of metal at the bottom for the heat sink. Clearly the peltier pump he’s using can drive one of those Zalman fans.

For me to make one of those, the hard part would be to fabricate the base heat sink. I’d have thought a wider metal disk would be better.

A nice thing with using CPU coolers, the fans are cheap & easy to replace.

They might have been hacked. It’s common for lists of customer email addrs to be sold to spammers or added to hacker lists.

Agree with FuzzyWuzzy about buying from a non-major h/w vendor. You’ll be able to fine tune the h/w to suit your workload.

You say you need fast disk. How large is your data ?. If it’s relatively small i’d look at a couple of the cheaper SSD’s, split them into 2 PV’s. A small one mirrored for the O/S VG & a larger one raid0 for the data.

Check whatever GPU you buy has CUDA/OpenCL support.

I assume the workload is parallel. Have you thought about using a grid engine, get a free EC2 account & split the workload across your local compute & also Amazon ?.

My soil needs conditioning (heavy red clay) so it’s likely that I’ll dig some of the compost into it in the spring..

I use mine as a mulch in the coldest part of the winter. The frost helps incorporate it into the ground & as a bonus the insert eating birds get a much needed source of insects. Any compost left on the surface in the spring gets a light digging in.

I’ve got plenty of sheets for it, though I’d have to cut them into thirds and add the holes for the vacuum

I got the hole punch for my Makita half sheet hand sander, so i can use the abrasive paper on a roll available from the local wood merchants.

I did all the boards in this place with a decent hand sander. I was lucky that most hadn’t seen the light of day since they were installed in the 20’s.

Save the dust for gap filler. I mix it 50:50 with PVA & a small amount of wood stain. Apply the filler after the first coat of sealant so it doesn’t stain the wood.

Finish with a couple of coats of post-sanding sealant & then a decent varnish or polish. I’ve had good results with the Liberon products.

Live +1

Plus some u-he synths & valhalla fx. Bliss. :D

If you like the Hasbean coffee style (i do) then the sub is great value. You’ll get to try a wide variety of beans you otherwise probably wouldn’t think of buying. The inmymug[/url] blog adds some nice background to what you’ve been shipped.

They roast on the thursday, ship on the friday & post office permitting you’ll get the delivery on the saturday. The only time i can think of mine not arriving on a saturday they’d already said it was going to be late.

theres some nice singletrack in Rewell woods which you can link up into Houghton Forest. Start off on the bridleway by the gatehouse at the western A27 roundabout in Arundel & head into Rewell, aim for the SW corner over near Slindon.

wrecker, what beans are you using ?. How old are they ?. How are you storing them ?.

good bit of forecasting there CFH :(

That’s an impressive setup that Sir Hoy has there.
Good to see he’s using Hasbean.

I’ve installed a 256G OCX Vertex4 in my 8,3 Sandy Bridge MBP & put the old 750G drive in the optibay. Upgraded to 16G of memory at the same time. All runs fine.

The Shimano ones i have are marked with part no. “SM-MF10”. They’re at least 10 years old & still going strong. Invaluable if you ride in a lot of muddy conditions.

First hit on a google search with that p/n suggests that hibike.de have them in stock for €6. Looks like other online shops have them too.

Edit: here’s that stw thread

I’ve got painted IF Ti & steel DL’s. I’d say IME that the paint doesn’t appear to adhere to the base metal on the Ti as well as on the steel. It’s certainly more prone to chipping down to bare metal, whether it’s stone chips, or more often the case, my hamfistedness refitting wheels etc. This doesn’t worry me personally, i expect the paint on my bikes to chip.

IF recommend giving the paint on their frames a chance harden for a couple of months after delivery. I did follow that (mostly).

for an updated version of elite, check out oolite[/url]

If the drive’s suffering from stiction & refusing to spin up, sticking it in a sealed bag in the freezer overnight has worked for me in the past. The cold frees up the bearings enough to get the drive spinning. Boot off a Fedora/whatever rescue image, dd the drive image off onto another drive or NFS mount, & work on recovering the files from there.

How about using ssh tunnel on the linux server ?.
Open up ssh through the firewall on the server, allowing key only authentication (ie disable password authentication). Then port forward 25 over ssh to some local port.

If you’re worried about bad guys trying to break into your ssh server there’s plenty of tools out there that will monitor the logs for failed ssh attempts & add the failing ipaddr to the iptables rules.

It’s what i use.

I got the same response from ABG/Litespeed last year when my 8 yo Merlin XLM cracked. It’s a wear & tear failure, not covered under warranty.

I didn’t take up their offer of a replacement Litespeed. Indy Fab got my money.

From a time when Steffy had more hair :D

If you’re going to include people who designed influential hardware you have to include Peter Zinovieff. Most great electronic albums of the 70’s featured an EMS synth. There’s a fascinating interview with him at the Red Bull Academy

Also William Burroughs who was a heavy influence behind cut up & loop music.

This was released under his Air moniker

For the 70’s German sound i’d go for Connie Plank.
For 80’s UK sound, Daniel Miller.

So, anyone here operate an HPC?

Didn’t operate, but back in the early naughties I helped build a couple of 500 node HPCs from scratch – rack/stack/cable all the servers, install linux on each etc. One of them all the disks had to be unpacked from individual boxes (2 per node) – we ended up with 5 skips of packing material.