+1 to all the above really.

Internet speed really shouldn’t matter as their streams are served using a third party CDN. You’d have to have pretty poor bandwidth &/or latencyfor that to fail. I think the problem is a combination of overloaded backend servers (not the ones serving the content – thats a CDN, just the metadata etc) & the player that’s just spectacularly badly written. The player doesn’t seem to cope with basics like seeking forward in a stream, it resets itself.

I finally got to watch Chasing Legends the other night only by watching at gone midnight.

Tip that works for me sometimes. When it says that the program is no longer available, remove ITV’s cookies & LSOs & reload the page. Also, by using privoxy as my front end proxy, I don’t get to see the adverts 🙂 Shame it doesn’t work for the live stream.

I really wish get_iplayer would work with ITV again.

Have a read through a few decent veggie books or online. There’s a lot of interesting grains that you can use to replace the usual carb fillers in dishes.

Quinoa is a great grain. It’s worth mastering how to cook it right. Get a decent one from a reputable wholefood shop, not a supermarket. (The same could be said for anything like this actually).
Millet.
Bulgar wheat
Polenta
Buckwheat
Noodles

Try different types of rice, they don’t all cook up the same.

Diwana in Drummond St. behind Euston Stn is always my first choice. Apart from the prices, the menu hasn’t changed in the 25 years i’ve been eating there. If you’re looking for somewhere for lunch they do an awesome all you can eat buffet for 7 quid. If Diwana is full there’s a few other Bhel Puri houses down Drummond St that are ok.

Failing that second fred’s suggestion of Rasa. But beware, not all of them are veggie only.

Grrrrrr

If you’re doing the BHF ride then don’t rely on getting water from the tap at the A24/Washington. Make sure you fill up at the Amberley tap. They route you down into Washington to avoid crossing the A24, so you miss the tap (and forcing you to climb an extra 80m on the road you don’t need to do).

Works well for me. I got mine from in2dust, ordered one day arrived the next.

As all the instructions say, apply to clean drivetrain.

When i’m applying it, i run the chain over all the chainrigs & cassette rings so everything gets a coating. An application lasts much longer then.

Begg -> Borrow

I specced my latest desktop specifically to secondary boot hackintoshed MAC OS/X. As the OP says, Gigabyte mobo seemed to be a popular choice. I was looking for an i7 950, so went for a X58A-UD5. I don’t use OS/X much, only for running Ableton really. I can do everything else just fine with Fedora.

From what i read, the main thing to watch out for is the graphics card. The iMac’s mostly use Intel chipsets, which you’ll have no problem finding mobo’s with. But they only used a limited set of graphics cards, so if you can pick a slightly older card with one of the fully supported chipsets. Luckily i intended using an ATI 4870 which was used in a lot of Apple products.

In the end, getting it running was reasonably straightforward. I needed to add a couple of kernel flags to get the graphics card working for the installer. Now it’s fine.

Once i got that working i hackintoshed an old Thinkpad t60p i had lying around.

A tip, if you have a spare drive of the same capacity, lying around. Once you get OS/X installed, “dd” the contents of the working drive to the spare. Until you know how to boot off the media & into rescue mode, if you start playing around with kexts, it’s quite easy to have a non-booting system. (Another tip, once it’s working, leave well alone, you don’t need to touch it 😉

I actually don’t have an issue with the cost of the Apple hardware. I was considering a Mac Pro & compared the middle of the range to a home built equivalent system with dual Westmere-ex, Super Micro mobo, full speed memory, ultra-quiet fans & PSU. That was getting close to the cost of the Apple product & the result would have looked just like any other PC. In the end i opted for the i7 as it provided enough of the Nehalem virtualisation features i needed & enough horsepower.

Edit: +1 having internet access when you do this.

if you are short on space the ascaso i-mini is good too in either stainless or black.

I have an 250W I-Mini. If all you’re grinding for is espresso & shelf space is tight then it’s an excellent machine. (It needed a minor bit of work with the Dremmel. The grinds back up the chute partly due to a burr on the bottom of the chute & partly because the basket is too close to the chute. It seems to be a known problem with them, but was easily fixed. 😀

+1 to what MrSmith said.

Beans from the decent roasters are about 20 quid a kilo, cheaper than Illy & loads fresher. You’ll notice the difference.

If you’re in that London, pay a trip to one of Monmouth’s shops. Their organic espresso blend is my personal favourite.

Mute Swan – Daniel Miller (Mute records founder)

Can’t do 80’s electro without including the Cabs.

Steam > Clouds

+1 what Liftman said. Lots of neat or slightly diluted washing up liquid over the bead & the inside of the rim. Seat one bead using an inner tube & inflate with the valve core removed.

Jensen -> Bristol (old British cars)

Fires of Ork – Sky Lounge

Sorry TSY. It was an obvious one too.

Pete Namlook …

I tip i picked up from Indian recipe sites, add a teaspoon of bicarp to the soaking water. It reduces the cooking time.

Edit; Beat Pharmacy – Rooftops

Park self adhesive puncture patches work for me.

I do occasionally for longer rides. Put some brown rice syrup, a pinch of salt and some flavouring into a gel flask. Add about 10% boiling water & shake until mixed. (Or use a double espresso shot instead of flavouring and boiling water). I used the Biona brown rice syrup, which tastes ok on its own, doesn’t need any flavouring.

FWIW, the main ingredient in Clif Shot is brown rice syrup, plus flavourings and some electrolytes.

OT question, how is fit on these compared to a Specialised S1 ?. I’ve always had Spesh helmets, they’ve always been a perfect fit. I’m looking to replace my S1. I tried the current s-works equivalent in the LBS recently & really didn’t like the new webbing based fitting system (i hated it), so i’m looking for an alternative.

(And yes I know i should get to a shop to try one 😉

With Tahini.

I like the look of that Fatback 🙂

They’ve always done a good job with my forks. I started using them for fork servicing after i had a problem with a TFT serviced f80x that Rayments sorted for me.

I’ve also had them do a couple of oddball upgrades – f80x refitted with new f80rlc internals, and an old f100rlc’s internals fitted to new f100 uppers & lowers (was about 50% cheaper than buying a new fork).

Edit: you can tell they’ve serviced them as you always get a bag with all the replaced bits.

Crappy camera pics from yesterday evening …

Top of Church Hill, Findon, Sussex

North western end of Wepham Woods, between Worthing and Arundel. Apologies for the quality of the pic, it was getting a bit dark by this time. Wepham always gives a fantastic show, but this year looks exceptional. For some reason the flowers at the eastern end of the woods seem to be slower emerging than the west.

The Rapha ones look nice, but out of stock until mid-April.

I have a Belkin 1200 here. Powers my main server (that runs a bunch of VM’s), ADSL router, GB switch & a monitor that’s normally off. It’ll power that lot for about 20 minutes. If power isn’t restored by the time power on the UPS hits 20% a script on the hypervisor gracefully shuts down the VM’s before shutting itself down.

Workstation, other PC’s, printer etc are on a surge protector.

Many thanks for the feedback both of you. It looks like it’s a clear winner.

Me too, though i only tend to use road links in the winter to avoid really muddy sections of bridleway.

The South Downs are ideally suited to this. It’s easy to vary a ride between woody singletrack, open doubletrack & down/uphill on the north facing scarp slopes. Having a railway line running parallel makes for easy 5+ hour ride out & train home.

I wonder if that’s dependent on the qr you use ?. Other photos online would suggest it’ll sit perpendicular to the fork, which doesn’t look so bad. like this[/url]

rhythmbox isn’t a ripper, it’s a player. i use grip for ripping media

Although its less resource hungry – my battery life is less(?)

stuey, “powertop” can help identify the causes of this.

+_1 to what Cougar said.

WRT the graphics card using up main memory. Some cheaper embedded graphics adapters (where the graphics adapter is on the mother board) won’t have dedicated memory, it’ll use main memory that would otherwise be used for applications. This is common on low end laptops & desktops & small embedded systems. Sometimes in the BIOS you can adjust the amount of memory you dedicate to the graphics adapter. If you’ve got a separate graphics card with, say 1GB, then that won’t take up 1GB of your memory address space. As molgrips said, this is what DMA is for. The card will have a window in the CPU’s I/O address space but this will be a lot less than the memory on the card itself.

Besides being able to address a wider memory range there’s other advantages with x64 o/s. A subset of an x86 CPU’s registers are only available in 64 bit mode. If you’re looking at doing a lot of math intensive work (games, video encoding etc) these help. You’d need the app compiled for 64-bit to really make full use of these though.

It looks like you’re running 32-bit pass. I’d stick with the 32-bit o/s you have installed.

Is that PC running windows ?.

You’ll get “oops” messages on linux systems where you get panics/crashes.

If it is running linux, an AV scan might well do more harm than good. Google for some of the keywords in the oops backtrace, you might get more idea of what the problem is.