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  • mynamesnotbob
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    No. Complete waste of battery and network overhead. If you are accessing the server all the time and no internet traffic then fine, but tunnelling all your internet traffic through the mobile network through to your fixed line into your VPN concentrator, then back out to your phone.

    All it adds is latency at best, excessive delays at worst.

    And your connection is only as secure as the weakest link, so if you are accessing the internet it’s still as dangerous. It’s like putting the most secure lock in the world on your front door but leaving the key under the mat.

    If you need to access the server remotely, use VPN. If using phone on the internet to browse, do it directly and save battery and reduce delay. If in the network at home using wifi, completely and utterly no point, you are already in the correct network.

    If you are trying to do something else other than the scenarios above there might be a need.

    mynamesnotbob
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    STP would prevent the bring creating a loop, although not done this (bridged laptop) myself. Better to set up a port monitor on the switch and sniffing from that, but not sure what you are trying to do.

    mynamesnotbob
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    Some councils do, if they make a profit depends on the processing costs as already said, but the output of the process they can sell. Mainly it’s because they have to chase targets of recycling, which is fine by me, the more recycled material the better.

    Would also like councils to invest in their processing plants to make it easier for households, as most people are lazy when sorting. My current place I can recycle just about anything apart from plastic film and polystyrene, but all of it just goes in one big recycling bin and the processing plant sort it. Easy to do, easy to sort in the house, no messing about.

    In my new place I’m going back to 5 different bins, which means 5 different piles in the house or constant trips outside, checking what can go in what bin as you can have paper in one with glass, but you can’t put cardboard in with paper. I can see why people just shove it in the normal bin as it’s a faf.

    Anyway, I know that wasn’t the question…

    mynamesnotbob
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    Thanks guys for the help, and thanks for the offers of guides. I may be in touch when I move up for some help in finding my way around – always good to meet new folk in the area.

    Given me a bit more faith that there is something local, and plenty within a short drive.

    Off to get some OS maps 😀

    mynamesnotbob
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    I live in oxfordshire, so don’t have unrealistic expectations on hills and aware it’s a bit of a wasteland for uppy downy stuff in the immediate areas! But there are more important things governing he move.

    Anything that’s within 1 1/2 hours in the car is fine for longer stuff, so Macc forest, Peaks, and North Wales are all good shouts for longer trips. Just wondered if there was anything a bit more locally, not expecting their to be the nirvana of downhill to be hidden away.

    mynamesnotbob
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    A lot depends on what the job is.

    For an injury but I’m still able to use the phone, email, webex etc. Work from home, but I have long established clients and can call on this as I’ve given up large chunks of my life for them and they are well aware of this.

    If I’m in a coma, I’d probably take that as sick leave – but that’s more of a retrospective thing, probably couldn’t call in sick from the coma.

    But overall if I am able to work but unable to get to work or drive (currently do 1000 miles a week, so it’s a major factor), then I would work from home as best as I could.

    For sick kids it depends how sick, just normal kid sick then take it as holiday or if possible between us work at home. If it’s a proper sickness or injury I would just say I’m not coming in and probably count it as compassionate leave.

    All of the above is because I have a lot of credit with the company and clients, and treat my guys the same. If they have had sick children and let me know, they are just told to tell me what must be done as an absolute must from a work perspective, otherwise drop me a text to keep me informed and we’ll work it out later.

    mynamesnotbob
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    If you have legal cover through your home or car insurance, contact them and see if they can challenge it also

    mynamesnotbob
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    It’s normally best to get this sorted before handing back through a PDR specialist, but a bit late for that.

    Do you have pictures of the damage? I would say they should get fixed through PDR if there is no paint damage, and they should try to go down this route. But a full respray for car park dings seems very excessive, and always best to try avoiding adding more paint.

    Unfortunately I would imaging they are probably covered in their T+C’s to be able to pass this on.

    mynamesnotbob
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    If you mean why do the normal playlist songs that are edited, not get played unedited after the watershed. Then it’s just that radio stations don’t want two versions, one to make it easier to find them, and another to make sure that the unedited version never gets played at the wrong time it’ll just reduce risk by not having it on the system.

    As others said when there is material that is only played late at night on specialist shows, then they normally just have the unedited version as it is never in the daytime playlist

    mynamesnotbob
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    What has changed? Have you moved anything, changed what it’s plugged into, stuck other items on a 4 way, changed amp etc?

    Does it happen with the components plugged in? – try standing it alone not plugged into anything else and see what you get there

    Could be a simple earth loop somewhere, but as it’s rising and peaking it sounds like it could be a capacitor fault – but rule out earth hum first, 9 times out of 10 that would be a likely cause.

    mynamesnotbob
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    If you want a light, AM bike with supple suspension you might want something else.

    Such as? Not trying to be argumentative, genuine question as I’m after a new bike and the bronson is on the list, but interested in other options if I’m missing something obvious.

    Sorry for thread drift

    mynamesnotbob
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    Not my understanding. Basically, if you have no finance then the GAP payment covers the difference between the current market value and the price you actually paid for it. You would receive the cash difference.

    What he said!

    If you buy a 50k car cash with a 3 year back to invoice gap, and it explodes in 2.5 years – the gap insurance makes sure you get the 50k back, through your normal insurance and them pluggin the gap

    mynamesnotbob
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    Pretty much, some do upscaling to 1080p, others go all the way to 4K. Although coming from an SD source it’s never going to look fantastic compared to a proper source.

    No point in buying a DVD player these days, even if you don’t have a BluRay disk, also a way to get a smart TV if thats important to you and you don’t have it

    Can’t think of many that don’t, although some are better than others – it all depends on budget.

    Here is a reasonable selection with various budgets:

    http://www.techradar.com/news/video/blu-ray/12-best-blu-ray-players-in-the-world-2013-947894

    mynamesnotbob
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    Sign me up with your ISP who gives 207 mbs and claim a bonus

    It’s BT FTTP – http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/products/broadband/faster-internet

    Slowly being rolled out and I’m lucky enough to be in a fibre area to the house, rather than the cab

    mynamesnotbob
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    So hands up who has a need for transferring 4 gig ? never mind 24 gig. I’m wondering if someone is just googling stuff on the net and firing off comments, I’m retired but did a lot of work with switches dont remember it all but the speeds you are talking are immense for simple home networking. The 80 meg [yes meg] is my ISP speed my network runs at 100 meg but even a tv program in HD I’m sure aint much more tan 45 meg. So maybe you have a clear feed into your house which would be about 2 gig, we use to take those direct from some broadcasters, but sticking it up to a transmitter we only had 68 meg.

    A full Bluray stream requires 40m/b/s – to do this realiably you need copper. Wifi won’t cut it. Total data transfer is around 30GB.

    My NAS takes a snap shot each night and transfers to another each night, these disks are then rotated to keep them offsite. So each night they are exchanging around 200GB of data.

    My Internet link runs at around 207mb/s so I wouldn’t step down to a 100mb/s LAN when in the house.

    So no not normal use compared to someone who browses facebook and downloads the odd track, but that level of data transfer is not exceptional and certainly won’t be in 3-5 years time.

    But it’s up to each person to pick what they want, I choose to others may not. But if you are throwing cables in the wall, you may as well try to cover yourself for the future.

    mynamesnotbob
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    I’m struggling to understand having multiple access points in a small room at some point they have to connect, then its back to the one network with its speed limitations. So you may as well have one cable and a hub

    Because you should use a decent switch – for instance even an HP Procurve 2800 has 48gig switching capability on the backend. Having a decent switch will allow each port to run at capacity, so each one can run at full gig, trunk multiple ports for the NAS so you can combine 4 to get a 4gig link into the switch and it becomes quite useful.

    Switch speed is not link speed, it will have far more capacity than it’s single ports, a hub would obviously flood traffic to all ports, but no one would be buying them

    mynamesnotbob
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    “if you start multiple HD streams a single uplink gets busy,”

    incase you fancy watching two movies at once in your living room on the telly ?

    In case someone upstairs wants to watch an HD programme recorded on the Mac, while someone watches a movie in the living room from the NAS.

    Like I said, it’s not needed, but nice to have. But if you are putting it in fresh, just put in plenty rather than building in compromise from the start.

    mynamesnotbob
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    Why 12 to the living room? For our TV room, I was figuring on 4 – tv, stereo, blu-ray player… I’m out by a long way! Our office will have that many, but it’s got 2x computers, 2x printers, NAS, SureSignal, and the rest. Oh, I guess a games console would eat one in the living room

    I have Amp, Bluray, PS3, Xbox, MacMini (used to stream from NAS), Access Point, IP Phone, DAC, and two are used for HDMI over cables. The rest are for expansion. Also wanted to have the possibility of CCTV cameras over IP if ever required.

    Once I was running 4 I thought I might as well run 12 as the work was half done. In reality it was overkill, but tried to think of the future.

    Obviously not needed, but nice to have. You could get away with 4 easily, but no space to expand

    I’ve wondered about this. Would you not be better off running about 4 and then adding a local switch?

    You could, but where if you don’t have to fight for contention over an uplink it’s always better. Streaming SD or audio, obviously it’s fine, if you start multiple HD streams a single uplink gets busy, and they you have to start trunking multiple cables and the cost of a managed switch starts outways any savings made on cable.

    I also just wanted to bacause I could 🙂

    My question for other rooms is where to run the cables to – a physical cat5 port is only any use if it’s in the right place. In a bedroom is it bedside (to run a radio) or opposite bed (if someone who wants a TV in the bedroom)?

    Mine are where a TV would normally go, or where a desk would go. If you have slack in the cable you can hide away, then you can always move it roughly about.

    mynamesnotbob
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    I went with Cat6 but it is an overhead to install, 12 cables to living room corner where all the A/V stuff is, 2 more behind TV along with HDMI going back to A/V corner. 2 in each bedroom,, 4 in kitchen, 6 in study.

    All terminate to understairs cupboard where it goes to a 48 port gig switch, with trunks to NAS and router, and onto fibre to the internet.

    2 Wifi AP’s downstairs, 2 upstairs.

    2 x Pair of Coax for sat dish down to understair, and 1 x Coax for TV. 2 x Pair of Co-ax back to Living room and all bedrooms from understairs

    This way I can get full gig wired speed in every room, stream movies at full HD to multiple rooms, TV/Sat in each room, WiFi flooding the place, stream HDMI anywhere with HDMI over cat5e etc

    For every cable you install, install a pair, you’ll use it in the end (this is for Co-Ax and Eth).

    As already said you should wire all back to a single point and you can then run whatever you want over it at some point in the future.

    If you have a choice, always pick cable over wifi for distribution. Use WiFi for device connection with additional AP’s, anything else, if you can cable, cable it.

    For speaker cables, if you are stripping walls, and know where the speakers, amp and TV will go – wire for a 7.1 system (just in case), also think of HDMI (but you could use more cat6 and do it over that)

    Or if you mainly just browse the internet and not a lot else, just throw some AP’s in and don’t worry!

    mynamesnotbob
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    That’s interesting. They used to only have 20″ frames (which is, luckily, what I was after), but now they’ve got an 18″ one too. It comes with a £400 premium though, which presumably reflects the fact that there aren’t many 18″ frames left in 26″ flavour (so grab it while you can).

    I think thats because of the custom colour

    mynamesnotbob
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    661 riot pads, wear them all day without issue – sweaty, but forget they are on when .

    I’m sure there are better

    mynamesnotbob
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    I have Infinity FTTP (so fibre directly into the house, not cab, but same backhaul).

    I can connect to all manner of VPN’s in work and clients, never had an issue. This is sometimes multiple machines.

    Also I have a VPN router inside my network, so I can stream content from my NAS when I’m away – again works fine, so all inbound and outbound seems to work.

    I’ve never found a blocked port.

    The Homehub on the other hand is very consumer so you have to open ports I believe – chuck it in the bin and get something better, the time saved on not having to reboot the router will offset any cost of a decent router.

    mynamesnotbob
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    Just take enough cash for tips, everything else just pay for on CC’s – none of mine attract fees and the exchange rates are better than cash you get locally.

    mynamesnotbob
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    Japanese probably, some nice sushi and sashimi then a ton of shabu-shabu.

    Or anything else from Asia generally, maybe a Malaysian curry – best curry’s I’ve had

    mynamesnotbob
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    It’s coming to X0 next year:

    http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/1×11-trickles-down

    Shimano still not behind it

    mynamesnotbob
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    As you said it is the exhaust packing like this:

    If it was the cat it would be metallic honeycomb.

    If your exhaust is blowing, and shedding it’s contents then it’s pretty screwed, yes

    mynamesnotbob
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    For the heat argument, it shouldn’t be much of a problem – many do it and the heat through a proper chimney will be easily managable by the TV. Most important is making sure you have a proper anchor point to stick to.

    For the height, official answer is generally:

    Your “eyes” should be about 1/3 of the way up the screen. When sitting in my couch, my eyes are about 37″ from the ground. Based on that, you’d want the bottom of the set to be about 20″ from the ground.

    E=eye height
    S=screen height
    B=bottom of TV

    E-(S/3)= B
    37 – (50/3)= 20.3

    Otherwise as others said you will have it too high for long periods, unless you lay down or slouch alot. If you are intent on it, to really capture the chav look you should have the cables just dangling behind the TV not chased into the wall. And the box for the TV should be left in the garden for about a month

    mynamesnotbob
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    Depends how cheap and cheerful you want. There is a premier in on the A4 pretty close http://www.premierinn.com/en/hotel/NEWPMI/newbury-/-thatcham

    Hinds Head in Aldermaston
    http://www.hindsheadaldermaston.co.uk/

    Little Park Farm B+B
    http://www.b-and-b-berkshire.co.uk/

    There is not much in Tadley it’s fair to say

    mynamesnotbob
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    Well – he’ll have to pay Duty and VAT on it when he brings it through customs.

    You have a £300 limit for electrical goods, so you won’t on a gopro:

    http://www.heathrow-airport-guide.co.uk/dutyfree.html

    mynamesnotbob
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    Oh OK your opinion then.

    Coke in the petrol station was 2 x 500ml for £2, and petrol was 1 litre for £1.40ish. So petrol is cheaper litre v’s litre from the same shop

    Petrol did take significantly more effort to make than coke, so there is a comparison. I don’t however drink 150litres of coke a week, so I can live with the cost of Coke.

    Petrol is getting harder and harder to extract so the cost will keep rising as a base price, but the tax is getting stupid. As others have said driving is a just something we have to do, not an option so we’re stuck with it. Demand is high so prices remain high – both in tax as they know we have no choice, and as a base price supply/demand will always be king – they charge what we will pay, and we keep paying.

    Qatar get it cheap as it’s at source and is subsidised by the goverment, same as manyu countries in the same region.

    Driving is still just about the cheapest way around for me though despite 1kmiles a week, if I did that on a train the cost would be much much more and I’d still need cabs each end.

    mynamesnotbob
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    I take it you mean Airport Extreme v’s Airport Express.

    Main differences are:

    Extreme has 4 ports, wired gig ports, higher throughput. Better support of port forwarding, higher throughut tx.

    Express has Airply output (optical and analogue).

    The new version of the Express added dual band wifi, and the latest firware release added ability to support guest networks accross multiple AP’s.

    I have (3) Expresses in the bedrooms for streaming and coverage, Extreme is the main router. Also have a Time Machine in the living room (Extreme with a disc). All have been rocksolid and up since I moved in before Christmas and never off.

    NONE have a modem – all are pure router, youy will still need your fibre or ADSL modem

    mynamesnotbob
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    Modifying one of these:

    http://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/motorsport/intercom-headsets/sparco-intercom-headset-kit-for-is110-intercom

    Or these:

    http://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/motorsport/intercom-headsets/terratrip-peltor-compatible-professional-intercom-headset

    Will do the trick. Both are light

    I’ve used them in my full face for rallying but they are obviously there for a different purpose – range is very mid focused for voices and a car on gravel is much louder than a bit of wind noise. Generally it’s just easier to use proper buds or get custom fit one for your ears if you want a better sound.

    Integrated would obviously mean cutting up your lining

    mynamesnotbob
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    A decent body shop should be able to pull/push most of the dent out, light filler, 2k build primer and then finish.

    If they are even thinking of just filling the hole with filler just walk away and find another body shop.

    if the body shop also aren’t sure the best way of doing it, then again, maybe best to walk away.

    mynamesnotbob
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    Photos I have a RAW version and JPEG. RAW are sorted by date in reverse data format to make sorting like others have said. Proocessed JPEG’s are by type (Car, Bike, Events, etc), then sub catagory (so car has each car I’ve owned, or event type) then if needed another level under that (so car would have maybe location or event etc). Tags for descripton throughout.

    Just makes it easy to go and look for say pictures of bikes and they are all there, so easy to find.

    Videos sorted by pre or post edited. For post it’s then by type, format (HD etc) then file with tags. Unedited are by type, then date.

    All other files are sorted by category (Finance, House, etc), subcat then date.

    All work is sorted by client, then phase then deliverables – mail structure replicates this so I can find an file in an instant. My head just works in phases so it fits my thinking.

    I need to get out more I think 😕

    mynamesnotbob
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    Tacx Satori here. I keep mine in the living room and get through TV shows on love film or the rare times there is something good on TV, staring at a wall would be far worse!

    mynamesnotbob
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    Yes they do recover batteries if not too far gone, it’s still sounding like yours holds some kind of charge.

    But if its a daily driver battery, not a specialist race batt etc, just replace it – far easier

    mynamesnotbob
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    My sister and BIL have both down it, starting around 2 years ago. It kick started them to change their lives. Tought my BIL to start thinking about what he was shoving into his mouth, being a strict counting system it meant he could focus on counting rather than eating (if that makes sense).

    He lost about 5 stone, and has changed his life – now runs, swims 2k 3 times a week, mountain boards EVERYWHERE. Now stable, eats anything, but is aware what he is eating so knows better how to control it.

    Sister did it with him and lost a tone too, she ended up the smallest she’s been since she was 14 (and shes now double that age with 2 kids).

    Being locked into a system worked for both of them as they had to apply a system to things (both logical people) – it also helped that their kids became WW Nazi’s and despite being 4 and 6 would tell them off for eating things that were high in ‘points’.

    Saying that, counting calories on a restricted calorie diet would have had the same result I guess

    mynamesnotbob
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    I wouldn’t worry, had you been mining it, or working with it for months on end, then worry.

    And if it was damp, then thats how you should transport it anyway – so even less reason to worry!

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