that was my first though but it seems to be part of the frame

I think the answer is yes in all cases. Unlikely but possible

My insurance was about £50 and covers the lifetime of my ownership so not worth the risk really.

We’ve converted the main entrance/ gasket of my Covent Garden office into a bike store with wall mounted vertical hanging racks. I think that we’ve decided that the benefits to our staff outweigh the additional requirements for cleaning.

Yup fully agree.

Managed to buy the only available (at short notice) ones and bunged about 10 on the walls as a trial. Seems since doing it we’ve seen a 200% increase in people cycling in which can only be a good thing i think.

if it continues past august, we’ll look at invesing in a shower/changing room.

Asthetically its growing on me, quite like it now.

thanks again

I commute in by bike everyday; do you really want several muddy, road-grity, wet bikes hung up in a communal area of the office?

Not really no!

We asked the staff what would make them feel more comfortable about coming back to the office should they wish and the main response was an alternative to public transport or the shocking parking prices.

However we are in the centre of Brighton and it seems that if you leave a bike (not even a good one) outside it’s gone.

Sadly our landlord is not interested in anything communal.

Even more sadly post Covid, we now have a bit of space in one corner of the office.

Bike racks have been the limit of my thinking on the issue so far.

Thanks! either the topeak or the steady rack would work.

I found these: https://www.thebikestoragecompany.co.uk/product/vertical-bike-rack/ but i think the swivelling/folding of the steady rack would be way better.

Thanks everyone!

Going to try teams (as I have office 365 premium) followed by zoom

However looks like teams is fubar today??

Perhaps it’s the 6 month free trial announcement

Thanks again

No I appreciate that

Edit: ahh that makes sense

Given the current ‘uncertainty’ surrounding the economy etc I’m not sure if I was in full time employment that I’d be choosing this year to leave and set up on my own unless I had a few decent contracts lined up or enough in the kitty to weather it out for a while.

Probably sensible advice, but I’d argue now is a good time if you have the appetite for risk. In my business we’ve been looking at HR for next year and the general feeling is to hold off any significant hires and plug any gaps with freelancers.

carjet.com

Buy their insurance

I bought a shockwiz, thought it would revolutionise my riding. Turns out my settings were about right and i’m just shit.

£30 quid a week rental – £200 deposit, i take paypal

:)

And, name me one reliable Java desktop app.

jEdit

+1 to that

Still my fallback editor even after all these years – even good on a mac.

It is the only one i can think of though :)

build both web and app?

https://electronjs.org/

<ducks>

is there any reason to have it as a standalone application rather than browser based?

Sounds like the answer to your question is…probably not. Unless you need to access native OS features or your user base demands/prefers a desktop app – hard to say with out seeing a feature set.

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Aldi champagne

£10 and I like it as much as some £30 bottles I’ve tried (I’m no expert though!)

In fact if I’m going to a friends for dinner I’ll often take a bottle to make it look like I’m wealthier/more generous than I actually am

I’m the same.

riding into work this morning I saw a young woman about to step on to a pedestrian crossing, I slowed to stop and she saw me so started crossing. Just as she did another cyclist overtook me on the inside and rode across the crossing just missing her.

I decided I was going to catch him at the next lights a tell him what a twunt he was.

i did manage to catch him but when it came to it I decided not to bother. Not in the slightest bit scared of him (I was much bigger) I just don’t like confrontation in my life.

then spent the rest of the day annoyed that I’d not said anything (still am)

This is my personal definition of success. When money just keeps appearing in your account without you doing anything.

long may it continue for you :)

Mine loves his Thule seat

Hey escrs, can you remember what model yours was??

Yepp or ride-along ??

cheers

I have a couple of spacers between the headset and the stem and I clamp it to those with a piece of innertube to protect the headset.

i find you can nip it up loose enough so you can still turn the bars but it supports the seat – obviously not ideal but I find it fine for pootling round the woods

like the look of those Thule ones though!

Good thread, thanks!

My little girl has just turned two, she is small too so though I’d have to wait till she was a bit older before getting her one. Apparently not.

I’ve obviously been a bad father!

I’m off to do some research

cheers

I’d argue my insurance company try to defraud me every year by just sticking a 100 quid on the renewal  and seeing If i notice.

I then have to call up threaten to leave, they go and “chat to a supervisor” and see what they can do on the price, and surprise surprise it’s back down to the same amount again.

Thanks all,

its in the body shop.

Fortunatly a while back, my wife forced me to do a small direct debit each month into another account just for car expenses. Not that it makes it any less annoying but least it’s covered. I was really anti the idea and dug my heels in at the time.

Might have to do the manly thing and admit she was right. But I doubt I will :)

Yea £500 to get it fixed

So this event has been running for years

Woman has been given prior notification and decides to go ride her popo in the middle of a bike race.

Surely she carries some of the blame, it would be over by 12.00 and she could have gone doing her recreational activity then.

Awh what a lovely morning, perfect for a ride on  spirit (horses name changed for legal reasons)

Trit-trot

oh there’s a lot of cyclists today, ahh it’s the triathlon, forgot about that. Knew I should have kept up my uk triathlon newsletter subscription – damn GDPR.

Never mind, I’ll get off at the next junction

trit-trot

CRUNCH

if you can wait till november and you want a proper one: https://www.willaid.org.uk/

whist a systemd service would probably be my first choice you can use cron to  run your tcpdump script as suggested earlier using the @reboot option if your crond supports it like vixie cron etc.

edit: it does.. https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/linux/usage/cron.md

re the usb, perhaps your USB drivers are not loaded when the root file system is first mounted.

you are not using pmount are you? IIRC if you have a directory on the stick which is the same name as an existing mount point it will get appended with a one, check you don’t have an actual directory at /media/pi/TCPDUMP if you are.

you should be able to mount the stick on boot via fstab but you could try usbmount ive had more success automounting with it in some cases and that should work from a boot if you run something like udevadm trigger –action=add /dev/sdd<x> before you run tcpdump

do you want to run tcpdump when the usb is automounted or will it always be in the device and just mount on boot if so, theres a specific chain of events that you’ll need to get in order.

thought about running ntop as a service instead?

cheers

try not to get eaten by the midges :)

second (third) the chip van

thanks all!

IF it’s Hollowtech II then it’s a Shimano BB not SRAM.

erm deliberate mistake, i was err just testing you ;-) erm yes oops.

Sorry that doesnt help, except maybe just bite the bullet and get the LBS to remove it? Unless the bike is a stock-build and you can trace the specs?

if its £25 quid i could get all 3 spanner sizes together for less money. Not adverse to funding my LBS (heck most of my spare cash ends up there!) but this in theory should be a simple repeatable job once i have the right tool.

Going to buy a standard diameter socket like above and one of those adapters and take it from there.

thanks for all the help

We should start a GDPR sticky then I can do GDPR 24 hours a day…..

Sad when PCI DSS and ISO27001 make a pleasant change….

By the way anyone fancy some GDPR consultancy work as we have projects coming out of our ears.

Hopefully not like any of the consultants I’ve had darken my doors. I know little enough about GDPR to know i need professional help but the last few we’ve had in masquerading as consultants knew less than me when pressed for a yes/no answer.

Its a bigger fiddle than SEO was back in the day IMO, can see a few businesses being screwed over.

Its fast becoming a massive pain in my ass.

/rant over

grrr

Holding ALL customer data for 5 years because you MIGHT need a small percentage for audit purposes is not necessary or proportionate.

I think you are right, however at present we don’t get to make that choice (if we want to file audited accounts)

Thanks all

As above, i have found most of these issues divide opinon so its hard for the layman to get a clear picture.

The audit was just a random example that popped into my head, Hopefully the auditors would adjust the process if i told them the requested customer record was erased.

What about accounting systems, sage etc

the ico says you can refuse to

comply with a legal obligation for the performance of a public interest task or exercise of official authority

surely we can store a customer name against a transaction for 5 years?

Whats more important is that you can demonstrate to the ICO that you have put policies and procedures in place to secure the data. You also need a procedure to follow in the event of a breach.

will they produced these guidelines for these policies soon? the ICO site suggests they are still working on them.

So many questions so few answers!

How do i find good consultant? Anyone here based in the south east?

Not looking for free advice. I have spoken to several experts in the last few months and not one could answer most of my questions, wait to see what the ICO say seems to be the goto answer.

Addressed the data security to one and he said i’d be fine if i was using SSL – might print out my Comodo invoice and stick it to the door, covered!

Interesting Post meant to reply at the time, but busy time of year for me :(

I, like the OP have been to a few seminars but not sure what actual changes i really need to be making.

In fact i got the distinct impression the people running the seminar didn’t really know either.

Everyone is focusing on marketing and collection of emails, to which the new legistlations seem logical and sensible to me. However feel its a secondary concern compared to the secure storage of customer data. Its hard to find a definitive list of best practices regarding this.

I work in the travel industry and whilst the right to be forgotten again seems sensible, i guess we can refuse this till the booking has departed (not that anyone would ask but you never know). More practially, as part of thier anual process our auditiors pick random bookings from the last 5 years and we need to supply full customer details. There must be a consent for this, just like i assume i can’t ask the HMRC for the right to be forgotten :)

Seems to be a lot of people jumping on the consultancy band wagon and mudding the waters (even though i guess we will end up hiring one as we want to get it right)

Interesting to see a thread on here as you might get a more balanced view, perhaps!

As an aside, anyone recommend a method for storing/sharing passwords? we use internally hosted application at he momement but unsure about all these cloud services roboform, lastpass enterprse etc.

I will go a little against all the rose tinted stuff up there. The first seven months for both boys was utterly shit with a couple of brief moments of joy.

Ha yea, wish people would actually tell you how hard it really is!!

All those telly adverts with perfect babies and their perfect families used to wind me right up, especially at 4 in the morning when I’d not slept for 72 hours and was covered in baby shit.

You do get through it though.

Congratulations!

Trust me when he/she arrives any reservations will be forgotten!

Think society is older as a whole now, heck I’ll be working till I’m 80 at this rate.

Im 40 and have a 19 month old daughter and one due in May. If anything it’s given me the drive to stay fit.

Not that I feel it would have any massive impact on her happiness but I am in a much better financial position than when I was 30. I’ve also had longer to reflect on the positive aspects of my upbringing and how to replicate those.

As mentioned previously I’d focus my worry on the first few months of hell that is unleashed post birth and how to get as much riding/sleep as possible before then

Road: well I don’t have a road bike so I guess I’d have to get one first. It’s that doable for £350??

MTB: some fancy cranks

If I had know then what I know now I’d have 100% still had my daughter but I’d have been more prepared!

I’d have probably taken a 6 month sabbatical to go riding before hand, coz I damn well ain’t doing it now :)

8 kids though?! I salute you sir!

I’ve got an iPhone X and to be honest I don’t really notice much difference from my 6s

The way it doesn’t show the content of text messages till you look at it is quite cool but that’s about it.

I wasn’t wowed put it that way

Blimey – doing a quick search….has anyone bought anything from lightinthebox.com?

I was hovering over the buy button for a tarantula on there last night.

Guess you’d have to add on 20% duty plus the £35 uk delivery.

One thing I couldn’t work out was if the voltages were ok to use in uk?

Vodafone

They could be good but they can’t be bothered

Torn right rotator cuff
Smashed knee cap
Heart attack

Just out of interest… was it crash resulting in heart attack or heart attack resulting in crash, or was it 3 seperate visits :)

Amazon deliveries

My parents next door neighbour invented the wind-up radio. AFAIK even though he did well out of it there was some IP issue along the way, so much so that he set up a company to help inventors not get stitched up.

Don’t know any specifics, only of its existence: http://www.trevorbaylisbrands.com/%5B/url%5D, might be worth a look