Haven’t got adaptive cruise on mine, just the normal cruise but whilst on cruise on downhills it will apply the braking to keep the speed constant. That is due to there being no engine braking at all on my car, it has a CVT gearbox and regenerative braking. So going downhill in gear not only uses less or no fuel depending on the incline but also charges the dirty great big battery located below the back seats, thereby increasing the range. Pulse and coast works great for upping the MPG.

Guess it is a bit geeky but I’ve just spent this evening getting a Owncloud server up and running, plenty of fine tuning yet to go but the logic is sharing files and a calendar across desktops and mobile apps or various operating systems and keeping all of the files and information under my control.

Sausage and red onion marmalade

Mushy peas, makes for a nuclear hot toastie

Pizza toastie, cheese, pepperoni, ham and peppers

I’m using a Draytek 2860, ADSL/VDSL modem built in with two additional WAN ports that you can connect to a modem and a 3G dongle for backup/load sharing, 6 x 1Gb LAN ports, WiFi, QoS and lots of other features.

A lot of people find that the router attached to the BT modem is the bottleneck rather than the modem, with lots of the lower end routers not having the grunt to handle the increased throughput that the FTTC provides.

BT Openreach are in the process of withdrawing the provision of the modem (similar to what happened with ADSL in the early days) this year so most providers will be going to an all in one unit of some description at some point (or already have)

It’ll make a difference, but the ‘Wich’ section (16-18/19) will slow you down, no reasons but it’ll be in a crawl in places.

Did mine weeks ago no issues with it at all, no changes in volume/notifications, doesn’t feel any faster or slower than before, struggling to see any real changes going from 4.x to 5.x apart from the different feel to the recent apps/swipe away function.

Threaten them with one of these

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/feb/06/barber-disciplines-kids-old-man-haircut

I just stayed high up today, frozen snow, frozen ruts and thick patches of ice, being pinged from one rut to another, good fun.

In one of my finer moments, my boss and I were talking to our depts HR rep, she said that they had just been thru an office move up to the fifth floor next door to the staff canteen, “what about the smell” my boss asked, before she could reply I chipped in “the canteen staff don’t mind” he had tears coming down his face stifling has laughing, whilst she was giving me daggers and did do for weeks after.

It’s been like that a little while now, been that way a couple of times in the past few months, first time it looked like an attempt at levelling had been done with some hardcore/stones thrown in (or dug up) two weeks ago it was a mess.

Another trailer, looking even better

Well you can probably guess how long I lasted before ordering one, it arrived this morning

Yup.. 323

Clwyds yesterday

Due out next month http://techreport.com/news/27723/gearbox-homeworld-remake-due-february-25 trailer is a bit light on actual in game footage but what there is looks decent, plus pretty light PC specs.

How many hours do you sleep each night?

What did you use to put the GPS data on the vid? Have you got plenty of frozen veg in the freezer to use as ice packs?

All the snow and ice has gone, bar a hand full of patches high up, it’s back to the usual Clwyds winter conditions.

There was mid week higher up say above 250/300m ASL below it’s usual muddy conditions.

and now to confuse things a bit more you can now use WhatsApp in a web browser on a PC

http://blog.whatsapp.com/

Clwyds only a light dusting

Second the Elite quiet and minimal tyre wear.

Totally agree with Binners, coming down Drum I hit one section of rocks that quick my vision started to blur on me. I’ve also been at the crossroads at the bottom of the climb watching people turn blue and that was in a July!

Plenty to choose from here http://www.quietpc.com/lga775-coolers depends on how much space you have inside your case as the larger (and quieter) ones can take up a fair bit of space.

Don’t use it in the rain everytime you rock back the tyre will aquaplane

Will it be 650b to ensure that the spinning creates the optimum wave action

Had a quick Google EXIF tool can shift the date/times, syntax is >>

exiftool “-DateTimeOriginal+=Y:M:D h:m:s” filename.jpg

To shift by 5 hours and 30 mins it would be >>

exiftool “-DateTimeOriginal+=0:0:0 5:30:0” filename.jpg

A negative shift by one day would be >>

exiftool “-DateTimeOriginal-=0:1:0 0:0:0” filename.jpg

I’ve just been enjoying exploring, looking out of the windows sometimes can be spectacular, have to get good at avoiding intercepts or fighting with exploring thou.

Exiftool is probably capable of doing it, depending on your command line skills, I only sussed out how to use it examine the EXIF data and then batch rename all the images in a folder to names based on the date and time the image was taken. But it’s capable of writing EXIF data too.

http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

CB R15 OpenGL stock is 132

Firestrike stock 8055 overall with graphics at 9242 physics at 10588
with the CPU overclock its 8200, 9259 and 12299

Mines the R9-280X Toxic Edition which will hold that 1150 boost all the time plus its got 2×8 Pin PCI power connectors to fuel it. No need to play with the powertune settings at all.

1920×1080 for screen res and the latest Catalyst drivers (non beta) off AMD earlier this week.

http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?cid=1&gid=3&sgid=1227&pid=2023&psn=&lid=1&leg=0

Are you sure its at that clock all the time and not throttling in some way as mine needs a hell of a lot more power to support those clocks.

I’ll do some 3D Mark runs tomorrow and see what I get. I can also get the PSU software to do a pile of logging in the background on temps and power draws so I’ll set that up too.

Ah but I bet your GPU isn’t running at an 1100 Core 1150 boost with memory at 6.4Ghz with a beast of a heatsink and three fans on it, that’s the out of the box settings.

Ram is DDR1600 8-8-8-24 1.5v CPU is 4.3 across all cores with two or less able to run at 4.4 using multiplier only with a max of 1.248v.

CB R15 single is 172, multi is 864 with a max temp of 55C OpenGL is 155.23fps on a R9-280X

One other thing to do I notice you have your hard drives in the cages down at the bottom move them up out of the way of the fan, if they are SATA they are not likely to be needing a fan blowing on them all the time and will survive just fine in the other bays higher up. That way you can also remove the cages holding them and have a really good unimpeded cool air flow in to the bottom of the case from that fan.

Good thermal paste, lapping heatsinks really does depend on the heatsink/manufacturer some do some don’t.

What might be worth a try is switching off that rear 120 as its competing/diverting the airflow from the heatsink fan and top fan. I found that I was getting a cooler overall setup with just the heatsink fans and rear on mine without using the top ones. Where I did find the top ones to be of use is when I’m hammering the CPU and GPU as a fair bit of air leaks around the GPU instead out of the back, so possibly switch on your rear fan in a similar scenario.

I found out all of this by using a FAN controller in one of the drive bays and trying various combinations and monitoring not only the CPU temp but all the other sensors on the motherboard. Also when I upgraded to a Asus Mobo it’s Fan Expert software came to a similar conclusion.

Your current heatsink fan is not really drawing any air over your RAM so your suggestion of turning it 90 degrees might be worth a try if so then the rear fan will be of more use.

frostytech.com and silentpcreview.com are worth a read.

I’m using a Noctua NH-D14 which works great but its a beast of a heatsink so it needs a deep case.

I’m thinking that a bit of tweaking on fans might get you some improvement on your CPU temp and possibly the motherboard/RAM.

As an example to get the best airflow in mine I run it with a negative internal air pressure, more exhaust fans than input, which makes for a dustier machine but it runs quieter and cooler that way. All of the case and CPU fans are PWM controlled via the motherboard and during normal use only the rear fan and CPU fans need to run at 600RPM to keep everything cool, flat out all of the fans don’t need to run at more than 700RPM to keep everything in control. I’ve a 4770K running a 4.2Ghz which is 700Mhz over stock.

What’s your cooling scheme for the entire system not just the CPU?

What fans are placed where and are they sucking air in or out, how are they controlled? Where’s the PSU placed and what is it’s fan doing? What CPU cooler with what fan(s) blowing in which direction also what paste are you using?

Netflix are starting to clamp down on such tricks http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/03/netflix-clamps-down-on-vpns/