Popping a wheelie in the Marin Trail car park, flipping over backwards and landing hard, I was lying there thinking I hope that’s mud underneath my shorts as otherwise I have just shat myself. Did the trail afterwards but I my Coccyx was in agony for weeks after.

Look at the Raspberry Pi lots of resources on teaching/learning and probably the best choice of coding languages to install as needed.

Plus if you screw it up it’s easy enough to wipe the OS and re-install, unlike the laptop which will take hours/days to sort out.

Use spoon handles and if you bend one make sure it’s not from the Missus fave cutlery set.

When you wake yourself screaming when you roll over in your sleep

Second OneNote really handy, if I’m out on the road then its back to a paper notebook but when I get back in I just take a quick pic of the pages using a scanner app on my phone and put the images into a OneNote page and some keywords included for the particular day(s)

methnks there you go brought up to 21st century

Moe: “Power off Einstein” when he brains Homer with a plank

+1 Keepass with encrypted database on Dropbox but then for added security you can setup Keepass so that as well as the main password it needs a keyfile to decrypt the DB. I manually add the keyfile to the devices/PC’s I use Keepass on.

Keepass can then be setup to use on each individual login whatever password rules are in place for that particular site/system, length of password, characters used and so on and then generate a random password.

Try a wet ride in the Dark Peak mid-winter it could easily end up costing you £30-£40 in a set of new brake pads and a chain.

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Why not spend the extras and go for the Defy Comp 1 2014. Comes with ultegra 11 speed and retails for £1599. Most shops could give you 10% off too so for £90 more you get an updated bike with a superior group set and the support of a shop not an internet store.

I did exactly this today, went to a LBS and had a look at both the 105 Synapse and the Defy Comp 1 2014 as they had both in stock. Fit was exactly what I was looking for on the Defy, being just over 6ft2 with a longer torso and shorter legs than many 6+footers, the reach was how I wanted it and that along with the really smooth shifting (esp at the front) of the Ultegra sold it for me, pick it up next week.

Sony and Nikon are compact system cameras with changeable lenses but are not Micro Four Thirds. MFT are made by Panasonic and Olympus (and soon to be Kodak)

The Panasonic G5 with a kit lens can be found for £250 now which is a good deal, but the GX1 is a metal body and a lot tougher and a bit more compact, however the smallest of the lot is the GM1 its smaller than a lot of compact cameras but you can still swap lenses on it.

I’ve seized the engine in a works van. Oil pressure warning light came on, checked the oil and it was fine so I carried on driving and after about two miles the van got slower and slower and slower until it stopped and the engine wouldn’t turn. Local engineering centre mechanics towed it back and I then had to face the local fleet manager gloating away thinking he was going to give a lowly tech a good roasting over hot coals due to killing an engine by neglecting oil checks, he made the mechs check the oil level three times until he was convinced it was OK. Turned out the oil pump had died, lucky escape for me.

Next in line for Android System are synch settings for various accounts. Go into Settings/Accounts and work your way through all the accounts you have for various services/apps and change the default synch settings into them to something more sensible. For example I use Evernote across my devices but its just as easy to manually synch it every time I open the app rather than it constantly doing it in the background eating up the battery. Oh and turn off Google Now if you don’t really use it.

First thing to look at if its Android System that is top of the battery usage is Location, turn it off and watch your battery drain drop.

Had a bounce on one around Halfords in Chester the other week, 19′ fitted me quite well. Looks well built/specced on close inspection apart from the heavyish rims, been thinking of getting one on C2W.

While back now, but stuck in a jam on the M6 where a tanker full of cows blood had crashed and overturned, spreading the blood on the carriageway, the fire brigade started to hose it down then some bright spark said what about BSE? (This was right at the beginning of BSE so hysteria was at its height) so they downed tools for a while, got a bit whiffy waiting in that jam.

Second the tin of it from Maplin it lasts for ages, only problem is that Maplin is designed to appeal to your mind and you’ll walk out of there with other stuff you had never planned or thought of buying.

Bad Grandpa funniest film I’ve seen in a while.

The Toms Hardware graphics card performance hierarchy chart will help you

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/gaming-graphics-card-review,review-32899-7.html

AMD wise your budget will easily fit the likes of the R9 270 as for Nvidia the 750Ti has had some great reviews

Mines just arrived, my that was painless to install and get running.

Looks like a Head Doctor in it to me, but scoring looks like a SFN has been inserted (bashed in) at some point too.

Don’t ride it and as per everyone else get rid of the forks or new crown steerer unit.

I think that perhaps the stock Fox Float is tuned for the 120 so I will have to either stick some spacers inside the air can for the 150 or go for a coil shock tuned for the 150.

Next on the upgrade list for mine is RS Lyrik MiCo & rebound damper, as I stuck some cheap 1.5 steerer two step air Lyriks on that I changed to coil u-turn instead.

Have to say Saint’s on Hope rotors make for some eyeball popping braking.

Another Hemlock, decided that its better with 120mm rear rather than the 150mm

John, worth working out if you went SIM only when your contract renewal comes up and you buy the phone (£260 on Amazon) SIM free, will it work out cheaper than whatever your mobile operator offers you as a deal on the phone.

Reading the reviews it appears that whilst it is a good idea, as it is a 1st Generation of the idea it falls short as a phone and as a camera.

If you want to dump the camera and just use a smartphone for your photos then the best by far is the Nokia Lumia 1020.

Review of the Samsung & the Nokia
http://www.photographyblog.com/reviews/samsung_galaxy_s4_zoom_review/
http://www.photographyblog.com/reviews/nokia_lumia_1020_review/

I use a Galaxy Note 3 which I love but as a camera it falls far short of what even a semi decent compact camera can do, so I still take a camera out with me despite the extra faff.

By GB does it mean Gigabits or Gigabytes? Normal for networking is for it to mean bits

So for 534Gigabits you might as well say is 53Gigabytes which over nearly two days with some devices downloading/streaming is likely.

I worked down that way 1994-2000 first of all living in Hatch Warren which is exactly as prior posters have said, then I moved out to Monk Sherborne a few miles outside of Basingstoke and again like previous posts a lot lot nicer.

Got Western Digital Black 750Gb 7200rpm 2.5 SATA3 right in front of me now for a Mini ITX build. Looking at the WD site that’s the max they do at that RPM http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=790

I rebuilt my main PC recently with the following spec

Intel I7 4770K
Asus Z87 Pro motherboard
2x8Gb Crucial Ballistix DDR3-1600 RAM (Runs great at 1866 so a bargain)
Sapphire Toxic R9 280X
Samsung Evo SSD (Stunningly quick)

I value silence in a PC unless its being hammered 100% so I fitted it with a Noctua DH-14 heatsink and 4 Notuca case fans.

The Asus Z87 Pro is well worth a look for the whole AI suite of software that comes with it to control overclocking, power saving and cooling. It profiles all the fans works out their stall speed and works out the optimum flows to keep everything cool, then for the overclocking click a button and it goes and tests everything and then sets a CPU overclock based on your individual build, maybe not the best that can be got if you know your stuff but for just one click its a lot easier to do.

It’s a Doofer

Roadrat

Call of Duty World at War, think my fave out of all of the CoD series, nice and intense.

Nothing compared to the steps on the really old poles that used to bend when you put weight on them, on a 90 footer you couldn’t even use your belt until you were near the top, there used to be a couple of them in Chester and they used to fill you with dread if you had a fault on one of them, knew guys who’d just pass a fault straight to u/g rather than climb them and prove it.

Are there still many Arsenic treated poles knocking about?

Other question is have you checked that the pole is safe to climb with a ladder? So of the things I needed to look at when I was a BT engr back in the 80’s – did all the overhead construction courses.

Are there any obstructions within a metre or so of the pole? I.e spiked railings and the like.

Is the pole buried in the ground deep enough, for example a BT pole will have a 3 metre mark on it which should be at about head height or lower when you stand next to it. Is there a D label on it, if so the pole testing crew have already been around and deemed it dangerous and in need of replacement, do not climb.

Is it rotten? Get a metal hammer and start tapping at regular intervals all round and from ground level, nice metallic ring is OK, dull thud and chances are its rotten and will only need a good push to get it over.

I quite enjoy it to while a few hours away in survival mode (big kid aged 47) got it on my Xbox, PC/Laptop and phone, PC version is the best. Another ace use of Dropbox for synching saves between PC & Laptop.

Same size and usability of a tablet, but as it has got an x86 CPU which means it runs the full bifta version of MS Windows 8.1 not like the semi crippled Surface RT and I’m running the full everything included version of Office 2013 on it.

http://www.asus.com/uk/Tablets_Mobile/ASUS_VivoTab_Smart/

I use KeePass to generate and hold the logins and passwords. The encrypted file holding it all is on Dropbox so I can use KeePass on my PC’s, Phone and Tablet keeping it all in sync.

Class B has 16 network bits and 16 host bits, a Class C has 24 network bits and 8 host bits.

Running a /64 here

If said work laptop had a Wifi card and an Ethernet port you might be in with a chance.

Connnect to your router via the Ethernet.

On the router, bind the MAC of the Ethernet port to an IP address, say 192.168.1.10 add a rule to open up the RDP port and point it to 192.168.1.10

RDP in to the laptop then kick off the VPN connection but via the Wifi.

The Corsair can probably output near to its entire 600W via the 12volt cables if needed in the region of 40-45amps I guess.

Older PSUs can be limited on their 12V output. As an example my old 700W could only do 16amps on each of its 12V connections. So 2x12V connections = 32amps on my old 700W PSU vs 40-45amps across the pair of connections on your lower wattage at 600W PSU.

They could have just planted something in your mind by saying it would be slower, you have to time things to be sure.