If you are a Bitmap Bros fan then Z Orgins (Z Steel Soldiers) is available and is a good RTS. Demolition Inc HD is good fun too.

With the pre-ground Illy (The Red can or the Green for Decaff) two really level scoops tamped in with one of these heavy Wooden tampers >>
http://www.happydonkey.co.uk/coffee-tampers.html

Into a bottomless Portafilter >> http://www.happydonkey.co.uk/gaggia-domestic-portafilter.html Then you soon know if you have it right or not as it’ll spray all over the place if you get it wrong or give a really great pour if you get it right.

I usually go for a light to medium roast, too dark a roast and it tastes too bitter to me.

Here’s a Double Double

Guess it depends on the definition of assault weapon if semi automatic with a magazine counts then yes he uses one (well did at the time I was last over) We had a discussion about the legality of it due to the size of the magazine and as it was an existing firearm it didn’t come under the ban in place for assault rifles.

Flip side I’ve a cousin who got laid off his job in the Gulf of Mexico and kept a roof above his and his family’s heads and kept them fed for just over a year until things improved by hunting with his rifle. For them it was a tool rather than some macho/crime preventing implement.

Kind of reminded me of the escape from Colditz glider

Each to their own, means more chance of decent healthy organs from fit young uns for us oldies.

I’ve been running a 9speed XT long cage mech on my CX bike for a couple of years now with a 11-32 cassette, SORA shifters thou.

Phew! But will that require some industrial levels of engineering to fit, I’m looking forward to the next instalment(s)

May have missed this in the middle of a excellent man cave thread, but what’s the point of Fort Knox level shutters on the door if there are big skylights that the scrotes can enter/depart via?

I did a four day coast to coast with about 10,000m of climbing on a Cotic Hemlock, just put a Crossmark on the back for lower rolling resistance and apart from one bad afternoon on Day3 did it all OK.

http://www.theedgecycleworks.com/mtbroutes/north-wales-coast-2-coast-day-1/
http://www.theedgecycleworks.com/mtbroutes/north-wales-coast-2-coast-day-2/
http://www.theedgecycleworks.com/mtbroutes/north-wales-coast-2-coast-day-3/
http://www.theedgecycleworks.com/mtbroutes/north-wales-coast-2-coast-day-4/

Riding up the Bwlch y Groes in 90deg heat was fun!

At an international telecoms conference in Cannes (back in Telecoms boom time) sat at lunchtime with a table full of mixed nationalities. Chatting quite loudly to the German guy opposite me I asked if he’d even been to the UK. He replied yes he’d been to Coventry on a training course, I then said bit of a dump isn’t it, he said yes, I then said well we know who’s fault that is. Talk about silence in the cafe..

I’m using Bytemark, mainly as I can set up a virtual machine host along with the domain name, so I can have multiple domain names each with a site and email server/forwarding just how I want.

Got an SGS3 as a works phone and the Note2 as a personal phone, the screen is LOTS better for browsing and the on screen keyboard is slightly larger and has a number row so lots quicker to input messages. It feels quite a bit quicker with apps (faster CPU n more RAM) battery is a third larger again in capacity so can go days without a charge, where as the SGS3 seems to need a charge everyday. As for the S pen have not done that much with it so far other than scrawl down a few peoples email addresses when in a boozy ex-works reunion last week.

First of all you need to realise that there are really two key speeds.

1: Sync speed – the speed that your router/modem synchronises with the DSLAM in the exchange.

2: For any BT supplied ADSL services (in most cases ISP’s utilise a resold BT service, unless you are with an ISP who utilises LLU and has their DSLAM co-located within the BT exchange) an IP Profile. This profile based on 20CN exchanges is usually based on your lowest sync speed over a period of time, about 3 days usually. On 21CN exchanges it is 88.2% of your sync speed.

In theory then your ISP should be giving you a throughput based on your IP profile, however if their backhaul from the DSLAM or their own network is congested (I’m including their Transit/Peering within this) you will be seeing speedtest results lower than your IP profile.

So once the line is stable, note your sync speed, then go to http://test.speedtester.bt.com and follow the instructions there. This will give you your IP profile and what your line is capable of to the Exchange.

Then do some speed tests to the likes of speedtest.net etc and see what you get there. If there is a big difference between the two then its likely to be congestion on the ISP’s network. Getting them to then admit there is depending on ISP can be quite a challenge, I’ve had quite some discussions with friends/family ISP’s in the past and the advice I offer is don’t buy the cheapest…

Back to basics why has the security infrastructure been deployed? For example has it been built to some regulatory or client contractual requirements you need to know these.

@ampthill yes but still a fair few quid cheaper than anyone in the UK. Got a G5 as a primary camera so have a few lenses already.

There are some deals to be had on the likes of last years model the LX5 instead of the LX7 and so on. Saying that the LX7 is a decent price on digitalrev.com I got a Panasonic GX1 for £259 from them other week, they will take care of any duties and it came within three days.

Kindle Fire HD has pretty good parental controls

GoSkyWatch Planetarium

Here you go 3770 16gb GTX660

http://www.aria.co.uk/Systems/Gaming+Range/Next+Day+Gaming+PCs/Gladiator+GTX-3770+Ivy+Bridge+Quad-Core+Next+Day+Gaming+PC+?productId=53182

Mine got that bad it would take 10-15mins of moving my arm with my other arm to get movement back in it every morning. Had to ask people to lift my bike up/take it down off the car roof rack.

Went to my local sports injury physio and he spent quite some time very painfully releasing muscles in my neck and both shoulders, then gave me some exercises to do and that was it sorted (well after weeks of exercises) I just do them every so often now. His description (to a numpty on the subject – me) was that I wasn’t using my full range of movement on a regular basis so things begin to stiffen/tighten up, then one day you do use more range than your now limited range and it causes damage, this damage then builds up over time until it becomes a problem.

Whilst I’m a very happy Nexus 7 owner, would one be appropriate for a 10 year old, would something like the Kindle Fire HD which has parental controls be a lot more appropriate?

3.6km as the crow flies, road distance or cable distance? I’m 3.2km cable distance (I know the cable route as I used to be a local BT engr a long time ago) and I’m synching up at 5.4down and 0.8up.

You say 1/2 a meg on a good day is that what your router syncs up at or what your download speed is? What are your line attenuation and SNR figures?

BT FTTC?FTTP Rollot checker here >> http://www.superfast-openreach.co.uk/where-and-when/

111.8kg on New Years day got down to 93kg by the end of May, then sort of eased off on it, but back on it as of yesterday and currently 97.3kg.

The 14mm F2.5 can be had at a reasonable price, it’s a lot quicker focusing than the 20mm f1.7. Its sensor size and the distance from the sensor to the lens/aperture, you will see crop factor mentioned. A MFT (Micro Four Thirds) camera has a two times crop factor so multiply the focal length and aperture on the MFT lens by x2 to get what it is in 35mm equivalent terms. So the 14-45 would translate as a 28-90mm in 35mm terms. So to get your range of 24-300 on a single lens then the Panasonic 14-140mm comes close.

Big advantage with the two times crop factor is that you can use practically any other lens make with the appropriate adaptor as there is space to fit one and get the lens at the correct distance from the sensor.

Gotcha with MFT cameras is that Panasonic do image stabilisation in lens, Olympus do it in body.

No cropping just resized to post on here, well chuffed that I even managed to get some of the shadows in some of the craters.

I think the variance in price can also be answered by how much they factor in for the lifetime support type calls.

If you scream yourself awake when you roll over in your sleep then they are broke. Use a big bean bag to sleep, it’ll stop you moving.

Nothing as creative as the 100’s of pictures already here, but I’ve been trying for ages to get a picture of the ISS so here is my first success from a few mins ago. Taken from the back garden so lots of light pollution, to get better I’ll have to go somewhere out in the hills one night.

DBAN http://www.dban.org/

I had my old Epic do the same, lower screw hole bust, all I did was put on a new hanger with the one screw hole and it was fine as the QR skewer tightens against it to hold it in place.

Could be worse I know a guy who’s ladder slipped I guess in quite a similar fashion to yours, he broke both arms quite badly landing hands first. His missus had to wipe his arse for months.

Cheers, saw episode 1 which I really enjoyed so you reminded me to download it to the fondleslab so I’ll remember to watch it.

I popped into Sideways Cycles one afternoon on the way home from work to get a bottom bracket, walked out with a Santa Cruz Blur frame.

Andy at that price if you want a smallish screened one then go for one with the AMD E450 CPU it’ll knock spots off the Intel CPU’s at that price/size point plus will allow for a lot more RAM than the artificial limit Intel place on their Atoms plus the integrated graphics are a lot better.

You are a local, sorta CCM so I’ll do you the CCM deal on a 1st gen 32gb WiFi one if you are interested. I will wipe it and let you have a try if you want as means I haven’t got to bugger about advertising/posting etc

As people have said yes its got slower with the ongoing updates now to IOS5 however if you are getting a good deal on it and it meets your requirements why worry?

Only reason I’m selling is that I’ve got the 3rd Gen thru work cheap.

I spend less than she does on her horse, so I’m pretty safe when it comes to bike/gadget spending.

Whilst the Billion lack all of the features of Draytek, I think for the 7800N it more than makes up for it with its ADSL chipset which interworks with the BT DSLAM’s better, higher sync speeds and less errors, also the Billion you can leave on all the time the Drayteks I had (2600 and 2 x 2800) all seemed to slow right down after a month uptime or so and needed a power reset to get them back up to speed (nowt to do with sync speed, suspect some sort of memory leak/buffer issue) Oh and the 7800N supports IPv6

That helmet cam footage then, gulp

Depending on your current saddle you could save 100-200g just there

http://weightweenies.starbike.com/listings.php