Bet that un-rideable bog at the top of the climb after Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant is rideable right now, the descent after if would be a bit of a challenge at the moment.

Great fun out in the Clwyds today

bazzer

How loud/quiet is it?

Used to have the CCNP + CCDP and was starting on the CCIP then work got that hectic that I didn’t have time to revise for the re-certs and as I’m pre-sales and don’t get any hands on in my job, it’s design focused instead, so I had to let em lapse.

As for has it helped, probably yes as the knowledge and experience gained has allowed me to speak at a higher level with support engineers, platform design teams and provisioning engineers, suppliers, customers etc..

Big tip if you are not getting much hands on in your job then you’ll probably find that you have to build up your own little network to train on. In the past this has meant buying off Ebay, scrounging recovered routers/switches etc.. However you can hire on-line practise labs OR if you can use GNS3 instead if you have access to IOS Images.

One other thing to consider is that we are all relying on continual nuclear power for our existance with no long term plan for the disposal of waste other than to throw it back on the fire.

No Nukes accepting that we need them for certain by-proucts of course I hope you mean?

Do we have a rough figure of what we need average/peak load at the moment is, for the sake of this consider that it wont increase due to tech improvements. Then break it down into how its produced at the moment? After all we have to a degree been discussing this from various standpoints, of how it should be produced based on a little bit of beliefs and facts we all hold, could we make it all add up??

For example how many kilowatts per hour could be produced by burning bike thieves?

We could always build some more power lines across to Iceland and tap into the Geothermal power there, but I’m sure some mad scientist would protest that the drilling there would split the world in half or summit.

Wasn’t thinking of that particular case, but yes I suppose it does make a good example, but I’m using it to show that no matter whatever you suggest people will argue against it. People have protested that windfarms off the coast of Rhyl are ruining their view FFS. But you can bet they are the same mob that are down on the island protesting about Wylfa being a site for a new station, oh I’ll agree they are brave as the locals are most likely to lynch anyone who protests against it. They still want their power but without it impeding on their local space.

Fave rant of mine about it is the tinfoil hat wearing mob, that don’t want any mobile phone masts near them or little Chardonay but are still happy to use mobile phones. If I was in charge I’d say fine and immediately cease their mobiles so I could devote the limited capacity in the area to people who accept things (with knowledge of the real risks)

It seems to be a sad symptom of our current society that people will protest and tie up in long litigation anything and everything WHILST still wanting to enjoy the fruits of that society as long as it does not impinge on their limited worldview.

Society involves compramise — for example the other long thread on taxes, people have to give and take in differing amounts. So as far as electricity goes either we go for a few big plants and TJ gives a bit as there is no other way of generating such power, or do we go macro and have lots of mini different plants and TJ has to help us crack the whip over all the nimbies?

My view is that the people protesting against nuclear power are also the people who’ll protest against alternative methods. For example Druidh has suggested tidal power generation and I’m one totally in agreement with that suggestion. As its a regular as clockwork and we have some of the largest tidal ranges in the world, it is a successful technology thats been working for 40+ years. But we have people complaining that flooding a river will effect the birdlife in the area, well durr yes it will but they then easily forget that continual output of CO2 from Gas/Coal fired power stations will (might another discussion in itself) contribute to global warming thereby destroying the habitats of the birds. I honestly think that the Green movement has gone away from a genuine concern from the enviroment to protesting for the sake of protesting itself, if we found some way of collecting energy based on placing 100% recycled paper darts using 100% organic rubber bands into orbit to collect energy they would complain that it ruined their nightly view of Wolf359.

Have to agree about the Monolithic answer, but I think we need to force people to accept alternatives as they seen hell bent on accepting nothing at all and that it’s best to have a balanced approach rather than relying on one source at all.

So radioactive elements that are currently constantly distributed thru the atmosphere that are under no control at all are nothing to worry about, compared to waste that is under control at multiple levels that may or may not be released at some point in the future?

Been thinking about a Sheevaplug or a Guruplug as a file/webserver or building a fanless Atom board with some discs, still at the read all the forums/web stage. Prob going to have to be a Linux distro of some sort.

Not so worried about throughput/transcoding but I want something with a low power draw and wherever it sits in the house that it is quiet.

Trying for a balanced post on this, that being my natural reaction any conversation even if that means taking the underdogs side, only if to make sure more facts are included.

The challenge with the renewables approach is as the technologies stand today, that they need a considerable amount of surface/land area to be planted on. The better areas for constructing these renewable energy gathering plants have had considerable protest, in some cases not by the land owners but by ‘interested’ parties that it’s ruining their views and so on. Translation they are happy to consume energy but not assist by a reduction in their outdoors visual enjoyment even if they could unglue themselves from their HD TV’s to look out of the window now and then. Let the common urban Oiks breathe in the by products of energy production as they have always done in the past seems to be the answer.

It should be added that there are communities that welcome the thought of a new nuclear power station with the only protest seeming to be coming from outside of those communities, with no evidence of any abnormalities/cancer hotspots etc… yes I agree this is a different outlook/result compared to other existing locations, possibly down to management/design of the facilities located there.

One re-occuring subject/thought seems to be the reduction in power consumption though more efficient usage along with reduced transmission losses going from a small number of big massive centralised power plants to a more de-centralised model. This means that people will HAVE to have their visual enjoyment ruined by more but smaller renewable power gathering stations. Also due to the patchy nature of the kinetic/photonic energy to be gathered this means a larger geographic spread of such stations to cope with the cloud cove/wind/wave strength etc..

To me this means instead of looking out of my window and seeing three power stations, I might only see one and some of you arguing in this topic might see one where you have never seen one before in you outdoor view – tough you have to live to your principles. Hey windmills are a lot more pretty than a gas power power station.

Another fact that needs to be considered in this and only a few people have posted about it within this thread are that coal fired power stations release LOTS MORE RADIATION into the enviroment than do Nuclear power stations.

Also that there is always going to be a need for a Nuclear reactor or two for the useful by-products they produce. The vast majority of people will naturally jump to the conclusion that this means weapons material, HOWEVER there is a big challenge in producing enough Radioactive materials that are of use for medicinal purposes today.

I use Onyx and run a verify every couple months. Once it reported something it couldn’t fix on the file structure and I had to boot off the install disc and run the disk utility.

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/onyx.html

It’s handy for compressing the email database which can speed things up if you have piles of emails, cleaning up caches and running the daily/weekly/monthly system maintenance tasks.

Bloody hell, I’m Ghandi’s twin brother and I’ve always though of myself as have having tendencies to being Judge Dredd when it comes to the justice side of things.

As I get older I’ve mellowed to the fact that people choose not to wear a helmet, it means theres more chance of healthy vigorous organs available for transplant.

Jokes aside what annoys me is the number of people who choose to wear a helmet and then don’t have a **** clue/have had crap advice/wear one as a jaunty fashion accessory. As an example the helmet that is that small that it’s more than about an inch above the eyebrow, the straps that might as well not be done up etc..

Annoying to the point where you have that classic MBR side panel on a page that asks people a few questions like what will their next purchase be? Usual answer being the 10/10 Spesh costing thousands of quid rather than a HELMET THAT FITS YOU CORRECTLY…

Rich,

I’m having a guess at the local cycleways concerned but am probably correct, but we’ve got the Dog Walker in Blacon that is threatening to block the track in protest due to “lycra clad thugs riding at 30mph” despite the fact that its based on a disused railway line and most of us in our dreams could only manage that sort of speed with some gravity assist.

I’ve had the walker clad completely in black walking a black Lab the other side of the track on a moonless night who can’t see you approaching them despite a Lupine on full beam and shouting twice at them Hello, who are still shocked to have you pass them and mumble something about bell, on multiple occasions.

The two people who can somehow manage to completely block an 8 foot wide track as they walk along.

The group of people who all smile at you and move to one side apart from one dozy fecker who then proceeds to give you verbal despite everyone else in the group seeing/hearing you in plenty of time.

Top award goes to a family of three, father, mother and teenage daughter all on trendy/expensive bikes riding towards you and even thou their EYES are looking straight at you none of them see you till its reached the stage of imminent impact and you shout at them what the **** are they thinking. I have to add I’ve a shout that can shatter eardrums, they then swerve all over the track and verge in panic.

To be honest the local scrotes on bodged up motorbikes give you more respect and room.

The ratio of the amount of radioactive elements released into the atmosphere by coal fired power station compared to the amount of waste that requires long term storage is not as great as you think.

Taken from Wikipedia .. A 1,000 MW coal-burning power plant could have an uncontrolled release of as much as 5.2 metric tons per year of uranium (containing 82 pounds (37 kg) of uranium-235) and 12.8 metric tons per year of thorium. In comparison, a 1,000 MW nuclear plant will generate about 500 pounds of plutonium and 30 short tons of high-level radioactive controlled waste.

I think the scary bit should be.

the ratio of controlled waste to un-controlled waste.

One other thing to bear in mind is that in any society there is always going to be a need for at least some Nuclear reactors as the byproducts produced can be of massive use to society.

I seem to remember a bike shop doing a conversion of a mixed mineral oil/DOT fluid brake setup, was it Sideways Tim?

Just to balance how power generation can release radioactive elements in to the enviroment, it should be known that coal fired power stations pump out radiation into the atmosphere in the form of Uranium (incl U-235) and Thorium.

Rape/Pillage/No Surrender – Invoice by the hour.

Nah if he knew he was coming back from the Crusades to an IT job he would have probably decided to go as a contractor instead.

No to be honest I enjoyed the different take on it and I’ll have a look at the directors cut to see if it fills out some scenes. It’s not the loner out for revenge, it’s the man that gets railroaded into something due to his own innate honesty.

Leave that folder alone, have a read of this

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config

Section II on resolution is prob the one to look at

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Resolution

in terminal “nano -w /etc/X11/xorg.conf” will bring up your existing xorg.conf file in a text editior you’ll see the commands along the bottom there’s a basics guide here

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nano-basics-guide.xml

compare that xorg.conf against what you found prob worth a look at the ‘Device’ subsection and the ‘Monitor’ subsection device for the graphics card driver and monitor for the resolution(s) and colour depths.

Oh and make sure that the driver you have chosen has been loaded as a module use ‘lsmod’ to check that it’s been detected and loaded at boot up

Chances are someone else will have already tried it and found the answer, trick is not to look on Google but look for your laptop model here >>

http://www.linux-laptop.net/

Drill down on the make, model then hopefully there will be a few listings that will include the Linux distro you are using.

I’m suffering at the moment too, was just about resisting the X in orange but I’ve seen a pic of one in black.

Ooo, I’ve a GT RTS3 I’m rebuilding that’s got a Noleen coil shock on it plus a pair of RS Mag 21’s up front. Expect a call come payday.

Cotic Hemlock ?

I did this

http://www.flattyresmtbroutes.com/ABigRideForLittleLives.html

Didn’t loose a single gramme during the ride, but in the two weeks after 5kg dropped off with little only a little exercise didn’t do anything the week after and only a couple of rides in the second week as I was taking it easy and reducing my eating back down to pre Big Ride levels.

Something to get in your head

It’s just a jump to the left

Gonna really change the tone now :)

Gotta remember the stuff you grew up with

Ace in the car windows volume turned right up windows flexing ears bleeding

Git! whatta trip, I’m seriously jealous. Decided I’m going to take my cousins offer up to go visit him in the Pacific NW.

It’s to con you into installing a pile of spyware/trojans on there. Had a lovely heated discussion with them about it when they called me, in hindsight I should have got an IP address or URL out of them so I could have had some fun back.

Oh yes, very big can of worms considering according to your profile you work in a bike shop and you are based in Chester..

You forget to mention the infamous Rowen YHA climb thou!

Good set of photo’s you picked some good spots for them, even after 18 years of riding across them I treat the planks with lots of care when they are wet. Just makes me realise how much I love riding in the Clwyds in winter :D