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  • Russell96
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    Isn’t this the scenario that the designers of SNAP foresaw and just by pure chance Ubnuntu 16.04 includes the capability to run SNAPs

    http://snapcraft.io/create/

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    Perhaps he isn’t the owner but is instead trying to track the current location for the real owner of it.

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    If you have cruise control set it for a speed and watch them all yo-yo past you. One moment they are zipping past you 30 seconds later you are over taking them, is my cruise control buggered varying my speed so much?

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    Nice warm evening, sit outside, after saving up the failed inner tubes for a year, bucket of water to detect the punctures, full of beers chilling at the bottom of it, top up accordingly with tubes n beer. Challenge is to be able to remain in her good books by the end of the annual puncture repair session.

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    Onedrive settings / Network – is it set to ‘Don’t limit’ for upload and download?

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    Usually its an RSSI a Received Signal Strength Indicator that you see on your phone.

    What does that mean? It’s the Cell site signalling back to the phone how well it can hear YOU. After all a mains powered tower 20m in the air with multiple antenna is going to be belting out a signal that can be heard by the right kit for one of a hell of a distance. Compared to a battery powered device with no external antenna and a case designed for form over RF coverage, stuck in your arse pocket.. Which do you think is going to be the more efficient transmitting and receiving device.

    Ps.. Disclaimer I work for a mobile phone company.. not in mobile but in LAN/WAN/WiFi so have done the 3G/4G training just out of academic interest and also been a radio amateur for over 30 years dabbling in the VHF/UHF digital side of things.

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    The one they were all scared of, but a bit hard to miss with all that high vis cammo

    And for a size comparison, Megatron vs Big Brute

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    If you scream yourself awake when you roll over in your sleep is a good are they broken test.

    Solution to it, get yourself a bean bag to stop you rolling over while you sleep.

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    Another with Keepass here, database is stored on an online file storage site then use a long password to open it along with a keyfile that has to be manually installed on any device I want to use it on. My PC client for Keepass will do a daily backup of the database to disc so even if the online site disappears I still have my passwords.

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    Cracking format and hardware ruined by some of the most awful software ever designed to implement DRM and forsaking any sort of user friendliness.

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    Plenty more detail here >>

    http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/vodafone-connect-broadband

    Ps.. Broadband help desks are in the exotic locations of Glasgow and Leeds

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    Jimjam wins I so lusted over one of those, was on the waiting list at Skip Browns for a decent one for ages, in faxt drove past there a couple of weeks ago and the dreams started again.

    I ended up with a Midnight Blue Mk2 RS2000 with the full custom pack to which I added a 5 speed box, LSD, the oblig Billies, emerald head and twin 45’s oh and of course the noisy pipe. I could get it up to valve bounce in 5th on a good road and of course almost sideways round any roundabout, oh fun times.

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    Showing my age a bit now but on the road bike a nice frame mounted aluminium pump makes for a nice easily extensible item to wave about in an emergency…

    I used to be a BT field engineer and over that period I had dogs jump/go at me lots and lots of times, I built up plenty of tricks to avoid getting bitten from the loudly closing the van door while remaining in the van trick for farm dogs to the running away bloody quickly trick. Yes I was intruding in their domain however if they’d go for me then they’d go for some nipper out on their paper round, so as far as I was concerned wearing steel toe capped boots (for pole climbing) was my ultimate response.

    During that time my worst was having a dog running down a hallway and jumping straight thru a closed window at me, so as well as fighting off the snapping dog that landed on top of me I was showered in glass. I’ve seen one of my colleagues that had been thru multiple attacks whip out a pair of nunchucks (stored in his van for that very occasion) and poleaxe a dog right between the eyes when it went for him.

    I’m over 6ft2 and 16st, grown up around animals small and large, from the tiny to the 700kg+ ones, so I am not lacking in confidence or in knowledge of how to comport myself amongst pack or herd animals. Some owners have not bothered to take on the responsibility of properly educating and controlling their dogs so as such, either they should remove themselves and their animals from public life or accept the consequences of their laziness.

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    I did it last year as a one off with the extra 5 bought days, 41 days hols plus the bank holidays, the skitting I got over my availability was monumental. Might have to do it again.

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    31 + Bank holidays, upto 5 if I carry them over (never) the option to buy 5 extra and then of course TOIL days when I put silly hours in. Then homeworker so have the ability to flex during the week as long as I get my hours in.

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    Burleighs is another one to try

    Home

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    Wileyfox Storm for me, 5.5 inch screen, 32Gig of storage, dual SIM or use the second place for a memory card instead, runs Cyanogenmod as standard so no bloatware and plenty of free storage space left, only downside for me is that it doesn’t have NFC but when you can pick it up for £179…

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    When I’ve had something in national news, every paper/site/TV station has contacted me and explicitly asked for permission to publish, can make for a hectic day or two when it happens.

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    I came to the conclusion a long time ago that they want a decent break for their summer hols before returning to training(work) so rather that go out in the group stages, go out in a plucky battle a stage or two later and then get that nice summer break. You only have to look at the number of silly yellow/red cards that come out in the run up to Xmas resulting in a three game ban over the Christmas break to realise it goes on.

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    Lots of work trips there for me too, love the place was working there as recent as last week, the local staff recommended this place to eat http://www.daalderamsterdam.nl/en/ effing hell what a fantastic meal, one of the best meals of my life full stop.

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    Go to Advanced Settings/Firewall on the router control panel page and turn off secure DNS

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    Had a Fenix for nearly a year now after a dabble with a Moto 360. The Fenix battery life is bloody amazing in comparison. For the features/apps that I use the Fenix does all that I needed out of the 360, so easy win for it.

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    After years n years with the Mach3 I dabbled with the Fusion yes it gives a smoother shave, but hell it clogs up bloody easy with a few days worth of growth so its back to the Mach3 for me.

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    Llandudno the only town in the UK with bifocal shop windows

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    They are not comfy with each other yet, it takes a while to settle in and for the lads banter to begin.

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    The correct answer is Google it, top hit (this topic being second) is for a document on a maths site with that very question in it, last page in the document has the answer.

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    Backhaul from the masts well on the West side of the country at least is on the same IP network as the broadband. Same as Cody I was part of CWW.

    4G Masts are usually on 1Gig fibre bearers back to a local IP node, where it connects onto the 10Gig rings. BT Openreach FTTC handoff is at the same location.

    What does this mean? It means that a lot of ISP’s utilise BT to backhaul their customer traffic to a number of interconnects to the ISP’s own network, as such they are at the mercy of BT and a finite amount of bandwidth shared across a large number of other ISP’s customer traffic as well as their own. In Vodafone’s case as the handover is at the local exchange direct onto the Vodafone IP network then a lots less customer traffic fighting for space on a large amount of bandwidth.

    Yes the investment is the same up to a point, well at least from the mast back to the core. Mobile signal coverage and speed is dependent on a lot of factors other than just the backhaul bandwidth but that IP network is seriously beefy and one thing I don’t ever hear about is any congestion on that core.

    I’ve been a user of the same broadband since it came out, router works well enough, never had any issues with variable throughput. But always remember you are still at the mercy of BT Openreach and their local cabling performance.

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    So plenty of matches where all the players roll about, crowd the referee, argue about every decision, its going to entertaining stuff

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    Trolls the lot of them, add them to the list for the wall.

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    Finlandia straight from the freezer.

    Chase Marmalade vodka is an excellent sipping drink http://chasedistillery.co.uk/vodka/

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    Bottomless filter on Happy Donkey great pour if you get your grind and tamping spot on, fine sprays everywhere if you don’t, so a real incentive to get it right.

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    I always thought Call of Duty World at War was the highpoint in that series for me, don’t like the current day or futuristic FPS’s anywhere as much. So that trailer does it for me, most likely I’ll be getting it.

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    Would your bike setup post op need to be different to your prior setup? Maybe its time to re-visit it all, something out of balance before that you adjusted your bike(s) to over time is now corrected or a mal-adjustment that your body adapted to at the time is now a lot more critical?

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    I’d rate it as wetter and muddier than last year, but still good fun with great banter all around the course. Only downside for me was I had fireroad grit get into my shorts and I didn’t notice until I got into the shower. I’ve now got some rather tender bits.

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    Wouldn’t bother, largest performance increase is going to be a decent SSD and then GPU. Intel have the market corned and just offer incremental upgrades in performance over previous generations. I’d wait another generation or three.

    Toms Hardware CPU hierarchy chart sums it up pretty well

    http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/cpu-hierarchy,review-33355.html

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    Guardians of the Galaxy watchable multiple times, as is Scott Pilgrim vs the World.

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    D7000 can take the older autofocus (AF-D) lenses, look out for the 60mm f2.8 AF-D lens secondhand if you want a cheap and decent full frame 90mm equiv.

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    Second the Olympus OMD EM5 with the 12-50 lens, both are weather sealed, biggest range of lenses for a compact system to choose from and you can get adapters for you Canon lenses. Only downside to the Olympus I feel is the odd menu system but once you get the camera setup how you like you leave it mostly alone oh and battery life, but that’s the case with most compact system cameras compared to DSLR’s.

    Otherwise there’s the Canon EOS-M which is compact and has an APS-C sized sensor, the 18-55 that it comes with is pretty good for a kit lens and the picture quality is pretty good, probably on par with your 650. Downside awful slow auto focus on it.

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    I think Nikon have not really invested much effort into the DX format when it comes to lenses for a while. Hopefully the recent D500 release means that they will be bringing out some upper end lenses for the format. Sigma have been the ones putting some effort into it, look at the 18-35 f1.8 and the one that really interests me the new 50-100 f1.8

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    Another +1 for the Sigma 17-50 f2.8

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