Get a mini android PC that plugs in to a HDMI. Turns your tv in to a giant tablet, better than most smart tv because the play store apps are endless and no catch up restrictions. DLNA so can play from or control with your phone wirelessly etc.

I got this one the other day to play movies from a nas with XBMC, TED, youTube etc, size of a beermat. But they come smaller and cheaper too, all with built in wifi. Lightweight enough to leave turned on permanently.

Am gonna get another (MINIX NEO X5) after Christmas and move the existing into the spare room.

On my netgear under wireless settings > access list you can add a list of allowed mac ids (it shows a list of available).

And from then on you can just turn access control on or off (one tick box) to restrict all his devices.

Hardly automated but would only take 10 seconds.

No hub, does that matter?

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Tortec Apex, the whole side slides out as wide as you want it. But have to attach my ortliebs to the top bar to avoid heel chaffing.

The prequel (Spartacus: Gods of the Arena) wasn’t bad.

The second one was kind of overshadowed by Andy Whitfield’s absence.

Cheap bikes are a false economy cos they don’t last and don’t get ridden. Mine’s Isla is coming up 3 years use and easily gets upgraded with cast offs.

There is DLNA streaming over wifi, works well with android but don’t think there are any off the shelf multi-room solutions.

In theory you could use android mini pcs as clients and play from either your phone, tablet etc or use those as a remote to direct from a nas with UPnP apps? XBMC is worth looking into, and would stream video too.

If it were me I’d probably get a streaming nas and fork out on a couple of Onkyo TX-8050s, they have 2 sets of speakers each and multi zone control from their android app. Probably cost the same as sonos, but sound a hell of a lot better if the sonos demo I got recently is anything to go by.

Picked up some 1/2 price scullcandy hush 2 for #29 in comet last weekend.

Kona Jake disc?

Boardwalk Empire has some of the best characters and dialogue I’ve seen in an action series.

You need to challenge the dog. Make yourself appear as large as possible and look it in the eye, make it hold your stare and the chances are it won’t.

Rather than ‘cumon ave a go if’ try looking relaxed and slowly blinking a them, it’s dog language for good morning.

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Seems it is just dearer for the same stuff here, about 25% according this:

http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_countries_result.jsp?country1=Germany&country2=United+Kingdom

Yet isn’t Germany’s economy growing 7% per annum while ours is stagnant? I’m guessing they don’t have a Tory party in power.

Been hummin an harrin a couple of weeks now over an amp, but I want to play over DLNA/wifi rather then airplay.

Not sure how you intend to connect but onkyo a-5vl has a good DAC and two optical connections. Rotel RA-10 gets good reviews but its the Rotel RA-11 that has an integrated DAC. Denon DNP 720 AE is a tuner with airplay and dac. Onkyo tx8050 looks good too.

Have also been considering mini hifis Pioneer X-HM71-K, Marantz MCR603 & Onkyo CR-N755, the former have airplay.

Never mind.

Irrationality, the enemy within.

Reviewed about a dozen recently and was surprised how similar they were, but they were from various Agencies.

Best ones were about 4 pages broken down into table of qualifications, table of technical experience for how long etc. Table of roles / skill-sets with reference to positions or projects. That covered first 2 pages. Positions or projects were expanded on maybe half an A4 each as annexes.

Almost like a competence based job application and told you all you needed to know.

Xnxx.com is a new one.

No one use reddit, got an gadget on the iGoogle home for the top 10 and it’s well addictive.

Not gaming but hook it up to the stereo and use it as a DLNA conduit. Play to it wirelessly from Windows media player on your laptop / PC (right click on song > play to > Xbox). Or download the skifta app to your android phone and play music from that, or use the phone as a remote control.

I’ve nothing useful to add but this;

I think you can see just your own. Private bids is an option for the seller, seem a bit shifty, cant really see the point in em.

Harrogate & Knaresborough are worth ‘a gander’ to use your vernacular.

Bit closer to York while remaining sufficiently distant from Leeds. Or Richmond. Decent Schools round all those parts.

Just picked an Xperia U on Orange today for the Mrs. Decent screen / specs, front camera. Quite long but narrow allegedly for lady hands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z30Lky_Muc8

Makes my year old phone look ancient.

Just cancelled my SKY broadband. After midnight I get 8mb but between 5pm and 11pm most days it peaks at 5kps. Apparently this is normal…

Three 30+ min phone calls so far, first I’m told to to cancel to get a MAC code, do that but code is out of date, can’t have a new one because I’ve cancelled, put on hold then back in the que, told to ring back tomorrow.

Going to Zen if I ever get it.

What ^ he said.

Coudnt find the WD box in PC world, clueless staff thought I was making it up.

At the moment I’m wondering if it’s worth #80 to play on the TV over wifi when I can just plug a laptop into the back, and now the server is working I think I can stream through the Xbox anyway.

Is it a Mk1 or Mk2 swap-out frame?

I’m off to buy a WD Live box in the morning to try something similar. As I type I’m installing Ubuntu server on an ancient Dell in the hopes I can transfer all my music, films, downloads on to it and play them through the TV over WiFi. Plenty of other plans for the server too.

You should be able to use the WD box stream from the laptop direct or use a usb stick, it’ll let you connect to youtube direct anyway. Sounds like you’ll need a HDMI to scart connector though.

Can’t see as it matters if you’re not in a race, and can’t think of any reason I’d want to enter one.

Buy some XT hubs and build your own. I used some aerotrack rims and use em for the same thing. Alternatively Cotic [/url]sell some.

Seem to remember he spent his hermit days becoming ‘one with the force’ through meditation so he could pull that sorta stuff off. Kinda like ascending to their higher plane of existence like in stargate.

I thought the common gloss-over explanation was time didn’t exist before the big bang so you don’t need to worry about what came before it.

That’s what I heard from that Hawkins guy, and the fact there was no time yet confirmed that there could not have been a creator.

I wonder what the math would be to calculate the possibility of life in other planets / universes that have managed to avoid the fate of their own universe collapse or sun collapse.

Well we already know the Milky Way has 200–400 billion stars and as many planets with an estimated 10 billion of those orbiting in the habitable zone of their parent stars. And there are hundreds of billions of galaxies that we can see. They zoomed hubble in on the tinyest darkest spot they could find and left the aperture open for a like a month not so long ago. The pictures came back of… loads more galaxies.

Am not convinced of an infinite number, seems a big jump that just because you can’t see them all there must be an infinite number.

As for the odds of other sentient life, we need more data. The trouble is we know ours took 4 billion years but until we find life on at least 1 more place we have no way of knowing if that if amount of time is the average (in which case the place will be teeming with civilisations). Or life could be a freak occurrence that usually takes 1000 billion years.

Isn’t STW site wordpress based? Loads of free plugins with the hard work done for you is the best thing, plus is supposed to be fairly Google friendly out the box. You just have to find a template you are happy with.

If you get the right hosting with a ‘Fantastico auto installer’ initial set up is a 2 minute wizard affair.

Got a special a turbo trainer tyre with mine, don’t have a spare wheel and am too lazy to keep swapping though.

Try googleing free dreamweaver alternative. If I were you though I’d learn to customise WordPress, shouldn’t need any special software for that.

If someone has a weapon then a verbal threat is considered an assault.

Not sure if a bottle constitutes a weapon, guess it depends if he was waving it around?

Only use mine for things where the postage would make it cheaper to buy local, so not much. But I know a fair few cyclists that struggle with choosing a new inner tube. Lots of people just don’t even own a set of screwdrivers never mind Allen keys or crank extractors, and have no desire to.

In the long run the money for tools and pointless upgrades is probably equivalent to paying RRP and labour charges. The time I spend learning about & fitting they spend doing something they enjoy, probably riding 😕

Each to their own.

If you’re on a budget is worth looking on on ebay at a refurbished IBM Thinkpad X61. They last forever, better processors than most current netbooks. About to pull the trigger myself and whack ubuntu on it.

Same issue dogged me for a year, had the post up and down like a yo-yo and would have saved a small fortune in pedals if I’d followed advice like acjim’s earlier.