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Band of Horses feat. Danny Macaskill

Can you confirm that the new laptop and iPod can connect to your network (as stated in your first post)? Try accessing the router control page from the new laptop.

If you can, then the router is letting your new machines join your network but there is something else in place (probably in the router settings) preventing them from reaching the internet. Have you set up anything in the past to control what sites can be accessed, or time bands when access is allowed?

Office 2010 is fine on my daughter’s netbook. As netbooks are the most feeble devices ever created I reckon you’ll be fine too.

No need to upgrade your memory either.

I’ve broken several pairs of the ones in the TOP picture.

(and one pair of the ones in the second picture but 2pure sorted me out a treat).

For cycling in cold weather I use a pair of snowboarding gloves. While they ARE bulky there is no problem braking or changing gear.

Looks great!

Sadly I had to withdraw my application for a day’s pass. It’s my own fault for booking a ski holiday before Christmas.

Looking forward to the next one!

I can’t work out how the kind of snowfall that allows people to carry on as usual around here seems to stop London etc. almost instantly.

I was in South Yorkshire yesterday, and I’m back in ‘the South’ today. I can exclusively reveal that the proper South copes exactly as badly with snow as those bits of the country that are ‘just carrying on as usual’.

I’d buy one in preference to your other lights – if I had even the slightest need for any more lights!

Put another way, the all-in-oneness appeals.

I’m in!

Though I’ll have to see whether my pass is still valid on the day…

TJ is right once again. Though I phone rather than email.

You won’t damage the scanner but it won’t work. Because that power supply is much too feeble.

You don’t need to use a local solicitor at all. In fact you don’t need to even use a solicitor. It is even DIY-able.

I’ve not been at all impressed with Windows 7 parental control. For a start it blocked Word, unrequested. I also now get an email every day asking me, on behalf of my daughter, to unblock Facebook. Even though I removed all restrictions a week ago.

A few years ago I tried the Norton version but binned that when it blocked the CBBC site. I’d hope it would be better now.

I’d be buying from trout if I wasn’t already over-kitted with lights.

Agree with all that Elfin. Both my daughters had (male) Speccy BGs and found them comfortable, but my wife doesn’t and neither do I.

Edited for safety!

Presumably there is a reason why you can’t fit the Asgaard at 90 degrees to how you’ve shown it?

Though I wouldn’t store a bike outside the house personally.

No really, just buy a DVI cable. It’ll just plain work. Converting DVI to VGA, given that you have a DVI-capable monitor, is just daft.

I’ve yet to find anything I care about that doesn’t run on Windows 7. That includes stuff that was designed before XP was even a dream.

Oh sod that then. Just buy a DVI cable.

(I ran two monitors from a similar card for years, on XP. Which is suspect is your OS)

I think your Radeon card actually has a VGA socket (the one you are using, I think) and a DVI socket [not an HDMI]. DVI can carry VGA signals as well, and converters are available for about £10. Whether that will work depends on whether the card/drivers output VGA over DVI – there is a good chance they do.

You shouldn’t need any clever software.

Singlespeeders don’t have very large brains. They haven’t the brainpower to operate gears, and they haven’t the spare neurons to change their opinions.

Well, that’s true for me and I don’t care what you think.

Yes, forums->wanted (on the menu bar) doesn’t work. Clicking on Classifieds – Wanted from the list of forums does work.

I like the new look.

Decent stereo speakers are hugely better than the TV. Add a sub if the stereo speakers are weedy. The next step up is to add a centre speaker which, with suitable processing, will tie the dialogue to the screen. The rear speakers are just for effects.

Don’t forget depreciation.

Essentially HMRC doesn’t and won’t care that you lose money driving. It would rather you took other forms of transport, in the probably forlorn hope that they would be greener. Even though they would probably be more expensive and slower.

I think you need a car allowance really. Unless your company is happy for you to represent them in a banger, or pay in time and money for alternative transport.

201. Freaks!

I have bought some land off my neighbour.

There is a small fee payable to the land registry, and there is conveyancing to do, which is a bit simpler than buying a building but not so much that a solicitor will charge you much less. I did my own conveyancing which was therefore free. It was easy, the only catch being to look out for the other side’s solicitor overthinking (e.g. inserting a clause that you can’t have anything over 4ft high on the land because that seems sensible to them, even when it already has a 6ft fence, 7ft high shed and 20ft high tree on it).

I have, and rate, a CB17. However, I’d actually recommend the CB19 which has one extra tool and comes in a case which might help keep water off the tool and so stop it (eventually) rusting.

Fusion 0120, steel. I can’t remember how old it is, but I do know that I’d destroyed the entire drivetrain by 1992.

It is now SS and is the bike I ride the most these days, despite having much ‘better’ bikes.

juan, if your SO ever wants to talk to a trained English teacher in Nice, email me!

If one cell (in a pair/three/four) is dying, it’ll run flat first, and then the other cells will reverse charge it, and damage it more. So, you need to find the duff cell. For that you need a battery tester.

Because not all cells are equal, running them down needs to be done on a single cell basis (or you’ll end up reverse charging the worst one again).

At 5 years (ish) old, and about £1/cell, maybe just buy some new ones?

…those Carreras are alright actually!

<devil mode>
Singlespeed it
</devil mode>

While riding along, my front mudguard was rattling so I gave it a kick. It seemed a little better, so I took a second kick…

and missed. Got my toes jammed in between the spokes, and netween the spokes and forks, so went straight over the bars.

I’d have given that quite a high stupid-o-meter rating but as I wasn’t carrying a javelin or a trombone it now seems almost sensible

Nothing on the bike yesterday, or today. But this:

I have been running instead, down the water of leith to Stockbridge and back again. 9km with no shin pain, yay! :))

inspired me to go out for a run even though the weather was foul. It was great!

I’ll repeat the sage advice I was given (on Bikemagic) when I had the same problem: “Time machine and grease”. Not much use really, as I hadn’t greased the time machine either.

I’ve simply been riding around with no seat post clamp for the last 10 years.

I’ll add my thanks here too as they’ve sorted me out twice now. The first was simply an end cap that I couldn’t remove; they got it off, serviced the pedal, and then sent me the rest of the service kit so I could do the other one (I’d already done it, so now have a spare service kit). The second was a broken axle; they changed that, and the bearings, and the spring, and did the other pedal too. All that was kept from my pedals were the cages.

Top service, and I hope Crank Brothers are seeing them straight in return!

+2 with a ruler.

Put a little tension on the chain and measure 12 links. On a new chain they’ll be exactly 12 inches. If they measure 12 and 1/16 you need a new chain soon. If they measure 12 and 1/8 you need a new chain right now and you might need a new middle chainring and cassette too.

Update in case anyone is interested/cares

It is the RAM. I had more than a week of no problems, despite not having changed anything. Then I finally had a failure to boot properly (though not a failure to POST). I ran memtest86+ straight away, and it errored. I then tried a stick at a time, but found no errors. Of course, by then, everything was warm.

I then swapped the RAM between the two machines.

I’ve had over a week of no failures, but today the other machine (now with the same RAM) failed to boot properly. Again, memtest86+ showed errors, but attempts to isolate it to a single stick didn’t get anywhere.

Luckily the RAM has a lifetime warranty…

Magic ratios are great, but as chains stretch they don’t stay magic. Having the choice of a half-link doubles the chances of finding a useable magic ratio.

My experience has been:
1. Started with a magic ratio without a half-link
2. Chain stretched so I used a ghost ring as a tensioner. Chain stretched some more to the point where the ghost ring fell out regularly.
3. ‘Added’ (strictly, subtracted) a half-link, and binned the ghost ring. That was too tight to get the wheel in, so I had to go from an 18T to a 17T at the back. That was spot on (for quite a while).
4. Chain is almost stretched enough to need the ghost ring back in…

Summary: A half-link is handy, but at some point you’ll still need some kind of tensioner

Strictly is simply the best programme ever. And it also signifies the official start of the countdown to Christmas too.

Strictly marks the official start of the nightriding season