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General Discussion Area / Re: 178 hours to go

« on: 30 September 2007, 19:53:58 »

I've said it a few times now - Media Center Edition is the way to go

It does sound tempting what with the little I know about it.  However, that would involve buying a computer with the appropriate hardware.

I'm not buying Sky and paying an extra 10 quid/month for the ability to record stuff.  That's 120 a year when a VCR is 30 quid.

Stuff paying to record stuff - paid £350 for the PVR when it first came out £80 for a 100GB drive last year, 55 hours of recording time.

PVRs start just over £100 now

Or just use your old naff 2.4 P4 as an MCE (about £50 for OEM copy of XP MCE), stick in a 500Gb HDD and some freeview tuners. And it has the advantage it can play most sources, slideshow pictures etc, all without messing about.

Any recomendations TB??

If you want to use S3 standby, stay away from USB based tuners - including the Hauppauge Nova T 500 PCI dual tuner like I use (these PCI cards actually have a PCI-USB bridge, and the 2 tuners are actually USB devices).

The Hauppauge Nova T (single tuner) works well for me, and copes with standby better.

MCE by default only supports 2 tuners. More than 2 needs a little bit of registry hacking.

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General Discussion Area / Re: 178 hours to go

« on: 30 September 2007, 14:51:50 »

I've said it a few times now - Media Center Edition is the way to go

It does sound tempting what with the little I know about it.  However, that would involve buying a computer with the appropriate hardware.

I'm not buying Sky and paying an extra 10 quid/month for the ability to record stuff.  That's 120 a year when a VCR is 30 quid.

Stuff paying to record stuff - paid £350 for the PVR when it first came out £80 for a 100GB drive last year, 55 hours of recording time.

PVRs start just over £100 now

Or just use your old naff 2.4 P4 as an MCE (about £50 for OEM copy of XP MCE), stick in a 500Gb HDD and some freeview tuners. And it has the advantage it can play most sources, slideshow pictures etc, all without messing about.

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General Discussion Area / Re: 178 hours to go

« on: 30 September 2007, 11:48:22 »

I've said it a few times now - Media Center Edition is the way to go

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General Discussion Area / Re: I have just been mugged - not joking.

« on: 30 September 2007, 19:48:47 »

I've done Gloucester - Chepstow faster on hte A48 faster than someone else M5-M4

Presumably you didn't get stuck behind a convoy of weekend gypos...

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General Discussion Area / Re: I have just been mugged - not joking.

« on: 29 September 2007, 22:53:47 »

I like a drink occasionally. Bet the government won't pay for an alternative for me  

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General Discussion Area / Re: I have just been mugged - not joking.

« on: 29 September 2007, 22:43:24 »

What I object to is that we talk about druggies being "clean" and "rehabilitated" when in fact we have just started feeding them with a legal drug, maintaining their addiction at tax payer's expense. Doesn't make them any use to society. Lock 'em up in a cell with nothing but food and water for a bit of cold turkey and contemplation I say. You reap what you sow after all.

Kevin

Costs us money to lock 'em up.  As does shooting, though its much cheaper.

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General Discussion Area / Re: I have just been mugged - not joking.

« on: 29 September 2007, 17:08:56 »

I wouldn't want her to be dead... or hurt, she's obviously got serious issues, and needs professional help. I'm not the sort that would knock a girl about, whether she robbed me or not, if I saw her again I would do nothing. But I do hope she gets the help she needs. (From the relevent services, not innocent public).

The world has enough scumbags like her.  And why should my taxes have to go up to pay for her rehab time and time again.  A shotgun cartridge is 12.5p - problem solved.

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General Discussion Area / Re: I have just been mugged - not joking.

« on: 29 September 2007, 10:06:16 »

Bloody Hell - what is it everytime you come here  

Glad you're physically OK, which is preferrable to still having your cash but being in A&E

You can live in hope that the drugs she undoubtedly bought have killed the little bitch.

 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Who's having a beer tonight then?

« on: 30 September 2007, 19:58:52 »

Too damn busy for a drink again tonight  

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General Discussion Area / Re: Who's having a beer tonight then?

« on: 30 September 2007, 10:17:49 »

A rather large Talisker, poured for me by SWMBO as I let her watch crappy Simon Cowell thingy and listened to the rugby on the radio

Why listen..Why not watch  

Even with a large single malt in me .. I still can't work out how to "watch" on the radio !!!!  

Get a rather TV card then  

As most TV cards don't do Freeview, that wouldn't work either .. I could have watched channels 1-5 in the kitchen .. but the rugby was on ITV4 ... and only 1 freeview box in the house ..

I have free view on my tv card

One of my PCs has 5 freeview tuners in it

Beat me by one - TV, bedroom box, 2 in PVR

Thats just one PC.  Obviously, I have another PC with tuners in, the main panel in the lounge has a freeview tuner in, the TV in kitchen has a STB, as does panel in bedroom, TV in dining room has STB, and a spare STB currently sat at the top of stairs (sat there as a reminder to post to mum, but I keep forgetting!)

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General Discussion Area / Re: Who's having a beer tonight then?

« on: 30 September 2007, 09:52:53 »

A rather large Talisker, poured for me by SWMBO as I let her watch crappy Simon Cowell thingy and listened to the rugby on the radio

Why listen..Why not watch  

Even with a large single malt in me .. I still can't work out how to "watch" on the radio !!!!  

Get a rather TV card then  

As most TV cards don't do Freeview, that wouldn't work either .. I could have watched channels 1-5 in the kitchen .. but the rugby was on ITV4 ... and only 1 freeview box in the house ..

I have free view on my tv card

One of my PCs has 5 freeview tuners in it

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General Discussion Area / Re: The LPG saga....

« on: 30 September 2007, 21:39:20 »

It is.....I have spent most of the day doing bloody power point slides for work so needed a 'car fix'!

I've spent all day doing some programming, so I really need a car fix.  Only, I'm not brave enough to do the next step on the tractor

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General Discussion Area / Re: The LPG saga....

« on: 30 September 2007, 21:30:04 »

Right, its all cleaned and back together, no sign of damage to the main seal/diaphram and a little sealent applied aorunf the mating surface.

But, the main lever that works off the engine vaccum and operates a valve type assembly on the main gas feed to the unit was solid, so was the drilling that fed the gas pressure sensor.

Re-assembled it and.............it works great.....drives ok to  

A small miss fire on petrol and gas which I suspect is a lead....easy enough to sort.

So good news.....and something I think James should do to his to.

Result, at long last

That must be a big relief

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General Discussion Area / Re: The LPG saga....

« on: 29 September 2007, 19:18:57 »

Blimey, you're having as much luck with that as I am with Project Tractor!

If you need a hand on it, just yell, I can normally be up there within an hour.

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General Discussion Area / Re: oof slow tonight

« on: 30 September 2007, 21:41:01 »

Looking at the stats, between 8:30 and 9 looks like it wasn't up to scratch, but otherwise looks fine  :-/