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General Discussion Area / Re: Breaking the barrier ....
« on: 23 October 2011, 03:35:58 »
Excellent, 
now give her a good curry and then retire to a safe distance. 
now give her a good curry and then retire to a safe distance.
7398
General Discussion Area / Re: i am
« on: 23 October 2011, 03:28:45 »
I'm really sorry to hear what has happened. I found it very distressing when a burglary was attempted on my house. Fortunately, they didn't get past my security measures, but they did badly damage a door and window frame trying to get in.
I always carry my cars keys on me and have them in my bedroom at night, as it is common in this area for scum to break in at night, take your car keys, and steal your car. I know several people it has happened to.
All my keys like to the side gate and shed are kept in a key safe, so if somebody does break in they have not got easy access to these. My internal door to my garage, which is a heavy duty fire door, I have put 4" screws across the frame by the lock, so it is not easy to kick in. This I learnt from having my business premises broken into, with a kicked in door, which split the frame, fortunately a police patrol heard the alarm go off and were there in about 60 seconds, but the thieves had already fled.
Personally, if I was the judge convicting them, I would send them on a holiday.... to Afghanistan, their job would be to jump up and down in front of a patrol to find any IEDs and to take any incoming fire from the Taliban.
I always carry my cars keys on me and have them in my bedroom at night, as it is common in this area for scum to break in at night, take your car keys, and steal your car. I know several people it has happened to.
All my keys like to the side gate and shed are kept in a key safe, so if somebody does break in they have not got easy access to these. My internal door to my garage, which is a heavy duty fire door, I have put 4" screws across the frame by the lock, so it is not easy to kick in. This I learnt from having my business premises broken into, with a kicked in door, which split the frame, fortunately a police patrol heard the alarm go off and were there in about 60 seconds, but the thieves had already fled.
Personally, if I was the judge convicting them, I would send them on a holiday.... to Afghanistan, their job would be to jump up and down in front of a patrol to find any IEDs and to take any incoming fire from the Taliban.
7399
General Car Chat / Re: What car to replace Omega?
« on: 22 October 2011, 05:21:10 »
As an estate driver I would go for the MB 2.2 diesel E-series estate. As big as the Omega, faster on acceleration and high 40's MPG cruising. Even though it is only 2/3 of a proper engine! Don't know about reliability?
7400
General Car Chat / Re: New Vauxhall Zafira Tourer
« on: 22 October 2011, 05:12:27 »Speaking of the Zafira - I was behind an older model today.. I realised as I got to the junction behind it that there was a padlock & chain hanging down from the spare wheel & wheel cage outside the car.
Is spare wheel theft that big an issue in rural Berkshire?
Theft is always a problem everywhere when the economy is bad.
7401
General Car Chat / Re: New Vauxhall Zafira Tourer
« on: 22 October 2011, 05:09:01 »
My oldest daughter has a Zafira and it is an ugly utility vehicle, she uses it to transport, her partner, 3 kids and my ex-wife around, hence the need for 6 of the 7 seats. It does the job displayed on the ugly tin.. body.
She is aiming to replace it when she can by an SMAX. I think Ford have done a much better job in this sector of the market, they are also fast but suffer from bad fuel economy even the diesels.
She is aiming to replace it when she can by an SMAX. I think Ford have done a much better job in this sector of the market, they are also fast but suffer from bad fuel economy even the diesels.
7402
General Car Chat / Re: speed limit
« on: 22 October 2011, 05:00:54 »
No doubt the Libdems in conjunction with BRAKE will insist it is 80kph!! 
With 30kph in all built up areas.
With 30kph in all built up areas.
7403
General Discussion Area / Re: F1 Drivers eye view.
« on: 22 October 2011, 04:31:32 »
Agree and in my experience once you get above 120mph everything starts to happen a bit quick, so at 160-200mph fractions of a second, especially when car in front is braking for a corner as you have to anticipate his braking point, which maybe earlier than yours, if your car is better and can handle a higher corner speed.
Watching how they drive in Monaco, inches away from the Armco barriers, at up to 200mph, on the limit, makes you appreciate their skill and the big sphericals they have between their legs. Try driving fast down a narrow road with high banks either side and I'm sure you will appreciate it.
Watching how they drive in Monaco, inches away from the Armco barriers, at up to 200mph, on the limit, makes you appreciate their skill and the big sphericals they have between their legs. Try driving fast down a narrow road with high banks either side and I'm sure you will appreciate it.
7404
General Discussion Area / Re: Colonel Gaddafi captured?
« on: 22 October 2011, 04:14:00 »
He who lives by the sword, dies by it.
Deserved all he's has got IMHO, if your father/ brother/ son has been killed by Gadaffi's internal security service or your friends who have tried to overthrow his repressive, blood regime have died.
"Are you going to say when you meet him, good to meet you, jolly good show over the last 45 years, you killing my brother/ father / son, I can fully understand and forgive what you have done, but unfortunately for a few thoughtless misdemeanors we are going to have to put on a slightly inconvenient trial, which might be a tad inconvenient for you old boy, but I'm sure everything will be alright".
If any of my friends or family had been killed under under his rule and I have met up with him, then my AK-47 would have been a rattling and smoking. Eye for an eye, instant justice done. No chance of him getting away with it, or escaping and forming a resistance movement.
I hope the democratic forces succeed in Libya by time will tell, unfortunately when people gain power, often with good intentions, they are reluctant to relinquish it. And unfortunately "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely". I think there will be consider pressure / help from the UK and maybe France and USA for the alliance to fulfill their promises.
Justice has been done IMHO and we should remember all of his victims, including all of the IRA attacks using weapons supplied by him, Pam Am flight 103 and WPC Yvonne Fletcher. A friend of mine at school, Mervin Lunn, mum was killed in the attack by the IRA on the Para's barracks, in Aldershot, in 1972, where she was a civilian cleaner.
I hope he is burning in hell along with Hitler, Stalin, Idi Amin, Saddam Hussain and is shortly joined by Bashar al-Assad and Robert Mugabe and all of the rest of the world's bloody dictators. Democracy may not be perfect by it is by far the best system of government the world has got. We take the freedoms in the western world for granted, but we should IMHO cherish them.
Deserved all he's has got IMHO, if your father/ brother/ son has been killed by Gadaffi's internal security service or your friends who have tried to overthrow his repressive, blood regime have died.
"Are you going to say when you meet him, good to meet you, jolly good show over the last 45 years, you killing my brother/ father / son, I can fully understand and forgive what you have done, but unfortunately for a few thoughtless misdemeanors we are going to have to put on a slightly inconvenient trial, which might be a tad inconvenient for you old boy, but I'm sure everything will be alright".
If any of my friends or family had been killed under under his rule and I have met up with him, then my AK-47 would have been a rattling and smoking. Eye for an eye, instant justice done. No chance of him getting away with it, or escaping and forming a resistance movement.
I hope the democratic forces succeed in Libya by time will tell, unfortunately when people gain power, often with good intentions, they are reluctant to relinquish it. And unfortunately "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely". I think there will be consider pressure / help from the UK and maybe France and USA for the alliance to fulfill their promises.
Justice has been done IMHO and we should remember all of his victims, including all of the IRA attacks using weapons supplied by him, Pam Am flight 103 and WPC Yvonne Fletcher. A friend of mine at school, Mervin Lunn, mum was killed in the attack by the IRA on the Para's barracks, in Aldershot, in 1972, where she was a civilian cleaner.
I hope he is burning in hell along with Hitler, Stalin, Idi Amin, Saddam Hussain and is shortly joined by Bashar al-Assad and Robert Mugabe and all of the rest of the world's bloody dictators. Democracy may not be perfect by it is by far the best system of government the world has got. We take the freedoms in the western world for granted, but we should IMHO cherish them.
7405
General Discussion Area / Re: B&Q and the rear view mirror
« on: 20 October 2011, 17:59:42 »
Will look at getting a TP trade card, as I never shy away from getting a bit of a discount. I use a friends trade card at B&Q but find only a small selection of things are actually discounted and sometimes if they are on special offer the trade price is more expensive.
B&Q still out of stock, I've had to buy the Artex sealer at my local shop decorating supplies shop, £4.60 more than B&Q, but I can't wait any longer. It must be the rough part of Sandhurst where I live as all of the immediate houses are Artex over plasterboard ceilings. To much work for me to completely remove the Artex, so just smoothed old stipple finish, cover with Artex sealer and will do broken leather finish over it.
Ordered of Fleabay a Loctite rear mirror glue kit for £1.89 + £1.50p&p, so it will be a cheap repair to do.
I have got most of the stuff for refitting bathroom after I have finished decorating the stairs and landing. Finding reasonable priced low pressure washbasin and bath mixer taps has not been easy, as all of the cheap ones on Fleabay are high pressure typically a minimum of 0.5 to 1bar, you would need a header tank 16 to 32ft above the taps to achieve this.
B&Q still out of stock, I've had to buy the Artex sealer at my local shop decorating supplies shop, £4.60 more than B&Q, but I can't wait any longer. It must be the rough part of Sandhurst where I live as all of the immediate houses are Artex over plasterboard ceilings.
To much work for me to completely remove the Artex, so just smoothed old stipple finish, cover with Artex sealer and will do broken leather finish over it.Ordered of Fleabay a Loctite rear mirror glue kit for £1.89 + £1.50p&p, so it will be a cheap repair to do.
I have got most of the stuff for refitting bathroom after I have finished decorating the stairs and landing. Finding reasonable priced low pressure washbasin and bath mixer taps has not been easy, as all of the cheap ones on Fleabay are high pressure typically a minimum of 0.5 to 1bar, you would need a header tank 16 to 32ft above the taps to achieve this.
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General Discussion Area / B&Q and the rear view mirror
« on: 20 October 2011, 03:42:03 »
Last night I had one of those evenings. Went to the DIY store Bug*er all in stock and Queue (B&Q).
Out of stock of Artex Sealer, which is main reason I went there where I'm preparing to re-artex landing and stairwell ceiling, par for the course for B&Q in Farnborough to be out of stock, as store is about as much use as fried snow.
As part of their customerunfriendly friendly service you now have to pay £1 to release a trolley.
Anyway where I'm about to fit a new bathroom, I need to replace the flooring as it is non-moisture resistant chipboard and is past its best. In normal diy multiple shop fashion you have to move 63 damaged sheets before you get to the undamaged ones! So, eventually sorted, they can re-stack the reject flooring sheets, their fault for trying to palm off sub-standard damaged cr*p.
Next to the plumbing section, parked trolley at the end of the row, sorted out 40mm pipe for new waste for bath where the waste in new bath is in the center rather than the end. Just managed to catchDick Turpin B&Q assistant removing my trolley towards stockroom, no doubt to relieve it of my £1.
Now, I don't normally out of principle use the self service tills, so I joined the queue for human service. But I was beckoned by a good looking B&Q young girl at the self service tills and who can resist a beautiful young lady. All went through and paid, but I left 3m x 40mm pipe on the heavy weighing section of till, doh!
Loaded up car, realizing I had left pipe at till, as part of loading flooring sheets in a hurry, as shop was about shut, hit rear view mirror with head. Loaded up car, found eventually place to off-load trolley and retrieve £1, but shutters now down on shop entrance, so got trolley collector to let me in to retrieved 40mm pipe.
Touched rear-view mirror and it fell off windscreen, now my self positioning, self dipping mirror, which it is heavy and now hanging by it wires, so now got to get mirror repair glue kit to fix again as I've done this before, doh.
Murphy and his blo*dy law.
Where I work from home and only do currently a small mileage in my car, in the last 300 miles: Crank sensor failure, puncture and tyre written off as 8mm bolt, deep chip in windscreen with small cracks, yet to sort repair, lost rh headlamp water washer jets, both keys intermittent, repaired one where battery terminal had broken, now got second to repair, and now rear mirror to repair. When will it end?
I've still got cam-lifter problem to sort (engine tic-tic-tic), along with intermittent overheating problem (I think it is intermediate fan, radiator switch or relay) and cam cover gaskets as all I could afford at the time of head gasket replacement was top end gasket set with was non-Vx cam-cover gaskets, which are leaking.
I'm not a happy bunny at the moment.
Out of stock of Artex Sealer, which is main reason I went there where I'm preparing to re-artex landing and stairwell ceiling, par for the course for B&Q in Farnborough to be out of stock, as store is about as much use as fried snow.
As part of their customer
Anyway where I'm about to fit a new bathroom, I need to replace the flooring as it is non-moisture resistant chipboard and is past its best. In normal diy multiple shop fashion you have to move 63 damaged sheets before you get to the undamaged ones! So, eventually sorted, they can re-stack the reject flooring sheets, their fault for trying to palm off sub-standard damaged cr*p.
Next to the plumbing section, parked trolley at the end of the row, sorted out 40mm pipe for new waste for bath where the waste in new bath is in the center rather than the end. Just managed to catch
Now, I don't normally out of principle use the self service tills, so I joined the queue for human service. But I was beckoned by a good looking B&Q young girl at the self service tills and who can resist a beautiful young lady. All went through and paid, but I left 3m x 40mm pipe on the heavy weighing section of till, doh!
Loaded up car, realizing I had left pipe at till, as part of loading flooring sheets in a hurry, as shop was about shut, hit rear view mirror with head. Loaded up car, found eventually place to off-load trolley and retrieve £1, but shutters now down on shop entrance, so got trolley collector to let me in to retrieved 40mm pipe.
Touched rear-view mirror and it fell off windscreen, now my self positioning, self dipping mirror, which it is heavy and now hanging by it wires, so now got to get mirror repair glue kit to fix again as I've done this before, doh.
Murphy and his blo*dy law.
Where I work from home and only do currently a small mileage in my car, in the last 300 miles: Crank sensor failure, puncture and tyre written off as 8mm bolt, deep chip in windscreen with small cracks, yet to sort repair, lost rh headlamp water washer jets, both keys intermittent, repaired one where battery terminal had broken, now got second to repair, and now rear mirror to repair. When will it end?
I've still got cam-lifter problem to sort (engine tic-tic-tic), along with intermittent overheating problem (I think it is intermediate fan, radiator switch or relay) and cam cover gaskets as all I could afford at the time of head gasket replacement was top end gasket set with was non-Vx cam-cover gaskets, which are leaking.
I'm not a happy bunny at the moment.
7407
General Discussion Area / Re: Stephen Hawking
« on: 20 October 2011, 02:06:07 »
Stephen Hawking has done amazing well medically for someone who would normally died in his 20's from muscular dystrophy and has obviously been a major asset to the progression of science and society as a whole.
When you meet mega intelligent people and I met a few when I worked at RAE Farnborough, it makes you realize how thick you are.
When you meet mega intelligent people and I met a few when I worked at RAE Farnborough, it makes you realize how thick you are.
7408
General Discussion Area / Re: ubuntu
« on: 19 October 2011, 15:22:56 »
"Security for any system is only as good as the easiest route that a hacker takes to break it. I have seen gaping holes in both Windows and Linux systems in that respect, often not in the core OS but in the little packages and utilities that you install without a second thought."
I agree which is why everything is turned off that I don't use on the commercial server, to reduce the number of potential packages with possible exploits.
My local network at home sits behind a fire wall with no access to the server from the outside world. That way I don't have to worry about how secure it is.
I agree which is why everything is turned off that I don't use on the commercial server, to reduce the number of potential packages with possible exploits.
My local network at home sits behind a fire wall with no access to the server from the outside world. That way I don't have to worry about how secure it is.
7409
General Discussion Area / Re: this will make the boy laugh
« on: 19 October 2011, 12:29:15 »
I thought high temperature and extreme climate MTBF testing was meant to find these problems. I wouldn't expect this on the cheap manufacturers as this is the type of corners they cut to make it cheaper, but I would on a premium price brand like Sony.
Does anybody know if they do this type of testing?
Does anybody know if they do this type of testing?
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General Discussion Area / Re: ubuntu
« on: 19 October 2011, 12:21:07 »
Kevin my experience exactly, my server at home is used for all my web development work. It runs from one year to the next, does the job in the background I need it to do, with just the occasional restart of Apache when I change the configuration file.
All my published websites are on a dedicated server in a major data centre with multiple data pipes run through different physical routes, UPS and diesel generator backup with high security around and within the centre and fire suppression systems and a maximum of 4 hours hardware repair time. A daily backup is done to an offsite backup centre and I run a mirrored raid system on the server. I do use Red Hat Enterprise on this.
I leave my windows desktop running 24/7 for reliability and find I have to reboot it every few days, where it gets slower and slower, when it comes up with the message, "running low on virtual memory space, creating a bigger swap file" I know it is time for a reboot.
To me the more transparent an operating system is the better as it is just an interface to do a job. Previous to Windows XP, to me, Windows was not fit for the purpose due to the DLL overwriting problems which crashed the OS and mean't a complete rebuild. XP is much better, but I hate the way Vista and Windows 7 hide everything, so you have to go around turning everything on, to actually get the job done you are trying to do. I have found the deliberate limitations build into the "Home" versions of windows means you have to find work arounds and the Business versions are not a cheap OS, even at OEM pricing.
On the security front where windows desktop is an open system it is inherently insecure, where Unix / Linux are inherently secure. Windows has always been a memory and resource hungry operating system although I do acknowledge that Vista and 7 are faster where the use hardware display rendering.
In any monopoly situation, development is slow due to a lack of competition, which is why I welcome the competition in the phone OS market, which is driving improvements and innovation at a fast pace. If Ford had been a monopoly supplier of cars with over 90% of the market I'm sure the Model A would still be in production, as this is the problem with the Microsoft monopoly, you put up with what you are given as there is no realistic alternative in the desktop market, thank goodness we have the Windows / Linux competition in the server and web applications market.
All my published websites are on a dedicated server in a major data centre with multiple data pipes run through different physical routes, UPS and diesel generator backup with high security around and within the centre and fire suppression systems and a maximum of 4 hours hardware repair time. A daily backup is done to an offsite backup centre and I run a mirrored raid system on the server. I do use Red Hat Enterprise on this.
I leave my windows desktop running 24/7 for reliability and find I have to reboot it every few days, where it gets slower and slower, when it comes up with the message, "running low on virtual memory space, creating a bigger swap file" I know it is time for a reboot.
To me the more transparent an operating system is the better as it is just an interface to do a job. Previous to Windows XP, to me, Windows was not fit for the purpose due to the DLL overwriting problems which crashed the OS and mean't a complete rebuild. XP is much better, but I hate the way Vista and Windows 7 hide everything, so you have to go around turning everything on, to actually get the job done you are trying to do. I have found the deliberate limitations build into the "Home" versions of windows means you have to find work arounds and the Business versions are not a cheap OS, even at OEM pricing.
On the security front where windows desktop is an open system it is inherently insecure, where Unix / Linux are inherently secure. Windows has always been a memory and resource hungry operating system although I do acknowledge that Vista and 7 are faster where the use hardware display rendering.
In any monopoly situation, development is slow due to a lack of competition, which is why I welcome the competition in the phone OS market, which is driving improvements and innovation at a fast pace. If Ford had been a monopoly supplier of cars with over 90% of the market I'm sure the Model A would still be in production, as this is the problem with the Microsoft monopoly, you put up with what you are given as there is no realistic alternative in the desktop market, thank goodness we have the Windows / Linux competition in the server and web applications market.