Posts by Danny 14

Re: They should sack everyone involved immediately...

Did they get locked up for advocating separating colours from the whites?

Re: Battery life

I didn't see wireless charging built in though. Would have made sense for a watch to have wireless charging. Not sure on the range of wireless charging either but if you could get a few inches then a wireless mat at a desk might be good too.

Seems like you could use a watch for your phone and a tablet for other duties if you so wished.

Re: Married or Sharing? Just tell them you are moving overseas.

the only thing we do this for is car insurance. That is just to keep both our no claims up though (in reality). As long as we declare the "main" driver then it isn't fronting. If we didn't need gas for hot water production then I could see this being a good idea too.

Re: BT Retail used to be masters at this

or say to them "give me discount or I go to sky", sky then give cheaper line rental than BT on the same BT line.

Re: supercar?

4WD Nissan GTR can be had for not much more than 50k. Had a go in one on a track day pressie once (along with an R8 and lambo) the GTR was easily the scariest of them all, seriously pins you in your seat when you floor it. The R8 has similar specs to this and was pretty underwhelming.

Re: "(the prius) would have struggled to keep the MPG in the 30s "

It was a review car. I suspect the pedal was fully to the floor for most of the rides (regardless of gear). I very much doubt your SL350 would perform as well given to the same reviewer.

Re: Please compare to Tesla?

compare it to a tesla? Sure. The tesla looks shitter, wont take you round a holiday without spending the day charging, cant realistically hoon it about as you'll drain the battery in no time but at least it costs less so you can buy a focus to drive between cities.

I'd love one of these.

Re: Since the Tesla S P85

Bu therein lies the rub. How do you get from Cumbria to Birmingham and back in the same day? There aren't that many luxury cars that combine city electric and fossil range. As soon as more domestic grade cars combines a small engine for range and charging with a small battery hybrid then it will take off more. Prius works well but I found to be pretty shit to drive (wallowy and far too cheap inside), the newer focus and mondeos are pretty reasonable to drive IMHO and would be great to hybridise.

That being said, if you charge 5k more for the same model then until resale you'll not make up that 5k on a hybrid. With start/stop engines you can make a fair saving too.

25% for my current 2.5 Ford SMax. Unless you are private with a good practice dentists don't earn that much. There have been a few adverts up here in Cumbria for about 40k.

Re: Hmmm

But the overlander wont go like stink if you floor it. This is a decent grand tourer with a "trundle in city traffic" electric motor. Cruise on the motorway on dead dinosaurs then switch to electric for the last bit of city commute. Switch back to dead dinosaurs on the way home to charge up.

This is the car concept that would work for my particular driving pattern and i'd be happy to use this sort of hybrid. Just not in a prius or wallet busting Porsche.

I seem to remember Renault having a petrol/diesel FWD with electric RWD prototype, that would be a good idea too.

Re: Reg unit?

nah, he has poor internet so only gets DVD5s

why do you need 10gb? I run a small business with a two host cluster. I use HBA SAS as an interlink for my CSV. Much cheaper than 10GB and since I only have 2 hosts then I can still have failover. In time I can add other cards so that I can add other hosts, still it is far cheaper than a 10gb solution.

Old servers with buckets of bays are great for openfiler too (or readynas etc).

I didn't see the original star wars in the cinema but I did see empire strikes back first time around and that was simply epic.

Re: Cost

Or to put it another way. £26 for a pi, get an 4gb uSD card (2gb might be enough, cant remember) from back of the sofa or ebay for £2, a cheap psu that can supply 5v for £2 on ebay, download openelec and you have a fully functional media centre that can have internet radio, youtube, iplayer, streaming.... all for £30

Seriously I spend more than that at our local takeaway per month.

It is small enough that you can glue it to the inside of your TV if you so require. Have your TV power it from a usb/relay/voodoo séance and it is wife friendly. Openelec works with cheapy windows remotes+usb IR so what more do you want?

usb Ethernet adapter? Now the PI has 4 USB ports then you can have a few usb devices.

Re: hmm

don't get me wrong, i'm not complaining, just saying. 4x USB is a great improvement in itself.

something else has changed on the board though as I thought the hub only had 4 USB. I thought the SD card took a USB slot up along with the 2x USB already there and the Ethernet had the last one.

Re: Cost

Just an alternative for people. Need more USB and don't care about a standard composite out? get the B+ Don't use >2 USB and have only full size SD cards? Get the model B. Both are the same price.

to be fair, £26 is nowhere near £50 though. The hummingboard might suit your needs, there is a 1gb/2 core or 2gb/4 core version allegedly shipping soon. Banana Pi is a dual core/1gb board that can be bought for under £50 too so there are options for you if you need a small Linux computer with some more oompf.

Re: Composite Output

old Samsung omnias did too. I used an old camcorder lead that had a 4 pole socket - that worked well enough.

Re: hmm

yeah, its a shame. I also run an openelec and would have loved just a tiny bit more oompf.

Re: Better than FYRKANTIG Close

where aisle 12 is not next to aisle 11 or 13 but for some obscure reason is in a different building.

Re: Shrinking Pool

depends on the metrics too. We buy windows 8 machines then put our windows 7 image on them.

Re: History repeating @Joseph Haig

XP->Vista was a UAC nightmare for us plus they screwed up the NTLM security initially before first patch which rendered our (at the time) filtering ineffective. Back to XP we went and stayed there till 7 came along. 7 was a joy to work with (over vista) and since we already deployed GPP packs to XP all our GPO were 7 friendly.

8+ 8.1 started playing silly tricks again. This time it was the pre-network logon, for some stupid reason, if the system has a wireless card then it reaches out to networks pre-logon (good), handshakes if it can (good) logs onto the network (good) then proceeds to ignore the proxy settings for the first "check to Microsoft to see how our licencing is doing" (bad). I believe this has been patched but still, getting "log onto proxy" before a CTRL-ALT-DEL screen is bad, especially on tablets (where typing usernames and passwords once is bad enough).

coupled to that the metro/lack of proper start menu that can be easily organised into alphabetical order is bloody shocking - try using server 2012 RDP (R2 at least dumps you on the desktop and does have a "start" button but it still has silly metro. Core is a much better option and teaches you to do things properly anyway.

Re: Good to see students haven't changed...

it was only a half hearted attempt as it seems his legs got stuck, not his head or an arm (or cock, that would have been impressive).