* Posts by Rugster

11 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Aug 2012

Fear the Reaper: Man hospitalised after eating red hot chilli pepper

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Re: Not the worst of it

Wash your hands with cooking oil first. binds to the capsaicin and then washes off. I made the mistake of rubbing my eyes and shortly after making a bathroom visit some years ago whilst learning what not to do. Not a mistake to make more than once.

And to all the people slating the heat, it's not like that once you are used to it, tolerance increases with exposure and the nice heat you get from ever increasing strength is glorious.

What a Mesa: Apple vows to re-use titsup GT sapphire glass plant

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Re: Dreams...

Nah, still waiting to see a Unicorn......

City hidden beneath England's Stonehenge had HUMAN ABATTOIR. And a pub

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Early gaming

Maybe it was just the early minecraft beta......

Ofcom will not probe lesbian lizard snog in new Dr Who series

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"6 out of how many viewers?"

Those same 6 people could be given a million pounds and probably complain about having to carry it home.

Happens all the time, 10 million people watch something and sometimes as many as a couple of hundred complain. Hmm I am thinking that in a so called democratic society, they are outvoted, move on, nothing to see here.

New iGasm: Apple to unveil not one but TWO iPhone 6 models on 9 Sept

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Wear a warm coat

Because if hell has frozen over then it will be bloody cold up here.

Recommendations for NAS-based home media set-up

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WDTV Live and Qnap (or Nas4Free)

I previously used an ageing Qnap Ts-201 with WDTV Live SMB boxes under each TV.

Was a fantastic setup until I got fed up with the slow speed to transfer the files to the Qnap in the first place. I believe the new ones are much better though.

I know you require off the shelf but consider this - I put together a Nas4fFree unit using a mini itx board with built in CPU, added some ram, a case and a flash drive and a simple NAS unit was built that then just required drives.

The transfer of data from PC to the NAS runs at 120MB/s ish and was a revelation compared to the old speeds.

We can happily use the 3 WDTV live we have , all playing a high def movie with no slowdown or issues whatsoever and I have yet to find a format that the WDTV does not play.

After much, much experimentation, I find that just using file shares is the best way to handle files, like others have said, ACL's are then easy to implement and everything just works.

Brits' HSBC bank cards, net access goes TITSUP

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Bypass machines requiring card??

About the time when Jude Law and the repo men started renting out life saving machines.

Are biofuels Europe's sh*ttiest idea ever?

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Algae

There seems to be a lot of progress in producing algae that will grow on non farming land and water, has a few day harvest and actually reduces CO2.

I don't know a lot about this, but it looks promising as the output seems to be higher as well.

I think that done properly, this could be the answer to a lot of our future fuel needs.

Ban drones taking snaps of homes, rages Google boss... That's HIS job, right?

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Facepalm

Re: I can, therefore I should

@ Pete H

Also, don't use rectangular sticks with rounded corners. The shit will really hit the fan then.

Oh, Sony, you big tease: Mystery PlayStation reveal date set

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Re: What's funny...

While I don't discount the possibility of them locking out re-sale of games, this particular rumour was started when the PS3 was announced as well. So I would take it with a pinch of salt at the moment. Bad publicity move if they do though.

Only 3% of UK's TV oglers want more sex

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Re: What about adverts

I think they are appealing to the women to buy the cologne for their man. Maybe if they smell like the sexy man on the advert, they will watch less TV.