My 2 cats are already microchipped, I got them chipped as soon as I got them (tho we had to wait until until the kitten was 5 months old, the other cat could be chipped straightaway) only cost 15 quid each cat including registration, and only took 5 seconds. The needle looked really huge though. Of course, they're not dangerous or exotic pets, but it's mainly due to the reason I refuse to get them collars - they can get strangled with collars, and I do know there's safety collars but I don't trust them, also what if the collar falls off or someone takes it off? Chips are harder to take off/fall off, so if the cat gets lost, any vet would be able scan the chip and find out who's the owner straightaway (i.e. me, but I know we don't own cats and all that...) and the cat's returned to me. Peace of mind.
Yeah, my 1993 1.2 litre petrol Vauxhall gets me 60mpg easily even now after 130,000 miles if I drive at around 60-70mph on motorways. Urban driving is around 40mpg though.
I'm currently travelling around Europe in a Ford Fiesta (which currently has a broken hydraulic clutch - most annoying) but so far, I get between 45-50mpg, in one case 55mpg due to Norway's 80km/h speed limits - and that's for a 1.25 16v petrol engine aged 6 years with 93,000 miles on the clock, with nearly double the power of my Vauxhall (75bhp, compared to my Vauxhall's 45bhp). I can confirm that's accurate as I've been keeping all the petrol receipts, the mileage I've done on the tripmeter and working it all out. I can't complain really.
Although diesel is far far cheaper in Finland than petrol which is damn annoying - 1.05 per litre compared to petrol 1.35 per litre. Back home in the UK, diesel is a few pence per litre more expensive. Oh well!
In fact, I once accidentally left my 1993 car engine running for 10 hours straight (don't ask... I just thank god I parked in a very safe area, or I'd have never seen the car again, nor any money from the insurance company!) I was thinking the petrol tank would be empty, but no, only 1/8 of a tank was used, and my tank is 41 litres (9 gallons) so that's only around 5 litres in 10 hours at most. Of course, I do get 60mpg out of the car easily that might explain it a bit.
I totally agree with you and I dislike this problem of being fixed to a native res, but just to let you know, as half of 1600x1200 is 800x600 - so you can set 800x600 on your son's laptop and you will get a perfect image, as a pixel will be "stretched" over to 4 pixels perfectly - although it will not be as sharp as 1600x1200.
It's amazing, I've seen a lot of LCD monitors, but nearly all of them were set to the incorrect resolution that wasn't the monitor's native one, and I always fix that problem, but people always complain "Hey, everything's smaller/bigger than before! I want it back!" I look at them and say "You prefer blurriness and dreadful image quality over size? You can increase the sizes of fonts you know..." "I want it back!" "Ok ok ok"
Ditto everyone who runs their CRT monitors at 60hz (instant headache for me) - I immediately turn the refresh rate to the monitor's limits, but everyone always complain saying their monitor looks different and despite explanations why higher = better for health, I'm always asked to turn it back. Not my problem anyway, it's their eyes. Although when I'm there, it's at the refresh rate *I* want.
In fact, it's better to have big heatsinks and big fans - the bigger the fan is, the more air it moves, so you can turn it down, it spins slower than a small 60mm fan and so generates less noise. Oh yeah heatsinks - I've a Zalmann Flower heatsink, and last night I had to do some hardware fiddling, and I removed the CPU fan, and decided to quickly run my computer without the CPU fan and to my surprise the CPU went to 50 deg C (unloaded) and stablised there. My CPU is an AMD XP 1700+. I run it without a CPU fan. It didn't melt down. It's all due to the massive Zalmann Flower heatsink - tho didn't dare running the computer under load;) Putting the 92mm fan back in reduced the temp by 10 degrees - tho I can turn the fan down for quieter operation - it's all a balance. I would guess this would be better as it has a 120mm fan. Turn it down very slowly = quiet, but still gets plenty of air shifted over the heatsink.
I would actually recommend getting the fastest CPU you can afford, underclock that to something usable, big heatsink and biggest fan you can get, but turn it down as far as you dare - ditto intake/exhaust fans.
Or just do what I do and get a fanless Mini-ITX motherboard for my servers;)
Some houses in the UK are listed - such as Grade 1, Grade 2 and Grade 3 - the lower the grade, the more care you have to take of the place, and not allowed to knock the building down or something. When my grandpa was dying, my mum decided to get satellite TV installed so he can watch sports from his bed, but as his house was grade 3 listed, we couldn't get satellite TV installed without planning permission from the council, and we knew he wouldn't last a month or two at most, and planning permission normally takes 6 months, so my mum ordered Sky, asked the guy to install the dish at ground level on a wooden post, behind a hedge, so it wasn't visible from the road and then wouldn't be caught by the council. We were lucky that the dish could be installed on the ground.
The reason for this, is that the houses on that street was very lovely and installing satellite dishes on all houses would certainly make the road less appealing visually. So we can't do just anything with the house without the permission of the council and other people on the same street.
Yeah definitely. Considering my 12 year old el cheapo tiny granny stylee car has a built in rev limiter in the ECU, it'd just be a question to interface the GPS device to the ECU to adjust the variable for the rev limiter. Of course that'd be bypassable by driving to the limit in 3rd gear, then when the limiter kicks in, slam into 4th. But then again, the speedometer is wired direct to the ECU...
But yeah, myself being an owner of a TomTom GPS device, I'd agree it's not accurate enough for something like this.
Just a nitpick... that flyover you speak of is actually a 60mph zone. And yes, I live in Bristol and about 5 mins drive from that flyover. Tho I still do 75 on that flyover and pull off at J3 before I slow down;)
(get older, FAST. If you were 25 your rates would be much lower)
Heh... funny...
Last year, I was 24, driving a K reg 1.2i (1992) Nova. £430 fully comp. This year, I'm 25, driving a K reg 1.2i (1992) Nova. £450 fully comp. Where the hell is my discount everyone speaks about? I have 7 years no claims discount, alarm, garage, etc.
My mate has a Lancia Delta Integrale Turbo, 1 year no claims, £500. Parked on street, etc. Playing about, I asked his insurance company to give me a quote for the same car under my name. £2,000. Go figure. And my driving style has been called "Grandpa" style, and my mate definitely has a heavy right foot. Is it my name or something...?
No-one will bother to recycle their computers if they have to pay, they'll just landfill them. Case in point, I know there's a guy down the road to my house who will take any computers and recycle them properly (got an certificate from the government environment agency - I forgot their TLA, shame on me!) so I always stockpile old/broken computers from everyone and give them all to him. Recenly, I got 4 broken CRT monitors, and was about to give them to him, and was told "£10 fee each monitor". £40 to dispose of 4 CRT's is too much for me, so I'm stuck with 4 broken CRTs, and while I can just toss it in the landfill, I have ethical problems with that, but I think in the end I think my wallet will win over my heart and I will toss them in the landfill. I think I'm more ecological minded than the man in the street, but not even I will cough up £10 per monitor to get them recycled, why would you expect the guy in the street to pay to recycle them...?
They wear out over time and will eventually need replacing. They have something like only a 1,000 recharge cycle life, and especially if they're abused, they will need replacing.
piersk@wired-cardiff-54:~$ apt-get install mozilla-firefox E: Could not open lock file/var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root? piersk@wired-cardiff-54:~$
I have to be root to install nearly anything on Debian:/
Yes I could download an app on its own and install it myself, but then I won't be able to do an "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" which updates everything without me having to do it all by hand.
What about a 5MX? Similar to the Revo, but half VGA screen, backlight (abliet crappy), memory backup battery, CF slot. Fixes all the problmes you have and is only slightly bigger. Oh yes and it takes AA batteries rather than the built in rechargeable battery on the Revo which is prone to messing up the battery meter over time - common fault of the Revo.
Nice organiser tho. Sad you can't get it new anymore.
Hmm I wonder... take an 12" iBook, build it in the size and weight of a 15" MegaBook, but the only difference being the battery capacity. Think about it, an iBook with a week long battery life... now that's nice;)
Or if you use it a little, coupled with intelligently managed sleep function, you'll have battery life measuring a year in between recharges;)
You sure about the battery life? I find my mobile phone to last quite a long time - my 6230 lasts for around 4 days with normal use, tho my older 6310i lasts for 7 days with normal use, but once when I didn't use it for 2 weeks due to be on holiday, it didn't need charging up at all. When using the internet, I've talked to my friends on IRC via GPRS on the 6230, it lasted for 4 or 5 hours, and still had 6 or so battery bars on the screen. Can't say that's too shabby.
I do, although using OSX and the frontend port only - the Mac Mini, IMO wouldn't be up to the task of being both the frontend/backend due to not having an encoder, video in etc - you can use an external tuner true, but still. I have an backend on an mini-ITX motherboard somewhere in the house, and the Mac Mini connects to that.
My car doesn't have power steering. It's hard to steer at 0-10mph, but above that, it works fine. PAS is only useful for parking. Comparing my car with PAS equipped cars, there's absoluetly no difference at all unless trying to park.
I've had a burst vaccumm hose (thanks to a hot maintenance light - don't ask...) and I lost power brakes. Not a problem, car still braked fine, just needed more muscle. My car will have to be very highly abused, negletced or damaged that I can't stop. As I mentioned in another reply, my car has dual brake circuits, even if both fails, I've still got the handbrake. That fails? Not a problem. Just put it in low gear and engage the clutch - this works whether engine is running or not. This failed as well? You're dead anyway, those are the least of your worries.;)
Also wrong -- brakes can fail for a few reasons, and I've had many of them. Most systems are split in such a way that if pressure loss results in one end of the system (front or back), the other still has pressure. A bad wheel cylinder, a nick in the brake lines, many things can cause this to happen, and failsafes exist.
Very true. Just adding to your point: in my el cheapo 12 year old small car, my brake system is split like you mentioned, but split into one front, one rear on the other side - diagonically split - so you lose 50% of braking power if one circuit fails rather than much more if there was a front/rear split and your front circuit fails. I've found that most cars has a diagonal split rather than front/rear split.
Well when the car is stopped, it's definitely hard to use the steering wheel - my tiny car doesn't have PAS, and is a bitch for parking (especially that my car has wide wheels) but I'm used to it. When driving over 5mph, it's really easy to turn, I can use my pinky finger to steer - my parents car has PAS, I can use my pinky finger to steer from 0mph upwards - PAS is *only* useful when you are not moving. At above 5 mph, PAS equipped cars, and non PAS equipped cars feels exactly the same. (Apart from that PAS kills all my feelings of the road, but that's off the point and is for a different discussion)
They don't use fresh fruit - they're using store brought bottles full of juice. The machine just automatically opens the valve to let the juice out and into the cup.
Hmm. Not sure about that. I've got a gas fired boiler heating up my house. Last time I checked, gas costs me 2p per kWh, and electricity costs me 11p per kWh (first tier rates), so it's 5x cheaper for me to use my boiler to heat my house than my numerous PCs.
3 cents a KB? Ouch. On my Orange World Access plan, I pay £10 for 10MB and 80p per meg (very roughly 0.08p per KB) afterwards. On my O2 phone, I get 1meg free and around £2 per meg and 500 mins free WAP - but I use my Orange phone for internet access mainly for obvious reasons;) Also on both my phone plans, I get 500 free text message (O2) and 3,000 free texts (Orange). Picture messaging is around 20p but I never use picture messaging anyway. And I'm not that happy with either of the networks unlike you;)
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My 2 cats are already microchipped, I got them chipped as soon as I got them (tho we had to wait until until the kitten was 5 months old, the other cat could be chipped straightaway) only cost 15 quid each cat including registration, and only took 5 seconds. The needle looked really huge though. Of course, they're not dangerous or exotic pets, but it's mainly due to the reason I refuse to get them collars - they can get strangled with collars, and I do know there's safety collars but I don't trust them, also what if the collar falls off or someone takes it off? Chips are harder to take off/fall off, so if the cat gets lost, any vet would be able scan the chip and find out who's the owner straightaway (i.e. me, but I know we don't own cats and all that...) and the cat's returned to me. Peace of mind.
Yeah, my 1993 1.2 litre petrol Vauxhall gets me 60mpg easily even now after 130,000 miles if I drive at around 60-70mph on motorways. Urban driving is around 40mpg though.
I'm currently travelling around Europe in a Ford Fiesta (which currently has a broken hydraulic clutch - most annoying) but so far, I get between 45-50mpg, in one case 55mpg due to Norway's 80km/h speed limits - and that's for a 1.25 16v petrol engine aged 6 years with 93,000 miles on the clock, with nearly double the power of my Vauxhall (75bhp, compared to my Vauxhall's 45bhp). I can confirm that's accurate as I've been keeping all the petrol receipts, the mileage I've done on the tripmeter and working it all out. I can't complain really.
Although diesel is far far cheaper in Finland than petrol which is damn annoying - 1.05 per litre compared to petrol 1.35 per litre. Back home in the UK, diesel is a few pence per litre more expensive. Oh well!
In fact, I once accidentally left my 1993 car engine running for 10 hours straight (don't ask... I just thank god I parked in a very safe area, or I'd have never seen the car again, nor any money from the insurance company!) I was thinking the petrol tank would be empty, but no, only 1/8 of a tank was used, and my tank is 41 litres (9 gallons) so that's only around 5 litres in 10 hours at most. Of course, I do get 60mpg out of the car easily that might explain it a bit.
I totally agree with you and I dislike this problem of being fixed to a native res, but just to let you know, as half of 1600x1200 is 800x600 - so you can set 800x600 on your son's laptop and you will get a perfect image, as a pixel will be "stretched" over to 4 pixels perfectly - although it will not be as sharp as 1600x1200.
It's amazing, I've seen a lot of LCD monitors, but nearly all of them were set to the incorrect resolution that wasn't the monitor's native one, and I always fix that problem, but people always complain "Hey, everything's smaller/bigger than before! I want it back!" I look at them and say "You prefer blurriness and dreadful image quality over size? You can increase the sizes of fonts you know..." "I want it back!" "Ok ok ok"
Ditto everyone who runs their CRT monitors at 60hz (instant headache for me) - I immediately turn the refresh rate to the monitor's limits, but everyone always complain saying their monitor looks different and despite explanations why higher = better for health, I'm always asked to turn it back. Not my problem anyway, it's their eyes. Although when I'm there, it's at the refresh rate *I* want.
In fact, it's better to have big heatsinks and big fans - the bigger the fan is, the more air it moves, so you can turn it down, it spins slower than a small 60mm fan and so generates less noise. Oh yeah heatsinks - I've a Zalmann Flower heatsink, and last night I had to do some hardware fiddling, and I removed the CPU fan, and decided to quickly run my computer without the CPU fan and to my surprise the CPU went to 50 deg C (unloaded) and stablised there. My CPU is an AMD XP 1700+. I run it without a CPU fan. It didn't melt down. It's all due to the massive Zalmann Flower heatsink - tho didn't dare running the computer under load ;) Putting the 92mm fan back in reduced the temp by 10 degrees - tho I can turn the fan down for quieter operation - it's all a balance. I would guess this would be better as it has a 120mm fan. Turn it down very slowly = quiet, but still gets plenty of air shifted over the heatsink.
;)
I would actually recommend getting the fastest CPU you can afford, underclock that to something usable, big heatsink and biggest fan you can get, but turn it down as far as you dare - ditto intake/exhaust fans.
Or just do what I do and get a fanless Mini-ITX motherboard for my servers
Some houses in the UK are listed - such as Grade 1, Grade 2 and Grade 3 - the lower the grade, the more care you have to take of the place, and not allowed to knock the building down or something. When my grandpa was dying, my mum decided to get satellite TV installed so he can watch sports from his bed, but as his house was grade 3 listed, we couldn't get satellite TV installed without planning permission from the council, and we knew he wouldn't last a month or two at most, and planning permission normally takes 6 months, so my mum ordered Sky, asked the guy to install the dish at ground level on a wooden post, behind a hedge, so it wasn't visible from the road and then wouldn't be caught by the council. We were lucky that the dish could be installed on the ground.
The reason for this, is that the houses on that street was very lovely and installing satellite dishes on all houses would certainly make the road less appealing visually. So we can't do just anything with the house without the permission of the council and other people on the same street.
Aha of course. Good point!
As for your Trash moving around problem, why don't you turn off the magnifying effect?
Yeah definitely. Considering my 12 year old el cheapo tiny granny stylee car has a built in rev limiter in the ECU, it'd just be a question to interface the GPS device to the ECU to adjust the variable for the rev limiter. Of course that'd be bypassable by driving to the limit in 3rd gear, then when the limiter kicks in, slam into 4th. But then again, the speedometer is wired direct to the ECU...
But yeah, myself being an owner of a TomTom GPS device, I'd agree it's not accurate enough for something like this.
Just a nitpick... that flyover you speak of is actually a 60mph zone. And yes, I live in Bristol and about 5 mins drive from that flyover. Tho I still do 75 on that flyover and pull off at J3 before I slow down ;)
(get older, FAST. If you were 25 your rates would be much lower)
Heh... funny...
Last year, I was 24, driving a K reg 1.2i (1992) Nova. £430 fully comp.
This year, I'm 25, driving a K reg 1.2i (1992) Nova. £450 fully comp. Where the hell is my discount everyone speaks about? I have 7 years no claims discount, alarm, garage, etc.
My mate has a Lancia Delta Integrale Turbo, 1 year no claims, £500. Parked on street, etc. Playing about, I asked his insurance company to give me a quote for the same car under my name. £2,000. Go figure. And my driving style has been called "Grandpa" style, and my mate definitely has a heavy right foot. Is it my name or something...?
No-one will bother to recycle their computers if they have to pay, they'll just landfill them. Case in point, I know there's a guy down the road to my house who will take any computers and recycle them properly (got an certificate from the government environment agency - I forgot their TLA, shame on me!) so I always stockpile old/broken computers from everyone and give them all to him. Recenly, I got 4 broken CRT monitors, and was about to give them to him, and was told "£10 fee each monitor". £40 to dispose of 4 CRT's is too much for me, so I'm stuck with 4 broken CRTs, and while I can just toss it in the landfill, I have ethical problems with that, but I think in the end I think my wallet will win over my heart and I will toss them in the landfill. I think I'm more ecological minded than the man in the street, but not even I will cough up £10 per monitor to get them recycled, why would you expect the guy in the street to pay to recycle them...?
They wear out over time and will eventually need replacing. They have something like only a 1,000 recharge cycle life, and especially if they're abused, they will need replacing.
Well....
/var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
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piersk@wired-cardiff-54:~$ apt-get install mozilla-firefox
E: Could not open lock file
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
piersk@wired-cardiff-54:~$
I have to be root to install nearly anything on Debian
Yes I could download an app on its own and install it myself, but then I won't be able to do an "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" which updates everything without me having to do it all by hand.
What about a 5MX? Similar to the Revo, but half VGA screen, backlight (abliet crappy), memory backup battery, CF slot. Fixes all the problmes you have and is only slightly bigger. Oh yes and it takes AA batteries rather than the built in rechargeable battery on the Revo which is prone to messing up the battery meter over time - common fault of the Revo.
Nice organiser tho. Sad you can't get it new anymore.
Hmm I wonder... take an 12" iBook, build it in the size and weight of a 15" MegaBook, but the only difference being the battery capacity. Think about it, an iBook with a week long battery life... now that's nice ;)
;)
Or if you use it a little, coupled with intelligently managed sleep function, you'll have battery life measuring a year in between recharges
You sure about the battery life? I find my mobile phone to last quite a long time - my 6230 lasts for around 4 days with normal use, tho my older 6310i lasts for 7 days with normal use, but once when I didn't use it for 2 weeks due to be on holiday, it didn't need charging up at all. When using the internet, I've talked to my friends on IRC via GPRS on the 6230, it lasted for 4 or 5 hours, and still had 6 or so battery bars on the screen. Can't say that's too shabby.
Egg won't. Though I admit, internet banking works fine, just that it has a "Money Manager" feature, only works with IE. Most annoying.
I do, although using OSX and the frontend port only - the Mac Mini, IMO wouldn't be up to the task of being both the frontend/backend due to not having an encoder, video in etc - you can use an external tuner true, but still. I have an backend on an mini-ITX motherboard somewhere in the house, and the Mac Mini connects to that.
My car doesn't have power steering. It's hard to steer at 0-10mph, but above that, it works fine. PAS is only useful for parking. Comparing my car with PAS equipped cars, there's absoluetly no difference at all unless trying to park.
;)
I've had a burst vaccumm hose (thanks to a hot maintenance light - don't ask...) and I lost power brakes. Not a problem, car still braked fine, just needed more muscle. My car will have to be very highly abused, negletced or damaged that I can't stop. As I mentioned in another reply, my car has dual brake circuits, even if both fails, I've still got the handbrake. That fails? Not a problem. Just put it in low gear and engage the clutch - this works whether engine is running or not. This failed as well? You're dead anyway, those are the least of your worries.
Also wrong -- brakes can fail for a few reasons, and I've had many of them. Most systems are split in such a way that if pressure loss results in one end of the system (front or back), the other still has pressure. A bad wheel cylinder, a nick in the brake lines, many things can cause this to happen, and failsafes exist.
Very true. Just adding to your point: in my el cheapo 12 year old small car, my brake system is split like you mentioned, but split into one front, one rear on the other side - diagonically split - so you lose 50% of braking power if one circuit fails rather than much more if there was a front/rear split and your front circuit fails. I've found that most cars has a diagonal split rather than front/rear split.
Well when the car is stopped, it's definitely hard to use the steering wheel - my tiny car doesn't have PAS, and is a bitch for parking (especially that my car has wide wheels) but I'm used to it. When driving over 5mph, it's really easy to turn, I can use my pinky finger to steer - my parents car has PAS, I can use my pinky finger to steer from 0mph upwards - PAS is *only* useful when you are not moving. At above 5 mph, PAS equipped cars, and non PAS equipped cars feels exactly the same. (Apart from that PAS kills all my feelings of the road, but that's off the point and is for a different discussion)
They don't use fresh fruit - they're using store brought bottles full of juice. The machine just automatically opens the valve to let the juice out and into the cup.
Hmm. Not sure about that. I've got a gas fired boiler heating up my house. Last time I checked, gas costs me 2p per kWh, and electricity costs me 11p per kWh (first tier rates), so it's 5x cheaper for me to use my boiler to heat my house than my numerous PCs.
3 cents a KB? Ouch. On my Orange World Access plan, I pay £10 for 10MB and 80p per meg (very roughly 0.08p per KB) afterwards. On my O2 phone, I get 1meg free and around £2 per meg and 500 mins free WAP - but I use my Orange phone for internet access mainly for obvious reasons ;) Also on both my phone plans, I get 500 free text message (O2) and 3,000 free texts (Orange). Picture messaging is around 20p but I never use picture messaging anyway. And I'm not that happy with either of the networks unlike you ;)