Commander

Die Hard, Home Alone, Snowman, Love Actually, Mary Poppins, any Indiana Jones or an old James Bond

They're not the best heated seats in the world, but seat and back are both heated.

I'm working today and tomorrow, then back to work on the 30th..

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I'm Not Sure I'd Buy Either Of Them, Some Of The English Skills On The Adverts Are Questionable!

Sorry mate, it's one of the few things I can't do much about... There are so many things that affect the speed you get it's about impossible for anybody to guarantee anything. They did find out that a lot of the noise on a line (and more noise = lower speed) can be caused from within the home. To help eliminate some of the noise, you can get fit different faceplates to your fit to your wall outlets that better insulates them from the general RF noise in your house, it's supposed to help, but "mileage varies" as they say... See here; http://www.shop.bt.com/products/bt-iplate---bt-broadband-accelerator-58LT.html Also, for anybody else reading, this isn't BT specific - anybody using an internet connection that is essentially based on a phone line, can potentially benefit from this.

Well done Commander that's an excellant passmark! How long did you study for? Not long, a few weeks maybe? But I've been heavily involved in the Industry for almost 10 years so there's a lot of experience underpinning the short study time...

Quote of the day, I'm ordering breakfast in IHop... Me: do you have any Belgian waffles? Waitress: Ah, you want a taste of home? Me: Erm? Waitress: Well you're French, right? LMFAO! Even if I was French, which I'm most certainly not, I'm not sure she even knew France and Belgium are different countries?! After trying my hardest not to laugh, they don't have any anyway.... Pancakes, maple syrup and a gallon of coffee it is. Makes a full English look healthy!

GMBallistic - yep, work are paying The hills aren't hard to find, they everywhere! They're extremely steep too, which might explain why I haven't seen any Zeds! BulletMagnet - lol, thanks for the eats. You trying to fatten me up?! My hotel's near Pier39 and there's an IHop round the corner, so that's two off your list. There's a Man V Food Burrito place on 16th St I want to visit too... I gather MvF counts as cultural over here!

I love it here! I'm sitting here in Macy's, using free WiFi having spent the morning walking around San Francisco listening to the V6s and V8s powering the city's morning drivers around... The City is huge and the architecture is impressive! I'm off cycling over the Golden Gate Bridge tomorrow and visiting Alcatraz on Monday - have any of you been here before? Recommend me some places to go? I'm here on my own until a work thing starts later in the week so got time to kill and I don't go abroad with work very often so I want to make the most of it...

At least it can land it in your back garden, instead of having the posty lob it over the fence... the yellow box does scream "steal me" though!

^^^^ what he said. I always thought double-clutching was really just if you had a dog box with no synchros?

Surely the ABS kick-in point is determined by the ABS Sensors that are in the hubs and the ABS ECU? In which case changing the brakes, tyres, whatever, shouldn't have an adverse affect at all? As soon as the sensor detects some under-rotation of the wheel, it kicks in, regardless. I'd have thought that short of modding the ABS Sensors / ECU, the only way to have a greater rate of deceleration before ABS kicks in is to have more grip? Better tyres, different pressures, etc?

Just seen on the news that Paul Walker died in a car crash (passenger) today. He was one of the main actors in The Fast and The Furious series. Seems a friend was driving a Porsche and hit a lamp post at speed, killing them both. I know TFATF was very much maligned by petrol heads, but I bet you've all seen, and secretly enjoyed, at least one of his films. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25173331 RIP.

Costello (Elvis) shares the same first name as Presley (Elvis), who was famously drafted to fight in the US Army. The US Army has over 1.1 million active and reserve members, making it bigger, in population terms at least, bigger than the world's 84 smallest countries.

In the same way that "your" does not mean the same as "you're" in the same way that they're does not mean the same as their and there. And sentences should start with a capital letter. But starting a sentence with "And" isn't great either. Nor is starting a sentence with "But" or "Nor" for that matter.

Subnets are dead easy Take for example, 192.168.1.10 255.255.255.0, the key to working out your network / host / broadcast addresses is the subnet mask, in binary. So, 255.255.255.0, can also be written as "/24", because in binary it's 11111111.11111111.11111111.0, which is twenty-four 1's all in a row, hence /24. Why this is useful is because if you were to write out the IP address and the subnet mask above / below each other, you'd get something like this; 192.168.1.10 255.255.255.0 Now, everywhere that your subnet mask has a "1" in it (remember to think of it in Binary), then that'll be your Network address. In this example, this means that your network address in this example is 192.168.1.0 - this is because each portion of your IP address is always represented by eight binary digits. Once you've worked that out, your first real address in the range is the next one along, so .1 in this case. To work out the last address in the range we go back to the binary subnet mask... we know there are eight zeros at the end of the subnet mask which represent your addressable range, so what's the biggest number you can make from Binary 11111111? The answer is 255, which is therefore your Broadcast address. Take one away from this and you get your highest usable IP address, 254. This is summed up as Host IP = 192.168.1.10 Subnet Mask = 255.255.255.0 Network Address = 192.168.1.0 Broadcast Address = 192.168.1.255 Addressable range = 192.168.1.1 - 192.168.1.254 Now, if we apply those same principles to something a bit harder, let's say 192.168.22.126 /28 - what do you get? Host IP = 192.168.22.126 Subnet Mask = 255.255.255.240 Network Address = 192.168.22.112 Broadcast Address = 192.168.22.127 Addressable range = 192.168.22.113 - 192.168.22.126 Knowing all of this stuff is really important, especially when you start doing Routing, ACLs, Firewalls, Network design, etc... But most of my customers just use this http://www.subnet-calculator.com/cidr.php which does the job, but it's no substitute for understanding it yourself.

£650. Admiral. 30. 3 points. 12 years exp, 8 years n/c. Includes my business miles. Fully Comp.

hah, yeah I went for a float around in there too, but my face was stinging like I don't know what having shaved it a few hours earlier.... error! That aside it was decent enough though.

The Mrs took me along for my first visit to the Spa; I knew she'd picked a good'un when I spied a red zed parked up round the side, private plate.

Unless you're driving it like a *****, it should be fairly well behaved. Tried checking your tyres for grip, pressure, even wear, etc? Geo setup?

Time to buy those Snow Socks I keep promising myself!

Aah, nice... Well when you start looking at Wireless, 802.1X, ISE, Prime, etc... give me a call!

The CCNAs are a good introduction... if your employer will pay for a course, you can go on a 1 week bootcamp of hands-on training and the exam at the end. In some respects the CCNA is the hardest exam of them all because many of the concepts are new to you... after that, things like CCNP / CCIE are really just building on that initial knowledge by adding more complexity. Who do you work for? Cisco / Cisco Reseller / Cisco End User?

Aah, nice one... Do you know what exams you'll be doing?