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I still have the memories of that 20 years after the accompanying barium enema. Went from jetting litres of liquid to passing lumps of white concrete all in the space of 24 hours. Isn't the human body wonderful?

Also saw that Uber are pulling a load of driverless cars in the US after the computer flipped one on its side (albeit in a collision with another car potentially at fault)

 

Interesting conundrum for you - clearly the computer is given code to make decisions, if the decision was to avoid a head on collision at speed which will most likely kill the driver and its occupants, but the only way to avoid it is to swerve and hit some pedestrians by the side of the road, how do you program it to decide...what decision should it make.

Calculate speed/kinetic energy remaining after collision with pedestrians and after collision with other vehicle (assuming current velocity of other vehicle) and work out best chances of survival based on physics, physiology and sh*t.

I'm going to the Netherlands next week. For two years.

I occasionally catch this show and think "why is Neil Gaiman fixing cars?" ...

One of those actors that I'd watch a film I'd not heard of before just because they were in it.

I watched Trespass again last night ... Bill Paxton and William Sadler vs. Ices Cube and T ... great romp.

Did the same a few months back. Turned out onto a dual carriage way, put foot down, then clunk ... black rectangle bouncing down the road behind me. My first thought was that I'd somehow thrown a brake pad. Pulled over, nothing amiss. Gingerly drove 100 miles home and later on in the evening thought ... where's my phone. Then put two and two together ... Thing is I remember thinking to myself as I was loading the car, don't put your phone on the roof, you'll forget it ...

Still, at least it wasn't quite as bad as the lady driving out of the supermarket carpark just before Christmas with a bag full of shopping on the roof.

Might only be on the Roadster? But here it is circled in red.

I was preparing to leave for a long drive up to Huddersfield on Friday night (having already done a trip to Reading and back from Herefordshire that day). Mate was holding an old skool LAN weekend, so loaded PC and monitor and accessories into the boot (couldn't do that with the Z in the old days with a CRT monitor, I can tell you). Everything just about fits ... my daughter's stuff (for she was coming with) would have to sit at her feet. Shut boot after shifting things around, moved some stuff off the front seat into the glove box behind the passenger seat, so the girl had somewhere to sit. It was dark and getting on, with the M42 in chaos and a long journey via the M6 in store. Went back in the house, hurried the girl along, got her loaded into the car, grabbed my jacket, went to put it in the boot, where it should still fit and provide some cushioning for the PC bits and ... nothing. Boot refused to open. Lock / Unlock, try again ... nothing ... get her to try to pull up the boot while I pressed the release button ... nothing. It was cold, she was starting to moan and all my stuff was locked in the boot.

So after 10 minutes fiddling about, it was time to go back inside and consult the Oracle. Found out where the secondary boot release cable was supposed to be, and then ... one thing caught my eye in the manual. External boot switch "switch" ... enables and disables the external boot switch. Blimey, I didn't know I had one of them. Where is it? Top middle of the glove box where I'd just stuffed the things on the passenger seat. Went out, located it, flipped it and bingo: all good again. I must have caught it and flipped it when putting things in the glove box.

So a half hour delay on my journey, but I now know I have a switch I didn't know about before. Maybe this knowledge will help other ham-fisted types who don't know it's there in the future.

Full set of DBA T2s with Hawk HPS pads dispatched yesterday, turned up this morning. Great service.

The only downside was that my daughter snaffled the free sweeties before I could have any.

Thanks, Ewen.

"How to get people to read your advertisement 101."

Just had to do mine. Empty coke bottle jammed under the passenger seat. Reseated the molex connectors. Still flashing.

Couldn't remember quite the reset sequence, but 30 seconds on here and it's all sorted and reset.

This forum is awesome.

Some Cats are really good at catching Moles ............

Pete

 

Our cat Dave knocks off about 15-20 a year I reckon, but never eats them - apparently they taste quite bitter (christ knows who found that one out)

 

What I dont know is how he catches them, hes pretty @*!# at being a cat (cant jump more than about 3 feet in the air, scared of heights, has been known to fall over while walking across lounge), surely he doesnt just sit there and wait all day?

 

Some cats aren't interested, most in fact, but one of our cats gets 3 or 4 a year, as you say, they don't eat them and they don't even bring them home. For cats its just an instinct to catch them, ours catch dozens of shrews but apparently they only ever eat the first one they catch. Going back to moles, the closest molehills are about 50 yards away in an open field so I often see them just sitting by a molehill, I guess they can detect movement underground.

 

Pete

Yep. Seen our old cat catch a mole. Could see him listening and slowly stalking an invisible thing, then he stopped and waited upright rather than crouched, the mole started to surface and if you've ever seen documentary footage of a polar bear leaping and punching through snow or ice after a seal, that's the closest I can describe it. In with the claws and hoke it out. Then do the usual, bat it about a bit, feign indifference, then bat it about again cycle until it's dead. Nature red in tooth and claw.

What I'd have liked to know is how he caught the long eared bat he left at our doorstep one time.

Used to help trap moles with my Grandad when I was a kid. Just get a few mole traps, dig in a molehill to find the run and set up the trap in line with that. Check back in the morning.

Watch your fingers.

Well this has been a real pain, removed the HDD and ran some checks on another PC, no errors etc, so put it back and spent the best part of the day waiting for it to respond to each commend, it turns out that the disc read/write activity is running at 100%, so i had a look and managed to disable the Avast updater, which helped, but its still running really slow and locks up, but i really cant see just what the culprit is that using so much disc activity, not really sure just what to stop/end using cmd commands?

Avast is probably your culprit. I've updated 6 machines to windows 10 now, and two of them have done similar things to what you describe and both times it was Avast. I removed it completely, switched to another virus checker in both instances and have had no problems with them since.

There was an identified compatibility issue with Avast and Windows 10 months ago. I'm quite surprised it's not fixed. Having said that, I had a couple of PCs with Avast upgrade with no issue, so it's probably a more complex issue.

Prompted me to look. My gold vinyl Creeping Death EP is going for about £30 on ebay.

Weird thing is, I then started looking up other bits and bobs, I have. The CD versions of the earlier Foetus albums I have are going from £80 to £770(!) on Amazon Market place. The vinyl versions of the same, which I have are less at about £40 each. Digital download ...£7.99. Makes no sense to me, why so much for the CD versions?

Also my Slayer "Mandatory Suicide" T Shirt is now estimated at $500-$1000. Shame my mate took it away with him by accident 24 years ago and his mother threw it away.

What did you make her for breakfast after you woke up?

Just finished Unravel. It's just a simple, puzzle solving platform game with swinging mechanics at heart, but what a beautiful, heartbreaking little game it is.

The backdrops are gorgeous and the little wool character has such a depth of expression, you really feel for the little guy as he spools out yarn, collecting the memories and photographs of a family's life from childhood to the end of the reel.

A little clumsy and frustrating at times, but ultimately if you push beyond that it's well worth a few quid if you like games without cars or guns.

Mitsubishi FTO. Loved that car. Only one idle control stepper motor required (aside from consumables) in 12 years.

Great handling and still love the look of it.

Austin Allegro.

Free floating back seats, a gearbox made of peanut brittle, electrics that would lose the headlights randomly when switching between main beam and dip and a body that oxidised in front of your eyes. Got rid when my dad put his foot through the passenger side floor.

Then dad bought me a 2.0 litre mk 4 Cortina, which I really quite liked, then whilst I was away he decided to trade it in for an Austin Montego, which my brother drove more than me and which was dreadful until he killed it by filling the engine to the brim with oil. You could see the smoke for about a mile.

I've yet to try my 360 wheel, but will report back on whether that works via the PC streaming interface.

Just got round to testing this, and sadly, it's a fail.

PC recognises the wheel fine, but the xbox one via streaming does not. Searched about a bit and MS are keeping support for their other peripherals via streaming "under review". Which means we're unlikely to ever see support for this "work around" in my experience. Shame.

Gamertag: TinyTwerp

Tested mine in this configuration before I installed them. For day use it's fine, but if they have infra-red led illumination for night time, once that kicks in all you get is reflected IR back off the glass.

I have 2 x UCam247-HDO1080 cameras set up front and back. Wifi or Ethernet into your router, then you can access the feed and recordings from an app on your mobile. Mine logs video footage based on any movement to my NAS drive and onto the cloud (MS OneDrive at the moment) via an old laptop.

Quality is pretty good and 1080P resolution.

The spider issue at night is an issue, so I have to clean the webs off almost daily in spider season. The front I can do by leaning out of the window. The back I do with a mop. So the moral is if you install one with night vision, make sure you can reach it to clean it.

+1. Carl's done some work on mine in the past. Seems to know his stuff and charges pretty reasonable rates.

Swapping over to my winter set at the end of the month, and continuing as usual.