Where was that from mate? Still most refurb places charge £60 per wheel so an extra £40 isn't too bad.

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£90.94 worth of diesel, or around 65 litres (139.9 a litre).


£4 worth of toll booths (£2 each way). I have to pay 50p more each way in my Escort Van because apparently vans do more damage to the road, yet a guy in a huge American style SUV only had to pay car fees. How is that fair?

Cut the sidepanels out replace with perspex. Thus not a van.

The Sun, one step up from communists.

I hate the press. They can never stick to the truth, look at the headlights about a 19 year old kid.

"MAD CYBER TERRORIST"...etc.

Wheres as only the Financial Times that got the point across in a correct manner "Teen arrested in connection with internet attacks" or something like that.

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co ... suspect-arrest-headlines/

Which is exactly why I hate tabloid journalism. They act like they're doing a good thing but all they're doing is spreading bollocks.

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I am not too keen on driving on a "repaired" wheel. However, like you said, the bead is fine. It's quite literally just the outter lip.

The wheels are from america, and to import another wheel would be around £200. If I am able to get the wheel restored to a safe, decent finish for £50-75, then I'd be very happy. Would love to get them back on my mx5, as my 14" tyres are nearly shot.

Good times..

Next question would be if it was repaired... Would you rather have the repaired wheel on the front or the rear?

If it's just the rim then it's not really a safety issue, they'll weld new metal on and it'll be finished properly. Get them to play that old card game where you swap the cards around, but with the wheels, you'd not be able to tell the difference.
I'd estimate a top end cost of £100 as that's quite a large ding, still it's much cheaper than shipping a new wheel over from the states.

MX5 looking nice there.

Hey quit talking about my sister like that.

There's a place that's a bit closer, in Basingstoke called "MyAlloys" (MyAlloys.co.uk) will probably be getting them to refurb my wheels in the next couple of weeks as long as I get paid enough. I'll let you know of the outcome and the quality if you haven't already got yours done by then.

My mentor.

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After having these in my garage for a year, and no replacement wheel forthcoming, I am tempted to get it repaired... oh shi..


What do you guys reckon?

Hmm if it's still holding air then its definately repairable. If it's broken the bead then you'd need to get it looked at in detail, take it to a proper refurb place (not the touch up merchants but a proper shotblast and refurb place)

There's a place called BJV Engineering based somewhere not far from St Albans, who are apparently pretty good. (I think you're from the south somewhere - If not then oh well)

http://www.wheelrefurbishing.com

Do agree about the Cisco thing. I mean I'm studying for my CCNA at the moment and compared to the HP Config line stuff, Cisco is such a PITA. Also nothing makes sense on the Cisco where as HP is a bit more intuitive. But hey that's a bit off topic.

I think I understand what you're explaining(and thanks for taking the time out to do it:nod - and I see how that would then work but you'd be in effect load balancing a download pipe between two PCs, so it's not really as quick as if you'd just shut down the torrent on PC2.

Also as you say if you have more than 2 pcs (or even devices, for example atm my PC, iphone, ipod touch, ps3 and probably my flatmates laptop are on our wireless) so can get messy and hard to administer.

More often than not though, you can download at 90% of your total download speed (say downloading at 480kbps out of a max of 512) and you'd still be able to browse alright on the proviso you weren't UPLOADING.

Even using half the upload bandwidth (on a 512kb line this is going to be shit, like 10kbs shit) would dramatically slow down your browsing experience, so even disabling uploads would help immensely. Or you could do what everyone else does, and torrent overnight with unlimited capacity on upload and download.
How many times have you been waiting for hours to download a 100mb torrent file because none of the bastards who are using it are seeding? DON'T BE A SEEDING FAGGOT. At least a 1.00 U/D ratio on your torrent before you remove it after completing your download.

But out of the two, only one is your favourite every movie.

QoS doesn't really split bandwidth, it doesn't say "here you go, you two each get to have 256kb of a 512kb pipe" simply prioritises traffic, more often used for VoIP deployments alongside existing network infrastructure. Just says that when data is transfered, traffic marked with whatever DSCP value gets right of way. Basically like those "give way" signs on the roads.

I was simply using HP Networking equipment as an example because as that's what we sell and install at work (along other networking hardware) and I know roughly how much that costs. Most new(ish) home routers will support QoS but I've never come across it working properly unless you have a properly switched environments. But yeah, HP stuff isn't too bad actually. And doesn't vendor-rape you like Cisco.

But hey if you can do it then by all means, share the knowledge.

Dude Croatia has better internet than the UK and I get 10mb.

You could if you had some proper switches but I doubt you have £2000 for a HP Networking jobbie.

I squirt something else on my car from time to time. :hide:

Lulzsec weren't hacked. a Wordpress plugin was compromised, nothing fancy. Just a good old trojan built into a plugin. Was not done by the group in question.

Tango down.

:sadbanana missed that sorry.

RUI IHY.

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you say?

Quote from vistaman :

Yah, I say

Oh so you say

as well

Nope don't do that. I mean I wax the full vehicle so does include wheelarches and perhaps a bit gets pushed onto the little lip, but now you've mentioned it I'll make sure I do it every time. After all when I spend 3 hours washing and waxing the car what's another 5 minutes

you say?

No-one notices except the person who spends hours waxing their car.



Edit: I should rephrase, cleaning the car, from washing to drying, to polish, to paint protection, to waxing, to paint protection over that.

That all takes about 3 hours. Waxing takes maybe 20 minutes if I do it properly.

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Well, if LulSec didn't bring this lack of security to light, who would?

If the companies in question weren't prepared now then they should be by the time this all blows over. Additionally, it's a wake up call to other companies and agencies who have valuable data but have lackluster security.

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I replied cause of what you said about having no pity for someone who brought something upon them self. From your post, i assume that you've never lost someone to a DUI related death. I've lost one close friend who decided to drive drunk, and i've lost another friend due to speeding. Whilst i do agree with you to a degree, about reaping what you sow, most people get a second chance to learn from their mistakes. Others pay the ultimate price. I have pity on them because they didn't get that second chance.

Then again, maybe i'm just turning into an old hippy

I've had 2 friends pass away from some sort of drinking related incident...not good, no cars involved but still!

It's just one of those things, I guess. Many times people who speed have several "ohshit" moments before one big accident occurs. As for drinking driving well, you don't deserve a second chance.

Just my opinion but glad you just put your points of view across in a manner I can understand.

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I got mixed feelings tbh. I feel bad that two people died in such a horrible way but when faced with the death of a reckless celebrity who became famous by putting himself in deliberate danger for no good reason in a kind of way that to me is like mocking life,... you can say he got what he deserved. At this time i can't help but remember all of the many innocent people including children that didn't mock life but have had their lives stolen as a result of the wars based on lies that my government has waged alongside the US government. The media also did a good Job of dehumanizing and stigmatizing a particular group of people as terrorists to lower them to a sub human level, so that us tax payers would continue to fund and support these wars of theft and murder against them, under the guise of spreading freedom and combating terrorism. This is relevant to me because the very same Television media bombards me with the ethics and values that i am supposed to have including worshiping retarded celebrities that swim in sh@t, whilst ignoring the "collateral damage" of war and lies of politicians. I guess many fellow LFS'ers will disagree with what i am saying, or maybe some just won't see it as relevant, but i hope you all can at least try to understand my protest.

Right on so many levels.

@erik: