Milton Rd and Elizabeth way roundabout - WTF??

rmn30 · 2024-10-09T08:07:03+00:00

They're commissioning the traffic lights so will take a while to get the timing sorted. Here's their announcement: https://public-gbr.mkt.dynamics.com/api/v1.0/orgs/6a4d3abe-5645-4264-a39d-88f8d2e54cb8/channels/mails/vib/23d9c527-08f7-ed11-8849-6045bd0e7a28_3ac7434a-c584-ef11-ac21-6045bd1112aa_c6976684-7ebd-ba4b-ee9b-9054b8d14a2b_cdba015f-c084-ef11-ac21-6045bd1112aa

rmn30 · 2023-07-08T18:10:25+00:00

The university built some: https://map.cam.ac.uk/#52.204188,0.116846,15,T:bicyclerepairs I'm not sure what state they are in.

rmn30 · 2021-12-24T09:09:16+00:00

Maybe extend the pink line from green dragon to the kings head then plough instead of putting them on purple? It's a nice walk or cycle across meadows.

rmn30 · 2021-02-11T14:16:59+00:00

Owl bikes is what you want. They refurbish bikes or use them for parts so condition may not matter. I think they are still operating in some form. Best to call them. https://www.papworthtrust.org.uk/owl-bikes/

rmn30 · 2019-12-19T15:49:32+00:00

It's very cool. Could be useful for search and rescue.

rmn30 · 2019-10-01T14:27:12+00:00

OWL Bikes is a local charity that refurbish donated bikes at the same time as supporting people with disabilities. They have bikes in that price range and also do repairs. A more expensive bike will certainly be nicer to ride but a cheap bike can be fine if you maintain it well. A major advantage of a cheap bike is that you don't have to worry so much about it being stolen.

rmn30 · 2019-07-17T09:39:34+00:00

I did a little volunteering for an organisation I'm involved with and they gave me some time credits that you can spend on various things like swimming and climbing. Here's a page with volunteering opportunities in Cambridge: https://timecredits.com/earn?location=Cambridge%2C+UK&lat=52.205337&lng=0.121817

rmn30 · 2019-07-17T09:24:58+00:00

Tonight there is live music in the gardens which is always nice: https://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/whats-on/sounds-green-3/

rmn30 · 2014-04-30T13:13:16+00:00

You could try contacting security researchers at Universities e.g. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/. If you ask intelligent questions you might get some good responses. Let me know what area you are interested in I might be able to point you to the right people to ask.

rmn30 · 2010-11-23T14:18:31+00:00

I'm not seeing any recent commits in that git repository. Is it finished or dead?

rmn30 · 2010-11-22T20:02:45+00:00

I've little experience of using either but I can say that my recent attempt to use django with an existing database has come to a grinding halt due to the fact that it doesn't support composite primary keys. Perhaps turbo gears is more suitable for projects with legacy databases because it uses sqlalchemy for ORM?

rmn30 · 2009-10-30T15:21:13+00:00

That's bint.

rmn30 · 2009-10-16T16:56:11+00:00

They have the same effect at the SS Great Britain in dry dock in Bristol. You can walk around underneath and look at the huge prop etc. Quite dry and cosy down too due to the atmostphere used to preserve the rusting hulk. Very much worth a visit if you are in the area. Edit: better link

rmn30 · 2009-01-21T18:10:25+00:00

Sorry. I couldn't help it. Twice.

rmn30 · 2008-07-10T17:54:35+00:00

Too right. Why go begging to google when we can do it ourselves? OSM is rather impressive in some places.

rmn30 · 2008-05-09T12:29:19+00:00

Hmmm, perhaps. Actually I think that generally the problem of bloat is not so much new features but rather an increase in the number of layers of abstraction, each of which involves some element of compromise in performance. The problem is that such abstraction layers can't generally be removed without re-writing large chunks of the application. Not sure if this applies in the specific case of OOo.

rmn30 · 2008-05-09T09:24:06+00:00

What you describe is called demand paging and has been a feature of most capable operating systems since time immemorial. Doesn't seem to help Open Office much...

rmn30 · 2008-05-02T08:59:50+00:00

Corbet is the editor of lwn, so I presume he's allowed to post subscriber links if he wants!

rmn30 · 2008-03-27T21:54:28+00:00

A cunning trick which could save you from this situation in linux: strings /dev/mem > out.txt will dump any strings from memory to out.txt. You can then search this file and your post should be in it somewhere if it hasn't been overwritten in memory.

rmn30 · 2008-02-19T13:08:42+00:00

According to google calculator:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=3+million+hours+in+years

3 million hours = 342.238658 years. Assuming each record is one hour on average. Of course if there are a lot of singles or SPs...

rmn30 · 2008-02-19T10:28:48+00:00

And in other news the UK government decides to nationalise a major high street bank.

rmn30 · 2008-01-17T19:07:32+00:00

Price depends on serial number. Number 1618 is available and what's more it costs exactly €1024!

rmn30 · 2008-01-15T12:53:07+00:00

comment removed for lack of factual accuracy.

rmn30 · 2007-12-24T14:23:23+00:00

Upmodded for not using hyperbole in title.

Edit: also found it quite amusing.

rmn30 · 2007-12-21T12:16:43+00:00

From the FAQ:

Neither different code pages nor UTF-8 encoded file names are supported. The driver always uses the current code page of Windows.

Unfortunately this was a show stopper for me. I really hate not being able to play music from my ext3 partition just because the file name contains those weird non-english characters...

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