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22-09-2017 10:25AM

Emilee Bitter Ginseng wrote: »

Who or what is this, does it cost money, is it easy to set up?

It's cheap, you just setup a tunnel and then don't tell anyone about it. Shhhhhh

22-09-2017 10:26AM

pickarooney wrote: »

And free?

I pay 6 a month for mine, re-sign every 6 months and have been using it around 3-4 years now. The only problem is that the sites where I get the download links are now being blocked by virgin so I have to use either unblockers or VPNs to access them which is a needless frustration.

22-09-2017 10:28AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I pay 6 a month for mine, re-sign every 6 months and have been using it around 3-4 years now. The only problem is that the sites where I get the download links are now being blocked by virgin so I have to use either unblockers or VPNs to access them which is a needless frustration.

PM please !

pickarooney · 22-09-2017 10:36AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I pay 6 a month for mine, re-sign every 6 months and have been using it around 3-4 years now. The only problem is that the sites where I get the download links are now being blocked by virgin so I have to use either unblockers or VPNs to access them which is a needless frustration.

Essentially paying double then? I'm fine with one or the other.

22-09-2017 10:41AM

pickarooney wrote: »

Essentially paying double then? I'm fine with one or the other.

I try to avoid using torrents regardless. I don't pay double as I can get the links in work and email them to myself. I don't want to illegally download in work in case it blows back on my company. At the same time it saves me having to use a VPN to find the links.

irishbucsfan · 22-09-2017 10:47AM

The other way around this particular case is using a seed box and plex.

It takes some learning but it's solid. The downloading happens on the server, which you can get anywhere, and all you're doing is streaming your content which is, of course, all legally acquired from GOOD torrenteers.

There are good tutorials on how to do this. Might be a little more involved than most people would want to bother with.

dregin · 22-09-2017 02:38PM

I see Bear is gone. Was Heaslip still involved with it?

irishbucsfan · 22-09-2017 03:05PM

dregin wrote: »

I see Bear is gone. Was Heaslip still involved with it?

Is it? Wow was just there the other night!

Teferi · 22-09-2017 03:24PM

George Hook gets an extended holiday and moved to a weekend slot. Newstalk appease their sponsors, SJWs will have a cry. A fairly sensible outcome all round then.

dregin · 22-09-2017 03:28PM

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Is it? Wow was just there the other night!

It's changed into Crackbird. Our office is literally next door.

Buer · 22-09-2017 03:31PM

Teferi wrote: »

George Hook gets an extended holiday and moved to a weekend slot. Newstalk appease their sponsors, SJWs will have a cry. A fairly sensible outcome all round then.

Feel sorry for him for the whole thing and this is probably a decent result for him. But completely aside from this whole mess, I'm baffeld as to how Newstalk didn't take the opportunity to make a clean break unless there was legal action looking. Hook is an out of touch elderly man who has no place broadcasting in modern times.

irishbucsfan · 22-09-2017 03:35PM

Buer wrote: »

Feel sorry for him for the whole thing and this is probably a decent result for him. But completely aside from this whole mess, I'm baffeld as to how Newstalk didn't take the opportunity to make a clean break unless there was legal action looking. Hook is an out of touch elderly man who has no place broadcasting in modern times.

I'd imagine it was either contractual or legal obligations that kept him his job.

A nice break until December, I wonder if that's paid!

irishbucsfan · 22-09-2017 03:36PM

dregin wrote: »

It's changed into Crackbird. Our office is literally next door.

Mad!

I'll probably pop along and have a look at the "new" crackbird so

DGRulz · 22-09-2017 04:21PM

Never really liked Bear, going by the menu I won't like Crackbird either.

dregin · 22-09-2017 04:51PM

DGRulz wrote: »

Never really liked Bear, going by the menu I won't like Crackbird either.

Yeah, wasn't a fan after the first visit and gave it another chance. It was even worse the next time.

Erik Shin · 22-09-2017 04:57PM

Leinster players will be tweeting their love again for Nandos #friendsagain

molloyjh · 22-09-2017 05:37PM

Bear was grand for what it was. The tenner deal at lunch did the job generally, although the last 2 times I was there it wasn't great now that I think of it.

stephen_n · 22-09-2017 06:01PM

Buer wrote: »

Feel sorry for him for the whole thing and this is probably a decent result for him. But completely aside from this whole mess, I'm baffeld as to how Newstalk didn't take the opportunity to make a clean break unless there was legal action looking. Hook is an out of touch elderly man who has no place broadcasting in modern times.

He still appeals to a sizable market, the new slot allows them to cash in on this without pissing off primetime sponsors. He'll probably pick up new listeners because of this.

awec · 22-09-2017 09:39PM

Bought a home cinema set there during the week and wired it all up today, it is AMAZING.

The bass makes the room vibrate.

Podge_irl · 22-09-2017 09:41PM

awec wrote: »

Bought a home cinema set there during the week and wired it all up today, it is AMAZING.

The bass makes the room vibrate.

I live in an apartment which makes the entire concept unworkable alas (the Swiss aren't big fans of noise either). I do like the idea though.

awec · 22-09-2017 09:42PM

Podge_irl wrote: »

I live in an apartment which makes the entire concept unworkable alas (the Swiss aren't big fans of noise either). I do like the idea though.

I live in an apartment too. :cool:

22-09-2017 09:42PM

awec wrote: »

The bass makes the room vibrate.

From what I've heard about home cinema it's meant to be all about the bass.

awec · 22-09-2017 09:49PM

Deleted User wrote: »

From what I've heard about home cinema it's meant to be all about the bass.

Dunno if I'm missing a joke here but yea, the bass is sweet.

Got a Yamaha RVX481 receiver and Denon SYS2020 speakers in case anyone cares.

3 hours to put it all together, but due to some questionable measuring on my behalf I had to actually disassemble a piece of furniture and re-assemble it around the receiver cause it wouldn't fit like I thought it would.

Podge_irl · 22-09-2017 09:51PM

awec wrote: »

I live in an apartment too. :cool:

I imagine your downstairs neighbours love you.

To be fair, in my last place here the apartment upstairs used to have some kind of reggae party every sunday but it would end on the dot at 10pm so it was fine. Clear as a bell in my apartment though.

awec · 22-09-2017 10:09PM

Podge_irl wrote: »

I imagine your downstairs neighbours love you.

To be fair, in my last place here the apartment upstairs used to have some kind of reggae party every sunday but it would end on the dot at 10pm so it was fine. Clear as a bell in my apartment though.

The apartments where I live are surprisingly well insulated. I never hear any noise from anyone above me at all, be surprised if anyone can hear it below.

I checked it as well by putting it on and going out into the hall where the lifts are and seeing if I could still hear it, nope.

CatFromHue · 22-09-2017 11:50PM

Buer wrote: »

Feel sorry for him for the whole thing and this is probably a decent result for him. But completely aside from this whole mess, I'm baffeld as to how Newstalk didn't take the opportunity to make a clean break unless there was legal action looking. Hook is an out of touch elderly man who has no place broadcasting in modern times.

On The Right Hook that was his schtick, that he was an out of touch elderly man looking at modern life, the no holds barred Hook as his show's bye line used to be.

He was a good broadcaster though in that he could chat to people and make a joke etc. Ciara Kelly is very professional and very smart but she struggles to make easy listening. Give her a serious topic and she's ace but give her a lighter one and it doesn't seem to suit her, so far anyway, and can be tough/bland listening.

He was far from perfect but he will be very hard to replace. For example I do remember in his last year of his 4 to 7 show I was driving home from Cork a couple of days after Christmas and his show that day was just perfect. It had a great holiday feel, was nostalgic, and there was a real warmth to it and from him for his listeners for how they were during what can be a difficult time of year. I don't know of any other radio host who could have done that show to the same degree.

kuang1 · 23-09-2017 12:17AM

I agree with most of that CFH, the exception being what you said about Ciara Kelly.
She is a brilliant example of what modern medicine should not be. Abhorrently abnoxious perspective that if science can't prove something then it's bunkham.
(Also: "I'm a doctor AND a z-list celebrity...LISTEN TO MEEEEE!"

YEUGH.)

23-09-2017 12:22AM

awec wrote: »

The apartments where I live are surprisingly well insulated. I never hear any noise from anyone above me at all, be surprised if anyone can hear it below.

I checked it as well by putting it on and going out into the hall where the lifts are and seeing if I could still hear it, nope.

Did you end up doing anything with Clay farm? There were only 5 left Sunday afternoon which was mad considering the price of them. They weren't bad but the 4 beds felt claustrophobic downstairs. Loved the lofts in them though.

awec · 23-09-2017 12:25AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Did you end up doing anything with Clay farm? There were only 5 left Sunday afternoon which was mad considering the price of them. They weren't bad but the 4 beds felt claustrophobic downstairs. Loved the lofts in them though.

Nah we didn't even bother going to look, we didn't like the look of the place at all.

Houses are packed in and overpriced IMO.

23-09-2017 12:26AM

kuang1 wrote: »

I agree with most of that CFH, the exception being what you said about Ciara Kelly.
She is a brilliant example of what modern medicine should not be. Abhorrently abnoxious perspective that if science can't prove something then it's bunkham.
(Also: "I'm a doctor AND a z-list celebrity...LISTEN TO MEEEEE!"

YEUGH.)

I like her. I agree with her most of the time. And I take her 'science' over others 'beliefs' each and every day of the week.

I quite appreciated her scathing attack on Mattie McGrath last week and this, frankly, horse**** and dangerous scaremongering about vaccines. It needs to stop.

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