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  1. Premier League leaders Chelsea will travel to Villa Park on Saturday, with Paul Lambert's side out to avenge their controversial defeat to the Blues back in August. Villa went down 2-1 at Stamford Bridge in a feisty encounter that left the players feeling mightily aggrieved following a number of questionable decisions from referee Kevin Friend. Now with only 6 points separating them from the relegation zone, Villa need to keep up their good form following the 4-1 win over Norwich at the beginning of the month. But they will have to be at their best to oust Jose Mourinho's side, and will also be hoping for a little justice in this return fixture. Striker Andreas Weimann is eager to set the record straight this weekend: “We definitely should have got something out of the game down there because we played really well,” Weimann told the Mirror, “Hopefully we can do that again and get what we deserve this time. “They are top of the league now so everyone is looking to catch them and we hope we will be able to take points off them. “I think, attacking-wise, if we are on our game we can hurt anyone and we’ll look to do that against Chelsea.” Gabby Agbonlahor knows it will be a stern ask to defeat Chelsea, but insists the players are up for the fight, “We have to be on top of our performance to get anything,” he told the Birmingham Mail, “We’re looking forward to it because they are the games players want to play in." Villa have lost their last four matches against Chelsea, and only won one of their last eight. Christian Benteke could be the key man once again for Villa however, with the Belgian having scored in two of his three Premier League appearances against the Blues. The 23-year-old has endured a stop/start season so far, but has seemingly rediscovered his goalscoring touch ahead of the World Cup 2014 this summer, with his brace against Norwich giving him five goals from his last eight games. Benteke is expected by several bookmakers such as completebetting.com to fire Belgium to the top of their World Cup group, and his timely return to form will help Villa as well. The on loan Ryan Bertrand is unavailable to play against his parent club, with Lambert set to call upon Joe Bennett or Antonio Luna to deputise. What do you think? Can Villa best Chelsea on Saturday? Source: Aston Villa vs Chelsea preview: Benteke to the rescue?
  2. Premier League leaders Chelsea will travel to Villa Park on Saturday, with Paul Lambert's side out to avenge their controversial defeat to the Blues back in August. Villa went down 2-1 at Stamford Bridge in a feisty encounter that left the players feeling mightily aggrieved following a number of questionable decisions from referee Kevin Friend. Now with only 6 points separating them from the relegation zone, Villa need to keep up their good form following the 4-1 win over Norwich at the beginning of the month. But they will have to be at their best to oust Jose Mourinho's side, and will also be hoping for a little justice in this return fixture. Striker Andreas Weimann is eager to set the record straight this weekend: “We definitely should have got something out of the game down there because we played really well,” Weimann told the Mirror, “Hopefully we can do that again and get what we deserve this time. “They are top of the league now so everyone is looking to catch them and we hope we will be able to take points off them. “I think, attacking-wise, if we are on our game we can hurt anyone and we’ll look to do that against Chelsea.” Gabby Agbonlahor knows it will be a stern ask to defeat Chelsea, but insists the players are up for the fight, “We have to be on top of our performance to get anything,” he told the Birmingham Mail, “We’re looking forward to it because they are the games players want to play in." Villa have lost their last four matches against Chelsea, and only won one of their last eight. Christian Benteke could be the key man once again for Villa however, with the Belgian having scored in two of his three Premier League appearances against the Blues. The 23-year-old has endured a stop/start season so far, but has seemingly rediscovered his goalscoring touch ahead of the World Cup 2014 this summer, with his brace against Norwich giving him five goals from his last eight games. Benteke is expected by several bookmakers such as completebetting.com to fire Belgium to the top of their World Cup group, and his timely return to form will help Villa as well. The on loan Ryan Bertrand is unavailable to play against his parent club, with Lambert set to call upon Joe Bennett or Antonio Luna to deputise. What do you think? Can Villa best Chelsea on Saturday?
  3. That might be considered an illegal restraint of trade though, especially where these rules have been brought in after the fact. You might get both clubs and players suing EUFA in that case.
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    Science Thread

    Large scale nuclear fusion with a net energy gain is a pipe dream. Muon based fusion is fairly easily reproduced on a small scale but only at a net energy loss. Your "pipe dream" happened last year at the NIF. I don't think it did. "Large scale" is what I wrote. That would require it to reach ignition and AFAIK they aren't exactly on the brink of that. Sorry. Seeing as we are talking about nuclear physics in a science thread, I took large scale to mean a non-quantum scale, I had no way to determine that you meant ignition from your statement. I predict ignition is less than two years away. I guess I should ask you to define your usage of "pipe dream" too in case I've misunderstood that
  5. What network are you on? I just used my regular EE sim, you can't rack up a big bill because your data is locked to whatever bundle limit you purchase. I can't remember the exact price but it wasn't too expensive. Three. Their international roaming charges are crap. Pity as their domestic charges are brilliant. In certain countries, your data bundle still works with three. That means if I pick my roaming partner carefully (ie do a network search) then I have free data in those countries.
  6. And now convert people to using hangouts. A superior platform anyway.
  7. Uninstall Skype and see if the problem goes away. What does the battery usage display say is using the power? The Facebook app was the worst battery hog I ever experienced. That lasted a day on my phone.
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    wordpress

    You can move wordpress installs from host to host. Or you can self host. Wordpress installs are the biggest source of DDoS attacks on the internet at the moment and most blog owners have no idea they've been compromised. You can import the wordpress site into squarespace, but it's not worth the first step, just use squarespace
  9. Was he trying to get into other people's photos?
  10. I have emailed Ebay for his address. He has already purchased on Ebay from a mobile company who have left him positive feedback. He would have used a card to make payment. I also have his account number which he gave me to make payment which was an account with the Halifax so the Police should be able to get his address from his account details but he may have used a fake address? I also have all messages in my Ebay messages account showing the agreed sale but to tell you the truth I'm just not confident at all that I'll see my money again. I suppose it serves me right for trusting anyone and I've actually felt physically sick all day. Just feel my very soul has been raped. No matter. The thing is to put it down to experience and not make the same mistake again which I won't. A big thank you for the concern. Sorry, but ebay will not give you this information. Take it to the police and let them ask ebay.
  11. limpid

    General Chat

    Hope you remembered to leave your iPhone in the locker. Has he got an iPhone?
  12. limpid

    Science Thread

    Large scale nuclear fusion with a net energy gain is a pipe dream. Muon based fusion is fairly easily reproduced on a small scale but only at a net energy loss. Your "pipe dream" happened last year at the NIF.
  13. Do you need to do a full backup? Everything important should already be backed up in case you lose it...
  14. Were you expecting anything in particular?
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    wordpress

    My advice has changed. I'd recommend squarespace.com rather than wordpress.
  16. They probably predicted 18C, there are no degrees. And seeing as it's this thread; it's Celsius, not centigrade.
  17. I think it's pretty amazing, especially considering the price. It;s like netapp from 6 years ago.
  18. If Avast (or it's plugin) is causing you issues, don't use it.
  19. If two different disk solutions hit the same limit, it suggests the problem is not the disks.
  20. The throughput you will get depends on so many factors. How is it connected? What protocol is in use? Which crappy vendor makes the kit? What is the read and write bandwidth of the individual disks. How big is the controller's cache? Does it have a flash tier? Are the controllers properly configured or is this a JBOD? If you have money to spend, contact a vendor and tell them what performance you want and then see if it fits your budget. If you don't, look at the cache configuration options on your controller. Make sure it's forced to write back with adaptive read ahead and use the caches on the HDDs themselves. (If you are paying for HP you'll have multiply redundant power) Try the different RAID configurations. You will get best results with striping if you use smaller disks and play with the stripe width. I would say the manufacturer can help with this, but your manufacturer is HP, so it'll be quicker to just do the work. How do you know your bottleneck is just disk I/O? Observational evidence or calculation?
  21. Nimble Storage CS210 starts at around $38k for 8TB. Let me know if you need a reseller. You should be good for 18k IOPs
  22. I think the tapatalk forums are public. If you really want it fixed, feel free to ask them. I simply don't have time at the moment to chase these things down.
  23. and by "meg per second" do you mean bits or bytes?
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