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Moog, are you making one? I'd be interested in picking your brains about that.

I have one but it's broken at the moment. PM me if you want to talk about it

Blonde question: what are the parts called that are found on all older bikes that had the dwntube shifters? You know, they fit either side and allow tension between the rear mech/front mech cables.

Cheers

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I was given a pair of shoes for xmas in the wrong size, they are are completely unused but the store refuses to change them for the right size because I don't have the receipt - do they have a legal obligation to exchange them or am I screwed without the receipt?

"Believe it or not, high-street shops don't have to accept returns unless an item is faulty, not as described or is unfit for purpose."

http://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/sale-of-goods/returning-unwanted-gifts/returning-unwanted-goods/

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I was given a pair of shoes for xmas in the wrong size, they are are completely unused but the store refuses to change them for the right size because I don't have the receipt - do they have a legal obligation to exchange them or am I screwed without the receipt?

Even if they did have a legal obligation the onus would still be on you to prove they were bought there in the first place.

Does the buyer have any proof of purchase - that could include a card statement.

Have you tried talking to the store manager nicely / going in when different staff are on duty?

As a last resort, find somewhere else that stocks them and see if you can swap them there

Lost my posh bike cleaning juice. Should i use washing up liquid or shampoo/body wash for cleaning my bike?

Don't use Lynx. You'll have women throwing theirselves off the pavement infront of you if you do.

Should i use washing up liquid or shampoo/body wash for cleaning my bike?

No, they often contain a lot of sodium salts, which will promote galvanic corrosion.

I've just broken my DA chain whip. How the hell do you rejoin the chain? My chain tool doesn't fit around the chain whip.

nut and bolt?

Get an M4 bolt. makes like easier in the long run.

I used M5 bolts to make mine but I had to drill the holes out. M4 fits straight in iirc

Yes, M4 bolts fit in place of chain rivets. Get 10.9 or 12.9 grade button heads:

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What were the sealed cables you were suggesting a while back?

My Gore ones on the road bike are near death now, so need to be replaced.

I like Transfil, MudLovers are the fully sealed ones
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=29029

Does anyone on here know anything about ColdFusion?

Yes. I work with 12 ColdFusion programmers and have even been known to do a bit myself on occasion.

My advice to you is to run, far far away, in the opposite direction, as quickly as possible.

Thanks oz, moog, tester, I rotafixed it for now and I'll seek out an M4.
What's the 10.9 or 12.9 grade mean?

Yes. I work with 12 ColdFusion programmers and have even been known to do a bit myself on occasion.
My advice to you is to run, far far away, in the opposite direction, as quickly as possible.

It's not our code (well, it kind of is, some legacy stuff written by another company before I worked there) and it's killing our linux servers daily. We shouldn't be looking at it but the guys who actually host and cough "maintain" it have no idea. I fixed their last redirect loop problem that was generating a shit tonne of 'traffic' and it was the first time I'd seen the poxy code.

Anyway, just wondering if there are any tools I can use for debugging CF or any tweaks that might buy us some resources on the server. I'm sure it's some kind of loop that one of the pages is getting into. The load on the servers increases until they fall over (how shit is it that it just kills the whole CF process? At least IIS has a separate worker process for each site) and yet there's no increase in traffic hitting the server from the load balancer. That's why I assume it's a problem with the code and some infinite loop rather than an external DOS or something.

I've analysed the apache logs and can't see anything out of the ordinary but does CF has its own log or anything that might assist me narrow down the hunt? There's multiple sites on these boxes and when it falls over it takes them all down.

I'm a total noob when it comes to apache hosted stuff and CF hence me asking. I just want to fix it so I look like a hero again.. contract renewal coming up ;)

It's the tensile strength of the bolt/nut. 12.9grade don't tend to bend, only snap when under very high stresses.

Standard off the shelf steel bolt will be 8.8, if it has no markings expect it to be poor quality. Stainless steel bolts are around 5.7 iirc

Makes sense, cheers.

It's not our code (well, it kind of is, some legacy stuff written by another company before I worked there) and it's killing our linux servers daily. We shouldn't be looking at it but the guys who actually host and cough "maintain" it have no idea. I fixed their last redirect loop problem that was generating a shit tonne of 'traffic' and it was the first time I'd seen the poxy code.

Anyway, just wondering if there are any tools I can use for debugging CF or any tweaks that might buy us some resources on the server. I'm sure it's some kind of loop that one of the pages is getting into. The load on the servers increases until they fall over (how shit is it that it just kills the whole CF process? At least IIS has a separate worker process for each site) and yet there's no increase in traffic hitting the server from the load balancer. That's why I assume it's a problem with the code and some infinite loop rather than an external DOS or something.

I've analysed the apache logs and can't see anything out of the ordinary but does CF has its own log or anything that might assist me narrow down the hunt? There's multiple sites on these boxes and when it falls over it takes them all down.

I'm a total noob when it comes to apache hosted stuff and CF hence me asking. I just want to fix it so I look like a hero again.. contract renewal coming up ;)

It's generally a fucking horrible language and the developers who create these monstrosities are often long gone by the time you get to look at it. Has it always had this problem, or has it just started manifesting after something else has changed on the server? If it's the latter then it could be an incompatibility of some kind.

Seem to vaguely recall some of our sites having a similar problem which was nailed down to Verity (CF search engine) freaking out over something, so we started slowly upgrading to CF9 and Solr instead, but your problem could be anything, really.

For debugging we use Coldfire which should hopefully let you see where things are starting to go wrong during execution: http://coldfire.riaforge.org/

I have nothing to do with these servers. I tend to be whored out to others when there's a problem to solve, like the A-Team but less cool (I still eat as much as the A-Team).

What I do know is that it used to run on physical servers and was moved to virtual. The problem didn't appear then. The other guys seem to think previous load problem started when they moved some more sites over from physical to the virtual servers. Basically it reach a noticeable amount of redirect looping and they threw more power at it until I got involved and found the cause. It was then running basically happily for a bit on far reduce virtual hardware. Then it started falling over. The load would suddenly (in the space of 10min) ramp up and the CF process/app/whatever would need to be killed. I know the virtual servers have both been patch and running latest Ubuntu or whatever the OS is. If it was server related it would happen all the time. As it is it will run fine until some random time when it will ramp up and fall over. So it's possibly a page that's not hit very often but when it is it does something to cane the server.

Thanks I'll have a look at Coldfire.

I'm looking to replace the spider on my Cook Bros cranks. If I went and got some machined for me, which alloy would be best, 7075 or 6061?