Any question answered...

http://www.protape.co.uk/ is what you are thinking of.

So are you talking about red book - the standard definition of audio cds - or is it just the media that makes the difference with those old players?

^^^ Protape, indeed.

It's the media that makes the difference, when data CDs came onto the market, people were competing to squeeze as much data on as they possibly could. When you write an audio (as in, red book - of course, only red book audio format will work on an old player) CD to one of these data CD-Rs the header data (to do with how many tracks there are and where they start on the disc) can end up right at the very edge of the disc, beyond where an older CD player was originally designed to read. Thus, they don't work.

At least, that's my understanding of it.

cheers both.
i'd dismissed the labelling of cd's for 'audio use' as marketing before now but will give it a go with one.

Where on the inter webs can I watch today's Paris-Nice?

Links to some highlights on Steephill - http://www.steephill.tv/paris-nice/

Thanks for the replies to "what's this massive tile" question.

my brother (Dr_com) is a lecturer in Structural Geology, specialising in Granite. I could ask him to describe it fully if you need more info but he's shit at replying to things.

/cbsb

Although I think that stuff is man made and not "real" stone - hence my suggestion of using "ceramic" in the title.

i've got a cd player from the early 2000s, and standard data cds with audio written on won't play on it. if i write the audio to a cd-r which is designed for the audio standard is it more likely to play?

I have a feeling the recordable CDs labeled 'audio use' were made to work with audio devices that recorded sound direct to audio CDs - and that was the only benefit of that term being printed on the disc.

I think if your CD player won't play a disc made on a computer with a CD-R it won't work with an 'audio use' disc made in the same way either.

my brother (Dr_com) is a lecturer in Structural Geology, specialising in Granite. I could ask him to describe it fully if you need more info but he's shit at replying to things.

Although I think that stuff is man made and not "real" stone - hence my suggestion of using "ceramic" in the title.

Nice one, even I can got the feeling it's not stone - unless the rear side has been CNCed.

I just want to direct ebayers to it with a good description, I can explain I have no idea what it is then it's up to them. Don't bother your bro with it!

any excuse to piss him off

CDs play from the inside out, in the oposite way to most vinyl. Not an answer, just an interesting fact,

any excuse to piss him off

I can mail it to him without any stamps if you want!

HA!

"Large Letter"

"Do not bend"

"Go on, bend it, I fucking dare you"

I have a question about that there internetz- my gf has bought a domain name for her uni neuroscience society (she is pretty cool) but it doesn't seem to come up when we type in the address. How do we access/modify the page? I'm rubbish at this stuff.

"Oooh, told ya not to bend it"

I was installing my new Rebas today with a Head Doctor and the bolt sheared. This is what I did:

• Pop out old forks, clean and re-grease headset.
  
• Swap crown race over and slip in new forks.
  
• Pop Head Doctor in and crank away on the small bolt to compress headset.
  
• Le shear.
  
  
  

It was only after that I noticed there was a larger allen key hole too. So should I have tightened that up first to get the Head Doctor wedged in, then used the smaller bolt to compress the headset?

Ten four Sparky, that's exactly what you need to do.

If it's any consideration, I damaged my expander in the past as well.

Coolio. The nice people at Hope have popped a new bolt in the post, so that's what I shall do.

I have a feeling the recordable CDs labeled 'audio use' were made to work with audio devices that recorded sound direct to audio CDs - and that was the only benefit of that term being printed on the disc.

I think if your CD player won't play a disc made on a computer with a CD-R it won't work with an 'audio use' disc made in the same way either.

This is possible, I'm not 100% sure. Worth the cost of a CD-R to find out though, I guess.

I have a question about that there internetz- my gf has bought a domain name for her uni neuroscience society (she is pretty cool) but it doesn't seem to come up when we type in the address. How do we access/modify the page? I'm rubbish at this stuff.

You need to buy the domain, buy some 'webspace' and get FTP log in details from the provider. Then you use a free FTP program like cyberduck to login and place a file called index.htm that contains the code to display your first page. A program like Dreamweaver is good for creating webpages and html files.

Anyway - that's how it was done when I were a boy. Maybe there is an easier way now?

A program like Dreamweaver basic text editor (e.g. Windows Notepad) is good best for creating webpages and html files

ftfy
/geeksnob

I thought Dreamweaver was dead, buried and forgotten

You could use Adobe GoLive or maybe Pagemill...

I thought Dreamweaver was dead, buried and forgotten

What is the current tool of choice for website production?

No point asking me. I used to play at making websites and making animation stuff with flash because I had access to the materials. I thought Dreamweaver had been surpassed as with Netscape (which I recently found was still alive to my shock)

What is the current tool of choice for website production?

Emyr.