The Dew Drop Inn Virtual Rugby Pub, Bridgend

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Hello and welcome to the Dew Drop Inn, a place where you can come in for a sly beverage and discuss whatever's on your mind, or just eavesdrop on the regulars if you fancy a break from all the rugby chat.

This week the pub has set up in Bridgend, the birthplace of ex Wales and Lions centre Dr. Jack Matthews, who has sadly passed away.

The only rule in this pub is one of mutual respect for everyone in it, oh and no tampering with the pictures of Dr Jack Matthews and his Welsh centres partner Bleddyn Williams.




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Mickado wrote:There’s a couple of things that I’d like to see if I could do but I’ve not seen them done before so not sure if it’s possible.

Like, I’d want to install a small battery in it so that when I switch the power off at the mains it can start to shut itself down properly rather me having to start the shutdown manually. I’d like to install a small SDD to run the OS, this thing is going to be in my living room, I want it to boot very quickly. I’d like to not have to buy windows too, but I have absolutely no experience of working with linux/ubuntu etc.

Also, if at all possible I’d like to operate it with a Doctor Who sonic screwdriver remote control sure I can always dream…

Mick,
That's all very possible. SSD for the Op system is fast. Blazingly fast. Linux Unbuntu version, is now a lot easier to install. You can downlaod a pre setup version from the net. I have, mainly to learn it and stick it on my CV. It beats the shoite out of Windoze.

As for yer RC:

Spoiler:

Man that is sexy all roysh. They will get cheaper too.

No, ASBO, they are PEDs. You can rave and win the TdF cleanly, just less flashily! Fewer massive attacks etc but for me that doesn't detract from the pleasure of watching or the measure of acheivement. I honestly find well-executed (and not too predictable or gamesmanshippy) defence at least as interesting as offence and don't understand, for example, why people would sometimes rather watch a million tries being scored than a team down 2 men cut out the opposition from attacking through sheer willpower and excellence.

As for the field. The reduction in drugs played its part though without insider info I can't tell who is actually guilty or not. But if Schleck etc had been there, it would have been closer. 1.16 lead on the ITT tells me Wiggins almost certainly would have won anyway though, despite Sky being a laughing stock a couple of years ago.

In overall achievements, it's behind Steve R for me but it's up there. As a one-off win it might be the best and combined with Olympic Golds, Brad can be very proud

I've installed Ubuntu 'for Windows' but I can't connect to the internet when I'm using it. So I don't use it.

Oh yeah, I saw the RC on twitter a few weeks ago, I really want one.

What shape is your media collection in Gibbo? I downloaded a program called Media Companion a while back, it looks at all of your movie files and scrapes data from the web about your stuff. So instead of having a folder with just a movie file, you’d have fanart, a list of all the actors, a description of the movie, etc. so you can then play them back using media center software (like XBMC) and they look so incredibly slick.


Here, have a gander...

Spoiler:

Glas a du wrote:

MBTGOG wrote:Ah it's a long story and was during a patch where we weren't talking for 3 months or so even though we lived in the same house.

Things are better now, though I still don't have her number and we decided not to speak over the summer so we could think more about things.

And this is the girl I'd like to end up with and everything.

None of my business but united we stand and all that. Munsty - "the girl I'd like to end up with" and her not wanting to talk to you for the duration of peak rutting season sounds like a lack of balance. I don't mean to upset you but to this old stager is seems she has you eating out of her hand. She is stringing you along as a vanity project while keeping her options precisely open. Without wanting to sound crude, have you, you know...Done the deed? You'll never get this time back you know, you have to keep that in mind. Jam tomorrow sometimes doesn't happen. Take advantage of the break, play the field, you'll know by September what you want to do. Feel free to tell me to Flip off by the way, that's what friends are for.

In the nicest possible way Glas, flip off. Nah I don't really mind but that certainly isn't an option. I was part of the decision. We made up a little before Tanzania and the time there not speaking was incredibly helpful and I know this will as well.

Ah pi$h looks like I'll have to go to the US for 3 weeks in September with work.

Not a happy bunny. Barstewards.

Rodders that sound excellent.

Its only 3 weeks. Its like a holiday.

Except you'll miss my visit to Ravenhill.

What part of the US are you off to Rod Squad?

Depends what part of America though Stag, 3 weeks in Vegas? Sure! 3 weeks in Wilmington Delaware, hmmm, maybe not.

Mickado wrote:Oh yeah, I saw the RC on twitter a few weeks ago, I really want one.

What shape is your media collection in Gibbo? I downloaded a program called Media Companion a while back, it looks at all of your movie files and scrapes data from the web about your stuff. So instead of having a folder with just a movie file, you’d have fanart, a list of all the actors, a description of the movie, etc. so you can then play them back using media center software (like XBMC) and they look so incredibly slick.


Here, have a gander...

Spoiler:

Thats looks really slick bud. Havent used it. Might try it thanks. I use WINAMP(Full copy) for music on my PC. Its brilliant quality and plays FLAC audio files. For my Movies on PC, I use Media Player Classic - Home Cinema.

On the Media Player Box, I use YAMJ. Can be messy to set up the library, but I cracked it.

There's one called Plex like that Micko, I don't really download stuff but it seems to work pretty well

Oh Plex looks nice T!

The main problem with those things is that it's hard to get your library into shape before you point them at it. If your files are all over the place it will be a pain to use, that's why i use Media Companion first, it scrapes all the metadata and stores it in the same folder as your file, whereas XBMC scrapes the metadata and stores it in a seperate matadata database, that might make sense in some circumstances but i like that you can view everything together to make sure all the info is there.

Had a very embarrassing moment when the scraper was looking for info on the movie "the social network" and the DVD box art that it downloaded was for a porno, now, i checked the file, it was most definitely not a porn, and all the actor info and movie description was correct, but i could not shift the porno DVD cover... Had to delete the file altogether, no harm, it's not THAT good a movie...

Right you I.T fellows here: my laptop is not turning on saying: BIOS 902 (I think or maybe 905) error with cooling fan............what do you reccomend and how much should it cost?

Plex, has all the movies you download and then it filters into genrres as far as I know. Even genres as diverse as Evil clown. The movie it had listed under this will shock you.

Man I love sunny days, summer dresses and flip flops everywhere.

Hoog wrote:Man I love sunny days, summer dresses and flip flops everywhere.

I'm sure you look lovely mate

Thomond wrote:Plex, has all the movies you download and then it filters into genrres as far as I know. Even genres as diverse as Evil clown. The movie it had listed under this will shock you.

XBMC does that too alright, they both work in pretty much the same way, they see a file, they infer the name of the movie, they look at IMDB (for example) pull down the cover DVD art, the actors names, the rating, the blurb, the link to the YT trailer etc.

Prop, does windows start up for you or are you getting that error at the start screen? Sounds like it could be serious, but I don’t really know, I don’t work in IT

Ravi Bopara gets an inside edge, out for 22, England 117 for 5 and in all sorts of trouble.

Hoog wrote:Man I love sunny days, summer dresses and flip flops everywhere.

Trannies are great, aren't they?

I'm getting that error at the start screen. Just know some of you enjoy to talk about gadgets etc!! It has been playing up a bit by not playing videos either so guess it's time to take a trip to a p.c repairer man person thingy

I just googled it there, there’s advice on how to fix it. have you got a HP laptop?

Hi everyone. Hope all is well. Pi$$ing down here all morning. We are not getting the weather that those across the pond are getting

Gibbo and Mrs G, Happy Anniversary for yesterday . Keep her lit, as they say over here.
Mrs. R and I celebrated 32 years wedded bliss last week. Seems like only yesterday

Congrats Rav!

Or should I say congrats to Mrs R

Micko, were you at the match yesterday? I watched the first half and then made the trek home from West Cork (nice weekend, goodspot of golf on the beach and everything) thinking the game was over after those two quick goals. Then I hear Dublin only win by 3 points and Meath were a bit unlucky. What happened?

Rava + Mrs Rava

Hartford, CT Thom. Won't be so bad I suppose but a bit of a pain in the backside. I have holidays booked and may have to change them depending on the exact dates.

Plus I'll miss Stags trip to the big smoke .

Raining here as well, Rava. And all day yesterday.

To fill the rugby void, maybe the Hartford Wanderers are playing? A well known rugby team like. Or the Connecticut Yankees?


Don't know if they have any major sports teams in Connecticut though.

Thomond wrote:Micko, were you at the match yesterday? I watched the first half and then made the trek home from West Cork (nice weekend, goodspot of golf on the beach and everything) thinking the game was over after those two quick goals. Then I hear Dublin only win by 3 points and Meath were a bit unlucky. What happened?

Unfortunately GMac spent a lot of his final round yesterday "on the beach"

Thanks Mick & Rodders. And yes, overall I'd say Mrs R deserves all the plaudits.

Thomond wrote:Micko, were you at the match yesterday? I watched the first half and then made the trek home from West Cork (nice weekend, goodspot of golf on the beach and everything) thinking the game was over after those two quick goals. Then I hear Dublin only win by 3 points and Meath were a bit unlucky. What happened?

Meath weren't "unlucky", we were 10 points up with about 15 mins to go, too our foot off the pedal, hit a few wides, then Meath got 3 or 4 points, then a goal, then straight away we went down the other end and got a couple more points. There was no panic. We weren't brilliant, but it was a decent performance, were by far the better team on the pitch and i think the scoreline flattered Meath because there was only about 5 mins in the second half where they looked like they might have a chance to come back.

A very interesting incident with Eoghan O'Gara, he scored a perfectly legit point (about a foot inside the post) and the Meath defenders start shouting "WIDE REF WIDE!!" so the umpire gives a wide, then they replay the point on the big screen and the crowd go banana's, and the ref overrules the ump. A sensible call, but he'll probably get a slap on the wrist for it.

32 years is a fair length of time, Rava - you and Mrs R must be compatible. Either that or she's sticking rather than twisting.

Llongyfarchiadau to you both!

rodders wrote:Rava + Mrs Rava

Hartford, CT Thom. Won't be so bad I suppose but a bit of a pain in the backside. I have holidays booked and may have to change them depending on the exact dates.

Plus I'll miss Stags trip to the big smoke .

You're equidistant from New York and Boston, which is nice, if you're like Alan Partridge.

Fair enough, I was only going on something commentators said with Meath hitting something like 10 wides in the second half. Dublin did well in the first half alright, 2 goals killed them as a contest but two good finishes.


Is complacency a problem though? You can't afford to take the foot off the pedal like that against better sides, is ist a mark of their game I think they did it against Wexford? Need to get rid of that playing better teams.

Fair play Rav abstract gibbo. My ma and da are coming up towards that number as well, think they are 32 this year as well

Afternoon pub.


Two new DVDs have been delivered to add to our weekend ‘Rugby Club’ viewing at the pub in Ealing; The Story of the Rugby World Cup 1995* and Rugby World Cup 2003. Both are reviews of the tournaments.

We already have DVDs of the classic 1973 Baa Baas v N.Z. and the 1974 Lions tour of S.A. (which are yet to be watched), but DVDs of other individual games seem to be thin on the ground.

* Imo 1995 was the tournament that really saw RWC cemented in peoples’ minds as a top sporting event. Mainly because of S.A.’s return to world sport and them hosting the tournament and a certain Jonah Lomu, arguably the first superstar of the professional era.

Mickado wrote:I just googled it there, there’s advice on how to fix it. have you got a HP laptop?

Yep I do, I've seen about the cleaning the fan but I unscrewed everything and really didn't know where to start!

Congrat's to the Rava's!!

Thomond wrote:Fair enough, I was only going on something commentators said with Meath hitting something like 10 wides in the second half. Dublin did well in the first half alright, 2 goals killed them as a contest but two good finishes.


Is complacency a problem though? You can't afford to take the foot off the pedal like that against better sides, is ist a mark of their game I think they did it against Wexford? Need to get rid of that playing better teams.

Meath hit 10 wides, Dublin hit as many if not more. I always find it strange when people (not you now) say things like “Dublin should have won that by more, but I cannot compliment Meath enough for their never say die attitude and work ethic”, one of the RTE commentators said that yesterday. Now, how exactly could Dublin have won by more if Meath showed an attitude which is beyond being complimented”. Games like this have always been no win for us, win well and “it’s only Leinster” win in a tight game and “we should have put the game away earlier, or more convincingly”.

The main thing is, we’re in the QFs and all the talk is about Kerry and Donegal this weekend. Grand so.

red_stag wrote:Rodders that sound excellent.

Its only 3 weeks. Its like a holiday.

Except you'll miss my visit to Ravenhill.

Ah, you are coming then? Thats great! I think we have Asbo and Stag coming to Ravenhill within a few weeks of each other

Kerry will always be a threat Micko but their win this weekend was well over hyped.



Dublin should be beating the likes of Meath by more, you sound a bit nervy and rattled there Micko

Nah, I’ve come to terms with RTEs anti Dublin campaign many years ago. Jason Ryan on the panel was really finding it hard to predict anything but a landslide victory for Meath. Which was nice.

Mickado - will I see you in Thomond this year.

Anti Dublin campaign? Come off it. RTE love everything about Dublin. Practically licking their balls last year.


Don't get me started on their general bias for Dublin in other sports and things like that.

When’s the Thomond game Stag?

red_stag wrote:Mickado - will I see you in Thomond this year.

That's a very personal question, Stag!

Oh, you meant Thomond Park...

I'm playing tonight Micko, 5 a side first time back after a month out injured then not making the cut due to the luck of the draw.


Would have made sense to ask me like.

I just see that its in mid April. I thought it was 6th October. Its my birthday that weekend in Aviva. Might come up for it.

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:

red_stag wrote:Mickado - will I see you in Thomond this year.

That's a very personal question, Stag!

Oh, you meant Thomond Park...

Nope, not at all

Thomond wrote:I'm playing tonight Micko, 5 a side first time back after a month out injured then not making the cut due to the luck of the draw.


Would have made sense to ask me like.

BAZINGA!

Pro Dublin bias? With Joe Brolly, Pat Spillance, Tony Davis and Colm O'Rourke? Yeah, they love the Dubs alright. Tony Davis was positively boiling over with Dub love yesterday.

Stag, you should defo come up in Oct, I won't say i'm definitely going to be down in April (too far away) but i'll defo see where I'm at closer to the time.

Just watched a tribute video to Joe Rokocoko on YouTube. Remember when he was one of the most feared wingers in the game? Whatever happened?

Come off it, the media loves Dublin. Davis is pretty unbiased and an absolute gent in real life. Seems to be good at his job too. Spillane loves Dublin, he seems to be more realistic about others than Kerry which is good. People would swear they beat a serious contender by 9 points. Their defence didn't look too stout either, against a better side they would have conceded more Tyrone lacked the guile and class to finish some chances off.

Mickado wrote:

rodders wrote:Rava + Mrs Rava

Hartford, CT Thom. Won't be so bad I suppose but a bit of a pain in the backside. I have holidays booked and may have to change them depending on the exact dates.

Plus I'll miss Stags trip to the big smoke .

You're equidistant from New York and Boston, which is nice, if you're like Alan Partridge.

Yeah thanks Mick, will definitely get to New york and Boston on a weekend. Every cloud I suppose.

Would rather be at Ravers though.

I think with regards to what Mick is saying, removing bias and all that, Dublin are the champions and much more is expected from you when you are in that position.