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Safest place for a mini death-trap: on your fridge! Yes, I used to own one way back and I'm still alive; just! P.S. Thanks for testing the new forum. Would have got around to it though.

Melting tarmac swallows-up car!

http://www.bedlington.co.uk/community/topic/1693-would-the-last-person-to-leave-a-o-l/

I've bought RAM on that auction site a few times and it was fairly good value. But it was micro-DIMMs which are rather difficult to find, and on a couple of those occasions either I don't think the sellers knew quite what they had, or there was much buyer competition. So been lucky. My bad experience with these was buying one from an Irish supplier's website who promises a lifetime guarantee blah blah. When the module kept crashing they put up all sorts of excuses, and I'm still waiting for that replacement. Sixty quid down the drain! If what you need is say a regular 512MB module then you can generally get one that someone has swapped out good for larger for a song, and that's low risk. But if you want 1GB and especially 2GB modules it's far safer - and likely cheaper in the long run - to buy from a reputable supplier (who hopefully isn't Irish!). You can get some reasonable buys on Amazon and it's safer, faster, and generally much less hassle than an auction. But you still need to be careful in what you're buying. More careful than through a single regular reputable seller. Also Amazon take over 11% off the top of small suppliers payouts - which I think is a quite greedy, especially on big ticket items. As a result you seldom get a real bargain there, and a lot of what's on Amazon.co.uk is overpriced. The last used computer I bought on Amazon wasn't quite as described, and there were bits missing.

Much flawed arithmetic here.... You only need spend £15 - and give me the other £10 worth! Simples.... http://film.comparethemeerkat.com/

Baidu (which works closely with the Chinese regime and [so?] has 2/3 of the market there now) mocks and says it's for economic reasons. But, they would say that, wouldn't they? I reckon that the folks inside Google have been unhappy for a long while and that management is now having to listen. I think it's not an idle threat, and that they will go through with it. BTW Baidu used to visit bedlington.co.uk almost hourly, but now they seldom trawl us. Read into that what you like, but my take is that we are now on the Chinese Govt censorship list!

Questions in the House of Commons just now. "No one should be expected to suffer anti-social behaviour" says Gordon Brown when put on the spot. Yes, there's an election coming!

www.play.com with free shipping Was going to use eBuyer but they seem quite pricey for a lot of things now, and their delivery to Bedders isn't what it was. Anyone know any better? BTW some of the very best deals on netbooks/laptops come up on www.laptopsdirect.co.uk They are fairly local at Huddersfield and you can collect from there for free. I've dealt with them fairly recently and it was a good experience. http://www.acerdirect.co.uk/ is the same company.

You know I said to myself: that's so funny Monsta is bound to have seen it and cut+pasted a link. But... I was only half right!

£10 off when you spend £25 or more online. Code is: BARKJAUK http://www.dominos.co.uk/Default.aspx

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/8450385.stm?ls

I disagree. Just happened to be playing with someone else's Python geo-loc function last night and I was quite impressed. Tried their primary source of data Google Maps on a well known location in Bedders that can be easily pin-pointed from surrounding feature - namely The Top Club. http://maps.google.c...t,%20bedlington Neat, don't you think? Especially as it's from an entire World database. Now you are going to get "bad misses", but you use several sources of geodata and weight them. Highest weighting goes to locals who are happy to correct you and shift your marker against the satellite photo. A sort of gatelocate - to coin a word. It's not rocket science, just sensible and defensive programming. A primary customer for this would be the UKPO - but I suspect any reasonable person would want to charge (only) them an arm and a leg to use the data.

Right in the sense that you'd find yourself at Netherton Club, and hopefully someone would point you in the right direction before you decided that the place was under strange new management. If you zoom in there's not a single featured trader in Bedders marked even approximately correctly. The location pin-pointing is near useless if this degree of accuracy is replicated country-wide. The latest smart-phone apps use this sort of data, with their built-in compass and camera, to show you which direction to walk. As to the reviews, it's always the most recent one that counts the most. The next most recent is last May, and it rather sounds as if it might have changed hands/head chef. The first "review" is someone going for some sort of posting reward, and from the uncharacteristically scant words in this post it's doubtful if they have even eaten there.

http://www.qype.co.uk/people/hazelross Unfair publishing such a "review" where it isn't going to get seen by people who use the place regularly and so are qualified to offer a broader view, but is going to be seen by tourists who will simply avoid. IMHO it's completely untrue to say that there's no competition in Bedlington. Note that this site gets the Ridge Farm's location wildly wrong too. It might also come as a surprise to the folks there that they've gone into the "Health and Beauty" business (just what Bedlington needs another one of!), and that somehow they are a Mobility provider as well!

The first phone to use a Pentium class (Atom) CPU. What's even more exciting about this is that it has always required special development environments to develop phone software. Here the same raw code that runs on your PC will run on your phone - yes, these days even Apple PCs! Not only does this make development a lot easier, but many things that wouldn't otherwise get written (or be practical) probably already exist, and will now easily port to your phone. The full impact of this is going to take a while to pan out, but it's part of the process of changing what a computer is and can do for the average person. Prepare to be amazed!

Set to be the biggest earning film of all time! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8447839.stm Your comment about fast moving scenes is interesting. The industry is already doing a rethink about how 3D changes the way they craft the movies. Personally I don't like all the fast cutting in present day "action" stuff, it's not natural, and it clearly doesn't work with 3D either. 3D TV not too far in the future. There's nothing really new required; just a matter of deciding the best way to engineer it. The new HDTV platforms mean that there's a lot of opportunity to experiment with real live audiences. Interesting times!

It's at the "oh, just compile it from source" bit that most people's eyes start to glaze over. What most normal people are looking for is a binary - a ready to install program. The fancy update manager only supports what Canonical in South Africa decide to support. The basics of what you need to know here is that Ubuntu is a spin-off of Debian Linux, and so uses Debian packages. To install Debian packages you use the APT (Advanced Package Tool). Specifically the apt-get command which goes out and gets the packages for you from one or more places in a list of "repositories". The addresses of these "repos" are already stored on your machine, but there are times you may need to add a repo or two to this list to persuade the APT to look at the right place on the Internet for what you need. APT is brighter than anything windowsy as it not only gets the software for you, but installs it, and resolves dependencies. Resolving dependencies simply means that it sees that everything the program needs to run - the libraries - are in the right versions. The same versions which the author wrote his software for and then tested it with. Very occasionally APT will get stuck when something needs one version of something and something else that's needed needs another version of the same thing. This is called a circular dependency, and that's the time to call in an expert! Once you understand these fairly straightforward basics you can appreciate what the magic command line words are doing and where that stream of messages is leading. There's another kind of Linux package you'll encounter - Red Hat packages. You can persuade Ubuntu to use these, but it's often tricky, and one to avoid if at all possible.

Sorry, but this sort of disorder isn't! And I'm talking here about youth yobism and in-public drunken disorder. Rather like Gordon Brown's Global Problem, it's only a problem where Anglo Saxons have taken it. They are not any sort of problem where I am at the moment, and they're not quite such a bad problem in the South of the UK - particularly in urban areas away from other ethnic influences. The reasons are various, but they boil down to social pressure (or lack of it), and ethnic background. Some would say that aspects of it come with the climate, though I'm not too sure on that one as it's too bound up with ethnicity. If you have the problem there, then doubtless it came as a bundled deal with a lot of other Anglo Saxon things you acquired.

Fixed the title for you so go fix your own posts! Good thing it's not ink on paper - tipex comes in very small bottles!

Isn't it Biscop? As recent as 2007! That's better than some. Many still regard websites as alternative to print, but there's no point in one unless you have a regular update schedule - and the budget to support it.