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The forum moderator might care to correct the link (missing colon). Unfortunately you wouldn't be able to get one for Xmas because this isn't a real product. And, even if you did, you wouldn't be able to do much with it as there is no commercial software support. Sticking n cores on a chip doesn't give you an n times improvement in a single application. There are huge problems "parallelising" normal computing tasks, and the results are often very disappointing. This multi-core is likely to be used in researching those problems.

Think you've stood things on their head here Mons. It's Google who are to be charged by the news providers. People like that fabulous philanthrop Rupert Murdoch are determined that we consumers will pay for their news. They don't see a future for their organisations if we can all read news on-line for free, and they think the Googles of this world are getting a free ride on their content. It has only taken Rups ten years to work out that the Internet means the end of pushing bits of dead tree through people's letterboxes. But, they are not going to give up without a struggle - however futile that struggle may be. I hear that our own Johnston Press is starting a three months trial of charging for local news content. Their take is that local news, unlike national or regional news, is special and that people will pay for it. What a good thing for them that some towns don't have their own community websites - sites which publish local news before they can even get ink to dead tree!

Well, it still is, but keeping it up-to-date is going to get harder and harder. Lots of people have contributed only to see their content trashed by the Wikipedia elite. Those people won't bother again, or will find somewhere else to contribute to. Speaking personally, I've considered correcting some of the erroneous content on the history of microcomputers from first-hand knowledge. But from what I've seen of how current contributors are being treated have decided that the time would be better spent elsewhere. In the end the Web doesn't need Wikipedia. By the Web's very nature specalist sites will pop up that can provide focus to subjects that Wikipedia can only scratch the surface on. So by trying to be all things to all people it will end up by being very mediocre. It's a catch 22 situation!

Oh, I don't think there will be much need for that; they know the song too: Come gather 'round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You'll be drenched to the bone. If your time to you Is worth savin' Then you better start swimmin' Or you'll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin'. Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak too soon For the wheel's still in spin And there's no tellin' who That it's namin'. For the loser now Will be later to win For the times they are a-changin'. Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don't stand in the doorway Don't block up the hall For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled There's a battle outside And it is ragin'. It'll soon shake your windows And rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin'. Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land And don't criticize What you can't understand Your sons and your daughters Are beyond your command Your old road is Rapidly agin'. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand For the times they are a-changin'. The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The order is Rapidly fadin'. And the first one now Will later be last For the times they are a-changin'. ...and you didn't check the town calendar.

I think the old infants school has a willing and able developer. It's just all the official BS (and jobs-worths) around these days. One layer of regulation after another! The news pages here tell us there is a public enquiry on the infants school rescheduled for 15th December, but the public won't be able to speak. What kind of nonsense is that? It's quite ridiculous to apply the same planning standards to our town that are applied to highly prosperous leafy suburbs in the South East. That's enshrining the very inequality that has plagued us for decades. The kids think they live in a dump - see recent post elsewhere here - but they can't see things from the perspective of history. Our town is a victim of both the major parties. Ignored by Labour because it's an easy prey to their politics of envy and state-dependence economy, and ignored by the Tories because it's a no-hoper as far as votes go. Other places play smart in the political game, we have played the dumbest game of all time! There is a glimmer of hope, but it's from the youngsters and sadly not from my own generation. They have to stop listening to their parents distorted view of the world and start using their own heads. A hard call when the education system promotes mediocrity, and rewards conformity of thought.

I've an unused sticker here, unfortunately it's got an Italian key on it! Can the license stickers be easily peeled? They wear off on a heavily used netbook, and so are probably another M$ profit centre in themselves! Do you know how to change the serial? I cloned a hard drive to a different machine of same model recently and was pleasantly surprised that the target machine's key could be applied to the old drive image. Authenticated no bother - so far anyway. So maybe this is the way to go for you - providing you can still read the original key. Seems to be a supported thing to do, they just don't want it publicised. I think XP is quite problematic to MS - they've never had such a long-lived o/s to support. Getting you to pay and pay again for the same code was integral to their business model. But the patches to patches to patches are getting quite ridiculous. Just remembered that I know someone that has three or four shiny new copies of XP Pro. They are UK ones too. The gotcha is that they aren't currently in the UK though he is at present. I installed one of them on a desktop for him last week and it authenticated no bother.

How come Looking Good is sponsoring the new www.morpeth.co.uk and not the town where they earn all their beans? We should be told!

She has moved to a new position "at least for the time being". The rest is hush hush. I think maybe she is chairing the Iraq Enquiry - so Tony had better watch out! Do I sense a right-wing coup attempt taking place here? Where have you incarcerated HP?

Feace whet! Nee doot a lass from the posh hooses - aal fur coat an nee... If ah wes shoppin fer eggs ah weddnt gan aal the way te the Metro Center. Aahd get them doon the lane local like.

I see no poll. How do we vote?

Lidl - massively good and small 900/1800w fan heater with embedded ceramic element (none of that hanging hot-wire wire crap). Three year guarantee (provided you return it to Germany or wherever at your own expense ). Thermostat, safety knock-over switch on bottom, neon indicator lamp, and oscillating motor which you can turn off with separate switch. Only 20x28x14cm. Priced under seventeen euros. Plenty still in stock when I last looked, as people don't seem to know good value when they see it, and are buying the crappy conventional element one at twelve odd. Want one, or maybe two? Or maybe a container load to sell to Argos? You'll need a Shuko to 13A UK adaptor, or to chop the mains plug. P.S.: I tell a lie - probably! There is a UK service phone number on the guarantee card.

Two arms, two legs, white, and a head (not wearing a turban) - well of course you matched the description! Haven't you heard? They're looking for weapons of mass destruction to save teflon Tony's hide in the ever so long delayed Iraq war enquiry. 10 week old pups definitely fall into that category. BTW always ask for their rank and number and slowly and deliberately write it down and read it back for confirmation. "Just for the record, you understand". Check your watch for the time of 'the incident', and look to the sky to observe which direction you were proceeding in prior to being stopped. If they comment on this write their comment down too, and read it back to them for confirmation. If asked why you are doing this just say "sorry, force of habit - I'm a news reporter".

Major decision due today. Banks have challenged the right of the OFT to decide on these matters. Is it one law for the banks and another law for everyone else? We await with interest (doubtless a very high rate of interest if we are borrowing, and pathetically low rate if we are depositing ).

If only it had been the neck! The reality was somewhat more horrific. Ronald Regan was shot too. So all the good ones, and Gordon Brown is quite safe!

Just been watching US TV news. He's being branded as indecisive, lacking in ideas, and just a plain poor president - even by Democrats. All rhetoric and no action. I hold no brief for the guy but it's sad to see the hopes of so many people being dashed. I think his so called health care reforms are doomed to disappoint. That's mainly because they are simply unfordable at the present time, and promise far more than they can deliver. Rhetorical and management ability rarely go together in a single person. This guy is no Ronald Regan, though he'd like to be a John Kennedy.

You still don't say if you are using a VGA or DVI connection - the important thing remember! Monitor has both connections and so you could just be using a DVI - VGA adaptor (possibly one is supplied with the card?). If you are using a VGA lead then the actual prob is almost certainly nothing to do with the computer or graphics card. If it's using the DVI input then try a better quality DVI lead before condemning the monitor, though here there is an outside chance the card is implicated in the problem. All DVI leads are not created equal. I don't suppose the monitor supports DVI-D but haven't checked. Probably the card does. But DVI-D leads will most often be better quality than plain ones; especially long budget plain ones! If this is 100% DVI then try swapping to a VGA lead at the same res. etc. to see if the problem persists. If it does then, as indicated above, it is fairly safe to condemn the monitor. BTW I wouldn't call this problem flaring; that's something confined to CRTs. It sounds more like a data clocking problem.

How would the graphics card know that the monitor has been turned on and off a few times? As usual not enough info to give an accurate diagnosis. VGA or DVI or other connection being the main unknown here. Make and model of monitor + graphics card would help too. And.. we don't even get to know for sure if it's a CRT or LCD. General advice: right click on the desktop and change video res. and colour depth to see what happens. Normally this would sound like duff graphics RAM chips on card, but in this case it is starting to sound more like local RAM or display circuitry on the monitor.

There's a guy with a little truck that brings it down from Kielder at (what was) a reasonable price for a transit-type truck load. Saw him parked down the church lane outside the council houses facing twenty acres a long while back. Maybe knock on a few doors down there and ask as I've lost the phone number - unless anyone else has his details? Was quoted about £45, but I'd expect fuel price inflation to have upped that.

We bought our coke from Straughan (sp?) on Station Road Stannington - which is perhaps nearer. Though the last time I was there was well over ten years ago. Is James on West Sleekburn Industrial Estate now CPL? Used to go there too, but I got upset about the number of damaged plastic sacks and the resulting mess in the back of the car. Tip: refuse anything with any kind of hole as the plastic isn't at all strong and will split. Keenleysides will probably have the small sacks of smokeless to get you started. Phone number on site here. Let everone know how you get on and where you get the best service/deal please.

But... but... but... to keep things fair Morpeth.co.uk won't consider you a full member until you log-in there and so show some interest in our near neighbour. We don't want unbelievable inflated figures like some other web sites. Some of the common interests are to be syndicated to make it better for both towns. For instance if you post up a classified ad on Bedlington then it will also get shown to Morpethians - so increasing the choice for everyone. Who knows where this neighbours-helping-each-other will end? So you do not need to join Morpeth.co.uk, simply use your Bedlington user name and password to log-in there, and the rest is automatically done for you.

Divide and conquer? Perhaps more accurately expressed as emasculate.

Great to see the new FREE classifieds starting to take off. Believe me this will be a big feauture of B.co.uk before not too long and improvements are being made as we speak. Anyway the point is that you wouldn't dream of putting up a listing on that auction site (the one that's not half as good as BCOUK ..and where you can regularly get ripped-off buying things sight-unseen) WITHOUT getting out your camera or mobile phone and uploading a couple of pictures. Yes, people here can come around and see your goodies for themselves, but you gotta get them there in the first place. On the web a picture is worth an infinite number of words, and whilst you are at it spend a few seconds more taking some alternative views of your treasure. Pictures sell things far faster! P.S. If you do have any probs uploading, the moderators or admins really really want to hear about it, and will hold your hand if necessary. We are constantly seeking to improve usability.

I've got several things, but I don't think Gordon Brown will be reading it. If he is I'd like to know where my tax refund is? We've (unavoidably) paid the tax that was due twice, and he wouldn't give me several months (near interest free) to pay what I owe him. I suspect he's blown my meagre earnings and hasn't got the money to pay what he owes! (Maybe he can't print it fast enough? ) Different excuse every time from the tax office. What a way to run a country!