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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!

Doesn't upyouralley.com (or something) attempt to do this? When I looked a year or so back all it had about Bedders was a long dead (and unresolved) complaint about doggie poo on the grass. Something more focussed would probably be a goer if given time - complaining is one thing people are good at! So yes, I'd use it.

Nobody in Bedlington knows less about football than I, but as a long-term investor and fund trustee I don't think there is any way you can call putting money into ANY football club an investment. That goes for big fish investors as well as small. Sure it's an very interesting and nice thing to do, but it's not a bankable investment in the sense that if you spread your money over multiple clubs you'd be almost certain of a long term gain. Is there such a thing as a football club investment trust? People do make money through owning clubs, but that is the exception rather than the rule, and often more by luck in timing than by judgment. There's an ever decreasing supply of "vanity investors" at the moment to make this come about. So the usual cautions more than apply. i.e. never "invest" more than you are prepared to lose, and shares can go down as well as up. I'd have thought that a campaign focusing on the (re) naming of the ground would have a very good chance. There is perhaps enough public support to ensure that any change could be made to look a farce, and holding naming rights made embarasing for prospective purchasers. It wouldn't involve much expenditure, and only an investment of free time.

Might just be that it's not a visible light photo but some sort of enhanced IR. That could explain the look of the exhaust gasses too.

Looks like someone forgot to remove the jumper leads! If this is the new rocket could it have a much higher velocity exhaust? Those columns of hot gas look much more compact than I remember from previous US rocket launches.

Don't worry, he will be cut off from his cozy non-job long before any downloaders are terminated. People concerned with this will make the right noises for about six months then all will be forgotten. Actually, I wonder if under Mandelson's Law would see me cut off for torrenting a fully legit Ubuntu Karmic CD .iso from the original source just now? Who is going to vet every single KB of data (which could easily be heavily encrypted)? There will always be a work-around of any dumb rules. TPB trackers are hardly missed as it has given a boost to P2P tracking technology; which seems to work remarkably well now. I've noticed several torrents still going strong long after the trackers listed in the .torrent files have died. Files acquired purely for academic research purposes - of course!

Was just about to buy W7 compatible Acronis True Image 2010. Just in the nick of time I find out that it has been spiked with some crazy DRM system - which means the serial number you buy is not the serial number you use to install it with! Apparently it's been like this since the (Vista compatible) 2009 version. Result a sale permanently lost to Acronis; I will just stick with what I've got, and never consider their product line ever again. After all a bitcopy of a hard drive is a bitcopy of a hard drive, whatever is on it. And, who needs all the added rubbish in the latest versions? Quality 1TB drives are cheaper than a modest restaurant meal for two these days. Would be interesting to know if the old versions of Acronis are fully functional under W7's XP emulation. If you can boot Linux on your machine you can clone a drive off the command line and do all sorts of stuff with native Windows partitions anyway. In fact when you play with Linux Gparted you are left wondering why the whole hard drive management thing is made so difficult under Windows.