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Thank norman, that's brilliant! I suspected Penker was a ball bearing but ye neva naa! It will undoubtedly get realeased on the B side of "The Bedlington Sword Dance" real soon. You had me puzzling about The County Hotel too, but of course it's the one straight across from the Central Station. Long time since I've been there. BTW did anyone notice that No 1 Shiney - the one nearest the pit - was slightly taller than the rest of the row? The numbers ran upwards towards the Glebe Road.

..and... they are hoping for another fire?

10. Rock the town with an (accidental) explosion whilst launching an "experimental" rocket from a secret site in Plessey Woods. It was going on for 50 years ago now, and at last the truth can be told. Well... almost!

Stick it on your window, gate, door, lampost, local bus shelter, or at least give it away to someone who is less in-the-loop. Thanks. I'm told of a "Computers? Oh, we didn't have computers when I was young!" response. Which - I suppose - is the early stirings of awareness of cyberspace.

It's the quality of the bread that matters - must be just the right texture and have a crispy crust. None of your sliced heated dough. Which raises the question as to who supplies Bedders best Bread? Always worth paying a bit extra for decent bread I think. In Italia you'd have it sans mustard, but with a bit of mozarella garnished with rucola in a crispy roll. Much nicer in a warmer climate.

Hi Norman! You know what this means? It means that it's now entirely up to you if the song "Playing wi me penker" is preserved for all posterity, or generations of historians build careers pondering the significance of this lost work. All the words you can remember please. And hopefully Fourgee hasn't added penker to his ex-BBC list of naughty words!

Oh THAT Ghost! Hey, I was running Norton Ghost before he was a spectre, or even Norton branded. It was authored by someone else. I forget who Symantec bought it from, but he/they were a small European outfit with limited English, and I remember paying them about £65 for a copy - which, at the time, seemed like a bargain! Acronis has been the only way to go since at least 2000. Cloned dozens of hard drives and helped me get several people out of jams. I've got an old Acronis Disk Director too. But I've never upgraded it as the Linux partitioning utilities do a perfect job on Windoze partitions, and it was ...ummm... slightly unstable.

What is Chinchillas paying for this plug? Seems to rate a two for the price of one to me - at very least!

You'll hate Windoze 7 too, once it acquires 2697 patches to patch over patches over patches. But that's all part of the game of luring you into buying Windoze 8 - which will turn out to be another dud. Not only politicians bet their future on people having short memories! Define "ghosting"? I can't find it in my glossary of Micro$oft approved terms. BTW £14.99 (plus airport taxes) is a lot to pay for the indignity of being herded by Mr Michael O'Leary's underpaid staff. Sometimes I think I'm being ripped off at £0.00. Scratch cards - anyone?

...but it's not "skinflint syndrome" to rip off a copy of a non-public-domain O/S rather than do it legaly or sort of legaly (=legaly acquiring a licence sticker)? Stange world! Stealing the DVD - intrinsic value and cost to produce circa 10p - would be theft, whereas simply stealing the software - cost to produce several pounds, and retail value and loss to the author circa £50 - isn't theft? Even stranger world!

Think I've now done just about everything reasonable to remove manufacturer bloat from this Ultra Mobile PC. Any more and I can't use all the gismos. Now to tackle Vista itself. What can I remove to get back some Solid State Drive space from this space-hogging O/S? More importantly how do I do it? Even more importantly can I save some RAM. I've "only" got 1GB of it, and it's soldered in ! BTW I need basic Windoze Networking. All help appreciated.

You have to appreciate that we super-rich globetrotters are very sensitive to implied criticism of our playboy lifestyle. And... you forgot the punishing airport taxes. Errmmm, yes, that was precisely the point. Gallery needs lots more of your excellent pics - and damn the expense - Please!

OK, I conceed I should have followed up on your suggestion. Would have except events overtook this and the problem sort of fixed itself. Consider me suitably reprimanded! Lot of dumb things on this machine out of the box. Would you believe a hidden 5GB system restore partition on a very expensive 32GB fast SSD? A 1GB unecessary system file, and a mirror of the drivers CD too. That's in addition to all the freebie dross like Norton AV, and the bloat of Vista Biz. Doesn't half hibernate fast though.

Blank, I don't have a problem with people in much more exotic places than I ever get to who post here - even though I'm a tad envious at times. Suggest you get out a little more - the small town mentality can be soul-destroying. My travel budget this year is £14.99 one way and the return for £0.00 (both plus airport taxes). Check out ryanair.com and be flexible as to dates. And, where are the pics from that very nice camera of yours? The cost of the film perhaps?

No I'm not. Long before CDs (and you) were even thought of Bipolar ROMs were called WORM or WORMM -- I said originally. ...and your contribution here is?

Originally (and more logically) called WORM: Write Once Read Many-times Variants PROM: Programmable Read Only Memory (Generally mask programmed) EPROM: Electrically Programmable Read Only Memory (UV Erasable) EEPROM: Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory E2PROM: Same as above. Flash: An EEPROM technology.

The answer will always be: when you were in your teens. But I think there's a very good case for the 1960's, when "the mould was broken" due to the immediate post-war generation. Unless you lived through it you can't really understand the forces at work then. It started in the late 1950's but got into full-swing in the early 1960's.

I'm gob smacked you know it's Jupiter. I asked a skipper of a reasonable sized lump of hardware in the Med the other night and he hadn't got a clue - thought it was Venus. Do hope his GPS batteries etc. hold up; even if it's just for the sake of his passengers! For those Brits thinking of following our forefathers and setting forth on the briny: Venus is the "morning star" which sort of means it comes up in the mornings, as it's closer to the sun than we are. The cause is the (sub-conscious) appreciation that the mating season, and the subsequent Summer bounty, is almost over. It's the ancient positioning for hibernation and long-term survival in Northern climes. Grab all the nuts (scones) even if it means bending the rules and abandoning all etiquette. If you are Gordon Brown it's the realisation that the evolutionary process itself is at an end. Better start a war real fast to garner votes. Just about no-one can be fooled into thinking "it's Global” anymore. Dumb, unquestioning, patriotism is the only way out. It worked for Maggie, so maybe...

2-3 So now we know Monsta has a second login!

I think the problem here is that the human mind tightly associates the two events, whereas they are in fact two quite seperate ones. The way this problem is framed reinforces that association - but quite misleadingly. We all know that the chances of getting the £100 are 1 in 3. Nothing post selection is going to change that. But here we are being given the opportunity of throwing away that selection as if it never happened. It's one we'd be silly to decline. Yes, we COULD be throwing away the prize, and yes we are have no option but to select what is presented to us IF we are to change. But if we don't change we stick with those 1 in 3 odds. If we do change we have reduced the odds to 1 in 2. It's simply an irrelevant reordering of events: Say one of the 1p cups was taken away before the selection. Our chances would then clearly be 50:50. The person taking away the cup isn't playing against us, he's constrained in "winding back the clock" to that 50:50 situation for us, by always removing one of the 1p cups. Maybe the mental block is that we are constrained in the swap to taking what is given. But "taking what we are given" is still a random choice, because our first choice was a random choice. That's the only way the two events are linked.

Sorry missus - don't understand the question, like. The last two OK, and the second one I've just had explained to me by a lady friend as a drinky beloved of the opposite gender. But the first one I had to Google on; and I'm damned if I can see what "The diurnal variation of precipitation in monsoon season in the Tibetan Plateau" could make you angry - unless it's the cover price! http://scholar.googl...F-8&oi=scholart

Did someone remove something? Well... I'd bet it was designed to be removed by the author, so - otherwise lacking in imagination - he'd have something to complain about. Protest meeting in the Market Place at 4pm perhaps? Actualy I think the mods let certain people get away with too much - but then I only work here.

Voted Wii because its the only one I'd ever consider buying just right now. But it's not the best "computer" ever; the one I'm using now is! Though I'm still working hard to set it up just right (and dual boot Linux). Lots of historic consoles missing off the poll. I'm no expert, but you don't have to look far on the net for details.

Back to the original prob. Yes, the new machine's WiFi module is faulty. Goes noisy and quits after an hour or so. Currently using it with a USB WiFi dongle. But that wasn't why MSIE was quitting. Upgraded Flash to latest version and the prob simply went away. So anyone reading this - go upgrade Adobe Flash. There's some incompatibility between newer MSIEs and less recent versions of the Flash player. This hapened on an out-of-the-box machine, so it's probably a version alignment problem which doesn't show up in the normal course of things. -- Case closed with thanks to everyone --