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If you'd lived a little longer you would know about the Irish people who were framed by "British Justice" for crimes they didn't commit. Their crime was that they were Irish. The subsequent gradual climb-down by our great and good was sickening. The same gutter press that was baying for blood then is baying for blood now. There's no evidence anyone with half a brain would accept that this guy is a terrorist. BTW the people who did the bombings you mention ARE HOME! They are the product of the same sort of half-understood sycophantic ramblings that characterise your BNP meetings.

Yes, but I can only speak for Italia at the moment. I get 100 hours for €25 charged in 15 minute chunks. Can get this down to 20 euro cents an hour by paying more up front. Credit is completely non-expiring, or so the shop claims. But the thing in Italy is that tourists can't buy Italian SIMs. Of course this MUST be against european free market rules, but try telling someone that! I believe the Italian economy would collapse if there wasn't a steady stream of other mug Europeans paying ludicrous roaming charges. Hey, I have that t-shirt too! Strangely the deal in the shops is even better than the deal you can get topping up on the web. Well, not too strange, because holiday home owners pay almost three times as much for their electricity as locals! Doubtless all part of the great self-interest lottery that is the EU. For some obscure reason McD's are thin on the ground in Italia. I've sniffed the spectrum at the odd one or two and there's no trace of McWiFi, free or not!

Shines a new light on all the British and USA Nationals who have been incarcerated abroad and then returned to heroes welcomes. Clearly they were guilty after all, and should have been left to rot in foreign jails! Or is there something different about the situations - like maybe race and ethnicity? Ever read Mein Kampf? Yeah, go on, Google it!

No it's not £28 for 30 days. For the record the t-mobile 30 day rate is £15. And, I pointed out that Three provides a better deal for much over a week. Once again you've entirely missed the point. The point of the thread is to find who gives the best value when you occasionally find yourself away from home for an odd day or an odd few days now and then in a totally unpredictable and erratic manner. Where you waste the least money, and get the best service. It's not instead of a copper to the home service, it's in addition to it.

Terrific idea Monsta! But why stop there? No, no, I've also decided to... Send back my mobile phone, and simply stay out of touch for 23 hours a day.Tame some wild pigeons for semi-instant messaging (PidMS).Get the old ZX81 out of the attic for tracking my expenses (the 40 characters per line on a huge TV will eliminate all eye-strain).Put the GPS up on That online auction site that is in no way as good as Free Bedlington.co.uk Classifieds (difficult with a ZX81 though ) and mark my tracks on the road with a large lump of chalk.Ditto the new digital camera; going to take art lessons. P.S. The money saving, technology eliminating, ideas are flooding in now. Selling the house and living in a cave seems like the best money saver of the lot though. Then I'll be your neighbour!

I don't think he did it! Neither do some of the more intelligent members of the victims families. The evidence doesn't stack up. And explain how his companion is innocent and he is guilty? He's going to publish his side of things, and he should be listened to with an open mind. If he was guilty its unlikely that he'd want to take the matter further. History indicates that the vast majority of people who continue to protest innocence after such a length of time are indeed innocent. There's too many vested political interests involved in this thing ever to get at the full truth. But the guy himself needs to be listened to over the obscene baying-for-blood noises of the gullible, uninformed, and plain dumb.

I asked my compiler and it says syntax error! Can't think of the artist who performed that one. Lint says something about wrong keyword used in a for statement. And, it thinks that there's maybe a glaring logical error in there too. Still, it's formatted like a pro and not a Pascal hacker!

Sorry don't understand the question like. Gonna have to PM me mate Monsta!

OK Bedlington Comsumers here's the final roundup: The Bedlington.co.uk Guide to Erratic Mobile Broadband Choice Cheapest for Erratic Heavy Use: T-Mobile (But...) HSDPA dongle, and a £10 top up costs inside of £30. The charge is a flat £2/day, or £7/week (used as a block of seven days). Going weekly, and then using an odd day of your choice, leaves an awkward £1 credit from a £10 top up - which you can't use for mobile calls or SMS. Fair usage is 3GB/month but they don't cut you off completely. If you're only using the PC mobile for a few casual days a month this isn't a consideration anyway. Credit is valid 180 days from last use of service. But they imply they'll zap the dongle against further use then - which is cruel; but will they do the deed and cut their own noses off? The gotcha here is that they are not Skype and Internet messaging friendly. No VoIP traffic! http://www.t-mobile....ayg/allowances/ Best for Occasional Random Light Use: Vodaphone £15 a Gigabyte and use it any time any day any year without loss of credit. The no-strings champion, but when you do use it the per megabyte cost it isn't at all cheap. Best for Heavy Use, Skype, other chat services, and not having to count the cost: Three The options and freebies make my head hurt. But they do like Skype. They like it so much that they don't take any of your bandwidth allowance when you use it! £15 for 5GB which you can use any time in the month. HSDPA dongle is very friendly £9.99 to buy too. Credit expires after 30 days - bummer! But seems you can carry on with the freebies, and they don't kill the card/dongle, almost never. They've also got the best UK data coverage, which has to count for a lot - especially in Bedlington! Conclusion Three wins by a knockout. T-Mobile is worth considering if you are going to use the mobile Internet heavily now and again (especially in a one-off weekly block, or the odd day now and again), but beware the 180 day no-use cut you off without a dongle. If you only want coverage for week or two, it's still probably more sensible to pay Three their £15 for better coverage, get unmetered Skype, and be done with all the counting days hassle. The Three card can also be used in a moby, and there's a free SMS allowance, and other user delights to explore. However Vodaphone is the lightweight champion if you need to check email and the odd web page etc. on the road now and then, any day any year, without worries if your unused credit might have expired. The rest don't feature unless anyone can pitch differently. I know there are deals which cap your daily charge at £2 (Orange), but they ruthlessly expire your credit if you don't use it.

So... I go to research O2's T&Cs and I get: So let's say my credit is out (or stolen - read expired - by them), and I want to top up my account so I've got an O2 data connection immediately I arrive in the UK. Can't prudently top it up in advance from an overseas network because they block overseas IPs. Can't, it seems, even check my account in advance. Arrive in the UK and, to add to all the other travel hassle, I have to find a WiFi hotspot (or use one of their competitor's networks) for the privilege of getting their shaky offering functioning again. Is this company run by idiots? Vodaphone's high prices are starting to look more attractive. Update:

http://www.v3.co.uk/...service-crashes Which doubtless proves your point about all the younguns using them. Last time I had an O2 PAYG phone SIM they zapped all my remaining credit before I had time to use it. But that was a few years back now and maybe they've changed. Will check them out. So far it sort of looks like just about everyone except Vodaphone expire your mobile data credit in 90 days or less. I'd go with a £20+topup USB HSDPA dongle from Three if this wasn't the case. They seem to charge about 1/3 of Vodaphone for bandwidth. Three's next generation Skype phone with built-in HSDPA dongle for £70 looks a massively good deal, except I'm not in a position to get value out of it through the occasional use, expiring credit, thing, and I don't actualy need a Skype phone as I most often pocket a real computer. Though the actual deal breaker is that it's only for use in the UK. The price comparison websites aren't terribly helpful as they focus on all the wrong things. Nor are the suppliers who don't seem to want to tell you if their gismo is network locked or not. And, if it is, can it be used on their own networks outside the UK.

C4 are a wonderful company, who themselves put loyalty to their traditional audience before the petty detail of minor copyright issues - as many ex-pats will attest. Pity though about Big Brother. I'm sure they will tell us if the posting (for purely academic, critical, and research purposes) of an abstract from their program libeling our community isn't within their understanding of fair usage Often the "private" recordings of aware parties are the only way the public record is preserved.

Who do you invite if you haven't got any friends?

All time is an impossible call. 50 years has to be all you can aim at. Outside living memory and current culture is super arrogant.

Ah, well, we'll scoop the pros at the Journo on the next big Bedders story. Goodness! How did that happen? We just did!

It seems that Three are intending extending the free Skype - Skype calls for life even to unlocked 3G phones that weren't even bought from them. http://www.three.co.uk/Pay_As_You_Go/SIM_Only And the card itself is free; in fact they issue you with two: https://www.three.co...in_your_details The gotcha might be that you have to pay for the very first top up for it to get activated. (Credit has to be used within 90 days, but the free Mobile Skype continues for life.) Obviously they are hoping that once they get their SIM into your 3G moby you will appreciate that you can do better or your voice calls and SMS too. And, there's always the inertia factor that people won't be inclined to swap cards - a bet on human laziness seems a cert! Cue for one of those far-eastern squeeze two SIMs into one slot gismos? Anyway out comes the dusty (Three locked) smartphone that I was intending to flog (It's on their compatibility list). Will also try the service with non-three phones, and I'll let you now how I get on with.

Any opinions as to who I should go to for a PAYG UK SIM? They don't need to have the best coverage, just reasonable coverage and reasonable rates. I'm used to paying between 20p and 25p an hour on the continent (charged in 15 minute increments), and use as much or as little per month of the non-expiring credit up as I want. So I guess the top-up credit must be non-expiring, there mustn't be any minimum monthly commitment, and of course no contract! All three seem like deal breakers at the moment.

That's a .png I think that you might possibly still be right as far as .jpg goes. Jpeg used to be an OK extension, but it may have got lost in the upgrade. .gif needs testing too - not as popular as it once was but still a heavily used format. Back to the original prob: I'm now sure it's a dodgy WiFi module. Machine is going back for repair/replacement. It likely got past testing because it's generally OK to passably good for the first few minutes.

If you previously visited and you left chat in a tab - even though that tab is not visible in the foreground and you've never read it - then the board will register you live in chat because your browser refreshed that tab when you started your computer up. The board has no way of finding out if it was you or your browser unaided that requested the chat page. A 10 minute rule would cause much of that problem to go away.

Thanks for that John. Im beginning to suspect that the wireless module is faulty and that this is the dumb way MS handle the corrupted data. I was with a few feet of the WAP earlier and the signal strength was registering low. Not be the first time this has happened on a new Asus. An eee box last year had a dodgy module - noisy receiver I think - sometimes it was passable other times not working at all. Im sure that the shop had bounced it from another customer as the box was open when I got it. Anyway they never questioned me when I returned it and simply checked the box contents, probably to see that everything was there for the next lucky person they sold it to! Anyway will check out your suggestion and tell you how things come on. Unfortunately it has to go a long way back by post, and a return could take a while.

I keep getting these annoying pop-ups saying that MS IE 8 has stopped working on my new tablet. It's complaining about problems on the page - even the BBC homepage. Sometimes IE restarts the tab OK, other times it complains it can`t. Before I installed all the o/s and IE8 upgrades IE7 was closing completely. Now it's just highly annoying and very frequent. I'd have installed Firefox but on this machine (with all the Vista bloat) SSD drive space is at a premium. Vista takes up about 16GB before any apps are installed. Sold as having a 32GB SSD, there's in fact less than 10GB apps plus user space left!

Yes. it's back! The Beverley Sisters in living colour, c/w with George Cole, etc, etc. - magic! The channel found some more money from somewhere. Maybe they charged it to Visa? Someone really should update Wikipedia, and all those slowcoach satellite sites who will take days and weeks to deliver the story. Oh well, I see that at least Google got the news from somewhere. http://www.google.com...+from+the+grave

You've only got to check out this highly authoritative website to see the principal ones. It should mention Dr. Trotter though, even if WDC did (quite literally) sideline him from his place at the top-end. He may not have been famous outside the shire, but I think it's fair to say that many Bedlingtonians wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for his efforts to eradicate some of the cesspit of disease that characterised 18th Century Bedlington. One statue that does deserve its place. And one which should be rehabilitated to a place of prominence. Yet how many present-day Bedlingtonians have even heard of him? The Friends of the Legacy of Dr. Trotter maybe? A case of Trotter over Potter?

Having dealt with may on-line suppliers here's my personal ratings. Please post any suppliers you've dealt with and any impressions you've gained from dealing with them in the same general format. Maybe we can build a reasonably comprehensive resource. eBuyer Website: www.ebuyer.com Prices: Very quick to manipulate prices. Sometimes good value, other times you'd do better to look elsewhere. Service Level: Good to reasonably good; but they are not very flexible and upset more people than they need to. Best for: Smaller items like cables, PSUs and modding bits. Dabs Website: www.dabs.com Prices: Middling to good. Service Level: Rightly or wrongly they always give the impression of a quality supplier. Their product selector is a model of what other sites should have. Best for: Larger items, but I found them best for hard drives recently. Laptops Direct Website: www.laptopsdirect.co.uk Prices: On average really good. Some truly excellent bargains if you are fast enough to take advantage. Service Level: So far faultless. Best for: Laptops etc. Scan Computers Website: www.scan.co.uk Prices: Don't look very often but they seem competitive. Service Level: Limited use but a while back they were OK. Best for: Components. Expansys Website: www.expansys.com Prices: Above average but some occasional bargains. Service Level: So far faultless. Best for: Things you can't get elsewhere. That online auction site that is in no way as good as Free Bedlington.co.uk Classifieds Website: www.That online auction site that is in no way as good as Free Bedlington.co.uk Classifieds.co.uk Prices: Some of the best but watch out for hidden charges. Service Level: The twilight zone of the Internet - all over the place! Best for: Second hand goods and rip-off tales. Amazon Website: www.amazon.co.uk Prices: Sometimes the best buys, but at other times pricey - do your homework. Service Level: Direct from Amazon good; third-party suppliers a sort of upper-class That online auction site that is in no way as good as Free Bedlington.co.uk Classifieds! Best for: The odd bargains. Far more support, far less risky, far less hassle, and quicker than That online auction site that is in no way as good as Free Bedlington.co.uk Classifieds Play.com Website: www.play.com Prices: They come up with some good bargains, and can be the best source some of the time. Service Level: Sometimes take orders for things they don't have, but are easily contactable by phone and refund without hassle. Best for: Whatever they are best for at the time Looking back at the above it's a ringing endorsement for buying on the Internet. It wasn't intended to be that!

I like how the thread views statistics now works. It doesn't register topic starters viewing their own thread; it doesn't register checking back to see replies; and it doesn't allow deliberate bumping of the stats. So many boards display totally bogus stats - particularly the number of active members when 98% of their reggies can't be arsed to post - that it's refreshing change to see some fairly honest software. Every time some reporter comes out with web hit figure for this or that site I think to myself: There are lies, damn lies, and reported web-hit figures!