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That's pathetic; no commitment to anything in our town! Couldn't even organise a good putsch on the WDC on a wet weekend with that! How do I get a membership form?

Our first Internet connection was £45 a month at a heady 14,400 bits/second! Mind you that was a theoretical maximum, you never got that sort of speed in practice. Oh yes, and you had to pay for the phone call at BT rip-off rates on top of that! We had a four figure phone bill one month. There was also a download limit - yes, seriously! I guess even AOL is better than that.

http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/1...s-been-shutdown ...please put out the light!

threegee's first law of computer problems: If no one thing fixes it then that's because you have more than one problem! Divide and conquer! Are you using a wireless mouse and or keyboard? Is there a Bluetooth device somewhere close? As advised disable any flossy lighting fittings (includes LE lamps). Are there any CB'ers/radio hams in the area? I'd change channel again too.

Looks like the spin doctors at The Department of Squaring Circles and National Delusion are hours ahead of you on this one Malc! But surely... rather than erect and dismantle twenty uneccessary large and expensive buildings it's more green to erect and dismantle the same unecessary large and expensive building twenty times? The end result will be the same (B.A.), and it will create just as many hours of employment. Also it will be simpler to manage (those pesky cost over-runs) , create a more "on-going work experience", leave only one "brown field" site, and save the tax payer a bundle in material costs. With the resultant savings you might even be able to erect it and dismantle it a few more times, thus delivering even more benefit to the economy? A lack of imagination and business skills from those holding the public purse strings I think!

That was in an honest moment this week in front of an audience of fourty or so business chiefs, and not intended for public consumption. Well Ms. Jowell... lots of people told you so and you refused to listen! That's the only reason you didn't know then what you know now. Quite a few bright people are now telling you how to make the best of a bad job, but will you listen this time either? It seems not! This is the current politico tactic when they seriously mess up: "we've made a mistake but we will learn from it". Really! I see no evidence that any politician ever learned anything from anything other than a big No More! from their electorate. Unfortunately saying No More! takes an age in our archaic system!

Why not phone the other Goldings and ask them?

You completely miss the point! It's not in any way competing with high end PC's. But it is as much PC as the vast majority of people need, and at only 200 notes (including keyboard and mouse). At only 20 watts it's extremely green too. On computing power per watt Atom CPUs are an order of magnitude better than anything that has gone before. Will pay for itself here in the amount of power it saves over a couple of years. Also I can get a browser or Skype up in about 15 seconds from cold; how long does your power chomping monster take? Horses for courses - there's no single best computer. Not remotely a Mac, it's a proper PC. No problems burning/transferring files either - it's called a home network! Wait for the full review before you do your negative thing, you just might learn something. Else borrow one and do your own in-depth review. We're waiting!

Wireless now working - wooo hooo! I did it my way - refused to get off my backside to hardwire the RJ45 - lazy or what? Easy instructions around chicken 'n' egg problem of needing Internet to get WiFi working real soon. Hey Monsta am I imagining the 1.6 Terrabytes of storage showing available on this wee thing just at this moment? And don't use dirty words like Mac around here p-l-e-a-s-e!

Interesting that the stocks of the old PC900 are dwindling fast now. So my bet is the PC900a will go on sale this coming week - this time for real. Lots of frustrated buyers when they realise that they could have had an Atom machine for the same price or less! But not the first time this has happened in the computer biz - or the last! The price of the Eee PC901 seems to have been trimmed about a tenner more too. Probably because the Netbook competition is heating up. All bodes well for the consumer, despite the plummeting pound!

Fry a Fox of course! Where do I vote? Maybe I already did?

This is mainly for anyone contemplating installing Ubuntu Linux on an Eee Box. Was a bit worried about all the install problems for this relatively new machine I've come across on the net. Anyway I resolved to do it the hard way and ignore the Eee tailored Ubuntu editions out there. I used the latest 8.10 release and aimed for a dual boot Ubuntu/XP machine. Burned the CD image on my laptop, transferred the USB cable to the Eee, booted off the live CD - no need to make any changes in the BIOS a USB CD/DVD drive is already the second boot device (after a USB stick). Ubuntu Live loaded with everything but the WiFi working, and at a full 1600x1200! I then used the partition manager straight off the live CD to steal space from the two NTFS partitions. One for the root partition (/) formatted ext3 and the other for the /swap partition. There was no need to allocate a /boot partition or anything like that. This was the manual partitioning route. The automatic would have robbed most of the space from Windows XP, or wiped it out! Therefore - although I could sympathise with that strategy - I didn't quite like the look of what it was proposing. The mistake I made was to make the /swap partition vastly too big. Forgot that the rule of thumb is to make the swap double the RAM size (so 2GiB then!) - will return and correct that later. You can then run the install program straight away (without rebooting) from the install icon. Answered the seven install questions (Microsoft please note how simple this is, and it' a fully international too). Rebooted - it even prompted and ejected the live CD automatically, and after the Express Gate screen Grub allows a dual boot (well actually five boot options, but that's another story!). Writing this now on the Eee Box. I'm using Windows because I haven't figured the WiFi driver for Ubuntu yet. Full instructions on this when I do. But I've played for hours with Ubuntu at 1600x1200 with dual desktop, (which is the default configuration) and see nothing I want to change. I note from the task manager that its even running Python 2.5 as a background process - so naturally I had to do a "Hello, Python World!\n" script to test this! I will be writing a full review on the Eee Box when it has been fully shaken down and suitably hacked. But for £200 or less it's fair to say it's looking like just about the best buy ever. All the computer most (non-gaming) people need, and more, in a tiny box. A friend of a friend who called in yesterday rushed off to buy one from the nearest shop, and that was before I'd installed and shown him a decent O/S!

NVidia inside is much more likely to persuade me to buy a machine. No very recent experiences, but over the years I've had far less hassle with NVidia than ATI. The latter and their dicky drivers have stolen days in my life! Now that ATI is part of AMD things might be changing, but I still look for NVidia. Not being a gamer I'm pretty happy with the chipset built-in Intel graphics engines these days. By old-time standards they are pretty nippy, even for video at 1680x1200, and there's no fuss installing drivers (usually!).

How many security meters do a dictionary word lookup? The ones that do will probably just do a plain one. Any pattern in a password is fatal, a good p/w needs to be randomised as much as possible. This is why multiple passwords using a similar "system" are far less secure. Crack one and you've a key to them all. Hence my point about one good safe being better than lots of lightweight ones. But, we are still not told if there's another reason behind multiple passwords here. You can never give definitive general answers about security. Amongst other things you need to know what you are protecting and the third-party value of that information. If there are lots of computers involved here it would probably be better to carry the encryption utility on the USB key itself. This is the sort of thing U3 is designed for.

A misunderstanding here: If you are removing the data from the machine it will have to be encrypted *somehow* else someone else will be able to get at it. Password protecting access to a machine or access to a file system subdirectory doesn't automatically protect the data the in files. i.e. In this context password protection = encryption. If you are remembering these passwords they must have a simple scheme that won't be very secure. Hope these files aren't your bank account details! One of the principals of security is that you build the biggest strongest safe for everything, and not hide things in lots of lightweight safes. It's a more effective use of available resources.

It would be useful to know why you want to do this as there could be a better way. It's nearly always useful to know what operating system you are using. Are you expecting the OS to do this or using (or intending to use) an encryption utility? Do you intend the files to be decrypted on the same or on different machines? If answer to last question is different machines are these machines on the same private network? On a pratical note: How do you propose to remember all these passwords? And.. any question touching on security needs to consider how strong that security is expected, or needs, to be. P.S. I'd like to place money on the moderator moving this thread into the Computer Answers forum.

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Yes, but apart from... Mr. Loveday's Little Outing (2006) (TV) .... Mr. Loveday "The Bill" .... David Leyton (1 episode, 2006) - 390 (2006) TV episode .... David Leyton Benjamin's Struggle (2005) .... Benjamin (older) "Timewatch" .... Dr. Eduard Bloch (1 episode, 2001-2005) ... aka BBC History: Timewatch (UK) - Inside the Mind of Adolf Hitler (2005) TV episode .... Dr. Eduard Bloch "Egypt" .... Narrator (3 episodes, 2005) - The Pharoah and the Showman (2005) TV episode (voice) .... Narrator - The Curse of Tutankhamun (2005) TV episode (voice) .... Narrator - The Search for Tutankhamun (2005) TV episode (voice) .... Narrator "Holby City" .... Joseph Wolpert (1 episode, 2005) ... aka Holby (UK: informal short title) - Dignity (2005) TV episode .... Joseph Wolpert "Speer und er" (2005) TV mini-series .... (Part 2) ... aka Speer and Hitler: The Devil's Architect (UK) Looking for Victoria (2003) (TV) .... Benjamin Disraeli "Doctors" .... Geoffrey Vickerstaff (1 episode, 2003) - Mr Punch (2003) TV episode .... Geoffrey Vickerstaff Between Iraq and a Hard Place (2003) (TV) .... Mullah Omar "Comedy Lab" .... Hitman (1 episode, 2002) - Meet the Magoons (2002) TV episode .... Hitman "Single Voices" (2002) TV series .... Arthur (unknown episodes) Nirgendwo in Afrika (2001) .... Mr. Rubens ... aka Nowhere in Africa (International: English title) "Silent Witness" .... Josef Horowitz (1 episode, 2000) - The World Cruise (2000) TV episode .... Josef Horowitz "Attachments" (2000) TV series .... Murray Plaskow (unknown episodes) "The Talk Show Story" (2000) TV mini-series (voice) .... Narrator "That Peter Kay Thing" .... Narrator (2 episodes, 2000) - The Ice Cream Man Cometh (2000) TV episode (voice) .... Narrator - Eyes Down (2000) TV episode (voice) .... Narrator "Little Grey Rabbit" (2000) TV series "Jack of Hearts" (1999) TV series .... Peter Pryce (unknown episodes) "Parking Wars" (1999) TV series (voice) .... Narrator Norman Ormal: A Very Political Turtle (1998) (TV) (voice) .... Party political broadcast voice over "The Legend of the Lost Keys" (1998) TV series .... George Gardener "Starhill Ponies" (1998) TV series (voice) .... Various Characters Dead Clean (1998) .... Kostas Malmatakis "William's Wish Wellingtons" .... Narrator (11 episodes, 1996) - Jurassic William (1996) TV episode (voice) .... Narrator - King William (1996) TV episode (voice) .... Narrator - William and the Pirate's Wreck (1996) TV episode (voice) .... Narrator - William the Storyteller (1996) TV episode (voice) .... Narrator - Sir William (????) TV episode (voice) .... Narrator (6 more) The Forgotten Toys (1995) (voice) "Pirates" (1994/II) TV series .... Basmati Bill / ... (unknown episodes) Faust (1994) (voice: English version) .... All Voices ... aka Jan Svankmajer's Faust (Australia) ... aka Lekce Faust (Czech Republic) ... aka Lesson Faust "Minder" .... 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Himself "Pamela Armstrong" .... Himself - Guest (1 episode, 1987) - Episode dated 13 April 1987 (1987) TV episode .... Himself - Guest An Audience with Kenneth Williams (1983) (TV) (uncredited) .... Himself "This Is Your Life" .... Himself (1 episode, 1980) - Andrew Sachs (1980) TV episode .... Himself "80s" - Episode #1.3 (2005) TV episode .... Manuel "Auntie's Bloomers" (1991) .... Himself ...what have the Romans *ever* done for us?! Cut and paste courtesy of imbd.com.

I notice Expansys have a few Nokia N810 Internet tablets at £137 odd; a real bargain price as they are still selling around £250. This is the one with the real keyboard and built-in GPS. N810 on the Nokia Website Earlier in the year I'd have jumped at this, in fact £200 wouldn't have been a barrier. But two things make me put my credit card back in my wallet. Firstly my N800, re-flashed with the same OS, and with the same size of RAM, runs out of memory with regularity. This is my one big beef with Nokia - the stingy amount of RAM they fit to everything! My Nokia mobile is the same, but not quite so much of a problem. This machine really needed 256MB from day one; even 192MB would have been an advance. You'd have thought they'd have come up with a tiny RAM expansion for their smart-phones, but I suppose all such devices have to have built-in obsolescence. Second reason is the new GPS I got a couple of months back. It's amazing for the money (< £80) and far more sensitive than the ones in Nokia phones. You don't have to wait five minutes for it to acquire the first satellite either. Review coming! The N800 works quite well with a good external (bluetooth) GPS dongle, so accepting a machine with worse performance, only one flash card slot (and a micro SD at that!), and shorter battery life (due to the GPS drain) doesn't seem a step forward. Batteries, ah yes, batteries; that's a third reason then! The N800 uses fairly standard Nokia ones, same in fact as the E61 phone. So no, not another model of Nokia battery - p-l-e-a-s-e! Great bargain Expansys, but right now I'll pass .

In an earlier thread we were discussing people getting kicked out of their homes, and I pointed out that some point the system can't cope and will break down. People will see other homeowners in the street defaulting and getting away with it, and be tempted to do likewise. The reality is that the system can only deal with a tiny percentge of defaults. It's a long slippery slope, but the signs are here already: Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/moneybox/7690098.stm Is that government interference with the judiciary? Well, of course not! Like Mr Brown's "advice" to the wholly independent BoE M.P.C. to lower interest rates, it's simply an indication that your job/peerage might be at risk! Isn't the UK a wonderfully democratic country?

My goodness! When it comes to the really really big local news items The Journal doesn't stand a chance.

Thought I'd try Woss Branded Sachs Maniac, but decided I couldn't get it past the Bedlington.co.uk Editorial Standards Comittee.

Just thought I'd beat the papers to the headline!

Because... BrandB would bring out one with a large illuminated drunk button to press when you were blotto and couldn't remember the numbers. Then BrandA without this "essential feature" would be screwed! Complexity, just embrace it! Ignore the stuff you can't find a use for (but listen to other folks that have found a use just in case you're missing out). That's what nature does, and look where that has got us!

I can get a PC900 just about anywhere, and significantly cheaper than Currys! I'm not talking about the PC900, I'm talking about the PC900a - there's a world of difference! If I had to choose between the 900 and the 901 I'd go for the more expensive 901 (and I nearly did when it was launched, until I saw one hands-on). But the 900a is set to sell at about £180-£190. It's a cheaped-up 901 in the old 900 case, and significantly lighter. Many people think the bulkier PC901 case was a backward step. All you loose is Bluetooth, and the 1.3M pixel webcam becomes 300K pixel - hey it's a webcam for Skype, 300K is just fine for that! OK there are a few other differences like no 'n' mode WiFi - what's that you say? The big deal is that the PC900 has a power hungry Centrino chip in it, but both the 900a and the 901 have an Intel Atom. This is a new low power CPU that approximately doubles the battery life. It also has hyperthreading which makes it look like a dual core (it isn't) to the operating system. The Eee's were always intended to have Atoms, but Intel couldn't deliver enough of them when the PC900 was launched last year, and Asus wasn't prepared to sit back and watch a competitor drive the market. Oh, and the PC900a graphics are far better than the PC900 too. Don't be tempted by bargain PC900s, even at £200 they aren't any longer! On the memory issue 1GB is more than adequate for Linux - I will install Ubuntu rather than the Asus Linux. You can swap out the 1GB SIMM for a 2GB one if you really want more. It's a bog standard 200 pin one. Unlike the entry-level Eee's the 900a has a door over the memory sockets. More important - especially if you are going to install Windys - is the slow write speed of the flash. Not much of a prob with Linux, but you'd find that swapping the Express Card flash module for a faster one will make a huge difference to XP. This is a fair bit more expensive than swapping the RAM though. BTW Currys haven't even got the picture of the PC900 right. Their picture is of an older PC700 series with a 7" screen.