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We are currently carrying out yet another cull of lurkers. A slight variation from previous culls is that non-contributing members who have taken the trouble to put something about themselves in their profile - even in the odd case a picture - have not been removed - yet! Even if you have nothing to say it's important that you post a little hello in the Introduce Yourself Forum to let the moderators know that you have more in mind than selling generic Viagra.

http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsv...-windows-7.aspx No more vacuous "aspirational" names, and opportunities for "Vvee Intentionally Slow The Apparatus" type acronyms then? Doubtless time to order even more RAM and a faster CPU to keep the machines usable though!

I use Panda anti virus. You can get it for < £8 for THREE machines if you buy the eBuyer own-brand version: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/126059 Updates every day and I've found it detects stuff Kaspersky and Norton don't - and not false positives either. Kaspersky slows this little machine down too much. One sub I will certainly renew at year end. P.S. I think I've installed one copy on more than 3 machines this year, without any complaints - one machine failed and was replaced. So zero hassle factor too!

Also to help our hyperactive computer forum moderator Nick! Thanks for your time C!

A drop in the (Atlantic) ocean! When the mortgage defaults get into full swing, and the redundancies soar, they'll be lucky to collect it at all! Joe & Josephine Public hasn't seen the extent of the disaster yet. You can only take action against a tiny percentage. When that grows beyond normal controls all sorts of interesting things start to happen, and there's no longer much stigma attached to defaulting - it can even become fashionable! Like Gordon "Prudence" Brown you get a licence to blame someone else for your taking on too much debt - and enough people will then believe you. i.e. There will be too many defaults to do anything about it. People will see others defaulting on their mortgage, etc. yet staying put, and so will be encouraged to do likewise. With the government owning the BSocs will it be politically acceptable to evict folks from their homes anyway? People should be asking where the £500Bn is coming from to rescue our banks. Look at the Stock Market today and you have the vote that the unelected Mr Brown isn't prepared to favour us with. The normal politico thing when you are deep in doo is to start a war you can win. Iceland looks as good as anything right now. How much oil do they have?

Well... that proved more than a tad prophetic! , eXcept they needed more than a little help. All the recent recapitalisation money disappeared into a black hole too. No Malc, that's not a solution. Although - having got into this mess in the first place - there's no other way to go now. The root problem is the fait money system itself, and the barmy capital ratios demanded by government(s). It was bound to collapse sooner or later. But that won't stop the politicians looking for scapegoats for their own idiocy. Brown is at the head of the pack here - Idiot in Chief! Now my longstanding prediction a major recession is admitted by everyone. Sad to say the talk about a bounce-back in a year or two is just more wishful thinking. It's systemic, it's long-term, and the underlying problems haven't been addressed.

Thanks Mr D! JellyDreamas is a known forum spammer. I suspect the post was simply to get a mention of the Sleazeware on the SEs and mark us as spamable. Uses the e-mail address marina.wonders@gmail.com which should be blocked by all webmasters, and of course trashed by Google!

Meanwhile, in the UK you are better off Barking at Banclays and it's HalifaX itself that needs the little Xtra help. Don't those slogans come back to haunt them when the Rocks are coming up fast? If I were a BS/Bank director I'd be putting out a memo to branches to avoid even the hint of queue developing at the door. That alone might justify my ludicrous salary!

So what's the "Swedish answer"? The profligate Mr Brown has now dug a hole so deep that there's really no way out. Not one any populist politician could countenance anyway. Back to the gold standard? Halve public spending overnight? The solution will be imposed not chosen - the deep recession I've been calling for a while now! Been reading his party con. speech high on the word-count for that now meaningless four letter word "fair". Not very fair to blame World forces for a situation you've had a good hand in creating. Not very fair to tax the middle classes out of existence - the only ones who generate wealth that can you can keep in the Country! Not fair to use an archaic electoral system to cling on to a position no member of the public ever consented to you having in the first place. There's no one at the helm, the rocks are tearing along the hull, and the Captain Gordo solution is to contemplate re-arranging the deck chairs.

An even bigger mistake than the Northern Rock fiasco! It seems that the solution to licencing the creation of too much money is to print more of the stuff. Mr Mugabe should be proud! If Joe & Josephine Public knew how the fait money system really worked it would be back to barter in a big way. You could establish a corner in lager and I'll go for something a bit stronger.

Two sewerage poluted fish £10; one hour's helicopter flight £1000? Suppose it all matters who is reporting what!

Real sorry for some of the hit and miss approvals of posts in some categories. Had a rather bad leg infection due to "external causes" and not been giving the board as much attention as I should. A reorganise is due to make sure this can't happen again. More moderators would help too - PM me to volunteer! Also huge thanks to those who kept things going - you know who you are!

At least London ratepayers will see some tangible benefit from the overspend - however small. Here we get sweet FA for our central government contribution. Maybe the only small mercy is that Gordo has figured out a way to tax even this! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6098830.stm Bet the French would have found a way around the EU rubbish! BTW I just found this BBC vote on the matter. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6393501.stm The result is interesting, and Gordo would like us to believe that he's now listening. Really?

In a word microgrants! Not huge sums splurged on yet more useless "urban engineering" [see: http://www.bedlington.co.uk/community/index.php?showtopic=1514] but relatively small sums given out to local businesses people to improve local services. No form filing or delay, but grants made and agreed on the ground by trustworthy (non-party) local officials who themselves ensure that the money is spent on what was agreed. This works in Baghdad and it can work here!

Interesting that Beijing is attracting less visitors than last year at this time. Is their huge spend to attract tourists actually being counter-productive? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7477873.stm Where does that leave all the cash we are splurging for 2012? Costs are spiralling out of control; well, would you expect anything else from a project we've been sold by UK big government? A forthcoming world-wide recession; travel becoming more and more expensive, and the huge tab for "security". I honestly think we should have left this one to the French, and that they might well have the last laugh. Not - of course - that our Town could ever expect to see any benefit for its taxes that get used in this folly. Had the games been held in the NE then there might have been some point, and some (almost) believable excuse for the vast spend.

Run means type the given program name on the command line (and then hit the enter key). Alternatively it more likely means double click a given program's icon - which in Windoze amounts to more or less the same thing. Whatcha gotta run then wor lass? P.S.: One way of getting a (sort of) command line is to click on the Start menu and then hit the R key. Gives you a box where you can type the program name - probably!

Fredric J. Baur, the designer of the Pringles can, died on May 4, 2008. According to AP, Pringles Can Inventor Buried In Pringles Can, HuffingtonPost.com, June 2, 2008: Baur's children said they honored his request to bury him in one of the cans by placing part of his cremated remains in a Pringles container in his grave in suburban Springfield Township. The rest of his remains were placed in an urn buried along with the can, with some placed in another urn and given to a grandson, said Baur's daughter, Linda Baur of Diamondhead, Miss. Baur requested the burial arrangement because he was proud of his design of the Pringles container, a son, Lawrence Baur of Stevensville, Mich., said Monday.

Another day, another security breach: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7459579.stm

I take it there's no possibility of renegotiating the tenancy agreement? They face more than a possibility of having to pay rates on an empty property for years to come (another of Gordon's tax grabs which will have entirely the opposite effect to the reason it was - supposedly - done), and a pub that isn't commercially viable is a freehold that's going to be near impossible to sell. If they've got any business sense they'll let you set the prices. I'm afraid to say that things are going to get a lot worse, and that unlike previous recessions this one is going to be deep and very long. I won't bore you with all the reasons, but Gordo has steadily taxed the Country to death whilst fiddling the books. Unlike some other countries, who've put something aside for a rainy day, he's squandered the lot and the UK is now flat broke. Even worse: quite unnoticed by Joe Public he sold off all our gold reserves at the worst possible moment for a fraction of what they'd now be worth. Darling has made a desperate situation even worse by squandering pubic money he didn't have on Northern Rock. Real inflation is far higher than the government can admit, and it is focusing on all the wrong things. House prices are set to fall 25% or 30% off the peak, real wages simply have to fall, and the party is well and truly over! There's now no way out, even a change of government won't make much difference; at best all they can do is to stop pretending that it's just a short downturn and tell the truth. In all my decades in business I've never been more depressed about the long-term outlook. So... I think your thread heading is more telling than you probably intended, and maybe this is a blessing in disguise for you?

Very sorry to learn this! Was it the tenancy agreement that didn't allow you to earn enough, or just the level of trade generally? What are you going to move on to?

And again! More Secret Files Found On Train If/when WMD in lunatic hands become more than a figment of UK government imagination it will likely be because we paid our "Intelligence" Services to write the terrorists a self-help guide!

Not really! It's just a flame war about the best method to re-digitise. The best method must depend on what you've got access to. Anyway I suspect there's not an activate hacker community like for other PVRs. Sky would do its best to kill any - doing illlegal things or not!

I can tell you all you need to know about TiVo as I've networked a couple of boxes and poked around inside of them. TiVo is proprietary but Linux based so although they guard the secrets of the filing/encoding system there are ways to get at the data and control + customise the box. But I'd imagine Sky+ is a more closed system. As they're the program provider too they'd do everything they reasonably could to prevent their material going astray. I'm not sure if there is a Sky+ hacking community as I've never had any desire to become a customer again - for several reasons. But if the video is available to a TV it has to be in at least one of several formats, so there will always be a way to syphon data, even if it means having to re-digitise it. All they can do is to make it so difficult and inconvenient (and with no attached meta-data) that few bother. Anyone? On the USB thing, one (and only one) end has to be the master to control the data transfers, so just because two pieces of equipment have USB it doesn't necessarily mean they can physically talk to each other. This even if you know how the data would be arranged and encoded at high level. This is why you don't see USB leads with the same plug on both ends - and if you do find one it's a kludge that likely won't do anything al all useful unless there's some complicated active circuitry somewhere else. Also the USB specification only says how blocks of data are moved not what they mean. i.e. the two pieces of gear still need to understand each other's language.

"Police are investigating after top-secret documents containing the latest government intelligence on al-Qaeda were left on a train." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7449255.stm 42 days detention without charge for the culprit I say! None of this charge/fair-trial mullarkey!

And.,. you could now get 42 days imprisonment without charge for no other reason than the Gordo Gestapo don't like you! Golly! Whoops, can't say that either; it might remind someone of a children's soft toy, and we know where that kind of subversive thought can lead!