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Spent ages getting rid of Quicktime and Apple updater from my PC. It doesn't follow any of the normal install/uninstall rules, and stashes stuff all over the place. In fact it seems to have been written so that the average person will simply give up trying to uninstall it. I really do hate Apple, and their vastly overpriced underspecified stuff, but most of all their market manoeuvrings and the veiled contempt they show towards their customer's intelligence! If anyone knows a simple and easy way to uninstall Apple software from a PC then please advise. Until then you are warned not to go there in the first place. Quicktime - just say no!

I've never been disappointed ordering from Hong Kong. Even last year when I got a couple of camera batteries when I'd ordered something quite different. An adjustable voltage generic charger would probably do the job, and you get another play another day when you change your machine. Tricky bit is to make sure that it comes with the correct power plug. Also check it can dish out the rated current of your machine. Some luggables still use daft amounts of power and smaller multi-voltage supplies might only be rated at 3 amps or so. Even though I have a good generic I had to buy another one for a visitor here in the Summer. His Dell one blew up due to a power surge in a thunderstorm. Interestingly none of the other PSUs here had a problem with the surge. Then I discovered that the Dell used a connector that I didn't have in the clip on my multi-voltage. After rushing off and paying an arm and a leg for a generic one that did have a Dell connector his Dell then had the brazen cheek to put up a warning message that the PSU wasn't correct and might damage the machine. Must have been the supplying the wrong kind of electrons! Nag bypassable by a function key, but pure BS designed only to extort a ridiculous price out of poor Dell punters. Remember: Dell PSUs are way overpriced wimps and they want you to pay a fortune for another wimpy one and discourage you from using a generic one. i.e. Avoid Dell machines! http://www.ebuyer.com/product/132373 Heavier duty ones there too.

Checking for a link to the Asus Eee PC900a I came across this load of nonsense on Amazon. http://askville.amazon.com/ASUS-Eee-PC-900...uestId=11417228 "The PC900A, however, only supports the GNU Linux OS." Brollocks! Who are they employing ex-Dixons salesmen?! I'm sure we can do a lot better here.

Been following the Asus Eee PC series since the original 7" machine launch, and had a play with one at every opportunity. But, there was always a reason not to buy, and I have to agree with .Well... I reckon with the PC900a I've no longer got any excuse not to squeeze one in to my bulging anorak pocket together with the other gizmos. The Nokia N800 might have to stay at home though! So... after thinking about it over the weekend I went and ordered one from eBuyer. Went back the other night with my card details to complete the order and ^%$%£% the order item has been scratched! Likely because the 3100 odd haven't actually landed at Asus UK yet. The amusing thing is that the 7 days free assistance is now showing on the open order as a £49.99 debit! Assistance that probably won't be needed on a computer that doesn't exist. Nice one eBuyer; but I'm sure you'll come through with my tiny new toy in the end! Review coming, sometime, someday.

It's the Anorak Alley section; which is where you will now find the computer forum(s). My point is that if you have any other interest or hobbies then feel free to PM me and request your own special interest forum. It's the way to meet people in the area who you may not be aware of share the same interests. This is especially useful if you already have a small club or informal group - you can expand it to include other local people. For your trouble you get to moderate the new forum yourself.

Tesco: The Movie And, I thought Time Trumpet was a load of &(**^(* - just goes to show there are gems to be found in every giant load of muck!

No C, I think it's someone else in this thread that's doing the pulling. Could do with a chiropractor myself though. Got this pain in the neck bending over the computer (and sadly no employer to sue for it!).

Now you've made this public is there any reason you can't quote it in your profile? Anyway welcome aboard and hope that in the fullness of time (and moving on to Step 2) ) you become an Oldbie.

I hear it's going to be a chiropractor - where they pull people's limbs. I'm not confident of reading this news in The Journal though. They didn't fill in any fields in their profile, though may still be lurking under another alias.

The bot writers recently found a bug in the captchas code. Actually I think "those who can profit from a fix" may have TOLD them about it! Easily fixed, but dozens of bot registrations on every visit are annoying and a lot of work to sort out. Bots don't care about Bedders! Neither do human spammers, or people tricked by bots to do the validation for them. Hello I'm from BowWow Grange is beyond spammers. Spammers don't like work. The VERY odd stupid kid isn't any problem. And no. If you read the announcement again you'll see that non-posters who have put something half recognisable in their profile are still with us. Some (if not all ) sound like really nice people and I'm sure that they'll get around to entering into the swing of things sooner or later.

I'd like to join your club - but BTW I'm not prepared to fill in the simple entry form. I won't say a simple hello to anyone at all and will hide in the corner for months and make notes about what I see and hear. I may be a terrorist, or I may not be - I'm not saying, you'll just have to spend a lot of your time watching me and take your best guess. Err... sorry, not playing that game! There's quite a lot of public content here now. The intention of most posters is to exchange views and information with like-minded people with approx similar interests, and they RIGHTLY assume they'll be protected from snake-oil-merchants and other low-life! Asking them to make this a bit easier is no big deal in my book.

Bet they don't treat Bill Clinton like this! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7673046.stm

Now that the politicos - led by honourable, great leader, Chairman Brown - have stopped slapping each other on the backs, the vote of confidence is coming in from the markets. There's blood on the streets; redundancies already occupy the news; they're jumping from (metaphorical) windows at Canary Wharf! The true extent of the forthcoming disaster hasn't yet dawned on Joe and Josephine Public. Unless they are trying to get a mortgage or a loan to expand a business everything seems sort of normal. The representatives of the vested interests are coming on TV or radio and admitting a short recession before "the inevitable pickup in house prices again". We've been here before! Err... no my overpaid pundit, we haven't! This is the BIG one. The once-in-a-lifetime (or two or three lifetimes) economic cataclysm some of us have been warning about for nigh on a decade. It's the one that will be remembered by future generations. The one that will make or break our characters. The one that will force permanent lifestyle changes. The one which will topple governments and end glowing careers in disgrace. The one that will expose the humbug and teach us the virtues of thrift. We've been living in an economic dream world for far too long; the quicker we adapt to reality the easier it will be. The BBC is holding an on-line poll asking who is responsible for the mess. It's tempting to run a blame game here too - but ultimately pointless as the answer will undoubtedly be the same.

Surely for the 42 days imprisonment without charge! But, do you get the chance to throw time-expired Tesco produce at them?

Contributory factors (in no particular order of importance) are: 1) Lurk and don't have the manners to say hello to other members. 2) Don't intelligently complete any of the fields in your profile. 3) Use a throw-away e-mail address to register (particularly gmail). 4) Spam some other forum and get blacklisted there first. 5) Register with an abusive or "spammy" user or display name. (e.g. buy_mycrap_now). 6) Register more than once (BOTH memberships will be trashed). 7) Register with e-mail from a (non-developed or dubious) hosting account. (Don't worry if you don't understand this last one!) Note: Links in validation e-mails are now only valid for 48 hours AND you won't simply be able to re-register without some sort of (intentional or unintentional) delay, or possibly a probation period when your posts are pre-moderated. To stay super-sweet do the opposite of 1 to 7. The more background info you provide the easier it is for everyone. And, don't worry about using your "Sunday best" e-mail address here - we hate spammers too, and it won't be abused in any way or revealed to other members. The admins and moderators thank you for your help.

Wow, good scan! So where/what is the "Enterprise Centre"? Never knew we had any of that there!

Interesting that 7 calls itself 6.1 under the covers. As several people have already pointed out this is going to be a wonderful source of confusion for support desks. Bar slippages out next year, so another generation skip and £100 left in the bank I think. Oh, and wait for W7 SP1 before actually buying a copy.

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!