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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!

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!