threegee

...and a word you may no longer use on TV! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7446274.stm

Undoubtedly it's that as they're not a struggling local small business and Wansbeck Rate-payer (and are an enterprise that takes money out of the Town) then they have no need to worry about being prosecuted for illegal bill posting.

Well... small mercies... at least they're not calling it a Fayre! So where is this unmissable event held in our Fair Towne? (All at the obvious risk of giving them the odd £3.75 they hadn't got the enterprise to advertise for themselves! )

We now have a "serious" area for local business to utilise. There there are few restrictions except it must be local biz. Banter and direct criticism is not possible. It is publicly viewable and searchable. In fact it will raise any local business no end on search engine ranking. And, all for free! The only restriction is that they can't use it to promote their own gravestone websites that they've possibly thrown away good money on. To allow this would be to ask our web-hosting sponsor to pay to promote their competitors! This restriction can be removed if they also sponsor us. Lets see just how many local businesses have the common sense to use the platform and how many dodo businesses we are harbouring in the Town.

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/

The whole point of the Announcements/Notices section is that businesses (or anyone else for that matter) can't be ridiculed! It says as plain as a pikestaff that replies are not permitted. If you can make it any plainer then be my guest! If what Bedlington business wants is a plain vanilla platform for their "graveyard" advertising then not one business has had the nounce to ask for it! That, by my book, is total lack of enterprise. Successfully community business take every opportunity to integrate into their local community, particularly those avenues that involve little or no expenditure. It is in the site and the community interest that they have a smooth ride. The only thing they have to fear is their own customer base, and if they treat that half well they foster an army of unpaid salesmen to grow their business. I'm afraid I don't agree on the 'numpty' label. The numptys are not the active members of the site. For better or worse the site represents a fairly broad slice of Bedlingtonians both past, present, and future. You turn your back on those people at your expense and your future peril! IMHO we've still got more than our fair share of "Northern Rock" type operators in the Town who are only here for what they can get. They've no genuine interest in our community. WDC and their anti-small-business policy wiped out a good proportion of the owner/proprietor ones, a few of the old ones are still hanging on by their fingernails, but are otherwise dead from the neck up. Otherwise there's not a great deal of wealth producing business left. Well a few maybe that haven't been lured to Ashington, and they'll will surface in time. Hopefully we will see some local start-ups and the site will be here to help them. More when I read and digest what is being said.

You should have posted this in the Public Announcements section. Then the full text will be visible to absolutely anyone who visits (including the search engines), and it will not be possible for people to post distracting replies. Public Announcements are also published by RSS feed, which means they appear on other websites too, further increasing the notice's exposure. You only have to be a member to post Public Announcements, not read them. I ask myself why more Bedlington businesses don't use this free facility more(?). It seems pretty dumb not to use such a well targeted medium that's absolutely free. Then I look at the woeful state of business in the town, and (like Andy Brown) wonder how they are still there! Perhaps if we charged for it they'd value the service? Or maybe they need the tax-loss of having their advertising money dumped in a hedge or blowing in the wind?

Aahh... but was it an open-source egg?

It's unlikely to have anything to do with the local file system. The clue - I think - is in the question: So.. don't reset both, just reset one at a time, and see which it is that fixes the problem. It's likely some table filling up. I can vaguely remember a similar problem some years back with a ISDN setup, the box had to be rebooted every few weeks. Something else you can do is collect a short list of IPs for websites and check that they always get you to their respective sites. If you can reliably access sites with only IPs and stil have problems with some of those accessed through domain names, then it's a name server (DNS) related problem - and that significantly narrows down where to look for a solution.

I was going to say that, but as it's a Linux utility that someone has ported to Windoze - and in all fairness I'd have to point out the other five or six totally free Linux open-source packages for doing more or less the same thing - I thought it might somehow show Microsoft in a bad light.

But you forget; when you buy an Apple product you are buying a revolutionary piece of design that no one ever thought of before. http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/smartphones/ope...what-229243.php No? Well.. you must at least admit that no one ever thought of producing a moby where you couldn't swap the battery! Seems such an obvious way of saving 50p on production costs; making zillions extra from factory service, and ensuring that no cheaper replacement batteries appear on the market to dint your margins. Very slow of Nokia there!

Computer Corner now has a Microsoft Certified expert in charge. Ask away, but remember he has a day job, and he needs to earn a crust somewhere, sometime. I will still step in to help on hardware matters - and express a personal view - from time to time, but otherwise the M$ bashing has probably stopped!

Please enlighten us as to exactly what can't you do with it? And, as I said, you don't need to install it to try it - so you've put yourself to more trouble than you need have.

A Beeb reporter was showing a couple of the (now quite old) crop circle guys the reports and they couldn't believe they'd been taken so seriously. Particularly they were amazed at the public money that must have been wasted, and how the "security services" could have been quite so dumb! Here's a bit more Freedom of Information of the third kind: "We can't know how bad it will get." Aren't modern megapixel cameras with good optics wonderful?

If you read it on the Internet then it must be true!

It might have been true, but it isn't any longer. The Linux subnotebooks are proving that, and they have MS running scared! It's not the 70 quid, it's the paying time and time again for the same old slop. Why can't MS continuously upgrade? Because they dress the same old stuff up and resell it to you. An even more powerful reason is what you spend on apps. For the average totally honest user this will be more than the cost of the hardware. There's also the training. All they are training you to do is to follow the MS master plan. If you really want to know about computers - even just at the application level - you have to turn your brain on. Learning to use MS apps has little or nothing to do with learning about computers - but tell that to your educationalists! Just do it! Stick the CD in and boot - you don't even have to go through and install, the CD is live. Apple is for geeks with more money than sense. I speak as someone who has been quite close to the company on and off for 30 years +. In the grand scheme of things they are pretty irrelevant. But when you have this sort of market you can afford to make lots of mistakes - the punters end up paying for them. Time after time they've chosen the wrong CPU and then left their customers high and dry come the inevitable switch. Now they've been forced to use the same hardware as everyone else - an architecture that they've spent decades panning! With their dumb customer base they don't even need to rationalise the about face.

http://jkkmobile.blogspot.com/2008/05/micr...s-on-ulpcs.html http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/10/microso...ome-boundaries/ I currently use two near identical mini machines day to day. One uses XP Pro the other Ubuntu Linux. The only difference is the Ubuntu machine has 256MB less memory, and a smaller Hard Drive. Of late there are weeks when I don't even bother to dust the Windows machine off. The Linux machine is faster, boots quicker, and is a whole lot less hastle. And all the applications software - and there's an awful lot more of it than I care to try - is legitimately free! Question: If they can sell Windows for £15 and still make money why are mugs shelling out ten times that (every two or three years)? Answer: Because they know most people are lazy thinkers, and so they've got them by their purse or wallet. When you get around to buying a subnotebook (and you will!) make sure it's the Linux version. Not only will you get a better deal and learn something useful, but you'll be helping free the world (and yourself) from one of the biggest manipulators of all time. If you are buying a larger (old-fashioned?) PC then ask the shop if it is available without windows. If they say no, because everyone wants windows, then ask them how exactly do they know this. Ask them where you can find the non-windows machines in their store so the customer can exercise a preference.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7383857.stm Bet that one took days to think up. More imagination than unelected PM Gordon "Prudence" Brown seems able to muster though. He's been told by his spin-doctors to smile more(?), but this is not a pretty sight. A blond wig maybe? Hmm.. probably now being considered by Ken Livingstone too.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/7378695.stm Just the sort of thing we need to hit the National News for. Really enhances our reputation as somewhere nice to live - and bring jobs to!

Polices - what polices? There's not one (of any party) that has the guts to engage properly with their electorate. Oh for an honest politician! Come on local politicians and prove me wrong! This (TOTT) is a closed forum only readable by people in the Town or who have a personal interest in our Town. Let's debate the art of the possible when we have such an all-controlling central government. We are not idiots, we know the severe limits of a local councillors power, but let's have some honesty and some engagement with the electorate without spin-doctors and other party minders. In the old days our politicians stood on a soap-box and did this without turning a hair - some actually enjoyed the cut and thrust. Who are you representing - the People of Bedlington or your own career interests?

The UK's biggest banks have lost a test case about overdraft charges. A judge has decided that the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) can rule on the fairness of the charges, which many customers have been trying to reclaim. BBC Article

They forgot Heather Mills!

Anti-terroist legislation being used to spy on dog walkers and small children going to school! Why is it that those of us with a few decades experience of our system aren't at all surprised. I wonder if the person posting here a while back that they welcomed biometric ID cards is still of the same opinion? Add to this the current low copy number DNA farce and the apocryphal tale of the person ending up on death row because someone of the similar name failed to pay a library fine, could become reality. And we are already well on the way there by the looks of it: http://gazettextra.com/weblogs/latest-news...ring-jail-time/ Or on a more serious note how about this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7326736.stm Ridiculous when you have to get information under another country's laws in order to prove your own innocence! Where would he be now if he only had recourse to his rights under UK law?

...and in which Indian will the contest be? My money's on Head-ripper Campbell. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml...30/ncurry30.xml Entertaining as this would be isn't this confusing parliamentary wards with local government thingamys? All part of the grand illusion that is British Democracy!

Just about sums it up Malc. Milburn is just too slick by half for me, but that's the sort of people who get on in politics these days. At least when dowdy old Michael Foot spouted some crap you could be sure that at least he believed it himself, and it wasn't simply a result of what this week's research had indicated a vote-winner! Baby-face Cameron lost me when he apologised for riding his bike up a one-way and through a red-light. Bet Boris Johnston would have had something more interesting to say on the matter!