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It took me a while to work out what the first poster was actually talking about...http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/showthread.php?t=158095RegardsMark ;0)

My Dell home PC has just reached the age to be replaced. I've used a rule that when new machines are about 10x faster/bigger/cleverer it is time to move up, just about got there after 6yrs, which I reckon is pretty fair!I'm only just literate in...

It's a good point.

Is anyone else besides me not getting e-mail notifications of new posts to a thread they've subscribed to? I do toggle "notifications: on". Apologies for such a mundane, pathetic thread. It was that or share my collection of "natural" Anna K. photos.

If you are one at all, that is...Flame Warriors

I have read with complete amazment that Financial Institutions holding funds for the group "Jama'at al-Tawhid Wa'al-Jihad" are to be frozen.I find it remarkable that we are still acting as Bankers and Financiers for cold blooded murderers.Thoughts ...

I feel the public grieving over the death of Ken Bigley to be well over the top, and will be miss-used by certain parties for political time wasting and the usual smudging over FAR FAR FAR more important issues that presently face the UK.Graham George...

Are there any good reasons to keep using ZoneAlarm now that I have a router w/ hardware firewall?

So the peeps running the Forum want to prevent threads collapsing......I'll divert to one of my other hobbies - Marine Reefkeeping.Who has a Marine Reef at home ?I have a 70 gallon reef (72x15x18 inches) running the Berlin system. Nice mix of...

MuchachosIn common wiuth many of us, I post on more than one HiFi Forum. It has struck me of late, how much pointless polemic there is on the 'net, where you are not allowed to express Opinion: where people can be downright rude to you and bleat to...

PeepsWeek before last I was made redundant - very common in my industry (I was a magazine editor); in fact, I'm surprised I've survived 15 years without it happening to me.I'd be interested to hear other people's experience. Did you use it as an...

Hi ChapsI'd be interested to hear peoples experiences with remote access to their home PCs. I have used pcANYWHERE and remote desktop in the past, neither of which is particularly secure.Has anyone here used "Laplink everywhere" or "gotomypc"?Also I'd...

Hi Matthew,you have a PT.

„Well, how about: "In general, I would prefer to be governed by 'not absolutely the worse but certainly even the bottom few' of our elected politicians than by the 'great majority' of the forum members"? Steve MargolisTHE NAIM...

Geoff Hurst is in Baku, Azerbaijan at the Tofik Bakhramov stadium to unveil a statue of Tofik Bakhramov.Apparently, Tofik Bakhramov is the linesman who insisted Hurst's second goal in the 1966 final at Wembley had crossed the line.Now I could...

My favourite cat is dying, and the vet gives him only a few more days. I've had the mog for 19 years, and he has been rather dog-like in his behaviour. He has always trotted along at heel, and even responds to a few verbal commands (when he can be...

Is there any open-source online RSS aggregator so that I put my favourite newsfeeds on my own site, rather than have to use a portal? I know Drupal and Mambo have one, but I am too dumb and lazy to move from Wordpress.

anyone know what's up?it's a good read sometimes!TN

I've just come home to find that the PC's in my office have installed SP2. Not quite on their own but I won't bore you with the details.I have a bunch of XP VPN connections permanently open to customer's systems. These no longer work with the XP...

Is there anywhere on my computer where I can find out what hardware has been installed on my computer?When I swithed my PC on this morning my computer automatically installed a new piece of hardware. The strange thing is that I havn't added anything...

After a rash of very successful e-bay selling, I am flush with cash and planning a new bike.I love e-bay, if you hit a feeding-frenzy the prices go stupid.I have a trick titanium racer which is great, but I don't like getting it wet and it can't take...

has anybody else had any experience with buying from them? are they a pita to deal with or am i just being unlucky?i ordered antonio forciones dvd from them and it should have arrived over a week ago. ive sent them 3 or 4 emails explaining this and...

Hi thereI got myself networked at home recently with an XP desktop ethernetted to a Netgear DG834G wireless router which also talks to an XP laptop and a W2000 laptop wirelessly. It works a treat.I was so impressed by my technical prowess that I...

It does seem that despite the fact that the elections weren't perfect and, perhaps, not entirely free of corruption, there is some kind of embryonic democracy emerging in Afghanistan. Even the Iranian Foreign Ministry has said that Iran regards the...

That'd be you gary I think I'm going to be visiting the local dealers today or Friday to order my first mac, a G5 imac. Ordinarily I'd go via the apple online store but the chap at the dealers spent a good hour and a bit showing me the thing so fair...