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by Stuart
Sun 23 May, 2004 11.06
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Grr!! Bloody Customers!
Replies: 48
Views: 16465

When not at uni I work as a pizza delivery driver (and serve instore aswell at times). OK - here's a couple of questions for you - do you have a full moped/motorcycle licence? Is the vehicle insured for business use? It's the fact that most of the delivery mopeds have L plates that causes me to ask...
by Stuart
Tue 18 May, 2004 14.12
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Should I Get a Mac?
Replies: 13
Views: 5714

Not true at all - the Mac OS has excellent file compatibility with the Windows world. Ah right. Things have changed for the better then. :) Not at all ... compatibility and ease of file exchange has always been a strong point. Right from the early days Macs were able to read and format MS-DOS flopp...
by Stuart
Sat 08 May, 2004 22.27
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Poor PCTV capturing + Network probs
Replies: 8
Views: 3395

Thanks for the response Neil. The lines disappeared for a little while but came back again and sometimes they settle down and sometimes not so I guess there's not too much I can do about it! As to the network, it's all set to reconnect at logon etc.. so I'm at a loss what the problem could be. Asa ...
by Stuart
Tue 20 Apr, 2004 11.50
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Can anyone tell me why British Rail became privatised?
Replies: 23
Views: 11161

And Thank God Connex got strapped of its licsence It was the most horrible Train Company ever, The best is Anglia hardly any delays. Connexs problems weren't purely down to the company, they did run a much more complex network than most other companies, with very old trains and infrastructure. It's...
by Stuart
Mon 19 Apr, 2004 17.41
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: IP Difficulties :-(
Replies: 6
Views: 3917

Aah... so my main problems is when someone with precisely the same problem as me... let's call them John - John visits a cracks site, and it says "we're sorry, only 50 downlodas per day" - and John tries proxies and for some reason it doesn't work, any way round that? Also John wants to h...
by Stuart
Mon 19 Apr, 2004 17.20
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Can anyone tell me why British Rail became privatised?
Replies: 23
Views: 11161

Privatisation was actually fairly well done; you are never going to get direct competition between any two stations. The 25 train operating companies, competing due to, an arguably contestable market, which leads to more efficient production as they want to renew their franchises. The problems of t...
by Stuart
Sun 18 Apr, 2004 20.52
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Recorded Videos Transfer to DVD
Replies: 7
Views: 4245

Wherever possible use a dvd-recorder and vhs player that both have an s-video connector. Most scart use only composite, and you lose a significant level of bandwidth this way. Unfortunately, most standard VHS will not have either a fully implemented scart (ie the s-video connections are not connecte...
by Stuart
Sun 18 Apr, 2004 20.37
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: My problem... built into IE? Spyware?
Replies: 5
Views: 3390

It looks like a typical GAIN advert - opening a popup on a (supposedly) related subject.

Have you installed something which comes with GAIN (unfortunately the free version of the Divx pro codec does this)

Stuart
by Stuart
Sun 18 Apr, 2004 10.08
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Deleting files that don't exist (bear with me...)
Replies: 28
Views: 14194

Lets get this back on topic - did the instructions that I pointed you at on the second page of this thread help DAS?


Stuart
by Stuart
Tue 13 Apr, 2004 06.14
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Deleting files that don't exist (bear with me...)
Replies: 28
Views: 14194

Ok - checking the Trend site (http://www.antivirus.com) this appears to be REG_SEXYCAT.A You will need to edit the registry to get rid of this properly.

For details on removal, see this page for more details

Stuart
by Stuart
Sun 11 Apr, 2004 09.17
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Smoking in Public Places banned in Ireland
Replies: 26
Views: 14832

Right, as a smoker, I know that I drink more when not smoking, than when smoking (its the "something to do with your hand" syndrome). As for extending the opening hours, whilst I am in favour of them being more flexible, there may be problems associated with this. Here in NL, for example, ...