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by Neil Jones
Wed 24 Mar, 2004 23.43
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Windows Longhorn System Requirements
Replies: 25
Views: 12783

AFAIK, LongHorn is still scheduled for 2006. The second beta is due, I think, in the summer sometime.
by Neil Jones
Tue 23 Mar, 2004 18.48
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Microsoft Windows
Replies: 17
Views: 13264

Flava wrote:I don't seem to mind it - I've got 15GB of MP3s in My Music!
Excuse me while I call the British Equivialent of the RIAA... ;)
by Neil Jones
Mon 22 Mar, 2004 19.17
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Capture Card Problems.
Replies: 12
Views: 7014

Check connections? Check volume control for Line-In setting in the Windows Volume Control applet? Something else on the system using sound? (unlikely but you never know.) Software for capture card set to mute or low?
by Neil Jones
Mon 22 Mar, 2004 18.17
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: XP Interfaces
Replies: 8
Views: 6962

Re: XP Interfaces

Classic or Modern? Vote now... I trust that by this you mean "do you prefer the bright white start menu and blue/green setup as installed by Windows XP by default, or do you switch all that off so it looks and behaves like Win9x?" I set this one up to look and behave like Win9x. I don't l...
by Neil Jones
Sun 21 Mar, 2004 21.12
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Screen Resolutions
Replies: 24
Views: 10732

800x600, I have no idea what the maximum for this monitor is, though I know it can do 1024x768.
by Neil Jones
Mon 08 Mar, 2004 10.15
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Windows Longhorn System Requirements
Replies: 25
Views: 12783

cwanten - have you ever tried going into Dixons and complaining about widescreen TVs being set up wrong? Now that's always fun. Talking of this, I've just come back from Currys where they've got loads of widescreen TVs which were showing a football match on Sky Sports. These things are shown widesc...
by Neil Jones
Wed 28 Jan, 2004 10.29
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Blair's worst week
Replies: 21
Views: 17227

Just on News 24 now, they say apparently The Sun has got leaked extracts of the Hutton Report. Suffice to say, not good news for the BBC, government gets off the hook very well, only Hoon and the MoD are "rapped on the knuckles". That doesn't surprise me at all considering where The Sun's...
by Neil Jones
Tue 27 Jan, 2004 21.20
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Blair's worst week
Replies: 21
Views: 17227

So the Government have won by a tight 316 to 311 votes. I'm amazed by how they only had a majority of five votes. Very dramatic stuff. Huh, only because Blair went round licking everybody's arse all weekend and Charles Clarke went throwing in "concessions" everywhere just to get the damn ...
by Neil Jones
Mon 26 Jan, 2004 22.54
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Blair's worst week
Replies: 21
Views: 17227

Indeed, there are more students now; there are TOO MANY students at university. A levels have now become virtually worthless with so many pupils finishing their GCSEs and going on to do them, degrees are going the same way. I had a job interview last week. The interviewer said I had good qualificat...
by Neil Jones
Thu 22 Jan, 2004 17.56
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Blair's worst week
Replies: 21
Views: 17227

According to http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3420883.stm it really could go either way. From that page, 132 MPs who originally said they would vote against tutition fees were contacted in a BBC survey. 43 didn't take part, three would abstain and 16 were undecided. 62 will still vote against ...
by Neil Jones
Thu 15 Jan, 2004 22.15
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Blair's worst week
Replies: 21
Views: 17227

universities in this country are seriously underfunded... and sorry to break it to students, but they have to pay up to get a top notch education. Americans pay a fortune, and as a result enjoy some of the best universities in the world; Brits pay a pittance, and suffer some of the worst. This is w...