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Welcome to the pound m8. It's like a zoo but with only one species And the rumours about Bbloke are true, it's the only reason why he's a sheep dog after all

Excellent Carl, as always m8 Concerned you are still having problems with the forums, if others also experience this please let me know. There is an update I need to apply as it has now gone gold (yes we have been using a Beta version

Before removing Norton I would make a NTFS boot floppy. Assuming you have a floppy drive of course! Format a floppy in XP (must be done in XP ). Copy the following files from the Dell: ntdetect.com ntldr boot.ini You may need to turn of hide protected/system files option. Norton has a habit of buggering up boot files when being un-installed. When you have it working again get SP2 on it too, and consider persuading the company to get a copy or two of Norton Ghost for the critical PC's (no good for servers).

OK the censor is my fault, you can actually turn off censoring in your profile This particular censor was my idea of a joke, and was not intended to offend. IIRC you can see 'Microsoft'. I will remove said censoring

Nice post Sunflower, as is your Routers 'n kid s one too. I have just switched from a Linksys/ADSL modem router to a cable modem (supplied by my ISP) and a Linksys router. I should know hte model number, but would need to trek upstairs to the study where it resides. My old router couldn't tell the time, bloody annoying as it is a diagnostic necessity when talking to your ISP about frequent disconnects, plus if scheduling is desired. Sadly there was no way to input the date/time manually... This new model, while a little bulkier and more purposeful in appearance, tells the time just fine and has one of those neat 'single click security' features . I favour Linksys myself now, and would use Netgear too. Belkin are also reasonably good, and can put out a good strong wireless signal.

Temp files can go for sure, old compressed files may be useful though, for instance patches are compressed files...

:o Boy am I missing out... Good news is now I at least have a laptop that was made this millenium and doesn't require copious quantities of coal to keep it going PC to be unboxed and OS reloaded next... Broadband via cable is excellent: See you in the skies son

Been there done that Do a google for CMOS replacement, I found a European company that mailed me a replacement with the BIOS version I wanted (emailed it to them) and the price was very good. May be quicker than waiting for Asus...

Impressive, first one was a bit lame in comparison!!

I would first un-install the drivers and any utilities it came with, this may be a case of add/remove programs for utilities then device manager to uninstall the device. Optionally you can also open network connections, do a properties on the WiFi connection and un-install the services associated with it, TCP/IP will not be un-installable. Power down and remove the card. When restarted the resources should be free, this can be double checked by going into device manager click view and click 'Show Hidden Devices'. You should not see any entries for the WiFi card left.

All of the psittacines have surprising longevity, the larger ones (greys and macaws) are known to live for an average of 50 years, with 70 being seen from time to time with some of the larger Macaws. Humbling to know such intelligence abounds and is so often over looked by our superior species. And yes they are more than able to communicate in our terms which they have to learn, with our 'superior' intelligence we should be spending more time on understanding them rather than getting them to understand us... I could go on, but I have to confess to having only recently discovered this species and their abilities, and am in a arguably revelatory position and likely to start preaching in areas of which I have to confess to have but seedling knowledge. Such is the way of the new convert....

Hi Pooka. Yes this is an MS update, the XHTML update that hit yesterday, so it is safe and can be deleted.

That can be arranged last night we had immense fun with her, and had a conversation of sorts full of laughter, whistled tune fragments, belches and impressions of kitchen implements. Would appear that her protracted cage time meant that her flock calls were met with sounds from the kitchen, and she mimics them as a response. Plate scraping is not my favourite... I think it is fitting that a fellow aviator, and one who flies for real, should be our mascot. We read of a Cockatoo (a very big parrot that will also live 70 years or more) that has recently been rescued after spending 51 years caged. Never let out. Poor bloody thing never experienced flight or companionship.

Thought I'd share this with you guys. As some of you may know and/or recall I had a Red Fronted Macaw fly into my garden, I was able to coax it out of the tree and it lived with us for nearly four weeks before being re-united with it's 'owner'. Since then I have helped the UK charity for distressed/abused/homeless parrots. On Saturday we picked up an 8 yr old African grey called Pepe, her 'owners' had suffered a business loss, and subsequent bancruptcy, and are now living in rented accomodation that prohibits pets. Pepe had been placed with their son, also in a rented flat, and he had been ordered to rehome Pepe by his landlord. Saturday at 12:00 an emotional meeting took place when I drove over to pick up Pepe, thought to be a male and known to be very shy of new people. Pepe took an instant liking to me! By 14:30 we were home and she (to be confirmed by DNA) had pair bonded with me, and was happily sitting on my shoulder demanding head tickles!! She has since relaxed and is now treating us to her extensive repertoire of sounds and voices. They range from very tuneful human like whistles, a good impression of a canary singing, a smoke alarm with a dying battery (which freaks out our Belgian Shepherd) and an impressive array of belches...as well as an assortment of phrases in a woman's voice (hello when I put a 'phone to my ear). She also did an impressive wolf-whistle when she saw my wife naked . When we laughed at her belches last night she started laughing with us, an exact copy of my laugh!!! Spooky.... Some pics: [attachimg=1] [attachimg=2] [attachimg=3] [attachimg=4] [attachimg=5]

Actually it's quite easy when you know how! First step is to download a free utility called 'junction' from: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysint ... ction.mspx I have attached it for your convenience Place junction.exe in c:\windows Start a command prompt (start->run 'cmd'). In command prompt type: junction name of folder you want redirected name of folder to redirect to. For example: (my junction.exe is in the root of c:\ if yours is in windows you should not need to specify the windows path bit) C:\Documents and Settings\roger.IBM>c:\junction "c:\program files\test" d:\ Junction v1.04 - Windows junction creator and reparse point viewer Copyright © 2000-2005 Mark Russinovich Systems Internals - http://www.sysinternals.com Created: c:\program files\test Targetted at: d:\ Now when I dir on c:\program files\test I get the contents of my CD drive listed. The machine I am on is an 8 yr old laptop with a single disk, it is running XP home so this will work on all XP versions! Sorry it took so long to respond, been very busy. Junction.zip

I use 7Zip. Free, open source and will open zip, rar, iso ... well just about any archive really! 7-Zip here

[chat] region=(dx=0.6925,dy=0.093333334,x=0.0,y=0.0) This bit in the conf.ini?

Yes they are bound by the act, and also regulated under motor industry standards.

I remember. ~S~

Well I was a vehicle mechanic for 8 yrs

1. Sounds like it may be out of tune, engine should idle smoothly regardless of electrical load. A failing battery would be evident when trying to start on cold mornings. 2. Squealing brakes, should never occur as this is prevented by using quality components and anti-sieze copper based grease on the back of the pads. It is possible anti-squeal shims are missing or old. 3. Noise from rear on a front wheel drive car will be from wheel bearings or brake disks (rotors). Use the warranty to get this checked out, if the answers don't satisfy you invest in getting it checked out by another Ford dealer. If they find faults you have redress against Reg Vardy

Cost is £17.99, which is $34.37

IIRC it's the 17th they are due in, let me know if you want two copies and I'll put in a pre-order PM me your address, and I'll let you know what the total cost inc packaging to you is. You can pay me via paypal too if you wish, even though they charge me for the privilege!!

I'll help. If Gogamer are too slow I can buy on release day and ship on the day it drops on my door mat.