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~S~ Kelly, good for you. BTW did you get the name of the Lanc Pilot? Just wondering because there was a Canadian chap at Duxford this year signing copies of his book (which I can't find at the moment) and I'm wondering if its the same guy? He was in the Red Lion on the Friday before Legends. He was on his own, so I went over and chatted with him for a while. Nice bloke. ~S~ Jabo

Here's a couple more, Oasis' "Don't Look Back In Anger", and Paul Young's "Wherever I Lay My Hat" (There is a tiny bit of bad language at the start of this clip - Just a word to the wise) I'm not a huge fan of mime in general, but this guy's good. I particularly like the "there's just so many things' line from "Torn". LOL ~S~ Jabo

Don't those guys fly a licence-built version of the Hunting Jet Provost? Known to all and sundry as the 'JP'. So it's JP and the 'JP's

I have a 17" HP TFT which I've been considering upgrading for some time - are you still looking for a monitor Colin? It's an f1723, a bit old, but works well and has given me no trouble (I bought it new) ~S~ Jabo

Thanks DT, just downloading them now. ~S~ Jabo

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Coolio, nice one GK, never even heard of social bookmarking before - looks pretty good to me. ~S~ Jabo

Nobody? OK, Fleabay it is... ~S~ Jabo

Are your graphics card drivers up to date? I suspect a software conflict may be causing a glitch which the machine interprets as a hardware fault and gives you the dreaded Blue Screen Of Death. ~S~ Jabo

Fellas, I have a printer I wish to offload and it's going on eBay if no-one here wants it - It's a brand new HP Colour LaserJet 2600N - completely unused, complete and boxed - £100 to you guys, normal retail price £150-£160. It IS completely legit thank you... Anybody interested? ~S~ Jabo

Yep, would appear to be the case - Partition table on both disks is screwed, probably due to the heads writing when the power went off (Oops, forgot to mention that this problem surfaced after a power cut and the PC was in use when the lights went out). Can 'see' the data on both disks, but no way to get at it. If I ever get my hands on the idiot that thought this was a good way to build a home PC...I'll slap his wrists. Now trying to do a bitwise copy and then attempt to interleave the data - could b a long haul. ~S~ Jabo P.S. Thanks GK, but after the 109 and pitch incident, I don't bugger about with anything I don't understand - I've got a pal working on this for me and he knows what he's doing.

Thanks Shayd, you're basically confirming my worry in as much as this machine is now 3 years old, and I think I'm going to have problems finding a working mobo with the right kind of RAID chip. I really fail to see the point of RAID in a standard desktop home PC apart from to make things more difficult

I've just got in from a not entirely satisfactory night trying to assist Hamilhoff with his PC. Here's the prob...The machine will not load windows, in fact I don't think it's completing the POST. I want to back up his data before doing a little surgery, but his PC is configured with two SATA HDDs in RAID 0 (Striping) and I can't view the data on either disk (when plugged into a spare SATA header on my PC). I know a bit about RAID, but how the dickens do I get his data off these drives? Any assistance will be gratefully received. ~S~ Jabo

Ouch - that's a little harsh Jim - I'm sure nobody here *thinks* you are an idiot

Pray you never find out Rico, I'm still in therapy

Thanks for the offer Vaca, but I think I'll hang on - the throttle part is one of the main reasons I want this stick combo Cheers ~S~ Jabo

Umm, but apart from the springs, the look of the thing and the aquaducts, what have the Romans ever done for us?

So apart from the differences in springs and the look of the thing, is there anything else which differentiate the two? ~S~ Jabo

I'm considering purchasing one of these joystick things, which one should I go for? If not Saitek then who? (I think I know what I should go for, but I'd appreciate some more infomed comment on this than my own opinion

I have a Thermaltake (same make as case) water cooling kit ready to fit into my rig, but I'm sticking with air cooling until I next change the CPU & Mobo (don't fancy having to drain the system to strip the thing down) so I'm running 2 120mm fans (1 front 1 rear) plus a Zalman 'Flower' copper CPU HS/Fan plus the stock fan on the gfx card and am acheiving low-mid 40deg temps in GPU and CPU. I've found that installing the gubbins in a tidy manner and minimising clutter in the case will maximise airflow and therefore improve substantially improve cooling. Since I'm using so-called 'silent' fans, I've also found that locking the fan controls to the maximum means more air without too much additional noise. The only problem is that it keeps sucking the cat into the air vents on the front of the case. ~S~ Jabo P.S. Overclockers.co.uk do a nice range of quiet fans and I believe they ship overseas too.

Indeed, thanks for the comments Roger, I've tried with and without letting Windows 'manage' the connection, with much the same results on the other cards - I'm beginning to wonder whether it's just the way my PC does 'things'. I'll try removing the Linksys software tho' and report back. Cheers ~S~ Jabo

Here's a little problem that's got me scratching my head - perhaps one of you techie types here can help. I currently have a BT Homehub v2.0 router handling my broadband connection, and my desktop connects to it via a Linksys WMP3000N wireless card, but...everytime I start the machine up, the card gives a 'limited or no connectivity' warning and will not connect to the internet until I run the 'repair' option from the system tray icon (it's fine from there on). I'm using the latest drivers for the card, there are no IRQ conflicts that I can see, oh, and this is the third card I have tried (3 different manufacturers too). Any one got any ideas? I'd like to get it sorted out as it's starting to get a little tiresome. Oh, just a couple of other things, my 'spare' USB wireless NIC connects first time every time, and my wife's laptop pc also has no problems AND I'm on my second HH with the same issues...Dunno if this is significant. ~S~ Jabo

Sorry Kling, I wasn't denying your point, it's just that the treatment of Bomber Command personnel after the war makes my blood boil. Like you, I had a family member in BC (also involved with Wellingtons coincidentally), although he was destined to become one of the 55,000. I don't believe that anyone who were involved in the raids on Germany liked the idea of bombing civilians, but as you say they saw it as necessary at the time. It is interesting though that 'normal' politics was starting to rear it's head before the war had even finished and the Western Allies were realising that a) Germany was pretty much trashed end-to-end and that they would be paying to put things right and also that Soviet expansionists were eyeing Eastern Europe as a buffer area. We went straight from one war to another albeit a 'cold' one. ~S~ Jabo