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General Discussion Area / Re: LATEST NEWS, ALL WILL BE PLEASED...

« on: 01 October 2007, 20:52:52 »

I'm sure she won't be missed...

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General Discussion Area / Re: Rebuilt my LPG vaporisor today

« on: 01 October 2007, 21:06:49 »

TheBoy goes and orders some more disk space after Martin Imber's mega postings  

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General Discussion Area / Re: How much

« on: 01 October 2007, 19:24:24 »

Has anybody done there road tax via the Internet :question

Yep dead easy  

What I've been doing for about 2 years, easy.

Remember it takes a few days, so don't leave to last minute thoough!

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General Discussion Area / Re: road/car movies

« on: 01 October 2007, 08:47:43 »

I'm a bit of a fan of the Carry Ons - the Sid James/Ken Williams era.  Good harmless fun. Dated, but that form of slapstick remains entertaining, and far from PC

Favs have to be Up The Kyber, Camping, and England (a so-so film really lifted by Winsor Davies - he is excellent in the role)...

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General Discussion Area / Re: road/car movies

« on: 30 September 2007, 13:01:26 »

Cannonball run

Smokey and the bandit

Not everyone's cup of tea but I think they're a couple of classics  

Yes, harmless fun, but badly, badly dated now...

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General Discussion Area / Re: road/car movies

« on: 28 September 2007, 22:06:24 »

The Italian job.....the proper one not the crap american thing....

Where else can you get phrases like.....

'Are those quartz Iodine'
'your only supposed to blow the bloody doors off'
'A man, broke into my toliet last night'
'I like em big'
'Now then lads, Ive got a great idea....'

etc, etc, etc....

Couldn't agree more - one of my favourite films

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General Discussion Area / Re: A new toy

« on: 29 September 2007, 14:42:49 »

About 1999 in our area - my house is a car park for the builders - and I know what was built in summer of 2000...

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General Discussion Area / Re: 178 hours to go

« on: 30 September 2007, 21:38:14 »

My sister used to live in the same town as you Theo, and here picture was always rubbish. You most likely get from Sutton Coldfield, and are classed as 'extreme fringe'.  It will be worse if you are low.

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General Discussion Area / Re: 178 hours to go

« on: 30 September 2007, 19:53:58 »

I've said it a few times now - Media Center Edition is the way to go

It does sound tempting what with the little I know about it.  However, that would involve buying a computer with the appropriate hardware.

I'm not buying Sky and paying an extra 10 quid/month for the ability to record stuff.  That's 120 a year when a VCR is 30 quid.

Stuff paying to record stuff - paid £350 for the PVR when it first came out £80 for a 100GB drive last year, 55 hours of recording time.

PVRs start just over £100 now

Or just use your old naff 2.4 P4 as an MCE (about £50 for OEM copy of XP MCE), stick in a 500Gb HDD and some freeview tuners. And it has the advantage it can play most sources, slideshow pictures etc, all without messing about.

Any recomendations TB??

If you want to use S3 standby, stay away from USB based tuners - including the Hauppauge Nova T 500 PCI dual tuner like I use (these PCI cards actually have a PCI-USB bridge, and the 2 tuners are actually USB devices).

The Hauppauge Nova T (single tuner) works well for me, and copes with standby better.

MCE by default only supports 2 tuners. More than 2 needs a little bit of registry hacking.

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General Discussion Area / Re: 178 hours to go

« on: 30 September 2007, 14:51:50 »

I've said it a few times now - Media Center Edition is the way to go

It does sound tempting what with the little I know about it.  However, that would involve buying a computer with the appropriate hardware.

I'm not buying Sky and paying an extra 10 quid/month for the ability to record stuff.  That's 120 a year when a VCR is 30 quid.

Stuff paying to record stuff - paid £350 for the PVR when it first came out £80 for a 100GB drive last year, 55 hours of recording time.

PVRs start just over £100 now

Or just use your old naff 2.4 P4 as an MCE (about £50 for OEM copy of XP MCE), stick in a 500Gb HDD and some freeview tuners. And it has the advantage it can play most sources, slideshow pictures etc, all without messing about.

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General Discussion Area / Re: 178 hours to go

« on: 30 September 2007, 11:48:22 »

I've said it a few times now - Media Center Edition is the way to go

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General Discussion Area / Re: I have just been mugged - not joking.

« on: 30 September 2007, 19:48:47 »

I've done Gloucester - Chepstow faster on hte A48 faster than someone else M5-M4

Presumably you didn't get stuck behind a convoy of weekend gypos...

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General Discussion Area / Re: I have just been mugged - not joking.

« on: 29 September 2007, 22:53:47 »

I like a drink occasionally. Bet the government won't pay for an alternative for me  

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General Discussion Area / Re: I have just been mugged - not joking.

« on: 29 September 2007, 22:43:24 »

What I object to is that we talk about druggies being "clean" and "rehabilitated" when in fact we have just started feeding them with a legal drug, maintaining their addiction at tax payer's expense. Doesn't make them any use to society. Lock 'em up in a cell with nothing but food and water for a bit of cold turkey and contemplation I say. You reap what you sow after all.

Kevin

Costs us money to lock 'em up.  As does shooting, though its much cheaper.

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General Discussion Area / Re: I have just been mugged - not joking.

« on: 29 September 2007, 17:08:56 »

I wouldn't want her to be dead... or hurt, she's obviously got serious issues, and needs professional help. I'm not the sort that would knock a girl about, whether she robbed me or not, if I saw her again I would do nothing. But I do hope she gets the help she needs. (From the relevent services, not innocent public).

The world has enough scumbags like her.  And why should my taxes have to go up to pay for her rehab time and time again.  A shotgun cartridge is 12.5p - problem solved.