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General Discussion Area / Re: Free sat + Sky Plus advice

« on: 25 October 2009, 14:26:28 »

LNB thats the device that sits facing the dish, and focuses the signal from the satellite?

Correct, and also reduces the Sat frequency to a lower IF frequency for the reciever to play with. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Free sat + Sky Plus advice

« on: 25 October 2009, 14:11:27 »

As Kevin say's, think Sky+ already uses a 2 port LNB, so your probably going to need a Quad one.

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General Discussion Area / Re: How good is your Maths?

« on: 24 October 2009, 15:24:50 »

the bill = £25
tip = £2
total = £27

three guys take £1 each = £30

So if you give me £10 and I give you £1 back, how much have you spent?

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General Discussion Area / Re: How good is your Maths?

« on: 24 October 2009, 14:38:57 »

Me too, still a good one though 

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General Discussion Area / How good is your Maths?

« on: 24 October 2009, 14:32:29 »

Three guys go in to a restaurant to have something to eat, finish their food then ask for the Bill.
Waiter brings the Bill leaves it on the table and walks away, The Bill comes to £25.
Each Guy produces a £10 note and puts their Note with the Bill (£30).
The Waiter picks up the money takes it to the Till and brings back their change, 5 x £1 coins (£5).
The three Guys decide to share the cost of the food between them and leave a tip for the waiter. They each pick up a £1 coin and leave a £2 tip for the waiter.
The three Guys leave the restaurant and the Waiter pockets the £2.

Now if each of the three Guys has put in £10 each and have each taken £1 back that means that they have each paid £9 for their meal (£10 - £1 is £9) and the Waiters happy with his 2 quid tip, correct so far.

Now do the Maths, If each of the Guy’s have paid £9 for their meal, then 3 x £9 is £27, plus the £2 tip equates to £29 !, where’s the other pound gone?   

 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Those wonderful Vodafone people

« on: 24 October 2009, 13:52:41 »

For quiet a few years until recently, I’ve asked for Airtime discount instead of any Cash back credit, they use to offer me first 3 months free line rental and then convert that to 12 months line rental over the 12 months, that way it continuous into the 2nd year where you can add it all over again, they stopped that when I got to 67.5%, saying my discount is now maxed out, that’s where the 50 quid a year credit came in on top of the discount.

Definitely worth staying with your provider for a few years and just hammer them for Airtime Discount rather than a phone upgrade, but as you say tunnie after a while the tariff is so low that you don’t normally get the new phone option. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Those wonderful Vodafone people

« on: 24 October 2009, 13:20:02 »

Thanks, I tought it was right result, cant exactly take back off me when they sus out what ther've done.

Probably have a play with phone for a couple days to see if its any good or if I think its a bit too gay, wack it straight on ebay, should be worth a couple of hundred even if it is locked up to Vodafone.

Even if I took the 175 credit to my account instead, they would have ended up paying me to use thier services for a year. Crazy. 

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General Discussion Area / Those wonderful Vodafone people

« on: 23 October 2009, 17:54:20 »

Talk about does the left hand know what the right hands doing!!

To cut a long story short(ish), I need to explain the next bit for it all to make sense.

A couple of months back I had a miss hap with my Vodafone Data card, in as much letting my Son use it during the holidays resulted in a £800 bill from Vodafone for data usage, anyway after a lot chats with Vodafone and because I’m a nice bloke (been with them for 20 years), Vodafone decided to give me a slap on the wrist and credit all £800 back to the normal £15pm for the Data Tariff, nice people I thought.

Get a call from Vodafone today telling me my 12 month Voice tariff is finished and would I like to renew for another 12 months and get some cash back or a new Mobile. Now I need to point out a this point that I’m on a really good deal with them, get just about free everything plus a 67% discount off my £30 monthly bill, so when I normally renew every 12 months, I don’t qualify for a new phone (low spend) but get £50 credit to the account which to be honest I’m happy with considering I only end paying about £140 per year anyway plus the -50 quid.

So the VodaGirl goes on about renewing for another 12 months, same Tariff, same Deal blah, blah and asks me do I wont a new Mobile or £175 cash back?, a bit speechless I ask what’s the catch!, there isn’t one she say’s we base the reward on your tariff and your last 3 months spend, so your on £30pm and last 3 months spend has been about £875.

Now thinking she's not taking into account my monthly discount or the fact they’ve already credited my account £800 for the Data Card mess up!

Asking her what phone I can have, she offered me a new 12mega pixel Sony Ericson Satio which is worth £325 or the £175 credit to the account. Which would you like?

Now think you know where this is going, I’m also thinking if I don’t do this now, it’s not going to come up again. So, new mobile is being delivered Monday. Te he
 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Vista Service Pack 2

« on: 22 October 2009, 16:43:45 »

Dell = Supermarket PC

But anyway, what happens if you download the standalone (network) installer for SP2 and run that?

Actually doing that as we speak, over 350mb from MS site, so going take a while using my 3g datacard (no Broadband at the mo, flipping roadworks in the street!), anyway will post up the result, cheers. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Vista Service Pack 2

« on: 22 October 2009, 16:15:45 »

Is your computer a "supermarket" jobbie (ie, pre-built and Windows was already installed)?

If so, it's odds on that the manufacturer used a cloning utility for the installation of Windows, and SP2 is known to fail because of this.

The only known fix is to do a clean installation of Windows using the disks supplied by the manufacturer.

No its a Dell XPS about 6 months old, its been installed from the Dell Vista Disks, I know this because I had to do it myself, tried puting Xp Pro on it when I got it, only to find half the drivers wouldn't work under XP, couldn't be ar*ed to mess arround download all the drivers from Dell, so ended up putting Vista back on with SP1, touch wood its been working fine, still is just doesn,t seem to want the SP2?

Chris. 

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General Discussion Area / Vista Service Pack 2

« on: 22 October 2009, 13:09:29 »

Is it just me or is anyone else having diffculty installing SP2 in Vista using windows auto update.

Gets to stage 3 of 3 on reboot then just freeze's, then have to do a cold boot only to find the update has  failed when checking, tried re downloading and installing 3 times now, seem to take forever?

 Chris

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General Discussion Area / Re: ALERT!! Form Spoofing Detected coming from IP addr

« on: 16 October 2009, 11:38:22 »

ah, just noticed, looks like you're on a 3g dongle with some transparent proxies in the way.

No real solution I'm afraid - just try to maintain a good signal

T.B can even tell what colour undies your wearing 

Don't wear undies, when Im on OOf. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: ALERT!! Form Spoofing Detected coming from IP addr

« on: 16 October 2009, 11:35:39 »

ah, just noticed, looks like you're on a 3g dongle with some transparent proxies in the way.

No real solution I'm afraid - just try to maintain a good signal

Yep, not wrong there, currently using Three HSDPA payg sim, after my Vodafone Data heart atack bill. The transparent proxy thing is probably Onspeed, think they hide your IP or something depending on what day of the week it is, Signed up with Onspeed about 2004 for a 2 week trial, cancelled it, but its been working ever since (probably going to wish I hadn't said that bit).

 

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General Discussion Area / Re: ALERT!! Form Spoofing Detected coming from IP addr

« on: 15 October 2009, 18:37:46 »

Ok, cheers, I'll get some pipe cleaner tomorrow then.

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General Discussion Area / ALERT!! Form Spoofing Detected coming from IP addr

« on: 15 October 2009, 16:34:16 »

whats does this mean, happened a few times now on OOF?

ALERT!! Form Spoofing Detected coming from IP address: ***.***.***.**