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General Discussion Area / Re: Politics and stuff

« on: 22 April 2013, 21:14:47 »

Sweet Jesus! are you lot reading the shit you are typing?

I have been here from the very beginning, and those that were here at the same time will remember the saga of my car, and the help received from members of this forum - way beyond anything that could be believed frankly!  THAT was the original spirit of this place!

Having not had an omega for years now, I only stay on the forum (mainly just reading) for the off chance I may be able to offer some help in return. 

I have to say, over the last few months, I have hovered over the delete account button on a number of occaisions.

My view - politics is not the issue, it is the same people saying the same things over and over and over and over again - the only thing that ever changes is the venomous way other peoples views are put down.

If I were admin - in all honesty I would hit the delete button on the gen dis section of the site.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Margaret Thatcher is Dead!

« on: 09 April 2013, 15:00:21 »

I think this basically explains the picture (although there are a lot more than that)
 
   "The Miner's Strike of 1984 / '85 was caused by the massive pit closure programme introduced by Margaret Thatcher and her Tory government. They wanted to replace Britain's use of coal-fired power stations and industries with power derived from gas or nuclear sources. Also, Thatcher knew that the mining communities and the NUM were a very large left wing power-block who opposed her, and felt that if she could decimate them as an effective force, she would succesfully remove a potential threat to her continued leadership of the country. Thatcher brought in a Canadian buisnessman, Ian MacGregor, as her so-called 'economic advisor'. He was not a British citizen, had no understanding whatsoever of British economic history, and was certainly not impartial. Nonetheless, he oversaw a shoddy and biased 'survey' of the future economic viability of British mining, which predictably painted a bleak picture of it's ability to survive- one which was very far from the actual truth. This gave Thatcher the excuse that she needed to announce the programme of pit closures early in 1984. The sheer injustice of the situation prompted a furious response from the mining communities, and resulted in the NUM leader, Arthur Scargill, calling a nationwide miner's strike before the union membership had been balloted for strike action. This enabled the strike's critics to label it as technically illegal, although if a ballot HAD been run, the overwhelming vote would have been to strike anyway. There was particular hatred for Ian MacGregor, who had no buisness in being invited to a foreign country and serving as advisor to the Prime Minister when he wasn't even an elected British politician, and not accountable to the electorate."

Wow, that has to be the most biased and inaccurate account of the reality that I have ever seen.  If you need to use biased references instead of your own experience, perhaps this is a debate to avoid!

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General Discussion Area / Re: England Vs San Marino

« on: 23 March 2013, 12:23:54 »

I'm not even watching, the muppets can have a moment of glory against a no hope team, put them up against Spain, Italy, France or the South American teams etc etc. That will show the prima donnas how to play the game

Like Brazil? http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21317048 

Friendlies hardly count nothing to play for 

Face it England are crap

NO! unsucessful in tournaments, yes.  Crap, no! http://www.fifa.com/worldranking/rankingtable/index.html

I don't get the boo boy mentality.  If you don't like it, don't watch it. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: England Vs San Marino

« on: 23 March 2013, 12:13:31 »

I'm not even watching, the muppets can have a moment of glory against a no hope team, put them up against Spain, Italy, France or the South American teams etc etc. That will show the prima donnas how to play the game

Like Brazil? http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21317048 

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General Discussion Area / Re: What web host?

« on: 18 March 2013, 21:11:21 »

Dont you have FTTP? If so, host it at home

If you want Windows hosting, thats gonna cost. LAMP will be much cheaper.

Mind you, if you have good bandwidth at home, I have run OOF from a £30 Raspberry Pi before. OK, it was noticibly slower, but OOF is a server thrasher.

No, they never went with the FTTP after the trial! I do now have infinity though.

Hosting at home too much work for what it is.  When I did such things for a living, the web stuff was all MS based, hence going with a hosted solution.

I installed MS Visual Studio Web earlier and it would appear things have moved on to the point of leaving me starting from scratch.

Now looking for a good website builder that can run VB code to interrogate other websites and published based on the results.

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General Discussion Area / Re: What web host?

« on: 18 March 2013, 12:12:04 »

Thanks for all the responses,  I will go with the basic justhost package and take Kevin's advice on domain and tools (cheers!).

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General Discussion Area / Re: What web host?

« on: 17 March 2013, 12:14:50 »

Anyone?

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General Discussion Area / What web host?

« on: 16 March 2013, 10:58:54 »

Bit of advice sought please. I need to create a simple website that will have database access and maybe some very simple scripts.  I used to be proficiant in VB so will probably use whatever Microsoft flavour is current. 

Question is what hosting service is best - an importantly cheap?  JustHost.com looks like it might fit the bill.

Any other suggestions?

cheers

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General Discussion Area / Re: Computers (Again)

« on: 14 March 2013, 11:09:54 »

Tried another PSU straight away, then a brand new 650watt PSU, with all correct plugs.

No sign of live from mother board at at, no beeps, nothing to video, and no activity, not even a flicker to the CPU cooler fan.

Not done anything with it, need to find a CPU to test  it with.  (Cant you tell I am in a rush to fix it, mind you I went back and lent him a laptop (hopeing he wants to buy it  )

Might be a red herring, but some of the older Motherboards used to have a fuse on them.... not looked lately.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Anyone noticed ?

« on: 19 February 2013, 14:40:33 »

you had better read again if you have a device that is caperble of recieving a tv signal weather you only use to record or not if it can recieve a tv signal you by law you need a tv licence be it a tv /pc phone or any thing else  iplayer is capable of broadcasting live tv so you need a licrnce you do not need a tv licence if you are blind or one person living in your house is 75 or over

I don't need to read it again!  but you clearly do.

From TV Licencing Website:

A reminder of the law
 
The law states that you need to be covered by a TV Licence if you watch or record television programmes, on any device, as they're being shown on TV. This includes TVs, computers, mobile phones, games consoles, digital boxes and Blu-ray/DVD/VHS recorders.
 
You don't need a licence if you don't use any of these devices to watch or record television programmes as they're being shown on TV - for example, if you use your TV only to watch DVDs or play video games, or you only watch ‘catch up’ services like BBC iPlayer or 4oD.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Anyone noticed ?

« on: 19 February 2013, 14:20:34 »

Do we need a tv licence to watch iplayer ? 

Yes

According to the "regulations" as far as we can interpret.   That is because you are using a diggy box to watch the I-Player that is classed as a recorded programme and comes under the TV Licence mandate.

Completely wrong!!!!  you only need a TV licence if you watch TV as it is broadcast - Latency delay notwithstanding, if the programme being watched has already been broadcast, you do not need a licence to "catch up" with it. 

Better to read the rules, rather than scan them for words that prove your point.

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General Discussion Area / Re: London

« on: 31 January 2013, 15:35:42 »

The fundamental point, is that this is the first time in (modern) history where the mass immigration is by people who do not want to be British, but want to take over Britain. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Leeds v Chelsea

« on: 20 December 2012, 15:56:29 »

Roy ( Chopper ) Harris & Peter Lorimer proper footballing thugs only joking they played a mans game. Sadly wouldn't last five minuets today with all the pampering.

That would be Ron!  Nice quiet bloke, used to be my neighbour many years ago.

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General Discussion Area / Re: I cant see 3D video/images on my TV (Advice/Help)

« on: 28 November 2012, 10:01:11 »

Why don't you nip down to your nearest Currys or Richer Sounds and ask to try a few?

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General Discussion Area / Re: What tile cutter / trimmer

« on: 23 November 2012, 14:07:11 »

Unless you have had a fair amount of practice, you are likely to ruin all the tiles you try and nip.

If you just want to cut into a tile or two, then a tile saw is more likely to be for you.  it takes ages, but does't require any skill, so you wont break any tiles.

http://www.screwfix.com/p/forge-steel-tile-saw/99940;jsessionid=kdpGQvCJgR71lkzVnHGKcSnJkt1yn14hm4GpJNJMVZ26ghnyWqVj!294603089