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General Discussion Area / Re: 2meg broadband it seems!

« on: 11 January 2007, 21:11:57 »

Reasonably pleased - still haven't found web space or extra emails, the BT Yahoo stuff is all resource hungry.

Killed it all off with Hijackthis

There are a few good web/email hosts - the best value seems to be stateside...

Or host your own now you have always on internet - though your dynamic address may cause a problem.  If you want to try this, check out Zoneedit, and their Dynamic DNS service - you can host your existing DNS there, and point your A and MX records to your own server on your DSL line. And its free.

99107

General Discussion Area / Re: 2meg broadband it seems!

« on: 11 January 2007, 21:11:00 »

1952 down
448 up

according to hub - feels more like 1MB down and 300 up

A test said 1200 down 300 up but I was downloading at the time

Damn site better than ISDN

99108

General Discussion Area / Re: 2meg broadband it seems!

« on: 11 January 2007, 21:10:22 »

1952 down
448 up

according to hub - feels more like 1MB down and 300 up

A test said 1200 down 300 up but I was downloading at the time

MaxDSL, not quite good enough line for 2Mb then, so Max is probably the best product.

It will disconnect a few times over next few days as it trys to work out your line characteristics...

99109

General Discussion Area / Re: 2meg broadband it seems!

« on: 11 January 2007, 20:37:38 »

What upload did you get, 256k (fixed speed product) or 444k (MaxDSL)?

Pleased?

99110

General Discussion Area / Re: How Nervous?

« on: 13 January 2007, 09:49:43 »

Merc baiting is a hobby of mine......the drivers of them seem incapable of using indicators (probably broken knowing current Merc quality) or selecting the correct lane, sitting next to them on roundabouts and forcing them to miss there exit as a result is great fun.....

...it breaks the monotony of the drive home from work

Like your way of thinking, but over here it's usually the BMW drivers who get the brunt of the abuse

Yep, its the repmobiles that never take the option extra of having indicators fitted. Around here, its the 3 series BMWs that have taken over from the Cavaliers/Vectra and Sierras/Mondeos.

99111

General Discussion Area / Re: How Nervous?

« on: 10 January 2007, 20:25:18 »

Good news LB66

99112

General Discussion Area / Re: How Nervous?

« on: 10 January 2007, 18:28:30 »

I've found an excellent little place just south of Nottingham to be excellent for changing wheel bearings

Which reminds me, Marks_DTM/Matchless, I still owe you for the hub...

99113

General Discussion Area / Re: Driving without tax?

« on: 12 January 2007, 19:09:59 »

I know what it is...

TD, you missed off 2CV  

99114

General Discussion Area / Re: Driving without tax?

« on: 11 January 2007, 19:36:46 »

My understanding is, you cannot drive a car without tax?

However the problem:

Picking up a car on Saturday, it has a new MOT but no tax.

Its already Thursday, I won't be able to get a insurance certificate by Saturday.

I know you need a MOT + insurance to get tax, problem is i won't have any in time to drive the car. Even if i get one of those 1 day insurance things, cause they won't let you buy tax iic.

Any ideas?

Can i drive the car saying insurance is on the way so i can buy tax?  :-/

Has anyone has experiance with on-line tax?

Thanks in advance!  

Did I miss it?

What did you get ?

I think he's being secretive until he gets it.  He did tell me, but my lips are sealed  

99115

General Discussion Area / Re: Driving without tax?

« on: 11 January 2007, 16:07:52 »

Cheers for the replys guys  

Just rang the seller, and asked him to put 12 months tax on. No problem he said, i got a motor trade certificate to use so no problem.

Result!  

99116

General Discussion Area / Re: Driving without tax?

« on: 11 January 2007, 15:11:20 »

Yes, ask current owner to tax.  Only time you can drive it without tax is with trade plates (or possibly to/from prearranged MOT).

Cannot do online, as not in your name yet.

If owner has already surrended insurance, you may have a problem...

99117

General Discussion Area / Re: On the subject of computers . . .

« on: 11 January 2007, 20:36:33 »

. . . what the smeg is wrong with this thing?  Fresh XP pro install, worked great.  Eventually added IE7, suddenly steady but random blank or corrupt page downloads, corrupt pics, and corrupt downloaded files.  Added FF2, slightly better but still suffers the same problems.  It had no problems before IE7?  Now I have to use the Mac for any downloads and sometimes for uploads!?  Everything else is very stable for Winblows, no programs crash, nor the OS.  Nothing else seems affected.  Some kind of XP firewall issue?  Stinkpad laptop, 1.6 Celeron.

SP2 and othe rupdates installed?

99118

General Discussion Area / Re: Anyone good with computers?

« on: 11 January 2007, 20:35:33 »

I go back to my question - is it an original XP CD, a copy of one, or a recovery CD.  It sounds like CD drive cannot read for some reason...

99119

General Discussion Area / Re: Anyone good with computers?

« on: 11 January 2007, 19:58:30 »

Nah the CD drive is sound ive used discs in it

So is CD original XP one, or recovery one, or a copy?

99120

General Discussion Area / Re: Anyone good with computers?

« on: 11 January 2007, 19:46:49 »

Lost

 

I put the disc in and nothing, then i opened my computer and pressed the disc drive and it says insert disc

Either the CD drive is knackered (try another CD), or the CD is knackered, in which case (presumably its new) return to vendor for replacement.  If not new, Microsoft will send out a new CD for a small handling/p&p fee (around £10 - £15 IIRC) once you have proved ownership (generally they just need the key)

Can you upgrade from ME to XP? i didnt think you could?

Irrelevent. Never upgrade an OS. Always rebuild.

But, sounds like poster cannot read CD from within Windows, so cd drive or cd fault...