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General Discussion Area / Re: Kids! (with aspergers)

« on: 28 November 2009, 22:19:11 »

It's our anniversary today and our ten year old son told us we had to go for 'a romantical meal'. As far as I can gather, he got this from Horrid Henry.
We said it might be difficult to get a babysitter, but he said that would be no problem as he was coming with us
Earlier he asked what time we were leaving. 'About half six' I said. 'Oh no. i can't wait till half past six for my tea. Five o'clock I want it'.
'OK, five o'clock.'
We left the house at four fifty, got to the pub at five. Ordered the meal, scoffed it and were back in the house for ten to six.

Some rather 'romantical meal'.

Autism, Aspergers, it's pretty much the same deal.

Those afflicted are very much "literal"....so once you tell them that X happens at Y time....it has to happen or it really does cause them anguish.

Not explaining that to you of course, just one particular individual that thinks they know it all and gets chopsy if they don't like what they hear.

Sooo
Have you got personal /second hand experience of autism spectrum disorders?
(my wife works with autistic kids BTW)

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General Discussion Area / Re: Saturday night 8 o'clock, best get oofing

« on: 28 November 2009, 20:08:38 »

Because swmbo and Little Miss Vamps are settling to watch the X Factor..............

Mind, even My Dad was talking about it today when we popped round....

Fortunately no one this house has any desire to to watch it.

On the down side theres absolutely nothing new worth watching so we have Dave showing 9 year old re-runs of HIGNFY

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General Discussion Area / Re: Window v Linux

« on: 26 November 2009, 18:18:02 »

I only keep one computer limping along running windoze because I need to use Autocad for work.

The wifes laptop is currently running Ubuntu because the WinXP registry seems to have got corrupted (just boots to a black screen) and I haven't found how to fix it and I cannot stomach a wasted day reinstalling it. Ubuntu ran fine (but slowly) from a live CD and then took about 45 minutes to install dual boot. It reads all her stuff in the NTFS partition  and if it ever did screw up its configuration I would be able to fix the plain text .conf files.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Mrs has found a dog what do I do?

« on: 26 November 2009, 23:04:40 »

Good news. We like a happy ending

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General Discussion Area / Re: Mrs has found a dog what do I do?

« on: 26 November 2009, 22:40:57 »

Problem (for the owner) is that if the Police or warden take the dog in it is going to cost them to release it.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Mrs has found a dog what do I do?

« on: 26 November 2009, 22:39:10 »

Stand outside & listen for the owners calling her name?

We used to have two Norwegian Buhunds. They were incredible escapologists. One (Tess) used to come back after about 100 yards but the other (Cassie) would keep going. I found that the best way of finding Cassie was to put a lead on Tess and take her for a walk. People were much more likely to remember (and tell me) about seeing her sister running loose. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Why do some people have all the crap

« on: 26 November 2009, 21:56:33 »

Lets hope they take strength from having a positive outlook.

I only know a little about your neighbours but 1st in the list of positivesmust be:

1. Caring neighbour (you  )

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General Discussion Area / Re: Hope Mr Dundee is OK...

« on: 26 November 2009, 11:48:16 »

Having regular inspections by real firemen dressed in the gear used to get the attention of the girls in the office

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General Discussion Area / Re: Hope Mr Dundee is OK...

« on: 26 November 2009, 11:40:20 »

The law used to be that certain buildings had to hold a fire certificate issued by the local fire authority.

If they thought you needed one they would turn up and inspect the building. It cost the fire authorities money to employ fire officers though.

The 'Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005' changed the rules so that now you (yes YOU) are responsible for carrying out a fire risk assessment on your building. If you already know something about fire safety you will probably employ an expert to advise you. If you know nothing then the first time you will get asked for your 'fire safety risk assessment' is the day after it burns down.

Is it just my perception or has there been an increase in the number of serious fires resulting in deaths recently?

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General Discussion Area / Re: Whats changed ?

« on: 26 November 2009, 18:23:24 »

Haven't tried accessing the board from a Windows machine for a while.

Seeing as the only Windows PC still running has got my Autocad on it I don't know if I should chance it 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Whats changed ?

« on: 26 November 2009, 18:02:35 »

The stars have changed to get notified buttons and after everyone's posting right next to their last written word is add to buddy list button.
How can i see this and no one else can.
P.s i see dead people too [smiley=shocked.gif]

Sounds like you have some old rubbish stored in a cache somewhere.

What happens if you press the F5 key or click on the refresh button?

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General Discussion Area / Re: You don't have to be mad

« on: 25 November 2009, 12:22:56 »

Note to self: must type faster.

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General Discussion Area / Re: You don't have to be mad

« on: 25 November 2009, 12:21:46 »

The link is OK but yabb has added a space after it. The OP should have used the 'insert hyperlink' button on the toolbar

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/8362671.stm

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General Discussion Area / Re: Environmentally sensible car design

« on: 23 November 2009, 22:37:42 »

I think the problem is that governments don't trust us to look after our own vehicles and certainly don't trust us to build them.

The MOT covers 'normal' cars and the SVA covers specials so if you are determined enough you can build your own.

I have got an old range rover which is easy to swap engines or fuel source in but I haven't done so. Even with a super efficient energy source it would still be quite inefficient due to its weight and unaerodynamic shape. It also hasn't got airbags or crumple zones.

I think fashion, safety requirements and environmental legislation will mean that we probably wont see an everlasting car but as technologies evolve I think we will see car bodies developed by the manufacturers that can accept a variety of power trains without major modification.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Shuttle PSU's

« on: 21 November 2009, 13:47:48 »

Did you go ahead and buy a 1U psu Tunnie?

I have got a Shuttle PC here that is taking 20 minutes to fire up after it is first prodded.

I was thinking of buying either

http://www.overtek.co.uk/products/eng-flex-atx-1u-power-supply

or

http://www.overtek.co.uk/products/seventeam-220w-flex-atx-1u-power-supply

I think the second one is better quality. The first one is by the same manufacturer (Achme) that made the original PSU.