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« Reply #690 on: 16:32:54, 20-07-2008 » |
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Anty, I had this with IE7 a few days ago-it sems to need a few days to bed down but my browsing is quicker now, i'm not sure why, and i ithink i'll pass on windows upgrades. Ron, may I request a Noige cd also please?
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« Reply #691 on: 16:49:17, 20-07-2008 » |
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Shouldn't be a problem, Marbs.  |
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« Reply #692 on: 13:48:05, 21-07-2008 » |
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Grump grump, just found out that Evesham Technology - where I got my desktop from - went into admin a year ago and ceased trading on 31/3/08. There's still a company called Geemore Technology Ltd t/a Evesham Technology but they're not honouring any Evesham warranties. I rang them as my DVD RW drive has been intermittently faulty (as I've posted here before) and the 3 year warranty I got with the machine is supposedly valid until next month - except it's not any more  I've just been reading some of the stories I've found about the failure of the company - it's a shame really. Not a major grump as a new drive doesn't seem to be very expensive. Any recommendations or are they all pretty much of a muchness? I've currently got a Sony DW-Q28A, which doesn't seem to be available any more. |
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« Reply #693 on: 16:10:02, 21-07-2008 » |
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Anything by LG seems to be the top recommendation, Andy: they provide OEM drives for other manufacturers, too.
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« Reply #694 on: 20:34:35, 21-07-2008 » |
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my somewhat aged recondtoned laptop has ta en (as there) to refus ng to pr nt certa n letters.google doesnt recogn se spaces of course. bu ld up of stat c?
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'...A celebrity is someone who didn't get the attention they needed as an adult'
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« Reply #695 on: 22:17:58, 21-07-2008 » |
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Possibly a build-up of contamination on the contacts under certain keys, marbs, which stops the full connection being made, thereby denying the correct impulses being sent. Undue wear might have the same effect....
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« Reply #696 on: 22:03:08, 28-07-2008 » |
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Microsoft has dismissed analyst house Forrester Research's report on slow corporate adoption of Windows Vista as sensationalist and schizophrenic.
The reluctance of many enterprise-sized companies to upgrade their systems to Microsoft’s current OS was highlighted by Forrester analyst Thomas Mendel in his 23 July report.
Mendel surveyed 50,000 enterprise users and found that fewer than one in 11 of PCs being used in big firms runs Vista. Just over 87 per cent were still running Windows XP at the end of last month. That figure compared to a paltry 8.8 per cent for Vista, which has now been on the market for over 18 months.Full story here http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/28/vista_adoption_forrester/I'm saying nothing  - but then I'm still on XP and plan to stay there.
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« Reply #697 on: 22:29:07, 28-07-2008 » |
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I'm still on XP and plan to stay there.
Makes two of us Andy. Poo to Vista. Mr Gates dictates quite enough as it is already |
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« Reply #698 on: 23:00:52, 28-07-2008 » |
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Makes three of us. When I bought a new laptop recently, I deliberately asked for an "upgrade" to XP |
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« Reply #699 on: 14:47:48, 29-07-2008 » |
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awful travel yest n lunnon-tubes centrally awol and buses mysrdyng oyster cards promptyng trybal councyls of war-but thancs to affable cabbye made yt to barbecue centre and gary burton/ pat metheny 4tet-reunyon of allyes from myd 70s- subtly dryvng mutual accompanyment and versatyle lyrycysm. chamber musyc as yts fynest. 3 encores audynce palpably nycer to each other post pfce dytto surroundyng street lyfe.  A contributor to a non-affiliated BBC Radio Three message board has sparked a new controversy in the world of medieval literature! Poster Marbleflugel has raised the question of whether the English spellings of Chaucer's time were influenced by information technology centuries before the digital computer!  |
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« Reply #700 on: 14:59:00, 29-07-2008 » |
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Marbs. Gawd bleff ym!
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« Reply #701 on: 15:26:21, 04-08-2008 » |
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I've installed XP Service Pack 3 today. It took some time as I backed up everything on my C: drive to external drives, backed up the registry, created a restore point (although the install does the latter 2 itself), then downloaded and installed it. The actual installation was quite lengthy. I've restarted the m/c and no problems so far.
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« Reply #702 on: 15:44:18, 04-08-2008 » |
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I've installed XP Service Pack 3 today. It took some time as I backed up everything on my C: drive to external drives, backed up the registry, created a restore point (although the install does the latter 2 itself), then downloaded and installed it. The actual installation was quite lengthy. I've restarted the m/c and no problems so far.
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« Reply #703 on: 15:48:17, 04-08-2008 » |
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People, I have decided to invest in a laptop PC. Not a Mac, a PC. So, any recommendations? My needs are modest: Sibelius/ IE/ word stuff, and a decent screen resolution. Reliability, fair speed. Don't mind paying a bit more for peace of mind on all that. A friend has recommended an IBM ThinkPad. Any good? Many thanks in advance!  Only just seen this, and I haven't read forward to see any other replies yet, but I just thought I'd put in a good word for my Fujitsu Siemens Amilo A1650, which has been a faithful companion for nearly 3 years now. I don't do much other than internet and word-processing stuff, but it has a very high-powered 64-bit AMD Athlon processor which I'm sure would deal happily with Sibelius-type needs. I did have some worries about it earlier this year when it kept freezing up and requiring a manual restart but it seems that's a known problem - the processor leads it to get very hot and it needs to be kept well-ventilated. Clearing some of the bits of paper that had piled up around it on my desk and were blocking the fan seems to have solved the problem completely: it's only frozen up once since then. |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #704 on: 18:45:51, 04-08-2008 » |
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Still hating computers - this laptop which, for over a year has given me no hassle whatsoever now has decided to misbehave following my installing assorted software recently. Still, it's not so bad it doesn't work.
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