Shared Ownership Flat

Posted in enquire_within / 55discussion

Wondered if anyone here has any experience of Shared Ownership. A good friend is looking into it but can’t seem to get any practical info other than what the housing associations are put out. Personally I think its a bad idea as it seems to prey o…

Any Way You Look At It, If You’ve Got An Airframe That Doesn’t Need A

Posted in electronics / 30gen

load of fancy electronics to keep it flying reasonably straight and level, it’s likely to be a lot smoother and less cranky – even when the electronics is WAD – than one that’s naturally anything but stable. Airliners don’t need to be highly maneou…

Humax Foxsat-HDR EPG Locks Up

Posted in digital_tv / freesat - 24 days ago

Today – after it had been on Standby overnight – when I hit EPG it showed only the “All channels” genre at first, then – after 4 minutes – it showed all the genres, but still said something like “receiving programme details”, and was still doing tha…

Liam Stacey

Posted in enquire_within / 55discussion

All I’ve seen so far quoted is some obnoxious trolling by this youth who has been locked up today. Has anyone see any actual incitement to racial hatred? Or is this a case of “political correctness gone mad (TM)” on the part of the magistrate whe…

A Problem.

Posted in sasha_lubetkin / 4ask_aunty

A problem. Dear Aunty, given the granny tax, VAT on hot pies, advice on jerry cans and George Galloway winning in Bradford, how will we recognise an April Fool story today? (Shamelessly plagiarized from the letters column in yesterday’s Telegraph.) — jP –

Emails

Posted in windows_7 / general02

Having just started using W7 and finding it has no Outlook Express which is what I have been using for most emails, any recommendat… for something which is (a) free and (b) simple? Googling produces quite a few results but what are people’s t…

Learning

Posted in sasha_lubetkin / 10chatterbox

I am off to learn another thing, and as such will have to disavail myself of the interwebs. I think I can survive the disconnecti… It will be a struggle but the next time I shall be on is Friday. I trust I can leave you in peace to get on wit…

AV Amplifier Advice Please

Posted in digital_tv / 2general

Currently I have a 32″ CRT Toshiba with built in 5.1. I am planning to change to a larger LED set but I do not want to give up surround sound. What AV box do I need? I would like to retain my Humax FoxSat HDR and my Samsung HR720 DVD Scart (we w…

64 Bit Debian And VirtualBox

Posted in linux / 15general

Is anyone using this combination? I’ve been encountering serious issues with Linux locking up so comprehensi… that the only way out is to issue reboot at a terminal. The behaviour is unpredictab… sometimes occurring when I fire up a VM and s…