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I’m trying to fix my dads xp home installation. When the computer boots up it gets to the logon screen, lets you type in the password, and then hangs. Dad called MESH (the box maker) and was told to run the XP recovery cd, choose the option to setup windows followed by the “repair selected win...

I wondered what I’d been doing wrong… Looking at the dates on that page I’m sure at least some of you have already seen this. But on the offchance that you haven’t…

I WANT THEM ALL NOW you can't have them well how about just the III and V? no harumph

Owing to the facts that cheap tickets were available and that Glyndebourne is just down the road from me, I spent much of Monday evening in row B of the circle watching Motzarts Idomeneo. I found it a strangely charming experience. Musically beautiful to the extent that, as I lay in bed...

The numbers are in the database so at some point there may even be a review.

This is classified personal ad in this weeks London Review of Books: People who use museum postcards instead of letter-paper; people who own garden composters; ticket collectors who cannot accept the idea of the bloke in the kiosk at the station disappearing to the toilet at the exact time...

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11081 Just a quick heads up, not that any of you would have fallen for it :wink:

Possibly this doesn’t warrant its own thread but, I couldn’t decide which thread to put it in so it gets one anyway. Truth be told I’m still not more than half decided to post it at all and were it not for the intermediate state of refreshment I find myself in I probably wouldn’t be doing so...

Smart water Anyone know anything about how this stuff works? I was just talking to my mum, who had spent the day giving a presentation to a bunch of local school science heads and she told me that the speaker following her was a policeman asking all the schools to buy some smart water and...

NASA put this up a few days ago, Natural phenomenon my backside, this is clearly a message to us humans from some highly intelligent, very advanced but none too subtle alien lifeform. :wink:

http://www.channel4.com/news/2003/07/week_1/02_italy.html WTF is this guy on?

Sunpower A300 Not quite as splendiferous as the indium nitride things jtr posted a while ago, But these look like being available much sooner. Seeing as the advantage the A 300 has over conventional cells is that all the contacts are on the back of the cell I can’t see why, a few years down the...

If I recall correctly, in order to unlock some Athlons you need to short two of the pins on their underside. So I’m wondering, Does/did anyone make an athlon unlocking adapter? What I’m thinking of is a socket A sized piece of plastic with holes in one side and pins sticking out the other...