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1) Screenwipe - Charlie Brooker is the best critic in the world! The first clip is about aspirational TV http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59OJ17raqWw And this one about the wonderful ITV time filler and profit maker 'The Mint'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ-3qkSoVKA 2) Ultraviolet -...

They require special fuels and spew a lot of pollution? Yes indeed, 97 RON petrol, used to be called '5 star' petrol in the old days + a lead substitute additive. It works out at about £1.20 a litre...... All worth it though. I am intending to show it this summer once I have had the front...

'I thought this thread would actually be about people....' Old cars are a bit like old people, - whine if they are pushed too hard - bits fall off of them occasionally - do things in their own time - smell funny on hot days I could go on.... But I can forgive all these things, 'cos I have a...

A 1972 BMW 2500 E3 saloon. Amazingly enough, no rust at all, and 37K on the clock. 1 careful owner from new, just spent £1250 on it before selling it on. At last, have the car I have always been after....

Doh!

Coug: I have to take issue with a couple of your statements: According to the TV report, social benefits cost GM, Ford and probably Chrysler too, around 1300$ per sold vehicles. Those benefits only cost asiatic car makers around 300$ per sale. But no mather how good GM's and Chrysler's future...

That article is by Charlie Brooker; one of my favorite writers and presenters. His humour is a little 'British', but he has me on the floor in stitches a lot of the time. His series is on Youtube. If you want an example of his work (and the terrible standard of British TV) follow the link...

Well, it is time for yet anothe one of my rants about how much I hate a certain small percentile of the customers I have to be nice to at work. This one takes the biscuit, although I expect several of you have had similar experiences. Guy brings in 22" CRT display. He is a photographer and...

Well, I have to say that these Core 2 Duos are really something else.... I just did a straight swop (retaining the XP installation) for my old 945/P4 3.4 to a 965 and a Core 2 1.83Ghz. The difference is unlike anything I have seen before. It seems in general boot up speeds and Windows about...

Not that I post much, but Doug is doing just fine. I really should try and put back in to the resource that I take much out of....

Err, well that would be Cisco then! Although, I have found 3com to be pretty OK, yolu need to spend a fair amount on very good kit to get the reliabilty. No-name stuff, and most branded-but-cheap kit will normally bite you on the ass at some point. If only I could get people to pay for...

1. Fujitsu HDDs. I am amazed no-one else mentioned them. I had an enjoyable 5 minutes this week telling some greasy Fujitsu Enterprise salesman exactly why I would never even entertain the possibilty of him coming to see me with a view to capturing our SCSI/SAS sales for Fujitsu. Apparently...

They have monopolized everything that it is possible to monopolize; they have got the whole earth, the minerals in the earth and the streams that water the earth. The only reason they have not monopolized the daylight and the air is that it is not possible to do it. If it were possible to...

The Money Trick `Money is the cause of poverty because it is the device by which those who are too lazy to work are enabled to rob the workers of the fruits of their labours.' `Prove it,' said Crass. Owen slowly folded up the piece of newspaper he had been reading and put it into his pocket...

I hope Tannin does not mind me butting in to his argument. For all those who don't see what Tannin is refering to, download and read this http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3608 book. It explains the real roots of Socialism, and how it works in society. Although it was written before WWI, you can...

I think a bit of Lou Reed:

I dunno how that Smily got there. Sorry about that.

Oh my, it looks like I am the odd one out on this one. I have a rather old White Gold Rolex Day-Date. I did not buy it new or pay the insane amounts of money these cost retail, before anyone asks either. I bought it from a dealer in Bond Street in London for a reasona :wink: ble amount with...

Hmm, Dell prices go up. The have done in Blighty as well. I wonder if it has anything to do with the EU investigation into payments made by Intel to Dell for 'marketing' purposes. At the same time AMD has raised the same issue in their court case. According to my source at Avnet (a huge...

Ok, I know it won't ever happen, but I hope the pain gets easier for you.

Mercutio, I have not had cause to comment on this forum for ages, but your story has prompted me to. My mouth drops open with amazement! If that had happened to me, I would have a) had the vet procecuted for animal cruelty b) taken out large adverts in my local newspapers advertising the fact...

"Not all of us learn from mistakes. It could well be that the purpose of your life is just to serve as a warning to others"

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. --Oscar Wilde

True friends stab you in the front. --Oscar Wilde

That would be about right. Windows for cash registers.

Out of the drives I have sold I think the best manufacturer changes with time. Many of the big boys have had their 'time in the sun', and they have nearly all had their 'time in the doghouse'; if you care to look back far enough. IBM GXP75s, first the best then evil! WD31600s, they recalled...

A most interesting thread. JTR, I love your sig by the way!

I have been having a lot of trouble with Maxtors. They also seem to be getting suspiciously cheap, up to £5 per unit on 40gb.

What do you people make of this? http://processorfinder.intel.com/scripts/details.asp?sSpec=SL764 Pretty cool for a Celeron eh?

HISTORICAL INACCURACIES IN PEARL HARBOUR 10. Map on wall in Admiral’s office re-touched to eliminate every country, except for America and Japan – which has been re-named “Iraq”. 9. Japanese fleet led by crazed Arab terrorist Osama bin Laden, riding a giant, fire breathing winged dog poo...

He, he... yeah it does look too good that piccie does it not?

http://www.ghostresearch.org/ghostpics/ghost3.html

http://www.petoffice.co.jp/catprin/english/ This is the best website.....

http://www.newtechusa.com/ppi/main.asp I love this website!

These short-sighted companies are destroying their own future. Oh dear! We seem to have sacked all of our US workers.....and now nobody in the US can afford to buy our products. Um, maybe we can sell them to the Indian workers we employed. But we only pay them $7 an hour, so they can't...

I took delivery of 25 7200.7s today. They all came with metal Seasheilds....

http://www.landoverbaptist.org/sissyreader.html

This is the best description of gentlemen from Yorkshire. Monty Python's Flying Circus - "Four Yorkshiremen" The Scene: Four well-dressed men are sitting together at a vacation resort. 'Farewell to Thee' is played in the background on Hawaiian guitar...

Sony P800. So I can play Doom and M.A.M.E games at the airport.

Piyono, you have a PM.

For all you non-brits out there. In the UK, some buses have a driver and a ticket collector. This collector is known as a bus conductor. Ho ho!

GREEN BANANA This bloke is working on the buses and collecting tickets. He rings the bell for the driver to set off when there's a woman half getting on the bus. The driver sets off, the woman falls from the bus and is killed. At the trial the bloke is sent down for murder and seeing as it's...

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2504081.stm Gee.... :o

Yeah, OK I can't spell! Dawn weird name anyways! Flag, The saving I made was for me. Time was, you could sell an item like this and make £2k no probs without any negotiation. Nowadays with world + dog thinking that they can build and sell computers of all types for a living, I had some...

I have just had so much fun today! I had to purchase a £5k Tandburg DLT S320 10 tape Autoloader tape drive for a customer today. There are six distributers in the UK for Tandburg. After 3 hours of phoning different people and some harsh words, I managed to get £900 off of the original price I...

Blimey! Compare that to Intel. I phone them up with an SL code, and they send me an advance replacement CPU by courier the next day. You send them the CPU at their expense, job done. I have sent them CPUs with missing pins, chipped cores etc, and not a peep out of them; - but then again I...

I should get to 1000 in about 10 years or so....

57. Fluffer in an animal porn movie.

I have one of the first of those boards produced. I got it about 2 weeks before the 865 was officially released. I must admit, I was not informed about this trick, but the board is very very good. 100% stable and a good 10% quicker than my old 845 solution. By the way, I am not sad enough to...