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Gutted It's been the best night in Sheffield for years. I've been to it at god knows how many venues and it's been nothing short of great at every one. Would be rude not to go to the NYE party really wouldn't it

It blatantly was cheating as this video quite clearly shows: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mwfgbHOZHE0

Sheer quality

That was one hell of a Grand Prix

Sorry but I had to laugh

Search for a tool called fastconv - it's an old unsupported Microsoft tool that allows you to extract the data from a FAST image where you'll then be able to do whatever with. Not ideal but you may get some mileage out of it. Alternatively can you find the old FAST binary and put that on your new machine temporarily?

I've been in for a drink and it was ok, didn't look like somewhere I'd be that bothered about eating though. There was a largish group eating when I was there and they hadn't been given enough room to move their arms, let alone eat.

If you want a nice meal then go to a proper restaurant like 23, Four Seasons etc. Frankie & Benny's is just chain food rubbish.

What it does is provides a false sense of security, generates excess network traffic and increases the chances of your neighbours picking the same channel as you among other things A bit of reading... http://www.icsalabs.com/icsa/docs/html/communities/WLAN/wp_ssid_hiding.pdf http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesper/archive/2008/03/10/regulatory-silliness.aspx

It is trivial to get round MAC filtering but the biggest issue here is that you will be sending and receiving a large amount of your data in plaintext - SMTP traffic, HTTP traffic, POP3/IMAP4 traffic, MSN conversations among others - not all of these will be issues as you may use an encryption layer with your mail but still, you'll be leaking a lot of information that is trivial to capture. With how easy it is to set up WPA you'd be daft not to, it'll keep out the casual hacker as long you change your SSID from the default to something distinct.

Depends on their networking knowledge, it will be very simple for the lodger to packet sniff a switched home network from the lodgers own machine if they have a little knowledge. Obviously, me not knowing the lodger I have no idea if it is something they'd know about.

Turning off the broadcasting of the SSID is pointless, it offers no little to no security, degrades wireless performance and makes it easier to do man in the middle attacks.

Had a quick play earlier and was impressed, looks good for a beta that's not hit 1.0 yet. Also it's open source so there's plenty of scope for extra features in different releases etc. The architecture of it has been thought about long and hard, running each tab as a process and sandboxing by default is a very good idea. Should be interesting to see it develop, hopefully a Linux version won't be too far behind.

It's definitely doable and depending on how you have stuff set up some of it shouldn't need much poking. However, you would expect to take a decent wage for it as there's a fair amount of responsibility there. The problem is a lot of companies genuinely don't appreciate the work IT staff actually do and so you don't get the money you should...

What mr_chris said but also if you have a Sky dish already you will be able to use that for Freesat, it's broadcast from the same satellites so you could just swap your Sky box for a Freesat one...

In the past existing customers could get one but they'd need to agree to another 12 month contract. This was a few years ago but chances are it's the same situation now.

It's ok Rich, I don't intend on arguing with someone on the Internet about web browsers. We're all entitled to our opinions so your safe from a banning

Rich, it's based on facts - IE is a poor browser and a complete pain in the arse due to it's lack of standards support and many, many bugs. You may prefer to use IE but that doesn't make it a good browser in the technical sense, it isn't.

Opera's a good browser.

To be honest, I mainly only run a Windows virtual machine for MS Office, although I do use OpenOffice, its spreadsheet implementation is useless so I opt for Excel. It's annoying because otherwise I wouldn't have to touch MS.

I use various flavours of Linux, I have very little need for Windows and don't run it natively on any of the machines I use, however I do still run a Windows installation in VirtualBox for the odd occasion I do need it... it's mainly Office to be honest as OpenOffice Calc is rubbish at giving you any help with complicated formulae.

What do you expect us to say when you've got a serial business wrecker that looks like a cross between Uncle Fester and a martian apparently trying to take you over?

I've found him...... http://www.mikecs.net/prodigeek/images/7greatestalieninvasions_AA8E/mars_attacks.jpg

Billy Sharp, Billy Sharp, we've got Billy Sharp. That's all I have to say on the matter

He needs an offer of hosting really, he's exceeded his bandwidth allowance.