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I thought the same as I used to live on HH road. Using Google Street View at the top of the road shows the same church in the distance as appeared through the mist in that scene.

http://www.crucial.com/uk then use the memory selector to see what's suitable. How much memory you need depends on what you use your PC for but I'd probably just go for an extra 2x1GB to bring it to 3GB. That should keep you going for a bit and memory is as cheap as (micro)chips at the moment. EDIT: Beaten to it

Well, thumbs up for ebuyer from me. I know that they were pretty dire a few years ago but a week or so ago I bought all the gubbins for my new super-PC. Ordered 7pm and it arrived (with free delivery) at 8am the following morning. Alas one of the hard disks gave up the ghost within 3 days so RMA'd it last Sunday. They sent Citylink to pick it up Monday and the replacement arrived 8am yesterday. No trouble at all. Even Citylink were pretty good - with the exception of them pretending to pick up the item on Monday (despite the fact that there were two people in the house and the front door CCTV only recorded one visitor, the postie) they have brought one item a day (from various places) and when we weren't in at 8am (which we usually aren't) the driver tried up again in the afternoon. Must have been my lucky week!

As a general rule of thumb most images print at 300dpi (dots per inch). So, divide the width and height of your image to get an approximate 'optimum' print size - eg a 6MP will probably be 3000x2000 pixels which is 10x7 or there abouts. There are a whole bunch of factors though - distance from the printed image when viewing (ie. lower resolution yet large images look ok if you stand further away) and sensor quality. That's why the really expensive DSLRs (eg. Nikon D3 and Canon EOS 1D 16v DOHC) have 'full frame' sensors - the sensor itself is the same size as a normal 35mm negative. Typical DSLRs have APS-C sensors (same as the short-lived APS film cameras), whilst your typical pocket point and shoot may cram all 12 megapixels onto a chip the size of gnats thingy... With a larger sensor each pixel gets more room to breath and the gubbins that sit between the sensor and the lens (themselves micro-lenses to focus the light into each individual pixel) can be larger thus providing a higher quality image.

I'd say it all depends on where you want to go with your photography - if you're just interested in recording memories then a D40 is more than enough - all the D40X really gives you is bigger prints (and even then with decent software you can produce perfectly good 30"x20" prints from a 6MP image - I have). However, if you want to actually put some serious effort into it and understand the technical side of photography too then I'd suggest saving your pennies and going with the D80 as you may find the D40 somewhat limiting. On the plus side though the D40 (and D40X) are quite 'dinky' to hold If it helps I bought a D50 (the precursor to the D40 but had more features) and found it limiting. I sold it and bought a D200 after about 7 months. To paraphrase GrinderBloke - if you can't take a decent photo to save your life then buying an expensive camera won't help.

Crikey - that's one amazing camera

My rule of thumb is 17th August...

Hmmm - might be a tad pricey if all I want to do is send a letter to Auntie Flo and trust that it arrives.

Seems to be hit and miss as to whether it's HDN or not. I avoid them anyway these days as I don't find Amazon that competitive any more - for new release CDs, DVDs and books it's often cheaper to just pop into Morrisons or Asda. Case in point - the book that never turned up was RRP 16, Amazon 12 and Asda 9.99. Also, whilst having a go at Amazon - I'm fed up of their search engine showing items that aren't actually sold by Amazon themselves, especially as the P&P charges for non-Amazon sellers is (I think) fixed at a fiver.

They are the postal service - they shouldn't be losing anything at all. Trouble is there's no alternative for Joe Public.

Don't get me started on the subject of Amazon. I used to use them for all my purchases but since they started using the dreadful Home Delivery Network (amongst others) I wouldn't risk giving them my cash for something not to turn up at all. The last straw was waiting the best part of four weeks for a 'shipped' item which mysteriously arrived back in their warehouse giving me an automated refund. Tesco Extra have just been equally hopeless as well with their 'bloke in a battered white car' service, leaving 40 quids worth of photography book on my doorstep in plain view without getting a signature. When I picked up the parcel it almost fell to bits in my hand as evidently they'd played football with it and then had a go at taping it back up with cheap parcel tape. Nuts to the pair of them.

Yup - they're doing the rounds. I get about 6 or 7 a day, allegedly from all sorts of UK banks. My advice - delete them straight away.

Jessops are doing D-SLRs with £10 off until end of tomorrow. Nikon D40 also has 30 quid cashback from Nikon. Think that brings it in at around £260. Don't buy your memory cards from the High Street though as they're way too expensive - try http://www.picstop.co.uk or http://www.play.com.

Likewise - something I ordered from Hong Kong before the strike started took 22 days to arrive. Something I ordered mid-strike from the UK took 12 days and something I ordered after the strike arrived next day! I reckon at this rate I'll receive a birthday card from my 1st birthday when I'm on my death bed...

I suspect that they're not hubs per-se. Instead they use 4 wires in the cable for the first connection and another 4 wires for the second. There's 8 wires in an Ethernet cable you see I use em at home.