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What are the following Operating system? Memory? processor speed? Hard disc size and how much is free space? Which browser do you use? Which anti virus is installed? If the games have to run across the internet what network speed are you getting?

You should have an option for communinty service I would give you a street cleaning kit of: wheeled bin, yard brush and shovel. for the next six months you duties will be clearing up all the leaf and branch litter in and around Crookes you would work from sunrise to sunset. A sign around your neck would state "I'm a good for nothing lay-about". Parents would point you out and tell their kids if they don't work hard at school, contribute to society thats what you will become. At the begining of each day you would have a choice 1) the street cleaning kit 2) a cyanide pill which you would take immediately, any assets that you may have (probably nothing) would be sold and the money raised given to deserving families. If you complete the 6 months you know that in some small way you have made a minute contribution to society or if took the pill then someone much better than you has benefitted from your meagre assets.

Thanks for that, I was struggling to figure out how they got nutrinos to go round bends!

It might be a scam to get more grant money The pipe they fire the paticles down my not be as long as first thought. Since the pipe is circular maybe the particles are hugging the inner serface thereby covering a shorter distance. Did you know that high frequency electric currents travel close to the surface of a conductor and not the through the centre its known as the 'Skin Effect'.

Interesting article here from The Independant October 2009 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-missing-each-year-275000-britons-disappear-1801010.html

The satellite’s orientation or configuration apparently has changed, and that is now slowing its descent. There is a low probability any debris that survives re-entry will land in the United States, but the possibility cannot be discounted because of this changing rate of descent. It is still too early to predict the time and location of re-entry with any certainty, but predictions will become more refined in the next 12 to 18 hours. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/uars/index.html

Well Larry for someone who deals in facts you anit that good http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-480841/Cameron-proposes-ban-plasma-TVs-green-package-reforms.html

The TV License fee has been frozen for 6-years from October 2010 by George Osborne as part of the spending review

Brilliant !

If the UK is in debt and all of Europe is in debt and all of the USA is in debt who holds all the credit notes, and why don't we all just default (ie not pay)?

The TV license costs about £12.00 per month per household for that you get: BBC Radio (local, National and International), BBC TV, BBC Web sites all these services provide investigative journalism science education sport drama News I pay BT £12.00 a month just for a wire from home to the exchange ITV is free to air but you pay in time for the TV Ads Its reckoned the recent drama Downton Abbey had a programme / Ad ratio of 3:1. That is; for every 3 minutes of programme there was 1 minute of Ad time, surely they are taking the Arthur Bliss. Not all the license fee goes to the BBC, a small percentage is pilfered to pay for such things as rural broadband and digital switch-over. Like it or not everyone takes content from the BBC. If you think your being ripped off for your license fee, then you and your family should stop taking any BBC content for a month: dont listen to BBC radio, dont watch BBC TV, dont access any BBC web pages.

quote: eventually turn into the same space dust Only the physical part of you will become 'space dust' as you all it your consciousness will return to the quantum universe where space-time has no meaning and you will exist in everywhere simultaneously, much like the space-craft 'Heart of Gold' when it engages its Infinite Improbability Drive Heart of Gold featured in: Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams

You don't say if its desktop or laptop if its a desktop machine and you are competant, get yourself a Seagate HDD (say 500GB) to replace your current drive, use Seagate's disc wizard to clone your current drive Link to Seagate disc wizard and instructions http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=DiscWizard&vgnextoid=d9fd4a3cdde5c010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD (Note: drives other than Seagate will NOT work with Disc Wizard)

The Page-File is an area of memory the computer uses as a temporary data storage area The Windows default setting usually allows the page-file length to vary between ram length and ram length * 1.5, that is; the page-file is dynamic (computer management). On Win-2000 & Xp setting page-file length to zero windows becomes unstable, I haven't tried win-7 but I would expect the same result. ****************************************************************************************** All this 'I have heard that if I do... ...computer will be faster' or ----------'Somebody told me that... ....graphics will improve' Is based on half-truths, lies, and rumours, and has very little substance in fact. Asking for the source of this infomation usually gives the reply ' I can't remember '. ****************************************************************************************** When your laptop was running Xp, had only 256MB of ram there was a case for messing with the settings... turning services off, setting a static paging-file, but that no longer holds true. Anyone spending £450 on a laptop today from John Lewis would get a super machine all thats necessary is to switch-on and set-up... now that's when the problems start... Back to the original question: Leave well alone, you will not get a 'major speed boost'! That concludes my rant for today!

Laptops supplied to corporate organizations have tracking software embedded into the BIOS so if the laptop is stolen and clean OS installed, when its connected to the internet it automatically sends the IP address of where it is back to the manufacturer. If the buyer informs the manufacturer the machine is stolen the manufacturer can send a kill message and the machine becomes useless. See this the following link about DEll tracking and recovery http://www.dell.com/us/enterprise/p/d/shared-content~solutions~en/Documents~laptop-tracking-recovery.pdf.aspx

Someone made an application under the Freedom of Infomation Act about Digital Region to Yorkshire Foward correspondance and PDFs are available here http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/digital_region

Item on BBC radio 4 You and Yours 19 Sept 2011 12:00 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b014pw4f#p00kjwz2

I'm not sure there is a 'best place' to by laptop. Maybe the question should where to buy a laptop for a resonable price with reasonable service, and when things go wrong the retailer will make an exceptional effort to sort it out? I usually send people to John Lewis, for £450 you can get a fabulous laptop compared to what was available a year ago, and as said by a previous poster you get a 2-year guarantee. Add another £20 for wireless mouse, and all you have to do is set the thing up.

This website deals with copyright http://www.copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/p01_uk_copyright_law

Have a read of this http://www.boundary-problems.co.uk/boundary-problems/priv-r-o-w.html

RE-entry of NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite ( UARS ) Chunks of UARS are expected to reach the earths surface but at present its unknown precisely where. Updates and info are available on the following link http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/uars/index.html Should we be worried? and where would you like bits of to Land?

I've just checked Lloyds TSB, they have a link which they call 'Free Diagnostic Check' it links to Malwarebytes http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free

Recovering data from computer that fails to start but displays an error message Option 1) boot with a linux live-CD, (Ubuntu, Zorin, Puppy linux and others) Requirements Linux Live-CD Computer configured to boot from CD External USB drive with enough space to accept the required data Method Connect External USB HDD Insert Linux-CD and restart computer Answer any prompts (usually country and keyboard) Varify you can navigate to the external hard drive Navgate to the data on the local hard drive, drag and drop the required data Issues if the local hard drive suffered a catastrophic failure the computer may not boot from the CD or the Local may not be visible Option 2) Remove HDD from computer and connect to second computer using IDE/USB or SATA/USB adaptor The HDD will appear as another storage device Drag and drop the required files Issues Windows may not allow some files to be copied- permissions. If the HDD suffered a catastrophic failure the computer may not see the drive

I usually set the maximum temperature (90 C) every three or four months with a bit of detergent and antiseptic disinfectant, and let the thing run thru its cycle. Now I have absolutely no-idea if its good or bad for the machine. Oh and clean out the filters. If you try the above and it screws-up your machine its your fault.