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Allowing grow your own cannabis should not be banned, the reason the cannabis plants Stink! However the odour can be captured but I doubt if any home-grower would invest the necessary funds to modify their loft spaces, garages, garden sheds or other areas they use to cultivate the product. What they will do is trot out the same lame excusses of why they have the plants and why they don't harm anyone else.

Use the link below: enter your post code or telephone number to get options such as services available and distance from exchange http://www.samknows.com/broadband/broadband_checker Some ISPs just give lame excuses for not having a decent speed. A friend of mine moved to BT because her ISP would not do anything about the poor connection. Her logic was BT installed the network BT maintain the network, therefore BT should be able to get me a good connection and they did.

What's the make and model of the motherboard? I suspect you cannot drive two monitors from integrated graphics on the motherboard it will be either DVI or VGA but not both

I have a Microsoft 3500 its about 2/3 the size of a standard mouse PC world about £35.00 there is a small switch under the mouse to switch it off when not in use if you don't switch it off battery usage is quite high John Lewis sell Logitech wireless mouses' for about £20.00 but I have know idea what they are like. If you get one post on this thread and say what you think about it.

The main problem with connecting 2 sets of batteries in parallel each set of batteries will be slightly different from the other even from the same manufacturer, therefore you get the first set discharging into the second set, the current flow will be small but none the less discharge will occur. Now, if a cell fails in the first set, then the first set will be at 10V and the second set will be at 12V, the second set will discharge quite rapidly into the first. Connecting a high current diode in series with each set will overcome the problem of self discharge and failure discharge however, this changes the circuit characteristics for charging the batteries, and the diodes themselves would be physically quite large and expensive.

Thats terrible If you are on a BT landline enter the number here to find out what speed you should expect http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/consumerProducts/displayTopic.do?topicId=16738

enter 'multiple screen setup' in your favourite search engine Here is one such answer http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Set_Up_Multiple_Monitors#Multiple_monitors_in_Windows

For anyone interested the following web page has reviews of various NAS stations but its not the easiest web site to navigate around http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/network-storage/1283569/synology-diskstation-ds211j

surely there's a video tape of their activities. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/latest/2009/04/19/vice-madam-to-name-four-top-tories-in-tell-all-book-115875-21288361/

Posing a question on any public forum, the replies you will get will be a mixture of truths half-truths lies biased opinions. It is up to the original poster to decide what infomation to accept or reject. For example you may post the question How do you rate 'Internet-R-Us' as an Internet service provider? Before you read the replies you know that someone will post absolutely rubbish worsed ISP I have every used and someone else will post wonderful ISP best move I ever made joining them. and others will have an axe to grind for some obscure reason

2 or 3 years ago whilst in conversation with a field service engineer of a computer supplier to corporate and public sector businesses, the reasons for recommending Microsoft Memory Diagnositc were: 1) its a tool written and provided by Microsoft. 2) All the instructions for downloading, installing and using the tool are provided by Microsoft. Now if the end user (customer) could not follow the instructions provided by Microsoft for using the Memory Diagnostic tool then there was a good chance that the customer was 'Technically Challenged' and the field engineer had to be careful not to upset him/her for fear of getting bad feedback.

For Parental controls and Windows 7 see this site http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows7/products/features/parental-controls

The link below is to the Microsoft Windows Memory Diagnostic tool all the info on how to download and use it is on the page. Its a typical Microsoft product, it has to be installed and then run to create an ISO image. The ISO is then burnt to CD as an image. I used imageburn. The computer then has be boot from CD where a variety of test patterns are applied to the computers memory. I'm sure everyone reading this will want to try it, so why not give it a go. Probably generate a little spike at MS with the interest shown in this tool. http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

When booking train tickets you are entering into a contract to travel from point A to Point E If you board the train at point B you have broken the contract, and some train companies get really upset about it. Depending on the train manager you may recieve a fine.

http://www.exposedmagazine.co.uk/news/2011/09/02/Park_Hill_Apartments_on_Sale_Soon/ Link to BBC about flats and service charges http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15046043 Prices start at £90,000 What council-tax band are the 'Apartments' in? If you are buying a flat presumably you are actually buying a lease, how long is the lease? Who are the managing agents? What is the annual service charge for maintenance of the common areas? How are the managing agents paid? annual fixed charge on each flat?, precentage of the sevice charge?, free? Will there be a residents group and will there be regular contact with the managing agents? Who resolves grievences? If I own a flat (or lease to a flat) are their any charges if I want to sell it? Is there a copy of the lease available on-line? has a Fire Risk Assessment been carried-out? if so is a copy available on-line?

The following has happend to me at least 3 times Question) Mike, can you recommend a cheap computer, all we want to do is send a few emails and order from Tesco, we don't want anything expensive. Answer) This £350 black box with monitor will do exactly what you want:- send emails and order from Tesco. a few weeks later Question) Mike, can you recommend some software we can use to edit our holiday snaps, and show us how to use it? when we copy the pics from the camera they are too big to send with emails. Answer) yes, IrfranView it's free and you can use it to resize your pictures. A few weeks later Question) Mike, Theres something wrong with the computer we are trying to copy a video from the camera, so we can view and edit it but it's just not working, can you have a look at it? Answer) There's nothing wrong with the computer, you are trying to us it beyond the original specification you gave me. Question) What do we do? Answer) ........................................

I'm looking for a Network Attached Storage (NAS) product I've tried a couple NAS products in the past but always found them wanting, and my current NAS (Western Digital Book) as just failed. Previously I've used a PC running Xp and SyncBack Freeware, now the reason I like this approach is the HDD can be removed and read on another pc. Whereas some NAS systems have formats that Windows OS cannot read or access. At present I'm considering using a laptop with a large capacity HDD connected to the network. So if you are running a NAS system what is it and how good (or bad) do you rate it? Thanks

I'm sure you will get lots of suggestions I prefer my desktop machine, its about 3-years old and I will be looking to replace around 2013 All I will say ensure you have a decent grapics card http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/prods/components/nvidiageforcegraphicscards/nvidiagt430fermiseries/GV-N430OC-1GL.html#sp3 and the monitor you chose has an aspect ratio of 16 * 10 with viewing area of 22-inch similar to http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/prods/monitors/22inchmonitors/LS22PUKKFEN.html The links provided are just byway of example products and not must have products

Make and model of router Make and model of wireless adaptor would be very useful

From your post I conclude you have a computer that is used for all your business and corespondance, and you want to potentially destroy it by installing a flavour of Linux OS. That's a really bad idea. If you just want to get a feel for what Ubuntu is like it can be run from the LIve-CD, obviously everthing runs more slowly but it does give you an idea of what its like. After trialling with the Live-CD, and you still have the urge for an installed version, get yourself a cheap used laptop and install Ubuntu, I'm sure the urge to use Linux will pass.

What download speeds are you getting? test here http://www.speedtest.net/ Here's an interesting application, although the user interface is a bit weird It monitors startup times and allows you to enable / disable startup applications, just be careful how you use it! http://www.soluto.com/

I realise this is off topic but there are some lectures available online covering a a variety of topics. The link below is to MIT World and a lecture about world globaization The lecture was given in 2005. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/266

whilst near Hillsboro bus station last Monday morning, I saw a large group of Bus Pass Holders (BPHs) alite a First bus and power-walk ( until someone says different it looked as they were racing against each other ) to the number 61/62 bus-point (Bradfield bus), where there was already a queue of BPHs. A couple of minutes later a little mini-bus arrived and all the BPHs climbed aboard. The bus was full, and I doubt if anyone onboard paid a fare. If I (a fare paying passenger) wanted to board the bus I doubt the driver would let me on because it was full. A situation cannot be allowed to arise where the majority of bus passengers are BPHs paid for by the taxpayer and at the expense of potential fare-paying passengers. I'm looking foward to having a bus pass, and grant towards my heating, and my TV license paid. But I can see these consessions coming to an end. No matter what arguments are put foward to defend the concessions they will end. It will start slowly say only allowing 20% of passengers to be BPHs, regardless of the space on the bus. Then resticting the time when the passes can be used. Oh and don't believe what the politian elect says about guaranteeing to protect the concessions:- he/she will be lying, or being ecomomical with the truth.

Hearing rumours that something can be done is not a good starting point for a particular procedure unless you are desperate. According to the specs the board supports 8GB of DDR3 memory If you are running a 64-bit OS then up the memory to 4GB from the 2 you already have, and forget about O-C If you are still using the on-board graphics then get a decent graphics card, doing this you may have to replace the power supply.