garydickson

I've got friends in Edinburgh (lots of terraced houses/tenaments there) and they now have the communal 'bins at the end of the street' - no problem, much better than everyone trying to have their own bin. Cheaper to collect in the long run, less of an eyesore too. Also lived in Bath before moving to Sheffield, and while the Lib Dem council there was cr*p in almost every other aspect, their doorstep recycling (in association with Friends of the Earth) was great - they'd take glass, tins, plastic, engine oil, clothes, paper, printer cartridges, batteries - almost anything you could think of in the little green bin, or a carrier bag left outside (Not read all posts, so apologies if I'm repeating anything

If you use ZoneAlarm it was (until a recent patch) preventing IE from changing its homepage.

If you press the 'Print Screen' button on your keyboard (somewhere near top right?), it will copy the whole screen, and you can then use 'Paste' in you favourite graphics program (MS Paint, PhotoShop, etc) to get a copy of it that you can fiddle with and save. That should get you a copy of the diagram. For the text, there should be a button with a T (Select Text) on it in Acrobat Reader, or you might have to use the Tools menu to find the option - that should let you select text so you can copy and paste it into something else. Won't work for every PDF file, depends on how they were originally made.

I'd guess it's just more of a Northern thing than Sheffield thing - used to get lots of beef'n'tomato sausages when I lived in Scotland. Anyway, I came across a mobile butchers van in Low Bradfield earlier in the summer and bought some excellent pork and tomato sausages from them - just having the last of the lot I froze for my tea with beans and mustard mash. mmmmmmmm :-). Picked up a flyer that said they were there from noon to 6pm Saturdays, and in Stannington on Fridays 4pm to 7pm (Rose & Crown/"Minnies").

Err...switch to Thunderbird? ;-) Why not if you're already using Firefox...

Well, I'm stumped, but as always Google is your friend :-) and I found somewhere that says Outlook Express gets it printer margin settings from Internet Explorer - so you could try the Page Setup menu option in IE...

More likely to help if you uninstall/reinstall your printer drivers if you can, if it was working ok before. Latest ones are here: http://solutions.brother.com/hl1400/download/drivers.html#winxp

(I'm assuming you're using Windows XP here) When you click print, you should get a window popping up to let you choose which printer you want to use, once you've selected your Brother printer if you click the button marked 'Preferences' you should get some options you can play with, but here you're on your own cos they're different for each printer! But (guessing what choices you get based on mine), you might want to make sure the printer is expecting A4 paper; see if there is some kind of 'fit to page' option and adjust that, or anything else that sounds sensible! Nothing Outlook Express specific here, but all I can think of. Good luck with it.

... anyone know why? Was closed off about half an hour ago when I came back from a weekend away. From Somerfield to the dry cleaners by the looks of it, also some cops stoping people going up the hill at the traffic lights near the Rutland Hotel.

Cheers, I might just give that a go sometime. (I used to make my own haggis, getting the meat ingredients for £1 from the abbertoir, only problem was the smell was so disgusting while cooking it that it put me off eating it!)

Demander, that's it! I went for the tu as I though the forum suited a more informal reply.

Salut! Il y a un cours de français au Université. Regarde ici: http://www.shef.ac.uk/till/interest2005/languages.html Mais, je ne sais pas quand il commence - tu dois, err, err order une brochure. (Well, if you understood that you don't need a course! I've been practising mine too, a new years resolution after a holiday in France last year). Bon chance.

Gmail ignores full stops in email addresses - have a look here for more info: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=10313&topic=1564

eBay has it's own process for disputes, have a look here: http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/tp/inr-snad-process.html You might be successful with a court claim, but all that does is confirm someone owes you money (the judgement), it doesn't have any enforcement powers attached to it, so no bailiffs, etc. I might be wrong, but I'm sure I looked into the whole small claims/moneyclaim thing a year or so ago as my previous employer still owes me £2K.

Are you doing other stuff while defragging in the backgound? I'm guessing it might be that writing to the disk is causing it to restart the analyzing & defragging proces over and over. I usually leave the machine well alone while it defrags and it works fine for me.

Depends how hard you touch them! :-) The thing with magnets only affects CRT monitors and TVs as far as I know.

I can sympathise with Redrobbo - white outs can be really scary, just try walking to the shops with your eyes closed and you'll get the gist of it if you've never been stuck in one before. I've been in one or two in my time, but always been lucky enough to know the hills well and where I was at the time. Anyway, probably the closest I've been to danger was also leading some novice winter walkers (experienced in summer though) in Glen Coe. At the end of a long day it was just starting to get dark just as we started to descend the mountain. One guy had trouble with a crampon that kept coming off (my bad, I should have checked it fitted before setting off) and the lass was panicing about not getting back before dark, started crying and ran off down the mountain! I was stuck in the middle trying to get them both down (a grade 1 gully) safely. I caught up with the one that ran off, calmed her down and we both went back up to the one with crampon problems (felt safer leaving alone him as he was slightly more experienced) and took our time coming down in the dark. I could and should have managed the party better, and I think that was the biggest danger - lesson learned. I've had some friends been involved in mountain rescue callouts, they were climbing a multipitch route in Snowdonia, but started late after spending all morning in a cafe! (Pete's Eats :-) Anyway, by the time they got to the top of the climb it was dark and they got stuck on a ledge with no torch, no overnight kit. Luckily they were so late, MR got called out for them and they were lead off safely. There used to be a report on the incident on Ogwen valley MRs website (http://www.ogwen-rescue.org.uk) but it seams to have disappeared (shame it was useful to embarrass my friends :-)

How about Owlerton Stadium when there's a crowd in?

I had a similarish problem with my Freecom drive... recognised as an external drive when plugged in etc but wouldn't work... turned out to just be the USB cable - have you tried it with another cable?

You could try looking for job ads that fit your description and work out the average yourself...

I thought the better search engines looked more at page content these days rather than meta tags? (As people used to abuse them with X-rated words to get hits). I had a website where I had keywords in meta tags, and not many hits from search engines. I then added the same keywords to the main text of my webpage, but size 1 font and same colour as background (so effectively invisible), and hits went up not long after. Could be coincidence I suppose.

Once you get into an interview that shouldn't be a problem if you can demonstrate your skills. I've been part of interview panels before and the candidates who impressed most were those with genuine enthusiasm who brought along examples of their previous work on a laptop. Official qualifications were secondary. Admittedly though, when you're weeding out applications to work out who you're going to interview, not appearing 'qualified' might go against you.

I lived there for ten years before coming to Sheffield. They also spent a whack of money getting The Three Tenors to officially open the new baths... about two years before they actually opened! And they had to sack the council's tourism person who said they delays were "good for tourism because more people were getting to hear about the baths because they were so late". Oh, and the building they spent all the money on is a beige concrete eyesore that wouldn't have been out of place in communist eastern europe. (Bitter about the £70+ quid they put on my council tax to pay for their mistakes? Me? ;-))

Try http://www.jobs.ac.uk Most Uni jobs get listed there.

I went to an internal presentation at the University earlier this year... they were offering the opportunity for academic researchers to apply for grants of "up to £10,000" to fund 'proof of concept' work towards setting up spin-out companies. I had to laugh... what will that get you??? I don't think you can rely on the univeristy to kick start any high tech industry in the area. I think you need a critical mass of high tech companies to get things going. Perhaps if Yorkshire gets the particle accelerator they're bidding for (to be built on the Selby coalfield site) that might help...