Fat cunt.Ryan Taylor wrote:I just bought 2 packs of Munchies and a Double Daim bar for a £1. That is pretty awesome in my opinion.Jon Corby wrote:(or does anyone else know of any awesome deals at the moment?)
Ever thought of taking up darts?
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Fat cunt.Ryan Taylor wrote:I just bought 2 packs of Munchies and a Double Daim bar for a £1. That is pretty awesome in my opinion.Jon Corby wrote:(or does anyone else know of any awesome deals at the moment?)
I play every Sunday I'm better at archery though, it's much easier.Jon Corby wrote:Fat cunt.Ryan Taylor wrote:I just bought 2 packs of Munchies and a Double Daim bar for a £1. That is pretty awesome in my opinion.Jon Corby wrote:(or does anyone else know of any awesome deals at the moment?)
Ever thought of taking up darts?
My experience with laptops is that the majority of them are of incredibly low build quality and soon suffer from endless hardware failures, from over-heating or just cheap-ass components. Mac Books are built to much higher standards, and are fine as long as you only want to use the usual software, although they are pretty expensive.Jon Corby wrote:Hi Matt,
My daughter is starting senior school, and we're getting her a laptop for her birthday. What should we get? Obviously she's not going to need to do anything particularly hardcore on it, but she'll want to be able to surf the net, chat to her friends, play CDs and DVDs and that kind of thing, and ideally it should last for a few years I suppose rather than being so low-end spec now that it becomes obsolete very soon. As a secondary concern it would be nice if it was cool and girly, but she has said that this isn't really important at all.
(or does anyone else know of any awesome deals at the moment?)
Thanks,
Jon.
Sister. Sure.Charlie Reams wrote:If you want girly, we bought my sister a laptop from here and it worked alright (until it got stolen): http://www.pinklaptops.org.uk/
This was deliberate just to test my restraint, and I'm failing.Jon Corby wrote:Obviously she's not going to need to do anything particularly hardcore on it.
Yup, and me. Toshibas have always been very good IME, too. Stay well away from Sony Vaios, though. And anything Acer (obviously). The Vaios were the worst machines I've ever supported, and I supported the new Fujitsu desktops when they were out a few years ago. Awful, awful hardware. YMMV.Michael Wallace wrote:If you want something that will last, I've always found Thinkpads are awesomely durable. Not very pretty, though.
I've got an Acer, but I'm thinking of getting a new laptop now.Lesley Hines wrote:And anything Acer (obviously).
Now you tell me. Nice to hear that about Toshibas, though. Just bought one for my daughter.Lesley Hines wrote:Yup, and me. Toshibas have always been very good IME, too. Stay well away from Sony Vaios, though. And anything Acer (obviously). The Vaios were the worst machines I've ever supported, and I supported the new Fujitsu desktops when they were out a few years ago. Awful, awful hardware. YMMV.Michael Wallace wrote:If you want something that will last, I've always found Thinkpads are awesomely durable. Not very pretty, though.
What's the point of warranty when this thread exists?Gavin Chipper wrote:When people buy computers, does anyone go for the extended guarantee thing? I tend to think you'll probably lose out in the long term with these and unless you would not be able to afford to replace it, it's not worth paying the extra for. It's like you'd get house insurance but not shoe insurance.
Some warrantees also include free next-day collection and return, which might be worth it.Gavin Chipper wrote:When people buy computers, does anyone go for the extended guarantee thing? I tend to think you'll probably lose out in the long term with these and unless you would not be able to afford to replace it, it's not worth paying the extra for. It's like you'd get house insurance but not shoe insurance.
Totally agree. Never insure anything you can afford to replace. You may get the occasional nasty shock but in the long term you'll be much better off, particularly for products like this where most of your premium goes to store profits, sales commission and so on, and very little goes to pay claims. And there's a further downside to extended warranties. Your Sale of Goods Act rights for electronic goods extend well beyond twelve months anyway, so you're just wasting money.Gavin Chipper wrote:When people buy computers, does anyone go for the extended guarantee thing? I tend to think you'll probably lose out in the long term with these and unless you would not be able to afford to replace it, it's not worth paying the extra for. It's like you'd get house insurance but not shoe insurance.
Done a load of searching on this this morning - I say a load, I tried hard but couldn't find much. The closest I found was a couple of people who had had intermittent CTRL key problems, who seemed to be solving theirs by un-plugging and re-plugging in their USB keyboards. I don't even know if yours is USB. Basically it sounds mental. Thank god keyboards are cheap.JimBentley wrote:The CTRL keys on my keyboard only work alternately, in that if I use the left CTRL key to do say CTRL-C to copy, I can't then use the left CTRL key to do a CTRL-V to paste. But I can use right CTRL-V fine. But then after using the right CTRL key, I have to then go back to using the left one, or nothing will happen. And so on. I reckon my keyboard's a bit fucked, as I've never had this before, but maybe there's some weird setting in Windows that makes it default behaviour for some reason, and I've turned it on by accident by being a spaz.
Absolutely no idea, sorry. Never had to go anywhere near anything like that. Would have hoped they'd be a phone number on your licence certificate, but knowing MS probably not.Rosemary Roberts wrote:Matt, do you know how to persuade Microsoft to transfer a license from a dead machine to a live one? This is a package I bought separately (Visio 2003), not one that came bundled with the machine. Is there any way of submitting a query that will be read by a human?
Thanks, Matt. I searched for the same words but found nothing at all from microsoft.com. My machine must be prejudiced. I'll dive into your link(1) and see how far I get.Matt Morrison wrote:Absolutely no idea, sorry. Never had to go anywhere near anything like that. Would have hoped they'd be a phone number on your licence certificate, but knowing MS probably not.Rosemary Roberts wrote:Matt, do you know how to persuade Microsoft to transfer a license from a dead machine to a live one? This is a package I bought separately (Visio 2003), not one that came bundled with the machine. Is there any way of submitting a query that will be read by a human?
A Google search for "transfer microsoft licence" throws up some good-looking results but I can't get through to the relevant transfer bits. Hmm.
Just got a new Dell. Hopefully it will be better than the Acer. I think the screen size thing is a bit of a cheat though (although I was aware of it anyway). Measuring by the diagonal length makes a 16:9 sound bigger than it is relative to a proper screen.Gavin Chipper wrote:I've got an Acer, but I'm thinking of getting a new laptop now.Lesley Hines wrote:And anything Acer (obviously).
Where did you get them from? File extensions are only a convention, they don't mean anything really.Kirk Bevins wrote:I need to open some pck files. I have a folder full of them and I can't open them as I don't have the appropriate program to open them in (what is the appropriate program!?). Anyone know? I tried a quick google search and found sites wanting me to do a full registry scan so I avoided those, then others wanted me to download one of several programs but as I'm not sure what I'm doing I'd prefer it if somebody could point me in the right direction. Cheers.
The answers to a quiz game are hidden in these folders with that extension. There has to be a way to decrypt, surely?Charlie Reams wrote:Where did you get them from? File extensions are only a convention, they don't mean anything really.Kirk Bevins wrote:I need to open some pck files. I have a folder full of them and I can't open them as I don't have the appropriate program to open them in (what is the appropriate program!?). Anyone know? I tried a quick google search and found sites wanting me to do a full registry scan so I avoided those, then others wanted me to download one of several programs but as I'm not sure what I'm doing I'd prefer it if somebody could point me in the right direction. Cheers.
There will be "a way", but there isn't necessarily an existing program that does it. It's pretty straightforward to encrypt a file with some basic cipher and there's not much you can do about that unless someone's bothered to hack the quiz game and extract the mechanism it uses. Possibly it's not encrypted and it's just a straight binary data dump but even that is non-trivial to reverse-engineer.Kirk Bevins wrote:The answers to a quiz game are hidden in these folders with that extension. There has to be a way to decrypt, surely?Charlie Reams wrote:Where did you get them from? File extensions are only a convention, they don't mean anything really.Kirk Bevins wrote:I need to open some pck files. I have a folder full of them and I can't open them as I don't have the appropriate program to open them in (what is the appropriate program!?). Anyone know? I tried a quick google search and found sites wanting me to do a full registry scan so I avoided those, then others wanted me to download one of several programs but as I'm not sure what I'm doing I'd prefer it if somebody could point me in the right direction. Cheers.
Hey Brian - sorry I missed this for so long. "Use <insert media player name here> to play DVDs" is quite often slightly separate from the file associations options in the Preferences of the particular media player. That said, I'm sure you've looked for it which means if you're still having the problem then either VLC has strangely omitted this option from its preferences menus, or it isn't working as expected.Brian Moore wrote:Dear Matt,
Despite setting the lovely VLC Media Player as my default media player for every type of file association I can on my laptop, double-clicking on a DVD still opens up the DVD in Windows Bloody Media Player, and that's what happens if I click the Play option if I right click on the DVD. (Admittedly the second option down is "Play with VLC Media Player", but there's a principle at stake here.)
Is there an obvious way to stop WBMP hogging the limelight like this?
Thanks in anticipation,
Brian
This Google search threw up this page which might be helpful: http://www.windowsbbs.com/hardware/7958 ... ndows.html.Marc Meakin wrote:first time on this thread methinks.
My Dell latitude d630 doesnt recognize my dvd rom although it flashes during the boot sequence.
Can anyone help.
Cheers.
Have you tried simply opening up the file in Notepad using the Open With... option when you right-click on it?Kirk Bevins wrote:The answers to a quiz game are hidden in these folders with that extension. There has to be a way to decrypt, surely?Charlie Reams wrote:Where did you get them from? File extensions are only a convention, they don't mean anything really.Kirk Bevins wrote:I need to open some pck files. I have a folder full of them and I can't open them as I don't have the appropriate program to open them in (what is the appropriate program!?). Anyone know? I tried a quick google search and found sites wanting me to do a full registry scan so I avoided those, then others wanted me to download one of several programs but as I'm not sure what I'm doing I'd prefer it if somebody could point me in the right direction. Cheers.
Thanks Matt. No joy - whether using the AutoPlay tab, or setting the file associations preferences in VLC itself, the default 'Play' option stubbornly remains WBMP. My (probably ill-founded) suspicion is that MS have some devillish was of keeping WBMP hogging the limelight in this instance. Short of trying to unisntall WBMP (which would probably result in a warning from Windows about the likely end of the universe), I think I'll let this one go. It's really only a point of principle, as sorting it out would save me about one click a fortnight. Thanks anyway!Matt Morrison wrote:"Use <insert media player name here> to play DVDs" is quite often slightly separate from the file associations options in the Preferences of the particular media player. That said, I'm sure you've looked for it which means if you're still having the problem then either VLC has strangely omitted this option from its preferences menus, or it isn't working as expected.
Try right-clicking on your DVD drive in My Computer, go to Properties, then the AutoPlay tab. Select DVD Movie and then choose "Play with VLC Media Player" under the "Select an action to perform" choices. Mind you, you should also have been able to do this when a DVD autoplays when you insert it, by choosing "Remember this action" or the option to that effect, so maybe you've already tried this too and it doesn't work.
Are you using Windows? If so, highlight the .pck file in Explorer, and press ALT+F4.Kirk Bevins wrote:I need to open some pck files. I have a folder full of them and I can't open them as I don't have the appropriate program to open them in (what is the appropriate program!?). Anyone know? I tried a quick google search and found sites wanting me to do a full registry scan so I avoided those, then others wanted me to download one of several programs but as I'm not sure what I'm doing I'd prefer it if somebody could point me in the right direction. Cheers.
I think you can disable that on the options menu in Messenger, under 'Sign In'.Gavin Chipper wrote:How do I stop Windows Messenger coming up every time I turn my computer on? It never used to until I clicked on it once and it took that as a cue to come up every time I turn it on!
Go to Tools - Options - Sign In and remove the tick from the box that says "Automatically Run Windows Live Messenger when I log on to Windows".Gavin Chipper wrote:How do I stop Windows Messenger coming up every time I turn my computer on? It never used to until I clicked on it once and it took that as a cue to come up every time I turn it on!
In fact that's a good way to make almost any problem go away.Jon Corby wrote:Are you using Windows? If so, highlight the .pck file in Explorer, and press ALT+F4.
Is there a way to highlight Dmitry?Rosemary Roberts wrote:In fact that's a good way to make almost any problem go away.Jon Corby wrote:Are you using Windows? If so, highlight the .pck file in Explorer, and press ALT+F4.
JackHurst wrote:Just got a new laptop and installed itunes. When I connect my ipod its recognised as a camera so i can't access it via itunes on my laptop.
For some unknown reason, I can only guess you have gotten yourself two versions of Messenger installed. You say "when I open Windows Live Messenger" - does this mean you are clicking on the first Messenger icon on the taskbar AND THEN it creates a 2nd icon? If so that is very odd, if you are opening it through a different means, say a Desktop icon or Start menu, then that makes more sense. I say try this: when you have both icons, right-click on the first one, that you don't want, and choose "Unpin this program from taskbar", and right-click on the second one which opens, and choose to pin that one to the taskbar instead. Then close all your Messenger windows and try clicking on the taskbar icon and see if it acts as normal this time.Jon O'Neill wrote:MWM,
I have Windows 7 and when I open programs from my taskbar, the little box is highlighted and that tells me it is open - see Windows Explorer in the example picture. That's perfect.
However, when I open Windows Live Messenger, it just opens up another taskbar icon, which is really stupid and ugly.
So far my Googling has been unsuccessful. You got any ideas?
Thanks,
Jon "still owe you a beer I think" O'Neill
It is the very odd case you mentioned. Interesting though.. I tried what you said and the same thing happened, so I tried unpinning and re-pinning the Start Menu shortcut to msnmsgr.exe, and that works. When trying to fix it before I re-pinned the Program Files version. Anyway, works now, so another MWM success story. ThanksMatt Morrison wrote:For some unknown reason, I can only guess you have gotten yourself two versions of Messenger installed. You say "when I open Windows Live Messenger" - does this mean you are clicking on the first Messenger icon on the taskbar AND THEN it creates a 2nd icon? If so that is very odd, if you are opening it through a different means, say a Desktop icon or Start menu, then that makes more sense. I say try this: when you have both icons, right-click on the first one, that you don't want, and choose "Unpin this program from taskbar", and right-click on the second one which opens, and choose to pin that one to the taskbar instead. Then close all your Messenger windows and try clicking on the taskbar icon and see if it acts as normal this time.Jon O'Neill wrote:MWM,
I have Windows 7 and when I open programs from my taskbar, the little box is highlighted and that tells me it is open - see Windows Explorer in the example picture. That's perfect.
However, when I open Windows Live Messenger, it just opens up another taskbar icon, which is really stupid and ugly.
So far my Googling has been unsuccessful. You got any ideas?
Thanks,
Jon "still owe you a beer I think" O'Neill
This may be old info, but I remember the PS2 had a module which (by some mechanism I don't remember) would ruin the picture if you tried to plug it into a recorder, making everything go all green and basically unwatchable. That was intended to prevent disk-to-disk DVD copying in the days before everyone had broadband but, given Sony's general enthusiasm for incompetent DRM, I wouldn't be surprised if the PS3 did the same thing.Kai Laddiman wrote:Hello Matthew.
My brother and I are considering buying this to record gameplay from the PS3. Is this doable, or does it only record digital TV channels? I don't quite understand the specs completely, but I think it will do the task at hand - I just wanted to ask a skilful/intelligent/boring/low-life* computer person.
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In other words, no?Charlie Reams wrote:This may be old info, but I remember the PS2 had a module which (by some mechanism I don't remember) would ruin the picture if you tried to plug it into a recorder, making everything go all green and basically unwatchable. That was intended to prevent disk-to-disk DVD copying in the days before everyone had broadband but, given Sony's general enthusiasm for incompetent DRM, I wouldn't be surprised if the PS3 did the same thing.Kai Laddiman wrote:Hello Matthew.
My brother and I are considering buying this to record gameplay from the PS3. Is this doable, or does it only record digital TV channels? I don't quite understand the specs completely, but I think it will do the task at hand - I just wanted to ask a skilful/intelligent/boring/low-life* computer person.
*Delete as applicable
You seem like a reputable businessman!Marc Meakin wrote:Bump,
Anybody interested and more importantly able to provide my scrabble club with a user friendly program for handling the games at the club.(Romford)
Because our current one is tooooo slooow.
All we require is a user friendly program that can compile fixtures and tables etc for 2 or 3 divisions (currently 50 players). we will pay the going rate provided it is either tested on site or comes with after sales support.
please pm me if your interested.
i know I am not exactly Mr Popular on this forum, but surely business is business.
The Leaguerepublic website is pretty good, although I'm not sure it does fixture compilation too.Marc Meakin wrote:Bump,
Anybody interested and more importantly able to provide my scrabble club with a user friendly program for handling the games at the club.(Romford)
Because our current one is tooooo slooow.
All we require is a user friendly program that can compile fixtures and tables etc for 2 or 3 divisions (currently 50 players). we will pay the going rate provided it is either tested on site or comes with after sales support.
please pm me if your interested.
i know I am not exactly Mr Popular on this forum, but surely business is business.
www.poslarchive.com/tsh/Marc Meakin wrote:Bump,
Anybody interested and more importantly able to provide my scrabble club with a user friendly program for handling the games at the club.(Romford)
Because our current one is tooooo slooow.
All we require is a user friendly program that can compile fixtures and tables etc for 2 or 3 divisions (currently 50 players). we will pay the going rate provided it is either tested on site or comes with after sales support.
please pm me if your interested.
i know I am not exactly Mr Popular on this forum, but surely business is business.
Thanks (both of you) I've passed this on to the appropriate person.Charlie Reams wrote:Why not use tsh? It's 1) amazing and 2) free.
Edit: ninja'd
It can handle entering results out of order easily enough, you just add the line 'config breaks = 1' or something. Eliminating people's records is also easy but adding them is slightly trickier. There's also a tsh users yahoogroup that's full of helpful advice.Marc Meakin wrote:Thanks (both of you) I've passed this on to the appropriate person.Charlie Reams wrote:Why not use tsh? It's 1) amazing and 2) free.
Edit: ninja'd
I assume tsh is adaptable enough to handle fixtures on a weekly basis whereby not the same people turn up regularly and sometimes players drop out or get replaced early in a season.
Thank you Ben, you have been most helpful. i will let Calum knowBen Wilson wrote:It can handle entering results out of order easily enough, you just add the line 'config breaks = 1' or something. Eliminating people's records is also easy but adding them is slightly trickier. There's also a tsh users yahoogroup that's full of helpful advice.Marc Meakin wrote:Thanks (both of you) I've passed this on to the appropriate person.Charlie Reams wrote:Why not use tsh? It's 1) amazing and 2) free.
Edit: ninja'd
I assume tsh is adaptable enough to handle fixtures on a weekly basis whereby not the same people turn up regularly and sometimes players drop out or get replaced early in a season.
ITYM Freds, not posts. Unless this is an old post that you've gone back and edited to say this.Marc Meakin wrote:I cannot seem to make any new posts on this forum.
Yes I did indeed mean threads.Jon Corby wrote:ITYM Freds, not posts. Unless this is an old post that you've gone back and edited to say this.Marc Meakin wrote:I cannot seem to make any new posts on this forum.
Maybe you could get Charlie to let you do one all encompassing thread for all your musings a la Sophie Kroll. Maybe even combine yours and hers.Marc Meakin wrote:Yes I did indeed mean threads.Jon Corby wrote:ITYM Freds, not posts. Unless this is an old post that you've gone back and edited to say this.Marc Meakin wrote:I cannot seem to make any new posts on this forum.
So could someone please tell me if it is because im being a div or because of censure?
FTW I wanted to start a thread pertaining to my pending court case (w/c 13th June).
And also another thread about film therapy............. my film therapy film is 'The Bicycle Thief'
Both my nannas recently got a mobile phone. One of them can't use it and refuses to even try whilst the other gets all panicky using her and alos sounds surprised when somebody answers the phone from the number that she just dialled as if it's some minor miracle that it works.David Williams wrote:(And am I the only person on God's earth who's only owned one mobile phone?)