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The ability to bounce the wireless part of the connection is a simple issue. As said previously, either get a purely wired ADSL Modem/router or turn off the wireless capability of an existing wireless router. The consideration of the Business bit is another matter. I use Demon.net and the service used to be called Business 2000. The product range has recently changed as they now bring higher speed on line. It costs a lot more than my home connection but for that I get a QOS (quality of service) agreement which in essence promises that I will be online for 99.9%-100% of the time. In the 10 or so years I have been with them I can only remember one instance (which was actually last month), when the internet was down. I get a consistent speed and unlimited data downloads and as far as I know, uploads. Also, when I have had to use it, they have a UK based call centre who have always been extremely friendly and useful.

And why stop at raising Rick? Why not dig up Syd while you're on and get the party really rolling? "I've got a bike you can ride it if you like" etc etc. And please be careful with that axe.

XP Pro. Run Vista (cack) with a series of Virtual Machines installed on it. About to try Ubuntu for my Perl dev. Pick/D3

Yes, It is called beer.

Will keep a track of your MySpace page now I know you come this way. JAF played the Pembroke festival at the end of June. First time we have missed JAF for some time when they have played round here. They are up at the Blue Rock this weekend up near Crymych. Bit too wet methinks. Take a look at The Queens Hall in Narberth. They have a number of Young/New Band nights throughout the year. I think Tidy Like records run a few/lot of them. We also try to catch Supergene, Sessionhead and Broken Nose when they are this way. PM Me if you do get a booking. Especially the Cellar Bar in Ceredigion. Been planning a trip up there for some time.

PieGuy, Have you got any plans to come over a bit further west to the 'shire? We try our best to follow Johnny Action Finger whenever they play locally. http://www.myspace.com/johnnyactionfinger

According to Wiki, Yes..... Its looking good?

My mate is coming down for the weekend and we would like to network my two XBOX 360's on my internal network so we can play FORZA 2. Do I need to be subscribed to XBox Live or can we simply connect the two boxes over the network?? Thanks.

Do not agree. You may be able choose your vocation which is usually based around your skill, education and ability. You are very lucky if you can then choose a job which balances what you are able to achieve from your skill set you have available and what your goals and aspirations are. Against that is the basic availabilty of the job you are able successfully carry out. There are many people out there who simply cannot get a job which reflects the experience and qualifications they have acquired through the education and work life. I am aware that there are many degree holders who are flipping burgers just to get a wage. And as this damn recession begins to bite harder, all caused by overpaid gamblers who should have spent more time at the dog track with the own money and not mine, it is even more apparent that the current Uni generation, the under 25's are getting hit hard.

Always enjoy watching the big Cycling tours including the Tour De France. Conversation on Eurosport last week on the earnings achieved by the riders. It was noted that many of the new riders basically ride for nothing and are lucky to get board and food during the 3 weeks of the tour. It never ceases to amaze me how much effort these guys put into what they do especially when the have to get over the Alps. Even those at the front can only expect to make a 'decent' living with only someone like Lance Armstrong possibly breaking the $million/year mark backed by endorsements. Compare this to the German guy last week who won back to back golf rounds and sidled off with around a million quid just for walking around a "well kept municipal park" with a metal stick and a little white ball. And do not get me onto Base ball players. So.... My question is. What, in your opinion are the activities where the effort expended does not match the rewards achieved?

Looks like we have got a classic "three rule merge" in place so from West Ham, I believe we move to Perivale.

Now it is Wednesday has the Tuesday Circle rule expired? If so, can I bring along the little used "Midweek High Pressure Increasing from the West" rule and suggest I take you all down to Morden.

I do find the current concept of "Cloud" computing and also the gradual move to "Virtual machine" based systems running multiple operating systems, rather interesting. My feeling is that Microsoft and their PC based doctorine they have fed us for the last 20/30 years has really balls'ed us up big time while making them a lot of unjustified money. I have a number of clients now installing single high powered machines running multiple server instances instead of a number of single boxes, 1 for each 'application' (Mail/TS/SQL). Surely this is going full circle back to the concept of 'mainframe'. A single fully configured machine or machines which ran the application and the terminal simply acted as that, a terminal. 25 years on we now have - Single high powered machines (or more likely, multiple machines connected in parallel), Terminal Services, Citrix, Thin Client. To me, this just proves that the PC concept of moving the processing away from the central CPU to distributed devices, never really worked. It has been 'ok' for such requirements as Word Processing or simple spreadsheets and possibly image manipulation, but has always failed for true business needs such as small and large central databases and true sharing of data. Instead, while we have been suffereing the march of Microsoft, the systems that really worked, *nix, Pick "multi value/dynamic" databases and its derivatives, IBM, ICL, Unisys, Sperry, Prime have fallen. While other companies, Novell, Citrix, and now Google, have attempted to glue together all the distributed data which we all have always needed to be centralised. Now even Microsoft are finally providing us with the operating system which already existed 30-40 years ago, but they killed off as they took over the world. In the mean time we have had to put up with disconnected, session based database connections, disparate data which had to be moved around either by copying to transportable devices or slow networking. We have had to learn new and highly complex programming languages just to enable us to administer this data and overcome the lack of security of using distributed computers and other devices. I am not saying that the Interweb is a bad idea but I feel that what it is now attempting to provide us with, already existed before Mr Gates got involved and it is where we should have been, many years ago.

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There were reports that a number of people visiting Glasto last week were found to have either being carrying pig flu or contracted it while at the festival. Wonder how much effect bringing together anything up to 200,000 people from far flung locations around the UK every weekend over the next two months during the festival season? Add to this the fact that many of the visitors will be of Uni age, with diminished or weak immune systems after the stress of end of year exams. This in turn will be affected by the excessive consumption of alcohol and other forms of "experience enhancement" substances. Should be interesting.