DavidOps

It's cool ish hehre for me, but that's due to the server room air-con

Bit rich of the Swiss to complain about someone making a lot of noise from a high place isn't it. A loa-da-lay-lo-da-lay-eh-o of contradiction. (Thanks to Last weekend's Now Show on radio 4 - damn it's hard to type out yodel noises)

You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi! Stranger: can i have your babies? You: if you want You: they're in a dumpset out back You: dumpster even... damn blood on the keyboard Your conversational partner has disconnected.

That's why I went with mint.. my ubuntu skills are transferrable and it's nice to look at. Comes with flash and java our of the box too iirc

I think the bots have landed You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi! You: hi Stranger: hi, how are you? Stranger: kewl, yah same. Stranger: Here is a picture of me, http://i45.tinypic.com/6scqkz.jpg do you think i'm hot? Stranger: Crap, my roomate wants the computer! If you want, add me as a friend and send me a msg here: Incentaclick Media (profile is amanda471), I got a few nudes up there, and my cell Your conversational partner has disconnected.

My Grandad did that some time back and has just had it bottled. 12Yrs old Single malt and he's got more bottles than he could realistically drink, for about £8-10 a bottle once all appropriate fees and taxes are paid. Oh, and I've splashed out on a bottle of the Penguin...with a name like that I couldn't resist

Also worth a look at is Linux Mint 7 (8 is out soon but it's not quite baked yet) has great hardware compatibility and easy to get going with (similar look/feel to XP) Just download a load of distros.. burn to cd and try each ones live boot cd function. Then see which one you like best. I'm running mint on my work system which has a slightly lower spec than yours. It boots to the login window in about 30seconds and given good typing i'm on the interweb in under a minute from power on.

Stranger: i hate the cold Stranger: the heat is so much better You: i don't mind the cold so much.. i hate *being* cold Stranger: fair enough You: too hot is not good either Stranger: nah i like being really really hot- then jumping into a pool Stranger: thats awesome You: yeah .. i do that at the gym.. sauna to plunge pool Stranger: fun You: woo... feel much better now You: just done a line of coke, man i needed that Stranger: lol Stranger: awesome Stranger: i gtg! Stranger: sorry mate! Your conversational partner has disconnected.

Stranger: oi? You: oi? Stranger: oi. You: salut? Stranger: no You: wo gehen zie?

I've repaired laptops like this in the past. The good news.. if it's managing to come up with the "safe mode / last good" etc screen it means your HDD isn't totally borked... just a part of windows. So find a friendly techy type, get the HDD out and link it to another PC, recover all documents and then re-install windows and replace documents from backup. Probably about 4hrs start to finish assuming everything goes well. Depending on niceness of IT person you could be looking at a bottle of beer to £40 by way of payment.

One Lieutenant Colonel I once knew used to tear off and set fire to any fake bow ties he found at dinners he was hosting. I learned to tie a real one pretty quickly, honestly it's a fairly easy, just like a shoelace around your neck.

if you have a reason to have one you should be ok. But if you're searched and have one "just because it's useful" then the police might take a dim view of it. Madness, but the way our country has gone.

Yup, not usually one for clan tags though, I'm really enjoying this online, seems every match I unlock something new.

Yeah, It's the shortcut to quickfind, must happen if the focus jumps off the text box you're typing in. Odd, but not insurmountable. Just click back into the text box and continue typing.

I'd say B, It's a fair coin the result is either H or T totally at random (given a random fair toss [Not sure i really give a toss]) So there is no way that A or C can apply. If they do then you have not conducted enough coin tosses to get a true average reading. It's like tossing it three times and getting HTH then saying "on average this coin always comes up Heads" statistically true but massively flawed.