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Was in frinton this afternoon for a walk with some friends and spotted a group of boarders playing. Was just wondering if it was anybody from here Got some pics, not had a chance to look at them yet, so no idea if they're any good. Will post them tomorrow if somebody owns up to boarding there.

The side roads round here have anything up to a foot of snow on them. Had to get towed by a tractor yesterday, just couldnt get up one of the hills, even with 4wd. Theres a lot of community spirit here. the council are making an effort to drive round in smaller vans where the gritters cant go, and are filling up the bins. A couple down the road spent 5 hours clearing a hill in the freezing cold so others could pass. If everybody did that instead of complaining that the council were lazy buggers or unprepared, we wouldnt have half the trouble. Also, half of the problem isnt the snow. its the ice under the snow. Once theres a good layer of ice down there, snowchains or socks arent going to help. The only thing that can be done in that situation is studs, and i believe they're illegal in the UK at this point? I'm sure if/when this weather becomes more frequent, rules can be changed to allow for different tyres in extreme weather conditions. Still need to get round to selling my Nokian Hakka mtb tyres. Bloody good fun, but i dont ride so much now. Sanity has got a grip on me

Didnt see you mention it, doesnt mean it didnt happen though Not sure on the memory, i think 2Gb is the most available with DDr2 SODIMM units. may be wrong though. check ebuyer or Scan.co.uk EDIT: This auto URL thing is beginning to wear on my patience.

I wasnt saying that cheap isnt good. With laptops i'd always buy a cheaper option, as they're not upgradeable. They still age the same as a pc, only you cant stick a new GPU in it to bring it back to life a year down the line. The recovery partition is most likely a set of drivers, programs and settings that stop you using the recovery cd on another pc. Every pc i've ever seen with recovery disks NEEDS those files for the recovery disk to function. Otherwise the OS could be installed on anything. Check and see if your laptop has space for a secondary drive. If it does, you could get the laptop repaired on warranty, and then stick a second drive in there with win7 or whatever on it. Might be worth checking the cost of solid state drives too, they're a bit less likely to fail if it gets a knock again.

Got that model. Wasnt overly impressed with it. The thing is so damn big and heavy it cant properly support its own weight and flops about when you pick it up, and the arm is too heavy for the gears to properly work. Still fun to build though, but the B-model is better. You can get the instructions from the Lego website

ah if its got an access flap then give it a try.

tbh you have no idea if it is actually the hdd. Sure, it LOOKS like it is. but you cant be sure. If you rip open the laptop and find that its not the hdd your warranty will have been voided for nothing and you'll still be buggered.

Might be worth reading THIS if you didnt read anything similar already. i've used method #2 in the past, with varying degrees of success.

Download Ubuntu | Ubuntu Download the correct version of that, burn it to disk and try booting from it. it will give you the option to live boot from the CD/DVD which is useful in figuring out wether the drive is at fault or something else. The OS is loaded straight from the CD/DVD without going through the HDD.

A usb key would more than likely show up as a removable storage device, If your boot priority options have anything like that, give it a try.

Cant be, not nearly enough blades

Worth mentioning, all these cheapskate laptops (no offence to you, but is aimed at the manufacturers skimping on something as simple as a recovery disk) dont come with disks these days. When you get this replaced, the FIRST thing you need to be doing is creating a system restore/recovery disk set. Its pretty appauling that the manufacturers dont supply recovery software anymore, instead making you do it yourself. But meh. Just another way to get out of warranty repairs i think. If you dont create the disk and windows breaks, they'll probably say its your own fault and send you on your way.

On most stuff (village parks being torn down because the swings are "dangerous" etc) i'd agree with you. But with any extreme sport the potential for injury is massive. I've had a lucky escape while cycling, and i witnessed a friend go over the handlebars and fall 6ft onto his head, while doing something he had been doing for ages. Accidents happen, and the truth is, the more confident you become, the harder the impact you'll have. That actress for example. Natasha Richardson i think? Who just fell on a training slope. Laughed about it at the time. Hours later, critical in hospital. The next day (?) she was dead. I cant really see why people wont wear one. I'd rather spend a few seconds putting a lid on than spending the rest of your life dribbling into a bib.

My computer has had half a litre of liquid poured directly onto the cpu/motherboard, had a piece of silver bridge numerous components on the motherboard, has a broken SATA port, had two graphics cards blow up in it, burned out a total of 8 sticks of RAM, one dvd drive and 4 hard drives. Yet by some miracle, it still functions perfectly. I cant explain why.

Mine are around 15psi, but thats for rolling on nightmare super squishy sand. On grass i ran around 25psi.