St Landrew

This sort of thing will be always be tolerated because there is absolutely nothing that can be done about it. This is all about attitude and respect for fellow people, not extra policing and harsher jail sentences, although they did get away with no more than a smack on the wrist, IMO. Today's society is all about a lack of respect for fellow people, and it's no wonder that teenagers think they can do as they please. We are teaching them so every day. Do you know anyone who is a teenager, who might be inclined towards gang behaviour..? What would their attitude to this be..? Would they laugh..? If so, why..? Would they be appalled, but then go out and commit some sort of harm or damage to others..? We can all be shocked and say... Hang them... because it shows everyone how right we are, and we can feel good about it, but then we wash our hands of it. I'm the same. As long as we keep saying how shocked we are and then get on with our lives, it'll keep happening.

Hanover..?

I used to be against the use of speed cameras, when they were introduced, but they do make a lot of sense. People will not police themselves, and as cars have become safer to those who drive them, and feature comforts that were only dreamed about 20 years ago, people have cluttered the roads in them, in a pursuit to go about their business in their capsule of freedom. But speed cameras remind them of their responsibility to others and that hurts. I've been caught by speed cameras 3 times in my life, and all 3 were 36mph in 30mph dual-carriageway area incidences. So I have every reason to feel annoyed by them, because a policeman might have understood my explanation for why I was just over the speed limit. But since going back to biking, in the last couple of years, I've not had a single problem. I don't need to speed because I'm never held up and never feel I have to play catch-up. A little spurt around this car or that, and my road is clear. It's not my outright speed that allows me the freedom - that would get me caught, but the simple fact that no car can out-accelerate me or take up as little room. I can pootle along at 30 mph and still get away. Now traffic lights are something else..! But even then, I'm invariably at the front of the queue.

It is nevertheless, very good value. Use a secondhand monitor. Plenty of cheap/free CRTs kicking around. Save £30 and install XP from own disc [has to be Pro], if you have it.

I just have a feeling it was completely lost on a large section of the studio audience. Nice tribute though.

The following season at The Dell, by way of some retribution, Saints destroyed Forest 4-1. Manager Brian Clough said, Southampton were incredible. Better than us in every department. The Big Match highlights of the League Cup Final match are available on the Net.

Don't know if you've bought your printer yet, but Lidl are doing a Canon Printer, soon for £39.99. Canon PIXMA MP270 All-in-One Printer Although it is also available elsewhere at or around that price too, under special/limited offers. The normal selling price for the printer is usually around £55.

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We were down just below Itchen Bridge, on the Supermarine factory site. I was just coming out of the pub with a few pints to hand round and I stopped right in the middle of the road and put the drinks down. Everyone looked up. It looked so bloody majestic [and I mean that in the most positive sense] it wasn't true. I tried to imagine hundreds of them in the sky, but it wouldn't form. But strangely, the engine sounds sent the hairs on the back of my neck standing up. I turned to my mate, when they'd finally passed and said... wow, that gets you every time. It certainly got to him - he had tears in his eyes. Later, we went to a memorial in the New Forest. Just a little one, tucked away off the forest road, somewhere near Linwood. It was essentially put there because of the Canadian forces that were stationed locally before D-Day. I saw a few young smiling faces on photographs, amidst little crosses, poppys and Canadian badges. These were some of the ones who hadn't come back. That did it for me.

And the other 30% don't have access to the internet. Well, it's possible..!?!

I'm pretty sure I saw a rehearsal of all of this, bar the Lancaster, one evening roughly two weeks ago. There's no mistaking a Merlin or Griffon engine, when housed in a Spitfire, and I instinctively looked up to see one, plus its Hurricane mate, skimming overhead, well throttled back.

As I suspected, a forelock tugger. What makes me laugh is that most people, who are deferential to the Royal Family and the institution of Monarchy, seem to think they are part of some great national heritage, by being a British citizen. Well let me inform you. You are nothing to them. In fact, you are less than nothing. Your opinion means zero. The Royal Family are not in place by your agreement, but there whether you like it or not. And there's not a single thing you can do about it. Whether you are a massive fan or not, is inconsequential. There are 65-70 million people in the UK and they are first in a queue of one, and you are last in a queue of 65-70 million. On any other subject, you'd be ranting and raving at the hypocrisy and sheer wrongness of the scenario. Do you not get it now..?

Not if you have a stack load of RAM, it isn't. We all know the stories of how sh!t Windows ME was, but a year or two back, me and a Linux buddy decided to play around with it, using a fairly modern computer, well, at least as Windows ME was concerned, with about 512mb to 1gb of DDR RAM plugged in. We had a fairly good graphics card in there too, just for good measure. The result was that Windows ME flew like the effing wind. Much faster than almost any operating system I can remember using, and amazingly stable too. We upgraded it, online to the point where there were no more addons or improvements to be made. Even my died-in-the-wool Linux mate laughed at the speed. Games and software that would stutter and chug along, 10 years ago, because of inadequate hardware resources, were wallowing in huge amounts of headroom. I loaded up an old Flight Sim, that used to have to be set at rather minimal levels to work before, at maximum settings, and it almost ran too fast..! I kept the config of the HDD and occasionally I'll plug it into any PC that has a problem, as a system drive. Weirdly, the ME database can find adequate drivers for practically anything, plus the graphics card is reasonably well supported too. This is for EIDE supporting motherboards, of course, but one day I'll bother to stick it on a SATA drive and have another laugh. BTW, IE6 ran fine.

Check this link: http://www3.hants.gov.uk/centenary-of-flight/flight-events.htm Also:

The NHS..? I'm surprised you're actually upto IE6..!

I don't give a monkey's whether the Queen is worth her weight in gold. The principle is wrong. The Monarchy has no place in a democratic society where everyone should be considered equal. The Royal Family make everyone else second class citizens and that is an intolerable position. The old adage is, ah... but you wouldn't want to swap jobs with them. And fat chance anyone is going to get to try it out..! They should go quickly. Pick a palace, get inside, close the doors, and let's hear no more of them. Then we can get on with the business of electing someone from the people, as President. It may well cost more but it will slowly rid the country of its class system and it's old-pals idea of progress, instead of merit. Oh, and we'd get a shot at a decent national anthem, too.

Check these screenshots of this thread. One is with Mozilla Firefox and the other is with IE6. Notice IE6 has faults as you describe. Check your browser, and if it is IE6, a quick upgrade to IE7 [if you wish to stay with Internet Explorer] should do the trick.

To be fair, though S-i-P, we did see the bloke pass, or get passed by, almost the entire amount of motorised vehicles in the whole of North Island, NZ. I mean, that's what I call a busy NZ road.

You lucky bugger..! I always wanted to work in a really good hi-fi shop. But the nearest I got was an opportunity to work in The Sony Centre in London Road. I turned it down.

Have you spoken to Virgin..? Apparently they have had a fault which has covered many areas of their network. I have friends in Southampton who have been affected by it, even though the technician said the fault didn't include Southampton. He called back later [what a nice chap] to say that the fault DID INCLUDE Southampton. He had argued black was white earlier in the day. It was only because I was on hand that I could tell him that his NTL/Virgin modem was in fine working order, constantly finding the signal and then dropping it. This produced a simliar result in Windows, as you have, in that the network failed and then was fine. Failed and then was fine. Talk to Virgin before you spend money. BTW, the fault still isn't fixed, as of today. Crap service.

I know people go on about the Love It or Hate It thing about Marmite. But there is also the condition where the Marmite lover [like me] hasn't, for one reason or another, eaten any Marmite in months. Then, having your first piece of Marmite on hot buttered toast, is like nectar of the gods, and you wonder why on earth you stayed away so long.

Heard down The Dell many a time forming the tune of a chant, during the 1960s and 70s. I'm sure all those Na Na Na's could be altered to La La La's for Adam.

I can't believe a reputable company like Bower & Wilkins have dived so low that they have to pander to the iPod generation. I mean, Goodmans, Wharfedale, etc... yes, but B&W..? Someone will tell me people like Linn, and Naim Audio will be doing iPod extras next. Bose were always a fast buck company. They dress their adverts up, but they've never had any pretensions to properly accurate music production. It sort of saddens me that once great companies of the music reproduction industry have to sell to such a public with so poor an ear.

Haven't seen it myself, but people I have spoken with have said it is very good indeed. Considering the type of film I tend to go for, their recommendation will probably mean far more to you than mine. Although it does feature Leonardo Di Caprio, and much as I want to deck the bloke [way after I've left Keanu Reeves unconcious though], he always improves any film he's in. So it has good omens.

That'l stretch the medical facilities. Two key players with the same injury. God, I hope it isn't the same shoulder..!