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Hmm.. The first thing that happened on the way out of Southampton was a traffic jam at around the Jacobs Gutter Lane area. My first reaction was.. oh f***, we've really miscalculated this one. But it cleared almost immediately, and we had a good clear run down. Parking was remarkably easy, despite there being hundreds [possibly thousands] of people there. It was the thought of a jam packed Mayflower Park that started the idea of going to Calshot, in the first place.

Tbh, I think that although there has indeed been a reduction in the amount of posts overall, there has certainly been a reduction in the amount of utter twaddle posts too. And if that took a fiver to reduce the effect, then it was a fiver well spent. I know a lot of posters who had stopped coming to the site before the imposed £5 subscription, because they couldn't stand the amount of crap on these forums. Now a few of them are returning.

Yes. As mentioned, we went to Calshot, not only to have the best view in the house, but to get away from the crowds at Mayflower Park. There were hundreds at Calshot Spit, but we all had a superb view. And the Spinnaker Bar did a heck of a lot of service too.

Saw her off with hundreds of other people at Calshot last night. She looked good, and we'll never see her like of a cruise liner again. She may become a floating hotel, but the ships that replace her are motorised hotels with hulls. They don't even sail as fast as her, as QE2, the oldest cruise ship bids goodbye, and so goes, into retirement, the fastest large passenger ship still running. Until she stops, that is.

My brother had that on his PC. he told me he'd tried quite a few things to iradicate it. I low-level formatted his system HDD and the virus mother too. They don't survive that stuff. And he got a spanking new install. I think I might do exactly the same with mine. It's quicker and less fraught with problems.

Ah... My PC has a virus. I'm off to sort it out. Bye peeps.

Don't want to knock a well intentioned thread here MB, but all these pictures are just TMS content. What's the semi-serious point you're making..?

One that has everyone at her beck and call. No doubt, she'll come down to earth with a bump one day.

Flight Of The Phoenix [2004]. The opening was OK, but as soon as the actors opened their gobs, I knew this would be another Hollywood film with Hollywood attitude. Of course the special effects are fine, but there was no tension, no despair, nobody appeared to suffer from the experience, and didn't even appear to get sun or wind burned in any great way. Even the plane didn't seem to take much effort. The only standout was probably Dennis Quaid, who deserves better than this. By contrast, the original Flight Of The Phoenix [1965] is a masterpiece of film making. Everything that the remake doesn't have, this one does; and the special effects are perfectly acceptable as well, and almost certainly much more realistic in scenario. The acting is utterly top notch, with every actor giving their best, and they really appear to suffer and despair. Frankly, why they bothered to do the remake is quite beyond me. There are legions of poor films of great stories out there to have a go at.

What a load of tosh, but good anyway. Banning a phrase such as that, for any reason, is sufficient. It could be a candidate for this thread: http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=4629

Agree with comments from Robsk and Pancake I like the bit about the female operator apparently being uneducated, yet she had a perfectly good grasp of a racist attitude, and the, no doubt, university educated BBC female's gob ran away with her. I would suggest to that BBC woman, that if Asian people frighten her daughter, then she needs to introduce her to some, via her BBC World Service colleagues, and get the kid over a silly personal problem before it begins to cloud her life.

Btw, it's not odd that you got the boot up error. You'd have been lucky not to, hence a thread I started, about a HDD with Windows ME on it, the other day.

If you have a second PC, and the host HDD is big enough, you could temporarily transfer all the files and other important stuff to it, and then put the original HDD in the barebones PC, Partition it, install the OS, remove it, Slave it again in the second PC, transfer the files back, and then put it back in the barebones machine. Then sort out the slight mess you'll have. But at least you'll have kept all the important stuff, and it'll just be a case of removing the chaff and sorting.

The best thing to do is to temporarily turn the HDD into a Slave and attach it to another PC for that time. Then the files can be safely saved to CD or DVD. Don't forget any e-mail archive and favourites too. If you don't know what to do, then get someone who does know, because it is a piece of cake for the professional.

OK, it's obviously local. I'm still getting search results, but none of the links work. My Favourites lists work perfectly. Rather odd, that. I'll try another search engine.

Apologies for this not being in the appropriate forum, but I want to get some quick responses. How are your Google searches going if you make any..? When you click on them, do they work..? Mine don't, for anywhere. I get the search address results and they don't link.

Yes indeed, or she'll need to pop in here: My excuse to post an excellent photo, via the Echo. I read that the Echo says the QE2 will face the final ignominy of having her engines torn out and her home port of Southampton painted over. No. The engines will be removed, and her home port name will be painted over. But it won't be any humiliation like they are trying to portray it. It'll mean that he QE2 will live on instead of being sold for scrap. And we'll be able to see her still on Google Earth, and Dubai Phil will no doubt see her if he cranes his neck a certain way.

Sailing club meeting tonight, and our slip is just across and upriver of the QE2. The best place, apart from Southampton itself, will be Calshot Spit. A nice pint in the bar, and then watch her come down Southampton Water, and out in the Solent. The big turn around the Bramble bank, and gone forever. I've known the QE2 to enter and exit the Solent via the western approaches, but it's 4 days to a spring high tide, so it'll be the usual route. I'm not sure if the bridge cam is still operating.

Presumably being 6 to 7 years old, it will still predominantly have a PATA connection, and not a SATA. £35 gets you a lot of HDD at Novatech these days, but don't fall into the trap I seem to do every time I need a HDD. Every time I say I'm NOT going to buy a Maxtor, and then the Maxtor spec is superb and the price is excellent - but they always let me down. And this last time a Western Digital HDD has let me down too. So who do we have left that still have that reputation for quality..? Seagate, that's who. They have always made good, quiet HDDs that sadly weren't as cheap as everybody else, even usually being more expensive than Western Digital. But that's probably why they last. But £35 still buys a heck of a Seagate HDD. PATA: http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?SG-79P250 SATA: http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?SG-71S258 They may not be the highest spec HDDs, but they are now my everyday HDD of choice.

I don't know why this subject continues to be talked about. Does anyone not know that there is a major financial crisis going on at SFC..? Lowe and Wilde have burnt the bridges. The great last experiment is underway and it is either succeed or SFC is doomed to administration, relegation and failure. Can you not see the predicament when it is staring you in the face..? WE CAN'T AFFORD TO CHANGE MANAGER AGAIN. This is it. I don't like it either, but under the present financial circumstances, if Jan doesn't succeed with the kids, this club falls into obscurity. Nobody with any money wants to take us over now, and certainly nobody with any money will want to once we've fallen further out of the limelight. Lowe's pathetic position is secure because nobody has the might, or the inclination to take it away from him. As I've said all along, Rupert will get the books right, and make an operating profit out of SFC. Trouble is, we'll be in League Two. Get used to it, or hope like hell that JP can get the kids playing brilliantly for 90 minutes, instead of in fits and starts. There are NO realistic alternatives. Lowe and Wilde have made it that way.

What something like... ? Err.. hello, remember me..? Yes... I'm calling again, but not not for my HDD/DVD recorder this time... Err yes.. the new remote control is 100%, and thank you very much indeed for the great after sales service. No.. what I'm asking for is a new hard disk for a bloke I know on my website who has a Targa PC he bought from Lidl a few years ago and the HDD has gone west. Would you send him another..? Oh..! :confused: Oh..! Oh, you will..? That's fantastic..! His address..? :confused: I don't know..!?!

Well we know who invented the Internet structure, and that was the US Military. I think you're getting confused with the World Wide Web. Step forward Tim Berners-Lee.

You could always try them, but I suspect £30-35 spent at Novatech would be more successful.

It would be, you lucky bugger. I had my antenna up last July for thesaint_sfc, but they'd all gone, which was a sickener for him. I paid £150 for one 18 months earlier, so I've had 2 years trouble free use up until now. The machine itself still works faultlessly [it is schedule-recording something as I type], but the remote control has definitely gone slightly dodgy. As you know, this severely cramps the style of the Targa, as most of the finer controls are not duplicated on the machine itself.

I'm not one for playing games really, even though I have a Sony PS2 bought ages ago. I can easily tell you the number of games I have for it as they are so few. Pro Evo 1, 2 and 4. Medal of Honor, The Great Escape, and now Toca Race Driver 2. I bought the other day for £1.49 from Oxfam, after I'd dropped off my settee and sofabed to them [sorry Robsk]. In short, I'm hooked..! What a saddo.