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Go to john lewis/apple store/pc world etc. and have a play, have a look at the software you get with it. The only "extra" piece of software you might need is office, but I never use that anyway! Once you've had mac, you never go back ;)

OS X is far better than anything Microsoft has ever released. Many of the features that vista promises are already in the version of OS X that apple has been shipping for the past 6 months. Out of the box you can watch dvds, edit movies, download pictures from your camera. It's got mobile...

Re: plusnet looking a bit sh*t lol. Not their upstream, it's BT's upstream. All BT wholesale customers (i.e non LLU) have the same upstream rate!

Try this, this will tell you whether or not it's exchange contention or plusnet.

Did you migrate in? What speed were you on before? What were you trying to download, from where? Is you exchange showing as red? Sometimes they have the exchange sync set for 2 Mbit, but rate limit to 1mbit until you poke them. If it's none of the above, then it's more than likely you've...

Plusnet have packet inspecting traffic shapers, p2p & usenet has the lowest priority. When the network is "busy" you should expect sub 30kb/s transfer rates on p2p. Browsing & http downloads "should" be unnafected. I don't use p2p, but I can tell you that usenet took a massive hit, they've...

You're on plusnet aren't you (iirc)? If so, there's your reason.

Except that they have a custom CPU in this instance, I'd expect that the verification of signed code is performed in *hardware* and therefore cannot be modified. I'd imagine that the flash is also encrypted with a public/private key pair - at the very least I'd expect this to have it's own...

Spot on. 1) You turn on and play. (And reinstalling windows, finding device drivers etc...) 2) A couple of years later you're still guarateed that new games are playable on your console.

My money would be on Microsoft this time round. It shouldn't have been very difficult this time round to prevent unauthorised binaries running.

If they've got it right this time (which they should have as they have a custom CPU) then I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for modchips or third party apps.

Maybe you've not shot enough of your own people? ;) :p

He only asked about light switches though! Our solution was much neater that x10, all sockets, lights & sensors are run back to a single point in the room (actually a "box" in the ceiling) - this allows us to use normal fittings for sockets, lights etc - we're also able to monitor current...

X10. ~£20 a light switch. Our building here has intelligent lighting & heating (no light switches at all!), but we designed all the electronics & software ourselves.

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Yes. Mine arrived 2 days ago. It disspeared off the currys website a day later not to return. The currys £40 discount made it the same as the cheapest UK price as the "body only" kit, so I got effectively got the lens for free (it's not great...but hey). Just need to send off for my £100...

f2s, metro & zen are where most people went. Plusnet have lost and upset a lot of their most loyal long standing customers.

Plusnet are nothing more than a cut price budget isp now. Do yourself a favour and pay a bit more for a decent ISP. They shape the hell out of usenet & p2p on both plus AND premier. Over the last 6 months they seem to have gone from one blunder to another. I'm going to migrate away from them...

If you had a mac you could just select the "Private Browsing" mode! (aka, dirty pr0n browser mode).

No, it won't run on it - PDA's do not have x86 processors.

PDA's don't use pentium processors, so you've got zero chance. Try a laptop.

That's £525 without a lens though isn't it?

They're back in stock at the moment if anybody is still interested. Thanks for the info mcbunny! I've been looking to buy one of these for my holiday!

At least you get a better class of geek in there, than say, pc world. ;)

(macs rule)

The nano uses flash as its storage, not a hd like its bigger brothers. Most of the reports on the web are people moaning about it scratching (theres been a few smashed screens), that's a bit of a lame excuse for moaning - you put anything made of plastic into your pocket with coins and keys...

With the PDA turned on, try ejecting the card and re-inserting it, if they've put an autorun on the card it might reinstall the software.

lol. Aqua is what makes OS X "OS X", and aqua isn't free and open, neither are the frameworks which make OS X. Darwin may share it's kernel roots with bsd, but it's long since diverged. If you installed freebsd, openbsd or darwin on a mac (as a mac user) you'd be in for a bit of a shock.

Yeah, that too. :o I assumed you meant GUI, if you're just after accessing files then you could setup ssh or if your not hugely security paranoid just enable the ftp and/or telnet server in System Preferences/Sharing (and configuring the firewall & your router accordingly).