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WTF? Are we living in some communist workers paradise nowadays? :mad: "I don't want to pay the asking price so therefore it should be free" Christ, everyone wants something for nothing these days. God damn hippies. :rasp:

A soldering iron may be a couple of mm wide at the tip, but most surface mount pads are a mm across or less and have an even smaller gap between them, even a 2 or 3 mm wide solder tip will bridge at least two pads. Surface mount boards are just not designed for being repaired by humans, they...

How do they heat up the solder then? Modern electronics are not designed to be soldered by hand, the pads are too close together, by heating up the pad(s) you want, you will also heat up the ones in the surrounding area, by fixing one joint, you've just buggered the ones either side of it, the...

Yeah, I still have one of those from about 6 years ago linked to my hotmail account. I may have also added a couple of others onto the account as well. The company it was registered to doesn't axctually exist any more (they were bought out, and then the new parent comapny was bought out), so...

I love the technet folder. Makes life so much easier.

I hate to say this, but you shot yourself in the foot by getting it repaired by a 3rd party. Pretty much no manufacturer in the world is going to honour a warranty when the device has been tampered with by an untrained 3rd party. Basically what it comes down to is that if the repair people...

Yeah, that's probably the reason for the entry, but I also know that putting this entry in is a work around for not being able to install service packs on XP machines that are using dodgy validation keys.

Are you running a cracked version of windows? If not then you also need to remove that MS entry. mpa.one.microsoft.com is to do with the WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage), and you may not be able to download updates from windows update with that entry in there. If you're running a hooky...

I tried yesterday. They appear to have gotten wise to the trick, and while the codes appear to still be valid, they now have a minimum spend on them. Looking back through the thread, it appears that they cottoned on on Saturday and closed the loophole.

yes. I would still get yourself a copy of HijackThis and run a scan, as it's entirely possible that something is memory resident and the next timee you reboot the entries will return to the hosts file. After you save, right click the hosts file, choose properties, then clikc the "read only"...

Just phoned orange up and got myself a HTC Desire for free :cool: Should turn up tomorrow at some point. I'll do a side by side comparisson to my Nexus One when it arrives. (there's method in my madness, my N1 doesn't have insurance, the Desire will be on Orange Care, i can then root and...

Neither do I. Well at least none that I admit to my collegues :evil:. Anyway, that's what first liners are there for. Monkey work and blame, at least when I threaten to stab them with the letter opener I keep on my desk I do it with a smile on my face.

Don't be daft, apologising makes you weak. :rasp:

t'other week I had a right go at someone for not doing a VPN setup correctly, only to realise about an hour later that it was actually me that had set it up :eek:

And if it isn't you only have one person to blame ;)

We start our first liners on 20-22k. :rasp: (and we're not based in London) Having said that, we expect them to be fairly good. We probably get rid of 25-30% of people before their probation is up, and they are expected to pass either a Cisco, Juniper or Checkpoint qualification within the...

Depending on the model, you can play them via the network, bypassing DLNA. I have mounted a shared folder from my NAS drive directly onto my UE46B8000 using this: Samygo Works like a dream.

Any drive of the same size (or bigger) should do the trick. If it is bigger though you will not get the advantage of any extra space from that drive, it will only use the capacity of the old drive. Also, if it's in RAID5 and only one disk has failed, all the data should still be on it. If you...

http://samygo.sourceforge.net/ It seems that the 7 and 8000 series LED TV's (and other Samsung TV's) actually run busybox Linux on them, and there is a way of enabling telnet on the TV so you can get onto it to mess with stuff at an OS level. Highlights include: Mounting SMB/CIFS/NFS shares...

That'll change when the Boxee Box comes out. Uses the same interface as Boxee which is pretty stunning (it'll automatically collate all your TV shows and group them by series/episode etc, it also grabs all the covers for DV rips etc from IMDB and adds a description to them...

He's something of possible interest. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8582404.stm Louis Vitton sued Google over the practice of selling Adwords to the higest bidder. Court rules

Cool. I wonder if that's for the XP mode only, or for the Virtual PC as well.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx There's options for W7 Starter 32bit, home 32 and 64bit. That should cover all the bases. Be aware that it won't run on all PC's your CPU needs to support virtualisation (AMD-V or Intel VT) Otherwise try using...

You won't get 5.1 from the Xbox then. The Xbox only does 5.1 from the optical jack.

^^ I just saw this on the BBC site as well. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8572146.stm

Fraps is the way to go indeed. It just sits in your taskbar and you can set a hotkey to activate the recording.

The HTC Desire has a couple of differences to the Nexus One, but is essentially the same hardware except instead of a trackball it has a trackpad type of thing. Most of the difference is in some HTC tweaks to the OS. It runs the HTC Sense UI, does USB tethering out of the box. It's a big...

Nothing that runs the iPhone OS has flash support, and is never likely to get it either. Steve Jobs hates flash with a passion, he reckons that when a Mac crashes, it's usually to do with Flash. He's also a massive proponent of HTML5, which in theory, could replace flash (at least for...

AVG free or AVG Internet Security? If it's the latter then it'll be the firewall protection on it.

Don't think CSV will work particularly well. Each "field" of each "record" can be over multiple lines. I think I've figured it out with an XML mailmerge. We'll see. :S