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That'll be the Labour party then - entering illegal wars, MPs (WHO HAVE ALREADY BEEN ON QUESTION TIME) evading the inland revenue, being implicated in rendition and torture! etc etc. Sauce for the goose mb

...or maybe their prices were too low mb

Gotta agree with you there! I have been round the i-desk factory (actually, the old one in Camberley), and it is the investment in the production equipment that means that they will always be miles better then an in-house job using a band-saw and some kitchen worktop The guys are also very proud of what they do, which reflects on the quality of product and service that they provide! mb

I have liked the idea of pumped storage HEP ever since i visited the Ffestiniog power station over forty years ago However, more effort isn't being put into it (at least in the UK) because there are very few suitable sites left for large scale facilities. The very impressive Dinorwig power station was built over 20 years ago and many of the others were built in the 50s and 60s. Ironically it is countries like China with it's 18GW Three Gorges Dam project (ten times the power of Dinorwig, which itself is the largest in Europe!) that are best suited for hydro electric power (both geographically and politically). mb

You need to be careful about assuming that the 82% is simply "wasted". In winter the heat generated from an internal combustion engine can be directly used to warm the car. In an electric car, heating has a serious impact on battery life!! Also, one the drawbacks of "grid electricity" is that it cannot (easily) be stored, so you have to have sufficient capacity for the worse case scenario - 20 million people all plugging in their cars overnight is going to draw an awful lot of power. This lack of storage also makes wind power a poor option - you can't just "turn on a gale"! mb

Professor Bob Carter uses empirical data (not bogus "models") and somewhat larger timescales (be sure to watch all four parts)... [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOLkze-9GcI]YouTube - Climate Change - Is CO2 the cause? - Pt 1 of 4[/ame] mb

...and yet barely an hour ago you called it "a small sample of data "! Typical climate change alarmist methods - picking and choosing data to suit your arguement mb

It was a bit "disingenuous" of the BBC to photograph the cottage through a telephoto lens in such a way that the nuclear power station looks massive in comparison mb

Check that it is the 6-cell NC10, as the last one i saw in Comet (with a half-price Norton offer) was just the 3-cell. Note that "KA02UK" isn't the full part number for the NC10 (never mind how many cells) and includes the N120 (NP-N120-KA02UK), N130 (NP-N130-KA02UK), N140 (NP-N140-KA02UK), N510 (NP-N510-KA02UK) as well as various NC10s! I think that the "02" bit is the colour? mb

The only one that i have heard of was spotted by SYNACK - see PXE over wireless? mb

Must have been the same e-mail - i didn't check the time Bought mine from Ebuyer several months ago, but for way over 300 quid mb

You can currently get the 6-cell version for £268.79 (inc vat) from Ebuyer. mb

Worse than that, some are just copy-and-pastes from Wikipedia mb

Actually only one of the "five"s had been changed! mb

Fixed, but without changing the "last update" time. More unprofessional behaviour by the BBC mb

Voodoo!! mb

Black Wall Spikes Pack of 8 - Screwfix.com, Where the Trade Buys ? mb

It sounds like CTRL-S gets you into the NIC BIOS settings, but check that there is not a separate set of motherboard BIOS settings. Sometimes PXE can be sneakily hidden away - for example on DELL machines you can set the Network Interface Controller to be "Yes", "No" but also "On w/ MBA" or "On w/ PXE". Unless you scroll through all of the options, you can miss the vital setting! mb

The first thing is to do ALL of your (initial) testing using the same physical network port in the wall - just in case there is something different with other connections. Checking that DHCP is working under Windows (on that port) is a sensible idea - you can't afford to assume anything when trying to work out what is going wrong. Even if DHCP works as expected under Windows, there is a chance that it may behave differently under PXE due to things like Spanning Tree Protocol (STP). This is because STP can delay a network port going "live" by thirty seconds or so, which co-incidentally is about the time it takes for PXE to time out! Thus if a PXE-boot initially fails, try again and press the key when the spinny propeller appears, wait 45 seconds or so then press the key to continue (hopefully with a "live" port). If that fails, get a modern PC that you have successfully (and recently) PXE-booted, and try it on that same physical port. If it fails (including after the "press trick") then either that network connection is broken, or the PXE server itself isn't working - try a different (previously working) network port to check if it is the connection or PXE. If the "modern" PC works, then you need to look more closely at the Elonex configuration. Please post the full model number, BIOS version and BIOS date and compare it against the other Elonex machines (especially the one that was imaged "off site"). Oh, and just to check, was the "off site" machine actually imaged using PXE? Even if the PCs are "pre-Elonex bust" (e.g. 2005/2006) there is a fair chance that they will support PXE. However earlier PCs (e.g. 2002/2003), especially if the NIC is on a separate card, might have a missing PXE boot-ROM (to save money). So lots to try out - good luck! mb

What model of Elonex are you using? A quick search for "elonex pxe" comes up with (amongst others)... "...Go to the "boot" page and enable "PXE Boot to LAN". Press F10 to save and exit. ...As soon as the PC reboot, press F12 to enter the PXE Network Boot and F12 again when asked to to so." ...at CERN. Probs not the same model as yours, but it suggests that you need to look at the BIOS! mb

Regarding PXE - what is on the server responding to the PXE request from the client - Ghost? If you can boot a PC into Windows, can you open a "command" window and type "IPCONFIG/ALL" to see if Windows is getting a DHCP address? If Windows isn't then that is probably why PXE isn't! mb

Kinda scary how easy it is to hijack your "web browsing experience"!!!! mb

A 100-way mains adapter? (although H&S might be unhappy ) mb

The first thing that you must ask is what is different about those 10 machines (compared to the other 250)? Are they identical hardware? Are they on the same subnet? Are they connected to a different switch? etc. Try plugging one of the 10 into a port originally used by one the successfull 250 and try again! mb

You could be cheeky and contact Boston.com and politely ask them if they can change the contents of Picture of "JONHSON HARRY" (from the "Company Payment Information" page) to be a more appropriate photograph/image mb