Martin

There is a phone and e-mail address displayed via Network-Tools.com... Person: Benjamin Lochmann address: Homepage Baukasten GmbH address: Richard-Wagner-Str. 2 address: D-91054 Erlangen address: DE phone: +49 911 6603839 e-mail: [email protected] ...so hopefully you should be able to chase things up quite quickly. mb

Wow, thanks for that. Just spend an hour flicking through and looking at the pictures (and reading bits that caught my eye). I'll have to come back another day to read the detail Cheers, mb

Matt, Was it you that "shopped" those (later) pictures? If so, you should be suing the Daily Wail for copyright theft mb

seems genuine to me, and the article was also in the Grauniad and the Torygraph amongst others, so not a Wail hype! mb

Whilst you are condemning the Tories, any comments on why Denis Healy increased the rate of VAT to 25% on "luxury goods", which included refrigerators, back in 1974?? And as for the "low wage earners" - food, public transport, children's clothes etc are all VAT exempt, so there is no impact on essentials! mb

Although slightly wandering off topic, when you have a £132M a year business (2007 figures) to "protect", driving around in a few "TV Detector Vans" and sending "scary" letters seems like chicken feed See RFI20080008 - Enforcement and collection costs (PDF) mb

...and as i said in my previous post - you need to take into account the MASSIVE subsidies that are given to "public" transport (especially as 99% of it is actually private and for profit!). Did you read my link - where failure means more money for the train companies Then there are the free upgrades being given to "public" transport in the way of bus-only lanes, bus-biased traffic controls etc. - do they pay extra for their dedicated road-space, i doubt it? Several years ago the city council implemented bus lanes on most of the arterial roads into Birmingham - effectively stealing half of the road space from cars. The strange thing is that they didn't change the timetables, so there were no more buses, no faster a service, but seriously inconvenienced cars! If you looked at the true cost, i bet that cars would be cheaper, as well as more convenient, more practical, more flexible, and when the public transport workers decide to go on strike - you can still get home! mb

Yup, you need to compare the total cost - which would mean including the massive subsidies that the train companies have received and are yet to receive as well! mb

Phew, It is a good job that Nottingham has an utterly reliable tram system allowing people to get to work at all times without the slightest interruption NOT!!!! mb

A quick thing to try is to press the key when the "DHCP /" propeller starts spinning, wait 30 seconds or so and then press to continue the propeller. That might be enough for STP to settle down and the network port to go "live". mb

Try Tools/Options, choose the Privacy tab and then select your preferred option for "When using the location bar, suggest:"? mb

Just a "heads up", but the Rohan sale starts on Thursday!!! mb

If you are ever heading down the M40, there is a Helly Hanson outlet at the Bicester Village. I got a waterproof/breathable mountain jacket reduced from £120 down to £50 a couple of months ago. It is also nice to be able to try stuff on and compare the different designs (and they have a lot of stock) which you can't do "online". Well worth a visit (along with the other stores as well ) There is also a The North Face outlet, but to be honest the prices weren't that good (and i consider it "celeb-ware" anyway). mb

If you click on "ex-directory", you are effectively confirming your phone number! I would leave it until the unlikely event that they do try to connect someone to you (via text or call forwarding) and opt-out then. I can't see them staying in business for long - lets just hope the administrators don't sell their database to someone who would mis-use it mb

But as i mentioned above, have your checked the Building Regulations??? From Exempt buildings... ...you are a couple of square-metres out!! (I chose the above web-site 'cos your profile says you are from Leeds) I would check with the Council first, otherwise you may be forced to demolish the building mb

Try doing it yourself (even with your Bricky tool) and you will soon realise why brickies charge so much But seriously though, that is quite a big project so even if you don't need planning permission you will almost certainly need to confirm to building regs. Seek professional (building) advise - try your local council! mb

If you do decide to drill, get yourself a Left Hand Drill Bit (such as the Phantom HSS Left Hand Jobber Drill Bit), plus a reversing low-speed drill so that as it starts to bite it may well extract the screw anyway mb

How big are the screws (and hole). Maybe something like the JML Screw Extractor or the ScrewFix Screw Extractor Set could do the job? mb

Check out Hundreds of UK school and government websites hacked to sell Viagra and pornography! mb

Your firewall is blocking the Ping (ICMP) packets. mb

Unbelievable Just why are BT doing things that can affect which web-sites (and which access methods) you visit?? You have to wonder what other little Trojans are hidden in their hardware? mb

Try a TRACERT to rapidshare to see where your packets go! I am with Demon, and all attempts to get to RapidShare end up getting routed via IWF servers (and terminate there!!!). They used to just contaminate DNS, but now even numerical IPs get snatched So, because somebody has reported possible KP at RapidShare, every single access gets snooped (and often blocked) by an unelected and unaccountable bunch of do-gooders mb

Better make sure that nobody tell the Terry Wrists that lots of MPs gather in a big building near Big Ben most* days mb * Well, at least for a few months of the year, when they aren't on one of their holidays^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hrecesses!

Back in the days of proper computers, backups consisted of an "image" copy (not physical, in case there were bad blocks) from one removable disk to another (e.g. the 205Mb RA60), and then swap the backup to become live - that way you knew straight away if there was a problem! http://hampage.hu/vax/egyeb/ra60.jpg ...you can never be too careful when doing backups! mb

Out of interest, did you buy a British made car? mb