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I want it but as Hightower implied, £36+ is bloomin expensive. Hope it isn't a let down like MotoGP 08 was all those months ago.

TBH I think I have a similar mindset to sidewinder, I love trying to get a good MPG. I also like feeling that I'm actually driving the car and using it properly rather than point it in a direction and push the accelerator. I like gearchanges because I reckon it's the proper way to drive. Obviously if there were excessive amounts of gearchanges then that'd be a case for a bigger car with longer gear ratios and a bit more puff.

Fair points, much appreciated. I can understand where people are coming from preferring a bigger engine. I am changing down from a 1.6 Astra to a 1.25 Fiesta.

Right, in our office we have just had a miniature debate. Basically our MFL tech came in and because I'm getting a new car the conversation changed to cars. She said she needed a 140bhp 2.0 diesel Seat Ibiza. I then asked, "You need it or want it?" To which she stated she needed it. I asked why and she said that it was because she had some pretty steep banks too go up and she needed the extra power. Then I asked how come she doesn't just change into an appropriate gear to which she said (which I'm not disputing the answer she gave) that in her 140bhp Seat, sixth gear is appropriate. I mentioned about just changing gear and making sure you have enough revs etc and have plenty of power for overtakes and climbing banks. The reactions was that with the power she doesn't need to. The guy i work with (has a Civic Type R) said he preffered having more power so that overtakes and the like are easier. So onto my point of the poll, do people get big engined cars because they need them or want them? My thoughts are that unless you need a high-powered car then you may as well just get a little car and learn to use the gearbox properly. Just to clarify, before getting flamed by people that jump the gun I am simply airing my opinion and am in no way sayin people who have bigger engined cars are poor drivers or anything like that. The issue simply intrigued me and caused me to wonder what others thought.

My mates and I have often thought of capturing our nights out round town on video just to see the state that we get into and the antics we get up to. Would have been especially funny to have been recording the night I fell down the stairs in some lasses shared flat. Or the night we were on my mates stag night and we can't remember what happened.

I quite enjoyed the race myself. I thought it was good to see Kovalainen acting as a mioni-marshal, I bet a lot of other drivers wouldn't have done that. It was great to see Kubica racing the way he did. I also reckon Hamilton is a good driver to watch simply because he races the way he does, taking chances like he did on Sunday. Alot of the GP drivers are too worried about wrecking their cars and sometimes it just takes the fun out watching the sport. Also I think Petrov did quite well, so I'm surprised that Renault are looking to bin him. He's performed wayyyy better than Grosjean ever did. I think the same is quite true for Liuzzi as well. I think that some of the newer drivers just aren't given the chance. If you look at Buemi and Algesuari you can clearly see how a little bit of faith and time can reward with steady improvement. The onyl way you can get a Hamilton is if you nurture the drievr's career hand on right from the beginning, like Ron Dennis did with Hamilton.

It does a little but you can adjust your riding style to accomodate it. Sometimes something as simple as scooching your bum forward on the seat can relieve it. A lot of people mention about wrist problems etc... but I find that's on long journeys or after not riding for a while, most poeple won't be touring on a sportsbike. BTW I was at a car dealer yesterday getting a new car and the sales person used to have a ZX6R B1H and and so did the sales manager. They got rid of them for various reasons, family commitments etc... They loved their bikes.

I ride a ZX6R ('03 636) and I love the smoothnesss, the power and just the bike in general. My mate has a CBR600F4 and he loves his to bits. TBH I don't think you can go far wrong if you know roughly what you want.

Diablo 2...preferably with the Lord of Destruction Expansion Pack. Just recently got back into it and I can't believe that I haven't played it in so long. Shame on me. Anyways, it's fairly cheap and if you register it on Bethesda's website you can download the installer and you no longer need the CD to run it. EDIT: As well as being online or single player, it can run over a LAN. We did this in computer club when I was at school. We dismantled cheap, brand new computers then reassembled them and set up a very basic LAN using static IPs. BTW don't think you actually need static IPs for running the game, just we had no DHCP.

I recommend Test Disk

Have you setup a partition then installed? As when I did this with a desktop (with multiple HDDs) it installed the boot files to one of the other HDDs so because my BIOS was set to boot to the drive with the OS on, it wouldn't boot without the DVD. My recommendation, if you have not already done so, is to boot to the DVD and demolish all partitions on the drive and just tell the Installer to install files on the disk without creating partitions and it will sort everything out itself. Hopefully then you'll be able to boot without the DVD.

I have seriously had to pull myself away from that site. I saw their retro phone with new circuitry, modelled off one of the old Motorola Dynatac phones and I was sooo tenpted. I just wonder if I bought one and took it out with me on a Saturday night and I pull,, whether I could also get the lasses number. Lol. Just wish I had £162 spare to buy one.

Is it a managed switch? If it is, check the logs for any excessive broadcasts. We have this problem with a few boxes in our place, SCL ones. We believe the image we used to image the machines suffered some sort of corruption and this caused problems with the NIC. If we plugged the machines into an unmanaged switch then the NIC would work fine. The only solution we had was to rebuild the machine from scratch and create a new image.

@powdarrmonkey I get what you mean, thanks for the advice.

Here's what I have so far. The exception is now handled but is it done correctly? private void btnGo_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { try { if (txtTargetPath != null) { DirectoryInfo dirTarget = new DirectoryInfo(txtTargetPath.Text); colFiles = dirTarget.GetFiles(); foreach (FileInfo filFiles in colFiles) { txtResults.AppendText(filFiles.Name + "\r\n"); } } } catch (Exception objException) { MessageBox.Show("An error occurred: " + objException.Message); } }

You mean inside the brackets? If you did, it didn't seem to work. I think the text in the textbox should be okay because it's set to the value of strTargetPath. @localzuk will do when I get a bit more practice under my belt. I know it's not to hard to do

Right people, I have recently attempted learning Visual C# with the help of a Sam's Learn in 24 Hours Book. I felt like I had learned just enough to muddle through creating my own simple program that, at the moment, simply lists files in a chosen directory. However, it spits out an exception when the target path is empty, which I was expecting it to do. Therefore I added an else statement (the relevant section of code is shown below) to display a messagebox informing the user of the problem. private void btnGo_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { if (txtTargetPath != null) { [b] DirectoryInfo dirTarget = new DirectoryInfo(txtTargetPath.Text);[/b] colFiles = dirTarget.GetFiles(); foreach (FileInfo filFiles in colFiles) { txtResults.AppendText(filFiles.Name + "\r\n"); } } else MessageBox.Show("You have not selected a valid folder!"); } What have I done wrong? The line in bold in the code is the line that VC# does not like.

Rebooting the switches should give you pklenty of time to have a look at event logs on them and determine roughly where your loopback is.

I'll have to check it out. Never heard of Deathstar before.

Murderdolls doing White Wedding and still on the Billy Idol theme, Drowning Pool doing Rebel Yell. Another one would be Fighstar doing Breaking the Law.

Yeah, we always go with powered splitters. We've never tried the dual output graphics cards but I'd like to sometime. However though a few of our machines have used and some may still be using splitter cables and they work although like people have said the image is ghosted, distorted and generally awful.

Right, ESXi installed and things appeared to be fine. However, on our DL380G5 we have two disks as RAID1 and some as RAID5. I installed ESXi onto the RAID1 drive with the idea of using the 400+GB RAID5 drive as storage for the VMs. Unfortunately ESXi doesnt see the RAID5 drive, or any other for that matter. Is there some way to allow me to use the RAID5 drive for storage?

Anyone got any opinions on the different systems XenServer, Hyper-V and ESXi? So far XenServer seems to be kicking butt. XenConvert is doing a P2V conversion as we speak so now I just need to wait and see. From the initial impression it seems a very similar system to ESXi except rather than have a web interface it's an installable program. Thanks for the help DMcCoy, I think our HP boxes may well already have those in but might see if I can squeeze some money so I can trial ESXi on the box I have at the moment.

Right poeple here's the crack... What we're thinking of doing is to virtualise a couple of our old servers onto a newer box we have (HP Proliant DL380 G5). However we want to have a bit of a practise with this and use a text box to trial the whole virtualisation thing. So far we I've tried MS Hyper-V, VMware ESXi and at the point of writing I'm embarking on Trying Citrix XenServer (free edition). ESXi looks like the easiest to manage and work with due to the VMware GO web based interface. Everything seemed relatively imple except that the only box we have available to test on (Dell Optiplex 380) had an incompatible NIC. Game over I thought until I found a spare Dlink NIC...still game over. Onto Hyper-V. I initially decided against this due to my pet hate of MS not giving us a true dedicated interface but rather a MMC snap-in. Yet again the onboard NIC wouldn't play ball and even trying to install the driver using pnputil it failed. I later found out that the Broadcom drivers don't like Hyper-V server even though they are fine in Windows 7. So popped the Dlink card in and installed the drivers and hey presto! Then went to create a VM from my Win7 box and it basically hung when trying to create the virtual hard disk. So now XenServer....Dlink card in and all seems good so far. My question is, should I faff about keep trying to get a trial box up and running or just jump in? Normally I'd like to trial things, as I am at the moment but these Virtual servers seem to pretty much always want specific hardware or specs and we just don't have a spare box that meets the requirements.

So say i bet £1 on 8/1 and it comes of then I have £9 in my pot. Then that £9 goes on another bet say 9/1 then comes off I get £90 in my pot and so on, correct? That's if I understand how betting and odds and stuff works.