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You appear to be trying to import a database, where you should be trying to import its tables. MySQLAdmin shows you do not have 'create database' permission (typical on free hosting sites), so the database you currently have, is what you will have to use. Import the TABLES, not the database. (Correct me if I am wrong, I usually am!)
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"36Degrees" I bow to your superior firepower. It seems you had a better toy box to play with. Now, does anyone know what happened to Saddam Hussein's giant cannon? Is anyone currently playing with that particle accelerator at the weekend?
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Things you'd never hear on a film about computers
Polski replied to Hightower's topic in General Chat
On a simular thread....... "Your airtime balance is.....zero pence!" -
Pah! I'll see you .44" and raise you with a .50" Browing. Oh, I also have a 66mm ready to ease into the conversation if required. Sadly they would not let little old me near a "Charlie Gee" (which is 84mm). Does repairing T.O.W systems count? They are 152mm. Sadly the nice armourer made me give al his toys back when I left "That" club.
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[news] Ban for drink-driving at 5mph on scooter
Polski replied to spluckrose's topic in Jokes/Interweb Things
You don't have to have one to get banned. Not that he is ever likely to want one now. A 12 year old got banned in the village a good few years ago. Laughed at it as he thought it would run out before he was 16. "Wrong!" (Things change and I stand corrected if some do-gooder has changed THAT particular law) -
[news] Ban for drink-driving at 5mph on scooter
Polski replied to spluckrose's topic in Jokes/Interweb Things
If I remeber rightly, you can loose your licence for ridning home on your bicycle. Personnaly I agree with the ban. Ipswich has a lot of mobility scotters going round, seen a few being used as 'family transport' with 'nan' in the seat and three nippers clinging on for dear life. You used to get busted in Germany for sleeping off a rough night on the back seat of your car. If you have the keys, you are in charge of it, not sure if their attitude has changed since I was last there. (Not ME by the way!) -
I blame the "Playstation" culture, press the reset and all will be OK. Personally I eagerly await of the release of "Death, destruction and Gore v 12c (Interactive)". The one where the aliens shoot back! Preferably with live rounds.
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It's what speed most "yooof's" drive at around town at night. A setting generally applied to Corsa's, Clio's and other assorted "Grocery getters / hot hatch-backs"
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Been a awhile since I used NTBackup, but when I did I used a seperate script for each day of the week, to backup to seperate tapes. You can obviously use it to seperate .bkf files too. (Yes, it did cause problems with some, but at least the majority did not leave the same tape in all year!) Always used 'full' backup as working with the old SIMS Common Platform, it really was not worth the risk. What other issues are you likely to have? Speed? Time contraints? You really have to cut your cloth accordingly. I probably have the scripts lurking somewhere, just not on me.
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My standard of living falls below the acceptable standard.
Polski replied to ICT_GUY's topic in General Chat
Yes, it is all about choices. When I came into IT in 1997, I got a job at a "familiar software supplier" in Bedford, on a six month maternity cover basis, at £13k. I guess I impressed them so much that I was made permanent after four weeks. A year later I took the opportunity to move to their regional office in Essex. At a fair old increase in pay and doing what was more 'core skills' work. From there I moved back up to Suffolk, another pay rise and another set of skills. Now I am doing stuff I knew NOTHING about five years ago. Suffice to say bank manager happy as well. My point being, if you want to move up, look across. Think outside the box. Does your local law firm need IT support? Where are your skills respected financially? Certainly not in education. We all know that. Are you happy in your work? Fine. But more pay means more stress or more responsibility. Those are the facts of life. Even managers in the outside world are on a paltry sum now. Its life I am afraid. (As an aside, my last three cars have all been bought cheap with over 90k miles on them and have done well over 200k miles before giveing up the ghost, I don't own a Playstation, X-Box, Wii, Tom-tom, I-Phone etc. We have just upgraded to a nice new TV as the one in the property I let out failed, so they got ours! Funny how that happened JUST before the World Cup eh?) -
My standard of living falls below the acceptable standard.
Polski replied to ICT_GUY's topic in General Chat
Without knowing your work situation first hand, it is hard to comment, but I personally have spent six years working in and around various schools and would NOT want the job of a teacher, under any circumstances. When I fix a PC, I sometimes have some other user that come up to me and accuse me of favouring someone elses PC at the expense of their's, that it was a case of priorities. They accept that. When my other half is confronted by parents with a simular critisim about her teaching, they frequently do NOT accept it and become insulting and often offensive. They frequently complain that their child is NOT progressing as they had hoped and this is down to poor teaching. Pretty normal for a run down inner city school you would say? Well she teaches at a private, fee paying school. And the parents are sometime the worst you could ever meet. Nothing is EVER their fault. Stand in front of a class of 13 - 16 year olds and hold their attention for 40 minutes, then moan! -
256 rings a bell somewhere. The further down the tree you start, the less you have to use. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong, I usually am!
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Does anyone else the makers had a serious case of shooting themselves in the foot when they named that product? "So what did you do in school today?" " We used 'Blue movie maker' mum!" "Shreik!"
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[pics] Ever wondered where all those "scrappage" cars went?
Polski replied to Martin's topic in Jokes/Interweb Things
Strange how the landscape around us fades into history. A black wooden barn in the middle of a field near Tempsford in Bedforshire is all that reminded people that during WW2, brake resistance fighters were flown out in the dead of night into occupied France. Kind of like the end of the film "12o'clock high!, "Saving Private Ryan" and the book "Goodbye Mickey Mouse", you could almost hear the ghost of the Westland Lysander as it slipped away into the night. -
I live in hope that one day they will draw back the covers on centre court and find a bunch of mole heaps!
