SteveBentley

I think the claim was that the *amount* they were being charged was unfair - the banks aren't allowed to issue fines, just recover their admin costs, and people felt that £35 to be sent a standard letter was over the top.

Can you not do this in the Game Controllers option in Control Panel? There is often (probably dependent on device drivers) a means to reverse the axes.

You can still have problems when a professional installs a much bigger dish - when Channel 5 first launched they were feeding all of the transmitters via satellite. Until it rained... a fibre link to Croydon was soon installed (but sod the rest of the country!)

I don't think the BBC and ITV are telling people to get new aerials across the board, it's simply that some people will need them because the reallocation of frequencies means the existing aerial is now out of group for the transmission, or that a different transmitter will provide a better service. My post about everybody requiring a new aerial is about a better way of doing thing rather than the current dog's dinner and that is one of the reasons why it hasn't happenned. Satellite has its own issues though, many people are unable, for one reason or another, to have a dish. There is also the political issue that the UK doesn't own or control any of the satellites, and it's still considered important to have control over infrastructure that could be used to form a wartime broadcasting service, if such a situation were to arise. If that one satellite gets damaged the entire country is without signals, wheras in theory it's quite difficult to take out all terrestrial broadcasting to the entire country. (ITV having a power cut and discovering they put too many eggs in one basket not withstanding!) Plus satellite is useless if it's raining too hard in the wrong place.

I'm sure Simon will quote you for a new server

Have a look at http://www.paras.org.uk for some good advice and myth debunking - the guys behind this site know their stuff

I've seen a number of reports that the decoders in integrated TVs are not as sensitive as those in dedicted set top boxes. And, for the record - There is no such thing as a digital aerial!

There is a solution to the Freeview bandwidth problem, but it would require a large percentage of the population to get new aerials. At the moment the frequencies used at a particular transmitter fall into a particular group, so that if you're using say Crystal Palace, you get a Group A aerial which is optimised for that frequency group. To avoid interference, neighbouring transmitters are in different groups. If they were to make the national multiplexes (eg the ones with no regional content) Single Frequency Networks, that would free up a lot of bandwidth as only one frequency would be needed for each mux rather than a seperate frequency on each transmitter. It may also solve the "Half a freeview" problem which means that viewers who, due to a postcode lottery, are not served by a main transmitter but by a relay, will only get about 15 channels, not the promised 40 after switchover. But using SFNs means that almost everybody will need a new wideband aerial to be able to pick up the whole UHF band. So it's almost a non starter.

Amazing... The Register have published an article about Freeview which is generally accurate rather than a confused misinterpretation of a press release. Strangely the last couple of times they published misinformation they didn't feel the comments I left on the article picking up on the error were worthy of being approved by the moderator, but quietly updated the article enough that it was ambiguous.

Is the use of silver car paint optional?

You did include it in your OP though

Or near a high powered radio or TV transmitter - legend has it that if put the prongs on one end of a flourescent tube into the ground in the fields surrounding Emley Moor it glows eerily.

Certainly not mices!

Some insurers let you specify how many miles are for business purposes and only charge you that premium on that. I specified 500 on mine just to cover a few borderline cases and I don't think it cost a huge amount.

We've used the one in the smart notebook gallery before now.

Agreed, I've got Ubuntu running very nicely on my Win7 laptop through virtualbox. Had to use the alternative installer iso, the text only one, though as the live CD version hung when selecting anything from the menu.

The flash is the key - the flash would only have fired for a fraction of that half second exposure, so the ghost car is just where it was when the flash fired. Without the flash you wouldn't have got it at all, it would just be a blur over half a second.

Assuming this is JavaScript/DHTML, I don't think you'll be able to query the file size or any other useful properly to find out whether it is fully uploaded. I think the best compromise might be to alter the script to show the image previous to the most recent one, which should have uploaded.

Your first decision is what you really want to do and how you define "school radio station" - you can go from a glorified podcast repository to a fully kitted out studio doing live broadcasts either via streaming or hard wired speakers strategically placed around the building.

If there are spare network points in both locations fed from the same cab, you can patch them together and use a video over cat5 solution, which you treat as effectively one long video/audio cable.

I'd imagine the comparison is with Vista, and they'll say that Win7 does a better job of managing the power to peripherals and components to shut them off when not required to save juice.

Is an OEM Vista license with the £30 Windoze 7 upgrade installed still classed as OEM though?

Adapting a library system might be a possibility too.

Forgive me if I'm being overly cynical, but this sounds a lot like a "do my homework for me" type of question.

I'm not an expert but I think there's also a computer misuse act issue here with using somebody else's credentials.