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Question one from the final practical "Demonstrate you can do the horned fingers."

It didn't work in my Chrome, (or Firefox, or Opera or Konqueror), hence my question as to what it was supposed to do. I'm a Linux user. Perhaps it only works in Windows?

I see a list of videos, which is pretty much the same as when I search for any phrase. What's supposed to happen?

We have a thread about WITCH: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/general-chat/104608-theyre-rebooting-witch.html See postings 17 & 26 for some info about when it was in Birmingham.

wincache_ucache_get is a php function which returns a variable stored in the user cache, so it is doubtful that you will find a file called that. You need to know what is it trying to get from cache to resolve the issue. Check the apache error log files.

Very nice picture from B&FC. As I see it, the problem with the online options, is they are very limited in the types of "paper" that you can stick on the board. You can change the colour but you are limited to rectangles. They look too much like Post-It notes. You could probably do something with Gimp's Script-Fu if you can put the time in to learn it.

The last time I looked at this, the general consensus was you can't. You have two choices. Choice one: ignore them - damn difficult if your doing screen captures which involve a lot of mouse movements. Choice two: change to an operating system where you can turn them off - Linux or XP. If I'm doing a screen capture, I use a second monitor and run the capture on that. M$ have yet to stretch the taskbar to the second monitor, but I suspect they might in a future release just to piss us all off.

Just like you, I've found that none of the free solutions work. We purchased a package that was "guaranteed to convert swf to avi" (I forget which one). Anyway, it was a waste of money - it didn't work and I chucked the CD in the shredded in disgust! The only way I was able to this under M$ was to play the swf file using my favourite web browser and capture the video and audio using Camstudio. Now if you try to record your speaker output in Camstudio, you'll see an error message, which says WaveoutGetSelectControl() not found or something. Most of the advice on the web about how to fix this, says you need to change your sound card to the Sound Wave XL 7000 GTi Turbo, or some other outrageously priced noise maker. Nup! If your PC can play sound, you can do it. If you hunt around on youtube, you'll find a 10 minute video with lots of annoying SlipKnot music, which will tell you how to fix the Camstudio error. Don't bother watching the video (which is why I haven't posted the link). He tells you only two useful things. Thing 1 - in control panel, set your default recording device to mixer. Thing 2 - in Camstudio use record from microphone (yes I know!). Voila! Fire off Camstudio, select record window, play the swf and save the avi file. If you then want to do another video, you'll probably have to reboot your PC. I do as it is so damn full of memory leaks.

I wonder if the balls are magnetic and if there are three of them? Nice toy in any case.

BBC News - Commodore 64 turns 30: What do today's kids make of it? He needs a 1541 to go with his kit.

BBC News - Valve boss Gabe Newell calls Windows 8 a 'catastrophe'

Trawl the auction of the BBC Bush House stuff Peaker Pattinson (Auctioneers) Ltd There are loads of good quality headphones amongst the lots.

I think we call this hexspeak. When I used to work with AIX, we would see 0xdeadbeef quite often if you were running the debugger. It was an uninitialized frame. I think 0xdeaddead was seen sometimes in the NT4 kernel.

I've always called it the quick launch navigation menu. It can be disabled by Site Actions > Site Settings > Tree View and uncheck "Enable Quick Launch". Having done this, both "View all site content" and "Recycle bin" links are still there so the screen space isn't re-claimed. This is just one of the very many annoyances of SP. AlexPilot's advice will make it go away and you can get it back by deleting the CEWP with the code in.

It wouldn't be too difficult to build a cupboard around this. Alternatively, try this vertical rack.

"A British-led Japan-based group is building a free-software-powered flying robot for use by disaster relief organisations – and at its heart is tech darling the Raspberry Pi." Raspberry Pi IN THE SKY: Wallet-sized PC is disaster drone brain ? The Register

bacula - when I don't feel like rolling my own

Diamond Jubilee: Monarchy and technology in history - ZDNet UK

sheer brilliance! Source: The fantastic world of steampunk technology - InfoWorld

I wish I had invented this. Commodore 64 Bass Keytar.

Wireless electricity (aka broadcast power) eliminates the need for cables. This makes mains powered electric cars viable. At the mo, dragging an extension lead around is an inconvenience! On a more practical note, why not fit small turbines to all sink plug holes, toilets, etc and use the flowing waste to generate electricity? Every time somebody uses the loo, more power to the national grid. Highway wind turbines are a good idea too.

The request has been refused (oh what a surprise). This is after they firstly denied any knowledge of the request. All the info can be found on the link in my first posting. The request could well be refined so it stands more chance of being fulfilled. I will continue to monitor it.

We use The Recycling Factory; doesn't cost us anything.

They'll probably work themselves up into a lather.

A reporter seems to have tried to see how many bad puns he can fit into one story ... Hairdressers cut up over EU bid to ban high heels in the workplace - Birmingham Mail